[markomalley]

Full headline:"Senate documents show FBI trying to suppress release of new Trump dossier info"

[ilovesarah2012]

My only question is when can we expect to see Hillary in handcuffs. I guess when hell freezes over.

[Cboldt]

Sharyl is trustworthy, but I still prefer to have the raw material ...

FBI OKs Release of Unclassified Steele Referral | Chuck Grassley

Unclassified and heavily redacted Criminal Referral

Grassley is not happy with the FBI.

Dear Director Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein:

Pursuant to Section 3.5 of Executive Order 13526, I am writing to formally demand a Mandatory Declassification Review of the classified criminal referral Chairman Graham and I sent to the FBI and Justice Department regarding Christopher Steele's potential violations of 18 U.S.C. S: 1001.

[gnawbone]

2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence is incorrect:

Should read: “Top Obama and CLINTON ......”

[Texas Fossil]

Components in the next wave:

Cody Shearer

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/1999/05/cody_shearer.html (Old - Slate? Barf)

Clintons’ ‘Mr. Fixer,’ ally Sidney Blumenthal emerge on list of Russia collusion figures

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/31/cody-shearer-sidney-blumenthal-emerge-russia-dossi/ (New)

[rjsimmon]

The FISC warrant should never have been allowed. The judge that signed off on the warrant should have denied it, if he truly had knowledge that there was political motivation. If it is indeed true that the judge signed the warrant with full knowledge of the political motivation, he should be the one under criminal indictment.

[palmer]

Even more problematic, the FBI may have violated strict rules - Woods Procedures - that forbid it from presenting even a single unverified fact to the special court, let alone a lengthy dossier full of them.

On Friday Schiff admitted (actually boasted) that the FBI did not provide the Dossier, only "portions" of it. That's worse of course. There's no way the Dossier as a whole would be viewed as anything other than garbage.

[ballplayer]

FBI going to investigate the FBI?

[Rumierules]

“The FBI’s reliance on the anti-Trump dossier is questionable because while the judge was reportedly told the author had political motivations, the FBI allegedly did not disclose who funded it: Donald Trump’s chief opponent in the presidential race - the Hillary Clinton campaign - and the Democratic National Committee.”
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Reliance on the dossier was “questionable.” That does not sound too bad. Others, including Joe diGenova, have said that what the top of FBI/DOJ did was criminal.

Can someone lay this out analytically? What would be criminal, exactly?

Woods violations appear to be only sanctionable within the secret court system. That does not seem likely since the courts seem to be at fault as well.

Would proving a crime mean that a prosecutor would have to show that the use of the FISA system was “for political purpose” not law enforcement purposes? Would anything short of an admission be sufficient to show this?

[trebb]

Wait - the FBI and DOJ tried to obstruct truth and the path to justice? Ironic....

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