[mairdie]

You have to love a man with sources. Especially one who praises them to the sky in the article to make sure they keep feeding him information.

[dirtboy]

I don’t want to lose anyone in the weeds here but what the head of the FBI testified to before the Senate was that he basically took Carter Page at his word and ignored all of the other bias that was swirling around Page which would normally have made him someone clearly not worthy to be used as justification for making a FISA warrant request. There is really only one credible explanation for this – Carter Page was hired to create something that was used as justification to provide legal cover for what was a highly illegal surveillance program against the opposition candidate of a sitting President of the United States. James Comey attempted to explain this all away by basically saying, “We believed Carter Page because Carter Page assured us he was believable.”

This section is a hot mess - the character is Steele, not Carter Page.

[for-q-clinton]

Carter page or Christopher Steele... I think this article has a huge error when referring to page and Steele.

[for-q-clinton]

I don’t follow this...

There is really only one credible explanation for this – Carter Page was hired to create something that was used as justification to provide legal cover for what was a highly illegal surveillance program against the opposition candidate of a sitting President of the United States. James Comey attempted to explain this all away by basically saying, “We believed Carter Page because Carter Page assured us he was believable.” And please don’t forget that through all of this,

[Sicon]

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

This is why ALL OF THEM need to see prison time. Of course, as we are no longer a nation of equal justice under the law, they won't.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Would have been a great article if the author didn’t mix up Carter Page and Christopher Steele. Jeeeeeze. Dumb mistakes.

[chris37]

The author can’t even follow his own story?

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a shorter and clearer explanation by Grassley/Graham:

Michael Goodwin: Peeling back the layers of Hillary Clinton’s deceit/Grassley/Graham
NY Post ^ | Michael Goodwin
Posted on 2/11/2018, 8:05:25 AM by RoosterRedux

A third layer of the onion involves the revelations in the letter GOP Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham wrote to the Justice Department. They urge a criminal investigation into whether Steele lied to the FBI about how much and when he fed the dossier to the anti-Trump media.

The letter is compelling in showing that Steele said one thing under oath to a British court and something different to the FBI. The contradictions matter because the agency relied on Steele’s credibility in both the FISA applications and its actual investigation. Strangely, even after it fired him for breaking its rule forbidding media contact, the FBI continued to praise his credibility in court.

If that were all the senators’ letter accomplished, it would be enough. But it does much more.

It also reveals that two former journalists linked to Clinton, separately identified as the odious Sidney Blumenthal and a man named Cody Shearer, created and gave a State Department official additional unverified allegations against Trump.

The official passed those documents to Steele, who passed them to the FBI, which reportedly saw them as further evidence that Trump worked with Russians. But as Grassley, head of the Judiciary Committee, and Graham write, “It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility.”

The State Department official involved in the episode, Jonathan Winer, wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post Friday in which he confessed to the senators’ chronology while offering a benign description of his motives. Winer also admitted he shared all the unverified allegations from the Clinton hitmen with other State Department officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3631206/posts

[Auntie Mame]

When I asked his son what he thought had happened that night all he said was, “They cheated.”

I've never forgotten the look on Obama and Michelle's faces at some event they were at that took place only days before the election. They were clearly very worried.

Apparently their fixers fixed it as we all know the results.

[BigEdLB]

Obama stole 2012 from Romney?

[KC_Conspirator]

I wonder who this dem congressman is?

[novemberslady]

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