GOP investigators say classified docs will expose misuse of Steele dossier

[Care4all]

The FISA application for Carter Page was 400 pages.... the Dossier had 3 pages on Carter Page, what were the other 397 pages in the request about?

ALSO, the warrant application told the judge the dossier was paid for by Trump`s political opponent.... it's a LIE saying that the judge was not told.

I'm fine with the IG investigating it....

 

[kwc57]

The FISA application for Carter Page was 400 pages.... the Dossier had 3 pages on Carter Page, what were the other 397 pages in the request about?

ALSO, the warrant application told the judge the dossier was paid for by Trump`s political opponent.... it's a LIE saying that the judge was not told.

I'm fine with the IG investigating it....

You might want to alert the media and provide them with the info you have that no one else does.

 

[MarcATL]

Soooooo, now that Mueller has done his thing and came up empty, you're good with pulling the plug on all of the ongoing investigations and witch hunts by the Dems on Trump?

If they were witch hunts, how come some many witches were caught?

 

[Darkwind]

Well you'd believe them if they found nothing.

Lets just see how it plays out.

How many times have you guys already investigated Hillary?

How many more times do you plan on investigating Hillary?

How many millions do you people plan on wasting on these stunts?

Perhaps this time with some HONEST INVESTIGATORS we can finally put that felonious bitch in jail....makes me smile!

Well, you see, an DoJ investigation would be the first REAL investigation into Clinton's campaign oddities. The Lynch DoJ was a whitewash of the information complete with assurances by Lynch to Clinton in Pheonix that Hillary would be just fine.

Now, with a real DoJ investigation, we'll get the real facts.

You don't want real facts. If you did you would not be whatever passes for a conservative these days. All this shit is going nowhere because at the end of the day they would have to walk into court with a bunch of bullshit. All they are doing is running out the clock while seeming to launch the vengeance investigation the right craves. They are going to string you along until the election then it will not matter one bit.

I do want the real facts. I've not called for Clinton to be put in jail until and/or if they find her guilty. However, you wouldn't know a real fact if it bit you in the ass.

 

[kwc57]

Soooooo, now that Mueller has done his thing and came up empty, you're good with pulling the plug on all of the ongoing investigations and witch hunts by the Dems on Trump?

If they were witch hunts, how come some many witches were caught?

God, are you really that much of a moron. Tell me Brainiac, how many indictments and convictions for "collusion" with the Russians? Zero. How many were process crimes like lying to the FBI? They grabbed low level campaign workers and questioned them and threatened them with jail time in hopes of getting someone to roll over on Trump and give them some evidence of collusion. When that didn't happen, they would reinterview them a month later and if they answered the question a little different than the first time, they had "lied" to the FBI, were charged, convicted and did time unless they could recant and dish some dirt. When they couldn't, they spent time in jail. But no witches were caught based on the premise of the investigation. You know that.

 

[danielpalos]

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Top Republicans talked up classified documents on Sunday they believe will root out FBI misconduct in the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Over the past few days, GOP lawmakers demanded answers about when the FBI was informed about British ex-spy Christopher Steele's "political motivations" before his unverified dossier was used to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted — and admitted he was encouraged by a client to get his research out before the 2016 election on Nov. 8, signaling a possible political motivation. The meeting was described in notes taken by Kavalec that were obtained by conservative group Citizens United through open-records litigation.

"In her notes, she indicates that Steele was urging to get the dossier out before the election," Graham, R-S.C., said on "Fox News Sunday." "And she also, in handwritten notes, indicates that it was paid for by the Democratic Party, the Clinton campaign, the dossier. The most important thing is, she transferred that information to the FBI. So the FBI is now on notice on October the 11th that their confidential informant is trying to get the dossier out for political purposes and that the State Department figured out the Democrats paid for it. How could they then go get a warrant based on that same document and not tell the court what the State Department told them?”

Graham, whose committee is investigating alleged FISA abuse, said there is one particular classified document he hopes will provide answers.

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request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted

And why is this just now coming to light?? All these Official Investigations and this NEVER came up?? Who was HIDING this Document?? This is Real Obstruction of Justice on Multiple Levels, why did it take a Private Group of Taxpayers to unearth this through a Lawsuit??

He got hired for political reasons. Why wouldn't political motivations not be a concern?

 

[danielpalos]

The FBI used it to obtain a FISA warrant and three renewals to wiretap Page. Republican investigators allege the FBI misled the FISA Court by not revealing Steele's Democratic benefactors or his anti-Trump bias in the warrant application process.

That Court could not be unaware of the political situation. The right wing is claiming the "motivated hired help", had no basis to "do a good job".

 

[jc456]

What does a GOP investigator do? They damned sure don't investigate. I mean what do you do if you are tasked with finding out what the three little pigs did to make the big nice wolf so angry?

how is that collusion investigation going? oh yeah, it's over, and zero collusion. nice witch hunt that came back empty.

