Sources familiar with the records told Fox News that a late-2016 email chain indicated

I am surprised that you would consider "sources", the MSM (FOX ) and "indicated"

as solid evidence...

interesting.

Sorry, I left out Brennan.

Why would you ADD another person when you've FAILED to support your allegations about the first 2 you cited? 

Sources familiar with the records told Fox News that a late-2016 email chain indicated then-FBI Director James Comey told bureau subordinates that then-CIA Director John Brennan insisted the dossier be included in the intelligence community assessment on Russian interference, known as the ICA.

I sure do hope that the 'leak' investigation includes 'sources familiar with the records' telling Fox News about FBI/CIA emails...

Still waiting for your link to those conflicting statements. 

If Comey wasn't worried; he wouldn't be trying to desperately change the narrative.

By that standard, Trump must be terrified. 

What makes you think I care about Trump? I didn't vote for Trump or Clinton. I don't do the lesser of two evils when voting. 

According to the left, Trump is "terrified" of everything. Comey is supposed to be level headed; yet has proven repeatedly to be politically dysfunctional, and slow witted. Comey is the one that taped his conversation with Trump and leaked them; because of his "fear of being fired"; and that Trump was trying to influence his investigations. Yet did nothing when Lynch supposedly told him to call his email investigation a "matter". He also said he had reservations about Lynch's ability to prosecute after her meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac. Unfortunately he wasn't smart enough (read too Establishment) to document any of that.

The only thing I care about is that the FBI and DOJ was used as a weapon against a political opponent; and that an innocent Carter Page was used as an excuse to get FISA warrants to do it.  Either Comey or Mueller should have brought Page in for questioning- at least for the sake of appearance. But, no questioning; and no charges. So much for the master spy garbage.

Nixon would be damn proud of this bunch.

Before you say anything; I don't think will come of the investigations into the FISA warrants; or the entire spying on an opposition campaign. The most that will happen is a slight rebuke to all of those involved in their records- and they will be black listed for all future government positions; and recommendation that the FBI, CIA, and DOJ review their procedures for gathering information and documentation for FISA warrants.  Maybe, at the extreme, the judge that issued the FISA warrants will lose his bench for not looking at them closely enough.

Nothing that will stop this from happening again. Maybe next time it will be a Democratic campaign and candidate.  Then the left will really lose it.

What makes you think I care about Trump?

What makes you think I think that? I merely applied your stated standard to Trump. 

Comey is the one that taped his conversation with Trump and leaked them;

That is a LIE. 

The only thing I care about is that the FBI and DOJ was used as a weapon against a political opponent; and that an innocent Carter Page was used as an excuse to get FISA warrants to do it.

How was the information garnered by the FISA warrants used against Trump?

For that matter, what evidence do you have that ANYTHING garnered from the FISA warrant was used against ANY American?

PLEASE be specific. 

Maybe, at the extreme, the judge that issued the FISA warrants will lose his bench for not looking at them closely enough.

4 different Judges authorized the FISA warrants. NONE of those Judges have been removed from the FISC. It's been over a year since the BS came out about the alligations of illegal FISA warrants. Roberts hasn't said a peep about investigating their decisions OR of reviewing the FISC process. 

In the ongoing effort to distract from President Donald Trump’s corruption and lawlessness, Republicans and right-wing media are joining his calls to denounce the FBI, claiming that the Russia investigation was a “coup” against him.

The claim makes little sense on its face, since the investigation that FBI launched of Russian interference in the 2016 election, which turned into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, could not have been a “coup.” Trump wasn’t even president when it launched. And ignoring this fact, the only way it would result in Trump being removed from office is through the application of Congress’s impeachment powers, which is not a coup but an orderly transition of power in a democratic system (which would, in any event, leave in place Trump’s hand-picked vice president.)

But the idea that the FBI and intelligence community was plotting a coup against Trump, based loosely on some angry texts and a lot of distorted and baseless claims, has taken hold on the right. And it’s not likely to dissipate any time soon. With that in mind, readers should consider the following facts, all of which rest on uncontroversial evidence, that decisively show that the idea that the FBI was working to block Trump’s presidency is nonsense:

1. The FBI, via James Comey, almost certainly threw the election to Trump.

The most obvious reason we can infer that there wasn’t an FBI conspiracy to undermine Trump’s chances at getting elected is that, by all appearances, it did the exact opposite.

Instead of torpedoing Trump’s chances, FBI Director James Comey damaged Hillary Clinton’s shot at the presidency by announcing, less than two weeks before Election Day, that it was reopening the investigation of her emails. Trump certainly thought this news helped him at the time because he celebrated it and touted the re-opening of the probe. At the same time, when Trump later fired Comey, he used the director’s mistreatment of Clinton as a justification for the termination. So not only did Trump admit that Comey’s actions were helpful to him, he has admitted that they were wrongful. (FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, analyzing the polling, concluded that Comey’s decision indeed likely cost Clinton the election.)

It’s a startling state of affairs that the GOP can base an entire conspiracy theory — which often focuses on Comey as a key enemy of Trump — that flies in the face of one of the most significant historical events in recent memory.

2. The FBI was not specifically investigating Trump until he fired Comey.

Now, you might say that, even if Comey tanked Clinton’s chances, at least some members of the FBI were plotting against Trump. Citing a cryptic text message between FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the conspiracists sometimes argue that the investigation of Trump was an “insurance policy” against the chance he became president. So perhaps they assumed Clinton would win as most people did, but they wanted to keep the investigation open to use as a weapon against Trump if he turned the tables.

