Posted on 12/12/2019 12:23:44 PM PST by Red Badger
One section of the Justice Departments Inspector General (IG) report that hasnt gotten as much attention highlights how the FBI not only altered evidence against one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page, but also ignored exculpatory evidence to continue obtaining FISA warrants against him.
The FBI had believed Page was a foreign agent working with the Russians to help Donald Trump steal the 2016 election. In reality, Page had previously worked with an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency dealing with Russians for years at the beginning of the Obama administration. After the FBI started surveilling Page, he made several public statements about his past role as an asset for the intelligence community.
It wasnt until the third FISA application, however, that the FBI apparently learned this was the case. Instead of realizing that the basis for their application was always bogus, they doubled down and simply omitted that information from the third FISA renewal application.
Near the middle of the IG report, a text message exchange between a person identified only as SSA2, who would be the affiant on the third renewal application, and someone identified only as OGC Attorney, who is believed to be FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith. The two went back and forth about whether Page was, indeed, working for another U.S. agency. At one point Clinesmith claimed this agency confirmed explicitly [Page] was never a source. He then told SSA2: I mean, at least we dont have to have a terrible footnote.
SSA2 pushes back saying it was interesting this agency claimed Page was not a source, considering what the agency had written.
IG Michael Horowitzs team spoke to Clinesmith about this exchange. He claimed his statement about being explicitly told Page was not a previous asset was meant as shorthand and that he had no reason to use the word explicitly, as he had been told no such thing. He claimed the message about a terrible footnote was in reference to the laborious process it would take to add such a footnote to the FISA application and claimed it had nothing to do with whether that footnote would completely undermine the application.
SSA2 felt differently. This person told Horowitzs team that he took Clinesmiths use of the word explicitly to be the confirmation that I need[ed] to report that Page had never been a source. Further, SSA2 told the IG that he believed the terrible footnote comment to mean they would be able to avoid having to explain in the renewal application that the FBI had just now come to determine that [Page] was an asset of the [other agency] and probably being tasked to engage [with] Russians which is why we opened a case on him.
SSA2 went on to tell the IG that the optic of such a footnote would be terrible.
Clinesmith, readers may recall, is the one who altered an email from the other U.S. intelligence agency that said Page did have a previous working relationship with them. Clinesmith inserted the words not a source into the email to make it appear as though a liaison from the other agency had said Page was not a source. Clinesmith sent this email to SSA2 and the FISA application was granted.
When Horowitz testified before the Senate on Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered his own explanation for why this information about Page was omitted.
What does that matter? Graham said. Because if the court had known, then there is a lawful reason for Mr. Page to be talking to the Russian guy. He wasnt working against his country. He was working with his country, which undercuts the idea he is a foreign agent. Thats why Clinesmith lied: because he didnt want to stop this investigation.
Isikoff also triggered deadly Islamic riots in Pak / Afgh. with his phony Gitmo-guards-flushing-Korans-in-toilet story during Ws presidency.
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Isikoff was also involved in the Joe Wilson Niger flap/PlameNameGame and...
he was also the main go-to reporter who was being fed info that claimed the Czechs denied Atta the 9/11 hijacker was in Prague meeting with al Ani the Iraqi diplomat when in fact the Czechs said he was and Vaclav Havel made a point of correcting him- the FBI was claiming Atta couldnt be in Czech Republic at the time because his credit card was used to rent a taxi that day in the US/Florida or some such thing, as if no ones ever used someone elses credit card before.
Al Ani was involved in a plot to bomb Radio Free Europe or whatever it was called that was broadcasting into Iraq.
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Isikoff’s involvement as part of the plot is indicative there’s more to it than mere bias by Clinesmith. Clinesmith’s probably not even old enough to know who Isikoff is.
“A lawyer does not do that unless he believes there is practically no chance he will get caught.”
They were all convinced that Hillary would be the next President. Right up to midnight Nov 8, 2016.
So they broke whatever laws they wanted.
Ignored? They lied and fibbed.
Many of these seditious conspirators will have to be fitted for those orange onesies.
And at least one or several attorneys will be disbarred to boot.
Well, he lied about not knowing even the name ‘Fusion GPS’, so there is no basis for believing anything out of his fraudulent mouth.
The more we learn about Carter Page, the more curious it gets. Being an FBI plant in the Trump campaign is starting to make more sense, and nothing revealed so far rules it out.
