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rassley and Graham asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Steele made false statements to federal investigators. In the newly released memo, the pair wrote that they sent the criminal referral because there’s evidence that Steele -- whose opposition research was funded largely by Trump rival Hillary Clinton and the Democrats -- either lied to the FBI or to a British court, or that classified documents reviewed by the committee are false.

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Grassley asked the FBI to approve a declassified version of his Steele referral by Tuesday.

Among the portions of the Grassley letter that remain redacted are verbatim quotes from applications to a court for surveillance of former Trump adviser Carter Page as well as the government’s description of Steele’s statements to the FBI about his contacts with the media.
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Blacked out in the redacted letter is a section headed by the sentence "there is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility."

A section on a second memo by Steele quotes it as saying he received the report from the State Department, which in turn got it from a foreign source who was in touch with “a friend of the Clintons.”

"It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility," Grassley and Graham wrote in their criminal referral.
 
A newly released document from the Senate Judiciary Committee says Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Trump dossier, wrote an additional memo on the subject of Donald Trump and Russia that was not among those published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.

The newly released document is an unclassified and heavily redacted version of the criminal referral targeting Steele filed on Jan. 4 by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. It appears to confirm some level of coordination between the extended Clinton circle and the Obama administration in the effort to seek damaging information about then-candidate Trump.

According to the referral, Steele wrote the additional memo based on anti-Trump information that originated with a foreign source. In a convoluted scheme outlined in the referral, the foreign source gave the information to an unnamed associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton, who then gave the information to an unnamed official in the Obama State Department, who then gave the information to Steele. Steele wrote a report based on the information, but the redacted version of the referral does not say what Steele did with the report after that.

Published accounts in the Guardian and the Washington Post have indicated that Clinton associate Cody Shearer was in contact with Steele about anti-Trump research, and Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer was a connection between Steele and the State Department during the 2016 campaign.

When Grassley and Graham filed the referral with the Justice Department on Jan. 4, the document was classified (although the two senators released an unclassified cover letter announcing the referral). What followed was a month of haggling with the Justice Department over what material in the referral could be made public. The result is the version of the referral released this morning. It has whole paragraphs and keywords blacked out, making it hard to discern its full meaning.

For example, a press release accompanying the referral said the referral "contains verbatim quotes from the [Carter Page surveillance] application that are not included in the [House Intelligence Committee] memo. Specifically, the referral quotes the application's descriptions of Steele's statements to the FBI about his contacts with the media." Lest anyone get too excited, the press release went on to say that the quotes "remain redacted" in the version of the referral released Monday.

Also redacted is information related to the key allegation of the Grassley-Graham referral: that Steele was untruthful with the FBI and Justice Department over the issue of his many contacts with the press. If Steele was acting as a trusted source for the FBI on the highly confidential Trump-Russia investigation, it would have been improper for him to share his information with the press at the same time.

Some of the redacted passages also relate to the question of statements about Steele's press contacts that the FBI made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in applying for the Page surveillance warrant that was the subject of the House Intelligence Committee memo released Friday.

It's a lot to digest. But further details will have to wait until the rest of the referral is declassified. Senate sources say they hope that will be soon.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d...ontact-obama-state-department/article/2648099
 
This is mind-blowing. It's all about Russia and the Clintons. I'm watching something on this now and will post the video when it's available. This 2nd memo is unbelievable. And, the FBI never disclosed to the FISA court that the Clinton DNC paid for that dossier. :whoa:
 
Stretch said:
Looks like the next phase will be the release of the goods on the DOJ and State Dept. in this mess.
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It will be interesting to see what the IG report says.

I wouldn’t roll out a another SP unless democrats can stop the bleeding. I think the Counter Memo is an act of desperation.
 
Darth Omar said:
It will be interesting to see what the IG report says.

I wouldn’t roll out a another SP unless democrats can stop the bleeding. I think the Counter Memo is an act of desperation.
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Yep, and Schiff is already leaking some of it, LOL. Idiots.
 
Desperation smells like male pig sex.
Or, WE NEED DUDE PORK REGULATION. Yup, 20% of the pig population needs to be discarded because if you cook it, it smells like a mix between armpit and shit but not untied it's thawed. Turns out regulations are good sometimes.

Turns out once this bullshit is thawed it will smell like male pig shit. Like everything else this trust fund failure of a POTUS partisan team has desperately projectile vomited.
 
Stretch said:
Yep, and Schiff is already leaking some of it, LOL. Idiots.
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Little Adam doesn’t exactly have a poker face lol.

