Posted on 01/03/2020 9:25:22 AM PST by billorites
In October 2016, and then on two subsequent occasions, then-FBI Director James Comey lied to the secret court overseeing warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Full stop. Here is that lie:
I, the undersigned, having been designated as one of the officials authorized to make the certifications required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, as amended, do hereby certify with regard to the [redacted] requested in this verified application targeting Carter W. Page, an agent of the Government of Russia, a foreign power, as follows . . . The foreign intelligence information sought by the authorities requested herein cannot be reasonably obtained by normal investigative techniques.
His signature appears on page 64 of the October 2016 application for a warrant to spy on Carter Page. Look at it for yourself. In all of the fawning television interviews of Comey that have followed, nobody has confronted him on his lie or asked him why he submitted a blatant falsehood to the court.
He lied again on page 76 of the January 2017 renewal application. He lied yet again on page 88 of another April 2017 FISA application to extend the warrant against Page. As I wrote, Comey’s April 2017 signature came after the entire Russia collusion investigation officially became a willful hoax perpetrated on the American public and the FISA court.
How do we know Comey lied? Because he passed on Page’s offer to participate voluntarily in an FBI interview. By September 25, 2016, Page had already received several harassing and accusatory contacts from journalists checking on the Christopher Steele/Fusion GPS story alleging he was a Russian agent. Page had had enough. He decided to volunteer to participate in an interview with the FBI.
And to make sure that Comey wouldn’t forget or deny that Page made the offer in writing, he sent a copy to the Washington Post. Page had a long history of cooperating with the U.S. government to provide accurate information about Russia. He was so reliable and cooperative that the CIA cleared him to receive sensitive information to help him know what to listen for when he was in Russia.
“Having interacted with members of the U.S. intelligence community including the FBI and CIA for many decades, I appreciate the limitations on your staff’s time and assets,” Page wrote. “Although I have not been contacted by any member of your team in recent months, I would eagerly await their call to discuss any final questions they might possibly have in the interest of helping them put these outrageous allegations to rest while allowing each of us to shift our attention to relevant matters. Thank you in advance for your consideration.”
Page addressed the letter to, “The Honorable James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” He sent the letter on September 25, 2016, a month before Comey certified to the court that electronic surveillance was the only way to get information from Page.
Comey’s lies matter. He turned away Page’s voluntary cooperation with the Russia collusion investigators in order to surveil Page and everyone with whom he communicated. Likely, Page was not the real target anyway, just a convenient excuse to cast a broader net sweeping up communication with Trump campaign officials.
As noted on page 18 of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on Comey’s FISA abuse, Justice Department guidelines provide that, “search warrants, wiretaps, and undercover operations are considered to be very intrusive, while database searches and communication with established sources are less intrusive. The least intrusive method principle reflects an attempt to balance the FBl’s ability to effectively conduct investigations with the potential negative impact an investigation can have on the privacy and civil liberties of individuals encompassed within an investigation.”
Of the 17 acts of deception the inspector general highlighted, several were perpetrated to hide the fact that Page was clearly not a Russian agent. Horowitz notes on page ix of the report that the applications “[o]mitted Page’s consensually monitored statements to an FBI CHS in August 2016 that Page had ‘literally never met’ or ‘said one word to’ Paul Manafort and that Manafort had not responded to any of Page’s emails; if true, those statements were in tension with claims in Report 95 that Page was participating in a conspiracy with Russia by acting as an intermediary for Manafort on behalf of the Trump campaign.”
The FBI’s spying on Page impacted the election. In September 2016, the existence of Comey’s phony investigation leaked to the press. Yahoo News reported: “A senior U.S. law enforcement official did not dispute that characterization when asked for comment by Yahoo News. ‘It’s on our radar screen,’ said the official about Page’s contacts with Russian officials. ‘It’s being looked at.’” This emboldened more negative stories smearing Page, in publications such as Politico, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, and the Daily Beast, to name just a few examples.
The leak of the phony FBI investigation into Page just weeks before the election led Page to resign immediately from the Trump campaign after writing an open letter offering a voluntary interview to the FBI to clear his name.
