The FBI already had a copy (done in installments thru Dec 2016) in July delivered by Bruce Ohr. The surveillance of the Trump campaign probably began in 2015. According to her testimony, Nellie Ohr contacted Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS) in December 2015 and was hired then to conduct research on Trump and Flynn. IMO the Obama administration was conducting illegal surveillance on Americans for political purposes since 2012. CTH provides some compelling evidence about the abuse of the the FISA-702 process. The review of the process conducted by Judge Collyer of the FISA court found that a review of November 1, 2015, to May 1, 2016, showed “eighty-five percent of those queries” were unlawful or “non compliant”. 85% !!
The dossier was then leaked to the press most likely through FBI director Comey. It was also being used by the cabal to issue a FISA warrant to be able to spy on the Trump campaign for being blackmailed by the Russians.
The dossier was leaked to the press by Steele in August/September 2016 and probably Baker at the same time to David Corn and Michael Isikoff. There are also indications that the NYT, WP, CNN, etc. had copies but they did not reveal them because they were not verified. Brennan briefed Harry Reid on the dossier in August 2016. The bottom line is that this was all orchestrated to make it seem that multiple sources had the information, but the reality was that it all came from the same source. Once Comey briefed Trump on January 6, 2017 in Trump Tower about only the salacious material (peeing on a bed by prostitutes), the cabal could then give the go ahead to the MSM to release the information. Clapper gave the green light to CNN. Buzzfeed had already published it.
For all those Social Justice Warriors, how fair is it to have the entire FBI, NSA and the rest of the Federal gummit trying to influence an election for Hillary Clinton?
It is much worse. Not only was the Trump campaign monitored thru the Carter Page FISA in October 2016 using the two hop rule, the monitoring of the Trump transition team and the Trump presidency continued until November 2017 using three renewals of the Page FISA. IMO the FISA warrant for Page was just a CYA for the prior monitoring that had taken place beginning in 2015. It is why they ignored the information from A/Secstate Kavalec that expressed skepticism of Steele's information. NB: Kavalec is no hero since she continued to work with Bruce Ohr after election day to gather damaging information on Trump. She is a career employee who was part of the resistance. Her nomination to be the Ambassador to Albania was pulled in March 2019. It had originally been submitted to the Senate for confirmation in July 2018.
The most important thing right now is to find out who is guilty of this treason and make an example of them. There is nothing worse morally than a dirty cop except a dirty FBI agent and that agent has to be made example to make sure this never happens again in America.
Couldn't agree more. This attempted coup involved hundreds of people, not just a few rotten apples at the top. You don't carry out such a wide-ranging surveillance program without many people being involved. Where were the whistle blowers? There needs to be an extensive house cleaning, but I doubt that will happen.
In her notes, State Department official Kathleen Kavalec also referred to the two Russians — former Russian foreign intelligence chief Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Putin aide Vladislav Surkov — as “sources.”
Dan Bongino has the notes by Kavalec and accompanying analysis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJuHKSaD0o7mX6jSbvisnvg
from 978.
Trump still has an uphill battle for one reason only, the driveby media.
As long as they a are out there on the net, in print and on TV lying their asses off spinnig the truth and omitting anything that helps Trump its still up to us to get the real stories out. Margaret Brennan, off camera, on cbs giving "the evil eye" to anyone who spins the wrong answer to the wrong question. These driveby moderators are super slick and super scary.
So what did the good judge and his superiors do about these facts?
Who was indicted?
Convicted?
Imprisoned?
The good judge said it was unlawful, like in illegal? Against the law? And like a Central American sneaking across the Mexican border into the USA ,nothing was done about it???
What really gets me is how often our so-called "betters" can get away with breaking the law, but the rest of us have a ton of legal bricks dropped on us when we do so.
I reflect on this when I'm driving and in a hurry. No cops? Speed up! Speed limit? Not if they don't catch you!
Seriously, they are developing a culture where regular Joes and Janes are just going to ignore the laws when convenient to do so.
The political elites "screw you, there's nothing you can do to us" is breeding this.
Some Cincinnatus among them has got to reign the elites in, or they'll lose it all.