As the corruption certain Americans are tied to in the Ukraine (biden and the obamaroid) unfolds, watch the backpage news of banker suicides. Money laundering is a big business with the dnc crime family.
Yes, it is BS bigglee. That the fbi was spying on Page and Popandoplos BEFORE the cross fire crap started, and without FISA approval, is damning beyond casual. The obamaroid regime was using tactics festered from Chicago politics and used to get Barry Soetoro elected to the Senate! There is a pattern, an illicit, criminal pattern!
Can you provide a link to any information about lawsuits filed by Carter Page? Ive seen several references to them but have yet to see any specific information about them. Thanks.
Mueller couldnt frame him because.......he had helped the FBI wrap up a case against Russian mobsters. They knew he was no Kremlin agent.
He did incur Deep State suspicion because he seemed to advocate realpolitik in dealing with Russia. Find and recognize their interests and try to work together on issues where it is also in US interests. Of course to the Establishment, anything short of posing Russia as an eternal enemy of the US is simply incompatible with traditional US policy.
Page was not inserted by anybody to take down Donald Trump.
Hes a nerdy geek, no Jack Ryan, but another victim of the coup plotters, since his former livelihood and his reputation are gone from all of this.
That was the point I was attempting to put forward.
Was that so called dossier presented to the courts which allowed spying on Trump really this ?
When that alleged dossier was brought out I viewed it as someones idea of a satirical piece to be submitted to UKs Daily Mail or some other lefty publication. Which was rejected probably because of this.
Frankly Trump strikes me as a guy who knows the value of a buck and wouldnt waste it on a bunch of hookers urinating on a bed just to get even .
I don’t think Mueller knew enough about the investigation to have been able to lie. I’d bet that the average freeper was more informed about what was going on than he was, all he was doing was managing personnel. Andrew Weissmann was running that investigation and he has a history as a dirty prosecutor.
>> There is a pattern, an illicit, criminal pattern!
Indeed there is. And they know we know. It’s a tenuous situation...
Will be interesting to hear Clinesmith’s lies before the Sen. Judiciary Com.
As I have written/posted here before, I believe a WOMAN wrote the stupid dossier.
The first choice is NELLIE OHR, WIFE of FBI Associate Deputy Attorney General BRUCE OHR.
NELLIE OHR works(ed?) at FUSION GPS, a Political Campaign OPPOSITION RESEARCH company.
FUSION GPS was HIRED, via Marc E. Elias (a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC), by the HILLARY! CLINTON CAMPAIGN to DIG UP DIRT on then candidate DONALD TRUMP.
From what I have read, here and other places, CHRISTOPHER STEELE met NELLIE OHR just once and not for very long.
It is my belief, until further knowledge is obtained, that NELLIE OHR WROTE OR AT LEAST CO-AUTHORED THE DOSSIER.
That would explain why Steele, under oath, could not say the contents of teh dossier were verified or even verifiable. He probably didn’t even read it, and had no idea what was in it.
He just wanted the check to clear.
Steele was used by FUSION GPS to give the dossier a patina of seriousness and respectability, seeing that he was a ‘former’ UK Intel Agent, who had ALSO WORKED AS AN FBI PAID INFORMANT.
The other person who may have co-authored the dossier with NELLIE OHR, is none other than our old CLINTON POLITICAL HIT MAN, SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL. This operation has his and CODY SHEARER’s fingerprints ALL OVER IT. They have done this type of stuff before against other Hilliary! foes.
https://spectator.org/did-hillary-clintons-go-to-guys-on-dirty-tricks-produce-dossier/
The dossier was talked about in whispers around DC bars for weeks before it became public. This is another Shearer Blumenthal method. Build suspense, spread rumors and make contacts that have big mouths and bigger contacts with bigger mouths way in advance of producing the ‘evidence’. that way the MSM and certain politicos are primed and ready to go when it finally hits.
The circular reporting and circular dispensing of information about the dossier was artful, and exact. The made sure SENATOR JOHN McCAIN got a copy, and as soon as it was in his hot little hands, he traipsed off to the office of FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY to foil Trump.
Comey already had a copy, via his OWN ASSOCIATES, McCABE, OHR, ROSENSTEIN and BAKER, et al.
As I have written/posted here before, I believe a WOMAN wrote the stupid dossier.The first choice is NELLIE OHR, WIFE of FBI Associate Deputy Attorney General BRUCE OHR.
You’re probably right. Be interesting if it was found to be submitted somewhere and rejected.
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