Posted on 02/02/2018 11:05:12 AM PST by tschatski
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York concludes his article summarizing the memo’s key FISA abuses by warning a new showdown between Republicans and Democrats could resurface when additional information is released. Translation: the FISA memo could be the first of many memos exposing corruption at both the FBI and Justice Department.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
While important these are more allegations than evidence. Unless the proffers to FISA are released and transcripts of McCabe’s testimony are released these are interesting and potentially shattering allegations, but allegations to be proven. One example, McCabe is quoted saying no warrant would be sought without dossier. That could mean the dossier was vital, or it could mean the dossier was a tip to investigate further.The former is probably criminal. The latter might be just following a lead. Context of the statement is needed.
The memo is VERY NARROW in its focus.
It describes event leading to a FISA applicaiton on October 21, 2016.
THE OBMAMA/CLINTON/LYNCH/COMEY/RICE ETC. CRIMES started MUCH EARLIER than that.
So we need a special prosecutor
BOTH parties colluded to eviscerate the protections of the natural born citizen clause.
The Kenyanesian Usurpation could not have happened without the complete cooperation between them and the Deep State.
Obama was born a British subject.
Anyone born with multiple nationalities is “naturally” not a natural born citizen.
They ALL KNEW it.
There continue to be questions about the substance behind the pending release of the House Intelligence Committee memo. With that release in mind, today it is worthwhile remembering this is the beginning of exposing the corruption within the DOJ not the end.
For several years the U.S. justice department has maintained an attitude of non-accountability within its ranks. The Obama years elevated that attitude and provided multiple examples of a DOJ gone rogue.
A complicit media enables that attitude by engineering a false narrative the U.S. Justice Department was/is an independent fourth branch of government; unaccountable to congress and entirely separate from the executive branch.
The House Intelligence Memo is simply using the example of currently known FISA abuse to open the door and show the U.S. electorate how corrupt this unaccountable institution has become. Behind that door are very uncomfortable realities for all of those who constructed the weaponized agency; and also those who have benefited from it.
Consider:
♦When IRS head Lois Learner unlawfully sent the 21 CD-ROM’s containing the “Schedule B” filings of over a million Americans to the Obama administration, the recipient was the DOJ. (LINK) It was the DOJ who was chosen to utilize the political lists in their “Secret Research Project“.
♦When U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen demanded DOJ lawyers attend ethics classes due to their false representations to his court – he was highlighting a corrupt DOJ. (LINK)
♦When the case against the Bundy family was recently thrown out of court, it was the “gross malicious conduct” of the DOJ highlighted by the judge. (LINK)
This is the same DOJ who denied their own Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, the right to conduct oversight on DOJ internal action. (LINK – pdf) The expressed Justice Department intent in every action has been an attempt to remain unaccountable.
The U.S. Justice Department has become a rogue agency weaponized against it’s political opposition in almost every jurisdiction. This is the pervasive attitude, an air of ideological unaccountability, found rampant within every corrupt system.
So it doesn’t come as a surprise when the epicenter of that attitude in Washington DC balks at the concept of having oversight, and thumbs their nose at congress by refusing to turn over the underlying FISA application documents.
The House Intelligence Committee, Chairman Devin Nunes, has oversight over the entire intelligence apparatus, including DOJ/FBI counterintelligence and the FISA Courts. The House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Bob Goodlatte, has statutory oversight over the entire Department of Justice. The Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Chuck Grassley, has oversight over the federal court processes used by the U.S. Department of Justice. The Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, is the internal DOJ watchdog.
Unfortunately the corruption appears systemic within the entire justice system. This is the problem currently being confronted. This is also a system being defended by a political media apparatus who have benefited from seeing their opposition targeted. The American people became the threat to their system. The American people became their enemy. This outlook sounds stark, but this is exactly the way the DOJ has behaved.
We The People are in an abusive relationship with the Department of Justice.
Representative Mark Meadows puts it thusly:
THREAD: Because through all the “memo” news and headlines, it’s critical to remember why this issue is important and why it should matter to everyday Americans.
What this issue is all about: whether the Department of Justice and FBI, under President Obama, abused their surveillance authority against American citizens and political opponents. Put another way: was the Obama DOJ weaponized to spy on the Trump campaign?
Remember, in general, the DOJ and FBI spying on American citizens should automatically be met with MAJOR skepticism. That’s what the Fourth Amendment is designed to protect against. When those American citizens are ALSO political opponents? It should raise even more red flags.
