GUNS ARE STARTING TO SMOKE – AT 10:39 A.M. ET:  I guess it had to come to this...some evidence that Barack Obama was involved in improper activities during the 2016 election campaign.  It's early.  We proceed with caution.  From the Washington Times: 

A new batch of text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page revealed President Barack Obama wanted updates on the bureau’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, according a report released Wednesday.

On Sept. 2, 2016 — just weeks away from election day — Ms. Page texted Mr. Strzok, her lover, about preparing a report for then-FBI Director James B. Comey because “potus wants to know everything we’re doing.”

That raises questions about Mr. Obama’s involvement in the Clinton investigation, the report said.

The message were released in a report by Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, who is chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, one of six congressional committees reviewing the Strzok-Page texts.

Newly released texts also raised questions about whether the FBI waited nearly a month to reopen the Clinton investigation after new emails from the former secretary of state were discovered on the laptop computer of former Rep. Anthony Weiner, New York Democrat, whose wife was a top Clinton campaign aide.

On Sept. 28, 2016, Mr. Strzok told Ms. Page he was called into the office of then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to discuss “hundreds of thousands” of emails, including some possibly sent by Mrs. Clinton, that Mr. Weiner’s attorney turned over to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. The emails were turned over as part of an unrelated investigation into Mr. Weiner sending explicit messages to an underage girl in North Carolina.

COMMENT:  The whole thing is sordid.  Equally sordid is the clear, obvious attempt by the mainstream media to play down any improper activity by Democrats.  It is a frightening abdication of press responsibility, and a threat to the very idea of a free, independent press.

It is hard to keep up with all the probes going on in Washington, but I believe the GOP strategy is to have plenty of ammunition ready against the Democrats should Robert Mueller come up with any serious charges against President Trump.

February 7,  2018