The Nunes memo has been declassified and sent back to Capitol Hill for release.
Catherine Herridge (Fox) is reporting that the Clinton-DNC funded Trump dossier was the basis of the FISA warrant, while being shopped to media outlets, whose circular reporting was used by the FBI to lend weight to the same dossier… Intelligence Committee is expected to have the document available to the public in coming hours via their website.
Byron York has an early bullet-point report up. FoxNews just reported there are “no redactions”.
Twitter hashtag is #MemoDay.
UPDATE: The document has been released, but the website is already down due to traffic.
I’ve finally downloaded a copy, click here to download >> HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf
The Media Corporations involved better lawyer-UP…Canada Media is not immune as the UK also has multiple lawsuits over the Steele report
Investigative intelligence obtained illegally (FISA court misrepresentation) can not be used in criminal or civil Courts, Lawyers are now on notice…. That included FBI investigations & DOJ
The false reporting by MSM has PAIN for those Reporters involved… Lawyer-UP fools.. The Story now is that the Rabbit has the GUN
JMHO
Heh. No redactions whatsoever … despite the FRANTIC WAILING and FLAILING by the Dems that “The Memo” would jeopardize our national security methods of intelligence collection … repeated by the FBI and DOJ.
Start FIRING the top echelons of the FBI and DOJ … NOW! Today!
Take ACTION Now!!!!! Clean the DAMN swamp … post haste.
So McCabe said that without Steele no Fisa would have been sought.
That just about kills it right there given all the issues.
This is what they mean about “sexing” up the evidence (see Blair in Iraq war)
The time of this release is perfect. Holidays are over, Trump delivered a great SOTU speech. And now attention will be paid to this, and it WILL effect mid-terms. You git that GORD you simpleton. E Greenspan wasn’t a great lawyer because of his law expertise, which he had, but because of his “strategy” skills.
Have to wonder how lawyered up the MULE is:-)))
And Rosenstein now has a legitimate question to ask Mueller. What do have that can’t be reasonably tied back to the FISA application and the intelligence gleaned from it. If there isn’t enough or no reasonable prospects of anything then time to wrap up.
Mannafort had been in FBI sites for YEARS, so they finally got him with the final push (maybe). Flynn, we shall see if he really gave anything up or just collapsed offer his scalp to save his son (both definitely committed inexplicable violations on FARA forms etc)
ALso provides a nice justification (post hoc) for the firing of Comey. Hard for him to claim he was doing a good job when all of this was going on underneath him….mind you Trump cant claim he knew, without getting Nunes thrown in the klink for leaking info to him.
I find all of the Russian link troubling and I find Kushner and Trumps continued involvement in their businesses unseemly, Kushners inability to fully disclose multiple times deserves a punishment of some type. But the original charge of RUssian collusion in the election is not clear, the behaviour of the FBI and others is extremely troubling if only because they shot their own foot off chasing what might have been a legitimate line of inquiry.
I fear Trumps team, assuming they escape, will now do the very same thing to their opponents. Reminds me of the Tantalus Field in Star Trek.
“Trump cant claim he knew, without getting Nunes thrown in the klink for leaking info to him.”
It is likely Trump provided the info to Nunes. As president Trump has access to everything.
Predictably, the fake news media parties in the U.S. and Canada are in full damage control spin mode to cover a lot of butts.
Wow, collusion between Clinton/DNC and foreign British/Russian operatives to interfere with 2016 presidential elections aided by Obama Justice department. No wonder Steele is gone into hiding.
As I mentioned here a few months ago this script is right out of Graham Greene’s “Our Man in Havana”. Make up a story and sell a little bit of it to prick the interest, and when you’ve got the sucker biting set the hook and reel in the money. The Democrats in charge of the election campaign were so blinded by their Trump derangement syndrome that they didn’t see that this retired MI6 operative was baiting a hook for them. Well they’ve been caught like fish in a barrel and the best part, I sincerely hope, is they’ll all be getting pickled, hung and smoked, in that order.
My only hope is that this brings an awakening to all the voters in America and an effective end to the Democratic party in America. By extension we may have a wake-up call to the all voters in Western society and they will come to realize finally that big socialist governments are an enemy of democracy.
The Democrats said this would jeopardize national security if released.
Is there anything at all in there that would jeopardize national security?
Maybe the dummies in the media can point out the parts that jeopardize national security.
Indeed ! … smoked … I relish the taste of smoked fish. Hurry up and get to the SMOKING phase.
Demorats’ HillBilly Facial Recognition Galeria.
