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ExomatrixTV

2nd February 2018, 17:57

Trump approves release of congressional memo critical of FBI

Published time: 2 Feb, 2018 16:56 Edited time: 2 Feb, 2018 17:42
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President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump has approved declassification of the memo that is said to reveal FBI surveillance abuses. It's now up to House Intelligence Committee to make it public.
A four-page memorandum commissioned by Representative Devin Nunes (R-California), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is to be made public over the objections of Democrats, the FBI and the Department of Justice.

"I think it's terrible, if you want to know the truth," Trump said at the White House on Friday, after sending the memo back to Congress. “I think it’s a disgrace."
“A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves, and much worse than that,” Trump added. “Let’s see what happens.”

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Trump’s green light on FBI memo risks sparking ‘constitutional crisis’ – ex-CIA chief Panetta (https://www.rt.com/news/417725-trump-fbi-memo-crisis/)

The committee voted to make the classified memo public on Monday, with every single Democrat opposed. President Donald Trump had five days to approve or veto the publication.

The memo, commissioned by the Republican staff of the House Intelligence Committee, supposedly contains information on surveillance violations by the FBI and the Department of Justice. It is alleged the FBI sought a warrant to spy on President Donald Trump's associates, without disclosing that its motivation for doing so was based on the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, also known as the Steele dossier, and funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign as opposition research against Trump.

One of the key points of the memo, as reported by the Washington Examiner (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-intel-memo-released-what-it-says/article/2647937) on Friday, are that the dossier put together by ex-British spy Christopher Steele formed an essential part of the initial FISA application to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, and all three renewal applications.

Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe confirmed that without the dossier, there would have been no FISA warrant request. The political origins of the dossier were known to senior officials at the DOJ and the FBI, but was not mentioned in the FISA applications, according to the Examiner.

Trump: Leadership of FBI & Justice Dept politicized investigative process in favor of Democrats

Published time: 2 Feb, 2018 11:40 Edited time: 2 Feb, 2018 12:47

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United States President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the leadership and investigators at the FBI and the Justice Department, saying that they politicized “the sacred investigative process” in favor of Democrats and against Republicans.

The president attacked both authorities on Twitter by saying that their political bias is “something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago.”
Trump’s accusations come just as the White House is expected to release a secret memo alleging FBI bias against the US president in the probe into alleged collusion between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. On Monday night, the House Intelligence Committee approved the public release of the memo.

The document reportedly contains information on surveillance violations by both the agencies. It is alleged the FBI sought a warrant to spy on then-presidential candidate Trump's associates, without disclosing that its decision was based on the Trump-Russia dossier, also known as the Steele dossier, funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

The FBI has objected to the memo’s release, expressing “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” DOJ warned that the release could “harm national security”.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who commissioned the memo, described the objections to the paper’s release as “spurious.”
“Having stonewalled Congress' demands for information for nearly a year, it's no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies,” Nunes said earlier this week.

FBI Director Christopher Wray was (https://www.rt.com/usa/417391-fbi-wray-fisa-memo/) reportedly "shocked to his core" by the memo’s contents, once shown the document on Sunday. Shortly after that, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe announced he would be stepping down, taking all his leave until his retirement in March.

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ExomatrixTV

2nd February 2018, 18:02

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ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 18:12

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As just reported on ZeroHedge, FISA Memo Released: Here's What It Says (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-02/fisa-memo-released-heres-what-it-says), the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence has just released the controversial 4 page memo summarizing it's findings in the abuse by high level officials in the US Dept of Justice in former President Obama's administration, taking advantage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, to spy on Presidential candidate, then President-elect, Trump.

Bluestflame has already posted this just released memo on the Conspiracy Research sub-forum The Q posts, and a “Very Bad Day” Scenario -- Post #2259 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100318-The-Q-posts-and-a---Very-Bad-Day---Scenario-for-some-elite-swamp-critters--Nov-2017-and-beyond-&p=1205585&viewfull=1#post1205585), and ExomatrixTV has posted that Trump approves release of congressional memo critical of FBI (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101579-Trump-approves-release-of-congressional-memo-critical-of-FBI), also in the Conspiracy Research sub-forum.

The actual publication of this memo deserves a thread in the Political sub-forum in my view, as this has moved from conspiracy (aka non-mainstream) to political reality.

ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 18:14

This 4 page FISA memo has now been released, as I just posted over on the thread FISA Memo Released (US House of Representatives report, 2 Feb 2018) (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101580-FISA-Memo-Released--US-House-of-Representatives-report-2-Feb-2018-).

ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 18:17

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Here's what ZeroHedge wrote in the opening words of his FISA Memo Released (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-02/fisa-memo-released-heres-what-it-says) report regarding this 4 page FISA memo:

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The just released FISA memo accuses senior officials at the DOJ of inappropriately using biased opposition research into then-candidate Trump to obtain surveillance warrants on transition team members as part of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.

According to the document, information from the the so-called Steele dossier was "essential" to the acquisition of surveillance warrants on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It claims that then-deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe told the committee in December that without the information from the Steele dossier, no surveillance warrant for Page would have been sought.

The memo alleges that the political origins of the dossier — paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — were not disclosed to the clandestine court that signed off on the warrant request.

The document claims that although the FBI had "clear evidence" that the author of the dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele, was biased against Trump, it did not convey that to the surveillance court when making its warrant applications. Steele told then-associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr that he was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," the memo says.

House conservatives have touted the memo's revelations as “worse than Watergate” and hinted that it could prove the undoing of the federal investigation into Trump’s campaign. Meanwhile, Democrats on the panel say that it is a cherry-picked set of inaccurate accusations designed to kneecap special counsel Robert Mueller. They have drafted their own counter-memo to rebut the Republican-drafted document, but the majority voted against immediately making that document public earlier this week.

The memo is based on a slate of highly-classified materials provided to the committee by the Justice Department itself, in a closed-door deal brokered by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Naturally, the DOJ has claimed that the release of the memo is an abrogation of the terms of that deal, an assertion spokesmen for both Ryan and Nunes have rejected.

Meanwhile, the underlying evidence remains classified, a state of affairs that Democrats and some national security analysts say makes it impossible to independently verify the memo’s conclusions.

As The Hill reported earlier, ahead of the document's release, Paul Ryan privately urged House Republicans not to overplay the document — and not to tie it to the Mueller investigation.
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ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 18:31

I am so far unable to download and share here a full copy of the 4 page memo (pdf), as it seems that the US House of Representatives website that has this memo is overloaded. So far, I only have 1.7 out of 2.9 Mbytes of the pdf from the US government website.

I did however find what appears to be a copy of the memo (4 page memo plus 2 cover pages) on another website, in a post over at https://whdh.com/news/house-republicans-release-partisan-memo-alleging-fbi-abused-surveillance-in-russia-probe/, and have made a copy on my server: FISA_Memo_HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf (http://thepythoniccow.us/FISA_Memo_HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf)

Hervé

2nd February 2018, 18:38

From Jim Stone:

(http://82.221.129.208/.zh7.html)HERE IS THE MEMO (http://82.221.129.208/.zh7.html). Due to the fact it was released in an inefficient format, government servers are crashing.

I rendered it to a file size 8 percent of that of the original, so share this one. I don't think my servers will have problems, (I have many to put this on.) It will be worth it to blow secrets over this if need be.

One sentence summary: All this does is prove Trump has no ties to Russia, and that people acted illegally against the Trump campaign. Yes, it is worse than watergate but I think this has been white washed anyway. Wait for tweets to see if it is complete or not. Sit on Twitter for all the representatives and see if they post anything about this being redacted. (you are going to have to be vigilant because Twitter will work overtime to bury any tweets about this not being complete.) Also keep an eye on any other social platforms.

To save this, click here and you will get a file that is still very small, but as clear as the original posted by the white house. If you want to serve it somewhere else from this web site, use the one that is showing on the front page. (http://82.221.129.208/fisamemo.png)

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2nd February 2018, 18:46

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RunningDeer

2nd February 2018, 18:56

ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 19:14

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If you prefer to listen to Alex Jones read (with his editorial comments, as you might expect of him) the contents of this 4 page memo, go to the 19m8s mark of this Alex Jones video (https://youtu.be/oBxsy-AWb3g?t=19m8s).

P.S. -- Update -- I was tricked by a Youtube title again, which claimed that Alex read the FULL memo. Alex Jones reads parts, intermingled with his editorializing ... but more his words, and not entirely an actual reading of the memo. Sorry :).

P.S. -- Update -- Here's a more straight forward reading of the 4 page memo. The actual reading starts at the 4 min 29 sec mark (https://youtu.be/wSVXFzdyFmA?t=4m29s).
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I am so far unable to download and share here a full copy of the 4 page memo (pdf), as it seems that the US House of Representatives website that has this memo is overloaded. So far, I only have 1.7 out of 2.9 Mbytes of the pdf from the US government website.

