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Home Front: Politix
FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet
2018-12-07
[The Hill, ht AOSHQ] Just before Thanksgiving, House Republicans amended the list of documents they’d like President Trump to declassify in the Russia investigation. With little fanfare or explanation, the lawmakers, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), added a string of emails between the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to their wish list.

Sources tell me the targeted documents may provide the most damning evidence to date of potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), evidence that has been kept from the majority of members of Congress for more than two years.

The email exchanges included then-FBI Director James Comey, key FBI investigators in the Russia probe and lawyers in the DOJ’s national security division, and they occurred in early to mid-October, before the FBI successfully secured a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Posted by:Frank G

#5  Democrat House will try to suffocate this. And the press will hold the garrote for them
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-12-07 16:58  

#4  I didn't see you there, SPoD.
Posted by: Bobby   2018-12-07 16:08  

#3  Yes, I possibly but unproven had sex with a number of beautiful women...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-12-07 12:51  

#2  Most intelligence officials, such as former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, have embraced the concerns laid out in the Steele dossier of possible ‐ but still unproven ‐ collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

"Possible ‐ but still unproven"...referred to in the intelligence community as unverified information not intelligence. Before information can become 'intelligence' it must be verified (usually by multiple sources) and classified as either reliable or unreliable.

If months and years after the 'information' (Steele dossier) surfaces and is investigated and analyzed, no reliability can be established, the 'information' should be classified as unreliable and discarded.

'Reliable intelligence' is an indicator, it is still not a fact. For example; 'reliable intelligence' may point to Saddam as having had a nuclear capability. Facts my eventually prove otherwise.

Clapper and Brennan are operating in the realm of politics, not intelligence.

Posted by: Besoeker   2018-12-07 03:27  

#1  "May," "potential" - if they don't actually DO something in the next few weeks it will be too late.
Posted by: Glenmore   2018-12-07 01:50  

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