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-Lurid Crime Tales-
With Latest Trump Dossier-DOJ News, How Many Heads Are Going To Roll ?
2019-08-09
[Townhall] So, how many heads are going to roll in September? Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz is supposed to release his long-awaited report on Obama-era FISA abuses. The focal point centers on the DOJ’s FISA spy warrant against Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, which was secured thanks to the Clinton-funded opposition research project called the Trump dossier. It was compiled by ex-British spook Christopher Steele. It was unverified. It was biased. And the DOJ knew it. Not only that, former top DOJ official Bruce Ohr kept contacting Steele months after it was revealed his worked was biased (via Fox News):
The FBI formally documented the anti-Trump bias of British ex-spy Christopher Steele months before the November 2016 presidential election, yet used his unverified dossier in multiple Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant application renewals, records obtained by Fox News show.

The documents, first obtained by Judicial Watch, also revealed that top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr maintained contact with Steele for at least six months after Steele was fired by the FBI for unauthorized media contacts in November 2016.

The summaries of FBI interviews with Ohr, known as 302s, showed that Ohr knew by September 2016 -- a month before the initial FISA application to surveil the Trump campaign -- that Steele was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President."

A source close to the matter told Fox News "this had the effect of putting a senior DOJ official on notice that a witness/source had an extreme bias." Nevertheless, the FISA warrant application went through in October 2016 with multiple renewals.

While the FISA records are heavily redacted, it does not appear that the FBI's documentation about Steele's bias was ever shared with the FISA court.

The 22 pages of reports on interviews with Ohr also revealed his extensive contacts with Steele. The two communicated on the encrypted messaging app "WhatsApp," according to the records.

The FBI documents showed Ohr's contacts with Steele extended through May 2017, when Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed. Ohr then became a kind of backchannel linking Steele to the FBI after his termination.

So, it was used to renew warrants against Page. Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for the research firm Fusion GPS, which was contracted by the Democrats to find dirt on Trump. GPS then reached out to Steele to compile the document.

Posted by:Besoeker

#12  Typical of a host infected with parasites.
Posted by: 3dc   2019-08-09 18:17  

#11   #5 Trump didn't expect to be elected. If he had, his transition team could have looked at how poorly Boosh was served by beltway lifers and acted accordingly right after inauguration.

I'm not so sure about the first part. Losing hugely doesn't sound like the Trump we know. Sure, all the smart kids said he was going to get his ass kicked, but they were blinded by their aversion to the man, IMAO.

Trump *did* have a problem getting people to work for him. People who normally would have stepped up to be part of the new administration bailed. (Boris Johnson is experiencing the same thing now in the UK). And as we have seen, a whole bunch of people who did stay decided to work actively against the new president. I'm sure this has happened before, but never on this scale where we have deep staters trying to run a coup. Pity that hanging has gone out of fashion.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-08-09 12:18  

#10  Barr and Durham are far enough along that it comes down to this: Has the retirement clock hit the point where a Trump loss in 2020 would hurt them or not.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-08-09 12:14  

#9  The ball is in Barr and Durham's court. How much do you trust Barr and Durham to do the right thing? The right thing to do is to prosecute the crimes regardless of who the person is.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-08-09 11:59  

#8  It's taken too long to roll out. Nobody watches this story anymore.
Posted by: 3dc   2019-08-09 10:47  

#7  The article is pure tripe, but look at how, with access to all intelligence product in the US, the outgoing deputy DNI could not absorb any information on how to dress or eat...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-08-09 10:19  

#6  All the nonsense about "years of experience" and "dedicated public servant" should always be a red flag...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-08-09 10:12  

#5  Trump didn't expect to be elected. If he had, his transition team could have looked at how poorly Boosh was served by beltway lifers and acted accordingly right after inauguration.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-08-09 10:09  

#4  Zero
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-08-09 09:55  

#3  No heads will roll.

These sort of purges can be done early on in a Presidency, but the longer you leave it, the harder it becomes.

Trump chose to make nice with the swamp early on, and this is his reward.
Posted by: charger   2019-08-09 09:34  

#2  Besoeker, sadly, I think you're right. Very few people, if any, will actually go to jail over this.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2019-08-09 08:47  

#1  ....a month before the initial FISA application to surveil the Trump campaign -- that Steele was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President."

But that was his (Steele's) JOB! Never mind that fact he was a non-US person, foreign source.... with obvious connections to a foreign intelligence service.

Heads to roll? I would wager few if any.

Posted by: Besoeker   2019-08-09 02:16  

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