Posted on 02/02/2018 11:35:10 AM PST by EdnaMode
Rep. Devin Nunes’s infamous memo — the document numerous House Republicans claimed would demonstrate fundamental anti-Trump corruption at the FBI — was released early Friday afternoon. The entire thing is three and a half pages and only takes a few minutes to read closely and carefully.
After doing that, there is only one conclusion a fair reader could draw: There is absolutely nothing here.
There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia are fundamentally flawed. The memo is a piece of partisan spin, and not a particularly compelling one at that.
Republicans who claimed it was anything else have been egregiously misrepresenting what the memo actually says.
The memo does not support its core claim The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI’s use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was “a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.”
The only example the memo cites is an October 21, 2016, request by the Department of Justice and FBI for permission under FISA powers to snoop on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. The key word there is former: Page had left the Trump campaign at least a month before the application. That’s the first red flag that there’s nothing here, as an FBI campaign to undermine Trump’s campaign would almost certainly involve targeting someone who was actually working on it.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Resignations mean nothing. Prosecutions must come from this or the FBI, DOJ, CIA and NSA will continue to try and control election outcomes and orchestrate coup’s and blackmail pols they disagree with. Examples must be made or we are in heap big trouble!
This is known as “whistling past the graveyard”. It is explosive.
The 99 page FISA Court report concluded that 85% of the Obama administration’s FISA requests were fraudulent and illegal.
That bears repeating.
At first, I didn’t think it was wise to release the memo on a Friday. Especially the Friday before the Super Bowl.
Then it hit me. The dems are going to bring far more public attention to the memo than our side ever could.
Priceless.
I get the jest of it, Clinton and Obama colluded with Russian sources to spy on Presidential Candidate Trump, and it looks like it continued into the Presidency.
Isn’t this exactly what we expected from the Left? Duh.........
Thanks EdnaMode. Vox is yet another DNC shill machine.
What discipline will be administered? Unless the FISA judges
do something, nothing will happen—nothing. Unless, of course,
there is vigilante justice.
It's a question of what they knew. If they knew how dodgy the basis for their surveillance was, they should go. If they were misled by underlings, they should say so... convincingly. That saves Rosenstein, but leaves Mueller to pack up shop, because everything he's done started with surveillance drawn from falsely sworn warrants.
Yup. Just checked CNN awhile ago. Jake Tapper and his 3 guests (I don't know who they were) were all laughing at this "Nothing Burger".
I would think that signing off on a baseless FISA warrant application — lying to a FISA judge — is a serious, actionable offense.
But what do I know. According to Comey, it’s no big deal, par for the course.
The Memo is big.
It shows there is material support for what many of us strongly suspected all along:
The real entanglement with foreign influence over the 2016 election involves Hillary, Podesta, McCain (though none are named in the memo) and the influence of partisan British intelligence.
What is disclosed in the memo demands a separate Special Investigator tasked with uncovering the crimes committed by the illegal abuse of the FISA courts.
Crimes were committed.
Is that a picture of that boy named Sue, from the “Great British Baking Show,” with a fake beard?
Yup absolutely. People should go to prison over this.
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