I did however find what appears to be a copy of the memo (4 page memo plus 2 cover pages) on another website, in a post over at https://whdh.com/news/house-republicans-release-partisan-memo-alleging-fbi-abused-surveillance-in-russia-probe/, and have made a copy on my server: FISA_Memo_HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf (http://thepythoniccow.us/FISA_Memo_HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf)

My download from the US House of Representatives website has completed, and it is exactly the same document as I posted above from my server.

RunningDeer

2nd February 2018, 19:27

Please remove if redundant.

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ZoSo925

2nd February 2018, 19:50

ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 19:53

Thanks, Paul. While we wait, I'll add this 50 sec. clip:

UPDATE: Oops, I'm late adding. I got side tracked reading Fidel Castro's Son Commits Suicide (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-01/fidel-castros-son-commits-suicide?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29).
Meanwhile, besides this suicide (was it really a suicide?),

the crash of a train containing most of the Republicans in Congress with a garbage truck is already old news,
the biggest sports day of the year in the US, the Superbowl of Football, comes in two days,
the cryptocurrency markets have crashed to less than half their peaks of a few weeks ago, and
we've just seen THE most important indicator, in my view, of an imminent monetary/financial collapse, a collapse of the US Ten Year Treasury Note price (yields shot up from 2.65% to 2.84% this week).
... so what are we not supposed to notice ... perhaps human organ and human children harvesting, perhaps the major treason of Uranium One (Clinton's and others taking bribes, stealing land and murding those in their way, to provide 20% of US Uranium to Russia), perhaps a trail of murders, treasons, wars, genocides, extending back decades at least, perhaps the toxins in our food, water, medicines, and air, perhaps the generations of lies, deceit, fraud and propaganda, ...

May we live in exciting times :).

ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 19:58

Cidersomerset

2nd February 2018, 20:04

Lionel is a legal expert as well as media analyst and is
very up beat about this memo release.....

There is a lot on the other thread.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100318-The-Q-posts-and-a---Very-Bad-Day---Scenario-for-some-elite-swamp-critters--Nov-2017-and-beyond-&p=1205632&viewfull=1#post1205632

The Best Explanation of What the FISA Memo Says,
What It Means and How Mueller Will Be Destroyed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOztgjJBdY
Published on 2 Feb 2018

We told you so! Mueller's toast. Nunes is a hero and Trump . . . well, he's a genius.
What a grand day for liberty-loving patriots and a dour day for the fetid and olid
Deep State. Bwahahahahaha!

The Nunes FISA memo release accuses senior officials at the DOJ of inappropriately
using biased opposition research into then-candidate Trump to obtain surveillance
warrants on transition team members as part of the federal investigation into the
Trump campaign and Russia, ZeroHedge reports.

According to the document, information from the the so-called Steele dossier was
"essential" to the acquisition of surveillance warrants on Trump campaign aide Carter
Page. It claims that then-deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe told the committee in
December that without the information from the Steele dossier, no surveillance warrant
for Page would have been sought.

The memo alleges that the political origins of the dossier — paid for by Hillary Clinton
and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — were not disclosed to the clandestine
court that signed off on the warrant request.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0...
https://www.scribd.com/document/37059...

ZoSo925

2nd February 2018, 20:08

ZeroHedge posted a followup article. Comey going on Twitter posting - That's It ?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-02/comey-responds-dishonest-and-misleading-memo

AutumnW

2nd February 2018, 20:16

So the whole Russia red herring thing has blown up in the Dem's face. Can't say I'm too upset. What they should be doing is tracing all the ties and conflicts of interest with Israel, on both sides of the aisle.

ZoSo925

2nd February 2018, 20:21

I was reading the comments on 2nd article. Someone posted this -- "He's bluffing on a busted flush and everyone knows it. This is just the FIRST memo."

RunningDeer

2nd February 2018, 20:24

ExomatrixTV

2nd February 2018, 20:30

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ExomatrixTV

2nd February 2018, 20:33

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Cidersomerset

2nd February 2018, 21:04

OUTRAGE! WILLIAM BINNEY: FISA, VIOLATES ALL U.S.
CITIZENS RIGHTS! - ALEX JONES INFOWARS

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ROGER STONE, ALEX, FISA MEMO, GOWDY, NEW FBI DIRECTOR? TREASON! -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOA2BRlx05U

Published on 2 Feb 2018

Bill Ryan

2nd February 2018, 21:25

An update from Zero Hedge:

https://zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-02/fisa-memo-released-heres-what-it-says

FISA Memo Released: Here's What It Says (Update)

The just released FISA memo accuses senior officials at the DOJ of inappropriately using biased opposition research into then-candidate Trump to obtain surveillance warrants on transition team members as part of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.

