16 Bombshells in the Nunes Memo

[Zorro!]

Instead of posting an excerpt, I'm, going to post all of this to see if our Snowflake protesters have the wherewith-all to refute - logically and with facts - a single one of them.

In its partisan zeal to protect the ongoing witch hunt against President Trump, our Nixonian media went into hyper-drive last week to ensure that the unethical and un-American behavior of President Obama’s FBI and Justice Department remained covered up from the public.
After this cynical effort failed with the release of the Nunes memo Friday, the media quickly switched tactics and is now working feverishly to muddy the waters about the horror show revealed in the memo.

To begin with, it is obvious that a hysterical talking point about declaring the release of the memo a “Constitutional Crisis” has been spread far and wide… Naturally, the “constitutional crisis” in question is not the wrongdoing committed by federal law enforcement. Instead, because we are now deep within the head of the media’s fabricated reality where wrong is right and up is down, the “constitutional crisis” is that government wrongdoing was uncovered.

One way the media are hoping to shield the federal government from accountability for its indefensible lies, cover-ups, and civil rights violations is to muddy the waters; to distract us with nonsense so that we lose focus on the sins committed by an FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) that abused its power and public trust in unprecedented ways.

Here are 16 things the media do not want you to know about the Nunes memo:

1. The so-called Russian Dossier, the creation of Fusion GPS and former British spy Christopher Steele, is a political document — namely, opposition research, created for the Democrat National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
   
   
2. Using what it knew was opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign, in October of 2016, the FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA warrant from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to install a “wiretap” to spy on Hillary Clinton’s opponent — the Trump campaign, specifically Carter Page. This spying would last for a year.
   
   
3. It should be noted that the FISA court was set up to stop foreign terrorists. The fact that the FBI and DOJ would use this court to not only wiretap an American but to monitor a presidential campaign belies belief. Why Obama’s FBI and DOJ used this court as opposed to a normal court is obvious. As you will see below, a normal court probably would have denied the application.
   
   
4. Worse still, in the summer of 2016, Obama’s DOJ had already opened a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. The fact that nothing from that months-old partisan investigation was used to obtain the Page wiretap is revealing.
   
   
5. According to the Nunes memo, an “essential” part of the FISA application was the Steele dossier, which again is a partisan political document created for the Clinton campaign.
   
   
6. So essential was this partisan dossier, Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former-Deputy Director of the FBI, admitted in December that “no surveillance warrant would have been sought” without the dossier.
   
   
7. Not only did the FBI knowingly use a document from a partisan campaign to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the competing campaign, the FBI knew the dossier was mostly “salacious and unverified.” We know this because disgraced former-FBI Director James Comey told us so in June of 2017.
   
   
8. According to the Nunes memo, “Steele told [demoted DOJ official Bruce] Ohr, he ‘was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.'”
   
   
9. Ohr, who was part of the FBI’s anti-Trump Russian investigation, was not only friendly with Steele, Ohr’s own wife worked at Fusion GPS doing opposition research (the dossier) against Trump for the Clinton campaign.
   
   
10. Despite a) knowing the dossier was opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign b) knowing the dossier was “salacious and unverified” c) knowing Steele was desperate to destroy Trump d) the breathtaking conflict of interest in having an investigator’s own wife working on the dossier, the FBI still went to the FISA court to obtain permission to spy on Hillary Clinton’s opponent.
    
    
11. In order to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, all of the conflicts of interest above were withheld from the FISA court — an indefensible (and possibly illegal) lie of omission.
    
    
12. Even worse, in order to legitimize a warrant request based on a piece of partisan opposition research they knew was “salacious and unverified,” the FBI and DOJ used a media report to bolster the findings in the phony dossier. The FBI and DOJ told the court that the media report was independent verification of the dossier. But this was not true, and, according to the Nunes memo, the FBI and DOJ knew this was not true. The truth is that the phony dossier was the source of this media report.
    
    
13. Also hidden from the FISA court was the fact that the FBI obtained Steele as a source but had to fire him in October of 2016 when, in a bid to use his phony dossier to derail the Trump campaign, he leaked his information to the far-left Mother Jones.
    
