Steele’s stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election
By John Solomon
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If ever there were an admission that taints the FBIs secret warrant to surveil Donald Trumps campaign, it sat buried for more than two-and-a-half years in the files of a high-ranking State Department official.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalecs written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline.
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And that confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steeles now-discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaigns ties to Russia.
Steeles client is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8, the date of the 2016 election, Kavalec wrote in a typed summary of her meeting with Steele and Tatyana Duran, a colleague from Steeles Orbis Security firm. The memos were unearthed a few days ago through open-records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United.
Kavalecs notes do not appear to have been provided to the House Intelligence Committee during its Russia probe, according to former Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). “They tried to hide a lot of documents from us during our investigation, and it usually turns out theres a reason for it,” Nunes told me. Senate and House Judiciary investigators told me they did not know about them, even though they investigated Steeles behavior in 2017-18.
One member of Congress transmitted the memos this week to the Department of Justices inspector general, fearing its investigation of FISA abuses may not have had access to them.
Nonetheless, the FBI is doing its best to keep much of Kavalecs information secret by retroactively claiming it is classified, even though it was originally marked unclassified in 2016.
The apparent effort to hide Kavalec’s notes from her contact with Steele has persisted for some time.
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Twitter Bans Conservative Legend David Horowitz and the Freedom Center Dedicated to Defense of Free Societies
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Twitter suspended David Horowitz from the Freedom Center on Tuesday.
The purge continues.
We are witnessing the elimination of conservatism from the public square.
And Republicans do NOTHING!
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