Comey and the FISA Warrant Hillary Bought

spectator.org ^ | 12/7/18 | George Neumayr

[a little elbow grease]

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“ ........ We now know the FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet,” reports Solomon. “If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source. These issues are why the FBI email chain, kept from most members of Congress for the past two years, suddenly landed on the declassification list.”

Let’s hope Trump does declassify the email chain. It will shed light on how something as monstrously stupid as a FISA application stitched together from the smears of one campaign against another campaign could happen without serious dissent. It will probably show that someone weakly raised an objection or two but was shushed by all the partisan liberal lawyers and agents Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, and Comey had hired.

Holder was famous for not letting anyone but flagged liberals work at the Justice Department. Years of such hiring creates the kind of groupthink that would allow for a cock-up of FISA-gate’s magnitude, where an American citizen was treated as a “probable” Russian agent whose every communication, both past and present, could be ransacked by FBI agents, all based n the word of a political opponent.

Take away Comey’s sanctimony and he was just a crook with a badge, congratulating himself for the agonies of his “conscience” while violating the civil liberties of a campaign volunteer caught up in the Obama administration’s espionage.

[rxsid]

"After decades of watching the hildabeast operate, framing the scheme as “FISA Warrant Hillary Bought” begs the question: exactly what did she get in return for the $10-1 million she paid perkins coie/fusion GPS?"

At the absolute minimum...she got Trump pounded daily in the news, and not just from (D)'s but from many (R)'s as well.

The wall should have been fully funded by now, he shouldn't have as much delay in getting judges confirmed, etc.

She may not have bought herself the presidency, but she sure didn't come away with a zero return on her investment.