    
14. Although the FBI and DOJ were willing participants in pushing a “salacious and unverified” narrative against a presidential candidate (primarily through media leaks), this was all hidden from congressional investigators. To begin with, for months, while under oath, Comey said he did not know where the dossier came from — meaning from the Clinton campaign. The Wall Street Journal explains:

We also know the FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators in a briefing on the dossier in January 2017. The FBI did not tell Congress about Mr. Steele’s connection to the Clinton campaign, and the House had to issue subpoenas for Fusion bank records to discover the truth. Nor did the FBI tell investigators that it continued receiving information from Mr. Steele and Fusion even after it had terminated him. The memo says the bureau’s intermediary was Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, whose wife, incredibly, worked for Fusion.

1. All of this dishonesty occurred under Comey, the man our media now hold up as a living saint, a man so desperate to destroy Trump, he not only oversaw some of those committing the above abuses, he leaked potentially classified information to the news media in order to see a Special Prosecutor appointed against Trump, which his pal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, immediately did.

And finally…

16. Much of the “salacious and unverified” material in the dossier came from the Russians. In other words, those disgusting dossier lies about Trump’s personal behavior came from Russian operatives. So there is no question that it was the Clinton campaign, Democrats, Steele, the FBI, and DOJ who colluded with the Russians to rig a presidential election.

Yes, there was collusion with the Russians, and those in our government currently investigating Trump in the hopes of overturning a presidential election are the colluders.

Now, refute the above and PROVE IT with valid links - if you can.

Unethical and un-American behavior. Are you saying that Trump epitomizes all that is ethical and American?

1) The Steele dossier was FIRST funded by the Republicans. The Washington Free Beacon funded mostly by Paul Singer, paid Fusion GPS to write a dossier on Trump. This was October 2015. They stopped funding this only once Trump had become presumptive nominee in May 2016. In April 2016 the DNC then hired the same company, Fusion GPS to make a dossier on Trump. Fusion GPS then hired a firm which used Steele.

Which is more worrying, that some Republicans wanted to dig up dirt on Trump or that some Democrats wanted to dig up dirt on Trump?

No it wasn't.

...Digging up dirt on political opponents is something that everyone actually EXPECTS to happen. Shock? Not!

No one expects the dirt to be the basis for a FISA warrant.

...2) FISA obtained a warrant against Carter Page, who was no longer working for the Trump team. So, taking out a warrant on someone who did not work for Trump, would hardly be considered spying on Trump.

The warrant looks forward and BACK at all electronic communication, and with the "3 hop rule" it effectively throws a blanket over the entire campaign. These are POWERFUL SPYING AUTHORITIES and not intended to be used against rival American Political campaigns by the Federal Government.

... 3) It was/is thought that Carter Page was dealing with the Russians. He testified that he had met with Russian govt officials in June 2016...

The FBI was repeatedly told by the CIA that Carter Page was a source for them, gathering information on the Russians. The FBI repeatedly concealed this information from the FISA court and even submitted and email with the application where an FBI employee inserted the words "Not A" next to the phrase source for the Agency (CIA).

The Nunes memo was mostly right about the FBI’s FISA application (and Comey was wrong)
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/12/11/nunes-memo-mostly-right-fbis-fisa-application/


“The press universally crapped on his letter…”

Released in early February of 2018, the Nunes memo (full text here) pointed out significant problems with the FBI’s FISA application. A few excerpts from the memo. See if these sound familiar:

1. “The ‘dossier’ compiled by Christopher Steele (Steele dossier) on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application.”
2. “The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow. This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News.”
3. “Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr…”
4. “After Steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within FBI assessed Steele’s reporting as only minimally corroborated.”

Now compare those statements from the Nunes memo to these direct quotes from the IG report:

1. “We determined that the Crossfire Hurricane team’s receipt of Steele’s election reporting on September 19, 2016 played a central and essential role in the FBI’s and Department’s decision to seek the FISA order.
2. “drafts of the Carter Page FISA application stated, until October 14, 2016, that Steele was responsible for the leak that led to the September 23 Yahoo News article. One of the drafts specifically stated that Steele “was acting on his/her own volition and has since been admonished by the FBI.” In contrast, the final version of the first FISA application stated: ‘… The FBI does not believe that Source #1 directly provided this information to the Press.'”
3. “On October 18, 2016, after speaking with Steele that morning, Ohr met with McCabe to share Steele’s and Simpson’s information with him. Thereafter, Ohr met with members of the Crossfire Hurricane team 13 times between November 21, 2016, and May 15, 2017, concerning his contacts with Steele and Simpson. All 13 meetings occurred after the FBI had closed Steele as a CHS and, except for the November 21 meeting, each meeting was initiated at Ohr’s request.”
4. “the FBI’s interview with Steele’s Primary Subsource in January 2017, shortly after the FBI filed the Carter Page FISA Renewal Application No. 1 and months prior to Renewal Application No. 2, raised doubts about the reliability of Steele’s descriptions of information in his election reports.”

