BREAKING: MEMO RELEASED!

drudge via washington examiner ^ | Groundhog Day, 2018 | byron york

[DCBryan1]

* 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

[txrefugee]

The next new FBI office should be named for Devin Nunes, truly a profile in courage. Perhaps you have to have a dairy farmer and true American to stand up to the force of the forces of darkness in our government and our other elites.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

The next thing that has to be released is the actual FISA application, with corresponding affidavits.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Gonna tune in to Rush to see what he has to say.

[tuffydoodle]

Watching it on Fox News, I don’t think it’s clickbait.

[sphinx]

Amazingly, the Dim plants on a number of discussion groups have suddenly fallen silent. Up until the release time, they were all posting madly.

They'll be back as soon as they get their new talking points. Shouldn't take long.

[littleharbour]

It was declassified, will be released later today according to Fox News

[LouieFisk]

“Where is the memo? How can we Save, Print and Forward? There is no link.”
—
It’s just been declassified, so it will take at least a short while for the house to post it on their gov website.

[Grampa Dave]

Rep. Adam Schiff’s Congressional Career Aided by Soros-Financed Groups

Breitbart ^ | April 10, 2017 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 1/25/2018, 11:55:54 AM by COUNTrecount

Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was previously financially aided by the George Soros-financed MoveOn.org to win his Congressional seat.

Schiff was also awarded the Toll Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Council of State Governments, a nonprofit that monitors federal government activities and is heavily financed by Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

The Open Society and Soros-funded groups have additionally supported a number of Schiff’s legislative efforts.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3626018/posts

[missthethunder]

“Maybe instead of Russian interference in our election we should be concerned with British interference in our election.”

I’ve been wondering that too.

Who knew? May?

[tumblindice]

Where's the memo? Grumpy cat is grumpy.

[txhurl]

And it ain’t Russia banning CINC from visiting, it’s our ex-special-relationship-BAE. FU LIMEYS

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Gonna tune in to Rush to see what he has to say."

Of course he looooooovves the fact that they waited until just before noon to release it....

[Hotlanta Mike]

Fox News Video Katherine Herridge...

https://twitter.com/LauraWells91/status/959472993301823489

[gloryblaze]

Oh, that’s a done deal. It is President Trump abusing power and jeopardizing law enforcement to stop them from pursuing the Russian collusion case.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Obstruction? No...

1. “It’s for the children”

If #1 doesn’t wash, then...

2. “It’s for national security” (kindly forget the Pentagon Papers)

“Endangers rule of law” - reminds me of “we had to destroy the village to save it.”

[DiogenesLamp]

showing Americans just how the agency was weaponized by the Obama officials/DNC/HRC to target political adversaries.

An ignorant, stupid corrupt political snake from Chicago used government agencies to attack his political enemies?

Who would have ever thought such a thing would have happened when you elect a no-accomplishment affirmative action fool?

[Delta 21]

That dude needs his thyroid checked.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"So... what? Mueller failed to turn over his FISA evidence to the Flynn defense team during discovery, thereby invalidating his entire prosecution case?"

This has to be a storyline in all of this. Flynn has to be let go. Any neutral judge is going to look at this (lying about something that was never a crime and caught in a lie from an illegal wire tap) and vacate the whole thing...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Thank you Mr. Nunes and Mr. Gowdy.

And....(gulp....swallow....) thank you Paul Ryan, who could have quashed this thing, but did not.

[Flick Lives]

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

A fabricated oppo research document from the Hillary campaign was used by the FBI to get an authorization from the FISA court to have the government spy on the Trump campaign. It's like Watergate, except FBI agents are now the Watergate burglars.