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President Orders Declassification of FISA warrants, etc.
The White House ^ | 9/17/2018 | Press Secretary

Posted on 09/17/2018 2:41:58 PM PDT by grayboots

At the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency, the President has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.

In addition, President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.


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To: grayboots

Great day to be a Dreg of society. I am Dreg!


161 posted on 09/17/2018 5:32:45 PM PDT by heights
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To: grayboots

Perfect timing, imo.


162 posted on 09/17/2018 5:45:31 PM PDT by golas1964
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To: softengine

“Is that the new Air Force One?

Damn straight needs to be! “

He could clean up Chicago with that.


163 posted on 09/17/2018 5:46:49 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: MAGAthon

Ah yes, “immediately” apparently means to start an interagency review process. This is more slow rolling and delays. They are hoping that Trump will get so far up to his backside in alligators, that he won’t followup. Jeff Sessions, if he were on Trump’s side would make sure everything is released now, but the Deep State is in charge so Trump will probably have to start firing people to get full compliance.


164 posted on 09/17/2018 5:48:50 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: grayboots

My concern is that the use of “the Russia Investigation” will be misconstrued in order to keep hiding some emails and texts.

Should have said “all texts and emails of those individuals” between date certain time frames.


165 posted on 09/17/2018 5:50:22 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: grayboots

This Constitution Day will go down in history as the day that after many shocks, the patient’s heart once again began to beat. Life support will soon be removed, his strength will return, our beloved Uncle Sam will recover and with our help vanquish the enemies of liberty and freedom.

God Bless President TRUMP!

God Bless the United States of America!

7


166 posted on 09/17/2018 5:56:38 PM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: grayboots

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!


167 posted on 09/17/2018 5:58:24 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Q: Believing Is Seeing!)
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To: grayboots

YES!
Go President Trump!


168 posted on 09/17/2018 6:17:16 PM PDT by djstex ((The REAL News of The Day ... Trump is Our President EVERYDAY!)
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To: grayboots

Has POTUS, or anyone on “our” side seen these docs? I guess what I’m asking is- how will we know the docs released are the actual docs? I mean how do we know they are not scrubbed or manufactured?


169 posted on 09/17/2018 6:22:03 PM PDT by NImerc
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To: laplata

Sessions/Rosenstein/Wray probably judge shopping now for an injunction to stop the release.


170 posted on 09/17/2018 6:33:07 PM PDT by damper99
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To: mass55th

Clapper is sure scared his security clearance will be pulled. And it should be.


171 posted on 09/17/2018 6:36:09 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Liz; politicianslie; bitt

Liz wrote:

“Getting closer to the Halfrican’s criminality.”

From the article here (h/t bitt)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3688170/posts?page=1#1

“...Page, a former FBI attorney, replied to Strzok: “We need to lock in (redacted). In a formal chargeable way. Soon.”...”

And reply here (h/t politicianslie)
:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3688170/posts?page=5#5

“Who was driving all of this?

Hussein Obama may have told Rosenstein who told ..,.. but it will all wind up in Hussein’s lap as more info comes out.

It is the reason Hussein Obama was talking about political prosecutions in Illinois last week. Hussein is getting very nervous about him being named again. An earlier released Strzok/Page email mentioned POTUS was following the Trump surveillance case.

They just need one of the bit players to fold for the story to bounce to the Oval Office. Hussein in GITMO would bring a smile to many faces”

Question:

Does the info posted by bitt & politicianslie tie in with this?


172 posted on 09/17/2018 6:46:04 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: kevao
Chris Plante: "The most insidious power that the news media monopoly has is the power to ignore.”
Journalists wouldn’t have the power to ignore if there were ideological competition in journalism. The reason there isn’t is explained by Adam Smith:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
Do journalists “meet together?” The Associated Press in particular and wire services in general are virtual meetings which have been ongoing for over a century and a half.

Accordingly you have to be “naive as a babe to believe” that journalists do not conspire against the public. And ignoring things the public should know certainly fits the description!


173 posted on 09/17/2018 6:50:27 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: Red Badger

Love all your graphics, Red Badger!

Great job!


174 posted on 09/17/2018 6:51:47 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

I think Brennan had a hand in all of this, and when the music stops, he is one of the stupider ones, and will be left standing with no chair.


175 posted on 09/17/2018 6:55:17 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: WildHighlander57
I believe there is enough criminality in Obama's complicity with Hillary Clinton using an unauthorized email server. At the very least, he openly lied to the American people, and was caught in a boldfaced lie, because it is clear he knew about the server.

He used an alias to communicate with her on that server, and she had an exchange with him on that unauthorized email account while she was in a "hostile" country.

Clinton–Obama Emails: The Key to Understanding Why Hillary Wasn’t Indicted (by Andrew McCarthy)

176 posted on 09/17/2018 7:04:38 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: grayboots

In the Book of Esther, Haman built a gallows for Mordecai, only to be hung on it himself. I think we are seeing a similar reenactment of that beginning to unfold.


177 posted on 09/17/2018 7:05:15 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: WildHighlander57; Mr. Jeeves

PROOF POSITIVE THAT OBAMA KNEW

Obama’s CYA maneuver of January 3, 2017-——the signing of NSA Data-Sharing Order Section 2.3 by AG Lynch —— is the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State. Obama’s after-the-fact ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333”:

NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.

But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House.

Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive CYA.....until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.

cont


178 posted on 09/17/2018 7:12:27 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: All

When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a CYA memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides. CYA memos are rarely a good idea. Most often, they reveal things the author never intended——ala Susan Rice’s now-infamous email to herself.

powerlineblog.com

WHY SUSAN RICE WROTE AN EMAIL TO HERSELF........the extraordinary email Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017........within minutes of President Trump’s inauguration must have been her last act, more or less, before she vacated the White House. So obviously the email was important to her. But why would it be important to send an email to herself (the only person copied was one of her aides)?

If you read the email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?
Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier. The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:

Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.

This is pure boilerplate.

It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)

The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.

CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.

Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.

Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.

If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.

What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.

There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.

The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything. And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.

Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.


179 posted on 09/17/2018 7:14:56 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: 100American

If Trump does not give into the assertion he won the election due to Russian interference, if he does anything to contradict that assumed fact on the part of the blue, then he is obstructing justice. That’s the blue view. Seriously.


180 posted on 09/17/2018 7:16:02 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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