Posted on 01/10/2018 3:31:56 PM PST by springwater13
The unverified dossier alleging connections between President Trump’s campaign and the Russians was used as evidence by the FBI to gain approval from a secret court to monitor members of Trump’s team, this reporter has learned.
A large portion of the evidence presented in the salacious 35-page dossier put together by former British spy Christopher Steele, has either been proven wrong or remains unsubstantiated. However, the FBI gained approval nevertheless to surveil members of Trump’s campaign and “it’s outrageous and clearly should be thoroughly investigated,” said a senior law enforcement source, with knowledge of the process.
Multiple sources told this reporter that the dossier was used along with other evidence to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as FISC. The sources also stressed that there will be more information in the coming week regarding systemic “FISA abuse.”
“(The dossier) certainly played a role in obtaining the warrant,” added another senior U.S. official, with knowledge of the dossier. “Congress needs to look at the FBI officials who were handling this case and see what, if anything, was verified in the dossier. I think an important question is whether the FBI payed anything to the source for the dossier.”
On Wednesday, Sean Hannity said he has also independently confirmed that the dossier was used to obtain the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant from three separate sources.
ne very senior source said the dossier played “a significant role” in obtaining the warrant Hannity said on his radio show Wednesday.
FBI officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at saraacarter.com ...
Does ANYONE believe that these crooked ba$tard$ wouldn’t spy if they didn’t have a warrant??
Now start arresting FBI agents and anyone else who touched this document. It's time for speedy trials and off to the slammer.
I am not making excuses, but this is how they are going to explain it away: in the transcript the guy says he and the brit “spy” were unnerved with what they found about the relationship between Trump and Ruskie mobsters/intel types. They decided they had to pass on the info to the FBI.
If you read the transcript this is what he says and as soon as I read it I knew they had massaged exactly what they were going to say knowing they would be in the middle had they not waived the flag. It is BS but one has to prove they were lying.
IMO, they ran some of this info the fbi in June 16 and tried to get a warrant from it. The judge said NO. They then gathered more info and ran it through “official” channels in Rome together with duping the dope McCain to do the same thing. They the tap was approved albeit they had been running one before that time which was in August 16. The FBI of course believed what they wanted to believe and they filled in any voids with a “source in the Trump campaign” which he alleges they had.
What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
Is the Pope Catholic???
The illegal wiretaps on Trump likely started even before the Obama Admin. even got their falsified dossier that convinced some Obama FISA judge.
Until Sessions acts, nothing will happen to these criminals. That is the real crime.
Of course it was. It was an attempt to take down Trump.
And the basis for the corrupt Mulehead Special Council.
Many people should be going to jail over this.
What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
The truly frightening part of this is roughly half the country is completely comfortable with the kenyan using federal government to assault his political opponents. I don’t see a way back from this, unfortunately. We are surely sliding into a fascist and post Constitional America.
Please produce your evidence proving Sessions is not acting.......
You have nothing but Free Republic dogma and gross speculation
“The illegal wiretaps on Trump likely started even before the Obama Admin. even got their falsified dossier that convinced some Obama FISA judge.”
Yes - very likely they needed the FISA leading to the dossier to backfill the spying.
Duh
Fruit and poison tree....
This Pope’s not even a Christian.
I hate anonymous sources, no matter what the topic and whose side of the political divide they may be on. The anonymous source game is way, way, WAY over used by all parts of the media these days.
Not a good analogy.
What else did they use?
Unless Ms. Carter saw the actual warrant, the jury is still out.
In a sane world, or in a Senate that had Republicans who had any balls, when the knowledge that Hillary paid for the dossier became known, the investigation would have been shut down immediately and the management of the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Intelligence community would be on trial.
If this nation survives, historians in the future will be scratching their heads over just how stupid and craven and treacherous the Republicans were.
Probably not...
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