The main takeaways?
Warrants on Carter Page wouldn’t have been possible without the phony dossier
The FBI and DOJ relied on media reporting to lend credibility to the dossier, meaning there was a lot of “circular reporting” in this case
Christopher Steele said he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president”
DOJ and FBI officials KNEW about the shady dossier but excluded it from the FISA applications
FBI and DOJ officials knew the truth behind the phony dossier and used it anyway
Holy mother of corruption.
Funny how you are so sure the dossier is phony. Much of what is in it has been confirmed.
Information from Intelligence sources and Steele was a British intelligence source is not always what it seems to be, that's why people gather/collect intelligence and then try to analyze it to decide what it means. They get bits and pieces and try to piece to together to figure out what and if it actually means anything. Most of you who have been around here long enough have read tons of stuff from news sources with intelligence connections, a lot of times there is some truth in the stories but some of it is not true. Facts are indisputable when proven, but intel is subject to interpretation.
The main takeaways?
Warrants on Carter Page wouldn’t have been possible without the phony dossier
The FBI and DOJ relied on media reporting to lend credibility to the dossier, meaning there was a lot of “circular reporting” in this case
Christopher Steele said he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president”
DOJ and FBI officials KNEW about the shady dossier but excluded it from the FISA applications
FBI and DOJ officials knew the truth behind the phony dossier and used it anyway
Holy mother of corruption.
Funny how you are so sure the dossier is phony. Much of what is in it has been confirmed.
None of the fake and discredited Trump dossier has been confirmed and that was affirmed by Comey under oath.
The Democrats and the corrupt liberal media are losing it over the release of the memo but are ignoring the memo’s contents.
The Democrats and the corrupt liberal media are losing it over the release of the memo but are ignoring the memo’s contents.
No. You confuse "losing it" with "laughing at a nothing burger". 😛
Devin Nunes admits he didn't view the underlying intelligence his memo was based on
Now even Nunes admits it was a political stunt. 😛
The Democrats and the corrupt liberal media are losing it over the release of the memo but are ignoring the memo’s contents.
No. You confuse "losing it" with "laughing at a nothing burger". 😛
Then why are The Democrats and the corrupt liberal media freaking out over the release of the memo while of course ignoring it's contents?
The answer is easy. The got caught.
The Democrats and the corrupt liberal media are losing it over the release of the memo but are ignoring the memo’s contents.
No. You confuse "losing it" with "laughing at a nothing burger". 😛
Then why are The Democrats and the corrupt liberal media freaking out over the release of the memo while of course ignoring it's contents?
The answer is easy. The got caught.
Nobody is freaking out. No, I am wrong. YOU are freaking out. 😛
The rest of us are laughing at this. 😛 😛
House memo states disputed dossier was key to FBI’s FISA warrant to surveil members of Team Trump
www.foxnews.comA memo that shows alleged government surveillance abuse has been released and includes testimony from a high-ranking government official who says without the infamous Trump dossier, the FBI and DOJ would not have secured surveillance warrants to spy on at least one member of the Trump team.
The House Intelligence Committee released the memo on Friday afternoon.
The memo, which has been at the center of an intense power struggle between congressional Republicans, was declassified ahead of its release Friday.
READ THE FISA MEMO (below)
It also claims the FBI and DOJ used media reporting to lend credibility to the dossier, while the firm behind the dossier, Fusion GPS, briefed major American news outlets to include New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, New Yorker, Yahoo and Mother Jones.
The memo shows that after former British spy Christopher Steele was cut off from the FBI, he continued to pass information, as did Fusion GPS, through Justice Department Official Bruce Ohr. Ohr’s wife Nellie began working for Fusion GPS as early as May 2016.
It also claims evidence that Steele has a personal animus for the President Trump.
"Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then Candidate Trump, in September of 2016, when Steele told Ohr, that he Steele 'was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," the memo reads, according to an excerpt obtained by Fox News.
"Steele 'was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president'"
- FISA memoSpeaking to reporters on Friday, Trump, who has read the memo, called the contents “a disgrace.”
“A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves,” he said.The impending release of the four-page memo comes after the House Intelligence Committee voted earlier this week, over Democratic objections, to make the document public. This led to a rare and stunning rebuke from the bureau, which said Wednesday they had “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
The memo includes alleged abuses involving FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In a last-ditch objection, the top Democrat on the House committee claimed overnight that Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had made “material changes” to the memo that was sent to the White House for review.
But Nunes’ office described the changes as minor and blasted the complaint as a “bizarre distraction from the abuses detailed in the memo.”
The White House has backed the memo’s release, calling for “transparency.”
TRUMP BLASTS ‘POLITICIZED’ FBI, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Earlier Friday, President Trump unleashed an early-morning tweet at a Justice Department he said has been "politicized" by Democrats.
GOP-led House investigators believe the FBI used a dubious dossier, initially prepared as campaign opposition research for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, to get permission from a secret federal court to eavesdrop on Trump campaign and transition team communications.
"The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago," Trump wrote. "Rank & File are great people!"
Just more than two weeks, Republican lawmakers first drew attention to the memo, with some calling it “shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming” and one likening the details to KGB activity in Russia. They argued the memo should be immediately made public, leading to a social media #ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
The actual document:
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True to form and right on schedule, "Bot Boy from Bulgaria" returns with a script passed along by Russian intelligence....
