Obama, Comey Relied On Discredited Dossier To Obtain FISA Warrant On Trump Campaign

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James Comey, the man who refused to bring charges against Hillary Clinton despite a mountain of concrete evidence that she, and several members of her staff, knowingly violated several federal laws, apparently used the largely discredited “Trump Dossier” to help secure a FISA warrant to secretly monitor Trump’s former campaign aide, Carter Page, according to CNN.

Among other things, the dossier alleged that Page met senior Russian officials as an emissary of the Trump campaign, and discussed quid-pro-quo deals relating to sanctions, business opportunities and Russia’s interference in the election. Page has denied meeting the officials named in the dossier and says he never cut any political deals with the Kremlin.  Per CNN:

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The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump’s campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.

The dossier has also been cited by FBI Director James Comey in some of his briefings to members of Congress in recent weeks, as one of the sources of information the bureau has used to bolster its investigation, according to US officials briefed on the probe.

This includes approval from the secret court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to monitor the communications of Carter Page, two of the officials said. Last year, Page was identified by the Trump campaign as an adviser on national security.

According to the Washington Post, the warrant to monitor Page was obtained in the summer of 2016 which indicates that the FBI was in possession of the now-infamous dossier well before President Obama supposedly received his first briefing on the material in December 2016.

Of course, as we reported back in January (see “Here Is The Full 35-Page Report Alleging Trump Was “Cultivated, Supported And Assisted” By Russia“) the dossier, compiled by ex-British intelligence official Chris Steele, was almost immediately discredited by the public at large after numerous glaring errors were quickly identified and salicious stories of ‘golden showers’ and other sexual acts were also dismissed as pure rubbish.

Allegedly the dossier was even available to the Clinton campaign should they have chosen to use it to discredit Trump, but even they were quickly convinced that no one would buy it.

All of which, once again, brings into question the level of stupidity and/or pure corruption that must have been involved in this process given the shear number of people whose approval was undoubtedly required to authorize the issuance of a FISA warrant that paved the way for Comey and the Obama administration to secretly monitor the Trump campaign.

Meanwhile, Carter Page offered a simple reply to this latest revelation saying that he looks forward to the discovery process and testimony that will come from the lawsuit he plans to file in short order.

“I look forward to the Privacy Act of 1974 lawsuit that I plan to file in response to the civil rights violations by Obama administration appointees last year.  The discovery process will be of great value to the United States, as our nation hears testimony from them under oath and we receive disclosure of the documents which show what exactly was done in 2016.”

 

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kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable
April 19, 2017 6:48 am

Big waste of time – nobody will go to trial; these are connected politicians and money centered people. They can and probably will lie during Discovery (under oath – that will have them urinating in their pants!!!). Instead of being televised on C-SPAN, they should use Comedy Central.

Ed
Ed
  kokoda - the most deplorable
April 19, 2017 8:43 am

True. Sessions will probably recuse himself from any investigation into the Trump dossier. Trump will wave the whole thing off as ancient history now that he’s a member of the club. He’s a forgiving guy when it comes to his former political enemies.

Michael Keane
Michael Keane
April 19, 2017 7:06 am

The current head of the FBI is engaged, along with the former, English Finance Minister, George Osborne, in behaviors that have resulted and are currently resulting in battlefield deaths of American and British Soldiers. James Comey and George Osborne are joined in Treason and Conspiracy, with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, past-Attorney General Eric Holder and his Assistant AG, Lanny Breuer. FBI inaction, coupled with DOJ inaction, have allowed funds from terror and drug cartels to be used to murder American and British Soldiers. These funds are linked to Iranian “Quds Forces”, among others and in particular to the use of IEDs and EFPs, as used against Coalition Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The American FBI is ignoring a criminal laundry, in the form of the “English Crown Jewell of Banking”, HSBC and has done for some time now. The result of their inaction has resulted in the murder of at least, some 1380 Coalition Soldiers, since 2005, in Afghanistan alone.

Jake
Jake
April 19, 2017 2:01 pm

I believe the election of Trump has prevented the DOJ from becoming the nerve center of a hoped for police state under Hillary. I was shocked that even Democrat trash could tolerate the public and very much in our face corruption they didn’t even bother to conceal.
Sessions is exactly the guy we needed to end this nightmare. I have said appointing Sessions AG is akin to naming Michael the Archangel to be Sheriff of Helltown.

Michael Keane
Michael Keane
  Jake
April 19, 2017 2:19 pm

HSBC bank- a Chinese – English hybrid proves, in my post, below, a criminal laundry. The elements of “Law Enforcement”?, within my post, prove Treasonous behavior. HSBC is referred to, among banking as the English, “Crown Jewell”, even as they are corrupt to the bone. Our country is now and for some time, in thrall to an international, criminal, cartel, that is “English-based”. You may wish to disagree; so be it. In my post you may learn the British Finance Minister, George Osborne compelled American “Law Enforcement”?, to commit Treason, in order to conceal the behaviors of the “English Crown Jewell of Banking”. Our politicians have sold US all, on the cheap, to an international Scam that centers on “Mortgage Fraud”… of that, there is absolutely zero doubt.

