Posted on 02/02/2018 7:36:26 AM PST by janetjanet998
Live thread for info and reaction to the Memo release
It should be swamp-draining good.
Herridge is referring to Steele as a spy, not an an ex-spy. Hmmmm...
Catherine Herridge—as usual—is giving EXCELLENT info on this!
Read the above carefully. The rule has no provision for the President giving early approval. The only communication the president can give is either objection within the five day window, or silence, with silence being taken as consent at the expiration of the five days.
Saturday Feb 3 is the five day mark. The committee will most likely meet to release the memo on Monday Feb 5. It will dominate next week’s news cycle.
Such certainty.
Really?!
You say this as absolute fact...
Runs contrary to what is being reported.
We will see...
It has been released, will be posted on House Intelligence Website as per Fox News Katherine Herrigan.
The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points:
* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the intial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.
* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.
* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.
* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.
The FBI and Justice Department mounted a months-long effort to keep the information outlined in the memo out of the House Intelligence Committee’s hands. Only the threat of contempt charges and other forms of pressure forced the FBI and Justice to give up the material.
Once Intelligence Committee leaders and staff compiled some of that information into the memo, the FBI and Justice Department, supported by Capitol Hill Democrats, mounted a ferocious campaign of opposition, saying release of the memo would endanger national security and the rule of law.
But Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes never wavered in his determination to make the information available to the public. President Trump agreed, and, as required by House rules, gave his approval for release.
Finally, the memo released today does not represent the sum total of what House investigators have learned in their review of the FBI and Justice Department Trump-Russia investigation. That means the fight over the memo could be replayed in the future when the Intelligence Committee decides to release more information.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3628568/posts
Katherine Herrigan = Catherine Herridge
Wonder if we should read anything into the use of spy instead of ex-spy....
Herridge says memo reveals the DNC Clinton-compiled dossier WAS used to get the FISA court warrant.
I keep checking here, nothing new yet. https://intelligence.house.gov/
FTSE down about a half of a percent for anyone else curious....
Tokyo Rose Media. That’s a pretty good one.
Well the FISA court is toast now because no judge can ever be sure he is being given accurate documentation.
Nope.
The select committee may disclose publicly such information after the expiration of a five-day period
At the expiration of the five day period, the committee may release the information. This "may" means that they would need to meet and make the decision to release. It means that they do not HAVE TO release on any particular day, just that they MAY NOT release the memo BEFORE the five day mark.
That is a felony, IIRC. All of Mueller’s convictions just went up in smoke, I think.
Wow!!
Thanks for that summary. Excellent!!!
so this is the big news....it was used to get the Fisa warrant?..we all knew that
If that’s it why did the Democrats and FBI object so much to this memo?
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