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| Victor Davis Hansen - The Ticking Memo |
| 2018-02-03 |
| [National Review] The House Intelligence Committee memo is pretty simple. It should not have been classified and thus far withheld from the public. In fact, far more information now needs to be released. Despite the outcry, as Chairman Devin Nunes clarified, the memo can easily be in the near future supported or refuted by adducing official documents. In other words, the memo makes a series of transparent statements and leaves it up to the criminal-justice system and the public to ascertain subsequent criminal liability. It is likely that the basic accuracy of the document will not be questioned, but rather opponents, some of them mentioned in the memo, will either ask why the resulting embarrassing information needed to be aired or insist that there are only minor possible crimes in the events it narrates, or both. Remember, officials from the FBI supposedly read the memo before its release to ensure that there were not factual errors or misrepresentations. In sum, on four occasions during and after the 2016 campaign, the FBI and DOJ approached a federal FISA court ‐ established to allow monitoring of foreign nationals engaged in efforts to harm the U.S. or American citizens deliberately or inadvertently in their service ‐ to surveil Carter Page, a sometime Trump adviser. These requests also mentioned George Papadopoulos, apparently as a preexisting target of an earlier investigation by FBI official Peter Strzok, but according to the memo mysteriously there was not adduced any direct connection between the two individuals’ activities. The basis of the requests was an anti-Trump dossier that the FBI and DOJ had purchased from a private concern. At the time of their various requests, FBI director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, apparently knew that the document was the work of an opposition-research team, hired and paid, through a series of intermediaries, by the Clinton campaign. The same knowledge supposedly was known to DOJ officials Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein, who variously joined the FISA requests. The FBI and DOJ requests to the court were also apparently bolstered by citing news accounts in the popular media about possible Russian collusion, which in circular fashion had been the result of efforts by the authors and purveyors of the dossier to leak its contents to the media. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Response from a colleague: Sara Carter, an investigative reporter with Circa and Sara A Carter.com, was first to break the news of FISA abuses last year. She has stated that her sources have told her that the Horowitz DOJ IG Report has very damaging findings on how the FBI ( McCabe) especially, mishandled the Clinton Email Investigation and that Director Wray's primary reason for firing McCabe was Director Wray being briefed on the initial findings of that IG Report. Sara Carter is a frequent guest, almost nightly, on both Hannity and Lou Dobbs. The real hammer on the head of the DOJ and FBI will be when the Inspector Genera'ls Report is released later this month or early March. As I stated earlier, AG Sessions referred these latest allegations to the DOG IG for investigation. Remember, the IG is only a fact finding investigative body. It can only refer the findings to the US Attorney's Office for prosecutorial review as was done in the Hillary Email matter. The Dems won't be able to " spin" that one if the findings are serious as have been reported by Sara Carter and others. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-03 13:05 |