2/ " #Giuliani told Fox that the trailing GOP nom had “a surprise or 2 that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises”...

It was later reported Comey was motivated to make the unusual announcement about the laptop bc he feared leaks from FBI’s NY field office, which..had “a faction of investigators based in the office known to be hostile to Clinton.” Indeed, Giuliani bragged immed after that he had sources in FBI, incl current agents"

4/ "Govt allegations against former G-man Chas McGonigal (also accused of taking a lg foreign payment while still on FBI payroll) & outsized American influence of sanctioned-later-indicted Russian billionaire Deripaska — also tied to US pols from Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to McConnell — should make us also look again at what was really up with the FBI in 2016.

How coordinated was the effort...who were agents behind it? What was the role, if any, of McGonigal.."

5/ "As a veteran journalist, I find NYT role in this fiasco— although likely an unwitting one—disturbing. To be sure, 2016 FBI leaks weren’t 1st time major news org has been burned by anon law enforcement sources...

It’s not only that America’s so-called paper of record has never apologized for its over-the-top coverage of the Clinton emails or the deeply flawed story about the FBI Trump-Russia probe. It’s that the Times has shown a stunning lack of curiosity about finding out what went wrong"