This is the Rolling Stone article that I talked about yesterday.
Can’t believe that this was actually in the RS.
Our President wants us to read it as he put it in his e-mail that I get.
“‘Corroboration Zero’: An Inspector General’s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke”
FTA:The Guardian headline reads: “DOJ Internal watchdog report clears FBI of illegal surveillance of Trump adviser.”
If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was.
Like the much-ballyhooed report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Horowitz report is a Rorschach test, in which partisans will find what they want to find.
Much of the press is concentrating on Horowitz’s conclusion that there was no evidence of “political bias or improper motivation” in the FBI’s probe of Donald Trump’s Russia contacts, an investigation Horowitz says the bureau had “authorized purpose” to conduct.
Horowitz uses phrases like “serious performance failures,” describing his 416-page catalogue of errors and manipulations as incompetence rather than corruption. This throws water on the notion that the Trump investigation was a vast frame-up.
However, Horowitz describes at great length an FBI whose “serious” procedural problems and omissions of “significant information” in pursuit of surveillance authority all fell in the direction of expanding the unprecedented investigation of a presidential candidate (later, a president).
Officials on the “Crossfire Hurricane” Trump-Russia investigators went to extraordinary, almost comical lengths to seek surveillance authority of figures like Trump aide Carter Page. In one episode, an FBI attorney inserted the words “not a source” in an email he’d received from another government agency. This disguised the fact that Page had been an informant for that agency, and had dutifully told the government in real time about being approached by Russian intelligence. The attorney then passed on the email to an FBI supervisory special agent, who signed a FISA warrant application on Page that held those Russian contacts against Page, without disclosing his informant role.
Likewise, the use of reports by ex-spy/campaign researcher Christopher Steele in pursuit of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority had far-reaching ramifications.
Not only did obtaining a FISA warrant allow authorities a window into other Trump figures with whom Page communicated, they led to a slew of leaked “bombshell” news stories that advanced many public misconceptions, including that a court had ruled there was “probable cause” that a Trump figure was an “agent of a foreign power.”
Good morning, Gran.
I’m happy to hear that your hubby had a good, restful night. Some of the best medicine.
Prayers continuing.
I’m shocked that came from The Rolling Stone.
What I want, for POTUS and all of his team who were ILLEGALLY spied on, is justice.
I want to see indictments and midnight raids and perp walks for the FIBbies and govt employees involved...from the TOP down.
Look what Brennan, Comey, 0bama and all of them on down have done. Yet, they’re all skipping along, singing a song. For now!!
And, I want an investigation into Hunter Biden.
Where is Hunter, btw?
Yet, meanwhile, Stone and Manafort are raided - with full coverage by CNN - and sit in jail.
Thanks.
That almost sounds like a fair article, like something a real journalist might put out. Whoever wrote it’s probably going to be fired. But it got past an editor!