The vilification and subsequent validation of the Nunes memo.

There was gnashing of teeth when Nunes first released his memo in January, 2018. The press universally crapped on his letter, with a Washington Post piece calling it a “joke” and a “sham.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Nunes for the release of a “bogus” document, while New York Senator Chuck Schumer said the memo was intended to “sow conspiracy theories and attack the integrity of federal law enforcement.” Many called for his removal as Committee chair.

The Horowitz report says all of that caterwauling was off-base. It also undercuts many of the assertions made in a ballyhooed response letter by Nunes counterpart Adam Schiff, who described the FBI’s “reasonable basis” for deeming Steele credible. The report is especially hostile to Schiff’s claim that the FBI “provided additional information obtained through multiple independent sources that corroborated Steele’s reporting.”

In fact, far from confirming the Steele material, the FBI over time seems mainly to have uncovered more and more reasons to run screaming from Steele…

What’s noteworthy about the Nunes memo in retrospect is that the real story of the FISA warrant is even worse than the memo claimed. As we now know, Carter Page was working as an “operational contact” for the CIA from 2008 to 2013. The FBI asked about this and the CIA confirmed it but an FBI agent deliberately altered an email so this was not reported to the FISA court. The FISA warrant application on Carter Page was so bad that even the ACLU now calls it, “alarming from a civil liberties perspective.”

Finally, it’s worth recalling that former FBI Director James Comey was one of the people who trashed the Nunes memo when it was released:


James Comey

✔@Comey
That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.

Yes, that’s it. Or as the IG put it,

“That so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate, hand-picked teams on one of the most sensitive FBI investigations that was briefed to the highest levels within the FBI, and that FBI officials expected would eventually be subjected to close scrutiny, raised significant questions regarding the FBI chain of command’s management and supervision of the FISA process.”​

More of James Comey being wrong.


Senate Judiciary

✔@senjudiciary
Here is the clip Chairman @lindseygrahamsc just referenced:



https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1204797189467316225

 

[airplanemechanic]

3) It was/is thought that Carter Page was dealing with the Russians. He testified that he had met with Russian govt officials in June 2016. Lewandowski said he didn't remember all this stuff with Page going off to Russia. Another example, of many, of people around Trump forgetting, conveniently, things that were happening, the sort of things people would be told to "forget".

Carter Page was working for the US gathering intel on Russia!! He was basically a US spy. We knew this!! He was hired to do this!!! And yet they used this as "proof" for the FISA warrant that he was working FOR Russia.

Stupid fucking liberals.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

3) It was/is thought that Carter Page was dealing with the Russians. He testified that he had met with Russian govt officials in June 2016. Lewandowski said he didn't remember all this stuff with Page going off to Russia. Another example, of many, of people around Trump forgetting, conveniently, things that were happening, the sort of things people would be told to "forget".

Carter Page was working for the US gathering intel on Russia!! He was basically a US spy. We knew this!! He was hired to do this!!! And yet they used this as "proof" for the FISA warrant that he was working FOR Russia.

Stupid fucking liberals.

Stupid is accurate but you left out sleazy.

 

[Nostra]

Nunes has been vindicated. Comey is toast.

 

[theHawk]

4) The FBI opened a counter intelligence case because of evidence against George Papadopoulos. He pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about dealing with Russia.

The FBI actually had something.

5) How "essential" was the Steele Dossier? Essential is a word that can mean lots of things and is extremely subjective. Who made the claim it was "essential"? Nunes or someone who actually was in charge of getting the Dossier to be evidence?

