The thing that I get from this memo is that rosenstein is now compromised. He appointed muller! The FBI and DOJ are implicated in misusing fisa for political gain! How can anyone in congress not be screaming for a special prosecutor? What, are they going to let the fbi investigate the fbi again? We know where that leads.
This must have been a claim that Carter Page was the "agent" of the Russians Sechin and Diveykin in the Steele Dossier where it was claimed that Page would try to lift Russian sanctions in exchange for payment from the Russians.
But as we know from Snowden and other whistleblowers, the FBI and the US intelligence agencies have so much information on what's going on in the world that the FBI probably knew themselves from other technology there was no such meeting with Carter Page and these Russians and pretended otherwise just so they could spy on Trump people.
What is missing from this evaluation: Inside The HPSCI Memo – A Key Distinction Being Conflated “Title I” -vs- “Title VII” is the fact that the Title I gave the FBI extensive wiretap authority. All Page had to do was contact Trump Towers and the FBI would then extend its net to include candidate Trump. This, I feel sure is what Rogers uncovered and what he told Trump. And why the following day Trump moved his operation to New Jersey.
About three weeks before the election, Meuller friends Comey and Rosenstein filed false and misleading FISA applications to get direct NSA surveillance on Carter Page AND EVERYONE INTERACTING WITH HIM by any NSA means possible, and renewed them three times - essentially for a full year; on the basis of the DNC/Hillary/Steele/Orr dossier.
This was not just monitoring their foreign communications, but permitted monitoring of any and all communications of any type by any NSA means - of anyone having any contact with Carter Page.
Am I missing or misinterpreting anything there?
Great post. Key points of the article:
The FISA ‘warrant’ request, against Carter Page, was made October 21st, 2016, under Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Meaning the surveillance application was specifically stating, to the court, the U.S. individual was likely an actual agent of a foreign government, ie. “a spy.”
Because of this direct approach, any group, organization or entity who came in contact with U.S. Person Carter Page was then open for ancillary review and FBI investigation. Those who engaged in contact with Carter Page became subject to surveillance and searches in the same manner as if Page was an actual foreign agent.
To spy on Americans through a FISA court, the FBI must show the target is an “agent of a foreign power,” not merely in contact with a foreign power. The law makes it difficult to show someone is an “agent of a foreign power” to make sure it is not misused to spy on Americans.
Claiming someone is an “agent of a foreign power” is a difficult standard to ever show, and should never happen to a domestic political opponent in a domestic political campaign. That is why the FBI had to cook the books — put a bogus informant on their team & lie to the courts.