Posted on 02/11/2021 12:58:37 PM PST by ransomnote
Impressive account!
Why won’t courts listen to this?!?
“ It was actually peaceful not knowing any news.... “
But now you’re back... ;-)
“Notable” from “Over There”:
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Smoking gun: Comey told Clapper FBI unable to ‘sufficiently corroborate’
Steele — then signed FISA
In January 2017 email to intel chief coughed up under court order, the former FBI director contradicted sworn avowal to FISA court that Steele dossier was verified.
The very day in January 2017 that then-FBI Director James Comey signed a FISA surveillance warrant application declaring content from Christopher Steele’s dossier had been “verified,” he wrote President Obama’s outgoing intelligence community chief with a very different assessment of the British spy’s intelligence on Russia collusion, a newly released memo shows.
“We are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting,” Comey wrote in a Jan. 12, 2017 email to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that was declassified and made public through an open records lawsuit by the Southeastern Legal Foundation.
The memo recounts an internal debate inside the U.S. intelligence community during one of the most delicate moments in the FBI’s then six-month old Crossfire Hurricane probe.
CIA officials had already informed Comey’s FBI that the target of the FISA warrant, Carter Page, wasn’t a Russian spy but rather an asset helping U.S. intelligence. The bureau had received warnings about Steele and the reliability of his source network, including that it might have been compromised by Russian disinformation. Agents had also just recommended on Jan. 4, 2017 shutting down the probe’s inquiry into incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lack of evidence.
The FBI had been warned the previous summer that Hillary Clinton’s campaign may have planted the false Russia collusion story as a way to “vilify” Trump and distract from her email scandal, and agents were about to interview Steele’s primary sub-source, who would discount much of the information in the dossier attributed to him as bar talk and unconfirmed rumor not worthy of official intelligence.
And the larger intelligence community had decided it did not want to vouch for the Steele dossier in its official Intelligence Community Assessment about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
It was in that environment in the final days of the Obama administration that Clapper had written Comey earlier on Jan. 12, 2017 to inform the FBI that Clapper had decided to release a public statement declaring that the Steele dossier was only mentioned in an appendix to the intel community’s report because the “IC has not made any judgment that the information in the document is reliable.”
Comey tried to push back, suggesting Steele was deemed reliable (he actually had been terminated by the FBI for leaking by that time) and that his network included sources that might be in a position to know things (although the key source had already disavowed the information attributed to him in the dossier).
“I just had a chance to review the proposed talking points on this for today,” Comey wrote Clapper. “Perhaps it is a nit, but I worry that it may not be best to say ‘the IC has not made any judgment that the information in the document is reliable.’ I say that because we HAVE concluded that the source is reliable and has a track record with us of reporting reliable information; we have some visibility into his source network, some of which we have determined to be sub-sources in a position to report on such things; and much of what he reports in the current document is consistent with and corroborative of other reporting included in the body of the main IC report.
Then Comey added the line that undercut his argument: “That said, we are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting to include it in the body of the report.”
You can read the full memo here:
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-02/ComeyClapperMemo1-12-17.pdf
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~Easy
Trump slowly drives past in motorcade at a spontaneous rally in
West Palm Beach, FL on Presidents’ Day.
Inciting a crows to wave and cheer!
What a beautiful President’s Day Florida gave our dear President!
No wonder the Uniparty can’t stand him... he has the peoples’ hearts.
What joy it must be to live in a place where people feel as you do about the important stuff...
Can’t post the picture, but check the number of views on the two videos! KeK!
https://gab.com/KanekoaTheGreat/posts/105738086350639148
As an altar boy, the funeral director would give us each a quarter, which bought us a slice of pizza ($0.15) and a Coke ($0.10) for lunch. LOLOL : )
Got 8+ inches here in Central Arkansas today! I knew I should have bought that used snowmobile!
WWG1WGA!
He’s a great President and I cant help but think that he will be back. WHo knows maybe March 4 is still in play.
DC Leaders, Pelosi, McConnell, Refused Increased Security Presence On Jan 6th, Timeline In Question
By Ulysses S. Tennyson | Jan 13, 2021
We have previously reported that President Donald Trump not incite violence at the capitol. In fact, he specifically called for rally crowd to go “peacefully” and ‘cheer on’ congressmen, not commit violence or vandalism
Now reports are coming in that it was intentionally bad anti-Trump and pro-BLM leadership in Washington DC that lead to the problems faced on January 6th.
In a WaPo interview with the Washington DC police chief, Steve Sund, The National Pulse reports the outgoing police chief “believes his efforts to secure the premises were undermined by a lack of concern from House and Senate security officials who answer directly to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate leader Mitch McConnell.”
The National Pulse also lays doubt that rally attendees could have made it to the Capitol building in time for the breach. ...snip...
I’m so sorry; hope everything stayed warm enough, or cool enough, as the case may be!
Just heard energy companies may institute rolling blackouts for us here in the midwest, but not to worry, they’ll only last for 30-60 minutes, per grid, unless the equipment malfunctions, then go to their website to report the problem, but the website has already crashed due to high traffic....
(brrrrr!)
“Knowingly”.
Starving for justice.
It’s just our third world internet/phone system, carrying on as usual and expected.
Where was the rolling black outs for the Midwest reported?
Thanks for the Gab post, it was beautiful.
Love Gab, so easy and I don’t have to put my cell phone in like Parler. Never going to happen, I don’t want that number sold, it becomes a nightmare.
I read it on our local Kansas City blog, then got a call from a friend in Omaha that Belleview (Ill.?) had been affected. Let me find some links and get back with you.
Southwest Power Pool Requests Energy Electricity Reductions
I don't know if your area is in the Southwest Power Pool or not. Why is Missouri in a southwest pool??
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