But then there’s another unfortunate fact for this theory: As Trump had once boasted, there was, in fact, no FBI investigation of him specifically during the 2016 campaign. The FBI was investigating certain members of Trump’s team — several of whom have since gone to prison — but not Trump himself. Trump wasn’t put under investigation until months later when he fired James Comey.

3. There appeared to be damaging leaks out of the FBI — about Clinton.

There’s also the fact that, based on comments made by the person who would become Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, the FBI seemed to be leaking damaging suggestions about Hillary Clinton . As the Washington Post reported at the time:

Rudy Giuliani told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum on Oct. 26 that Donald Trump had “a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next two days.”

“I’m talking about some pretty big surprise,” he said.

Two days later, FBI Director James Comey revealed to Congress that his agents had resumed their investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, after agents in an unrelated case discovered emails that could potentially be relevant to the server case.

These comments, which Giuliani later clumsily walked back, later triggered a leak investigation .

But Comey later told the House Intelligence Committee:

I was concerned that there appeared to be in the media a number of stories that might have been based on communications reporters or nonreporters like Rudy Giuliani were having with people in the New York field office. In particular, in I want to say mid October, maybe a little bit later, Mr. Giuliani was making statements that appeared to be based on his knowledge of workings inside the FBI New York. And then my recollection is there were other stories that were in the same ballpark that gave me a general concern that we may have a leak problem — unauthorized disclosure problem out of New York, and so I asked that it be investigated.

And former Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the DOJ inspector general:

And [Comey] said, and he said to me that it had become clear to him, he didn’t say over the course of what investigation or whatever, he said it’s clear to me that there is a cadre of senior people in New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton. And he said it is, it is deep. It’s, and he said, he said it was surprising to him or stunning to him.

4. The investigation of Trump’s campaign was largely kept secret.

Despite urging from lawmakers, Comey kept the investigation of Trump’s campaign secret during the 2016 campaign. Some of the details about the investigation leaked at the time, but they were also heavily spun in Trump’s favor, with the New York Times printing the notorious headline on Oct. 31, 2016: “Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia.” It’s second paragraph said:

Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. And even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.

It’s clear from the story that, though the reporters had stumbled on something very real, at least some portion of its FBI sources were trying to tamp down and discourage the reporting. The report does not at all suggest that FBI agents were trying to conduct a hit job on Trump through anonymous leaks. It claimed multiple times that the FBI believed Russia’s efforts to interfere in the election were not designed to help Trump, though the bureau would later conclude that, in fact, that was part of the intention.

5. At the same time that the FBI was investigating the Steele Dossier, it used oppo research to pursue another investigation of Clinton.

One of the biggest gripes Republicans have about the Russia investigation was its supposed reliance on the infamous Steele Dossier, a collection of raw intelligence documents from a former British intelligence agent that made a range of inflammatory and lurid claims about Trump’s ties to Russia. Because this was funded as opposition research against Trump, the GOP argues that its use by the FBI was illegitimate. However, the extent of its use by the FBI in the probe is still unknown, and the even the House Intelligence Committee , at a time when it was run by Republicans, admitted that the investigation had already begun before the bureau received the dossier.

However, during the same period of this investigation, the Clinton Foundation became the subject of an FBI inquiry that was spurred largely, it seemed, by a book called “ Clinton Cash .” That book was itself a long-form version of opposition research, designed by opponents of Hillary Clinton to hurt her electoral chances. The idea that referring oppo research against Trump in any way was somehow a major partisan breach, while the same thing happened to Clinton, strains credulity.

rawstory

This coming from the Director that was FIRED. Simply because he told his boss one thing and refused to tell anyone else the very same thing. Comical.

This coming from the guy who points fingers...at Brennan, Lynch.

This coming from the guy who went rogue and told America that he recommends no charges on Clinton...as if he were the AG.

This coming from the guy who admits leaking information.

Yup...everything was above board...nothing to see here. /s

Simply because he told his boss one thing and refused to tell anyone else the very same thing. Comical.

Trump gave a completely different official reason for firing Comey. Comical. 

This coming from the guy who admits leaking information.

What information are you alleging Comey leaked. If you're talking about his own memos, that isn't a 'leak'. 

This coming from the Director that was FIRED.

Being fired by the idiot Trump is more a badge of honor than anything else. 

Robert Mueller's office has announced that he is going to make a public statement to the media today, in a few hours. No word yet on what. 

I'm guessing he is going to announce he is leaving the justice dept. and the investigation on his part is over. Because he still works for Barr, I don't think he will be criticizing Barr. 

I just saw it. He didn't say much of anything and didn't take any questions

Actually, he contradicted Barr on obstruction. He said that the 'Department' [DOJ] could not make the call on obstruction because the DOJ, which includes Barr is restrained by the OLC policy. That voids Barr's 'decision' on obstruction. 

Comey…...the Guy the Democrats wanted gone.....until they didn't !

Now he's the Democrats "Hero" !

Dems luvs them some "Flippity-Floppity" narratives …. don't they !

townhall

"Clapper, Brennan and Comey Start Turning on Each Other as Barr Turns Up the Heat "

"Amazing—James Comey says that in 2016, John Brennan insisted on including the dossier in their IC assessment. But Brennan says: no no, COMEY wanted to use the dossier."

Just another Trump hating Liberal ….. "Oh ya.....Bet me" ….. moment from Comey !

Town Hall, another wonderful objective source, lol.

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Like I believe "Fact Check" media anymore. They put their own folks in charge of "Fact Checking" their own initial report !

Even the "Fact Checkers" are "Fact Checked".