Posted on 02/02/2018 8:53:34 AM PST by 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
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
So everything we suspected is true. This just makes it official. The part I’m waiting for are the perp-walks but I’m not holding my breath.
No doubt that is why Mueller filed to delay Flynn’s sentencing yesterday. He knew what was coming.
Who is that guy? He looks like a black Michael Jackson.
And Obama, Comey and his Attorney General should be investigated and charged for planting evidence.
Pretty sure Flynn isn’t in jail.
Maybe instead of Russian interference in our election we should be concerned with British interference in our election.
Just Who Was the Russian Agent After All?
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British Role Confirmed in Trump Spying Scandal
by Accuracy In Media on April 17, 2017
A Special Report from the Accuracy in Media Center for Investigative Journalism; Cliff Kincaid, Director.
The British Guardian posted a report on April 13 claiming that its sources now admit that the British spy agency GCHQ was digitally wiretapping Trump associates, going back to late 2015. This was presumably when the December 2015 Moscow meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lt. General Michael Flynn took place.
This runs contrary to the blanket nature of the denial insinuated in GCHQ’s carefully-crafted statement of March 17 claiming it was all “nonsense” and “utterly ridiculous” that they conducted surveillance of “then president-elect” Donald Trump (emphasis added). The surveillance went back a year before he became “president-elect.”
President Trump’s claim of being “wire tapped” has been vindicated. Indeed, the surveillance is far more extensive than even he suspected at the time.
Based on the new disclosures, we can safely conclude that the world’s most advanced and extensive system of computerized espionage was indeed used against him and people he worked with, for political purposes, with the knowledge and approval of top Obama officials such as CIA Director John Brennan (one major name implicated by the Guardian).
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, who said GCHQ was involved in wiretapping Trump, has also vindicated. Fox News owes Napolitano an apology for yanking him off the air for a week for making that “controversial” and now-verified assertion.
Trump Was Right!!!!
President Trump stressed the pervasive “extent” of this Obama political “wiretapping” to Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business in an Oval Office interview on April 11 (aired April 12). “Me and so many other people” surveilled, Trump said. He explained again that he had picked up the “wire tapped” terminology straight from the headline of The New York Times (of January 20) as he has explained before (on March 15; see AIM report).
Now we’re learning that GCHQ did wiretap Trump for a year before the election. “Trump” is, of course, shorthand for Trump associates and possibly Trump himself directly, depending on context. But GCHQ is trying to put a positive spin on what it admits would be illegal spying on U.S. citizens if done by U.S. agencies.
The Guardian’s sources claim a heroic role for the British GCHQ as a courageous “whistleblower” in warning U.S. agencies to “Watch out” about Trump and Russia—but carefully avoiding mention of the U.S.’s NSA, which must be protected at all costs as part of the NSA-GCHQ spy-on-each-other’s-citizens “wiretap shell game.” (See AIM Special Report of March 18).
These sources virtually admit the mutual “wiretap shell game” by inadvertently mentioning the Trump-Russia data was originally passed on to the U.S. by GCHQ as part of a “routine exchange” of intelligence. The use of this term, “exchange,” suggests what we had previously reported—the shell-game “exchange” between the NSA and GCHQ where they can spy on each other’s citizens and deny it all.
http://www.aim.org/special-report/british-role-confirmed-in-trump-spying-scandal/
Basically the FBI is the KGB. Nice.
So Obama used a fake document as an excuse to use the government to spy on political opponents. This is about 100 times as bad as Watergate which brought down a presidency.
Manafort’s situation is a little different and will be interesting to see how he is impacted. He seems to have committed real fraud about things having nothing to do with Trump’s election campaign but the whole investigation was only started because of this Steele Dossier.
“Groundhog Day Massacre?”
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LOL, good name
Sounds like a Friday document dump so the LSM can find something else to cover over the weekend. Monday morning: “FISA memo? Meh, it’s old news.”
That was postponed.
Who would have ever thought such a thing would have happened when you elect a no-accomplishment affirmative action fool?
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He was not born “of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.”, he was ineligible.
BOTH parties KNEW it.
This goes so much deeper.
Why did they tell the court they needed the warrant? As I understand it the dossier was a bunch of gossip about golden showers. I believe the judge who issued the warrant KNEW it was BS so he’s guilty, too. I want to know who the judge voted for.
Hard to believe but this memo was NOT overhyped....it’s pretty much as advertised!
Sanctimonious Comey signed THREE FISA applications according to the Memo.
Yes, and one thing I’ve been wondering about and really hasn’t been discussed that I can see, if officials at the FBI knowingly perpetrated a fraud on the court, is that not illegal and it seems to me that the FISA judges have to be pissed and want some answers.
Rush just said the same thing. I gotta say all this info has been out for quite some time.
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