The IG report clearly states that the Steele dossier was what made them decide to take it to the FISA court. No dossier, no wiretap spying. Dems used Russian intel to fraudulently get a FISA warrant and spy on their political opposition.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Instead of posting an excerpt, I'm, going to post all of this to see if our Snowflake protesters have the wherewith-all to refute - logically and with facts - a single one of them.

In its partisan zeal to protect the ongoing witch hunt against President Trump, our Nixonian media went into hyper-drive last week to ensure that the unethical and un-American behavior of President Obama’s FBI and Justice Department remained covered up from the public.
After this cynical effort failed with the release of the Nunes memo Friday, the media quickly switched tactics and is now working feverishly to muddy the waters about the horror show revealed in the memo.

To begin with, it is obvious that a hysterical talking point about declaring the release of the memo a “Constitutional Crisis” has been spread far and wide… Naturally, the “constitutional crisis” in question is not the wrongdoing committed by federal law enforcement. Instead, because we are now deep within the head of the media’s fabricated reality where wrong is right and up is down, the “constitutional crisis” is that government wrongdoing was uncovered.

One way the media are hoping to shield the federal government from accountability for its indefensible lies, cover-ups, and civil rights violations is to muddy the waters; to distract us with nonsense so that we lose focus on the sins committed by an FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) that abused its power and public trust in unprecedented ways.

Here are 16 things the media do not want you to know about the Nunes memo:

1. The so-called Russian Dossier, the creation of Fusion GPS and former British spy Christopher Steele, is a political document — namely, opposition research, created for the Democrat National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
   
   
2. Using what it knew was opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign, in October of 2016, the FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA warrant from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to install a “wiretap” to spy on Hillary Clinton’s opponent — the Trump campaign, specifically Carter Page. This spying would last for a year.
   
   
3. It should be noted that the FISA court was set up to stop foreign terrorists. The fact that the FBI and DOJ would use this court to not only wiretap an American but to monitor a presidential campaign belies belief. Why Obama’s FBI and DOJ used this court as opposed to a normal court is obvious. As you will see below, a normal court probably would have denied the application.
   
   
4. Worse still, in the summer of 2016, Obama’s DOJ had already opened a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. The fact that nothing from that months-old partisan investigation was used to obtain the Page wiretap is revealing.
   
   
5. According to the Nunes memo, an “essential” part of the FISA application was the Steele dossier, which again is a partisan political document created for the Clinton campaign.
   
   
6. So essential was this partisan dossier, Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former-Deputy Director of the FBI, admitted in December that “no surveillance warrant would have been sought” without the dossier.
   
   
7. Not only did the FBI knowingly use a document from a partisan campaign to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the competing campaign, the FBI knew the dossier was mostly “salacious and unverified.” We know this because disgraced former-FBI Director James Comey told us so in June of 2017.
   
   
8. According to the Nunes memo, “Steele told [demoted DOJ official Bruce] Ohr, he ‘was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.'”
   
   
9. Ohr, who was part of the FBI’s anti-Trump Russian investigation, was not only friendly with Steele, Ohr’s own wife worked at Fusion GPS doing opposition research (the dossier) against Trump for the Clinton campaign.
   
   
10. Despite a) knowing the dossier was opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign b) knowing the dossier was “salacious and unverified” c) knowing Steele was desperate to destroy Trump d) the breathtaking conflict of interest in having an investigator’s own wife working on the dossier, the FBI still went to the FISA court to obtain permission to spy on Hillary Clinton’s opponent.
    
    
11. In order to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, all of the conflicts of interest above were withheld from the FISA court — an indefensible (and possibly illegal) lie of omission.
    
    
12. Even worse, in order to legitimize a warrant request based on a piece of partisan opposition research they knew was “salacious and unverified,” the FBI and DOJ used a media report to bolster the findings in the phony dossier. The FBI and DOJ told the court that the media report was independent verification of the dossier. But this was not true, and, according to the Nunes memo, the FBI and DOJ knew this was not true. The truth is that the phony dossier was the source of this media report.
    
    
13. Also hidden from the FISA court was the fact that the FBI obtained Steele as a source but had to fire him in October of 2016 when, in a bid to use his phony dossier to derail the Trump campaign, he leaked his information to the far-left Mother Jones.
    
