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    Default Sessions Says FBI’s Handling of Anti-Trump Dossier ‘Will Be Investigated’

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is investigating the accuracy of information the FBI submitted before the 2016 election about a “dossier” damaging to Donald Trump to obtain a warrant to surveil a campaign adviser.

    “That will be investigated and looked at,” Sessions said in an interview Sunday.
    Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” had asked Sessions: “Are you, sir, investigating the fact that the FBI used the dossier to get a wiretap against Trump associates and they did not tell the FISA court that the Democrats and [the] Hillary Clinton [campaign] paid for the dossier?”

    Let me tell you, every FISA warrant based on facts submitted to that court [has] to be accurate,”
    Sessions replied.

    “That will be investigated and looked at, and we are not going to participate as a Department of Justice in providing anything less than a proper disclosure to the court before they issue a FISA warrant. Other than that, I’m not going to talk about the details of it, but I tell you, we’re not going to let that happen.”
    FISA refers to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which created a secret court system to oversee requests for surveillance warrants by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

    Sessions did not provide additional details about the investigation, which has been urged by Republican lawmakers.

    In October 2016, not long before the election, the FBI and Justice Department submitted an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain a spy warrant against Carter Page, a business consultant and campaign volunteer who had left the Trump team a month earlier.

    The partisan dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele is said to have been a significant part of the application to the court, even though the salacious document about Trump’s connections to Russia was and is largely unverified.

    Republican lawmakers have asserted that law enforcement officials who submitted the application failed to note to the court that the dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The application does note that the dossier was put together by a “U.S. person” with political motivations, but Republicans have argued that the application should have been more specific.

    Republicans also alleged that Steele, the opponent of Trump who authored the dossier, misled the FBI by failing to reveal that he met with reporters in September 2016 to discuss his investigation of Trump.

    One of those reporters, Michael Isikoff of Yahoo! News, wrote a story based on Steele’s information.

    That Sept. 23, 2016, article, which included Steele’s allegations about Page, also was used by the FBI and Justice Department to help justify the surveillance warrant. The application did not note that the Isikoff article came from the same source as the dossier.

    Also Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., offhandedly criticized former President Barack Obama for not doing enough to warn voters about the Russian government’s attempt to meddle during the presidential election.

    Obama probably didn’t do enough to raise a red flag after he found out Russia interfered in the election, Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” before pivoting to criticize Trump for downplaying Russia’s role.

    “Obama was in a very difficult position and didn’t want to make it appear he was favoring Hillary Clinton,” Sanders, who challenged Clinton for the Democratic nomination, said. “Maybe he should have done more.”
    An indictment announced Friday alleged that 13 Russian nationals tried to help both Sanders and Trump during their respective presidential candidacies.

    Special counsel Robert Mueller secured the indictment from a grand jury against the Russians, affiliated with three Russian companies suspected of interfering in the election. The goal was to create chaos inside the U.S. political process, according to the indictment.

    The indicted Russians operated both pro- and anti-Trump social media accounts. The accounts also were used to provide support for Sanders, at the time considered a formidable opponent to Clinton, and to Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

    Sanders’ comments Sunday came after Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, said Obama should have called out Russian meddling much sooner.

    New protections must be enacted to prevent similar election meddling, Sanders said, referring specifically to the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.

    “We have got to do everything we can to make sure that they do not undermine American democracy,” he said.
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    the Justice Department is investigating the accuracy of information the FBI submitted before the 2016 election about a “dossier” damaging to Donald Trump to obtain a warrant to surveil a campaign adviser.
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    Internal investigation. no outside prosecutorial staff used

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is investigating the accuracy of information the FBI submitted before the 2016 election about a “dossier” damaging to Donald Trump to obtain a warrant to surveil a campaign adviser.

    In October 2016, not long before the election, the FBI and Justice Department submitted an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain a spy warrant against Carter Page, a business consultant and campaign volunteer who had left the Trump team a month earlier.
    The left is eerily silent as evidence come out that Obama did illegally wiretap Trump's people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hvilleherb View Post
    The left is eerily silent as evidence come out that Obama did illegally wiretap Trump's people.
    Zero evidence to indicate that has actually come out. Why do you people keep repeating such easily-debunked bullshit? Is it stupidity, or just willful ignorance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hvilleherb View Post
    The left is eerily silent as evidence come out that Obama did illegally wiretap Trump's people.
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    you want to put money on Obama wiretapping plumpie. fool it's already been investigated it's all bogus bull shit and a

    nothing burger
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kobie View Post
    Zero evidence to indicate that has actually come out.
    Not according to this:

    It looks like Obama did spy on Trump

    http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/...s-he-did-to-me

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    ...Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, said Obama should have called out Russian meddling much sooner.
    Well, Obama did offer a rather limp wristed warning to Putin when he said, "Now cut it out." LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by hvilleherb View Post
    Not according to this:

    It looks like Obama did spy on Trump

    http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/...s-he-did-to-me
    Oh, an op-ed piece from someone with an axe to grind and an aversion to facts. Kudos on the trifecta.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Well, Obama did offer a rather limp wristed warning to Putin when he said, "Now cut it out." LOL
    Actually, sanctions were handed down and diplomats were shipped out of the country. Now, I know that's not how the wingnuts like you handle things, but what was he supposed to do, nuke Moscow?

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    There is zero evidence of collusion yet Dems have already convicted Trump.

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    In July 2017, after the new round of sanctions, Russia's patience ran out, and it announced a 755-person decrease to the number of personnel working at U.S. diplomatic facilities in Russia.
    (Most were Russian nationals, however, not U.S. diplomats – meaning the action was less severe than Russia made it appear.)
    The Trump administration's response was surprisingly harsh: In late August 2017, it ordered the closure of two Russian diplomatic trade annexes and, more importantly, the shuttering of Russia's San Francisco consulate, a hub of Russian espionage operations in the United States.
    Expelling a few dozen diplomats, as Obama did, is one thing; decertifying a major Russian diplomatic facility, which also happens to be a spy base, is another level of aggressiveness entirely.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...russia-w516634

    we just droned a bunch of Russian Assad support mercenaries in Syria
    WTF? I keep hearing these asshats on TV calling for sanctions to be enforced??

    No one in government is paying real attention to US /Russian relations.
    Killing Russians is some bad assed sanctions fer sure
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yaya View Post
    There is zero evidence of collusion yet Dems have already convicted Trump.
    Definitely more evidence that Obama illegally spied on Trump than there is of collusion.

    And it’s not even close.
    Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Definitely more evidence that Obama illegally spied on Trump than there is of collusion.
    And it’s not even close.
    funny how that seems to be working out..did you see MS coverage on this?
    Oh wait.. there IS NONE

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    funny how that seems to be working out..did you see MS coverage on this?
    Oh wait.. there IS NONE
    You know it lol.

    It’s basically imperative to get out of the MSM to get anything that counters the narrative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kobie View Post
    Zero evidence to indicate that has actually come out. Why do you people keep repeating such easily-debunked bullshit? Is it stupidity, or just willful ignorance?
    Debunk it......present the objective, reproducible, and consistent evidence that debunks this bullshit. Waiting...........

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