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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 13:00:44 GMT -6
Techno Fog @techno_Fog · 15h The 6/2017 FISA app was signed by McCabe and Rosenstein - immediately after Mueller was appointed. Carter Page was no longer really "under investigation." Page and the warrant were a pretext to surveille the rest of Team Trump.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 13:02:24 GMT -6
Techno Fog @techno_Fog · 15h Finally, by June, 2017 it's obvious Carter Page isn't a Russian agent
But FISA app is extended another 90 days to coincide with Mueller appointment
This would allow Mueller to use FISA surveillance to prosecute the Trump team for matters unrelated to purpose of surveillance
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 13:05:32 GMT -6
Nick Short Nick Short @politicalshort I honestly wonder how many prior FISA warrants have been based upon oppo research done by smear shops such as Fusion GPS working in conjunction with FBI to target American citizens because of their political affiliation? 11:25 PM · Jul 21, 2018 3.4K Retweets 6.1K Likes
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 13:07:17 GMT -6
Byron York Byron York @byronyork Reassuring to know the FBI relies on flimsy, incomplete news stories to win warrants to wiretap US citizens. (link: ow.ly/WZy430l3GKP) ow.ly/WZy430l3GKP and (link: ow.ly/G3uY30l3GKW) ow.ly/G3uY30l3GKW
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Post by Boots on Jul 22, 2018 13:09:52 GMT -6
Techno Fog @techno_Fog · 15h The 6/2017 FISA app was signed by McCabe and Rosenstein - immediately after Mueller was appointed. Carter Page was no longer really "under investigation." Page and the warrant were a pretext to surveille the rest of Team Trump. Wow. They knew there was nothing. Mueller testified he wanted a special counsel appointed and they did it
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Post by trumped on Jul 22, 2018 13:22:35 GMT -6
Only collusion is leftist and rhinos traitorous crimes:
Buck Sexton @bucksexton · 16h Christopher Steele is a foreigner
He definitely tried to influence the election
And Steele didn’t settle for facebook memes or phishing schemes
He went right to our most powerful law enforcement agency and weaponized it
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Post by trumped on Jul 22, 2018 13:27:07 GMT -6
Judicial Watch 🔎 @judicialwatch · 1h JW filed its FOIA lawsuit w/ the DOJ for answers on any & all communications + payments made between the FBI & Christopher Steele ― the author of the "Trump Dossier" that was funded by Fusion GPS thru Clinton / DNC ― yet the FBI is stonewalling us on this.
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Post by trumped on Jul 22, 2018 13:28:06 GMT -6
Judicial Watch 🔎 @judicialwatch · 1h JW filed a FOIA lawsuit w/ the Justice Dept for any communications between DOJ & FBI w/ members of the Senate Judiciary Committee & House Permanent Select Committee on Intel related to FISA warrants against Carter Page & other members of Trump campaign.
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Post by trumped on Jul 22, 2018 13:29:02 GMT -6
Judicial Watch 🔎 @judicialwatch · 2h If you were watching the disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok dodge the truth in testimony to Congress last week, you'll understand our difficulty in getting Strzok’s official communications out of the FBI/DOJ. We don’t give up though, and we're succeeding
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Post by trumped on Jul 22, 2018 13:29:38 GMT -6
Judicial Watch 🔎 Judicial Watch 🔎 @judicialwatch · 3h Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit with the Department of Justice for any & all records (including any warrants) related to the FBI’s April 9th raid on the office, home, and hotel room of then-personal attorney of President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen.
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Post by trumped on Jul 22, 2018 13:30:30 GMT -6
On a roll
Judicial Watch 🔎 @judicialwatch · 4h Even though the U.S. pulled out of the Iran Deal, JW thinks questions remain. So JW filed a FOIA lawsuit with State Dept & Treasury Dept for answers on the Obama Admin’s secretive transfer of $400 million in cash (part of $1.7 billion) to Iran's regime.
