Posted on 02/03/2018 4:54:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The FISA Abuse Memo is out and now we know why the Democrats were desperate to keep its contents hidden from the public: it confirms the worst fears not just of President Trump’s supporters but of everyone concerned about the abuse of police power, government corruption, and the sanctity of our elections.
The memo shows interference in the 2016 presidential election by hostile elements within a United States intelligence agency. It wasn’t the Russians we had to worry about—it was rogue actors at the highest levels of the FBI and Department of Justice. Left unanswered is to what extent the West Wing knew about or was complicit in this gross abuse of power.
What we now know:
1) The FBI’s case to the FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court was based almost entirely upon a partisan hit-job bought and paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. Christopher Steele, the source of the dossier, had “financial and ideological motivations” to undermine Donald Trump according to the Nunes memo. In fact, the FBI’s file records that Steele told Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr that “he was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.”
2)Ohr’s wife was one of just seven employees at FusionGPS, the firm that was paying Christopher Steele. The personal financial relationship between the Ohrs and the dossier was concealed from the court.
3) The FBI could not corroborate the information in the Steele dossier, calling it only “minimally corroborated” but did not disclose this fact to the FISA Court thus leading it to believe that the information in the dossier was either FBI work-product or that it had been independently corroborated by the FBI. Neither was true.
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Without him, America would have ended.
The problem is all those Hillary voters / Trump haters think it’s wonderful they tried to stop Trump.
My bosses are lefty dumbots.
One of them was ranting yesterday that this is all about Trump trying to distract the American public from the investigation to prove his Russian collusion.
He called it “way worse than Watergate..”
I had a LOT of trouble trying to hold my laughter.
A lot.
“rogue actors”
hardly!
We are witnessing a coup (or attempted). I have always wondered how certain pivotal historical events of countries evolve;how countries fall and civil war flares.
I'm afraid you're correct. Someone commented yesterday about how the left’s reaction to the memo was evidence that our side and theirs live in different ‘realities’. I think that is true, and that in their ‘reality’ there is no tolerance for much of the America we love and recognize. Joy Reid's comment about President Trump's SOTU address illustrates how far a gulf between us there is:
“Church ... family ... police ... military ... the national anthem ... Trump trying to call on all the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism. The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for.”
Their side doesn't care what the truth is, or if laws are broken, as long as the rest of us are forced to live in their reality - in which their beliefs, thoughts and way of life are held superior to all others. We're becoming balkanized, and that is not something it is easy to walk back.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/01/19/the-biggest-political-scandal-of-our-lifetimes/
OK, I know that’s a joke, but it’s still insulting to Nixon.
I snagged if from Drudge.
Steele and the FBI: The third-rate dossier that tried to topple a President.
X 100
Everyone here has to remember that John McCain was one of the persons in the chain of holding that dossier.
“The picture painted by the Nunes memo is one of federal law enforcement officials who believe they are a wholly independent power, accountable to no one but themselves, and able to pick winners and losers in elections.”
In a nutshell.
I’ve been beating this drum since day one. If true (and I believe it is) this will be be the biggest political scandal in the history of the United States.
And it should be. And I think there are people who know this.
I agree that Nixon was no conservative in certain respects (EPA, price controls, etc) but the man obviously loved his country and broke the law trying to protect it. He didn’t do it for personal gain.
These scumbags today...
Wray and Rosenstein believe they are wholly independent and they still have their jobs.
And they’ve been doing it ever since Reagan.
Bush I was CIA/deep state.
Clinton was CIA/deep state.
Bush II was CIA/deep state.
Obama was Soros/Saudi/CIA/deep state.
hardly!
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Right.... harldy rogue actors!
The "Left's" takeover of this country had been coming for decades. They are still at it especially in the schools and the media.
It's far from over. With each day's passing, the effects of the indoctrination in most of the "education system" is devastating. Young people come out of their schools and their frame of reference is POISONED.
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post # 8 made some good points about this also.
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