Posted on 01/28/2018 10:59:14 AM PST by Kaslin
Lawmakers have been reluctant to discuss a classified four-page memo alleging that the FBI and Justice Department abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in order to spy on Trump campaign associates, but South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy provided several clues on Sunday to what’s in the controversial document.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Gowdy posed several questions to host Chris Wallace and his viewers that hinted at the allegations in the memo, which could be released by the House Intelligence Committee as early as this week.
“If you think your viewers want to know whether or not the dossier was used in court proceedings, whether or not it was vetted before it was used, whether or not it’s ever been vetted — if you are interested in who paid for the dossier, if you are interested in Christopher Steele’s relationship with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, then, yes, you will want the memo to come out,” Gowdy told Wallace.
“Do you want to know that the Democratic National Committee paid for material that was never vetted, that was included in a court proceeding?” he asked rhetorically.
“Do you want to know whether or not the primary source in these court proceedings had a bias against one candidate? Do you want to know whether or not he said he’d do anything to keep that candidate from becoming president?”
Gowdy’s reference to a source who said they opposed Donald Trump is unclear, though he would seem to be talking about Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier.
Steele had been hired by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was paid $1 million by the Clinton campaign and DNC to investigate Trump.
Steele met with FBI agents in July 2016 and several months later to discuss his investigation of Trump. The bureau and DOJ reportedly used Steele’s work in an application for a surveillance warrant taken out against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Republican lawmakers have pressed the FBI and DOJ over how heavily they relied on the dossier for the warrant and for the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Republicans also want to know whether the agencies vetted the dossier prior to using it in any FISA application.
In a Senate hearing last June, former FBI Director James Comey called the dossier “salacious and unverified.”
Gowdy declined to confirm reports that the dossier was used to obtain the FISA warrant. He said that that information is classified at this point and he’s not allowed to discuss it. But Republicans will be able to get around that restriction if the Intelligence Committee votes to release the memo, which Gowdy helped write.
Democratic lawmakers have called the memo a set of talking points aimed at helping Trump, and the Justice Department sent a letter to committee chairman Devin Nunes calling the release “extremely reckless.”
In his interview, Gowdy said that he has suggested that Nunes allow the FBI and Justice Department to view the memo prior to its release. But he says that the information contained in the document is based on information already provided by those agencies.
“There’s nothing in this memo the Department is not already aware of,” Gowdy said on Sunday.
Watch Trey Gowdy discusses FISA memo
Maybe the Natl. Enquirer will get a copy and publish it. Ok, I am being sarcastic.
Trey has been a big Mueller supporter from day one. Why Gowdy fans don't see that as a problem fascinates me.
“Prejudicing” is a pretty subjective word. More likely, he was fired because he knowingly went out and obtained tainted evidence in the case.
Note that this was posted on March 4th of 2017, when it's almost certain that Trump learned of this surveillance when Admiral Mike Rogers paid that remarkable visit to Trump Tower on November 18th of 2016.
Take everything Donald Trump says with a huge grain of salt, dude ... especially when he says it in an interview with a media outlet that he has always referred to as "the failing New York Times!" LOL.
In other words ... the DOJ can’t operate in a way that undermines their own cases.
Trump gave 6 months for Mattis to remove the trannies. How did that work out?
Trump gave them 6 months to fix DACA before he negated Obama's EO. How did that work out?
The fact that we have given Mueller a year to destroy any evidence of the past administration by investigating a non crime should tell you how deep the swamp is.
I’ll believe this “memo” exists when it’s released. Until then, it’s nothing more than conjecture.
Did Justice Department FISA Fraud Create U.S. District Court Judge Recusal?…
In my view the claim of “currently unaware of any wrongdoing related to the FISA process” is not sustainable given this FISC court case which was declassified and published in May 2017 by DNI.
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf
Start at the bottom of pg 83 and read what the FBI did.
Short summary: the FBI had access to parts of FISA info they should not have had, and they gave it to “contractors” for analysis. Then they lied about the fact that they were contractors.
Frankly the whole document is one long list of “wrongdoing related to FISA” !
And Boyd is ridiculous to claim otherwise.
You are absolutely correct! At first I wondered what was delaying the release of the memo, but then I concluded that it was being withheld for maximum effect. Perhaps tomorrow, or just before The State of The Union, might be when it is released.
Yup.
DACA expires in March, so Trump doesn't have to do anything.
When are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama going to be questioned about their anti-@realDonaldTrump Dossier?
1:27 PM · Jan 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/957681446730256384?s=17
If the President agrees with the release by the House, the DOJ has no standing.
DACA does not expire in March because a Federal Judge issued a stay on his EO. DACA will stay in effect until new legislation or a Supreme Court decision upholds The President's right to end it. That decision will come down in April.
No doubt the Court will uphold Trump, but not until April.
I said.....there will be much sound and fury, hand wringing, etc. from everyone....for awhile.....and then it would all just fade away like everything else. And nothing real will come from any of it.
I said.....there will be much sound and fury, hand wringing, etc. from everyone....for awhile.....and then it would all just fade away like everything else. And nothing real will come from any of it.
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