Posted on 02/16/2018 6:29:07 AM PST by rwa265
After House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sent his memo laying out potential abuses of the FISA process by the FBI to the White House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded that he be removed as chairman. Nunes was deliberately dishonest in pushing to release a bogus memo, Pelosi declared, and had disgraced the House Intelligence Committee with his partisan effort to distort intelligence.
But Democrats cant so easily dismiss the far more detailed declassified criminal referral written by two respected Republican senators Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C. which confirms the claims raised in the Nunes memo. The Grassley-Graham memo has been all but ignored since its release, but it deserves attention from everyone and answers from the Justice Department.
If youre concerned about Russia meddling in our election, as every American should be, then you should be deeply concerned about unverified allegations by Russian government officials, passed on to the FBI by a paid partisan of one candidate, leading to a warrant to spy on an American citizen associated with the other campaign.
According to Grassley and Graham, that is precisely what happened. The FBI relied heavily on the Steele dossier to obtain warrants for surveillance of Carter Page, a marginal former Trump campaign adviser, the senators write. Moreover, they say, the FBI did not have meaningful corroboration of Steeles claims when it submitted its application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. The bulk of the application consists of allegations against Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Mr. Steele and are also outlined in the Steele dossier. The application appears to contain no additional information corroborating the dossier allegations against Mr. Page except for a news article that appears to be sourced to Mr. Steeles dossier as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
I do not know if it was in the print copy, but the article is on the Washington Post web site.
MakeAmericaGreat says:
March 16, 2018 at 12:13 am
As Sundance says, its not clear that Grassley will get a different answer than the one Sessions already gave on the same subject.
So why is Grassley asking?
Because now we are on offense and running our own propaganda campaign. Now we are building our own case, creating a groundswell, doing our own drip-drip-drip.
This is how you do it. Its been a brilliant, patient process. As much as we want justice done yesterday, it doesnt work like that. You have to slowly build up your armys forces. And thats what has been done, all this time, as Sundance has pointed out over and over again.
Were getting closer. Still a ways to go, but were moving closer every day.
The immediate goal is the 2018 midterms, as well as neutralizing any threat to Trump (they go together, those two things). No reason to rush the matters as we want to have the last word on scandals before the midterms.
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