{"id":20481,"date":"2017-03-20T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20481"},"modified":"2017-03-20T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:07:16","slug":"collusion-or-not-lets-wait-for-the-fbi-to-do-its-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20481","title":{"rendered":"Collusion or not? Let’s wait for the FBI to do its job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FBI Director James Comey today dropped two more live grenades into our laps.<\/p>\n

The first one is that the FBI can find no evidence, zero, that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Donald J. Trump’s campaign office in Trump Tower. He cannot locate any indication that any order was given by a federal judge; he cannot find evidence of any sort of surveillance.<\/p>\n

So …<\/p>\n

The suggestion that the president of the United States essentially defamed<\/em> his predecessor — when he tweeted the allegation of wiretapping — now has been given some credence.<\/p>\n

The bigger grenade might be the second disclosure that Comey made to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n

It is that the FBI is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Comey said FBI policy usually doesn’t allow comment on active investigations. The director made an exception in this case. The public interest is too great to ignore, he said.<\/p>\n

What in the world does that mean?<\/p>\n

I believe that if the FBI determines\u00a0there was collusion, that the Trump campaign worked actively with Russian spooks\/goons\/intelligence officers to torpedo the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton … well, I think we have a certifiable impeachable offense on our hands.<\/em><\/p>\n

To be fair, there hasn’t been a shred of evidence presented yet to suggest any such collusion. There’s been a lot of chatter, gossip and what might be called charitably “circumstantial evidence.” We cannot go on circumstance, however. We need incontrovertible proof, man!<\/p>\n

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Comey told committee members that this probe will\u00a0require lots of time to complete. It’s complicated and detailed, he said.<\/p>\n

Take all the time\u00a0<\/a>you need, Mr. FBI Director. I think we can wait for a detailed answer, no matter your conclusion.<\/p>\n\n

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FBI Director James Comey today dropped two more live grenades into our laps. The first one is that the FBI can find no evidence, zero, that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Donald J. Trump’s campaign office in Trump Tower. He cannot locate any indication that any order was given by a federal judge; … Continue reading Collusion or not? Let’s wait for the FBI to do its job<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[540,1424,1693,2139,6242,7017,6499,6974],"class_list":["post-20481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-russian-collusion","tag-trump-campaign","tag-wiretap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20484,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions\/20484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}