The GOP's feud with the FBI is escalating to absurd new heights, Politico reported.

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller pivots his investigation to focus on whether

President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice after finding no "there"
there during his probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and
Russia, the GOP is pushing back against political bias in the FBI, triggering
outrage among Congressional Democrats.

Politico pointed out that Tuesday brought several dramatic developments in the
ongoing investigative saga.

The New York Times reported that Mueller had recently emailed Attorney General Jeff
Sessions, and last year interviewed FBI Director James Comey.

Meanwhile, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, accused
FBI agents of engaging in a "conspiracy" to support Clinton and damage Trump,
hinting that some of this behavior could've itself been criminal. Goodlatte took
aim at a text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and and FBI lawyer
Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair.

Goodlatte

Goodlatte

Not all of the text messages have been released, but they are slowly being turned
over the Congress in batches. Though the bureau recently confessed that it had lost
50,000 messages sent between the two FBI employees during a five-month period in
2016. The FBI has blamed the erasure on Samsung. The DOJ has launched a probe into
the missing messages, but some Republicans, including House Freedom Caucus chief
Mark Meadows, have revived calls for a second special counsel to investigate the
FBI.

"Some of these texts are very disturbing," Goodlatte said, adding, "they
illustrate a conspiracy on the part of some people, and we want to know a lot more
about that."

As we reported earlier today, some of the texts that have been turned over
suggested that in the "immediate aftermath" of the election, a "secret society of
folks" within the DOJ and FBI came together to try to undermine President Trump.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson called the text messages "jaw dropping."

But views on the FBI's purported misconduct, unsurprisingly, diverge along partisan
lines, as the Hill points out. Democrats have painted investigations of the FBI�s
conduct by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the
House Intelligence, Oversight and Government Reform, and Judiciary committees as
efforts to discredit Mueller and the Department of Justice.

Democrats and the FBI have joined together in criticizing Congressional

Republicans, who have so far refused to release a memo detailing what some
Congressmen have described as a coordinated effort by the Obama administration to
monitor members of the Trump campaign. Some conservatives have also joined in the
chorus of people demanding the memo be released. But the lawmakers have so far
denied a copy to everybody who's asked - including the FBI.
Republican Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight and Government reform
committee, said this refusal is justified because the memo's contents were gleaned
from documents turned over by the FBI, according to Fox News.

�To say we want to see your memo when for months and months they haven�t let us
see lots of stuff we wanted to see � the memo came from what you gave us, FBI,�
Gowdy told Fox News. �There is nothing new in there other than what you gave us and
you showed us.�

For what it's worth, some Republicans are still willing to give the bureau the
benefit of the doubt, particularly regarding the lost text messages.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), whose panel is also
investigating Russia�s election interference, told CNN Tuesday that the FBI had
been cooperative in providing documents to Congress.

�I�m not going to read anything into it other than it may be a technical glitch
at the bureau,� Senate Intel Committee Chairman Richard Burr told the Hill. �The
fact that they have provided the rest of them certainly doesn�t show an intent to
try to withhold anything.�

President Trump has been somewhat less forgiving...

Where are the 50,000 important text messages between FBI lovers Lisa Page and
Peter Strzok? Blaming Samsung!
� Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2018

The pressure on the FBI has made even Trump allies nervous. Last night, Axios
reported that Christopher Wray, Trump's pick to lead the bureau, threatened to
resign amid pressure from Trump and Sessions to fire Andrew McCabe, deputy director
of the bureau and a close Clinton ally whose wife received money from the Clinton
machine during a recent campaign for office.

After spending hours of closed-door Congressional testimony last month, McCabe

announced that he would resign early this year.

Gowdy, who spearheaded questioning of McCabe, told reporters that his testimony
contained "numerous conflicts."

But regardless of what Congress does - or how much questionable behavior their
investigations into the FBI uncover - without a special counsel, Mueller will
continue to have the upper hand. After all, Mueller has the power to call a grand
jury, which can approve indictments - evidenced by the charges he's brought against
at least four former Trump campaign officials. While it has subpoena power,
Congress can't arrest anybody...

...So without a special counsel, Republicans' options for holding the bureau
accountable remain limited...
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Victory_Garden Jan 24, 2018 11:23 PM Permalink

The people of the USA, prolly as well the world, are so darn sick to death of all
this corruption and criminality. It has gone on and on and on for years. We saw the
evil of 9/11 wake up all who had eyes to see, and ears to hear. It was the signal
that yes, the govt of America had gone rouge and was surly out of the control of
goodness, and the American People. Govt is now occupied by the stench of an evil
not even imagined by most of the people who consider themselves somewhat
intelligent. Their idea of intelligent is in the artful dodger antics of satan to
deceive and bewilder using lies and dis/mis-information to dissuade away from the
reality of what any particular situation is. So juvenile.