    
14. Although the FBI and DOJ were willing participants in pushing a “salacious and unverified” narrative against a presidential candidate (primarily through media leaks), this was all hidden from congressional investigators. To begin with, for months, while under oath, Comey said he did not know where the dossier came from — meaning from the Clinton campaign. The Wall Street Journal explains:

We also know the FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators in a briefing on the dossier in January 2017. The FBI did not tell Congress about Mr. Steele’s connection to the Clinton campaign, and the House had to issue subpoenas for Fusion bank records to discover the truth. Nor did the FBI tell investigators that it continued receiving information from Mr. Steele and Fusion even after it had terminated him. The memo says the bureau’s intermediary was Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, whose wife, incredibly, worked for Fusion.

1. All of this dishonesty occurred under Comey, the man our media now hold up as a living saint, a man so desperate to destroy Trump, he not only oversaw some of those committing the above abuses, he leaked potentially classified information to the news media in order to see a Special Prosecutor appointed against Trump, which his pal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, immediately did.

And finally…

16. Much of the “salacious and unverified” material in the dossier came from the Russians. In other words, those disgusting dossier lies about Trump’s personal behavior came from Russian operatives. So there is no question that it was the Clinton campaign, Democrats, Steele, the FBI, and DOJ who colluded with the Russians to rig a presidential election.

Yes, there was collusion with the Russians, and those in our government currently investigating Trump in the hopes of overturning a presidential election are the colluders.

Now, refute the above and PROVE IT with valid links - if you can.

This may be why Hillary expressed concern about "nooses"

 

[MAGAman]

The GOP is delaying the inevitable. Their orange Jesus is toast and they know it.

Yeah... In 6 years he'll be gone... You can count on it.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Who gave Obama his orders?

Who was pulling the strings?

 

[Zorro!]

3) It was/is thought that Carter Page was dealing with the Russians. He testified that he had met with Russian govt officials in June 2016. Lewandowski said he didn't remember all this stuff with Page going off to Russia. Another example, of many, of people around Trump forgetting, conveniently, things that were happening, the sort of things people would be told to "forget".

Carter Page was working for the US gathering intel on Russia!! He was basically a US spy. We knew this!! He was hired to do this!!! And yet they used this as "proof" for the FISA warrant that he was working FOR Russia.

Stupid fucking liberals.

It has all, always, been a pile of spin, propaganda and lies by the Obama Administration, Comey, Lynch, The DOJ, The FBI, Clinton Administration and the DNC. And it failed and Trump was elected. All the evidence they found was exculpatory, none was incriminating, and the entire case had collapsed BEFORE the election, and everyone involved knew it.

It was resurrected with this piece of crap Dossier, supposedly Kremlin sourced disinformation, the fabrication of and compiling of, paid for by Hillary Clinton, that funding deliberately concealed from the FISA COURT, and off they went again.

Then they tried to drive him from office, Dirty Bob did his witch hunt, and that failed. ALL the evidence they found was exculpatory of Russian Collusion, NONE was incriminating, yet they released no interim findings even as the Fake News Propaganda Outfits were running with a steady stream of leaks, always promising that the next bombshell was just around the corner that would "prove" that Trump colluded with, was put into office by, and under the control of Vladimir Putin. 2 years Dirty Bob and the Witch Hunters kept silent while the Deep State Leakers and the Fake News Media buried the nation in this campaign of lies, Adam Schiff as vocal and in the center of it as anyone, and this too collapsed and Trump emerged fully vindicated.

So Adam Schiff engaged in a conspiracy with Deep State Operatives, reworked as "Whistle Blowers" other Deep States changing the definition, just in time, and now we have the impeachment farce, soon to be headed to the US Senate for it's final death.

This is what living under the rule of Democrats would be like if they could ever get control of everything again. They have rotted and corrupted even more since 2008, what dreadful hateful folks they have become. The sane and the normal, decent folks in their midst need to step forward, denounce and separate themselves from them.

And the Fake News Media, they flogged these lies for their own purposes and ratings, the entire time. The full blown propaganda effort that was relentlessly poured out on the electorate was delivered daily by The Fake News Media - and still Trump Stands Tall, completely vindicated.

Joe Manchin says he’s torn on voting to convict Trump in Senate trial.

“Manchin said he would not have a problem with calling Hunter Biden to testify in the trial, despite vocal opposition from most Democrats who argue that it would divert attention from the allegations at the heart of the impeachment case against Trump.”​

You kid no one Joe, you will vote to acquit. You know it, I know it, The American People know it.

