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FBI's wiretap of Trump campaign triggered by anonymous call
The Washington Times ^ | Sunday, December 15, 2019 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 12/15/2019 6:29:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Justice Department’s report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe is the first official account of sources relied on by Christopher Steele to write a dossier that damaged President Trump, energized the FBI and ultimately proved to be untrue.

The Justice Department inspector general’s report shows that an anonymous phone call with a Steele source provided the unverified conspiracy theory to trigger a Trump campaign wiretap.

Mr. Steele talked to the FBI but refused to reveal his murky network. But the FBI was able to locate his “primary sub-source.” After interviewing the Moscow-based person three times in 2017, the results “raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting,” the IG report said.

The primary source told the FBI that what he conveyed to Mr. Steele “was just talk.” He never knew for sure the identity of one call-in source who became instrumental in Mr. Steele’s dossier.

That contact is described by the IG as sub-source Person 1 and by Mr. Steele in his dossier as “Source E.” In a 20-minute phone call with the primary source, Person 1 provided the critical allegations — a Russia-Trump conspiracy — that persuaded the FBI to seek a year’s worth of wiretaps on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page. Mr. Steele later would describe Person 1 as a “boaster.”

The IG described Source E as running a Russia-U.S. organization in the United States at the time. Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, handled Mr. Steele and gave Source E’s identity to a Justice Department official.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2017; aboaster; anonymouscall; backfirehurricane; boaster; braggart; carterpage; chrissteele; christophersteele; crossfirehurricane; deepstate; fbi; fusiongps; glennsimpson; impeachment; montgomery; orbis; person1; russia; sourcee; spygate; steeledossier; trump; ukraine
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To: Rebelbase

Just pay cash.


21 posted on 12/15/2019 7:02:27 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: hercuroc
What did Comey know and when did he know it.

Probably all of it, from the beginning.

22 posted on 12/15/2019 7:02:40 PM PST by Mark17 (Father of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

23 posted on 12/15/2019 7:03:47 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did this call go to McCain?


24 posted on 12/15/2019 7:07:45 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Montgomery.


25 posted on 12/15/2019 7:08:40 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

She’s repugnant.


26 posted on 12/15/2019 7:08:56 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-john-mccain-received-steele-dossier-trump-russia-2018-5


27 posted on 12/15/2019 7:10:45 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

BLACKMAIL’ AND ‘LEVERAGE’: MONTGOMERY ID’S OBAMA, BRENNAN, CLAPPER IN ‘HAMMER’ TRUMP SURVEILLANCE NIGHTMARE – The American Report

https://theamericanreport.org/2019/06/05/blackmail-and-leverage-montgomery-ids-obama-brennan-clapper-in-hammer-trump-surveillance-nightmare/

HAMMERTIME: BAKER BURIED WHISTLEBLOWER MONTGOMERY’S TRUMP SURVEILLANCE EVIDENCE THEN SUDDENLY “REMEMBERED” FBI HAD IT – The American Report

http://theamericanreport.org/2019/05/29/hammertime-baker-buried-whistleblower-montgomerys-trump-surveillance-evidence-then-suddenly-remembered-fbi-had-it/


28 posted on 12/15/2019 7:11:06 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Justice Department inspector general’s report shows that an anonymous phone call with a Steele source provided the unverified conspiracy theory to trigger a Trump campaign wiretap <<—

Perfect!..I just left an anonymous call detailing Seth Rich's downloading files....Uranium One’s Quid pro quo...Barrisma bribes...Benghazi fake kidnapping....Fast and Furious lost guns...IRS targeting scandal and 17 more crimes that deserve 4AM raids in the morning...

However..I may be in trouble as I also alerted all the MSM so the could have film crews in all these places for the 4 am raids... Are there any good lawyers here at FR?..a friend told me it was Ok to Tell the FBI..but by alerting the MSM I may face the death penalty....HELP!!

29 posted on 12/15/2019 7:11:57 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: SunkenCiv

“IOW, there was no call.”

Yes indeed there was a call. They also managed to speak to Mr Schiffty in a conversation that was intercepted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Rut64GDgA


30 posted on 12/15/2019 7:12:26 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Mark17
Comey got the Dossier at a 10 minute meeting with McCain on Dec 6 2016.

I remember reading that he showed it to Graham.

31 posted on 12/15/2019 7:16:20 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Yep! That ain’t no joke, that is 100% accurate. That whole hoax absolutely, unequivocally started with that effin b*tch. From what I heard the same night of the election after she stopped shrieking. I wrote to Trump a few days later on Twitter telling him to make the prosecution and incarceration of Hillary a priority because without question she was going to make his life hell, do anything and everything she can to get revenge, and she’s STILL doing it.


32 posted on 12/15/2019 7:16:32 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing about liberals.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

They spied on the Trump campaign to get information about the planned rallies. That was done to organize the anti-Trump goons to disrupt his rallies and perform violent acts against his supporters. An example I found on Wikipedia:

August 31, 2016: A group of approximately 500 people protested in downtown Phoenix, Arizona chanting and hitting a Trump piñata. There were no arrests, although police had to usher two anti-Trump protesters off the sidewalk where speech-goers for a Trump rally entered the Phoenix Convention Center, saying that the protesters were causing conflict with the Trump supporters.


33 posted on 12/15/2019 7:17:35 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

An anonymous call from FBI headquarters.


34 posted on 12/15/2019 7:23:10 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Rebelbase

They can triangulate the coordinates and voice recognition hardware will make the Orwellian Police a constant threat.


35 posted on 12/15/2019 7:25:52 PM PST by BipolarBob (No border walls. No voter IDs. No Electoral College. You figured it out yet?)
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To: Sacajaweau

it was a NWO caller


36 posted on 12/15/2019 7:29:16 PM PST by magna carta
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

Everything that Fusion GPS touches instantly turns anti-American.

Whomever is their network, they are our enemies.


37 posted on 12/15/2019 7:29:27 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
We didn't know what transpired in this meeting yet, but later we found out Admiral Rogers told Trump about the wiretaps on this date. Obviously the wiretaps started well before this date.

"NSA Head Meets With Trump Team But Doesn't Give Obama A Heads Up"

November 22, 20165:09 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/502980006/reports-suggest-nsa-director-mike-rogers-is-on-his-way-out

38 posted on 12/15/2019 7:31:28 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: LeoTDB69

LOL!


39 posted on 12/15/2019 7:35:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
From what I heard the same night of the election after she stopped shrieking.

You're correct. From Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign - published in April 2017 - this happened the night after the election:

In other calls with advisers and political surrogates in; the days after the election, Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss. "She's not being particularly self-reflective," said one longtime ally who was on calls with her shortly after the election. Instead, Hillary kept pointing her finger at Comey and Russia. "She wants to make sure all these narratives get spun the right way," this person said.

The strategy had been set within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn't entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public.

Paid for, set up, rehearsed, and executed by one of the most malignant influences on American politics since Teddy Kennedy, and her media sycophants who couldn't believe that they'd lost.

40 posted on 12/15/2019 7:40:12 PM PST by Billthedrill
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