What's up with the stupid headline: "we just got a huge sign..."?
More highlights: "So, if the CNN report is accurate, then I have to believe that the FBI and Department of Justice concluded (and the Court agreed) that the info in the dossier about Page was reliable," Rizzo said, "and in all liklihood was backed up by other available intelligence."
The FBI has been using the dossier as a "roadmap" for its investigation
While the evidence put forward in declarations is "usually obtained from an intercept, it need not be," according to the former intelligence officer. "The evidence need not be of the quality that would be admitted into a trial."
The bar for obtaining a FISA order is fairly low. But evidence cited in declarations must still be corroborated through an agency's investigations before it is submitted to the court, officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
A former senior intelligence officer, who requested anonymity to discuss the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process candidly, told Business Insider on Wednesday that using this kind of raw intelligence to build a case for a FISA order was "not uncommon."
So anonymous sources are assuring us that the bar is very low, evidence can be low quality and manufactured, its ok to use unsubstantiated (FAKE) dossiers etc etc to get your warrant and spy on people.
It’s such an obvious fake that you couldn’t believe it unless you wanted to.
Fake news. Nothing more.
BWAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
My questions: who is “we” and who is the “Intel Community” and what is the definition of “legit”?
Oh, and why is this being posted here?
Desperation
The FISA court should be shut down over this as it is entirely the sort of thing that it was supposed to prevent, not legitimize
4chan claimed that they sent the pee in bed story to rick wilson...and had docs to prove it. Guy said he hired a lawyer.
confidence? more like pretense.
Even Stevie Wonder could see the dossier was BS.
Heads need to roll in the FBI/CIA/NSA.
This is silly.
It means they relied on nonsense to get a FISA warrant for political purposes.
What total b.s. Using the “dossier” means nothing more than that libtards in the intel world found it a useful tool in their shocking efforts to derail the Trump campaign and support Hillary.
All this means is that they testified it was real to legitimize more monitoring, but most involved could have known it was fake, but told the Court it wasn’t.
It’s a key signal that the FBI had enough confidence in the validity of the document to work to corroborate it and present it in court.
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That’s Theory A.
Theory B: Obama wants you to use this document. So use it or pack your bags.
Or the FBI has become the enforcement division of the DNC and they needed the slightest excuse to bring their warrant request to the 99.9% compliant FISA court.
Oh good grief, would you Leftists just give it up already!
Liberalism is truly a mental illness!
Natasha (the writer) is lost without moose and squirrel. No, Natasha, what this means is that the people involved would do whatever it took to surveil Trump. Since they had nothing real that would work, they had to use that silliness referred to as a “dossier” to make it sound big and bad.
Oh they’ve been celebrating this on DUmp for weeks now. Did you know that Carter Page took a tape showing Trump “committing treason” to Russia in order to persuade them to hack Hillary’s email? Oh yes, the President and everyone he knows, has hired, is related to, or has ever even thought of knowing is likely to be arrested any time now...
All 100% Bull Schiff! ...
Sounds like Obama had Trump’s wires “tapped”...
It’s like genuine plastic gold