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Federal Judge Catches Robert Mueller Using Preexisting FISA Title-1 Warrant Against Paul Manafort
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/04/federal-judge-catches-robert-mueller-using-preexisting-fisa-title-1-warrant-against-paul-manafort-instead-of-title-3-authority/ ^

Posted on 05/04/2018 9:45:55 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

[Full Title] Federal Judge Catches Robert Mueller Using Preexisting FISA Title-1 Warrant Against Paul Manafort Instead of Title 3 Authority…

Today U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III appears to have caught on to an explosive issue CTH noted yesterday. In building the case against Paul Manafort, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team used the pre-existing FISA Title-1 warrant that was originally applied to U.S. person Carter Page and the Trump campaign.

Under normal criminal investigation any search warrant or surveillance warrant would normally proceed through U.S. courts, under Title-3, where the Mueller team would need to show probable cause for a warrant. However, by using the Title-1 warrant from the FBI counterintelligence operation, as extended by AAG Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller was able to use far more intrusive and unchecked searches and seizures for his criminal probe.

The media, and broad media-consumption public, are currently unaware the Mueller probe was simply a continuance of the 2016 FBI counterintelligence operation. Most people think the special counsel investigation is a separate issue. It’s not.

However, in addition to a scathing rebuke of the underlying prosecutorial premise, ie. Mueller trying to keep the originating structure hidden, Judge Ellis demanded today that Mueller unredact the August 2, 2017, instructions from AAG Rosenstein

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20170802; attorneygeneral; conspiracy; coup; doj; dossier; fbi; fisa; fubar; lisapage; manafort; mueller; paulmanafort; peterstrzok; robertmueller; trump; tsellisiii; warrant
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To: Bigtigermike

GIM
Gross Investigative Misconduct


21 posted on 05/04/2018 11:04:01 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and that some powers are actually secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security matters that cannot be publicly disclosed.

Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded


22 posted on 05/04/2018 11:04:25 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Bigtigermike

Won’t try to count the number of times I’ve heard unabashed city lawyers boast about their collective ability to take down Trump.

Thinking back to Trump’s amazing victory, I recall hearing an asshat discussing his unethical access to records on Pence’s wife. I only heard his side of the conservation which he didn’t mind expressing out loud. And on the call, this self-described lawyer expressed his willingness to get prosecuted for the breach — “if that’s what it takes.” A woman standing nearby seemed to roll her eyes in disbelief — prolly a Trump supporter.

There is deep hatred for Trump in the judiciary. And that hatred ultimately translates to hatred of us. So let’s keep that in mind this November. Spread the word. Get out the vote. Trump is campaigning.


23 posted on 05/04/2018 11:08:48 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Vendome

and that some powers are actually secret

]question authority no star chambers


24 posted on 05/04/2018 11:09:11 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: All

Judge Ellis---looks like USSC material to me.

25 posted on 05/04/2018 11:15:39 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Manafaort has a case against Mueller, yes.......but Judge Ellis also gave Donald ample reason to act on his own.......


26 posted on 05/04/2018 11:19:11 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: AndyTheBear
Oh I think it will take more than this to stop them.

I don't think many people get it.

MANY RATS are subject to prosecution for serious crimes that were committed under Hussein Obama. We all know about Hillary's many felonies but others are just as serious.

Mueller and Comey and Rosenstein and..... were all involved in the URANIUM ONE scam. By shutting down the information that Hillary was being bribed by the Russians to pull off Uranium to Russia, any serious investigation is going to show Mueller needs to pack for prison.

Mueller can either stop Trump OR Go to prison. The RATS know that if Mueller fails, MANY RATS are going with him to prison and maybe even GITMO.

And as they check Hussein Obama into GITMO, they can finally tell us officially Hussein really is NOT an American citizen.

27 posted on 05/04/2018 11:23:59 PM PDT by politicianslie (Lying to Americans is easy-Presstitutes repeat what they are told to say!-and they say it 24/7)
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To: Bigtigermike

Who is responsible to end the Special Counsel investigation? It needs to be ended immediately.

