Posted on 09/09/2018 10:07:49 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
Chris Wallace says that the Woodward Book, the anonymous NYT op-ed, and Obamas fiery speech were a 1-2-3 Punch combination on Trump this week. But the word is that President Trump may be about to launch a devastating counterattack. It certainly looks that way.
The word is that the White House legal team is examining the original FISA Court application and renewal applications for the warrant to surveil Carter Page. As President Trump considers declassifying the 20 pages of these documents that were released completely (or heavily) redacted this summer, as many in Congress have requested, the White House wants to be certain that if anything needs to remain redacted, it will. Otherwise, the documents will be ready for declassification.
Trump alludes to it in a recent tweet:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump The Deep State and the Left, and their vehicle, the Fake News Media, are going Crazy - & they dont know what to do. The Economy is booming like never before, Jobs are at Historic Highs, soon TWO Supreme Court Justices & maybe Declassification to find Additional Corruption. Wow!
7:19 AM - Sep 6, 2018 128K 67.2K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy During an interview last week with Vince Coglianese and Saagar Enjeti of The Daily Caller, Trump was asked, Do you think youre going to be declassifying the FISA documents that have been targeting your campaign? His answer was somewhat cryptic.
Well, were looking at it very seriously right now because the things that have gone on are so bad, so bad. I mean they were surveilling my campaign. If that happened on the other foot, they wouldve considered that treasonous. They wouldve considered that spying at the highest level. Can you imagine if we were doing that to Obama instead of Obama and his people doing that to us? Everybody wouldve been in jail for the next 500 years. Okay? Can you believe it, where they paid this guy millions of dollars, it turned out? If you look at all of the things that are happening.
Investigative reporter and journalist Sara A. Carter wrote that she has been told by numerous sources that the 20 pages of redacted material from these documents are expected to be declassified. The DOJ has been vehemently opposed to declassifying this information. Congressional members and investigators who have viewed the unredacted documents claim that they reveal explosive information about the FBIs handling of the Trump-Russia investigation, according to sources. Why else would the DOJ fight so hard against their declassification?
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) appeared on Hannity recently and said, The remaining classified documents regarding Page need to be declassified because there is exculpatory evidence the judges should have been presented with this exculpatory evidence that the FBI and DOJ had.
Another Congressional official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said, All these documents will expose how the FBI handled this investigation and give clarity to the public. The American people deserve to know the truth and our country needs to move on.
The importance of DOJ official Bruce Ohrs role in this saga has only recently been uncovered. It was revealed that Ohr was in frequent communication by email and text with Christopher Steele and also met with him on numerous occasions, both before and after the FBI fired Steele for speaking to the media. Following Steeles termination, the FBI wanted to continue receiving his information and counted on Ohr to provide it. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said:
The first guy that Bruce Ohr speaks to after meeting with Steele is Andy McCabe. Ohr calls him up a day or two later and meets with McCabe and Lisa Page.
So all the key people at the FBI know whats going on before they take the dossier into the court. They know the full details of the dossier, they know who wrote it, who paid for it and we dont believe they conveyed any of that critical information to the FISA Court
It was reported that a grand jury has been impaneled to investigate former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Although it will likely be a lengthy process, it will be interesting to see if McCabe agrees to turn against his former colleagues in exchange for leniency.
Another new and noteworthy piece of the puzzle involves the relationship between Bruce Ohr and Andrew Weissmann, who is the Mueller teams lead prosecutor. In 2016, Weissmann was the chief of the DOJs criminal fraud division.
According to Fox News Catherine Herridge, Weissmann was kept in the loop by Ohr about his contact with Steele and the FBI, according to the report.
Earlier this year, Sara Carter reported that:
Before Weissmann was appointed to the Special Counsel, he arranged a meeting with AP journalists investigating Paul Manafort and his Ukrainian business dealings. On April 11, 2017 Weissmann, the AP reporters and several FBI officials Weissmann brought into the meeting met with the reporters.
On April 12, the AP published the explosive expose on Manafort.
According to sources who spoke with this news outlet, the meeting was attended by three different litigating offices. Two employees from the U.S. Justice Department and the other representative was from the U.S. Attorneys office, according to the sources. FBI agents also attended the meeting, law enforcement sources confirmed.
At the time Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, and chief Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores also declined to comment.
According to sources, FBI officials at the meeting complained about Weissmanns failure to follow protocol with journalists. They issued a formal complaint against him to the Justice Department, as they were concerned the meeting with the journalists could harm the ongoing probe into Russias involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
The interrelationships in Washington are almost incestuous. Everyone who has spent any serious time in the city knows almost everyone else in some capacity. This is why the law states that The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government. The selection of Robert Mueller, who has spent his entire career working for the US Government, actually violated the law.
So, once again, we are left to wait. Labor Day has past and the midterm elections are two months away. Does Trump release the documents that the deep state has fought so hard to keep classified? If so, when? Now, or does he wait for an October surprise?