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Post by trumped on Jul 22, 2018 13:31:41 GMT -6
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Post by xingtherubicon on Jul 22, 2018 14:00:52 GMT -6
No worries guys, GMA's George Stephanopolous said the new docs "completely exonerated the FBI and DOJ."
He actually said those words.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 14:20:12 GMT -6
No worries guys, GMA's George Stephanopolous said the new docs "completely exonerated the FBI and DOJ." He actually said those words. Given his ties to the Clinton’s, that does not surprise me one bit. He’s just echoing what the left & those like Rubio are going to be saying. Sad thing is, the facts paint an entirely different picture.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 14:21:16 GMT -6
Byron York Byron York @byronyork You know that misleading Washington Post story claiming 'Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine'? The FBI cited it in its application to wiretap Carter Page. (link: ow.ly/3gWc30l3MzZ) ow.ly/3gWc30l3MzZ and 112617 York Trump GOP Platform photo Byron York: What really happened with the GOP platform and Russia washingtonexaminer.com 7:05 AM · Jul 22, 2018 2K Retweets 3.5K Likes
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 14:22:07 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-what-really-happened-with-the-gop-platform-and-russia?platform=hootsuiteThe narrative spread. “The same month that Trump denied Putin’s role in Ukraine, his team weakened the party platform on Ukraine,” Democratic Rep. Andre Carson said during a House Intelligence Committee hearing in March. “This was the same month that several individuals in the Trump orbit held secret meetings with Russian officials, some of which may have been on the topic of sanctions against Russia or their intervention in Ukraine. Now, this is no coincidence, in my opinion.” In addition to being factually wrong, that storyline seems particularly out of place coming from Democrats, because the 2016 Democratic platform, while pledging to “stand up to Russian aggression,” said nothing about U.S. sanctions against Russia or about U.S. aid to Ukraine’s armed forces, both of which were in the Trump-approved Republican platform. Needless to say, the Democratic platform said not a word about lethal aid to Ukraine.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 14:22:47 GMT -6
12 149 316 Byron York Byron York @byronyork But the application seems a weak mix of Page's history, the dossier, and a bunch of press reports of varying reliability. And that's how a wiretap of a US citizen in the incredibly consequential Trump-Russia investigation was approved? 14/14 End. 1:35 AM · Jul 22, 2018 575 Retweets 1.1K Likes
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 14:23:34 GMT -6
Tom Fitton Tom Fitton @tomfitton Self-licking ice cream cone. FISA docs cite Clinton-DNC Dossier, leak of Dossier to media, and leak of Dossier info through Dem Senator Harry Reid. Corrupt dishonesty to get court approval to spy on @realdonaldtrump team. Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: FBI's FISA warrant actually cites as "evidence" to spy on Carter Page/Trump campaign "Senate Minority Leader" Harry Reid's 2016 letter to Comey citing information he got from John Brennan who got it from the Clinton dossier -- talk about circular evidence! 10:21 PM · Jul 21, 2018 3.7K Retweets 5.8K Likes
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 14:24:48 GMT -6
Conversation Paul Sperry Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: Heavily redacted FISA release on Carter Page makes it clear that FBI bought into Clinton hired gun Steele’s wild accusations & even pretended they didn’t know the "Western intelligence source" in Yahoo article they liberally quoted in support of app was in fact Steele 8:21 PM · Jul 21, 2018 3.1K Retweets 5.7K Likes .......
