Posted on 01/13/2019 9:17:33 AM PST by bitt
The corrupt FBI apparently applied for more than one FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. We now know from the the transcripts of former and corrupt FBI attorney Lisa Page’s testimony in front of Congress that one of these requests was referred to the as the “Dragon FISA”. We also know that they thought it was a joke.
According to Jeff Carlson at the Epoch Times, the transcripts from former FBI attorney Lisa Page’s testimony in front of Congress refer to a separate FISA warrant the FBI requested related to the Trump – Russia Witch Hunt. This request was referred to as the Dragon FISA which was discussed at some point in the corrupt FBI agent’s testimony –
"his discussion quickly led into another area—an Oct. 18, 2016, email from Strzok containing the subject line “Re: Dragon FISA.”
Page quickly noted that she could not discuss the matter in an unclassified setting—but would be able to discuss the matter with congressional investigators in a classified setting.
The Dragon FISA was referenced in an article by John Solomon in The Hill:
“In one email exchange with the subject line “Crossfire FISA,” Strzok and Lisa Page discussed talking points to get then-FBI Deputy DirectorAndrew McCabe to persuade a high-ranking DOJ official to sign off on the warrant.
Crossfire Hurricane” was one of the code names for four separate investigations the FBI conducted related to Russia matters in the 2016 election.
“At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him,” Strzok emailed Page on Oct. 14, 2016, less than four weeks before Election Day.
Four days later the same team was emailing about rushing to get approval for another FISA warrant for another Russia-related investigation code-named “Dragon.””
At this point, the potential subject of the ....
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2 year old news is now “breaking”.
Too bad we didn’t have an opposition party that could have stopped the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
SO many crimes prevented.
Been ongoing for 3+ years now.
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The high crimes started on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009
Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen.
He was born with THREE nationalities, US, British and Kenyan.
Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they have only one nationality.
That is precisely why the founders chose that term.
Not native born, not born a citizen as originally proposed by Hamilton, not just citizen. Natural born citizen.
Cannot be anything but a US citizen.
Anything else and one is not NATURALLY an American.
Two years in and Trump still doesn’t have control of his Justice Department. Or many of his nominees across his government confirmed. Or many nominations offered for the political positions in his government that are supposed to assure that his policies are implemented.
Looks like what was intended to be another NYT Trump hit piece is actually bringing the corrupt deep stare plot to light.
I am not clearly following this. Is there another FISA that was withheld or is this one of the 4 originals? Article is vague. The public needs to know. Dragon FISA is probably the one RR said was “not a real FISA Warrant. Any input!
In my line of work I occasionally deal with a Federal regulatory board comprised of presidential appointees. Three of the five seats are vacant, and I don't think anyone has been nominated to fill them.
I think Trump fully intends to keep many of these posts vacant indefinitely.
They are mobsters with all the US Treasury to fund them.
Every day 2 or 3 of these BREAKING, TIC, TOCK stories from Gateway Pundit. Stuff we have known for 2 years. Gateway Pundit needs to wake me when the frog marches start.
Lots. Lots not confirmed and lots not named. And you are right about his not planning to fill them all, but then he ends up with departments that don’t deliver on his policies. The biggest one of course is Justice. But State and Defense are that way as well. Of course, listening to Javanka on a lot of top hires, since they brought in a lot of Never Trump Manhattan liberals, made that something of a moot point.
Mulvaney is a great hire, and I hope he can straighten out the rest of it. Because it outwardly looks like he’s continuing on a somewhat questionable path of replacing Swamp with Swamp in too many areas.
God bless him, he’s taken on a Herculean task. But he has also made that task harder for himself especially with his hires.
Most Freepers may not know this, but in many of these cases the nominee's name hasn't even been formally submitted to the Senate for confirmation yet.
There was a months-long delay in the appointment process for the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in 2017. Robert Wood Johnson -- the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune and neighbor of Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey -- was named to this post in early 2017, but his nomination wasn't even submitted to the Senate for months because his immense wealth made his background check so complicated and time-consuming.