There’s no missing piece. The former FBI chief has been caught red-handed. The FISA applications bear his signatures and can be read by anyone. The applications clearly claim that the warrant is the only way to obtain the information that easily could have been obtained from the voluntary interview Page offered.
It’s low-hanging fruit. It’s a smoking gun. The statute of limitations is running. Another election is approaching. Future election integrity depends on punishing Comey’s illegal interference.
Arrest James Comey for lying to the FISA court. Now. He defrauded a court to undermine a U.S. election and the peaceful transfer of power. He undermined the exercise of the core constitutional right of the people to elect the head of the executive branch. He is guilty of many other sins. But this one is a slam dunk. Comey’s freedom is a beacon of temptation to future bureaucrats who want to seize power.
The next Comey is watching and learning. Government officials must understand that using the FBI to interfere in our elections will have severe consequences or elections will stop mattering.
Without a doubt, Comey lied to the FISA court. He lied to perpetuate an investigation that tore this country apart. He didn’t want the truth about Carter Page. Quite the opposite. He wanted to spy. That was the point. The evidence is irrefutable. He must be brought to justice. Immediately.
It’s a rather long list of those who should be arrested.
And we’re only talking about the final crimes of an eight year crime spree that was itself a violation of the Constitution.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
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And the FISA judges should face some pretty fierce scrutiny, ‘cause i guran-damn’d-tee you that they knew what was true and what wasn’t when they OK’d the warrants.
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Thanks billorites. He won't flip on his co-conspirators, so he should just be tried and hanged. Or just hanged.
You bet they should, by the SECOND renewal it was well known the dossier was BS paid for by the Clintons.
We now (and the DOJ/IC then) knew that Carter Page (CP) was a CIA asset and FBI informant,do we not? (Yes, I think we do.)
OK, so attorney Clinesmith, working on Strzok's team and likely at his behest, doctors an email painting CP as a Russian agent when the Crossfire Hurricane people knew at the time that he had been sent by the FBI into Russia to further the Bureau's contacts there, on which he then reported back as a good employee, contractor and/or informant. The IG report shows CP also did one or more assignment and report for the CIA.
If CP were in any sense a foreign agent, there would have had to have been a huge file on how this FBI/CIA asset had been turned to instead work for the Russians. That file would have all kinds of date stamps, officer reports, likely pictures and audio proving that he had been turned.
AFAIK, No one has heard that such a file exists. No one has heard that CP ever did anything wrong. It would appear that he's simply been used as a patsy to be able to make "two hops" to candidate, then President Trump by virtue of his volunteer status with the Trump campaign.
If a huge double agent file doesn't exist, with all manner of detailed evidence about an analysis of his having been turned to work for the Russians, this is an open-and-shut case of sedition by all these DOJ/FBI FISA-representing officials.
We know HRC laundered money through Perkins Coie to buy the fairytale evidence, employing sources from multiple foreign countries. With the late-Barry-term intel sharing expanded to literally hundreds of people, the Lisa Page representation in text that POTUS wanted to know everything about their Crossfire Hurricane probe, circuitous, FOIA-avoiding emails and server next to HRC's toilet, on which she and Barry were communicating with totally unsecured email addresses, and the absolutely strong incentive to get HRC that for which she (and the FBI ) had paid dearly to Christopher Steele and his sub-sources.
Unless I've made some gross error, the case of a COUP conspiracy has been proved.
They should have all Hanged already.
More American Greatness.
This is clipped this from my profile page. I’ve already made the list of who’s been naughty.
Here’s my list of who should probably go to jail for Spy Gate.
John Brennan
James Clapper
James Comey
Peter Strzok
Lisa Page
Andy McCabe
Susan Rice
James Baker (the FBI one)
Sally Yates
David Laufman
Samantha Power
Lawyers at Perkins-Couie
Ambassador Yavonovich
Bill Preistap
And these guys should go for corruption:
Hunter Biden
Joe Biden
Sec. John Kerry
Christopher Heinz
and then, I’d dream of getting the players above them:
Barry Obama
Valerie Jarrett
Hillary Cliton
John Podesta
Ben Rhodes
And, No I don’t think
... any of them ever will be indicted.
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