Posted on 02/03/2018 12:00:56 AM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
In a new podcast, Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff gives details of a key passage in the controversial Republican memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice — a passage in which Isikoff himself, to his surprise, played a leading role.
The memo, which was released Friday after it was declassified by the White House, says a September 2016 article by Isikoff was “cited extensively” in an FBI application for a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Isikoff was the first to report that Page was under federal investigation over a trip he had taken to Moscow two months earlier.
On a new episode of Yahoo News’ weekly podcast “Skullduggery,” Isikoff discussed with Yahoo News Editor in Chief Dan Klaidman his meeting with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who prepared the dossier about Donald Trump that was also a major part of the FBI’s application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to wiretap Page.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-news-michael-isikoff-describes-crucial-meeting-cited-nunes-memo-231005733.html
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Isikoff said his resulting story did not rely solely on what Steele told him.
“I talked to a senior U.S. law enforcement official who was well aware of these allegations,” Isikoff said. “For me, the key piece, the reason that this was a story, was the fact that the FBI was investigating Page.”
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So this was a double circular source: The FBI used Isikoff’s article and the Steele’s “intel” and Isikoff used the FBI’s assurances and Steele’s “intel” to write the article! All based on one tainted source paid for by Hillary Clinton!
You just can’t make this stuff up!
Isikoff involved in TWO of our country’s biggest scandals....1. NOT reporting on Clinton and Lewinsky and now 2. REPORTING LIES about Trumps’s campaign person.
NOTE:
“...in the controversial Republican memo”
“...the former British spy who prepared the dossier about Donald Trump”
Something funny above? The Memo is ‘controversial’, but I guess the Dossier is not, it is (implied to be) just ‘fact’.
Ironic, since no one is arguing the accuracy of the Memo, while no one has ever been able to verify virtually anything in the Dossier.
Subtle, but a GOOD EXAMPLE of what happens to our side when the Left owns the media.
>>Isikoff discussed with Yahoo News Editor in Chief Dan Klaidman his meeting with Christopher Steele, the former British spy
So he met with foreign government officials to try to influence US policy?
Do spies ever retire from government service?
Do they lose their security clearance and get cast out from their government contacts?
Do spies go “public” (identifying themselves as former spies) and go mercenary (for hire) as private investigators?
Isikoff also triggered deadly Islamic riots in Pak / Afgh. with his phony Gitmo-guards-flushing-Korans-in-toilet story during W’s presidency.
Isikoff was also involved in the Joe Wilson Niger flap/PlameNameGame and...
he was also the main go-to reporter who was being fed info that claimed the Czechs denied Atta the 9/11 hijacker was in Prague meeting with al Ani the Iraqi diplomat when in fact the Czechs said he was and Vaclav Havel made a point of correcting him- the FBI was claiming Atta couldn’t be in Czech Republic at the time because his credit card was used to rent a taxi that day in the US/Florida or some such thing, as if no one’s ever used someone else’s credit card before.
Al Ani was involved in a plot to bomb Radio Free Europe or whatever it was called that was broadcasting into Iraq.
the spin at Raw Story. funny how Isikoff & Corn have a new book in the works, still pushing the phony Russia narrative:
VIDEO: 2 Feb: Raw Story: Bob Brigham: Two primary sources cited in Nunes memo question its credibility
Isikoff and Corn are the co-authors of the upcoming book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.
“When you look at one thing I know well here and I see them exaggerate it, it makes me wonder about everything else,” Corn noted. “It’s an impossible document to work with if you’re trying to get to the truth of any of this.”
“He is saying that his primary interaction with the same set of facts makes him come to the collusion that this is not a straight telling, it’s exaggerated in places. What is your view?” Melber asked Isikoff.
“That is patently obvious. It is clearly a sketchy account of what went into that FISA application,” Isikoff replied.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/two-primary-sources-cited-nunes-memo-question-credibility/
Basically, he’s a reporter waiting for a delivery by some shadowy character with a 300-word text, and Isikoff writes it in a fashion that fits his style. Once you figure that out...he’s mostly worthless as a journalist.
The memo that sparked a thousand memos.
Isikoff needs to go to prison for a long time.
No foreign intervention can be more impactful than that stupid dossier cooked up by a former MI6 Briton.
You want a case for a FISA warrant, this guy’s a case for a FISA warrant.
Published by a French company using ‘classic’ stalin-lenin imagery.
Talk about red baiting. What an unfounded smear.
Commies suck.
Stalinists lie. Always
FUMI
Having read the Congressional FISA memo, and now having listened to Isikoff in this interview, I find the memo is not exaggerating anything. The statement that the FBI used the Isikoff article to validate the dossier is quite true because he said Steele provided him information.
Further, how in hell did Isikoff know the FBI was investigating Carter Page in the first place unless someone in either the FBI or the DOJ told him they were? He said "which I already knew. . ." in reference to the FBI investigating Page. Such investigations are confidential. Isikoff inadvertently just provided more proof that the deep state was setting this up.
And what in hell is a "senior U.S. law enforcement official" doing leaking details of a confidential investigation to a member of the press if it wasn’t for purposes of damaging the candidate, and/or setting up support for the FISA warrant! This guy is "Open mouth: insert FBI foot!"
Isikoff, you dolt, this is a memo, a summary of what the 99 page actual report says, including complete evidentiary documentation which may include the name and Form 302 of your conversation with that "senior U.S. law enforcement official" who, oh so nicely and helpfully, leaked classified information to you. . .
I used to think all this conspiratorial stuff was wackadoodle, now I see the pattern that we have members of the press that are the mouth pieces for the bad actors in INTEL / Justice / Mil.
I came from an Industry that could support 2 major players, however it had 2.5 as the .5 was an arm of their Gov't. Strong competition. Even in Major Corporations in the 80's and 90's subcontractor numbers were paired back to maybe 3 or 4.
With that said why the heck do we have 16 INTEL agencies and what the hell are they doing and why aren't they downsized and or consolidated and where is their oversight?
Their is a Washington Times piece today that denotes their may have been 6 or 7 INTEL agencies that had a "Stealth" deal going on being bad actors and that Brennan is in on it up to his Friggen Ears. Let's downsize, close or consolidate these 6 or 7 if they can't be trusted....
If you build a powerplant you have Consultant to make sure it is built to Spec and in 1/4ly and Annual Reports Big 10 Acctg Firms bless the work you did is accurate.
Who is watching the watchers?
after it was declassified by the White House,
What is reported by a journalist is not fact in a court of law.
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