Paul Sperry Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ BREAKING: Over and over, the newly released FISA app on Carter Page reveals the FBI cited liberal media articles, along with the Clinton-paid political dossier, as EVIDENCE to support the warrant to spy on Page, and by extension, the Trump campaign 8:28 PM · Jul 21, 2018 3.3K Retweets 5.8K Likes
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Post by Boots on Jul 22, 2018 14:32:33 GMT -6
No worries guys, GMA's George Stephanopolous said the new docs "completely exonerated the FBI and DOJ." He actually said those words. The fact they are still letting him cover politics after he failed to disclose his donations to the Clinton Foundation nullifies my surprise
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Post by sooner98 on Jul 22, 2018 15:42:16 GMT -6
So, when Kamala Harris runs for president in 2020, and Trump uses the FBI to surveil her and her team, and obtains warrants against her, and places spies near her associates to frame them...err, "protect them from Russians", and then throws her associates in jail if they say something slightly wrong when interviewed, everyone will be cool with that, right?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 15:59:14 GMT -6
Gregg Jarrett ✔ @greggjarrett Newly released documents prove that Comey’s FBI and the DOJ relied almost entirely on the phony and unverified anti-Trump “dossier” to gain warrants to wiretap Trump campaign associate. The “dossier”, paid for by Clinton & Democrats, was about 95% of the application to spy! 10:03 AM - Jul 22, 2018
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Post by 1tc on Jul 22, 2018 16:06:37 GMT -6
I can see why Hillary is taking her loss so hard.
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Post by xingtherubicon on Jul 22, 2018 16:17:59 GMT -6
So, when Kamala Harris runs for president in 2020, and Trump uses the FBI to surveil her and her team, and obtains warrants against her, and places spies near her associates to frame them...err, "protect them from Russians", and then throws her associates in jail if they say something slightly wrong when interviewed, everyone will be cool with that, right? This is exactly what I was saying to a retarded leftist the other day. Anyone remember the anti-drug PSA from back in the day "I learned it by watching you!" How's that nuclear option working out for ya? also, hope they're looking forward to a weaponized IRS and spying on dem campaigns. F-ing idiots.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 16:26:40 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-22/why-did-russian-agent-butina-meet-obamas-fed-treasury-officials-2015Why Did 'Russian Agent' Butina Meet With Obama's Fed, Treasury Officials In 2015? ...... Accused Russian spy Maria Butina had far more significant contacts in Washington than previously known - having taken part in April, 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve, according to Reuters which sites people familiar with the meetings, as well as a report from a Washington think tank that arranged them. www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-butina-exclusive/exclusive-accused-russian-agent-butina-met-with-u-s-treasury-fed-officials-idUSKBN1KC0DCThe two officials were Stanley Fischer, Fed vice chairman at the time, and Nathan Sheets, who was then-Treasury undersecretary for international affairs. Fischer, and Israeli-American economist, served as governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 - 2013 before President Obama nominated him to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in January, 2014. He resigned in late October for personal reasons. Sheets, head of Global Macro at Prudential, was formerly the Global Head of International Economics at Citigroup after having spent for 18 years at the Federal Reserve. He was nominated by Obama for his Treasury position in February, 2014.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 19:27:44 GMT -6
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-russia-butina-exclusive/exclusive-accused-russian-agent-butina-met-with-u-s-treasury-fed-officials-idUKKBN1KC0DEAccused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department. The meetings, revealed by several people familiar with the sessions and a report from a Washington think tank that arranged them, involved Stanley Fischer, Fed vice chairman at the time, and Nathan Sheets, then Treasury undersecretary for international affairs. Butina travelled to the United States in April 2015 with Alexander Torshin, then the Russian Central Bank deputy governor, and they took part in separate meetings with Fischer and Sheets to discuss U.S.-Russian economic relations during Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration. The two meetings, which have not been previously reported, reveal a wider circle of high-powered connections that Butina sought to cultivate with American political leaders and special interest groups.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 22, 2018 20:21:13 GMT -6
Fox News ✔ @foxnews .@repgoodlatte: "I have had the opportunity... to read these FISA warrant applications without all of those redactions... and I think that it is critically important that the American people have the opportunity to see most of the rest of those documents." 10:08 AM - Jul 22, 2018
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 23, 2018 11:42:47 GMT -6
