Posted on 08/28/2018 9:10:38 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A top FBI special agent admitted to House committees last week that bureau officials were known to leak information to the press and then use the resulting articles to help obtain surveillance warrants.
Special Agent Jonathan Moffa, who worked with controversial former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, testified last Friday behind closed doors
A source with knowledge of his testimony confirmed to Fox News that Moffa said FBI personnel would use media reports based on information they leaked to justify applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants.
The source told Fox News that Moffa acknowledged this “had been a practice in the past.”
Republicans have long questioned to what extent leaked information, related to the unverified anti-Trump dossier, was used as a basis for surveillance warrants against former Trump adviser Carter Page in 2016 -- when the bureau was led by James Comey and deputy Andrew McCabe.
The source told Fox News that Moffa did not specifically confirm the practice of using leaked information to bolster warrant applications was employed with regard to the dossier.
But, when pressed by the committees on whether this was common practice at the FBI, Moffa acknowledged the FBI had at least engaged in this activity in other cases.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told Fox News on Tuesday that the committee had evidence of the FBI’s practice that would be “hard to refute.”
“We know that some people at the Department of Justice and the FBI actually gave information to the media, then the stories were reported. Then they used those reports to justify further investigations,” Meadows said on “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday. “You know, that’s like saying, we’re going to incriminate on one hand, and be the jury on the other. It just doesn’t work that way.”
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Obama was caught red handed trying to broker a deal with Blagojevich to sell his vacated Senate seat Jesse Jackson Jr for two million bucks.
The lead investigator publicly admitted that he rolled up the investigation as soon as they had hard wire tap evidence of Obama being the ring leader of the scam to save Obama from a criminal indictment that would have prevented him from being sworn is as President ( this was in the transition before Obama has the protection of the office)
Good old ex Gov Rod has the goods on Obama and the FBI cover up so I expect we will be hearing more on this front as well
Looks like Trump may be going there and dredging up Mueller and Comey’s past history of framing defendants in political prosecutions, selective prosecutions, covering up crimes committed by political powerful and connected people and other high level official misconduct and abuses of law enforcement power by what is looking to be a American Stasi law enforcement leadership
Jump right in Sessions ,anytime now ,still waiting
bkmk
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