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| Republican congressman threatens to hold Republican Attorney General in contempt |
| 2018-05-07 |
| [Think Progress] Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the Trump apologist who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, threatened on Fox News Sunday to "hold the attorney general of the United States in contempt" over a dispute regarding unredacted documents that Nunes wants from the Justice Department. In April, Nunes wrote to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, requesting several documents relating to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigations into the Trump campaign generally, and specifically into former Trump adviser Carter Page. The request appears related to a conspiracy theory Nunes touted in a memo released to the public earlier this year. In that memo, Nunes claimed that the Justice Department’s obtained a warrant to surveil Page by relying on a dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. The Steele dossier was produced through the research firm Fusion GPS, and was initially paid for by the conservative website the Washington Free Beacon. After Trump won the Republican nomination, the Clinton campaign decided to continue funding Steele’s work. Nunes and his allies claim that the warrant against Page was fundamentally flawed because the Justice Department did not disclose that some of Steele’s work was paid for by Democrats. In reality, it is unlikely that the Steele dossier provided the bulk of DOJ’s case for obtaining a warrant against Page. For one thing, US counterintelligence officials have known about Page’s "long history of meeting with dubious Russian officials" since at least 2013. For another, many of the claims in the Steele dossier have been independently verified. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 #7 while some of its claims have allegedly been verified, many others remain unproven... Please elaborate with specifics about ANY claims made in the dossier that have even come close to being "verified" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-05-07 10:41 |
| #8 In order to hold him in contempt don't you first have to wake him up? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-05-07 10:03 |
| #7 while some of its claims have allegedly been verified, many others remain unproven. ... Effective deception cannot be successful without bits of truth sprinkled in here and there. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-07 08:59 |
| #6 THE FTI OPERATION: The dossier, which was funded by those connected with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, has been the subject of ongoing controversy; while some of its claims have allegedly been verified, many others remain unproven. ... Ferrante, a former top FBI official...,is now at FTI Consulting, where he is leading the effort. Ferrante joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005... In 2006, he was selected as a member of the FBI’s Cyber Action Team, a group of experts who deploy globally to respond to critical cyber incidents. As a top FBI cybersecurity official tasked to the White House, Ferrante was in charge of coordinating the U.S. government response to Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election... Prior to joining the NSC in 2015, Ferrante was chief of staff for the FBI’s cyber division at headquarters under then-Director James Comey. Ferrante, still working for the FBI but at the White House, stayed in his position as director for cyber incident response at the NSC through the Trump administration, until April 2017, when he left to join FTI. |
| Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 2018-05-07 08:54 |
| #5 All bark, no bite! |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2018-05-07 08:52 |
| #4 Don't threaten, do it! I'm tire of politicians talking about doing stuff, just do it and don't jeep us waiting! That will get my respect! |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2018-05-07 08:50 |
| #3 Republican congressman threatens to hold FIFY |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-05-07 06:08 |
| #2 The Obama regime knows that unless they can take back control, their shady actions will surface. From their side of the fence, there is no other way out. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-05-07 03:20 |
| #1 The usual collection of false statements from the far left. 1. The Washington Free Beacon claims its relation with Fusion GPS terminated before it hired Christopher Steele. 2. It was a high official of the FBI who stated that the FISA request re Page would not have been submitted without the Steele dossier; that is not a wacky conspiracy theory created by Nunes. 3. The only claim in the Steele dossier that has been verified is that Page gave a lecture in Moscow, which nobody has ever denied. That is not evidence of any wrongdoing. 4. There is more evidence that Obama had illicit secret relations with Putin's Russia than that Page did so. There is the open mike message to the Russian ambassador telling him to tell Putin that he would have more flexibility after the election; his supine behavior re the invasion of Ukraine; his ceding power to handle chemical atrocities in Syria to Putin, making him the major influence on the Syrian government, and his efforts to impede US oil production. The worst one can say about Page is that was and is in favor of much of that. 5. Page had next to no influence on the Trump campaign. |
| Posted by: Daniel 2018-05-07 00:54 |