Posted on 02/06/2018 3:08:17 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The central, and most damaging, accusation in the memo published Friday by House Republicans is that the FBI failed to disclose the bias of one of its sources when it applied to wiretap Carter Page. “Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding [British agent Christopher] Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials,” charged the memo. That was hardly explosive, or the kind of damning failure that would send people to prison or be worse than Watergate, as Trump defenders charged. But it was something. If true.
It’s not true. As the Ellen Nakashima reported, the application to wiretap Page did disclose that one of the sources of intelligence to generate suspicion that Page might be acting illegally came from a political source. It was mentioned in a footnote on the FISA application. Nunes was asked about this on Fox & Friends. He did not deny the point. Instead he insisted that it wasn’t good enough because the disclosure was merely a footnote. “A footnote saying something may be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid for dirt that the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign,” the distinguished Republican explained.
Notice how The FBI LIED about the Steele dossier has been scaled back to, The FBI did not highlight the truth about the Steele Dossier in the part of the application we bothered to read. So now the main attack on the FBI is about font size. No doubt all the subsequent memos Nunes is promising to release will have additional bombshells.
as if the FBI wasn't on the up and up
“A footnote saying something may be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid for dirt that the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign,”
Bears repeating, and the fact that the judge may have known it makes it even more corrupt, not less. I have always thought the judge did know.
Jonathan Chait: blather. hasn’t told the truth since dinosaurs.
These people are delusional. The FISA judge was an Obama appointed crony. The footnote is irrelevant.
Why the hell did the FBI present a dossier from a British MI-6 spy as evidence?
And one verified fact relating to source (political operative) was obfuscated on purpose.
This article argues that the evluation of FBI veracity hinge entirely on obfuscation of the source.
Of course the judge, and everyone else involved, knew.
They all belong to the Cult of Clinton, the most cynical, eyes-wide-open crime organization ever to disgrace the planet.
They knew exactly what they were doing and why.
“the facts were not verified”
Yep, not verified when they got the first FISA warrant and not verified when Rosenstein extended the warrant months later.
Nobody had any interest in verifying anything. It’s clear now that Rosenstein is tainted and should be fired.
The FBI was Steeler EMPLOYER!!! And they KNEW he was also working as a British spy!! THAT is ILLEGAL!!! The FBI is CORRUPT AS HELL!!!
When / where did they publicly release the FISA warrant?
I’d like to read the footnote myself and make my own judgement; not have the press interpret its significance for me.
Who wrote the footnote, and why was it put in the footnote?
Gowdy spoke about it on a Sunday chat show or some toehr interview. Said it took more words to describe the source in generalities than it would have to say it came from DNC-funded research.
The sideline about the named source (who paid for it) is CYA in the FISA applcation. "We told the judge all he needed to know to gauge the reliability of the source."
FBI wrote the footnote. I assume the style of putting it in footnote is common, the flow of the presentation of facts would be interrupted if every fact was accompanied by remarks about the nature of the source.
The FISA warrant was not released. Ellen Nakashima was given this information by “two U.S. officials familiar with the matter,” who “spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.”
Jonathan Chait of JournoList notoriety? Please help with the spelling of his last name, does it begin with a “C” or a “S”?
Nunes does need to get his act together...yesterday he was on FOX claiming Trump never met Popadopolus...when =everybody= has seen the photo of them sitting at the same table. No need to do these stop and chat things on TV - especially if you can’t stick to your own talking points!
Also - a Seth A piece this morning referring “The Shearer memo.” - I haven’t heard that name yet.
“spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.”///////// A lot of that going on.
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Perhaps we need a FBI Review Board for Patriots like BLM & inner city folks want for local police forces....... that FISA court thing doesn’t seem to be working out too well...... maybe the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz will expose the facts for our evaluation.
So, they are blaming the FISA judge for approving the request based on a political opponent’s faked info?
And nobody can ask the judge because he is protected?
And we’re all supposed to just say “Oh,” and walk away?
Nice try, lying democrat POS.
Nunes answered the “Papadopoulos didn’t meet Donald Trump” charge yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh show. Nunes words:
I was on Fox & Friends, and of course I misspoke a little bit, right, where I said that Papadopoulos, you know, didn’t know Trump, right? So then the left immediately and all the media they put out, oh, no, there’s a picture of Donald Trump and Papadopoulos.
Okay. So sorry, mainstream media, there was a photo-op that everybody that’s there admits that it was a photo-op. Donald Trump and Papadopoulos did not have any, you know, other than just saying hello there. You know, it’d be like if I went to a U2 concert and I’m at the concert hall there, and I say that, you know, I’ve met all the members of U2. I mean, it doesn’t work that way.
Bfl
Also, Shearer is Cody Shearer, long time Hillary dirty tricks enforcer.
And now there’s evidence he worked on the fake “Trump Collusion” scheme:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/31/cody-shearer-sidney-blumenthal-emerge-russia-dossi/
What did the British government know about this? No one is asking this question.
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