 

[Care4all]

The FISA application for Carter Page was 400 pages.... the Dossier had 3 pages on Carter Page, what were the other 397 pages in the request about?

ALSO, the warrant application told the judge the dossier was paid for by Trump`s political opponent.... it's a LIE saying that the judge was not told.

I'm fine with the IG investigating it....

You might want to alert the media and provide them with the info you have that no one else does.

The media reported it, back when Nunes had his marketing campaign on #releasethememo.... when the Dems got the rest redacted to combat the Repub version/story.

 

[PoliticalChic]

If they confiscate the 130 million Hillary got from the Russians for selling them our Uranium, we could do all of the deep state investigations without any further taxpayer liability.

$145 million



I wonder how much she tipped Mueller?

 

[ph3iron]

MUCH MORE AT
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Top Republicans talked up classified documents on Sunday they believe will root out FBI misconduct in the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Over the past few days, GOP lawmakers demanded answers about when the FBI was informed about British ex-spy Christopher Steele's "political motivations" before his unverified dossier was used to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted — and admitted he was encouraged by a client to get his research out before the 2016 election on Nov. 8, signaling a possible political motivation. The meeting was described in notes taken by Kavalec that were obtained by conservative group Citizens United through open-records litigation.

"In her notes, she indicates that Steele was urging to get the dossier out before the election," Graham, R-S.C., said on "Fox News Sunday." "And she also, in handwritten notes, indicates that it was paid for by the Democratic Party, the Clinton campaign, the dossier. The most important thing is, she transferred that information to the FBI. So the FBI is now on notice on October the 11th that their confidential informant is trying to get the dossier out for political purposes and that the State Department figured out the Democrats paid for it. How could they then go get a warrant based on that same document and not tell the court what the State Department told them?”

Graham, whose committee is investigating alleged FISA abuse, said there is one particular classified document he hopes will provide answers.

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request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted

And why is this just now coming to light?? All these Official Investigations and this NEVER came up?? Who was HIDING this Document?? This is Real Obstruction of Justice on Multiple Levels, why did it take a Private Group of Taxpayers to unearth this through a Lawsuit??

Examiner?
Nothing like both sides
I thought it started before the repub anti trump bunch started the Steele?.

 

[ph3iron]

MUCH MORE AT
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Top Republicans talked up classified documents on Sunday they believe will root out FBI misconduct in the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Over the past few days, GOP lawmakers demanded answers about when the FBI was informed about British ex-spy Christopher Steele's "political motivations" before his unverified dossier was used to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted — and admitted he was encouraged by a client to get his research out before the 2016 election on Nov. 8, signaling a possible political motivation. The meeting was described in notes taken by Kavalec that were obtained by conservative group Citizens United through open-records litigation.

"In her notes, she indicates that Steele was urging to get the dossier out before the election," Graham, R-S.C., said on "Fox News Sunday." "And she also, in handwritten notes, indicates that it was paid for by the Democratic Party, the Clinton campaign, the dossier. The most important thing is, she transferred that information to the FBI. So the FBI is now on notice on October the 11th that their confidential informant is trying to get the dossier out for political purposes and that the State Department figured out the Democrats paid for it. How could they then go get a warrant based on that same document and not tell the court what the State Department told them?”

Graham, whose committee is investigating alleged FISA abuse, said there is one particular classified document he hopes will provide answers.

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request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted

And why is this just now coming to light?? All these Official Investigations and this NEVER came up?? Who was HIDING this Document?? This is Real Obstruction of Justice on Multiple Levels, why did it take a Private Group of Taxpayers to unearth this through a Lawsuit??

Examiner?
Nothing like both sides
I thought it started before the repub anti trump bunch started the Steele?.

Oh Hitlery will never be held accountable for anything she has done.

Hell if she were in the military she would have landed in Leavenworth for her e-mail shenanigans.

She's done loads of things and will never pay any price.

How much millions are you people willing to waste on these stunts Claudette?

So you have no problem with her bleaching her servers and withholding thousands of e-mails??

Good to know you will defend that sorry POS till hell freezes over. Have fun.

So we are still consumed with Hillary?
What a pathetic life.
Why don't you research our current daughter lusting, teen peeking Pres
And what have you done for 911 families darlin?

 

[Care4all]

The FISA application for Carter Page was 400 pages.... the Dossier had 3 pages on Carter Page, what were the other 397 pages in the request about?

ALSO, the warrant application told the judge the dossier was paid for by Trump`s political opponent.... it's a LIE saying that the judge was not told.

I'm fine with the IG investigating it....

You might want to alert the media and provide them with the info you have that no one else does.

FYI

The F.B.I. used only a small part of the information provided by Mr. Steele.
The Democratic memo says the application made “narrow use” of information from Mr. Steele’s sources. It describes multiple other categories of information, including yearslong suspicions that Mr. Page was being recruited by Russian spies, and revealed that the F.B.I. had interviewed Mr. Page about his ties to Russian intelligence officials in March 2016.