According to the document, information from the the so-called Steele dossier was "essential" to the acquisition of surveillance warrants on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It claims that then-deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe told the committee in December that without the information from the Steele dossier, no surveillance warrant for Page would have been sought.

The memo alleges that the political origins of the dossier — paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — were not disclosed to the clandestine court that signed off on the warrant request.

The document claims that although the FBI had "clear evidence" that the author of the dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele, was biased against Trump, it did not convey that to the surveillance court when making its warrant applications. Steele told then-associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr that he was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," the memo says.

House conservatives have touted the memo's revelations as “worse than Watergate” and hinted that it could prove the undoing of the federal investigation into Trump’s campaign. Meanwhile, Democrats on the panel say that it is a cherry-picked set of inaccurate accusations designed to kneecap special counsel Robert Mueller. They have drafted their own counter-memo to rebut the Republican-drafted document, but the majority voted against immediately making that document public earlier this week.

The memo is based on a slate of highly-classified materials provided to the committee by the Justice Department itself, in a closed-door deal brokered by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Naturally, the DOJ has claimed that the release of the memo is an abrogation of the terms of that deal, an assertion spokesmen for both Ryan and Nunes have rejected.

Meanwhile, the underlying evidence remains classified, a state of affairs that Democrats and some national security analysts say makes it impossible to independently verify the memo’s conclusions.

As The Hill reported earlier, ahead of the document's release, Paul Ryan privately urged House Republicans not to overplay the document — and not to tie it to the Mueller investigation.

Here are select excerpts from the FISA memo:

On October 21, 2016, DOJ and FBI sought and received a FISA probable cause order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC. Page is a U.S. citizen who served as a volunteer advisor to the Trump presidential campaign. Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant targeting Carter Page and three FISA renewals from the FISC. As required by statute (50 U.S.C. §1805(d)(1)), a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed by the FISC every 90 days and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. Then-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Then-DAG Sally Yates, then-Acting DAG Dana Boente, and DAG Rod Rosenstein each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of DOJ.

Our findings indicate that, as described below, material and relevant information was omitted.

The "dossier" compiled by Christopher Steele (Steele dossier) on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was a longtime FBI source who was paid over $160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and research firm Fusion GPS, to obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump's ties to Russia.
What follows is what some have dubbed the "damning section", as there was no reason not to disclosed the relationship between Clinton and Steele, unless the authors were worried about exposing a clear political link:

a) Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.

b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier). The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of—and paid by—the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.
The section above also makes a good case for releasing the underlying FISA application, as either the Clinton connection was disclosed or it wasn't - not a fact either party can distort.

In a curious twist, in order to corroborate the dossier, the memo reveals that the FBI "extensively" cited a news article -- that was based entirely on the dossier. In effect, using the dossier to corroborate the dossier.

The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page's July 2016 trip to Moscow. This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News. The Page FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not directly provide information to Yahoo News. Steele has admitted in British court filings that he met with Yahoo News—and several other outlets—in September 2016 at the direction of Fusion GPS. Perkins Coie was aware of Steele's initial media contacts because they hosted at least one meeting in Washington D.C. in 2016 with Steele and Fusion GPS where this matter was discussed.
The memo continues revealing more information about Steele and his clear political bias:

Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations — an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, 2016, Mother Jones article by David Corn.

Steele's numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling — maintaining confidentiality — and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source for the FBI.

3) Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president." This clear evidence of Steele's bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files—but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications.

During this same time period, Ohr's wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC.

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After Steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within FBI assessed Steele's reporting as only minimally corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even though it was - according to his June 2017 testimony - "salacious and unverified." While the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations. Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.

The Page FISA application also mentions information regarding fellow Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, but there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos. The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel's Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had also investigated. The Strzok/Lisa Page texts also reflect extensive discussions about the investigation, orchestrating leaks to the media, and include a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an "insurance" policy against President Trump's election.
The bottom line: as noted earlier, if found that there was clear undisclosed bias in the launch of surveillance of Trump's team, then Mueller's probe - whose findings would be the result of a flawed FISA warrant - would be null and void, leave space for Trump to fire the special prosecutor or Rod Rosenstein.