“All you have to do is look at Bruce Ohr and his gorgeous wife Nellie to see where all this BS investigation started.” (h/t Bbart)
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizpacreview.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F12%2FBruce-and-Nellie-Ohr..png&f=1
When the FBI said it had “grave concern”, I thought of A Few Good Men.
Was in danger … I said grave danger? … Is there any other kind?
I can see the FBI saying:
We have a concern.
Grave concern?
Is there any other kind?
Comey gone. McCabe gone. Yates gone. Rosenstein has to go too. Charge them all.
I am stunned (not) by the memo. There is nothing there that hasn’t been reported on for months!!! Hannity has more details on a slow news night than are contained in this memo. Other than an official sheen given by the group reporting it I don’t see much new here.
The Media DNC apologetic turds all use the excuse that the Steel Dossier was not the only part of the FISA warrants…I guess they have never heard the old saw “It was the straw that broke the Camels back” The Steele dossier should never have been used PERIOD…What Justice expert can attest to which argument won the case… Who can point to the one issue that resulted in their divorce, or was it a straw…Stupid thinking by stupid people….
What the hell has happened to the FISA Court that allowed Obama to Wire-tap Trump… Where are they?
Why haven’t they corrected their mistakes? No responsibility? Not Good!
Which one is which?
Anybody connected to the Steele dossier needs to be charged and prosecuted.
I expect Hillary won’t have time for anything but this, until she’s actually retired from public life. Possibly / hopefully in the big house.
and then hell.
It also reminds me of John Le Carre’s “The Tailor of Panama” where in a British agent concocts a plan to pocket CIA cash intended for a small group of Panamanian “freedom fighters”. An interesting coincidence is taht in the movie version the corrupt British agent is played by Pierce Brosnan, who of course also played James Bond and Remington Steele!
The Dem / media reaction to the memo (pre and post release) is far more interesting than the memo. They must be terrified of something, which makes me think this is part of a wider, longer game.
Just the beginning folks. Monica Crowley says more damaging memos forthcoming. Then of course there is the DOJ’s Inspector General’s report which is soppisedly comung out in anout another month. Patience everyone. Patience.
Strad is feeling ill today, but he wants to clear the record with this:
The fact-checking website Politifact says Hillary Clinton is correct when she says 17 federal intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia is behind the hacking.
“We have 17, 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyber attacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin. And they are designed to influence our election. I find that deeply disturbing,” Clinton said during Wednesday’s presidential debate in Las Vegas.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/21/17-intelligence-agencies-russia-behind-hacking/92514592/
…..really butchered that comment. Lol
What this means (now, whether politicians will see it the same way is debatable):
1) The USA has a secret court. This is something previously only ever seen in totalitarian, banana republic states. It is an anathema to democracy and almost certainly forbiden by the constitution, if the SCOTUS had any balls.
2) Congress allowed the secret court only with a set of requirements that were used to buy off SCOTUS and a large portion of congress, supposedly differentiating the secret court from the secret courts of other dictatorships: a) In applying for a spying warrant, they had to give ALL the evidence, not just that in favor of a warrant. b) A warrant against a US citizen had to be renewed every 90 days, and follow the same rules – ALL the evidence, including ALL the evidence gathered by previous iterations of the warrant.
So what happened here is that the DOJ/FBI did not present all the evidence, either at the initial application, or at the renewals.
They could claim that some of it was unknown initially (but that is a stretch, especially for an organization billing itself as the world’s best law enforcement/investigative agency). By the time of subsequent renewals it is not credible that they didn’t know that a lot of their evidence was bogus and the motives of those providing it politically motivated.
Using a secret court for political motives has to be a big no-no. It is an attack on the integrity of the state.
Those that lied have to face jail (or worse). The court judge(s) have to face an inquiry as to whether they acted as a rubber stamp or not (it looks like they may have).
The real problem is not spying on Trump (although that is bad enough) it is perverting the mechanisms of state for political motives.
People have found themselves against a wall for less.
I used to LAUGH when The Clinton Administration was described as looking like the cast of The Adams Family. The Obama’s consulted the UGLY STICK to choose everyone in their Admin. All the horribly bullied sad sacks who were never included in the High School reindeer games … now had the POWER … to … GET EVEN !!!
NOTHING TO SEE – or so the Democrats and their media chohorts would have you believe. I believe in keeping things simple , so what are the answers to these questions.
1. Did Hillary and staff physically destroy cell phones and delete emails ?
2. Did Bill meet the Attoney General privately on the airport Tarmack ?
3. Other than the loss of the election , what were the consequences of these obstructions of justice ?
The answers to these questions are clear to many people no matter how hard some people will muddy the waters .