www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/carter-page-fisa-applications-fbi-steele-dossier/FISA Applications Confirm: The FBI Relied on the Unverified Steele Dossier By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY July 23, 2018 11:05 AM ......... A salacious Clinton-campaign product was the driving force behind the Trump–Russia investigation. On a sleepy summer Saturday, after months of stonewalling, the FBI dumped 412 pages of documents related to the Carter Page FISA surveillance warrants — the applications, the certifications, and the warrants themselves. Now that we can see it all in black and white — mostly black, as they are heavily redacted — it is crystal clear that the Steele dossier, an unverified Clinton-campaign product, was the driving force behind the Trump–Russia investigation. Based on the dossier, the FBI told the FISA court it believed that Carter Page, who had been identified by the Trump campaign as an adviser, was coordinating with the Russian government in an espionage conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. This sensational allegation came from Christopher Steele, the former British spy. The FISA court was not told that the Clinton campaign was behind Steele’s work. Nor did the FBI and Justice Department inform the court that Steele’s allegations had never been verified. To the contrary, each FISA application — the original one in October 2016, and the three renewals at 90-day intervals — is labeled “VERIFIED APPLICATION” (bold caps in original). And each one makes this breathtaking representation: The FBI has reviewed this verified application for accuracy in accordance with its April 5, 2001 procedures, which include sending a copy of the draft to the appropriate field office(s). In reality, the applications were never verified for accuracy. What ‘Verify’ Means Consider this: The representation that the FBI’s verification procedures include sending the application to “appropriate field offices” is standard in FISA warrant applications. It is done because the FBI’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG) mandates that the bureau “ensure that information appearing in a FISA application that is presented to the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] has been thoroughly vetted and confirmed.” (See House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes March 1, 2018, letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, embedded here.) The point is to assure the court that the FBI has corroborated the allegations in the warrant application in the usual way. A hypothetical shows how this works. Let’s say that X, an informant, tells the FBI in Washington that Y, a person in St. Louis, told him that Z, the suspect, is plotting to rob the bank. X’s story is unverified; he doesn’t know anything firsthand about Z — he only knows what Y has told him. Obviously, then, the FBI does not instantly run to court and seek a warrant against Z. Instead, the bureau sends an investigative “lead” from headquarters in Washington to the FBI field office in St. Louis. FBI agents in St. Louis then go find and interview Y. Based on that interview, the FBI gathers supporting information (perhaps physical surveillance of Z, scrutiny of available documents and records about Z, etc.). Only then, after debriefing the witness with competent knowledge, do the Justice Department and FBI seek a warrant against Z from the court. In the application, they explain to the judge that they have verified X’s information by interviewing Y and then corroborating Y’s version of events. In fact, if they get solid enough information about Z from Y, there may be no reason even to mention X, whose tip to the FBI was sheer hearsay. But that is not what happened with the Carter Page FISA warrants. Were the allegations thoroughly vetted and confirmed by proof independent of Steele before being presented to the FISA court? No, they were not. The FBI presented the court with allegations posited by Steele. He is in the position of X in our hypothetical. He is not the source of any of the relevant information on which the court was asked to rely for its probable-cause finding that Page was a clandestine agent of Russia. In this context, source means a reliable witness who saw or heard some occurrence on which the court is being asked to base its ruling. Steele has not been in Russia for about 20 years. In connection with the dossier allegations, he was merely the purveyor of information from the actual sources — unidentified Russians who themselves relied on hearsay information from other sources (sometimes double and triple hearsay, very attenuated from the supposed original source). In each Carter Page FISA warrant application, the FBI represented that it had “reviewed this verified application for accuracy.” But did the bureau truly ensure that the information had been “thoroughly vetted and confirmed”? Remember, we are talking here about serious, traitorous allegations against an American citizen and, derivatively, an American presidential campaign. When the FBI averred that it had verified for accuracy the application that posited these allegations, it was, at best, being hyper-technical, and thus misleading. What the bureau meant was that its application correctly stated the allegations as Steele had related them. But that is not what “verification” means. The issue is not whether Steele’s allegations were accurately described; it is whether they were