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John Brennan Completely Contradicts FBI Director James Comey on Congressional Notification
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:35 am
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:35 am
Massive Contradiction
quote:
BUSTED !!
Today former CIA Director John Brennan testified to congress on the Russian counter-intelligence operation which began in July 2016. Today, John Brennan completely contradicted the March 20th, 2017, testimony of former FBI Director James Comey.
We have previously drawn attention to a particular part of former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to congress from March 20th. The issue is when was congressional leadership, specifically the congressional intelligence oversight group called the “Gang-of-Eight”, notified of the Russian investigation (a counter-intelligence operation).
Pay close attention. On March 20th FBI Director James Comey -together with NSA head Admiral Mike Rogers- testified to congress specifically about this notification (first three minutes of the video):
See video in this link.
quote:
Rep. Stefanik: [01:12] …”when did you notify the White House, the DNI or congressional leadership”?
James Comey: …”good question. Congressional leadership, sometime recently they were briefed on the nature of the investigation, as I said. Obviously the department of justice has been aware of it all along”…
Watch the first 3 minutes of that video. Notice the discomfort etc. We have previously outlined why THAT is such a big deal –SEE HERE– Comey is discussing the recent notification to congress that took place approximately a week earlier. Prior to that congressional notification FBI Director Comey admits to keeping congress in the dark “because of the sensitivity of the matter” from July 2016 through March 2017.
Now, watch the opening statement from former CIA Director John Brennan today:
Pay very close attention to the segment at 13:35 of this video of Brennan’s testimony:
See video in this link.
quote:
Brennan: [13:35] “Third, through the so-called Gang-of-Eight process we kept congress apprised of these issues as we identified them.”
“Again, in consultation with the White House, I PERSONALLY briefed the full details of our understanding of Russian attempts to interfere in the election to congressional leadership; specifically: Senators Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr; and to representatives Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff between 11th August and 6th September [2016], I provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members.”
“Given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counter-intelligence case [that means the FBI], involving an ongoing Russian effort, to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of congress; each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member.”…
Brennan goes on to say the main substance of those Go8 meetings was the same as the main judgements of the January classified and unclassified intelligence assessments published by the CIA, FBI, DNI and NSA (intelligence community).
That January reference was the infamous 17 agencies report, from CIA (Brennan), DNI (Clapper), FBI (Comey) and NSA (Rogers), all who had confidence, according to the report, that Russia was attempting to interfere in the 2016 election.
Now, a critic might think that Brennan is informing congress on one thing, and Comey is NOT INFORMING congress on another. However, that angle is rebuked by Brennan’s own testimony that his specific intelligence product (CIA) was given to the FBI who were exclusively in charge of the “counter-intelligence investigation“.
What’s happening here is actually John Brennan throwing James Comey under the bus.
Dan has encapsulated it nicely in this paragraph:quote:
[…] Brennan gave Comey the investigative product -which had nothing to do with the Trump team- and Comey used it to carry out Obama, Hillary, and Susan Rice’s dirty work for them. Of course Brennan was in on the whole thing and is now saving his own skin by saying ” I briefed ya’ll on everything I had with regards to Russia, anything additional that arose please talk to my buddy Comey”.
Brennan is making Comey own the “Counter-Intelligence ‘Muh Russia'” claims about the Trump campaign. Brennan trying to make Comey the fall-guy for a Robert Mueller investigative outcome. Brennan knows there’s no ‘there’ there.
The entire construct of the “Russian Investigation” was the political use of a claimed investigation in order to weaken President-Elect Trump. There simply is no ‘there’ there because there’s no substantive evidence to support a “Trump Campaign Collusion Narrative”.
As such, John Brennan has realized that someone has focused attention on Comey’s admission to congress that the FBI intentionally kept congress in the dark during the construct of the counter-intel narrative. Congress was kept in the dark during this phase because the narrative can only thrive with innuendo, rumor, gossip etc. The appearance of the investigation itself was the political need; the substance was non-existent and immaterial to the creation of the narrative.
If Comey notified congress, via the Gang of Eight oversight, the counter-intel narrative would have been harder to manufacture as details would have to be consistent. That’s the benefit to keeping any oversight away while creating the politically useful narrative.
John Brennan, facing the looming certainty of the underlying Russian ‘collusion evidence’ being non-existent, is now trying to give the appearance that he briefed congress on larger Russian election interference issues. However , the trouble for Brennan is his own admission that these issues were the underlying principle for the FBI counter-intelligence investigation. Brennan specifically says he gave his intelligence product to the FBI.
Brennan is throwing Comey under the bus and attempting to create plausible deniability for his role in a constructing a political narrative; a false narrative.
WATCH THE RETREAT: See video in this link.
It’s not accidental this Brennan retreat is facilitated by a member of congress John Brennan admits to briefing last year. Gang-of-Eight member, Adam Schiff.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:38 am to GumboPot
They're all contradicting each other. They've all spewed so much bullshite they don't remember what they've said.
Meanwhile, people at the center of this witch hunt are begging to testify and you have crickets out of Congress.
What a damn sham this whole thing is.
Meanwhile, people at the center of this witch hunt are begging to testify and you have crickets out of Congress.
What a damn sham this whole thing is.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:42 am to bamarep
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What a damn sham this whole thing is.
