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The document(s) in question are almost guaranteed to be the NSA/FBI files [and audit logs] on the FISA702(16)(17) database searches, on Flynn, that are in the possession of the ODNI (Coats). And yes, @DevinNunes is aware. And no, they will never see the light of day. #UniParty https://t.co/PImaUnyHbj
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 14, 2018
Even before Mueller was appointed, FBI opened investigation to “rein in” Trump. Note that they were planning an obstruction probe even before Comey was fired. Leaked to CNN because it’s friendly media, meaning they thought it was about to come out somewhere less friendly. This is huge, and people should go to jail.
As more of the secret evidence used to justify the Russia probe becomes public, an increasingly dark portrait of the FBI’s conduct emerges.
The bureau, under a Democratic-controlled Justice Department, sought a warrant to spy on the duly nominated GOP candidate for president in the final weeks of the 2016 election, based on evidence that was generated under a contract paid by his political opponent.
That evidence, the Steele dossier, was not fully vetted by the bureau and was deemed unverified months after the warrant was issued.
At least one news article was used in the FISA warrant to bolster the dossier as independent corroboration when, it fact, it was traced to a news organization that had been in contact with Steele, creating a high likelihood it was circular-intelligence reporting.
And the entire warrant, the FBI’s own text message shows, was being rushed to approval by two agents who hated Trump and stated in their own texts that they wanted to “stop” the Republican from becoming president.
If ever there were grounds to investigate the investigators, these facts provide the justification.
I’d say George Papadopoulos is getting pretty fed up.
The Cleaner. I hope so, though I don’t know that it was wise to just lay it all out there.
He was just “extremely careless”.
It always seemed curious how the Senate committee never redacted the name Monica McLean when first releasing the investigative material containing her involvement. […]
Ms. Monica Lee McLean and Ms. Christine Blasey-Ford are life-long friends; obviously they have known each other since their High School days at Holton-Arms; and both lived together as “roommates” in California after college. Their close friendship is cited by Ms. Fords former boyfriend of six years.
Ms. Monica McLean retired from the FBI in 2016; apparently right after the presidential election. Her current residence is listed at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; which aligns with public records and the serendipitous printed article.
Now, where did Ms. Blasey-Ford testify she was located at the time she wrote the letter to Dianne Feinstein, accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh?
And it gets smaller.
Related.
Why is (almost) nobody talking about Trump-Russia collusion? I'm ok either way, I just would like to know why it was the #1 most important story in the world for so long and now it's not.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) November 5, 2018
“REPORT” — Rosenstein has resigned…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has verbally resigned to Chief of Staff John Kelly in anticipation of being fired by President Trump, according to a source with direct knowledge. Per a second source with direct knowledge: “He’s expecting to be fired,” so he plans to step down.
Update – NBC disputes.
Of course he was. On ‘The Story,’ George Papadopoulos says he was set up.
Clearly a man who has something to hide: Trump orders feds to declassify key FISA documents, text messages in FBI Russia probe.
Background : Sept. 6th news conference with Rep. Zeldin & Other Members of Congress
The FBI omitted from its application to spy on Carter Page the fact that Russian spies had dismissed the former Trump campaign adviser as unreliable – or as one put it, an “idiot” – and therefore unworthy of recruiting, according to congressional sources who have seen the unredacted document.
The potentially exculpatory detail was also withheld from three renewals of the wiretap warrant before a special government surveillance court. The warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court allowed the FBI to spy on Page and others he was in contact with for almost a year, the sources also confirmed.
So they decided to ruin him anyway.
The news cycle is slowing catching up to the information cycle.
A Republican congressman touched off a firestorm Tuesday after claiming on Twitter that his office had information suggesting the FBI leaked information to the press and used the resulting articles to help obtain surveillance warrants.
“We’ve learned NEW information suggesting our suspicions are true: FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press, and then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify FISA’s,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., tweeted overnight.
President Trump has revoked the security clearance for former CIA director John Brennan, the White House announced Wednesday, in the first decision to come from a review of access for several top Obama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of the press briefing, saying Brennan “has a history that calls his credibility into question.”
The statement also claimed Brennan had been “leveraging” the clearance to make “wild outbursts” and claims against the Trump administration in the media.
“The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that’s what he’s doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action,” Sanders said Wednesday.
Last month, the White House said they were looking into the clearances for other former officials and Trump critics, including former FBI director James Comey; former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe; former director of national intelligence James Clapper; former national security adviser Susan Rice and former CIA director Michael Hayden (who also worked under President George W. Bush).
When I went looking for this story on Google News (after spotting it elsewhere) the Fox News link above wasn’t among those suggested — oddly enough.
Andy McCarthy: The FBI Relied on the Unverified Steele Dossier
It turns out, however, that the crazies were right and I was wrong. The FBI (and, I’m even more sad to say, my Justice Department) brought the FISA court the Steele-dossier allegations, relying on Steele’s credibility without verifying his information.
I am embarrassed by this not just because I assured people it could not have happened, and not just because it is so beneath the bureau — especially in a politically fraught case in which the brass green-lighted the investigation of a presidential campaign. I am embarrassed because what happened here flouts rudimentary investigative standards. Any trained FBI agent would know that even the best FBI agent in the country could not get a warrant based on his own stellar reputation. A fortiori, you would never seek a warrant based solely on the reputation of Christopher Steele — a non-American former intelligence agent who had political and financial incentives to undermine Donald Trump.
Update: House Intel asks Trump to declassify rest of FISA application; tantalizing clues about pages 10-12 and 17-34
Russia! Russia! er…Russia?
Related: Peter Strzok’s arrogance is the product of a corrupt FBI
(4) This is ringing alarm bells.
Strzok's father. pic.twitter.com/o7ZFR76MXN
— Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) 14 July 2018