Personally I think what is really going on here is the war between the ‘professional government’ (AKA the permanent members of the bureaucracy and the ‘amateur government’ (the elected officials. The professional government has succeeded in getting a goodly number of the amateur government to march to their drum beat. In particular the Dems and Rinos are puppets for the professional government. Them media is simply the propaganda arm of the professional government and parrots what ever the professional government tells them. Ever notice that when the professional government wants to go to war the media beats the war drums for them? The professional government tried to start a war with Trump and NKorea and the media fell in line immediately beating the war drums making it sound like the most righteous course of action would be to start a war with NKorea. Trump didn’t play along and the drums fell silent. Bush wasn’t smart enough to catch on to the Professional Government’s tactics and went to war with Iraq. Clinton did the same in Bosnia.
Of course the same is true in Canada. The professional government decided it was time to get rid of Harper and they succeed with the help of their loyal lapdogs, the Canadian press.
I am hoping that for a brief moment at least the Professional Government is brought to heel by Trump but I know that long term this is going to be a short lived victory. I personally think that the bureaucracy should be term limited so that no one spends more than say 15 years on the public payroll. Yes I know the government lovers in our midst would cry no end of crocodile tears and wail about how we can’t get ‘good people’ to man the bureaucracy. My point is simply that we don’t have ‘good people’ now.
Sounds like life imitating art. Only Dems could be that stupid.
Good piece by Daniel Greenfield. He brings historical perspective to all of the dirty politics. Good (and well-informed comments as well). Read them too, for real insight into the corruption in the Democratic Party:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269198/who-really-created-trump-dossier-daniel-greenfield#disqus_thread
“The Media DNC apologetic turds all use the excuse that the Steel Dossier was not the only part of the FISA warrants…”
My rejoinder to that is as always, if you need to rely on false information to make your point, then your point is invalid, regardless of any “good” information you may or may not have.
That is my principal objection to the “global warming” myth as well.
You’re labeling the elected officials the “amateur government”? Maybe you should check out the net worth of the “amateurs” compared to the “professionals”. You’ve got it all wrong. The MSM is the propaganda wing of the Democrats. They’re in bed together, they fund each other, they mingle, they date. The Bureaucracy is interested in keeping the government big (bigger departments mean higher salaries for management), which lines up nicely with the Democrat agenda.
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
Sir Walter Scott got it so right.
Politifact is wrong. 17 agencies did not independently investigate and conclude Russia was behind the hacks. James Clapper has confirmed this: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/07/06/clapper_confirms_17_intelligence_agencies_russia_story_was_false.html
The DNC hired CrowdStrike to investigate their leaked documents, and stated it was Russia. The FBI requested to inspect the DNC servers multiple times, but were denied each time. They were forced to rely on CrowdStrike’s assessment. Other investigations have come to a different conclusion: https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/
The worst part of your Politifact article is their claim of Guccifer 2.0 being a Russian hacker. 4chan and many other sites have thoroughly debunked Guccifer 2.0 as the source of the DNC hacks.
I particularly liked this bit from the comments:
“The lines between organized crime and the left are invisible. They are essentially the same thing — organized criminals with no conscience.”
Libranos. The tactics of organized labor are similar.
Mr Scheer needs to quit being a nice guy, because they finish last.
They are terrified because the DNC paid/supplied a fantasy dossier, to be used for political purposes, to spy on their political opponent.
Watergate x100
There’s no Russia story. It’s a fiction, that the MSM and their sycophants still can’t let go of, they have too much emotional capital invested to come to their senses.
“even though senior FBI and DOJ officials knew”
Roll one of the small fish and hang the others before filleting.
Heads of the FBI and DOJ signed off on the FISA application knowing it to be false. Including Rosenstein. I wonder how long he keeps his job
“All this was set in motion when the DNC’s mail server was first violated in the spring of 2016 and by subsequent assertions that Russians were behind that “hack” and another such operation, also described as a Russian hack,” Pete
Faked a Russian Hack to cover up the communications between DWS & Lynch. Where Lynch promised (Soros) that Hillary would not be charged
The evidence is in the FBI file that Comey reported to Congress (why he made the decision not to charge).. They must still have that File buried somewhere after Comey changed his mind and said the Russians planted those communications.. Not likely Tonto
JMHO
DO you mean Rosenstein expects to keep hs job after he is revealed to have tried to depose Trump?
And I’d like to hear a recording of Comey explaining to Trump that they had this dosier on him!