He wore his desperation on his sleeve in trying to prevent the release of the Nunes Memo. It was obvious to anyone paying attention he had something to hide.
 
it will all come out whether trumps says so or not we will get everything and if trump doesn't testify there will be very big problems for him
and his attorneys will be in a very big fight and they will lose and he will end up in front of a grand jury without his attorneys in the room but in the hall
he's fuked so he better start telling the truth otherwise he's totally fuked...no one is above the law no one even trump
 
More desperation and deflection by the Repugnant Party.

Proving once again that they'll stoop to any depths of trickery and deception to protect one of their own and their political power.

Meanwhile the democratic principles that made this country great slowly swirl down the toilet under Trumpovich.
 
Looks like Hillary got fingered.

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A newly released document from the Senate Judiciary Committee says Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Trump dossier, wrote an additional memo on the subject of Donald Trump and Russia that was not among those published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.

The newly released document is an unclassified and heavily redacted version of the criminal referral targeting Steele filed on Jan. 4 by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. It appears to confirm some level of coordination between the extended Clinton circle and the Obama administration in the effort to seek damaging information about then-candidate Trump.

According to the referral, Steele wrote the additional memo based on anti-Trump information that originated with a foreign source. In a convoluted scheme outlined in the referral, the foreign source gave the information to an unnamed associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton, who then gave the information to an unnamed official in the Obama State Department, who then gave the information to Steele. Steele wrote a report based on the information, but the redacted version of the referral does not say what Steele did with the report after that.

Published accounts in the Guardian and the Washington Post have indicated that Clinton associate Cody Shearer was in contact with Steele about anti-Trump research, and Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer was a connection between Steele and the State Department during the 2016 campaign.

When Grassley and Graham filed the referral with the Justice Department on Jan. 4, the document was classified (although the two senators released an unclassified cover letter announcing the referral). What followed was a month of haggling with the Justice Department over what material in the referral could be made public. The result is the version of the referral released this morning. It has whole paragraphs and keywords blacked out, making it hard to discern its full meaning.

For example, a press release accompanying the referral said the referral "contains verbatim quotes from the [Carter Page surveillance] application that are not included in the [House Intelligence Committee] memo. Specifically, the referral quotes the application's descriptions of Steele's statements to the FBI about his contacts with the media." The press release went on to say that the quotes "remain redacted" in the version of the referral released Monday.

Also redacted is information related to the key allegation of the Grassley-Graham referral: that Steele was untruthful with the FBI and Justice Department over the issue of his many contacts with the press. If Steele was acting as a trusted source for the FBI on the highly confidential Trump-Russia investigation, it would have been improper for him to share his information with the press at the same time.

Some of the redacted passages also relate to the question of statements about Steele's press contacts that the FBI made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in applying for the Page surveillance warrant that was the subject of the House Intelligence Committee memo released Friday.

Further details will have to wait until the rest of the referral is declassified. Senate sources say they hope that will be soon.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dossier-author-steele-wrote-another-anti-trump-memo-was-fed-info-by-clinton-connected-contact-obama-state-department/article/2648099?platform=hootsuite
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:D
 
cash said:
it will all come out whether trumps says so or not we will get everything and if trump doesn't testify there will be very big problems for him
and his attorneys will be in a very big fight and they will lose and he will end up in front of a grand jury without his attorneys in the room but in the hall
he's fuked so he better start telling the truth otherwise he's totally fuked...no one is above the law no one even trump
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Let's hope you're right.
 
cash said:
it will all come out whether trumps says so or not we will get everything and if trump doesn't testify there will be very big problems for him and his attorneys will be in a very big fight and they will lose and he will end up in front of a grand jury without his attorneys in the room but in the hall he's fuked so he better start telling the truth otherwise he's totally fuked...no one is above the law no one even trump
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Where did you get your "information"?
 
cash said:
it will all come out whether trumps says so or not we will get everything and if trump doesn't testify there will be very big problems for him
and his attorneys will be in a very big fight and they will lose and he will end up in front of a grand jury without his attorneys in the room but in the hall
he's fuked so he better start telling the truth otherwise he's totally fuked...no one is above the law no one even trump
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Oh, I’d say Obama was above the law.

So far, anyway.
 
Darth Omar said:
Little Adam doesn’t exactly have a poker face lol. He wore his desperation on his sleeve in trying to prevent the release of the Nunes Memo. It was obvious to anyone paying attention he had something to hide.
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Looked like he was sweating like little Marco, didn't it?
 
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