The Democrats claim that if the Republican release the memo they will release their own!
Okay, where is it?
To date, the Democrats have not even submitted their memo for review and declassification.
The Democrats claim that if the Republican release the memo they will release their own!
Okay, where is it?
To date, the Democrats have not even submitted their memo for review and declassification.
Ryan blocked the release. What is he afraid of?
The Democrats claim that if the Republican release the memo they will release their own!
Okay, where is it?
To date, the Democrats have not even submitted their memo for review and declassification.
Ryan blocked the release. What is he afraid of?
Speaker Ryan supports the release of the Democrats memo once it has been reviewed and declassified just as today's memo was handled.
So why have the Democrats not even submitted their memo for review and declassification?
All this memo represents is an additional example of Obstruction of Justice by Trump and the GOP. They don't even try to hide it anymore. It's come down to panic time and it seems that the only card they have left to play is try to discredit the FBI and DOJ before they release their findings. It's a sad and pathetic last minute act of desperation.
The Democrats claim that if the Republican release the memo they will release their own!
Okay, where is it?
To date, the Democrats have not even submitted their memo for review and declassification.
Ryan blocked the release. What is he afraid of?
Speaker Ryan supports the release of the Democrats memo once it has been reviewed and declassified just as today's memo was handled.
So why have the Democrats not even submitted their memo for review and declassification?
So, according to you, Ryan is all for releasing a memo that, according to you, hasn't been submitted. So, again according to your convoluted logic, Ryan is all for releasing a memo that he hasn't seen and decided if it contained classified infor mation.
OK
The memo contains a number of bombshell allegations, including that the FBI and Justice Department relied on the infamous fake anti-Trump dossier to secure FISA surveillance warrants to spy on members of the Trump team.
It also claims the former British spy who compiled the dossier, Christopher Steele, had a personal animus for President Donald Trump.
"Steele admitted to [former FBI official Bruce] Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump, in September of 2016, when Steele told Ohr that he Steele 'was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," the memo reads.
"That information goes to the idea that Steele had a political agenda when he was gathering this information for Fusion GPS and they were being bankrolled by the DNC and the Clinton campaign,"
They lied and misrepresented their case to the FISA Judges.
In the final paragraph of the memo: "The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzo." The investigation was going on months before they asked for the warrant in October and would have been proceeding even if they never saw the dossier.
What was the big reveal? I missed it.
LMAO!! 😛
So was President Trump correct again, that Obama bugged his organization?
Obviously.
Watch the lefties here freak out.
Actually it was the president that freaked out by his accusations of wiretapping by the former president.
Cool memo.
The left has special counsel, 4 indictments, Trump associates singing like canaries and plea deals we don't even know the details on yet.
The right has this committee memo. Basically an interoffice communication.
How satisfying for the right, finally some REAL justice!
Cute attempt at spin.
The "special council's" investigation is now in serious trouble and Mueller has admitted so in his request to delay the action against Gen. Flynn.
The 4 indictments you cite have nothing to do with Donald Trump or his campaign.
The memo exposes corruption by Obama DOJ & FBI officials and criminals acts by thee same.
Your dodge and weave shows you are in a panic.
Your idiotic thread, again shows how clueless you are 😛 this "memo" is a last desperate attempt by a criminal and treasonous president, to distract attention from himself. YOU are doing putin's work for him by posting your sh!t. YOU are a treasonous idiot troll, and a disgrace to the USA
"treasonous idiot troll" LOL!!!
So...Obama, Hillary, the FBI and the DOJ conspired against Trump to rig an election that Trump...won?
Man. That's messed up.
So...Obama, Hillary, the FBI and the DOJ conspired against Trump to rig an election that Trump...won?
Man. That's messed up.
Well yes...for sure. After all, Obama ordered wiretap of Trump Towers, didn't he? I mean Donald said so. Not a stretch to believe the rigged election conspiracy. 😛
So was President Trump correct again, that Obama bugged his organization?
Obviously.
Watch the lefties here freak out.Where's the proof? captain clue-less!. 😛
Hey now, true patriots need no proof. If dear leader tells us Obama bugged him, we take it as sacred truth.....Like the constitution we true patriots defend, it is sacred truth!!! 😛 😉 😮
So was President Trump correct again, that Obama bugged his organization?
You realize Obama wasn't trying to hide it, right?
This is like the scene from "Usual Suspects", when Chaz Palminteri is interrogating Kevin Pollack:
Chaz: I can pin you in Queens the night of the murder!
Kevin: Really? I live in Queens. You figure that one out all by yourself dipsh*t? I'm going to have your badges.
So was President Trump correct again, that Obama bugged his organization?
You realize Obama wasn't trying to hide it, right?
This is like the scene from "Usual Suspects", when Chaz Palminteri is interrogating Kevin Pollack:
Chaz: I can pin you in Queens the night of the murder!
Kevin: Really? I live in Queens. You figure that one out all by yourself dipsh*t? I'm going to have your badges.
😛 😛 😛 ....Great f*cking line....Haven't seen Pollack in a flick in quite awhile. He's still in the acting business, correct?
Pollack is amazing. I do believe he's still acting. If he isn't, he should be!
Pollack is amazing. I do believe he's still acting. If he isn't, he should be!
He is in an Amazon Prime series that my wife watches.
