[gloryblaze]

* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.

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?

[SamuraiScot]

Why was it not sourced in the request? And, if so, then, how was the application approved?

Good question!

Guess we'll find out. Listening to Rush now. This is so bad, it's childish. They all lied. It's incredible they even tried this. They are so done.

[SamuraiScot]

Why was it not sourced in the request? And, if so, then, how was the application approved?

Good question!

Guess we'll find out. Listening to Rush now. This is so bad, it's childish. They all lied. It's incredible they even tried this. They are so done.

[SamuraiScot]

Why was it not sourced in the request? And, if so, then, how was the application approved?

Only thing I can think of would be if Justice claimed the dossier was the result of documented intelligence-gathering by agents on the ground, and in the interest of maintaining hot pursuit or some such claim, the FISA court may have the latitude to let the DOJ fill in the blanks later after a first, temporary application. Just from what I've read about FISA under GWB.

That adds up to a lot of lies by whoever cooked up the FISA app, and it sure sounds like a lot of jail time!