Posted on 02/02/2018 5:44:10 PM PST by generally
Questions the memo raises or leaves unanswered.
We need answers now.
1. Why did the DOJ and FBI want to wiretap Carter Page?
2. The Memo says it obtained one initial warrant targeting Page and three renewals. Presumably those were each for 90 days (but I could be wrong and they could have been shorter). That's a full year of snooping. What was the probable cause for the initial warrant and for each subsequent warrant.
3. For the FBI, Comey signed 3 applications, McCabe signed one. For the DOJ Yates, Boente, and Rosenstein each signed one or more. Why were different people the signers? Is that typical?
4. The dossier was compiled on behalf of the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Those are organizations, not individuals. Exactly which person or persons in each organization were involved? Just Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, or others?
5. The dossier was paid for by Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS. Exactly which person or persons in each organization were involved?
6. Is Yahoo News considered to be a credible source by the FISA court? If so, why? What makes it credible in the eyes of the court? What other online sources are considered credible?
7. Steele was an FBI source. Who in the FBI hired him? On what basis did the FBI regard him as credible?
8. There was a lot of evidence concealed from the FISC. Whose decision was that?
9. What was Comey's game in briefing President-elect Trump about the dossier in January 2017? I assume there was some sort of motivation. Was he trying to plant false information? Implicate someone else? Give himself an alibi? Make Trump uncomfortable?
10. Why were US taxpayers paying Page and Strzok, who seemed to be spending all day every day texting each other and, aside from plotting against Trump, doing no actual work?
11. How many text messages per day does the average FBI employee send? If it's as many as Page and Strzok, how do they get any actual work done?
12. What, specifically was meant by the "insurance policy" against President Trump discussed among Page, Strzok, and McCabe? Did this involve more than the dossier? Did it involve some other type of subversion or perhaps even an assassination attempt?
13. How many legitimate investigations that protect national security (terrorists, major crime) were neglected because of the huge amount of time spent trying to subvert the election, and subsequently the President.
14. The memo only tells us about the one specific issue of the dossier/FISA warrants. What other subversive actions were going on at the FBI/DOJ? It is impossible to believe that the FISA warrants were the beginning and the end of it?
15. How was John McCain involved? Specifically. He is not mentioned at all in the memo, yet we all know that he was instrumental in pushing the dossier forward. It is laughable to think that those who were shopping around the dossier just randomly picked McCain. It is also laughable to think that anyone can get a meeting with a Senator. It is also laughable to suggest that a Senator would act as McCain did with just any random dossier that is handed to him.
16. When are we going to see arrests?
17. Who is going to be charged?
18. What are they each going to be charged with?
19. Are we going to have one justice system for the little people and one for the "elites"? Or are these people going to face actual prison time, just like you and I would?
20. What is going to be done to clean house?
21. Is someone working to identify everyone involved in these crimes? Not just those named in the memo, but all those who participated? And secondarily, all those who knew what was going on, but said nothing?
22. Is the FISA court compromised? Who were the judges who signed off on these warrants? Did they actually find probable cause or are they participants in these crimes?
p.s. Stefanik is another unsung hero in all of this, that many of us have forgotten about. Her pointed questions pinned down these criminals and forced them to help build the case against themselves.
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Not sure if it's typical, but maybe they did it for the same reason Joseph Stalin used to force other people to co-sign execution orders? Get the blood on as many hands as possible.
If I was running a criminal enterprise, I would make it a point to get my co-conspirators so dirty they wouldn't even THINK about ratting me out.
“1. Why did the DOJ and FBI want to wiretap Carter Page? “
Because they’re hardcore partisan dems who want to destroy Trump and all republicans..
Page was a target because he went to Russia. Period. He was targeted AS A SPY under Title I. That allowed them to target EVERYBODY ELSE who had any contact with him. That included Trump, Manafort, Conway, and anyone who had any contact with any of them. By essentially accusing Page of being a spy, they could wiretap the whole lot of them.
“17. Who is going to be charged? “
Trump, Trump Jr, Ivanka, Barron Trump...
...George W Bush...
Is the Deep State FBI afraid they'll have to stop LYING TO FISA COURTS?
This is a very informative thread.
‘Whoa, the 2nd shoe just dropped & it’s thermonuclear! DOJ/FBI maintained to secret FISA Court, Carter Page was a Spy for a Foreign Power! This allowed 360 degree survaillance of President Trump’s campaign. These folks have no shame, they belong in prison for knowingly breaking the law!’
www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7uv63o/whoa_the_2nd_shoe_just_dropped_its_thermonuclea
But the FBI used the Clinton Dossier as their primary justification for spying on Team Trump!
And McCabe told Congress that as well.
One thing I’m sure of, is nothing will happen to the conspirators.
The law is only for the little people.
Here’s the link for post 8:
remember back when Hillary was bragging/lamenting that the DNC was 'broke' and she had to loan them money - and that loan came with strings? i.e., complete control? Complete control means what it means. It will be hard for Hill to backtrack on that brag and now claim plausible deniability.
3. For the FBI, Comey signed 3 applications, McCabe signed one. For the DOJ Yates, Boente, and Rosenstein each signed one or more. Why were different people the signers? Is that typical?
Just turnover. Comey was fired, so McCabe signed.
Yates was fired, so Boente, who was acting, signed. Then Rosenstein was appointed, so he signed.
There were 4 applications, spaced 90 days apart.
For #3, all were ‘Acting’ (FBI Director or Deputy Attorney General) as the officials doing the sign-offs when the warrants came up.
Excellent questions - thanks!
Adding a question:
Is the legal standard for a renewal the same as for the initial FISA warrant?
Good answer on the real reason. I am curious about what the stated reason was in the memo. Obviously your reason is correct, but they couldn’t get a warrant with that on it.
On #15, it may be that McCain had no real impact. He was eager to help, but they didn't really need him because they had other ways of moving the dossier.
This one is easy to answer. Carter Page had his own firm that specialized in the Russian and Central Asian oil and gas business. Russia - Page - Trump campaign = a means for the conspirators to buttress their Russia collusion fabrication.
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