It is horrible that so many play the game of fools and dingbats to deceive so many
good people. The liars on the fake media are MOST responsible and complicit in the
evil strewn throughout the information highways. How can the world navigate a
future, when there is nothing but lies to guide them? How can any sanity ever see
the light of day, if there is nothing but darkness being constantly spewed out from
those who are supposed to be trusted? Who can possibly survive in the house of
wicked evil?

Stop dribbling out the truth in small spurts and teases. Get to the down right
dirty and lets get on with the hangings of these evil traitorous usurpers of the
Constitutional lawful govt of America. Everybody knows how criminally corrupt the
entire law and justice system is. There is no reason to tiddle-tad about circling
jerking around bogus baloney shit show stupidity. All the run-around idiocy is so
very disgustingly sickening, it becomes intolerable to wander in the constant state
of chaos. Shine the Light...burn down the evil temples...hang all the nasty
criminals. It�s past time to get on with America, and how to get along with the
world. Not constantly bombing it all so the rothschild war industry(isreal) can
profit.

In the meanwhile, it is also now time to turn off the daily cottage industry dime
store thrilla from manila crime story novel chapters of, were gonna get them any
day now, plays. Strange and new as it is, Fox News is OK enuff to get real news
from these days. They have gathered together a heck of a lot of articulate,
beautiful and very intelligent people to bring the daily stories about the never
ending rabbit hunt for true justice in the land of La-la. The rest of the lame
stream media, CNN/msnbc/abc/cbs/nbc et al, is not worth turning on at all. Total
waste of time. Turned off the AJ show and now get a lot more done in the day. The
new and easy listening interruption/commercial free show is, the Steve and Jessy
Show on blogtalk radio.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bpearthwatchlive/2018/01/24/redpillradio-l�

And of course, the very best person to easy listen to is Michael Rivero. Here is
the page to watch his daily commercial and interruption free show below. Those who
see and hear, will know this Way.

https://www.youtube.com/user/hard2startyubetube

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Here is the sickening and ultra revolting truth. If these govt criminals were any
other average American, they would have been ripped, tried, and jailed by now so
the rest of the country, the world, can get on with getting on with fair and free
trade. Prosperity. Good life for all.

It�s time to rebuild the US country, the world. Time to bring home ALL US TROOPS.
Make plowshares from swords. Time to stop the profitability of woar. Time to
reignite the profitability of America, and all Americans. It is time to live from a
place of Love, not a place of fear. If it�s not love, what is it? All dysfunctional
human behavior patterns come from a place of fear. Where are you coming from?
Love...or fear? What are you creating in the world? Stop gobbling up fear porn like
the daily oatmeal. The only thing people have to fear, is fear itself. Wonder well
about those who propagate fear for profits.

May the Light of God that is Truth, shine all over so people can have the choice to
embrace Truth and Justice, or to remain ignorant following the pied pipers of fear.
Member, ignorance is still the greatest sin. Many are those who choose to live in
ignorance. THIS...is not modern civilization..it�s just a repeat of another cycle
of the banksters to dominate the planet and kill off the rest of the 90% of the
world�s people. Choose well the path you take. There is no moar excuse for blatant
criminality and corruption run amok unabated, or unarrested. It is way past time
for many of these ziosatanic/luciferic/pedo/jesuit/al-CIA-duh/Fuckin Bunch of
Idiots/congress critters/senate toads to go to jail or better, to be reaped.

Everybody knows this shit show can not last much longer. The dam of hell is about
to break and every man Jack and Sally Seashore better wonder, where are you gonna
hide when the waves of uncertainty hit you? Everybody knows babylon is about to
strike again with another distraction from truth. Who profits from chaos? Could be
a false flag event or dare say, an attempt on the Presidents life. Telling ALL you
babylonians this right now, you toucha the President, or any of his, you gonna geta
broka face. God, the Supreme Justice, sees all. Mankind can escape the laws of man,
but mankind cannot escape the Laws of God. Universal Law supersedes all laws of
man. THAT...IS ENGRAVED IN THE STONES OF TIME. It�s never going to change, even if
the lying evil corrupt and criminal lame stream media says differently. There is NO
ESCAPE from karmic justice. Be it by the hand of man, or the Hand of God, it
happens.

Pray for sanity, law, and true justice to Guide the Way.

May Justice find God�s Speed.

Bless�ed are the Wayshowers.

http://libertyfight.com/8/Catholic-Bishops-visit-Palestine.html

Extra Credit.: Sir Tyler/AI, please make it so we can back page to previous browser
saved pages, and stop going back to the main page when one back pages on the
browser. Can only read one page now. Why?

Old Alaskan Saying: if it�s not broke, don�t fark with it.