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CONFESSIONS OF A CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER: Forget The Nunes Memo & Focus On Grassley-Graham
DCWhispers ^ | February 11, 2018 | DCWhispers

Posted on 02/12/2018 7:10:57 AM PST by mairdie

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To: Erik Latranyi

I’ve heard similar things but this article is a hot mess. It needs to explain this. There’s a logic leap in the paragraph about Steele and Page.


21 posted on 02/12/2018 8:14:47 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: mairdie

I wonder who this dem congressman is?


22 posted on 02/12/2018 8:15:07 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: navysealdad

No confusion. It is clear enough.


23 posted on 02/12/2018 8:17:31 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: mairdie

Romney went ahead in the polls in August and it showed as he was out fundraising Obama by alot. Then he went limp and campaigned like a squish, and got squished himself.


24 posted on 02/12/2018 8:18:00 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

The article makes me wonder about a lot of the people passing on the gossip, as well as about the gossip. My father-in-law was in the IL legislature, and I learned enough visiting Springfield to really have my stomach turned.


25 posted on 02/12/2018 8:22:45 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

What I should have added was that they spent a lot of their times in bars drinking themselves under the table and telling lurid stories about each other. I really don’t think these people should be allowed to live away from their families. They need a way to stay grounded, where people can watch them and not take their bad behavior for granted or as something to make use of.


26 posted on 02/12/2018 8:26:18 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie
First, the FISA Court had no business signing off on the Carter Page surveillance request that was made by the Obama FBI/DOJ.
The merits of that request were so shoddy as to make it laughable.
And yet the FISA Court DID sign off on it
and that was the vehicle by which the Obama administration then proceeded to surveil the entirety of the Trump campaign.

That’s an abuse of power that (almost) leaves me speechless


and the appearance of abuse of power by the FISA court in doing this
27 posted on 02/12/2018 8:36:06 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: Sicon

the highest levels of government and law enforcement were involved in attempting to bypass the American voter in 2016.
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

That was after they installed an ineligible usurper in the office of President!


28 posted on 02/12/2018 8:44:07 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Like McCain before him, Romney was a willing Designated Loser.


29 posted on 02/12/2018 8:45:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: KC_Conspirator
Romney went ahead in the polls in August and it showed as he was out fundraising Obama by alot. Then he went limp and campaigned like a squish, and got squished himself.

Remember how, during the primary convention there was all that shady business concerning both (a)delegates, and (b) the rules, both state and national? (Link: #1, #2, #3.)
I've always thought that the big reason that Romney was pushed [by the GOP] was because he was the only one who could lose to Obama — but even if he did win, he was philosophically more of the same (eg RomneyCare) — OTOH, Ron Paul would have fought (and remember how unpopular Obama was at the time?) and he probably would have won.

But what would have been the effect of a Ron Paul presidency? — Well, he certainly would have looked into the Federal Reserve, and I think that mere possibility is unacceptable to a lot of people. Not only would it likely reveal massive amounts of fraud, but it would snowball and implicate a lot of powerful people… the sorts of people who are supposed to prevent things like that from happening. Additionally, it would likely have interesting impacts on the USD (well, Federal Reserve Note) which, in turn, would make it a big concern for both the ultra-rich with their assets in FRNs, and large/multi-national corporations who also have a lot of assets in FRNs.

30 posted on 02/12/2018 8:53:32 AM PST by Edward.Fish
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To: Erik Latranyi

“Carter Page was hired by the FBI to be an informant against Russia”

Yes. Info on the post 2013 FBI “interview” becomes sketchy. The left is fond of saying Page was under investigation at the time the FBI approached him over concern about Russians trying to recruit him as a spy. It’s equally plausible that story is BS and it was the FBI trying to recruit Page because of his business ties to Russia. Indeed, in retrospect it appears Page was recruited in 2013, was a FBI spy, then used as a justification for the FISA warrant because of Russian relations the FBI encouraged. If Page was all the left continue to claim he is, why hasn’t he been charged ?


31 posted on 02/12/2018 9:16:10 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Like McCain before him, Romney was a willing Designated Loser.

I think you're right.
But I think it's more than that — The last several elections have been set up [or attempted to be set up] to undermine the Constitution, in particular the Natural Born Citizen requirement. Working backwards:

  1. 2016: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were both ineligible (Jindal and Santorum, too) — And while it was obvious that ¡JEB! was being pushed (I remember Hillary or JEB internet ads way before the primaries got started), the fact that 4 of the 16 candidates had any question at all regarding their NBC status is almost as telling as the big push for Ted Cruz (obviously ineligible: born in Canada to at most one Citizen parent).
  2. 2012: Mitt Romney has an eligibility issue if the highest standard for NBC is taken (born to to Citizen parents withing the US) because his father (George W. Romney) was born in Mexico and [TTBOMK] never naturalized.
  3. 2008: (a) Obama was possibly born in Kenya, possibly born in Hawaii, but certainly to a father that was not a Citizen, possibly adopted in Indonesia gaining that citizenship [I've heard some claim that it was exclusive]; and (b) McCain who, being born in Panama, fails it strict definition portion within the US.
Multiple FReepers having served in the military overseas w/ families have made the claim that they were briefed that a child born overseas would not be eligible for President, and the citizen parents requirement seems an obvious requirement to me — seen in this light, the overtly nationalistic nature of the NBC requirement must really stick in the craw of the globalists and, I think, is the reason they wish to erode it into meaninglessness.
32 posted on 02/12/2018 9:22:09 AM PST by Edward.Fish
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To: Edward.Fish

It has been a concerted effort for some time.
There have been legislative attempts to alter it that have failed dating back to the 1960’s.
The natural protections of the natural born citizen clause should be self-evident to anyone after the disastrous Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Yet there are still plenty of people who want to make Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids (born in Yemen to one American parent) eligible.

The children of foreign nationals are PRECISELY who the founders were excluding, they are born with divided loyalties, allegiances, nationalities and citizenships.
One can only naturally be an American when they cannot be anything else. Born here of citizen parents.


33 posted on 02/12/2018 9:38:34 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jazminerose

Need to look at past FR articles, Carter Page was an FBI employee, attended only 1 distant campaign staff meeting, but ended up the source for the Title 7 FISA tap, which allowed FBI/DOJ to surveillance the entire Trump team. Page is a liberal, worked for Clinton back in the day, and ended up being the source for the wiretap. This article is right.


34 posted on 02/12/2018 3:32:06 PM PST by whack01
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