Posted on 07/29/2020 6:21:25 PM PDT by RandFan
Former senior adviser to President Barack Obama Valerie Jarrett talks to FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo about the Trump/Russia investigation.
"I have a high degree of confidence in our intelligence community, investigators comported themselves responsibly," Jarrett said. "Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Sen. McCain to turn over the dossier in the first place to the FBI."
"I do know that it’s nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now and today. That’s the investigation I’d like to see," she said.
Bartiromo asked about the origins of the Steele dossier: "What’s happening right now is we are learning the details of what took place and we are getting official confirmation that the FBI knew that the dossier was garbage and made up in a bar because the sub-source of the dossier told FBI officials in early January."
"I was not involved in any of those conversations," Jarrett replied. "But the question I really want to put to you is, what are we doing today?"
"If people want to have an investigation about what happened four years ago, they should do that. But aren’t you concerned about what’s going on right now? Aren’t you worried about the integrity of our upcoming elections? Aren’t you worried about how we’re going to have a safe and fair election?"
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Thank you for that research!
2? Shit, try 5. I could easily RBG, Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor, Thomas expiring/retiring.
As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m sure Linda will be subpoenaing lizard lady, to get her confirming this, under oath, ASAP.
Well, we’re waiting, Linda.
Lindsey Graham is good...a damn good politician. Knows just how to subtly divert and deceive. We all knew years ago that he was McCain’s butt buddy.
Graham wasn’t subtle at all in 2016. He openly bragged about not supporting POTUS to the benefit of Hillary Criminal and her progressive SCOTUS.
Well........McCain isn’t around to confirm or deny. How very convenient.
I’m willing to bet she has another dozen names of GOP traitors in the House and Senate.
She only outted Linseed as a warning to the others.
Oof. Scratch that, 4. Kennedy already gone.
If Lindsey loses SC I will eat my hat...
Graham remains something of an enigma to me. On the one hand, as you say, there was his association with the egregious McCain. On the other, his strong showing during the Kavanaugh hearings.
Just words, one might object. But they were exactly the words needed at the time.
As for Madame Jarrett, she was the eminence grise of Obama’s presidency and is no doubt deeply involved in the attempted coup d’etat. I wouldn’t trust her word on anything.
Graham and ValJar supported the same candidate in 2016: Hillary Clinton. Nothing enigmatic there. He’s a corportist loyal to K Street lobbyists and not Main Street USA.
New details about the late Sen. John McCain’s role in distributing a salacious 2016 dossier involving President Donald Trump were revealed in recently unsealed court filings and have unleashed a new round of Trump fury against McCain seven months after the senator’s death.
McCain, R-Ariz., previously had acknowledged getting a copy of the dossier, which was a compilation of memos written by former British spy Christopher Steele, and delivering it to then-FBI Director James Comey. The explosive dossier contained unverified information and, among other things, claimed the Russians had compromising information on Trump.
David Kramer, who had known McCain since his days at the State Department, is an expert on Russia and is involved with the McCain Institute for International Leadership. He was deposed in December 2017 as part of a legal battle waged by a Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev over BuzzFeed’s publication of the dossier.
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Kramer’s testimony also provides more complete details of key events from the time McCain learned of the dossier during the November 2016 Halifax International Security Forum. McCain had said he learned of the dossier after Kramer introduced him to a retired British diplomat who knew of the dossier. Kramer said that diplomat approached him presumably as a way to connect with McCain, who was deemed an influential conduit.
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McCain addressed his role in the dossier drama in his 2018 memoir, “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations.”
“I had an obligation to bring to the attention of appropriate officials unproven accusations I could not assess myself, and which, were any of them true, would create a vulnerability to the designs of a hostile foreign power,” McCain and co-author Mark Salter wrote in the book. “I discharged that obligation, and I would do it again. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell.”
not sure we should believe her, but I also would not be surprised at all - do you think it is not possible?
90+ days until the election, it’s best to concentrate on keeping Trump in office. All this Russia-gate stuff is very low on the the importance scale at this point in time. If Biden wins, it’s all down the memory hole.
Exactly. Why do you think Graham and the rest want to “fight” the last war (Russiagate) now? Obviously, because they want to take attention away from the ongoing bipartisan coup against POTUS.
She still pretends that the FBI didn’t ignore the findings that it was bunk and Comeystain used it to attempt to blackmail President Trump by threatening him with release of rumors about a Russian pee pee video, which Comey promptly leaked anyway.
Val J after 2am I’d hit... Oh wait, never mind.
Carry on....
oR A VERY CLEVER WAY FOR jARETT TO CAUSE DIVISION AMONG THE gOP..we already aren’t so hot on Gramnesty.
Linda’s been playing us all along
Yeah, I think Dirty Harry Reid from Stoplight, Nevada, gave the dirty dossier to McLame. Probably as payback for some crime they committed together.
“ lizard lady”
Now that’s funny Jane.
interesting to note. video is not available:
30 December 2017: Conservative Treehouse: BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham Just Confirmed The Steele Dossier Was Used For 2016 FISA Warrant…
by sundance
Senator Lindsey Graham just confirmed the sketchy Steele Dossier was used to get the wiretap and surveillance warrant from the FISA court. Brian Kilmead understood what he was hearing was serious, but didn’t quite catch the specific gravity of it. Watch at 04:10:
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…The back-story to the FISA warrant is the cornerstone. The back-story contains both the FBI and the DOJ scheme. Expose it, remove it, and the entire ‘muh Russia conspiracy’ collapses under the weight of sunlight…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/30/breaking-senator-lindsey-graham-just-confirmed-the-steele-dossier-was-used-for-2016-fisa-warrant/
can’t find the video, but this has the complete transcript:
30 Dec 2017: ThroughTheLookingGlass: Senator Lindsey Graham Reveals His Recent Discovery Steele Dossier WAS Used For 2016 FISA Warrant; Calls for Special Investigation into DoJ (Video with Transcripts)
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SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: I’ve spent some time in the last couple of days after a lot of fighting with the Department of Justice to get the background on the dossier and here’s what I can tell your viewers I’m very disturbed about what the Department of Justice did with this dossier and we need a special counsel to look into that because that’s not in Muller’s Charter and what I saw and what what I’ve gathered in the last couple of days bothers me a lot and I’d like somebody outside DOJ to look into how this dossier was handled and what they did with it.
FOX NEWS BRIAN KILMEAD: Wait a second, so you found out something you did not know and you already disturbed by it and is about the what’s in the contents of it or how it was used for this investigation and unmasking possible Trump officials?
GRAHAM: I’ve been a lawyer most of my life a prosecutor and a defense attorney and the one thing I can say every prosecutor has a duty to the court to disclose things that are irrelevant to the request so anytime a document is used to go to court for legal reasons. I think the Department of Justice owes it to to the court to be up and up about exactly what this document is about who paid for it who’s involved what their motives might be and I can just say this after having looked at the history of the dossier and how it was used by the Department of Justice.
KILMEAD: Wow and senator I’m over over time but name the company in South Carolina that’s responding to the tax reform…
https://throughthelookingglassnews.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/senator-lindsey-graham-reveals-dossier-used-for-fisa/
I do know that it’s nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now and today
Because the republicans are so slow to ever do anything. If the shoe was on the other foot, the democrats would have had this done already years ago and time would have been being served.
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