"Agent Of A Foreign Power" DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Application

[Jack]

the Steele Dossier

Following months of Congressional investigations, GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee released the four-page "Nunes Memo," which concluded that the FBI relied on the largely unverified "Steele Dossier" as their primary source of evidence.
To reinforce the dossier, they included a Yahoo! News article written by Michael Isikoff, which used information fed to him by Steele. (Isikoff was "stunned" to hear of this)

The FBI has also been accused of failing to notify the FISA judge that the dossier was political in nature.

To that end, the FISA application draws directly from page 9 of the Steele dossier, claiming that someone "met secretly with Page and that their agenda for the meeting included Divyekin raising a dossier or "kompromat" that the Kremlin possessed on Candidate #2 and the possibility of it being released to Candidate #1's campaign."

'Nunes Memo'. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ...

He's a Partisanshithead little toad. hahahahahahaha ...

[Jack]

Hillary cost Hillary the election.

You guys still rehashing the Election is HILARIOUS. Trump is the President. Your ONLY reason to cry and whine, is to DISTRACT from an ongoing investigation.

[anatta]

(more attachments at link)

to vouch for Steele himself - a former MI6 agent who the FBI fired after he made inappropriate admissions to the press, the agency wrote the following:

"Not withstanding Source1's reason for conducting the research into Candidate1's ties to Russia, based on Source1's previous reporting history with the FBI, whereby Source1 provided reliable information to the FBI, the FBI believes Source 1s reporting herein to be credible"

The FISA application also says that Steele did not directly provide information to Isikoff, which he in fact did.

Meanwhile, as Congressional GOP have argued that this is evidence of malfeasance, House and Senate Democrats have argued that the FISA application also contained evidence unrelated to the dossier, and that the FISA judge was aware of its political nature.

But Democrats noted that the application also contained evidence against Mr. Page unrelated to the dossier, and that it did tell the court that the research’s sponsor had the political motive of wanting to discredit Mr. Trump’s campaign. They argued that it was normal not to specifically name Americans and American organizations in such materials. -NYT

[Legion]

"The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election"

You mean it wasn't muh Russia?

[anatta]

"as part of the Obama administration's active counterintelligence operation on the Trump campaign."

Obama? You mean the FBI.

I would have used "the FBI" term.. still no evidence it went up to the political levels except for Susan Rice signing this, and her Email memorium that "Obama wanted it done by the book"

[Jack]

Annata. I've stopped reading you. I'm putting you down as 'Russian Troll'.

I will now see you from that point of view. I like reading your foreign topic threads.

But, your internal US topics, ... really suck.

[anatta]

Yeah, that guy...Comey...who declared her innocent before even questioning her.

The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...he-russia-hoax
The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama’s Justice Department worked improperly to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

When this suspected effort failed, those same people appear to have pursued a contrived investigation of President Trump in an attempt to undo the election results and remove him as president.

The evidence suggests that partisans within the FBI and the Department of Justice, driven by personal animus and a misplaced sense of political righteousness, surreptitiously acted to subvert electoral democracy in our country.

The book will examine:
How did Hillary Clinton manage to escape prosecution despite compelling evidence she violated the law?
Did Peter Strzok, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, and others obstruct justice by protecting Clinton?
Are the text messages exchanged between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page evidence of a concerted effort to undermine the electoral process?
Was there ever any real evidence of "collusion" between Trump and the Russians?
Did Trump obstruct justice in the firing of Comey or was he legally exercising his constitutional authority?
Did the FBI and DOJ improperly use a discredited "dossier" about Trump to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump associates?
Should Muller have disqualified himself under the special counsel law based on glaring conflicts of interest?
Was fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn unfairly charged with making a false statement?

[Legion]

I would have used "the FBI" term.. still no evidence it went up to the political levels except for Susan Rice signing this, and her Email memorium that "Obama wanted it done by the book"

Weren't there unprecedented numbers of unmasking requests filed in the last days of Obama's Reign of Error?

[anatta]

Weren't there unprecedented numbers of unmasking requests filed in the last days of Obama's Reign of Error?

i'm overly cautious..1 thing at a time and that is to discredit this piece of fiction.

By the way with just about EVERYTHING being a "government sponsored entity" (GSE) in Russia, if you are doing business in Russia you are probably dealing with the Russian government by proxy so, the "revelation" that Page was dealing with Gazprom & Rosneft in his capacity as a businessman in the energy sector means nothing.

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[canceled.2021.2]

"James Comey" ... the guy that single-handedly came out with an allegation about Hillary, 8 days before the Election, and effectively handed the Presidency to Trump. That guy?

I thought Putin handed the Presidency to Trump?

Are you saying Comey colluded with Putin?

[Minister of Truth]

Annata. I've stopped reading you. I'm putting you down as 'Russian Troll'.

I will now see you from that point of view. I like reading your foreign topic threads.

But, your internal US topics, ... really suck.

I say he's a true Russian national rather than a troll.

[Jack]

I say he's a true Russian national rather than a troll.

That's probably a better description, thanks.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

The FBI has also been accused of failing to notify the FISA judge that the dossier was political in nature.

The controversy about these FISA applications first arose in February when House intelligence committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes released a memo claiming that the FBI misled the FISA Court about Christopher Steele, the former British secret agent who compiled the “dossier” on Trump-Russia ties and who was a source of information in the FISA applications on Page. The main complaint in the Nunes memo was that FBI whitewashed Steele—that the FISA applications did not “disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior FBI officials.”

In response to the Nunes memo, the Democrats on the committee released their own memo. That memo quoted from parts of the FISA applications, including a footnote in which the FBI explained that Steele was hired to “conduct research regarding Candidate #1,” Donald Trump, and Trump’s “ties to Russia,” and that the man who hired him was “likely looking for information that could be used to discredit [Trump’s] campaign.”

Now we have some additional information in the form of the redacted FISA applications themselves, and the Nunes memo looks even worse. In my earlier post, I observed that the FBI’s disclosures about Steele were contained in a footnote, but argued that this did not detract from their sufficiency ... Now we can see that the footnote disclosing Steele’s possible bias takes up more than a full page in the applications, so there is literally no way the FISA Court could have missed it. The FBI gave the court enough information to evaluate Steele’s credibility.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-mak...a-applications

[Lesh]

Weren't there unprecedented numbers of unmasking requests filed in the last days of Obama's Reign of Error?

no

[Althea]

Yeah, that guy...Comey...who declared her innocent before even questioning her.

I seem to remember about 12 hours of testimony before Congress...where she handed them their collective asses.