Posted on 03/22/2019 10:52:47 PM PDT by KTM rider
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed Thursday his office is still investigating possible abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the DOJ and FBI in their investigation into President Trump and associates of his 2016 campaign
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The Trump-Russia investigation launched by the DOJ and the FBI would carry on into the special counsel investigation, which to this day is looking at Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Steele was being paid for his research by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was funded in part by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm. Republicans have alleged the the dossier's Democratic benefactors and Steele's anti-Trump bias was withheld from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and that the FISA process was abused.
Secret courts should be done away with.
So in other words, you have nothing. I too know how this works.
“I know I’m just pissin in the wind but I believe the FISA judge was/is on the deep state hit job on Trump.”
Well, I’m standing alongside you so watch your aim! I have wondered for months why we do not hear from the FISA Court Judges here. You would think, if any of them thought they’d been hoodwinked by the DOJ, the excrement would have hit the fan long before now, and they would be hauling people in front of them to answer questions. Or they would have “referred their concerns” to another court where it could all be “discovered” out in the open. You would not need to divulge the substance of the warrants, but rather only the criminal acts done in seeking the warrants.
Possible abuse?
So more of the I can’t respond to the question because of an ongoing investigation.
Secret courts and “two hop” surveillance should both be done away with. Will we ever learn how many tens, hundreds or thousands of people were surveilled due to communication with Carter Page or communication with anyone he communicated with? A FISA warrant allows this with all communications: past, present or future.
So, What precisely the crime or crimes involved with the FISA Warrant?
What will be the charges?
“Just tell us the two most important things that have changed.”
I can give a few off the top of my head:
1. The fascists at the EPA have been shut down and its power nuetered.
2. The fascist Fed Reserve has announced no more rate hikes for the year.
3. Open defiance of gun registration “laws.”
Exactly my reaction. If there is anything going on, it's to ensure these criminals in the FBI never are investigated or indicted. This fake investigation provides that cover.
Are you trying to say that one of those Obama appointed DOJ hacks is sitting just over the hill with that resplendent white hat preparing to ride to our rescue? That line went stale two years ago.
Obama appointed fisa court judge Contheras just blocked oil companies from drilling on federal land in Wyoming or Montana one I can’t remember which one,his reason was that the company’s did not take into consideration of climate change.the judge just invented a law right from the bench.I read this story a couple days ago right here at FP I also read in the comments judge Contheras was the visa judge the approved the Warren to spy on Carter Page..now it takes will to prosecute all the crooks that broke laws against our elected President.do any of you people blaming Trump for these people not being in jail think for one minute our President can do this by his self my gosh the Dems own ever branch of our government plus we all know Washington is 90% swamp.I hate to say this but till Trump becomes a detective,prosecuter and judge nothing will happen to these scumbags...
It’s still active because someone doesn’t have the guts to begin prosecutions.
1 after a lifetime of being beat down by the political ruling class we finally feel we have a president with our best interest at heart
2. Our cognitive bias makes us have positive thoughts that there may actually be hope to repel the globalist invasion
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Hey sorry, just following the rules here not allowed to say what I know or how I know it outside of our one daily thread... it is the way the board owner and the group wants it.
The two most important issues in America are:
(1) Massive Legal Immigration - because when you get outvoted in a democracy, nothing else matters.
(2) Insane Government Spending - because when you are broke, nothing else matters.
Trump's record on immigration is a catastrophe. Trump's only quantifiable achievement is reducing the number of refugees from 80,000 to 40,000.
Trump's two budgets have been a catastrophe. His FY2018 budget deficit was $780 billion, even though we had high employment, low interest rates, and no wars. Trump's FY2019 budget deficit is currently on track for $1 trillion.
And, while I'm thinking it about it, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is beginning to look a lot like his RINO mentor, Anthony Kennedy.
Kavanaugh, in his first five months, has voted three times with the Supreme Court Leftists.
Bottom Line - if Conservatives do not hold Trump's feet to the political fire, who will?
So take Trumps place and tell me what you would have done differently... Both issues you mention are 100% on congress... Trump has been trying to fund sealing up the border since he took office and corrupt R’s stopped him... Trump’s budget is as dead upon arrival as his previous ones were and he put them out there to show a change in policy and start the conversation of how to turn the spending ship around, this budget shows because they did not act on first two attempts it will now take longer to make up for the damage they are doing. Once again CONGRESS controls the purse strings as Nancy keeps reminding us. Trump is simply trying to get congress to do their damn jobs... Yes spending is the problem, Every quarter I read an article talking about record tax revenues and we are still running deficits... Proof it is a spending problem and again, that is controlled by the house.
I have been saying for about 12-15 years now that is is NOT a Republican/Democrat thing, but that it was Washington that was broken... broken LONG before I realized it and well before Obama came along... Trump has completely put that point on full display and THAT is the primary problem he is working on, fixing Washington DC and saving our constitutional republic... That is problem #1 in my book and in hindsight, has been most of my adult life now, I fully believed our Republic was lost when Obama was elected to a second term because the “deep state” agenda advanced SO fast under him and thankfully I have been proven wrong on that point.
Bottom line is Trump has accomplished so much in two years that I never believed remotely possible 4 years ago, starting with beating Hillary, that I just have to trust him to keep it going. In the mean time I will just enjoy the show and support him however I can. He has beat career politicians like a drum for 3 years now, they have NO idea how to even try to counter him. Everything he has done has been to highlight congress NOT doing what is in America’s best interest and trying to get the American people to call their reps and take that control back that is supposed to be ours... He tweaks lefties continually and both the left and right hate him so he must be doing something right! What he will do is bring some accountability back in the end, by the time Trump is out of office in another 5 1/2 years, All I can say is both of your most important issues will be a thing of the past, I know you don’t think so, but only way we get to see who is right is wait and watch...
As far as Kavanaugh goes, were his votes against the constitution?? Sorry left or right should not be a factor as long as it is with the constitution...
Like a few other governments that respect the rights of their citizens, America should establish a Bureau to Protect Americans Rights Against Unwarranted Search and Surveillance.
Horowitz needs to wrap it up. Soon.
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