Posted on 02/05/2018 8:23:15 AM PST by Rummyfan
Well, the memo was released. You can read it in full here, and I recommend you do so because, on the evidence of much of Friday's TV and radio coverage, most commentators only want to talk about it in the most shallow political terms. Whereas the questions it raises about state corruption in an age of round-the-clock technological surveillance are far more profound.
Let's start with something I wrote back in October:
It seems a reasonable inference, to put it as blandly as possible, that the [Christopher Steele] dossier was used to justify the opening of what the Feds call an "FI" (Full Investigation), which in turn was used to justify a FISA order permitting the FBI to put Trump's associates under surveillance. Indeed, it seems a reasonable inference that the dossier was created and supplied to friendly forces within the bureau in order to provide a pretext for an FI, without which surveillance of the Trump campaign would not be possible.
So my view has always been that the dossier is not "evidence" but a mere simulacrum of evidence - a stage prop to lay before the FISA court judge to get him to sign off on Trump surveillance. Because a judge has to be given something before he'll cough up a warrant, even if what it is is no more real than the "secret papers" in a spy thriller. Nevertheless, for a group of highly placed FBI and Department of Justice officials, it was a very crude calculation: No dossier, no surveillance.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Former Deputy Attorney-General Sally Yates and former FBI Director James Comey prepare to commit perjury.
Bookmark this, save it, above all READ IT!
A few days ago I heard Joseph DiGenova tell Laura Ingraham that Comey was a "dirty cop" (an exact quote).
A few days ago I heard Joseph DiGenova tell Laura Ingraham that Comey was a “dirty cop” (an exact quote).
Comey with his acts of sedition and attempted Coup, makes dirty cops look like pipsqueaks.
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