What I'm afraid of is Mueller's real role is to come in and play uniparty cleanup.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:45 am to GumboPot
Too bad conservativetreehouse is the only one covering this. Damn msm
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:48 am to GumboPot
All good cops and detectives will tell you about body language and yesterday Brennan's hands were fidgety and shaking. When Gowdy asked him about some unmasking or things he could have done on one of his final days Brennan was nervous as all get out.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:49 am to crewdepoo
quote:
Too bad conservativetreehouse is the only one covering this. Damn msm
Because it obviously hurts the the MSM MUH RUSSIANS narrative.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:49 am to GumboPot
quote:He's certainly situated to do that.
What I'm afraid of is Mueller's real role is to come in and play uniparty cleanup
Posted on 5/24/17 at 8:56 am to cajunangelle
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All good cops and detectives will tell you about body language and yesterday Brennan's hands were fidgety and shaking. When Gowdy asked him about some unmasking or things he could have done on one of his final days Brennan was nervous as all get out.
Right. And if people watch the first video with Rep. Stefanik Comey is squirming like a stuck pig. He knew he f'd up and had to make up the bull shite excuse for the reason he couldn't notify the Go8 back in July '16 because the "sensitivity of the matter" and only notify the Justice Department and Obama White House.
He only notified the Obama JD and WH because they had a narrative to push and they didn't want the Republicans on the Go8 to find out what the hell was happening.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:11 am to GumboPot
quote:Yet you proceed to ignore that.
Now, a critic might think that Brennan is informing congress on one thing, and Comey is NOT INFORMING congress on another.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:27 am to mmcgrath
quote:quote:
Now, a critic might think that Brennan is informing congress on one thing, and Comey is NOT INFORMING congress on another.
Yet you proceed to ignore that.
You must have stopped reading right after the quoted sentence...
But right after the sentence you quoted the point is addressed:
quote:
However, that angle is rebuked by Brennan’s own testimony that his specific intelligence product (CIA) was given to the FBI who were exclusively in charge of the “counter-intelligence investigation“.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:39 am to GumboPot
While I admire the work TCT does, I think they are wrong here. There is no discrepancy between Brennan of CIA briefing Congress and Comey of FBI not briefing Congress. One did and one didn't.
Keep in mind that there is a difference in an intelligence briefing from CIA (Russia is doing so-in-so) and a briefing on a co-intel investigation from FBI (we are looking at such in such Americans).
I do find it weird that Comey would keep his investigation from Congress for so long, but this doesn't mean Brennan is lying or "contradicting" Comey. Remember even Clapper said he didn't know about Comey's investigation (again I find it hard to believe, but it is plausible).
Keep in mind that there is a difference in an intelligence briefing from CIA (Russia is doing so-in-so) and a briefing on a co-intel investigation from FBI (we are looking at such in such Americans).
I do find it weird that Comey would keep his investigation from Congress for so long, but this doesn't mean Brennan is lying or "contradicting" Comey. Remember even Clapper said he didn't know about Comey's investigation (again I find it hard to believe, but it is plausible).
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:49 am to GumboPot
quote:Which doesn't address what they are talking about. The FBI investigation is a different thing.
But right after the sentence you quoted the point is addressed:
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:51 am to mmcgrath
mc want, how many people have you swayed with your debating skills here?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:04 am to AUstar
quote:
I do find it weird that Comey would keep his investigation from Congress for so long, but this doesn't mean Brennan is lying or "contradicting" Comey. Remember even Clapper said he didn't know about Comey's investigation (again I find it hard to believe, but it is plausible).
comey didn't keep it from congress until recently. It's been reported that comey met with obama and top members of congress in the fall, prior to the election, to discuss russia's role in the hacks and meddling in the election. i'm not sure where OP got his info - comey saying he met the gang of eight recently doesn't rule out having met with them before, too.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:05 am to GumboPot
Remember that time CTH lied to your face and you kept believing their bullshite?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:05 am to WaveHog
from another article - LINK
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That was the case that she, FBI Director James Comey and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson made in a secret briefing of top members of Congress in the fall, during a session at which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly balked at their characterization of the evidence of Russian involvement in the hack.
“Our focus was really to make sure that the election process was not undermined, because here’s the thing: Whatever else was a subject of debate about motive, we knew, and everyone agreed, that one of the goals that Russia had in all of this was to undermine confidence in our democratic process, to sow discord, to sow confusion,” she says. “And so, we were very conscious that we not do their work for them by creating a partisan discussion about this. So, the Schiff and Feinstein statement, I think, one of the concerns was that it was not bipartisan.”
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:18 am to GumboPot
they are both serial liars.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:30 am to WaveHog
quote:
comey didn't keep it from congress until recently. It's been reported that comey met with obama and top members of congress in the fall, prior to the election, to discuss russia's role in the hacks and meddling in the election. i'm not sure where OP got his info - comey saying he met the gang of eight recently doesn't rule out having met with them before, too.
Comey didn't inform the intel committees in Congress about his official co-intel investigation until shortly before that hearing. That is what Stefanik was complaining about in her questioning.
However, it is true that he was briefing the Go8 all along. I don't know what the "rules" are on this, but I assume briefing the Go8 is sufficient.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:15 pm to GumboPot
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Too bad conservativetreehouse is the only one covering this. Damn msm
Because it obviously hurts the the MSM MUH RUSSIANS narrative.
Or that maybe should give you a hint that the story is bullsh!t at worst or a nothing burger at best (except, maybe, for the tin foil brigaders).
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:25 pm to GumboPot
can you condense this post into 2 sentences?
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