Isn't Everyone in FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, all of it, every role/every person,
top-to-bottom, reports to, and is subordinate to, the executive, President Trump?????
Posted on 01/31/2018 4:42:54 PM PST by markomalley
Whistleblowers, Republican congressional members, and some former intelligence officials cite mounting concern that the White House may not release the House Intelligence Committee’s FISA abuse memo as the FBI pushed against plans to make it public based on false allegations that the memo contains information that would harm U.S. national security, sources tell this reporter.
The memo alleges severe abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by employees of the FBI and Department of Justice but FBI Director Christopher Wray Wednesday warned against the release of the memo issuing a public statement from the FBI that the bureau has “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
The four-page memo is currently under review by the White House National Security Council, as well as with the Director of National Intelligence, according to U.S. officials familiar with the review process. One U.S. official said they were concerned the review is being “slow-rolled in an effort to get President Trump to change his mind about releasing the memo.”
The FISA memo is expected to be released by Friday and the White House isn’t expected to object. On Tuesday, that affirmation was clear when President Trump was caught on his mic after his State of the Union address told a Republican lawmaker that “100 percent” the memo would be released to the public.
On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to make the classified memo public and as long as the president doesn’t object after five days of review the memo can legally be released.
U.S. Intelligence agencies, however, are now joining the FBI and pushing back against the memo’s release, former intelligence officials told this reporter. Those intelligence officials are concerned that the memo will reveal details of how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is used in monitoring communications of foreign people overseas, said one former U.S. intelligence official.
Another U.S. official familiar with the memo and its contents disputed those concerns.
“There are no Intelligence Community equities involved in the memo and nothing in the memo or the attached documents violates any national security-related processes,” the U.S. official stated. “This memo does not deal with any international issues, only domestic issues.”
Republican congressional members who have already reviewed the memo say its public release is essential to accurately convey to the American people the extent of FISA abuse during the 2016 presidential election. Many members described the memo as “shocking” but Democrats, who suggest they have their own memo, pushed back on the FISA abuse memo initiated by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-CA, and other ranking Republican members of the committee.
Rep. Ron DeSantis, a Florida Republican, and member of the House Oversight Committee, reviewed the FISA memo after it was made available to House members last week. He wants the memo to be made public and questioned the FBI and DOJs pushback.
“The FBI was afforded the opportunity to review the memo on Sunday and could not identify a single factual inaccuracy,” said DeSantis. “Accordingly, I find the Bureau’s statement to be a bit strange. Why not identify inaccuracies when you had the chance?”
Nunes issued a statement Wednesday in response to the FBI saying, “having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies.”
“The FBI is intimately familiar with ‘material omissions’ with respect to their presentations to both Congress and the courts, and they are welcome to make public, to the greatest extent possible, all the information they have on these abuses,” Nunes stated. “Regardless, it’s clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign. Once the truth gets out, we can begin taking steps to ensure our intelligence agencies and courts are never misused like this again.”
Another congressional official, familiar with the contents of the memo, said it was the FBI and DOJ, which refused to disclose or provide documentation requested by the House Intelligence Committee since early last summer. The congressional official said, “it was only when the committee warned of contempt of Congress did Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to turn over the necessary documents used in the committees’ review of the alleged FISA abuses by the FBI and DOJ.”
DOJ officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
“They are sparing no expense at trying to stop this memo from being released,” the congressional official said. “You have the Democrats, media and the deep state trying to stop the memo from going public and if they can’t they are preemptively trying to discredit it.”
The congressional official added that the memo was written so “there wouldn’t be any national security damage. First, they say that the memo’s release would be a national security concern and then the FBI says it’s the ‘omission of materials’ that doesn’t accurately explain what’s going on. But they didn’t want the committee to have any of the documents anyways. The committee had to fight tooth and nail for them. This is what it looks like when the deep state squeals.”
On Wednesday the FBI stated its objections the memo’s release, which has already been viewed in a secure area on Capitol Hill by more than 200 members of the House.
