The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points:
* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.
* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.
* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.
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* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.
The FBI and Justice Department mounted a monthslong effort to keep the information outlined in the memo out of the House Intelligence Committee’s hands. Only the threat of contempt charges and other forms of pressure forced the FBI and Justice to give up the material.
Once Intelligence Committee leaders and staff compiled some of that information into the memo, the FBI and Justice Department, supported by Capitol Hill Democrats, mounted a ferocious campaign of opposition, saying release of the memo would endanger national security and the rule of law.
But Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes never wavered in his determination to make the information available to the public. President Trump agreed, and, as required by House rules, gave his approval for release.
Finally, the memo released today does not represent the sum total of what House investigators have learned in their review of the FBI and Justice Department Trump-Russia investigation. That means the fight over the memo could be replayed in the future when the Intelligence Committee decides to release more information.
It is a relief to see that there was no additional delay. Let the games begin.
Admin, any chance one of your EmCee types would dissect the memo for ongoing discussion?
If the memo has been released why isn’t it available. All I’m seeing is tv reporters spinning on what the memo says. Publish the frigging thing GODDAMNIT!!!
The Press gets first shot at it, eventually someone somewhere will get around to making the actual memo available to the public.
The memo is below the letter from the WH, unit472. Read it in the newer post on TBP.
Nothing we didn’t already know if you have followed this story in the press. But it’s now “official” that a conspiracy to undermine a presidential election was taking place. That is a treason charge, applicable to a military tribunal court.
And it put’s Mueller’s investigation in jeopardy as well.
Never anger a Federal Judge, especially never lie and/ or present supporting information that you know is not factual and aims to pervert the course of justice in an attempt to alter the outcome of a Presidential election.
Mr Trump needs to do nothing, the judges will clean up this mess (unless they are implicated as well)
I don’t expect this to have much effect on anyone.
Those believing something will continue believing it and those disbelieving something will continue disbelieving it.
Maybe a few fence sitters will be persuaded one way or another, but I doubt their numbers will be large enough to make any difference.
Corrupt Police State!
Ordinary citizen has no chance!
Fact!
McCain Responds To Memo Release: “Attacks On FBI Serve Only Putin’s Interests”
by Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/02/2018 – 12:16
Senator John McCain may be on his death-bed, but that does not stop him defending the deep state and his neocon cronies in response to President Trump’s declassification of ‘the memo’.
In a tweeted comment, McCain responded in his ubiquitous manner:
“The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s…”
With a full statement as follows:
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON PARTISAN ATTACKS ON THE FBI & DOJ
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement on partisan attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice:
“In 2016, the Russian government engaged in an elaborate plot to interfere in an American election and undermine our democracy. Russia employed the same tactics it has used to influence elections around the world, from France and Germany to Ukraine, Montenegro, and beyond. Putin’s regime launched cyberattacks and spread disinformation with the goal of sowing chaos and weakening faith in our institutions.
And while we have no evidence that these efforts affected the outcome of our election, I fear they succeeded in fueling political discord and dividing us from one another.
The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s.
The American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation must proceed unimpeded.
Our nation’s elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.”
One wonders if he even read the memo?
Dear Herr Shitstain,
JUST FUCKEN DIE ALREADY !!!!
“In 2016, the Russian government engaged in an elaborate plot to interfere in an American election and undermine our democracy.”
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I would expect nothing less.
I ask who does it better than the good ole USA (((?)))
Fondest Dreams
What lies beneath
Dignity and bequeaths
Blind disguises
Mirrored in all sizes
And legacies of escape
For those who want and eat their cake
Cherished fondest dreams
Slipping into schemes
Fuel and fodder for the moment
While they hang in torment
bc
So.
Will this serve as proof positive that our government has engaged in conspiratorial behavior and had it not been uncovered by the unlikely election of President Trump those conspirators would have succeeded in keeping it a secret?
The FBI has been crooked for at least 50 years and probably longer. It’s just laughable that they thought we didn’t know this.
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The President said that a lot of people need to be ashamed of themselves. NO!!! Mr. President a lot of people need to be arrested, tried, and sentenced for treason. All the way to the top of the last administration. Let’s see what happens next.
“Fruit of the poisonous tree” . I expect Flynn will withdraw his guilty plea. From this point forward, nothing Mueller does has any legal significance.
Free helicopter rides for all of them!
It’s the government. A lot of he said she said and posturing and not a one really suffers. Worst case forced to retire. Crooks one and all.
If you can call yourself a woman and your a man and The political people say that’s ok. A crime is not a crime unless they say it is. Truth is treason in a empire of lies.
Did anyone here post comments on my blog site under the name Robert Thomas from TBP ? Just curious due to the unusual nature of the comments, as well as the unusual recipes.
In the comments section in this article:
Peace,
Andrea Iravani
Is this a ploy to get us to go to your website and read your article? Someone here should volunteer as guinea pig.
The third time I’ve seen this post duplicated in other threads.
It is relentless, and it is insane. Do not engage it. Here is an excerpt from the comment section in question. First she accuses the commenter of being RiNS. Then after the commenter talks at length about benzodiazepine (which Ms. Iravani took for decades), here is the response:
“Thanks. That is merely one of the ways that the elite is attempting to discredit people, rewrite history, and fight the silent civil war against witnesses of the corruption by the elite!
What a coincidence that the extremely loud ringing/ screeching in my left ear started just after I awoke from an intentional OD suicide attempt and was also abruptly taken off of Benzos cold turkey after being prescribed them for twenty years! It is my belief that an active RFID device was illegally implanted in my ear while I was unconscious, in addition to my eggs being illegally removed, since I stopped menstruating abruptly at that time also! That was at Columbia St. Mary’s Ozuaukee hospital March 27, 2014! Bet that the evil dumb ass mother fuckers never counted on a Trump victory or me blogging about it!”
As I said: insane.
She be cràaaaazay
Someone please correct my thinking on this. So killary et al hire the brit spook who pays/sold/told a Russian source for the maybe true dirt, probably just some morals charge, not really a crime. Felonia inc passed on the salacious news. The Russian source has since burned Steele Dan and they (Putin) hold back their intelligence dossier to say nyet to pantsuit and cohorts.
Thanks Vlad!
edit, I add a video. Sorta funny but not worth listening to all of it.
second edit, or maybe MI6 has it in for the witch too?
I totally fucking outraged at Sovereign Man Simon Black that was just featured on Zero Hedge who was an intelligence officer in the military and now has a private offshore banking business, a farm- when you click on the link, it says that you must sign in, an Australian apparel company- but when you click on the link, it doesn’t name the apparel company or show the apparel, and then at the bottom of the products page is a photo of a man in a black suit and tie with white gloves saying that the premium membership gives people information too sensitive to put into print, but that you will gain access to his inner circle, and be invited to all of his events!
If it is too sensitive to put into print, that means that it is illegal! What a terrible and evil man!!!!