Free Beacon Reporter: Trump Wanting To Fire Mueller Story Aimed To…

Yes, some were a bit frustrated that we posted about The New York Times' late Thursday night story about President Donald Trump wanting to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller last June. The fact of the matter is it never happened, but it would certainly rehash the Russian collusion hysteria that has gripped the news media since Trump won the 2016 election.

NYT editorial board: Trump ‘acts as if he has something big to hide’

Donald John Trump Trump: If there's no wall, there's no DACA fix Trump appears to call out Samsung over missing FBI text messages Trump Commerce pick told lawmakers he would look at reversing Obama move on internet oversight: report MORE and his associates' innocence into question on Friday, asking why, if the president insists he has done nothing wrong, he "acts as if he has something big to hide." In an editorial , the board laid out a timeline of Trump's alleged efforts to "shut down" the law enforcement investigation into whether his campaign conspired with Russia to disrupt and influence the 2016 presidential election.

Buchanan/Nunes Duels the Deep State – Nunes Duels the Dee…

Nunes Duels the Deep State By Patrick J. Buchanan Tuesday - February 6, 2018 That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound of the secondary explosions, this torpedo was no dud. The critical charge: To persuade a FISA court to issue a warrant to spy on Trump aide Carter Page, the FBI relied on a dossier produced by a Trump-hating British spy, who was using old Kremlin contacts, while being paid to dig up dirt on Donald Trump by Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Wray makes changes to senior leadership team at FBI

Officials said Tuesday that Wray, who started the job in August, is replacing two top aides who were promoted into their roles by his predecessor James Comey. Such changes are not unusual when a new director takes change, but they are notable amid Trump's public pressure on Wray to get rid of officials who were confidantes of Comey, who was fired by the president in May. The Justice Department confirmed that Dana Boente, the outgoing U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who has also been acting as head of the department's national security division, will become the FBI's general counsel.

Sessions threatens to subpoena ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions in immigration fight33 minutes ago

WASHINGTON – The FBI failed to save text messages sent from thousands of cellphones – apparently because of the same technical glitch that affected the retention of messages from two senior bureau officials who investigated both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, a Justice Department official said. The missing messages from senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page and senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok have sparked a political firestorm in recent days, as GOP lawmakers and the president have questioned how it could be that the bureau did not keep their potentially unflattering and revealing exchanges.

Report: In ‘disturbing’ conversation, Trump asked acting FBI head McCabe whom he voted for

Shortly after President Donald Trump fired his FBI director in May, he summoned to the Oval Office the bureau's acting director for a get-to-know-you meeting. The two men exchanged pleasantries, but before long, Trump, according to several current and former U.S. officials, asked Andrew McCabe a pointed question: Whom did he vote for in the 2016 election? McCabe said he didn't vote, according to the officials, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about a sensitive matter.

Sessions questioned in Mueller’s Russia investigation

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week as part of the special counsel's investigation, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday, making him the first member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet to be interviewed in the inquiry. The special counsel, Robert Mueller, is increasingly focused on Trump's conduct in office and on whether he obstructed the investigation itself.

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In ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Text, Peter Strzok Expressed ‘Concern’ About Joining Mueller Team

The FBI's top agent on the Trump-Russia investigation sent a text message last year that one top Republican senator says suggests he saw no evidence of Trump campaign collusion. The text message, which was sent by Peter Strzok, is "jaw-dropping," Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a radio interview on Tuesday.

The feds repeatedly manage to lose or intentionally destroy evidence…

The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI's technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page," The FBI's adulterous version of Romeo and Juliet reportedly exhanged 50,000 text messages apparently documenting every thoguht that came into their heads as they manupulated the nation's national security apparatus for political purposes.