Trump can’t afford the political fallout or the appearance of partisanship he would get by firing Mueller.

Jeff Sessions is worthless as sin and won’t exercise his job function to end the Special Counsel investigation.

Can Congress do this? Can Congress use it’s oversight role to demand an end to the Special Counsel investigation. I am thinking they can’t, due to separation of powers, but since Congress never renewed the Special Counsel law and let it lapse, can’t Congress demand that DOJ is in violation of US law whereby there is no authority to have a Special Counsel without Congress authorizing it by law?

This witch hunt needs to end immediately. Trump should just fire Sessions and replace him with someone who would run DOJ instead of letting commie Rat Rosenstein run it in Sessions’s absence.


28 posted on 05/04/2018 11:25:08 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (For what profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

He did more than that. He has provided the basis to charge Mueller and his team with sedition and treason.


29 posted on 05/04/2018 11:27:49 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: Liz
He's 77 though.

Great professional history: Princeton Engineering degree, Naval Aviator from '61-'66, Law degree from Harvard in '69, another law degree from Oxford, appointed to the bench by Reagan in '87. Glad he's presiding over this case.

30 posted on 05/04/2018 11:35:17 PM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Can Congress use it’s oversight role to demand an end to the Special Counsel investigation. I am thinking they can’t, due to separation of powers, but since Congress never renewed the Special Counsel law and let it lapse, can’t Congress demand that DOJ is in violation of US law whereby there is no authority to have a Special Counsel without Congress authorizing it by law?

Congress can certainly cutoff the funding. All funding emanates in the House.

Seventy-year old Mueller's $150,000 salary makes me sick....not to mention his perks.

Without this job, he'd be playing bocce in the old folks home. He wants to extend it as long as possible.

31 posted on 05/04/2018 11:36:01 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: greenishness
Why don't we know what the "insurance policy" is?

Lisa Page, one of the "insurance policy" architects, resigned from the FBI today, freeing her from compulsive testimony to the Inspector General.

Unless the IG has already uncovered the facts behind the "insurance policy" coup d'é·tat plot (i.e., Page has sung), expect the remaining conspiracists to resign as well.

None of this has anything to do with "Russian collusion in the election." So if these seditionists are getting off scott free with retirement, it is entirely on Jeff Sessions, and any question of him being "white hat" is so much bunk.

32 posted on 05/04/2018 11:37:15 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: DarthVader

If I hear “it’s just the rot at the top the rank and file are ok. I am going to scream.” They swore an oath to up hold the Constitution same as I did going into the service how about they get off there assets and do it. Disband the fbi and to h3ll with them.


33 posted on 05/04/2018 11:40:39 PM PDT by Equine1952 (The left sucks. That is why your toilet flushes.)
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To: kevao
"Russian collusion," my Aunt Tilly.

The myopic Mueller and the corrupt FBI crowd see Russian agents behind every Republican filing cabinet. But they are sickeningly apathetic about Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton’s policies, decisions, and actions that gave aid and comfort to Russia.

Obama and Hillary’s major flopola----the much-mocked “Russian reset button”----- established the tone for Obama and the Clintons’ coziness with the Kremlin.

BACKSTORY On March 6, 2009, during a trip to Geneva, she presented Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a small, red button. Halfrican Obama, and Secy Hillary thought it was emblazoned with the Russian word for “reset.” The button actually read “overload.” Nonetheless, Clinton and Lavrov jointly pressed the symbolic button. A new era in US–Russian relations had begun.

THE OBAMA/HILLARY RUSSIAN LOVE AFFAIR---While visiting Moscow on March 24, 2010, Secy Hillary explained the Reset Button’s purpose: “Our goal (meaning Obama and the State Dept) is to help strengthen Russia.”

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No need to ask Obama and Clinton about their Russian connections-----the paper trail is long and wide.