Monica Crowley ✔ @MonicaCrowley No wonder we're now getting a fierce new flurry of anti-Trump attacks
Sara A. Carter ✔ @SaraCarterDC ***EXCLUSIVE*** Trump May Declassify the 20 FISA Docs Congress Wants https://saraacarter.com/president-trump-may-declassify-the-20-fisa-docs-congress-wants/
Dude was a trip.
they all are.
Whoa Nellis is right. They up the creek without an Oar.
Trump is flushing them out
OMG The original “house of cards” just started LOL
Francis Urquhart...
I think Trump can take him LOL
I am worried you may be right. The Nunes Memo was going to be a knockout, too, and it fizzled. The Dems had too many stories pre-fabricated to explain it all away.
Trump needs to appoint a special prosecutor to uncover the Deep State cabal. It requires a deep, genuine investigation.
do it now.
“Labor Day has past”
Is past or has passed.
Declassifying the FISA request will be the thing that starts the process of uncovering the bigger crimes, rolling. It will be the first clear documentary evidence that the surveillance of the Trump campaign was based on known lies.
The process of discovery of this lesser crime will reveal the bigger crimes.
Labor Day has passed into the past.
“Trump needs to appoint a special prosecutor to uncover the Deep State cabal. It requires a deep, genuine investigation.”
A very very large special counsel. Trump can appoint it and he can declassify a host of documents but he doesn’t. I think we’re entering year two of a mexican standoff with the corrupt state. You take us out, we’ll take you out.
The reason why he hasn’t dropped the hammer on this bullsh!t
to #29. You are on the right track as to where the declassification of the FISA warrants requests will lead - i.e. your “that process of uncovering the bigger crimes..”
Since the Deep State DOJ/FBI/Hillary-DNC clique used fake evidence, entrapment and lying to the FISA courts to get an expanded Special Counsel investigation, a new Special Counsel with balls can do the same thing to them but with their own documents of collusion, conspiracy, perjury traps, entrapment even overseas, lying to the press, and refusal to turn over legitimately requested documents to Congress (i.e. obstruction of a congressional investigation - little used but I believe that crime is still an active charge).
Every member of DOJ,FBI,NSA, CIA who obstructed Congress’ demands for document production should be named, subpoenaed and brought before a congressional hearing where they can try to lie under oath. Then off to a brand new, juke-yard dog prosecutor in charge grand jury can rip them to shreds and send them to jail if they lie under oath.
Time to expose, expel, disgrace and jail all these leftist bastards and covert-coup operators. A perp walk down Pennsylvania Avenue in DC would be a great start on their “Long Walk” to Leavenworth for the next 5-20 years, plus civil law suits from those they have framed, harassed, and inflicted “emotional distress”.
Meanwhile people in Virginia want to start legal hemp production for various uses. I’m all for it. After all, you hang traitors with hemp ropes and we are going to need a lot of hemp yardage for all the traitors we know about right now, not to mention the new ones who will be exposed in the next few months.
Calling Judge Roy Bean. You are needed at DOJ and FBI headquarters.
There you go. It looks like I’m going to have to add Hemp to my stock portfolio, in addition to popcorn futures. Should be getting very interesting very fast.
It will be covered in depth only by Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, and Judicial Watch.
Not one nationally known elected Republican will defend Trump or attack the Democrats because of the documents.
No one will be indicted, and no one will get fired.
The issue will completely disappear in one week.
I think you’re right MadMax that the Fisa docs are part of a larger story of treason. The top of the DNC, BHO and Clintons, both are Marxists who live by the code the ends justify the means.
I believe Trump first had to seat new Judges all over the nation at every level. That is his insurance policy. McConnell to his credit has kept a steady pace of appointments. This is oft reported but the significance relates to what would happen if the country erupts in violence thanks to those who participated in the treason and will use any means to evade justice?
A judiciary which follows the rule of law is an absolute necessity to keeping America from splitting apart.
You are right, but he actually did one better, Trump has pretty much made them show all their cards and commit to certain stances before he has even started revealing any yet. They have investigated him for crimes they actually did... turn-a-bout is fair play, now he can investigate them as aggressively and deeply as they went after him without anybody saying thing one about it.
Other than that, I think you are wrong, I think we finally get to see some sort of action this time around... This is serious stuff that Ohr’s testimony involves, Declassification is the first Trump card that starts their fragile house of cards crumbling. Information is power!
Labor Day should be renamed End of Summer Day or something.
Union thugs do not make America great.
96% of the jurors in Washington D.C. voted against Trump in 2016.
Close to 100% of the senior DOJ prosecutors and FBI leadership voted against Trump in 2016.
Bottom Line...
No Democrat will be indicted or convicted of a politically related crime in Washington D.C.
Well I will just take a wait and see stance instead of arguing about it... The way I understand it is that is the whole point of Huber, to NOT prosecute in DC... time will tell though.
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