Posted on 02/02/2018 2:03:01 PM PST by davikkm
Democrats have staged a series of “media stunts” to prevent the public learning how FBI and Justice Department officials used Democratic-funded rumors to justify federal surveillance of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, says a press statement from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The HPSCI statement says the top Democrat on the intelligence oversight committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, and his allies tried to block, hide and stifle the revelations of improper 2016 surveillance by the FBI and the Department of Justice:
•HPSCI Ranking Member [Rep.] Adam Schiff has been a ceaseless opponent of the Committee’s attempts to collect and share information on FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978] abuses. He even denounced the Committee’s issuance of subpoenas to the DOJ and FBI for information the agencies were withholding from Congressional oversight.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I don’t see a single detail in the memo that hurts national security in any way. And all of the names disclosed have been in the public eye for years.
Clarification: the point is that no security methods are revealed by the memo, so the dems screaming to redact it was silly. This seems to have confused some responders. But, obviously, the actions of people in the FBI and DOJ have hurt national security by attempting to unseat President Trump by means other than the ballot box.
<><> ITEM so the dems screaming to redact it was silly.
<><> ITEM obviously, the Obama FBI and DOJ hurt national security by using Third World methods.....attempting to unseat President Trump by means other than the ballot box.....
Nails it....deserves a repeat.
Holder has never been prosecuted for perjury and I doubt if Comey and his gang of Democrat liars will be either.
Posted on May 29, 2013 by John Hinderaker in Holder Justice Department, Obama Administration Scandals
Did Eric Holder Commit Perjury? It Looks That Way
In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Eric Holder was asked whether the Justice Department could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act of 1917. This was his answer:
In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material — this is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy.
Later, the Department of Justice disclosed that Holder had personally approved the application for the search warrant for James Rosen’s Gmail account:
[T]he Department took great care in deciding that a search warrant was necessary in the Kim matter, vetting the decision at the highest levels of the Department, including discussions with the Attorney General. After extensive deliberations, and after following all applicable laws, regulations and policies, the Department sought an appropriately tailored search warrant under the Privacy Protection Act.
Paul argued this morning that on its face, a perjury charge against Holder seems strong. How could the Attorney General have said that he had never “been involved in,” or even “heard of” the “potential prosecution of the press,” in view of the Rosen search warrant? My own first instinct was to be skeptical of any issue of perjury, on the theory that it would have made sense to search Rosen’s emails even if the only target of the criminal investigation was Kim.
So to test that defense, I went back to the Affidavit by FBI agent Reginald Reyes to see exactly what the Obama administration told the judge (if anything) about Rosen’s status as a potential defendant.
As has been widely reported, the affidavit says repeatedly that there is probable cause to believe that Rosen is guilty of a crime, and that his email account will provide evidence of a crime, as well as “fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed.” But the affidavit goes even beyond that. It specifically says that the FBI is looking for evidence of both Kim’s and Rosen’s guilt:
Mr. Kim’s missing responses to the Reporter’s emails would materially assist the FBI’s investigation as they could be expected to establish further the fact of the disclosures, their content, and Mr. Kim’s and the Reporter’s intent in making them, and could be expected to constitute direct evidence of their guilt or innocence.
Emphasis added. But the real clincher is Paragraph 45, which states in part:
Because of the Reporter’s own potential criminal liability in this matter, we believe that requesting the voluntary production of the materials from Reporter would be futile and would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation and of the evidence we seek to obtain by warrant.
Emphasis added. Paragraph 46 sums up:
Based on the above, there is probable cause to believe that the Reporter (along with Mr. Kim) has committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(d) either as Mr. Kim’s co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor, and that evidence of that crime is likely contained within the _______@gmail.com account.
So the issue is rather squarely posed: Holder testified that he had never “been involved in” or even “heard of” any “potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material.” And yet, he participated in “extensive deliberations,” “discussed” and approved of the filing of an application for a search warrant that specifically represented to the court that a reporter has “potential criminal liability in this matter.” It is hard to imagine a more direct contradiction.
Paul quoted Richard Nixon’s statement that perjury is “an awful hard rap to prove,” and because perjury is so dependent on the defendant’s state of mind, Nixon was right. Still, in this instance there appears to be a sound basis to investigate whether Holder should be criminally prosecuted.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/05/did-eric-holder-commit-perjury-it-looks-that-way.php
Crooked pr!cks in the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies -- on behalf of their handlers in the Democrat/Washington political establishment -- abuse their authority by violating the constitutional rights of innocent Americans ... then run and hide behind claims of "national security" to cover up their crimes.
I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. Dept. of Justice and our national intelligence apparatus would be less worthy of respect than ISIS.
This was an attempt to overthrow the president of the USA. This all reads like a Tom Clancy novel.
We really do need a firing squad.
“abuses” is a euphemism for systematic sedition
against the elected government and President
for al QAeda, for SA, for Soros, and the Clintons.
Gallows, guillotine, or an electric bench
are in order for July 4th.
The Democrats have begun to use the full force of the government against Republicans. Probably more widespread than we know.
Hold him by the collar, kick him in the @ss.
Katherine Herridge referred to te process as circular. News reports were used as secondary justification. The news sources were the same as those that produced the dossier.
This act and the knowledge of the act is criminal action to defraud the court. all noted in the memo and all those involved in obtaining the various warrants are conspirators to destroy the government. There is no reason to assume the judge granting the warrant was not involved. That judge is a likely conspirator
Then there is Jeb Bush. How many FISA warrants were issued to spy on Jeb Bush and his campaign? Ted Cruz? Marco Rubio?
The criminal activity goes much deeper than one memo
It’s obvious what’s been going on here:
Crooked pr!cks in the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies — on behalf of their handlers in the Democrat/Washington political establishment — abuse their authority by violating the constitutional rights of innocent Americans ... then run and hide behind claims of “national security” to cover up their crimes.
I never thought I’d see the day when the U.S. Dept. of Justice and our national intelligence apparatus would be less worthy of respect than ISIS.
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Sad but true.
We still don’t know what the IRS did to us exactly and may still be doing....Lois Lerner (and others) got away with murder.
The Democrats have begun to use the full force of the government against Republicans. Probably more widespread than we know.
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This is another vile criminal abuse of power that the media didn’t bother reporting.
Where is this Lerner witch now? Not in prison where she belongs.
We thought that “unmasking” of people investigated under FISA was a big deal. It turns out that that is not the case at all. If Conservative Treehouse is correct, Page was surveilled as an actual foreign agent under Title 1 of FISA. Which means that not only Page but everyone he talked to or emailed or phoned could be surveilled.Which would seem to indicate that everyone Page contacted was, de facto, “unmasked.”
Before - and even after his election and inauguration - D.J. Trump was treated before the FISA court, and was surveilled as, a spy.
Devin Nunes is the John Wayne of the House.
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