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Democrat Adam Schiff might be right that GOP operatives want to derail the Russia probe. But the FBI and Justice Department lost credibility a long time ago. This is not ancient history or a story about a black-bag job that J. Edgar Hoover ran. It's not even history. But we're not supposed to bring up the deservedly low opinions of the FBI and a Justice Department that have for decades done everything possible to make Americans suspect their employees aren't really trustworthy. The FBI in particular has a long history of abusing its power and the results of that show...

Politicians and pundits are debating the memorandum released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee, which suggests that the FBI used the dubious products of Democrats’ opposition research to obtain a warrant to spy on a Trump associate.But no one is debating the fact that the surveillance took place, and there is now evidence that it was politically motivated — which vindicates Breitbart News, radio host Mark Levin, and President Trump himself. On March 2, 2016, Levin noted mainstream media reports that suggested that law enforcement and intelligence agencies had conducted surveillance of Trump associates during the last months of the Obama administration. He also...

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The FISA Abuse Memo is out and now we know why the Democrats were desperate to keep its contents hidden from the public: it confirms the worst fears not just of President Trump’s supporters but of everyone concerned about the abuse of police power, government corruption, and the sanctity of our elections. The memo shows interference in the 2016 presidential election by hostile elements within a United States intelligence agency. It wasn’t the Russians we had to worry about—it was rogue actors at the highest levels of the FBI and Department of Justice. Left unanswered is to what extent the...

This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace! 9:40 AM · Feb 3, 2018

President Trump condemned the actions of the FBI and Department of Justice as “an American disgrace” in a Saturday morning tweet. He hit “send” almost simultaneously on two different messages about two of his favorite subjects – the Russia investigation and his poll numbers – as his motorcade rolled toward Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., where the first family is spending the weekend. “This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe,” Trump posted at 9:40 am, referring to the document issued Friday by Rep Devin Nunes of the House Intelligence Committee. “But the Russian Witch Hunt goes...

Despite important and far-reaching policy wins by the Trump Administration, America has much to be ashamed of recently. Today is notable for the release of the so-called “Nunes Memo,” showing, in its own words “findings which . . . 1) raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and 2) represent a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to” FBI surveillance of American citizens. While there is much nuance which can be discussed, the Nunes Memo essentially discloses that the...

You are here checking out this post, so I guess you do want to know. I was listening to conservative talk radio hosts Michael Medved today to see if he would admit he was wrong about corruption in the FBI. Nope, he did not. He said "I have no idea why Trump released THE STUPID THING in his angry voice." He went on seeing how the Dozier was only a small part of getting the fisa warrant. He was saying that releasing this memo hurts Trump's agenda and does not help it. By the way, I was also listening to...

The Democrats and the media spent a week lying to the American people about the “memo.” The memo was full of "classified information" and releasing” it would expose “our spying methods." By “our,” they didn’t mean American spying methods. They meant Obama’s spying methods. A former White House Ethics Lawyer claimed that the Nunes memo would undermine "national security." On MSNBC, Senator Chris Van Hollen threatened that if the memo is released, the FBI and DOJ “will refuse to share information with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees." Senator Cory Booker howled that releasing the memo was "treasonous" and might...

McCabe did in fact testify under oath that there would not have been a FISA warrant if not for the dossier. It was recorded.— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) February 2, 2018

By now, you've seen the communist narrative forming: that this is a nothingburger because the investigation started with an investigation into George Papadopolous (as if that somehow adds and not subtracts credibility into expanding the investigation to include Carter Page with a FISA surveillance warrant, based on the pee-pee dossier). Of course, even this absurd spin is debunked in about 2 seconds when you look at WHO started the whole investigation into Papadopolous: that's right, freaking "Secret Society"/Election "Insurance Policy" hack, Peter Strzok who was later hired by Mueller and later demoted once Congressional inquiries got too close to him....

And here are some salient points: * DOJ and FBI failed to mention in their FISA application that it was based on opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, even though this apparently was known to the FBI. The application apparently tried to mislead the FISA court by saying that Steele “was working for a named U.S. person”–the memo doesn’t tell us who that person was–but not disclosing Fusion GPS or Glenn Simpson, let alone Hillary Clinton and the DNC. This appears to be a deliberate deception of the court The memo leaves much unsaid. The...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) just made the significance of the FISA memo that was released Friday crystal clear, and it only took him about one minute. The Florida congressman told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner that he’s been “waiting a long time to stitch together” this “fact pattern.”

https://www.scribd.com/document/370598711/House-Intelligence-Committee-Report-On-FISA-Abuses#from_embed andhttp://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180129/106822/HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf

A declassified House Intelligence Committee memo reveals how the unverified Fusion GPS dossier—opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)—was used by the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain a FISA surveillance warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page. The memo details how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was intentionally left in the dark about the source of the allegations that led it to approve the spy warrant in October 2016.It reveals that top FBI and DOJ officials signed off on the initial warrant and three subsequent renewals, including by...

We told you so! Mueller's toast. Nunes is a hero and Trump . . . well, he's a genius. What a grand day for liberty-loving patriots and a dour day for the fetid and olid Deep State. Bwahahahahaha! The Nunes FISA memo release accuses senior officials at the DOJ of inappropriately using biased opposition research into then-candidate Trump to obtain surveillance warrants on transition team members as part of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, ZeroHedge reports. According to the document, information from the the so-called Steele dossier was "essential" to the acquisition of surveillance warrants on...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday that he will push the Justice Department to clean up any shortcomings identified in the wake of the new House intelligence committee memo, saying “no department is perfect.” Mr. Sessions, in a statement, did not say whether he agreed with the conclusions in the memo, which argues top FBI and Justice Department officials during the Obama administration, bleeding into the Trump administration, used tainted evidence to justify spying on a Trump campaign figure.

I am not able to monitor the forums constantly and have not seen one comment from Pelosi, Hillary, Schumer, Waters, Obama, etc.,etc. The only one I have found is from McShame. Have any of the major Dims commented on the memo after the release today?

Live thread for info and reaction to the Memo release

CNN political analyst Brian Karem on Thursday described the debate over whether to release a Republican-written classified memo critical of the FBI and the Justice Department as a "tipping point for our democracy," warning the document's release may lead the country to be ruled by "demagoguery and despotism."In a CNN segment flagged by NewsBusters, host Brooke Baldwin introduced Karem by telling him that, while House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is downplaying the memo, President Donald Trump wants to use it help discredit special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation."And you're hearing that from the F.B.I.," Karem responded. "That is the most disingenuous piece...