The NYT "Scoop" Appears To Be an Effort to Spin Opening an Investigation into Trump as an Erratic Act https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/09/21/more-responsible-versions-of-the-nyt-scoop-strongly-suggests-rosenstein-and-mccabe-were-discussing-opening-an-investigation-into-trump/ …
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So it's not out yet but all of a sudden we get third-hand reports about what happened at a meeting the day of that text, a meeting that Lisa Page attended. And one of two key issues is the connotation of a statement about wiring the President.
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Two other points: if this IS an attempt to spin the meeting where McCabe and Rosenstein debated opening an investigation into Trump, it explains why two issues are so important: 1) Whether 25th A mentioned (meaning investigation would have been attempt to remove POTUS).
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2) Whether the investigation was *just* obstruction or whether it included "collusion" (AKA a conspiracy with Russia) at the time.
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fwiw, reading the page/strzok texts in context, it appears as if they already discussed opening said case ("the case") months before comey's firing.
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Fair enough.
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my suspicion is that part of the purpose of the "declassification review" was not just to declassify, but to put sensitive documents directly in the hands of people sympathetic to the targets being investigated.
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Well, who fired Comey?
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So the circus is not about finding a pretext to fire Rosenstein. It's about getting access to those memos. That fits in with Matt Gaetz' and Jim Jordan's statements - and with Fox news cautioning against firing RR.
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