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Did the DOJ Misuse the Steele Dossier — to Spy on the Trump Campaign?
National Review ^ | December 8, 2017 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 12/09/2017 7:37:13 AM PST by billorites

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To: billorites

Is the Pope a communist?

Does a polar bear poop on the ice?

Is McCain a scumbag?


21 posted on 12/09/2017 8:02:16 AM PST by stockpirate (REPRESSION BREEDS VIOLENCE)
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To: billorites

Brevity is best. Yes.


22 posted on 12/09/2017 8:03:30 AM PST by blackdog
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Did the OBAMA DOJ Misuse the Steele Dossier — to Spy on the Trump Campaign?

Oh please.......

Obama was running scared....he has so much to hide....

Sure-Thing Hillary was supposed to sweep it all under the Oval Office rug.

23 posted on 12/09/2017 8:03:46 AM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: billorites

He may know everything but just cant blurt it out all at once. They would paint him as a conspiracy nut and a sore winner. Better in drips and drabs and build the caze in the court of public opinion.


24 posted on 12/09/2017 8:03:50 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: billorites
It's pretty obvious that Trump is going out of his way to go through proper legal channels and avoiding even the appearance of impropriety in his take down of the entrenched scumbags in Washington.

His approach is seemingly very ambitious. He is not out hunting for one or two scalps to make a few headlines and garner publicity.

He is going after the entire corps of corrupt and politicized upper and mid level operatives burrowed in from the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations

Trump is going to clean house.

25 posted on 12/09/2017 8:04:03 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: billorites

Is the Pope communist?


26 posted on 12/09/2017 8:04:09 AM PST by stonehouse01
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To: billorites

There is no doubt that Trump could end a lot of the mystery surrounding the dossier. Why he’s letting the drama continue to play out is baffling. Trump’s reticence is causing the seeds of doubt to grow. The truth will ultimately come out and when it does I hope Trump’s inaction will be explained.


27 posted on 12/09/2017 8:06:18 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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28 posted on 12/09/2017 8:06:30 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Chode

I just put on my tin foil hat made with industrial aluminum foil so get ready......

Donald trump wants to come out and clean house but the deep state is holding something over his head. Whether it has something to do with his taxes/bankruptcies or his past dealings with women. Something is keeping president Trump from doing the work he was elected to do. Why else would Donald leave that piece of s*** Jeff Sessions in there who is doing absolutely nothing?!?! There is so much obvious govt corruption just hanging there, waiting to be picked and nothing is happening! No one is being prosecuted.


29 posted on 12/09/2017 8:06:36 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: billorites
Nevertheless, President Trump would have been a principal victim had there been an abuse of power, and he has the authority to end all speculation by disclosing the relevant information. Since he apparently refuses to do so, one must assume that the intelligence agencies and Obama national-security officials had good reasons for taking the actions they took.

Andy, Andy, Andy ... You really don't get Donald Trump at all, do you?

Take a look back at this classic memory from the 2016 campaign:

"John Miller" Audio Tape Hits the News

Pay particular attention to the segment that starts around the 4:25 mark. This episode was a silly trolling exercise by Donald Trump in the middle of the 2016 primary campaign, and it involved a taped conversation where he allegedly called a reporter and pretended to be his own publicist, the mysterious "John Muller."

Donald Trump sat on this tape for 25 years before he apparently sent it to the Washington Post himself.

TWENTY ... FIVE ... YEARS.

If I were one of the senior leaders in the Obama administration I would be spending the next decade looking over my shoulder constantly. LMAO.

30 posted on 12/09/2017 8:09:54 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Be Careful

Chief justice Roberts? If you’re alluding to impeachment ritual then no, Roberts has nothing to do other than preside and maintain regular order. He doesn’t get to review or have any job in qualifying evidence.

“The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.”


31 posted on 12/09/2017 8:15:11 AM PST by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: billorites

Puzzling bits of logic by McCarthy:

“Moreover, Steele, who is said to have enjoyed a good reputation among U.S. intelligence agents, maintains that 70 to 90 percent of his reporting is accurate. He believes his sources are reliable and notes that, though not verified, neither has most of the information been negated.”

If the dossier has not been verified, how can the reporting be considered accurate. If reports that I am a billionaire have never been negated, does that mean I am a billionaire?

“But it would not be true that the FBI and Justice Department fraudulently presented the dossier to the FISA Court as if it were a refined U.S. intelligence analysis; instead, they would have presented information the FBI had developed independently after being tipped off by the dossier.”

If it had been presented in that fashion, then it would still be a complete fraud. There has been no FBI independently developed information — it would have been front and center months and months ago.


32 posted on 12/09/2017 8:15:38 AM PST by odawg
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Anti-Trumper McCarthy now singing a different tune. Where were these observations a few weeks ago?

Timing is everything. And who knows what DOJ is investigating and whether releasing the information at this time will jeopardize that investigation. IMO Jim Jordan already knows the answers to the questions he posed at the Wray hearings.

Patience boys. Hold your fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Let Mueller shoot his wad first. And then the sh*t will hit the fan.

33 posted on 12/09/2017 8:15:55 AM PST by kabar
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To: stockpirate

Did the Nazis bomb Pearl harbor?


34 posted on 12/09/2017 8:16:29 AM PST by semantic
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Remember that Trump waited to fire Comey until AFTER Comey had appeared before the Senate in early May and testified under oath that Trump was never a target of an FBI investigation. Once Trump was in the clear in a major public venue like that, the hammer came down on Comey in a big way.

It's also worth noting that the Trump administration was reportedly leaking like a sieve for his first 6-9 months in office, and yet there wasn't even the slightest hint about Comey's firing until after it was done. Comey himself learned of his firing from CNN while he was at an FBI office in California.

35 posted on 12/09/2017 8:16:45 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: marron

The guilty include career civil servants who worked at the direction of their bosses appointed by Obama. They knew they were engaged in a criminal acts. Drain ever crook out period.


36 posted on 12/09/2017 8:17:04 AM PST by Lumper20 ( "No NFL punk has a leg wound from combat-get off your knee or leave America,")
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To: Liz
That's what didn't happen...will she skunk on Obama eventually?

Or does he have something really big on her...which is what I think.

After all, look how graciously she accepted Obama winning the nomination over her...the party favorite...and biggest Dem fund raiser ever.

They only gave her the nomination this time....because she's got soooooo much on everyone.

37 posted on 12/09/2017 8:17:28 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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i keep hoping Sessions is the hand of misdirection a magician uses to keep your attention away from what the working hand is doing...
38 posted on 12/09/2017 8:18:04 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: billorites

t;ld version of the article is this:

“Trump can declassified information himself and order the AG to release or have his resignation in hand. Why hasn’t he done so. It must mean where there is smoke there is fire.” -Quoted & paraphrased,


39 posted on 12/09/2017 8:18:12 AM PST by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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“What the president’s champions fail to mention is that he is in charge of classified information — including classified applications submitted to the secret FISA Court. Was candidate Trump the victim of political spying? Of a weaponization by the Obama administration of the government’s intelligence-collection power, with ramifications that, thanks to the Mueller investigation, beset the Trump administration to this day? If President Trump is indeed a victim, then it just so happens that he is uniquely positioned to expose this shocking abuse of power. All he has to do is order disclosure.”


What the author fails to note is such direct actions by President Trump will be converted by the establishment media into “interference with the Special Counsel” “Obstruction of Justice” and a dozen other made up crimes.

President Trump has to carefully plan out and execute each step. I think he is doing so.


40 posted on 12/09/2017 8:18:39 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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