The “deferred prosecution agreement” and criminal admissions of HSBC Bank were Booked in Sept 2012.

The agreed-upon, criminal behaviors, in what amounts to a plea bargain agreement, include: (Violations of) “TWEA- Trading With Enemies Act”; “BSA Bank Secrecy Act”; all “AMLs- Anti-Money Laundering Acts”; “IEEPA- International, Economic Emergency Power’s Act”.

The Moore Family of Philadelphia first exposed the DPA and Federal Judge Gleeson wrote the following analysis:

You may read the court document here:
Case 1:12-cr-00763-JG Document 23 Filed 07/01/13

The violations occurred in Brooklyn. Loretta Lynch signed for Brooklyn as Prosecutor on Dec 2012.

Lanny Breuer signed for Eric Holder as Assistant AG on Dec 2012.

So… Holder, Breuer and Lynch all know and 3 months after they conspired through the DPA to conceal their plea bargain, James Comey was placed on the Executive Board of the English – Chinese hybrid, HSBC- “Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation”.

Of course, Eric Holder’s Law Firm, “Covington-Burling”, created the MERS and it has been used for over a decade to counterfeit titles to American Homes.

The counterfeit titles allowed the REMIC Trusts to be violated and Pension Funds to be robbed.

The REMICs- “Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits”, are now, instead, REMIFs- “Real Estate Monopolized Insurance Frauds”.

Holder’s MERS allows banks to “pretend” ownership of real estate, on “loans” the Pension Plans have already paid, in-full.

The banks then place the Assets (title to American Homes) in Shadow Trusts in the Cayman Islands (Google Bucketeering).

The banks then sit back and use the 30-day monthly payments to cleanse terror and drug money in the HSBC criminal laundry. Some “loans” are for 20-30 years (of payments, on titles, paid, in-full, by Pension plans, every 30 days).

The banks also use counterfeit title to place “Naked Short Sale Derivatives Bets” that Americans will default (go into foreclosure), so they can collect on the “Derivatives”, as “Insurance Pay-Offs”.

The banks also use counterfeit title to cheat all 3142 county recorders, across 50 US states.

This is one reason why there is zero money for representative government in places where children are poisoned to death because of the lack of fresh water… places like Flint, Michigan.

~Michael Keane 10/7/16

Holder’s law firm created the counterfeit machine that is the MERS- “Mortgage Electronic Registration System”. It is an imposter to lawful, as set by precedent, paper, wet-ink signature, original contracts, entered into county offices, as opposed to electronic, digitized COPY, entered into an electronic, privately-owned and operated, never vetted as legal, computer boutique.

Please contact me directly if you think an electronic copy of a contractual signature is the same as the original- I want to sell you a Babe Ruth-signed, baseball.

Read : http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3399&context=wmlr

Particularly p. 116. It describes the MERS as a “shell company” used to “pretend” to own American real estate. Read footnote 23, from p.116. R.K. Arnold, the CEO explains it his intention to “capture” every “mortgage” in the country.

(The author, Professor Christopher L. Peterson wrote the MERS critique while a law professor at SJ Quinney Law School, in Utah. He is now the chief counsel for enforcement of the CFPB.)

Arnold and the MERS now claim an “ownership” ability to transfer some 70 million American real estate titles, despite Arnold’s deposition in court he is the sole employee of his company.

Arnold’s claim he is the sole employee is refuted by some millions of rubber stamps he sold for $25.00 a throw that now show any number of mortgage-industry-insiders rubber-stamping forged documents that claim they are, in fact, MERS Employees.

Their position in the company invariably describes these frauds as “Senior Vice Presidents…

To a company the owner claims has no employees.

Holder and Breuer worked 8 Obama years and never prosecuted a single banker. Now, Holder and Breuer are back working for their old law firm, “Covington-Burling”, that created the hopelessly fraudulent MERS.

In fact, Holder’s other creation, “TBTF”, is yet another, intentional lie; read David Dayen, from “Livinglies”: https://livinglies.wordpress.com/…/david-dayen-eric-holder…/ .

https://livinglies.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/david-dayen-eric-holders-longtime-excuse-for-not-prosecuting-banks-just-crashed-and-burned/

Lynch, Comey, Holder, Breuer are all aware of the contents of the DPA as those criminal admissions are given in the name of Clinton’s Criminal Laundry of choice: “HSBC”, “Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation”; a bank that supplied the Clintons 80 million from among a cast of the usual suspects within the banking industry http://www.salon.com/2012/09/14/clintons_no_liberal_hero/

So, 6 months after Two Attorneys General are aware an English-Chinese bank is laundering terror and drug money for known enemies of the US, killing our soldiers, the present FBI Director James Comey is placed on the executive board of that bank. Holder’s wife and Loretta Lynch are sorority sisters and Comey’s brother makes millions as the Clinton’s accountant- just one big, happy family.

~ Michael Keane copyright 10/7/16

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Westcoaster
Westcoaster
April 19, 2017 10:51 pm

I vote for “level of stupidity”. AND what became of that “lock her up” bullshit? All I’ve heard since 1/20/17 on that is crickets??