Posted on 07/21/2018 3:33:51 PM PDT by Steven W.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has disclosed a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center of highly contentious accusations by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that the F.B.I. had abused its surveillance powers.
[Read the documents here.]
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So did the FBI give the Fisa warrant to the Judge like that?
Presumably - but unclear. There are the final authorization by FISC that was released by the Court - but the F-I submissions may or may not be from the Court. But there’s nothing there but Steele stuff (the text of which is redacted lest we be able to compare it directly with his own writings word for word)
Amen. Absolutely true
I don't know for sure if that information is true, but if it is it might help to explain why Page is free as a bird while the others had the book thrown at them.
The left fought it all the way
Tom Fitton the tenacious bull dog at Judicial Watch and an honest judge made this happen
You haven’t been paying attention
President Trump has declassification authority.
October may be full of surprises.
Page was declared to be an Undercover F-I Employee (UCE) as recently as Spring of 2016 working for John Carlin + Preet Bararah. In tape recordings the (real) Russians said they didn’t trust him and thought he was a dope. Then, in October 2016, the F-I / D-J tell FISC that he was a Russian agent. The nation’s highest court(s) and law enforcement + ic agencies have been corrupted.
The goofy part is that they made the DOJ version viewable to all the House Intelligence Committee last spring. Tom Fitton was looking for a FISA Court version to see if they were the same version as viewed by Congress.
With all the redactions we'll likely never know. At least until there is serious housecleaning in FBI/DOJ? Will that ever happen? I'm starting to wonder...
Analysis: 70% of FISA Application to Spy on Carter Page REDACTED: ‘Very Cagey’
I hear you!
Trump may well have ordered the release, but; Mueller, FBI types, DOJ and the Intel community did the redactions.
Too bad this wasn’t copied and sent to Hillary before it got redacted- then the whole world could read all of it on Wikileaks.
Even if they started that day 1, it would be still in the investigation stage now. Any persons known to be on the case (leaked names) would be Pruitted.
The report Comey cited has all he needed to indict
Most crimes were removed from the report. Gross negligence (a crime) was watered down to extreme carelessness (not a crime). The unauthorized file server was not a crime (although it was contrary to policy). Destruction of evidence was in the Comey report but the FBI decided there was no crime, so they tossed their evidence of her destruction of evidence.
You think waiting is preferable. How much more time, money and energy is acceptable to you.
Zero. But the political costs for firing hin would have been high.
Let’s wait for the dems to use mueller report for articles of impeachment. Is that OK?
They would have used the firing of Mueller to impeach. Obviouslty a hypothetical so we could argue this forever. But Mueller currently has nothing. An obvious perp like Manafort, but not Russia related. A target like Flynn who will get exonerated or pardoned since he did nothing wrong. Papadop who is just an idiot and will get a slap on the wrist (and hot Italian wife) The others are bit players or Russian window dressing. The report will be a joke.
Same with the heavily redacted Schif report which also spelled out the "case" against Trump with probably much of the same redactions as this report. But the thing is, since then we have learned about many of the redactions: FBI informants, Halper, sting operations, and lots of other malfeasance by the FBI. There was never a Trump investigation, only a Trump hit. That information is slowly getting out.
Mark my words. This is a concerted effort to get to election day without releasing a usable FISA Warrant, and hoping for a Leftist majority in Congress to be elected.
Of course. But we still have 4 months. The leftist push won't be diminished by firing Mueller now or other activity. They will still accuse Trump of "undermining" which is equivalent in their eyes, but not to more rational people. The rational voters will hear more about FBI malfeasance. Strzok was not good for the FBI. The general public has still not heard of the Ohrs and many others. That will definitely be remedied before November.
It reminds one of the C.S. Lewis quote in “The Last Battle”:
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
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