FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet
"The exchanges also indicate FBI officials were aware that Steele, the former MI6 British intelligence operative then working as a confidential human source for the bureau, had contacts with news media reporters before the FISA warrant was secured.
The FBI fired Steele on Nov. 1, 2016 — two weeks after securing the warrant — on the grounds that he had unauthorized contacts with the news media.
But the FBI withheld from the American public and Congress, until months later, that Steele had been paid to find his dirt on Trump by a firm doing political opposition research for the Democratic Party and for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and that Steele himself harbored hatred for Trump.
If the FBI knew of his media contacts and the concerns about the reliability of his dossier before seeking the warrant, it would constitute a serious breach of FISA regulations and the trust that the FISA court places in the FBI."
There's your 'Collusion bombshell,' CNN.
DNC lawyers met with FBI on Russia allegations before FISA surveillance warrant
"The revelation was confirmed both in contemporaneous evidence and testimony secured by a joint investigation by Republicans on the House Judiciary and Government Oversight committees, my source tells me.
It means the FBI had good reason to suspect the dossier was connected to the DNC’s main law firm and was the product of a Democratic opposition-research effort to defeat Trump — yet failed to disclose that information to the FISA court in October 2016, when the bureau applied for a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page."
The 'beginning of the end, as the walls close in', eh, CNN?
Disgraced & Replaced former FBI Director Comey Confesses, 'It’s ‘Totally Normal’ To Plant People Near Political Campaigns'
Even CNN’s Anderson Cooper was incredulous, and almost (almost) at a loss for words.
IG Horowitz Has 'Concluded that the Final Three FISA Extensions Were Illegally Obtained'
""The Bureau hid those memos from Horowitz. As a result of that, they are doing some additional work on the first FISA," diGenova explained, adding: "It may be that all four FISAs will have been obtained illegally."
This is the 'noose tightening,' CNN.
Adam Schiff Latest Democrat Who Doesn’t Accept 2016 Election Result to Suggest Trump Might Not Accept 2020 Outcome
“There’s already going to be the very real prospect that some people don’t accept the results.”
Psychologists term this type of muddled thinking as 'projection.'
William Barr appoints US attorney to examine origins of Russia probe
"This appointment comes about a month after Barr told Congress he believed “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign, without providing details.
He may have been referring to a surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on ex-Trump associate Carter Page and the use of an FBI informant to look into former Trump campaign foreign police adviser George Papadopoulos."
There might be colloooosion, doanchano, and there must a thorough investigation - with maybe even a special counsel. Right, Dems??
