Posted on 08/20/2019 6:49:58 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
A federal judge has ordered the FBI to search for and produce all documents related to the bureau’s one-time asset, former British spy Christopher Steele, who produced the long-discredited “Russia dossier” fired FBI Director James Comey and others used to obtain surveillance warrants against the 2016 Trump campaign.
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper, in issuing his ruling, said that the public’s interest outweighed Steele’s privacy rights and ordered the FBI to complete the search within 60 days.
Steele, who was dismissed by the bureau for unauthorized contact with the media, nevertheless produced the infamous dossier that was central to the “Spygate” scandal. Comey and others in the bureau used it to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to spy on 2016 Trump campaign figure Carter Page.
The dossier, which was never verified, was used to obtain at least four surveillance warrants, including two after President Trump was inaugurated.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
The judge has a sense of humor. Deep Stage Stooge Wray will never comply.
Judicial Watch, a right-leaning government accountability legal group, first sought FBI documents pertaining to Steele in 2017 via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
That was the important bit. Judges do not just sit in their chambers and order stuff up. Someone has to bring an issue before them in a suit against another party.
Wait, what, this is still going on?
Thought “Bull” Durham had made sure nothing would ever surface on this.
Someone tell that judge that the Gangsters have closed ranks now and the coup is to be conveniently forgotten!
Why hasn’t Trump fired Christopher ‘make it all go a” Wray?
disgusting that he allows this to continue.
There are thousands of people on Death Row across this country, convicted on Far Less Evidence than what is in the Public Domain regarding this Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow the United States Government.
Dear Gubmint,
Never Ever ask me to pass judgement on a fellow citizen, I do NOT believe anything the gubmint puts forth as evidence or testimony.
original article NS and the rest of the parasites ripped off:
That’s what Mueller’s team spent two years destroying.
All documents have been shredded by Wray.
Why does Wray still have a job, Mr. Trump?
Wow, not "radical right-wing"? An improvement!
...An order that was quickly circular-filed and ignored by that fine, corrupt administrator Christopher Wray.
Yessir, your Honor, have the foxes count the chickens.
These are exercises in futility. Some of these records were to be produced years ago. when the Clintons left the WH they were ordered to turn over many records. They made this last for a few years and then the entire records production disappeared. Nothing ever turned over. This was the same as Obama. Both subjects involved fake email accounts by which they all do business.
If we had someone worthwhile as FBI Director instead of Wray, this type of foot-dragging would not be tolerated. I like Trump but he has made some terrible, self-defeating personnel moves, none worse than this bozo.
They’ve already been wiped with a cloth.
Any of these documents or files which may have existed are long since gone. The day Trump took office, he should have done the equivalent of having a fire drill at the Hoover building, got them all out and sealed it shut and cut all the power and utility lines into the building.
There should be no need for a judge to do this. It should be the AG and Chief Executive who give the orders.
Unless it’s an activist judge imposing a liberal position.
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