“The FBI takes seriously its obligations to the FISA Court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the Department of Justice and the FBI,” said FBI officials in a statement. “We are committed to working with the appropriate oversight entities to ensure the continuing integrity of the FISA process.”
“With regard to the House Intelligence Committee’s memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy,” the FBI stated.
This is a four page memo. I have to assume that in a four page memo, there is not enough space to compromise national security.
Admiral Rogers may not be lumped in with the others-Brennan,Comey,Rice,Powers, Val Jarrett and obamaumao, and a string of hitlery bot inside and outside the “intel” community, to include one Sidney Blumenthal.
Rogers discovered abuse of FISA through interceept audits, and in particular the huge number of “upstream” unmasking of US citizens requests. We have to learn the extent of these on everyday citizens. Rogers and many other unsung heroes knew what obamaumao was about.
We need to come for him—with or without riots. Riots can be averted except for the real race baiters— by total disclosure and correct indictment with no question of guilt.
I've always suspected he was part of the Deep State. Both he and Herbert McMaster are two peas in a pod. Neither is loyal to President Trump. Their first loyalty is to the Deep State.
Purge FBI, DOJ, CIA & NSA. And whatever other Deep State swamps that the NeoCon rats inhabit.
Therefore we will never see the real memo.
I knew it had to be very bad after seeing Pelosi just falling apart hugely on CNN with Cuomo. Worst I have ever seen her. She used the words "national security" at least 5 times.
Whatever was huge in it is not gonna get to us, I am thinking.
Why do you think President Trump doesn’t know this...or act on it?
It ain’t kelly— it’s that creep McMaster (who was designed to take Flynn’s job from the “operation”). It’s his buddies who are pushing this. Fear drives these people, and they should be afraid for what will be coming down.
Imagine Panetta tonight- he Ok’s false fisa for certain, and maybe it was false fisa that exposed petraeus (who has now joined the bilderbergers). Panetta and Michael Morell (acting, who then goes and joins hitlerys campaign, a real hitlery lover). And the cards fall if there is mueller in the fisa abuse history, and rosenstein appointing him to cover up what they all did. IOW— it’a a big deal that is being “ho-hummed” by the experts in pablum and false cover. The battle is on right now.
Is this government a bunch of overgrown children?
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Overgrown children with guns and power. A dangerous combo.
What are they trying to hide?
exactly. Why wait??? It makes you wonder.
Isn't Everyone in FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, all of it, every role/every person,
top-to-bottom, reports to, and is subordinate to, the executive, President Trump?????
Pattern this time - FBI requests a meeting and review. FBI gets meeting, review, and has a voice. FBI uses that voice to request certain parts of memo be removed. FBI tells the press that the memo is misleading because certain material is omitted (the material that the FBI requested be removed).
Keep it up FBI. The more you play, the more you prove you are snakes.
FRiend this concerns illegal use of the FISA court by multiple actors not only with the fake dossier but way before that, as evidenced in the redacted FISC ruling of the case from way before 2012.. which Dan Coats as DNI had publicly released. The decision of that FISC surely has alerted the names named in the decision, since way back in April 2017- so that is not in question. All of their actions since then to suppress- is to protect their own a@@es. What will proceed from relasing the memo-is empanelling of several special prosecutors presenting to a grand jury for indictment. That is the proceeding the public will demand. We cannot have it any other way without putting our republic in serious danger— as was always intended by obamaumao and hitlery. This is far more than sedition... it is destruction of our Constitutional Republic as the end game of the “total transformation” obamaumao sought and hitlery would have ruled over with no end of tyranny.
Who the heck are they kidding? Information is porous in DC. I’m surprised it hasn’t leaked already.
Yes, just take names and record whomever comes by and objects the most. Who has cookie crumbs on their sleeve from the cookie jar.
The statement appeared on FBI website sometime around 4:30 pm eastern
This is what draining the swamp looks like.
The president said he was releasing it “100%”. He’s not lied to me yet. I will choose to trust him on this.
Sorry, but it ain't Kelly's memo to make changes to and I suspect some folks are, once again, having difficulty getting their facts aligned with their story.
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