Marco McCain
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.