Posted on 02/06/2018 6:49:48 PM PST by bitt
A few moments ago Senator Chuck Grassley released an updated version of his memo which substantiates his prior Criminal Referral, against Christopher Steele, to the Department of Justice.
Last Friday Chairman Grassley asked FBI Director Chris Wray to remove the prior redactions and declassify the underlying supportive documents; known as the “Grassley Memo”. FBI Director Wray did not remove all redactions; but did remove most. Here is the newest version (pdf link here):
This. Regardless, I think the President was not angry about the recusal, but was acting the part.
Do you think we give too much away by stating our thoughts “aloud” on FR?
Good question. There is so much “noise” out there on websites like this that it gets overwhelming anyway.
>”He (Sessions) was a target of illegal FISA surveillance and cannot serve as a prosecutor in a matter where he himself was a victim.”
Exactly. Stop ragging on sessions. He’s doing a good job on immigration.
Look at it this way. If Sessions is in the lead, the press and the Dems won’t trust him. He’d be viewed as Trump’s man completely. But by recusing himself, and drawing disparaging remarks from Trump in doing so, he’s put some separation between the DOJ and Trump. But that separation might be fictional, and by design.
And then Rosenstein appoints Mueller and Mueller intentionally hires leftist lawyers, so now the press and the Dems figure, hey, Sessions is out of the way plus he’s at odds with Trump, and Rosenstein looks like a good guy and Mueller definitely looks like he’s after Trump, etc.
No one will doubt that Trump is clean if Mueller announces he can’t find anything, and when he starts tying Russian interference directly to the Clinton campaign, they’ll be boxed in completely, both the Dems and the liberal press.
Then, and only then, Sessions can start issuing indictments, of which there should be many.
And then there’s the IG report still to come.
I’ll probably be disappointed, but that’s how I hope it plays out in the end.
Please keep in mind that when government does anything in haste, it is ALWAYS at the expense of we, the people. A slow moving real investigation will yield much better results than the immediate return those of us who have been watching closely want.
If government is in a hurry, justice is in jeopardy.
....Strategic Pre-emptive strike ..... To neuter anything the Democraps are about to release in their Mickey Mouse Memo .... I think before this is all over it’s possible that they may actually beg to NOT have their vapid memo released ....
It’s becoming very obvious that Steele didn’t write a word of the dossier. I wouldn’t be surprised if none of it came from Russian sources either.
It was all provided to him by Clinton cronies and the FBI/DOJ spooks and some conspiracy-obsessed hack journalists.
Steele was used as a fig leaf to lend credibility to all this BS. And now he says he can’t testify in court proceedings because it would put his “sources” in danger.
Yeah, I bet!
It’s becoming very obvious that Steele didn’t write a word of the dossier. I wouldn’t be surprised if none of it came from Russian sources either.
It was all provided to him by Clinton cronies and the FBI/DOJ spooks and some conspiracy-obsessed hack journalists.
Steele was used as a fig leaf to lend credibility to all this BS. And now he says he can’t testify in court proceedings because it would put his “sources” in danger.
Yeah, I bet!
Let them release their minority memo. And then let Wray declassify the underlying FBI reports and let’s see who’s really lying to the American people.
I agree. Sessions was swept up in the surveillance. I think another special counsel will need to be appointed now and there will be targets named in the charter.
Adding to this: payback is gonna be sweet. Biding his time like a cougar.
Tiresome is ole repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat and repeat again, ask a question of the knowledgeable, expert guest and interrupt in a nanosecond! Really does get old. Like he doesn’t want to know what the guest has to say.
As a spy reporting from here in the swamp I have to tell you that a blue ribbon panel is the VERY LAST THING you want. Every swamp dwelling rascal will be yelling YEE HAAA! first because of the commission meetings with receptions and dinners afterwards, but more especially because such commissions take minimally two years to get a report out. The DOJ will then unctuously report to congress that it is establishing a 223 point program to implement the recommendations and is establishing another blue ribbon panel to advise on the implementation process.
And there will be just one minor little objection, of the 223 recommendations, they accept 222, all except the one about fewer and better staff. You see they have already done a staffing review, and you might not have realized it, but the DOJ is woefully understaffed, though since there seems to be some disparity in recommendations, DOJ will establish another blue ribbon panel, to report out in another 2 years to validate the staffing plan reviews.
You board yet? Believe me, the Congressional committees tracking this have already fallen asleep, and not a thing has happened yet.
You want change - you get a Pruitt or a TREX or a Maddog or a Trump for the really tough problems. What you don't do is ever again mention the words commission, panel, review, study or report to Congress. It's the quicksand that keeps any serious threats away from the deeper parts of the swamp cess. And when you add Blue Ribbon to the title, then you get a bipartisan panel chaired by two retired congress critters, one from each party, or maybe a Packard or an Augustine or some such that have been chairing these review for years.
And that is how the swamp stays the swamp.
I’ll have to go back and find the details, but I read a report a couple of days ago suggesting that Steele is facing a serious legal dilemma. If the methods be used to compile his dossier were shoddy then he’s facing prosecution in the U.S., and if it was all legitimate then he’s facing prosecution for espionage in Great Britain.
Grassley’s got them dead to right. Either Steele lied to the FBI or the FBI lied to the FISA court. There’s no way one or the other didn’t happen.
The most like case is “AND”. Steele lied to the FBI and they knew it AND the FBI lied to the FISC.
Carter Page is going to be one rich dude from all the monies he’s going to receive for deprivation of rights lawsuits against everyone who signed those FISA warrant applications as well as Steele himself.
I would love to see that if you can find it.
I also saw the idea that Steele’s situation would violate the Five Eyes agreement. I’m not so sure of that, since he was a retired Brit agent.
Steele only got $160,000 out of the $12 million that was spent on this dirty dossier.
He surely must feel cheated, since all he did was put his name on the crap, and now all lightening bolts are coming down on him!
Poor guy. NOT!
Makes sense.
Even that doesn't work, because as soon as he's finished and they start to answer his question, he immediately interrupts them again and starts talking over them. He has a compulsive need to hear himself talk. Laura Ingraham is even worse.
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