Posted on 02/25/2018 11:55:28 AM PST by bitt
Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence omitted several key facts from their memo on the FBI and Justice Department’s use of the Trump-Russia dossier in applying for a spy warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016.
The Democrats’ memo, released on Saturday, claimed to refute a similar memo released on Feb. 2 by committee Republicans who alleged that the FBI and DOJ had abused the FISA system in obtaining the warrant. The Democratic memo omitted several key points.
The Democratic memo ignored Republicans’ contention that former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe testified in December that the FISA warrant would not have been sought without the infamous dossier, which was commissioned by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). McCabe’s testimony was a key point in the Republican memo.
Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell claimed earlier this month that Republicans had mischaracterized McCabe’s testimony. However, Democrats declined to directly refute that claim in their own memo.
Republicans noted several other omissions in their rebuttal to the Democratic memo.
“The Democrat memo ignores the fact that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the Steele dossier, which— as confirmed by the Graham-Grassley referral —formed “a significant portion of the Carter Page FISA application,” the Republican rebuttal states.
“Amazingly, the Democrat memo does not contain a single reference to the DNC or Clinton campaign, or acknowledge that they funded the dossier, or admit that this information was not provided to the FISA Court.”
“The Democrat memo confirms that a September 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff was part of the FISA application. However, the memo ignores the fact that the FBI failed to subsequently inform the Court that Steele provided information to Yahoo News,” the GOP rebuttal adds. “Isikoff has publicly confirmed Steele was a source for his article about Page.”
Republicans claim the Democratic memo also “paints an incomplete picture of Page’s past activities, and omits that, in a secretly-taped statement reproduced in a 2015 federal court filing, a Russian intelligence officer called Page “an idiot.”
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I used that memo to wipe my a$$.
Schiff will likely publish a response to the Justice Department OIG report. He’s like a soviet commisar.
A Mea Culpa?..................
What? The lying, lying, smarmy Liars left things out in their usual deceptive ways? Color me surprised and shocked!
The requested surveillance warrant was for the most invasive, allowing surveillance upon ANYONE Page had contact with. This was not a 302 type request! Because the request was for the most invasive the court should have required the most in depth rationale, which the FBI, under their leadership by the DNC, purposely did not give the court/judge. Why is the judge at FISC not outraged? ... Look who he served/took orders from! Sedition and treason should be on Sessions' menu about now, and Congress should start impeachment proceedings for the judge (s) colluding with the DNC to commit sedition!
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by Gabby Morrongiello | Feb 24, 2018, 10:27 AM
good info - thanks LS twitter
>>What? The lying, lying, smarmy Liars left things out in their usual deceptive ways? <<
Could that have been in the part that was redacted?
Your proctologist will hate you on your next visit.
Schiff and Swalwell are both complete nincompoops. They’re being used by the democrats because they’re such idiots.
“The Democratic memo ignored Republicans’ contention that former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe testified in December that the FISA warrant would not have been sought without the infamous dossier, which was commissioned by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).”
The Schiff Memo also brays that the dossier’s information was consistent with what the FBI already had and included in the FISA application. This is completely consistent with the idea that the DoJ/FBI provided the information about Page and others TO Steele/Ohr/GPS Fusion. The dossier was a vehicle for cycling that into the public domain for campaign purposes. Then the FBI used the dossier and it’s stepchild, Michael Izakoff’s Yahoo article, on top of it’s own raw, uncorroborated intel, to defraud the FISA court with the appearance that the FBI was getting the same answers from multiple sources. In reality, this intel family tree didn’t branch. The FBI had been turned down in a prior FISA request. So McCabe is probably telling the truth: without the dossier to pretend their old information was new and better, the FBI would not have run this up the flagpole for a second time.
They omitted the Truth and used lies that didn’t prove any of their “rebuttal points” as rebuttal points....4th grade attempt - herd a guy on Fox say that while they were howling about Trump delaying their memo, they were actively trying to delay their own memo because they knew how hokey it was...they knew what needed to be redacted and had the opportunity to make it clean enough for release for over two weeks...
I'll take "Facts" for $50 Alex
By not admitting to or even addressing the Clinton/DNC connection the Dems will contend that it is a Republican conclusion and that their friends in the media will give them share on this issue.
Bttt.
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What they left out was that Carter Page was KNOWN BY THE FBI as an undercover operative that the FBI used to catch actual Russian spies. So the FBI not only knew about but SENT Page on the trips to Russia that they based the FISA request on (in addition to the dossier). The only question left is did the FBI somehow plant Page as a person useful to the Trump team. We know the Russian honeypot (which the memo also refers to) was a setup as she had history with Fusion GPS.
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