So, take that principle, and look at what happened in this case. The DOJ spied on Carter Page, an American citizen. Red flag. Carter Page was also part of the Trump campaign. Double red flag. It should automatically raise questions.
Now, pause: we know about the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page texts, the “missing” texts, the McCabe concerns, etc. But this is about more. Focus on the dossier here–the political opposition research project put together by Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the DNC by extension.
Quite simply: This infamous “Russian Dossier” was unverified political opposition research paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. If the Department of Justice used information like that as a key part of getting a surveillance warrant, it would be a HUGE problem.
Now, from what we’ve already known for months, it sure looks like that’s exactly what happened: that the FBI used that very dossier to get a warrant.
@Jim Jordan asked the FBI about it 2 months ago. I asked too. We asked for the FISA application, and the FBI wouldn’t show us. WATCH:
Rep. Jordan presses Wray over Strzok, anti-Trump dossier
We’ve asked repeatedly for information from the FBI, both privately and publicly. We’ve openly told FBI and DOJ officials–if we’re wrong, tell us! Tell us what was in the FISA application. Let us see the document. But we’ve been stonewalled for almost a year.
So the bottom line is this: if, in 2016, the DOJ and FBI used an unverified, Clinton/DNC paid-for dossier to spy on American citizens (and political opponents) in the Trump campaign, that is as wrong as it gets. If that happened, Americans deserve to know about it. Period.
I know we live in a hyper-partisan environment, and I know it can be easy to disregard any inquiry like this as party politics. I understand that. But this is so far above politics, folks. Lady Justice wears a blindfold. Her scale is supposed to be balanced.
If any Department of Justice, Republican or Democrat, put their thumb on the scale for the sake of politics–it would undermine the very fabric of who we are as a nation. Americans deserve the truth, one way or the other.
Last point: If you remember anything from this news cycle, remember: your right as an American to privacy from your government spying on you is critical. It is foundational to who we are as a Republic. Never take that right for granted, no matter the political party you belong to. (link)
The release of the House Intelligence Memo is only the tip of the iceberg; the crack in the door to see just how corrupt the unaccountable Justice System became.
There are going to be many more revelations as the investigations into the FBI and DOJ continue. Combine that understanding with the pending OIG Horowitz report, and we have only just begun to see how bad this is…
The key aspect to begin restoring a system when it has fallen into the clutches of corruption, is to remove their internal image of unaccountability. The DOJ and FBI are part of the Executive Branch and they are accountable to congressional oversight. We need to constantly remind people of that, and push back against this insufferable media-generated narrative of the DOJ being an independent fourth branch of government.
It is not enough to elect people in R jerseys if they are Bush League Republicans hell bent on amnesty for 30 million new Democrats.
Agree... There is a whole separate FISA related issue with the “unmasking” requests that were reported to be directed from the White House (Samantha Power supposedly signed a lot of such requests). Note that the Memo says “DOJ & FBI sought and received a FISA Probable Cause Order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page”. I think the un-maskings were called 702 authorizations, as in Title VII(?). Somehow that appears to be where the intel that nailed Flynn came from... Am I off here?
The Wisconsin senator also requested all records from over a dozen FBI officials from 2015 to the present period related to the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server while she served as secretary of State.
The coup happened on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.
The really important questions involve how did he get there?
What is going on now is the struggle to re-establish the Constitution and the rule of law.
A lawyer called into Rush to say the FISA court could now rescind the warrants they issued if evidence for such was presented under false pretenses!-)
Go back and look at clips from the first press conferences Devin Nunes gave last spring when he first began uncovering the information behind this memo. One of the things he said was that what he found most disturbing about the information he reviewed was that it had nothing to do with Russia or the "Russian collusion" investigation.
Clearly the worst of this isn't even addressed in the HPSCI memo released today.
he memo opened a can of worms that requires a bigger can be opened...gonna get interesting....
Perhaps they thought something they know of which was very very illegal was about to be exposed. They read the memo and thank the good Lord it was not what they thought it was going to be!
Maybe only some of us see it, but there is plenty there for action. Mr. Somnambulist recused himself from the special council investigation, but not from all wrongdoing sans pursuing pot.
Bottom line is that we are in a Constitutional crisis. Not firing Rosenstein, at least, is abrogating his responsibility.
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