COmey: “You won’t want tis to get out, now would you”?
Trump: “Your fired”.
Philip, well said. There more, one of the things used to prop up the credibility of “dossier” was “news reports”, and those news reports were massaged, fabricated, and “bought”. This is the same sort of biased chit the 9th circuit used several times to rule against Trump. Too many are not aware enough as to what this actually means, see JOE’s comment about. Problem is stupid and biased people will be stupid and biased
You haven’t been following
What the Republicans on the House Committee need to do is ask Mr. Schiff; “So, Mr. Schiff, please go line by line of this memo and demonstrate how this harms national security” Then they need to follow with “So, Mr. Schiff, what of this is factually incorrect and what facts do you bring to repudiate the information brought forth in this memo”
It would be very interesting as well to fully understand the power and structure of the FISC. Is it like any other court? That is, is it part of the judicial branch as delineated in the Constitution? If it is like any other court, I would submit that the FBI and DOJ have committed perjury and contempt of court by, at the very least, failing to disclose the source and motivation of the Steele document. Or, does this get referred to the regular courts.
If I was a judge, and acted impartially and with utmost respect for the law like real judges are supposed to do, I would be some kinda cranky if I was lied to and if I issued a warrant on the basis of false, concocted information.
Warrants are issued by Judges on reasonable and probable grounds. We entrust judges to be the protector of the inalienable rights of any person and be free from the tyrannical and capricious actions of the state. They are there to ensure that every individual is subject to the full process of the laws that are in place to protect all of us.
Trump doesn’t need to fire anyone.. The little creep JEFF needs a grand jury indictment for the whole cast of gangsters, including the gang of corrupt Lawyers & Mueller (he was covering up for the FBI)… They all knew this on day ONE.. that the evidence they ARE using is tainted beyond reason..
Time for Courts to test the evidence & judge the truth….
roll the rite one, and maybe we see the black geezus indicted
So start with the “little fishes”, the reporters that Steele and the FBI leaked to. If Steele paid some of them as is rumoured then they are nothing but hired ad men, and as such they don’t qualify for protection under the 1st. Amendment. Start calling them in to testify and watch the panic that ensues. You are either reporting the news, in which case there is ample verification, or you’re spreading rumours and rumours are only scurrilous gossip, there is no protection under the 1st. for that. Follow the money and then start locking them up and watch the rats run and the piggies squeal, you’ll get the big fish then for frying.
You mean the courts staffed with the likes of Ruth Bader Ginsberg? Um yeah, what do you think her verdict would be.
Absolutely BRILLIANT!
So TRUE regarding our SECRET COURT. However the very FIRST refuge of these scoundrels will be to say … but but but … the FISA Court is oooonnnnly trying to keep America … “SAFE” … from … from … from … Terrorists (Like; Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, and Mr. Papadopoulos). Terrorists like THOSE people, and the deplorables who VOTE for them don’t “deserve” their inalienable rights … do they (we) ?
Once again proving that everyone on the LEFT side of the aisle want to RULE like the Pre-American Revolutionary English Crown who could seize anyone’s property and throw anyone in JAIL for any reason deemed “necessary” by the Monarchy. Oh screw it … they all ADMIRE Stalin, and Mao … and “wished” they were FREE to DESTROY their ENEMIES and RULE with an IRON FIST.
“Catherine Herridge (Fox) is reporting that the Clinton-DNC funded Trump dossier was the basis of the FISA warrant,”
But the Nunes memo makes clear this isn’t the case, as David French writes. The investigation into Page (no the FBI was not targeting Trump) predates involvement of the dossier. This undermines the narrative of the investigation as poisoned by the Steele dossier: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456063/nunes-memo-big-flaw-confirms-new-york-times-story
The memo also gets a key detail wrong: https://www.redstate.com/patterico/2018/02/02/significant-inaccuracy-thememo-calls-credibility-question/
Ultimately, this is basically nothing until we can get the FISA warrant and the docs used for it.
Agree! If some of your shit stinks, I’d wager that the rest does not smell very good either.
Strad is feeling ill today, but he wants to clear the record with this:…
Heh, the whole thing is a distraction…a fight between two wings of the same bird.
good lord, you are stupid. We git, yah that’s the ticket. Do you think that Nunes hasn’t see what we git chit. Having an inaccuracy does not negate the essence of the memo. And yes, the DNC did help fund this chit, and yes the FBI also paid some $$$$$ towards it. You should try keeping up, so when you open yer pie hole, yu don’t sound so stupid.
Hey Straponivarious, you shit the bed and then your boy friend toss you????