HILLARY'S STATE DEPT----AND THE OBAMA YEARS---UNRELENTING SCANDAL By Ari Lieberman

EXCERPT The taxpayer financed-Skolkovo Scandal – While serving as secretary of state, Clinton oversaw a program meant to “reset” relations with Moscow and improve ties. The program centered around the Russian city of Skolkovo near Moscow with the stated aim of “identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the American and Russian people.”

Hillary's State Dept program transformed Skolkovo into a technology hub akin to a Silicon Valley. Sensitive American technology was transferred to the Russians, substantially enhancing their military and cyber capabilities. The US Army and the FBI concluded that Russia had exploited the program for military applications. The FBI warned American technology companies doing business in Skolkovo that the Skolkovo project was a means by which the Russians would acquire dual use technologies and apply them for military ends. According to investigative author Peter Schweizer, Russian and American companies and individuals involved in the Skolkovo fiasco “had major financial ties to the Clintons.”

Moreover, during the Russian reset period, those entities provided the Clintons with “tens of millions of dollars” in the form of “contributions to the Clinton Foundation, paid for speeches by Bill Clinton, or investments in small start-up companies with deep Clinton ties.” (hat tip frontpagemagazine.com)

34 posted on 05/04/2018 11:46:15 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: blueplum

Now that he has been caught doing this, what consequence can the judge actually order, other than dismissing the Manafort case? He can’t kick traitor Manafort out of his Special Prosecutor position and shut the whole thing down, can he?


35 posted on 05/04/2018 11:48:04 PM PDT by Kalamata (Meat hooks for Tyrants)
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To: All
Of all the spurious excuses she gives for her loss, the most ludicrous is that
Hillary says she lost her "sure-thing election" because "Putin doesn't like me."
Comey sucked-up and told Congress Putin wanted to harm Hillary.

REALITY CHECK Hillary once bragged that she, alone, was brought into Putin's inner sanctum
where she assured Putin she was worried about wildlife like he was.

Dam...Putin musta outright lied when he whispered to Hilary that they were BFF.

Secy Hillary and Obama were eager to please Russia w/ the friendly reset button.
Hillary later said the reset gambit was Obama's and her idea "to strengthen Russia."

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Ex-Pres Clinton is s-o-o-o-o friendly he traveled to Russia to clinch the uranium giveaway deal.
And to pocket a $500,000 dollar speaking fee from a Moscow bank plus a sizeable commission.

Billyboo even laid his "Hot Damn Hokey Hillbilly Act" on Putin.

36 posted on 05/04/2018 11:48:42 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: AndyTheBear
Nicely done! :-)

TXnMA
 

37 posted on 05/04/2018 11:50:24 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
THIS JUST IN---FR POSTED

townhall.com

EXCERPT With an out of control Special Counsel and a public becoming more disgruntled, one Congressman finally decided to act.On Thursday, U.S. Representative Todd Rokita (R-IN) introduced a resolution calling for the Mueller investigation to end within 30 days unless evidence of Russian collusion is introduced. According to Rokita, he proposed the resolution to “preserve the integrity of our democratic institutions.”

Rokita is disturbed by both the scope and the $17 million cost of the Mueller investigation. He believes it is “an attempt by the Washington elite to destroy President Trump.” However, it is also an unprecedented political and legal assault on the 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump on November 8, 2016. The Special Counsel and his team of partisan Democrat attorneys are attempting to overturn the results of the last election, and enact, in essence, the first political coup d’état in American history.

38 posted on 05/04/2018 11:53:23 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: Kalamata

He’s ordered the unredacted Rosenstein letter within 2 weeks. He also directly asked the government if they had already burned through the $10MM ‘budget’, meaning he can get that line-itemed down to the last 5cents, too.

So he can do much, much more than just toss the Manafort case. And it looks like he’s going to, especially after the government put forth the position, we’re the Justice Dept and we can make it up as we go along. Ellis was not amused.


39 posted on 05/05/2018 12:22:47 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: blueplum

Thank you for the good and hopeful news!


40 posted on 05/05/2018 12:30:54 AM PDT by Kalamata (Meat hooks for Tyrants)
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