accurate, period. Were the allegations thoroughly vetted and confirmed by proof independent of Steele before being presented to the FISA court — which is what common sense and the FBI’s own manual mean by “verified”? No, they were not. There Is No Reason to Believe the Redactions Corroborate Steele I have been making this point for months. When I made it again in a Fox and Friends interview on Sunday morning, critics asked how I could say such a thing when the warrants are pervasively redacted — how could I be so sure, given all we concededly don’t know, that the redactions do not corroborate Steele? The critics’ tunnel vision on the redactions ignores the months of hearings and reporting on this core question, which I’ve continuously detailed. Here, for example, is what two senior Judiciary Committee senators, Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham, wrote in a classified memo early this year after reviewing FISA applications (the memo was finally declassified and publicized over the objections of the FBI): The bulk of the [first Carter Page FISA] application consists of allegations against Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Mr. Steele and are also outlined in the Steele dossier. The application appears to contain no additional information corroborating the dossier allegations against Mr. Page. The senators went on to recount the concession by former FBI director James Comey that the bureau had relied on the credibility of Steele (who had previously assisted the bureau in another investigation), not the verification of Steele’s sources. In June 2017 testimony, Comey described information in the Steele dossier as “salacious and unverified.” Moreover, the FBI’s former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, told Congress that the bureau tried very hard to verify Steele’s information but could provide no points of verification beyond the fact that Page did travel to Russia in July 2016 — a fact that required no effort to corroborate since the trip was unconcealed and widely known. (Page delivered a public commencement address at the New Economic School.) Furthermore, in British legal proceedings, Steele himself has described the information he provided to the FBI as “raw intelligence” that was “unverified.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 23, 2018 11:45:22 GMT -6
I agree with this. Declassify everything and let the American people see it: www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/22/exclusive-house-intel-gop-asked-trump-to-declassify-key-parts-carter-page-fisa-application.html“Because DOJ (Department of Justice) and FBI continue to obstruct the Committee’s investigation, it is time to put the facts in the public domain,” the letter, dated June 14, states. Hpsci Gop Member Ltr to Potus Re Doj-FBI – 14 June 18 by Fox News on Scribd The 13 Republicans on the committee, including committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., state in the letter that the declassification should be consistent “with the need to protect intelligence sources and methods,” adding that the declassification will “enable the public to understand the DOJ’s and FBI’s basis for obtaining the FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals.” “… [W]e respectfully request that you declassify and release publicly, and in unredacted form, pages 10-12 and 17-34, along with all associated footnotes, of the third renewal of the FISA application on Mr. Page,” the letter states. “That renewal was filed in June 2017 and signed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.” The letter states, that on its face, the bureau’s reliance on the dossier appears to violate strict, internal FBI rules. “The Committee’s investigative findings include DOJ’s and FBI’s use of an unverified dossier of memoranda that was not subjected to proper U.S. government verification and was not handled according to FBI procedures,” the letter says.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 23, 2018 13:15:57 GMT -6
In a ruling Monday, Judge T.S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee ordered Mueller to publicly name the five witnesses who got immunity–a huge blow to the Special Counsel. www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/mueller-witnesses-immunity-735966A federal judge ruled Monday that special counsel Robert Mueller must make public the identities of five witnesses that his prosecutors have granted immunity in exchange for their testimony at the upcoming criminal trial of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III gave the order to unseal the witnesses’ identities, as well as a complete list of who is going to be called by prosecutors to testify, at the end of a 30-minute hearing in his Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom that primarily revolved around Manafort’s motion to postpone his case until he’s finished fighting a separate suite of charges brought by Mueller in Washington. Ellis heard arguments on Manafort’s plea for the delay — with the longtime GOP operative seated at the defense table, clean shaven and in his green jail jumpsuit — and said he would release a decision at 2 p.m. For now, potential jurors for Manafort’s Virginia trial are expected to arrive at the federal courthouse on Tuesday, with jury selection set to begin on Wednesday. ....... If it’s one or both Podesta brothers, then it will really be good.
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