It also discussed Moscow’s apparent overtures to another Trump campaign official and its general meddling during that period, which prompted the F.B.I. to open the Trump-Russia investigation in late July — before the bureau’s investigative team received Mr. Steele’s information.

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Some of that material remains redacted in the version of the memo made public on Saturday.

By contrast, Republicans have portrayed Mr. Steele’s information as the central focus of the application, filed to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The Republican memo said it formed “an essential part” of the application, and in a separate memo, Senators Charles E. Grassley and Lindsey Graham, Republicans of Iowa and South Carolina, stated that “the bulk” of the application was Mr. Steele’s information.

The Democratic memo also says that what the F.B.I. did use from Mr. Steele did not include the salacious parts of his dossier. Instead, it says, the bureau chiefly relied on the dossier’s claims that Mr. Page had met with a Kremlin official as well as a close associate of President Vladimir V. Putin during a July 2016 trip to Moscow, during which the official offered to provide compromising information about Mrs. Clinton to the Trump campaign.

Notably, the Democratic memo also said that in subsequent renewals of the wiretap application, the Justice Department “provided additional information obtained through multiple independent sources that corroborated Steele’s reporting.”

The surveillance court knew that Mr. Steele’s clients had a political motive.
The Republican memo complained that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was not told that the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. had financed Mr. Steele’s research, suggesting that the judges were misled about the credibility of his information. Democrats have called that claim misleading because the judges were told of a political motive, just without specific names.

The Democratic memo provides a verbatim excerpt from the application, which stated that the F.B.I. believed that Mr. Steele had been commissioned by someone “likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign,” referring to Mr. Trump.

The Yahoo News article was not used to corroborate Mr. Steele.
The wiretap application included a Yahoo News article from September 2016 that discussed the investigation into Mr. Page’s Russian ties. The Republican memo portrayed the application as having improperly used that article as corroboration of Mr. Steele’s claims, even though it later emerged — in a spring 2017 court filing — that Mr. Steele had been a source for it.

The Democratic memo calls that a false claim by the Republicans. Instead, it says, the Justice Department referred to the Yahoo News article — as well as another one the Republican memo failed to mention — “not to provide separate corroboration for Steele’s reporting, but instead to inform the court of Page’s public denial of his suspected meetings in Moscow.”

Republican-appointed judges approved the surveillance of Mr. Page.
The Republican memo portrayed the wiretapping of Mr. Page as a partisan conspiracy. Notably, the Democratic memo reveals that all four judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court who approved the initial surveillance — which began in October 2016 — as well as three 90-day renewals were appointed by Republican presidents.

To approve such a wiretap of an American, a judge must decide that there is sufficient evidence that the target is probably an agent of a foreign power, or knowingly aiding foreign agents.

The wiretap of Mr. Page generated useful intelligence.
When the Justice Department repeatedly sought the court’s permission to renew the surveillance of Mr. Page, the Democratic memo said, it cited new information it was gathering through the wiretap.

“The court-approved surveillance of Page allowed F.B.I. to collect valuable intelligence,” the Democratic memo said. It asserted that the repeated renewals “demonstrate that the F.B.I. collected important investigative information and leads by conducting court-approved surveillance.”

What that intelligence was, however, was redacted.

5 Takeaways From the Release of the Democratic Memo

 

[Clementine]

MUCH MORE AT
www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | Monday, May 13, 2019 | STAFF

Top Republicans talked up classified documents on Sunday they believe will root out FBI misconduct in the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Over the past few days, GOP lawmakers demanded answers about when the FBI was informed about British ex-spy Christopher Steele's "political motivations" before his unverified dossier was used to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted — and admitted he was encouraged by a client to get his research out before the 2016 election on Nov. 8, signaling a possible political motivation. The meeting was described in notes taken by Kavalec that were obtained by conservative group Citizens United through open-records litigation.

"In her notes, she indicates that Steele was urging to get the dossier out before the election," Graham, R-S.C., said on "Fox News Sunday." "And she also, in handwritten notes, indicates that it was paid for by the Democratic Party, the Clinton campaign, the dossier. The most important thing is, she transferred that information to the FBI. So the FBI is now on notice on October the 11th that their confidential informant is trying to get the dossier out for political purposes and that the State Department figured out the Democrats paid for it. How could they then go get a warrant based on that same document and not tell the court what the State Department told them?”

Graham, whose committee is investigating alleged FISA abuse, said there is one particular classified document he hopes will provide answers.

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request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 — 10 days before the first warrant application was submitted

And why is this just now coming to light?? All these Official Investigations and this NEVER came up?? Who was HIDING this Document?? This is Real Obstruction of Justice on Multiple Levels, why did it take a Private Group of Taxpayers to unearth this through a Lawsuit??

I think the reason they are trying hard to discredit Barr right now is because the truth is about to come out about how the investigation started in the first place. Dems hate it when they are investigated and there seems to be more evidence pointing toward wrong doing on their part.

The Dems started a bogus investigation to take down Trump. They failed. Now it's time to hold them accountable for their abuse of power.