Posted on 02/02/2018 8:52:17 AM PST by markomalley
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.
They lied. A complete description of the origins of evidence is always required in court.
That's what I'm not getting. Why was it not sourced in the request? And, if so, then, how was the application approved?
No one.
This was a contrived nothing burger paid for by the Democrat campaign to wrongfully get a weak minded or totally corrupt fisa judge to grant a surveillance warrant on the entire opposition campaign for the presidency by the Republican Nominee and his entire staff— not just the low level Carter Page. This was the utilization of government assets to simply spy and wire tap the campaign exactly as correctly stated by Trump after his election and Rogers told him the Trump tower was bugged so trump moved transition the the New Jersey golf club. The misuse government ie the FBI and the FISA court is felony city. After the election it was treason and sedition. Criminal indictments must follow. GO TRUMP!!
well, yeah, site crashing from all the download requests....
I succeeded via this one:
GP has it now:
Right now it looks like McCabe is going to be the fall guy. Now the question is who he takes with him for a lighter sentence.
Kill shot!
“Never have we had the FBI directly working with a Presidential campaign to rig the election.”
Well, to be accurate, this is the first time they’ve been caught at it.
Hahaha. Look at it this way, this weekend is going to be fun, fun, fun. Splody heads ALL OVER THE PLACE.
seems this is standard operation at FBI... reference Bundy trial.
“Where’s the part that shocks the conscience?”
There is now evidence rather than Sean’s panties being wadded up.
Thanks for the summary notes.
Wasn’t the dossier the basis to start Muellers show?
A total scam .
LOL
Thank you, that’s awesome.
“NOTHING BURGER ”
Nope. Media said this is constitutional crisis. They can’t back off that.
Another link:
Comey leaked classified documents based on his illegal investigation started from intentionally misleading officers of the court.
Are you playing stupid to entertain us, or do you really not know that the text of the memo is not contained in this report?
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