Posted on 02/04/2018 4:31:54 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
February 4th, 2018
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.; Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and defense secretary.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reince Priebus, President Donald Trump's former chief of staff; former CIA Director John Brennan.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health's infectious disease chief.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Will Hurd, R-Texas.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Reps. Jim Himes, D-Conn., Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and Karen Bass, D-Calif.
Think ya used enough uh..bandwith there Butch?
It’s 35 here and raining. I’ll bet you wish you were here.
Well (to both points)...he is a RAT.
Thanks
Yeah could be would be very appropriate.
Exactly the way it is now.
yet another mockingbird journalist for sure.
I had a hot dog for dinner,not hungry anymore.....
then again with ten judges all appointed by zero,,,could have been a case of judge shopping.....
Uhhhh.... no.
The biggest of all BIGGER story aspects to the HPSCI Memo, in the downstream coverage, has been entirely overlooked by all Main Stream Media. The Department of Justice FBI FISA request was for “Title I” surveillance authority. This is not some innocuous request for metadata exploration – the FBI said American citizen Carter Page was a “foreign agent of a hostile foreign government”; the FBI was calling Carter Page a spy.
“Title I” FISA surveillance of U.S. citizens is the most intrusive, exhaustive and far reaching type of search, seizure and surveillance authority, permitting the FBI to look at every scintilla of Mr. Page’s life. All communication, travel and contact can be opened and reviewed. All aspects of any of Mr. Page’s engagements are subject to being secretly monitored. This is an entirely different level of surveillance authority, the highest possible, and has nothing to do with FISA-702 search queries (Title VII) of U.S. persons.
Sharyl Attkisson picks up from there with her deep dive into exactly what protections are in place, and the extraordinarily high-bar the DOJ needs to pass in order to gain Title I surveillance authority.
The point is: There are strict rules requiring that each and every fact presented in an FBI request to electronically spy on a U.S. citizen be extreme-vetted for accuracy — and presented to the court only if verified.
There’s no dispute that at least some, if not a great deal, of information in the anti-Trump “Steele dossier” was unverified or false. Former FBI director James Comey testified as much himself before a Senate committee in June 2017. Comey repeatedly referred to “salacious” and “unverified” material in the dossier, which turned out to be paid political opposition research against Donald Trump funded first by Republicans, then by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Presentation of any such unverified material to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to justify a wiretap would appear to violate crucial procedural rules, called “Woods Procedures,” designed to protect U.S. citizens.
Yet Comey allegedly signed three of the FISA applications on behalf of the FBI. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reportedly signed one and former Attorney General Sally Yates, then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein each reportedly signed one or more.
Nunes memo raises question: Did FBI violate Woods Procedures?
What, did you have your stomach stapled....hypnosis...got the flu?
Thanks, AB. Sorry about that.
55 and cloudy here.
I did see that, but thanks for posting it in this thread.
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Yep. The first FISA application noted in the HPSCI was filed October 21, 2016, nearly a month after Carter Page left the Trump campaign. Then three renewals, so a total of four 90-day periods, or close to 90 days each is a reasonable assumption.
I'd really like to see the FISA application. It is supposed to contain a detail description of what info is being sought, as well as "minimization" or which names/contacts will be dropped or redacted.
It is like the procedure of a Grand Jury granting an indictment and you know what they say about a Grand Jury “A good prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.”
It is like the procedure of a Grand Jury granting an indictment and you know what they say about a Grand Jury “A good prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.”
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