I don't recall any cheese-eaters showing outrage about this NYT report, eh?:
Quote:An examination by The New York Times, based on interviews with more than 30 current and former law enforcement, congressional and other government officials, found....that at one point, President Obama himself was reluctant to disclose the suspected Russian influence in the election last summer, for fear his administration would be accused of meddling.
His misgivings were only fueled by the discovery last year of a document written by a Democratic operative that seemed — at least in the eyes of Mr. Comey and his aides — to raise questions about [Lynch's] independence. In a bizarre example of how tangled the F.B.I. investigations had become, the document had been stolen by Russian hackers.
During Russia’s hacking campaign against the United States, intelligence agencies could peer, at times, into Russian networks and see what had been taken. Early last year, F.B.I. agents received a batch of hacked documents, and one caught their attention.
The document, which has been described as both a memo and an email, was written by a Democratic operative who expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far, according to several former officials familiar with the document.
The document complicated that calculation, according to officials. If Ms. Lynch announced that the case was closed, and Russia leaked the document, Mr. Comey believed it would raise doubts about the independence of the investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html?_r=1
They knew the russians could expose Lynch's obstruction of justice, so Comey had to cover for her and pretend to "make the decision himself," eh? Much, much more there about Lynch (and presumably Obama) attempting "obstruct justice" by impeding the Clinton investigation in that story.
As far as the Democrats and the FBI colluding with the russians to smear Trump while hiding their involvement goes, the article says this:
Quote:Mr. Steele had been a covert agent for MI6 in Moscow, maintained deep ties with Russians and worked with the F.B.I., but his claims were largely unverified. It was increasingly clear at the F.B.I. that Russia was trying to interfere with the election.
[Comey] proposed writing an op-ed piece to appear in The Times or The Washington Post, [which].... laid out how Russia was trying to undermine the vote. The president replied that going public would play right into Russia’s hands by sowing doubts about the election’s legitimacy. Mr. Trump was already saying the system was “rigged,” and if the Obama administration accused Russia of interference, Republicans could accuse the White House of stoking national security fears to help Mrs. Clinton. The op-ed idea was quashed.
Mr. Steele met his F.B.I. contact in Rome in early October, bringing a stack of new intelligence reports....The agent said that if Mr. Steele could get solid corroboration of his reports, the F.B.I. would pay him $50,000 for his efforts, according to two people familiar with the offer.
The FBI was willing to pay $50,000 to a guy who "maintained deep ties with Russians" in order to "get the goods," on Trump, eh? Problem was, the guy and his russian homeys had no goods to give, so they just leaked the story later.
No problem at all with any of THAT, eh, cheese-eaters? Just shut the **** up.
