Posted on 02/05/2018 8:42:04 AM PST by bitt
Clinton associates were "feeding" allegations to former British spy Christopher Steele at the same time he was compiling the controversial anti-Trump dossier paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign, according to an unclassified memo from senior Senate Republicans who recently made a criminal referral.
Those Republicans, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., had asked the Justice Department in January to investigate Steele based on evidence they say suggests he lied to the FBI about his contacts with the media (a violation of 18 USC 1001) -- or the FBI misrepresented Steeles statements.
The lawmakers are now asking the FBI for an emergency review of their criminal referral so it can be made public, with limited redactions.
Steele already is under scrutiny over the unverified Trump dossier, which a House Intelligence Committee document released last Friday alleged was at the heart of the FBI and DOJs request for a surveillance warrant for a Trump associate.
The memo from Grassley and Graham, which is now public for the first time, provides new insight into Steeles circle of contacts during that time. While heavily redacted, the memo states Steele said he received information that came from "a foreign sub-source who 'is in touch with (redacted), a contact of (redacted), a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to (redacted).
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So is this going to come out in memo #2 about partisan corruption in the State Department?
Cody Shearer
He’s a clingon of the worst kind, they hide in the shadows and smear Clinton apponents like Sid Vicious has been doing for decades.
Cody Shearer.
The dossier was to be put into the hands of people with more reputation than scruples (e.g., Hollywood-types). Steele said as much in his interviews in England.
It was all for politically-beneficial gamesmanship, not an attempt at finding truth, of which the FBI would have been well aware. We're being played when we let stand that it was "oppo research." It was waaaay thinner gruel than that.
I’ve never seen a picture of that VILE Cody Shearer!
Yes!!
Thank you!
chelsea?
In short, the people opposing Trump tried to do something in creating “made up” charges against Trump that would have made Reinhard Heydrich proud....
You really have to ask? Why do you think the Democrats Judge shop every challenge to Trump? There are plenty of Judges that hate Trump just as much as the GOPe does.
Investor’s Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial “... Asked if Hillary was a client, Lenzner refused to answer in a May 1998 deposition by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group suing the Clinton administration on several fronts, including campaign finance irregularities and FBI files on Republicans. He cited attorney-client privilege....”
Investor’s Business Daily 5/20/99 Editorial “... Cody Shearer worked as a subcontractor for IGI on at least one case, Milton says. In 1992, he was charged with digging up dirt on President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. (Shearer is reportedly close to Vice President Al Gore’s fund-raiser pal, Peter Knight.) On CNBC’s ‘’Rivera Live’’ last week, Lenzner denied Shearer ever worked for him. But under oath during his May 1998 Judicial Watch deposition, Lenzner admitted Shearer ‘’was a subcontractor on one job for us.’’ ...”
http://www.alamo-girl.com/0282.htm
as in Andrew McCarthy’s excellent piece,
“Proceeding from the erroneous premise that former British spy Christopher Steele is the source of the dossier information, these analysts posit the inarguable proposition that the government is not required to provide the court with all of the potential credibility problems of an information source.
Therefore, the theory goes, there is nothing untoward in the governments failure to inform the FISA court that Steeles information was bought and paid for by the Democratic presidential candidate, and then used in an application in which agencies run by the Democratic president sought court-authorized surveillance of the Republican candidates campaign.
Heres the problem: Steele is not the source of the information. For purposes of the warrant application, he is the purveyor of information from other sources. The actual sources of the information are Steeles informants anonymous Russians providing accounts based on hearsay three- and four-times removed from people said to have observed the events alleged.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456093/jerrold-nadler-memo-rebuttal-weak-unpersuasive
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The most basic fundamental concept of law in the United States is that the law has nothing whatsoever to do with who likes who and who hates who? It goes to the core of our founding principles.
Heres the problem: Steele is not the source of the information. For purposes of the warrant application, he is the purveyor of information from other sources. The actual sources of the information are Steeles informants anonymous Russians providing accounts based on hearsay three- and four-times removed from people said to have observed the events alleged.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456093/jerrold-nadler-memo-rebuttal-weak-unpersuasive
Clinton started the birther movement and never got credit for it.
Clinton started the Trump\Russia connection and never got credit for it.
So when I say Clinton I really mean Syd and Cody ?
You know I learned by the time I was in second grade that some people had more rights than I did because of selective enforcement. Ask the Bundy's how that legal system works. The Judge kept them locked up for nearly two years before she had to dismiss the charge all together because her prosecutors got caught lying.
Same with LeVoy Finicum case, the lying FBI got caught lying, told police not to wear body cams the day they shot LeVoy, that was contrary to Oregon Police procedures. Agent lied about firing his weapon which precluded any evidence collection. Police instructed by FBI to not record interview.........The list goes on.
Richard Jewell. TWA 800. Dr.Steven Hadfill. Ron Brown. ...........yada yada.
I don’t doubt it. When it comes to the Clintons, I simply assume the worst; I’ve never been disappointed.
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