Here’s a running tally, including by department:
And here’s a summary explanation:
“As of 2016, there were around 4,000 political appointment positions which the incoming Trump administration needed to review, and fill or confirm, of which 1,212 required Senate confirmation.[1][2] The Washington Post has identified 705 key positions requiring U.S. Senate confirmation. As of September 7, 2018, 364 of Trump’s nominees for key positions had been confirmed, 181 were awaiting confirmation, and 7 had been announced but not yet formally nominated,[3] a total of 552 positions. Trump has said he intends not to fill many of the positions.[4] The rules of the Senate require that when the Senate expires (in the case of the 115th Congress, at noon on January 3, 2019), nominations then pending lapse and are returned to the president, who can resubmit them to the new Congress.[5]”
Political appointments by Donald Trump
So you’re upset because there are TEN nominees awaiting confirmation?? LOL.
Anyone arrested, indicted, prosecuted, ah...........no. Im tired of this all, not serious! it will comeback at us with a vengeance because we failed to punish those involved
Something I would be curious to know:
What “work” did Strzok perform during 2016-2017 other than exoneration of Hillary and subversion of Trump? Did he do ANYTHING related to actual counterintelligence investigations and National Security concerns as opposed to political games? Was ANYONE at the FBI minding the real store? What luck that America’s rivals and enemies took a timeout so the FBI could focus 24/7 on Trump.
In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, going Gault meant leaving the system.
With today’s elite ignoring the law, maybe we go Gault, but define it as NOT following the law, just like them.
A nation of laws means just that. If everyone gets to choose what laws he/she follows or not, we have no nation of laws.
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, after all.
They just had to start renominating everyone who hadn’t been confirmed once the new Congress launched on January 3rd. Still hundreds unconfirmed and hundreds of positions unfilled.
But more importantly, still the DoJ completely out of control. (And other agencies to lesser degrees.)
And I’m not upset, just observing.
We may not be able to get them on treasonous crimes-———after all, Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion not for his other crimes.
There are existing US laws governing the misuse of public office.
DEFINITION Misuse of office implies the doing of something improper;and the essence of the impropriety is the replacement of a public motive by a private one.
When the satisfaction sought is material gain, the misuse is usually termed “corruption.” But private satisfaction may take various other forms, and the term “corruption” is sometimes used to include them as well. Further, the beneficiaries may extend beyond oneself to one’s family, one’s friends, one’s community.
The holder of a public office is said to have misused his position when, in pursuit of private satisfaction as distinguished from the public interest, he has done something which he ought not to have done or refrained from doing something which he ought to have done.
In the narrower use of the word as a criminal offense on the part of a public servant, corruption needs to be more precisely defined. For such a definition we may turn to the Indian Penal Code(sec. 161). According to the code, a person is guilty of corruption who:
Being or expecting to be a public servant, accepts, or obtains, or agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatever, other than legal remuneration, as a motive or reward for doing or forbearing to do any official act or for showing or forbearing to show, in the exercise of his official functions, favour or disfavour to any person or for rendering or attempting to render any service or disservice to any person, with the Central or any State Government or Parliament or the Legislature of any State or with any public servant as such. . . .
However, we are concerned with corruption and misuse of office in a somewhat wider context. For example, members of Parliament are not, strictly speaking, public servants; nevertheless they do hold public office and may misuse their office. Honorary magistrates are public servants even though, by definition, they get no remuneration for their work. Obviously, there is nothing to prevent an honorary magistrate from being as corrupt as a stipendiary magistrate. For instance, the story is told of a retired government officer who, on the grounds that he could not make both ends meet on his pension, prayed that he be given the opportunity of serving the state as an honorary magistrate! So long as obligations, duties, or functions of a public nature are attached to any position, salaried or honorary, big or small, the misuse of that position for private ends remains a possibility. Nor need corruption be confined to public office. In an extended sense, it may be said to be coextensive with all dishonest discharge of public obligations.
Thus, an authorized dealer of rationed articles who sells at a price higher than the controlled price is guilty of corruption in the discharge of a delegated obligation. Indeed, in this larger sense, corruption has been described as “the acquisition, exercise and delegation of authority according to self interest rather than merit”(Wraith & Simpkins 1963, p. 56).
An illustration of corruption at the stage of acquisition or attempted acquisition of authority is to be found in what takes place before and during elections. The conduct of public office is tainted at the very source when those who seek to be members of legislatures, and perhaps ministers, obtain from the rich large donations for themselves or their parties and proceed to bribe the electors in order to gain votes. In commenting on standards of honesty in public administration in democratic countries, several writers point to the crucial importance of the norms set and observed during elections to legislative assemblies, senates, and parliaments (Gorwala 1953, p. 23 Bolles 1960, p. 183; Wraith & Simpkins 1963, chapter 2, part 2).
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