 

[theHawk]

Who gave Obama his orders?

Who was pulling the strings?

He’s called the Manchurian Candidate for a reason...

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Who gave Obama his orders?

Who was pulling the strings?

He’s called the Manchurian Candidate for a reason...

Speaking of which...

 

[Butch_Coolidge]

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[Zorro!]

4) The FBI opened a counter intelligence case because of evidence against George Papadopoulos. He pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about dealing with Russia.

The FBI actually had something.

5) How "essential" was the Steele Dossier? Essential is a word that can mean lots of things and is extremely subjective. Who made the claim it was "essential"? Nunes or someone who actually was in charge of getting the Dossier to be evidence?

The IG report clearly states that the Steele dossier was what made them decide to take it to the FISA court. No dossier, no wiretap spying. Dems used Russian intel to fraudulently get a FISA warrant and spy on their political opposition.

Fat Jerry and Bug-eyed Schiff sure lied alot about that!

 

[Zorro!]

Who gave Obama his orders?

Who was pulling the strings?

He’s called the Manchurian Candidate for a reason...

We entrusted the Federal Government with vast surveillance power intended to safeguard us from Terrorist attack, but Obama just put on a seminar showing how a crooked Federal Government and Deep State could turn this against their domestic political opponents

IF THE FBI WAS WILLING TO BE THIS SHADY WHILE INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WHAT DOES IT GET AWAY WITH IN LOWER-PROFILE CASES?

We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Who gave Obama his orders?

Who was pulling the strings?

He’s called the Manchurian Candidate for a reason...

We entrusted the Federal Government with vast surveillance power intended to safeguard us from Terrorist attack, but Obama just put on a seminar showing how a crooked Federal Government and Deep State could turn this against their domestic political opponents

IF THE FBI WAS WILLING TO BE THIS SHADY WHILE INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WHAT DOES IT GET AWAY WITH IN LOWER-PROFILE CASES?

We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.

The FBI needs to be disbanded.

Probably every conviction Comey, Mueller & Company signed should be overturned

 

[Zorro!]

Who gave Obama his orders?

Who was pulling the strings?

He’s called the Manchurian Candidate for a reason...

We entrusted the Federal Government with vast surveillance power intended to safeguard us from Terrorist attack, but Obama just put on a seminar showing how a crooked Federal Government and Deep State could turn this against their domestic political opponents

IF THE FBI WAS WILLING TO BE THIS SHADY WHILE INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WHAT DOES IT GET AWAY WITH IN LOWER-PROFILE CASES?

We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.

The FBI needs to be disbanded.

Probably every conviction Comey, Mueller & Company signed should be overturned

If they cannot immediately clean house, they need to roll it up, close it down, and transfer it's essential functions to the US Marshall's Service.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Who gave Obama his orders?

Who was pulling the strings?

He’s called the Manchurian Candidate for a reason...

We entrusted the Federal Government with vast surveillance power intended to safeguard us from Terrorist attack, but Obama just put on a seminar showing how a crooked Federal Government and Deep State could turn this against their domestic political opponents

IF THE FBI WAS WILLING TO BE THIS SHADY WHILE INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WHAT DOES IT GET AWAY WITH IN LOWER-PROFILE CASES?

We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.

The FBI needs to be disbanded.

Probably every conviction Comey, Mueller & Company signed should be overturned

If they cannot immediately clean house, they need to roll it up, close it down, and transfer it's essential functions to the US Marshall's Service.

No, it can't be saved, it has zero credibility. Less than zero. They let themselves get turned into Obama's Secret Police. There's no fucking way to ever get that genie back into the bottle

 

[JoeB131]

The warrant looks forward and BACK at all electronic communication, and with the "3 hop rule" it effectively throws a blanket over the entire campaign. These are POWERFUL SPYING AUTHORITIES and not intended to be used against rival American Political campaigns by the Federal Government.

I agree. That isn't what happened here. What they were looking for was proof that Page was working for the Russians. That is EXACTLY what FISA was designed for.

Your argument that it was designed so be used against Trump's campaign is spurious. If that was the intent, why not leak all these innuendoes BEFORE the election, not after when it really didn't do a bit of good.