Posted on 07/22/2018 8:05:25 PM PDT by Kevin in California
President Trump claims the FBI spied on and undermined his presidential campaign in 2016 for partisan purposes. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) does not.
Responding to Saturday's publication of the FBI's application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in connection to Russian election interference, Rubio said on CNN Sunday he "has a different view on it."
Rubio is a lowlife
Maybe Graham has a cold?
What’s wrong with little Marco?
Marco has chosen whom his buddies are. Donald Trump isn’t among them.
Marco thought he needed to be noticed again so he said “something”.
Really glad this quisling isn’t President.
When is Rubio resigning?
“Rubio said on CNN Sunday he “has a different view on it.”
Rubio is bought and paid for. He’s a politician without a base. The Republican party in Florida hate him with a passion. He lied to the power brokers who put him in when he ran for President and he was lucky win his seat back. If he doesn’t hold his seat, he is done in politics and it couldn’t come soon enough.
Bubio is really dumb. Glad he will never be POTUS
Marco McCain
Rubio has been a scumbag since he hit DC.
Tweet: Paul Sperry: BREAKING: FBI’s FISA warrant actually cites as “evidence” to spy on Carter Page/Trump campaign “Senate Minority Leader” Harry Reid’s 2016 letter to Comey citing information he got from John Brennan who got it from the Clinton dossier — talk about circular evidence!
6:33 PM - 21 Jul 2018
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1020844222352674816
lots more on his Twitter page
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_
Tweet: Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch: .@JudicialWatch now has Carter Page FISA docs. They are heavily redacted but seem to confirm the FBI and DoJ misled the courts in withholding info about Clinton-DNC being behind the info used to get the FISA warrant.
4:05 PM - 21 Jul 2018
https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1020806928715386882
Fitton/JW got the docs Saturday afternoon.
Johnson seems to think everyone who received the docs got them Saturday night:
22 Jul: Powerline: Saturday night document dump
by Scott Johnson
We are familiar with the Friday afternoon document dump. It’s a standard tool of political scandal management. What are we to make of the Saturday night document dump by which the Department of Justice delivered the heavily redacted documents comprising the Carter Page FISA warrant application to the New York Times and other news organizations that had sought them under the Freedom of Information Act? Charlie Savage’s New York Times article draws no inferences from the timing. I say the Saturday night document dump resets best scandal management practices. These documents were not released on Saturday night because the FBI and the Department of Justice are proud of themselves for what they reveal.
Andrew McCarthy commented this morning on FOX News: “I’m really embarrassed because I told people for months that this could never, ever happen….It’s astonishing. It’s as if they took the dossier and slapped a caption on it to give it to the judge. They ought to be looking at the judges who signed this stuff.”
Byron York has a set of useful observations via Twitter that can be accessed via the Tweet below...
Professor Randy Barnett highlights the rot that is visible in the interstices of the redactions...
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/saturday-night-document-dump.php
USA Today says “late Saturday”:
USA Today: FBI releases FISA records on Carter Page surveillance
by Brad Heath, USA TODAYPublished 7:49 p.m. ET July 21, 2018 | Updated 9:13 a.m. ET July 22, 2018
The FBI told a secret federal surveillance court in 2016 that it believed Carter Page, a onetime foreign policy aide to President Donald Trump’s campaign, “has been collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government” in its efforts to interfere in the presidential election, according to a trove of documents made public LATE Saturday...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/21/fbi-releases-carter-page-fisa-records/813984002/
but, from what I understand, NYT got them “earlier”, which is what Reuters reports here:
22 Jul: Reuters: FBI releases documents on former Trump adviser surveillance
by David Shepardson
The 412 pages, mostly heavily redacted and made public by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late Saturday...
Earlier Saturday, The New York Times reported it had received a copy from the Justice Department after it and other news organizations had filed suit...
(final paragraph - which is true - follows Pelosi lies, etc)
Republicans have claimed that the FBI used in part a dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to justify the warrant, and failed to disclose to the court that Steele was employed by a firm funded by Democrats to do opposition research on Trump’s business dealings.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-page/fbi-releases-documents-on-former-trump-adviser-surveillance-idUSKBN1KC018
my guess is NYT received the docs first so they could create the OFFICIAL NARRATIVE.
Marco must be right, Rushbo called him a fully throated conservative.../s
Excuse him, as he was answering during a soap bubble dance move.
This princess Rubio doesn’t want to get his hands dirty. So instead, he’ll nip at the heals of the guy working his ass off.
GTH, Rubio.
Marco Rubio, professional shark jumper.
one of the best articles so far - read it all:
22 Jul: The Hill: Carter Page warrant reflects attack on our civil liberties
By Mark Penn
If the information in the FBI’s Carter Page warrant constituted probable cause for wiretapping an American political campaign, then the process and the officials involved in it carried out one of the most significant known violations of American civil liberties in recent history. The documents released over the weekend reveal quite clearly that the only information that even remotely connected Page and the 2016 campaign to Russia came solely from Fusion GPS dossier and a Yahoo News report that was based on the same information from the same source...
If I were a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court judge, I might well have signed this one-sided warrant, too, especially given the unvarnished judgment of the FBI, and because I would not have been told that this was all really from a single source creating a vast echo chamber, and that it originated with secret funding from the Democrats...
Former British spy and dossier compiler Christopher Steele, it turns out, managed to be on the payroll of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) while also being “compensated” by the FBI, the warrant reveals...
Clearly, they left the Steele material in the renewals because they needed it...
http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/398276-carter-page-warrant-reflects-attack-on-our-civil-liberties
Carter Page is not news. we knew everything being said now long ago, but NYT framed the documents as being about nothing else but Carter Page/Russia. what garbage.
find a single article in the FakeNewsMSM with a headline:
DOJ-released FISA Application documents show FBI relied on Hillary Clinton/DNC-funded fake Steele Dossier
there isn’t even anything close to that in the entire media! what does that tell us?
22 Jul: The Hill: The Nation contributor: Trump critics would rather impeach than avoid war with Russia
By John Bowden
A contributing editor for The Nation says that Democrats and Republican critics of the president are letting their dislike of President Trump cloud their judgement on relations with Russia.
Stephen Cohen, who is also a professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University, accused Trump’s critics, particularly Democrats, of preferring the possibility of impeaching the president to avoiding war.
“I put it like this: The people that are doing this would prefer to impeach Trump over avoiding war with Russia,” he told host John Catsimatidis on New York’s AM 970 in an interview airing Sunday. “And [Trump’s critics] have become our No. 1 national security threat. They themselves, these ‘Russia-gate’ people.”...
Well both sides need a little history, they seem to have amnesia,” Cohen said. “Since [former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt], every American president without exception has met with the Kremlin leader. More than once sometimes.”
AUDIO: 12mins42secs
“And by the way, for the record, every major detente, that is, improvement in relations with Russia, has been led by a Republican president,” he said. “So he is squarely within that tradition.”...
So in my judgement, because the relationship with Russia is so dangerous today, more dangerous than any time in my lifetime ... Trump had no choice. It was the duty of the American president to go meet with Putin, and try and walk back some of these conflicts.”...
Cohen previously criticized media coverage of the joint press conference, calling it “mob violence.”
http://thehill.com/policy/international/398198-the-nation-contributor-trump-critics-would-rather-impeach-than-avoid-war
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