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| The Memo Has Been Released |
| 2018-02-03 |
| Direct access is here; it's straining under heavy load right now. [Washington Examiner] The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points: * The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page. * Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information. * The four FISA surveillance applications were signed by, in various combinations, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein. * The FBI authorized payments to Steele for work on the dossier. The FBI terminated its agreement with Steele in late October when it learned, by reading an article in Mother Jones, that Steele was talking to the media. * The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications. * DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele's bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #8 Yup Frank, at least twice; maybe more. I think we've got a short-term (aka "kick the can down the road") funding bill this week along with DACA? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-03 16:13 |
| #7 ^ Oh noes! We're all gonna die again! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-02-03 09:56 |
| #6 Grassley's and the Senate judiciary committee has its own memo dealing with FISA abuses coming out soon. It will be interesting to see what it has to say also. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-03 09:51 |
| #5 No - it ended when the Trump tax cut passed. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-03 08:44 |
| #4 Didn't the world end on Jan 20th? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-03 08:11 |
| #3 Our "top men" and other Deep State media manipulators all insisted that the world would end if this happened. Now that we are living in a "life after death", it seems suspiciously exactly like yesterday's world, the one that passed away. Even my morning coffee tastes about the same. How is it for everyone else this fine morning? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-03 07:51 |
| #2 Answered my own question: For the Democrat's memo to actually be released, it would have to undergo the same process that the Republican memo has gone through. First, the House Intelligence Committee would vote to have the memo released to the public - and if they vote for it, President Donald Trump would have five days to object to its public release. However.... When the committee voted Monday to release the memo spearheaded by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, the committee also rejected a motion from Schiff to release his own memo at the same time. "Well, we are going to try to force another vote on this," Schiff told CBS on Friday about his memo. "The Republicans voted down the release of the Democratic response, which was quite breathtaking, because they said they were offering their own memo in the interest of full transparency." House Speaker Paul Ryan's spokeswoman AshLee Strong said the speaker is open to the Democrat's memo to be released. "The speaker is in favor of greater transparency," Strong said in a statement. "If it is scrubbed to ensure it does not reveal sources and methods of our intelligence gathering, the speaker supports the release of the Democrats' memo." CNN Link Bring it! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-02-03 03:39 |
| #1 My lovely wife of 46 years says there is a Democratic Memo, as opposed to this 'Republican Memo'. Does the Dem version require approval of the FBI and POTUS prior to release? If not, why not? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-02-03 03:32 |