Incidentally, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump suggested the document shows political bias at the FBI that tainted the probe into whether his campaign cooperated with Russia’s election meddling.

“I think it’s a disgrace,” Trump said of the alleged bias. "A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves."

The decision cleared the way for the House Intelligence Committee to release the memo, which it did shortly after noon. “It was declassified and let’s see what happens,” Trump said. White House made no redactions to the document.

Bill Ryan

2nd February 2018, 22:47

The best genuinely simple summary of the entire thing that I've yet heard, from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.

16 mins, excellently explained.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frTGd8-Nn8

ThePythonicCow

2nd February 2018, 23:28

The best genuinely simple summary of the entire thing that I've yet heard, from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.

16 mins, excellently explained.

The Clinton's have been in the midst of decades of deep fraud, drug running, arms running, wars, murders, organ and children harvesting, genocide, etc, etc.

One of their more recent schemes netted them millions of dollars "donated" to their "charity" and paid to Bill as speaking fees. That scheme is called "Uranium One". It involved stealing uranium rich lands from ranchers in the Western US, sometimes killing those ranchers who objected too strenously, in order to ship 20% of US mined uranium to Russia (and perhaps on to North Korea or Iran?). It involved high level government officials and institutions. It was treason of the highest order.

To cover up this massively illegal, unconstitutional, immoral and outrageous collusion by the Clintons and associates with Russia, they started a cover operation, blaming Trump for colluding with Russia. Such is a favorite tactic of criminals ... blame the other party, loud and long, of the same crimes (or similar sounding crimes) as you yourself are guilty of.

This cover operation is now coming unraveled and being shown to be an abuse of power at the highest levels of the US government.

However, even in its unraveling, this cover operation is working like a charm to keep the focus off Uranium One ... the far more serious crime, not to mention keeping the focus off the many other Clinton scandals dating back decades.

Yes, Mike Adams. The Trump-Russian collusion claims are coming unglued, born in criminal acts of illegally spying on Trump and his tream and of lying to the FISA court.

But, Mike Adams, you did not make one mention of the larger scandals, not even of the more substantial Russian collusion ... Uranium One ... which would if fully and successfully prosecuted lead, in my estimation, to death penalty convictions for high crimes of some high level and notorious figures, including Hillary Clinton.

... not one mention, Mike.

The cover-up of these more serious crimes, by some of the most powerful public figures in American politics over the last few decades, continues. Your (quite legitimate) outrage over the illegal surveillance of Trump and his team is helping to continue that cover-up.

KiwiElf

2nd February 2018, 23:33

This is why I believe Mueller (& his investigation), is the wildcard ;)

https://twitter.com/thomaswictor/status/959171613424955392

EDIT. Also here:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100318-The-Q-posts-and-a---Very-Bad-Day---Scenario-for-some-elite-swamp-critters--Nov-2017-and-beyond-&p=1205685#post1205685

ghostrider

3rd February 2018, 00:31

The scary thing is if this is swept under the rug , anyone could be targeted with bogus information and the most advanced technology a super power has can brought to bare against you ... all lies yet approved by the highest court , and carried out by career spooks , with a determined outcome reguardless of the real truth or actual facts ... they did this against a guy with billions ... you or me don't stand a chance ...

Foxie Loxie

3rd February 2018, 00:48

Hey, ghostrider....rest assured; this is not all going to be swept under the rug! People keep underestimating Trump....jump on board & enjoy the ride! :highfive: I'm afraid it WILL be bumpy, but there are too many who will want to see justice done at this point! :muscle:

mojo

3rd February 2018, 01:00

Remember how sure the the opposition party was about having a special counsel? Mueller's investigation started on a hoax.

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ThePythonicCow

3rd February 2018, 02:45

A couple of the commentators that I've seen today on this Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) memo have mentioned that the FISA court (FISC) was created after 9/11 (11 Sept 2001), to expedite counter-terrorist intelligence operations.

This is not correct. The FISA court was created back in 1978.

The corruption of the Dept of Justice dates back at least to when Bill Clinton was US President, from 1993 to 2001.

It happens that I came upon some valuable, inside, research into these details, back in 2005, when I got lucky on a Google search and found a draft of a research document by Jesselyn Radack and Diane Piette, who had worked inside the Dept of Justice, at the time that the Clintonistas initially corrupted the department. This document was subsequently published, with some edits, by the Stanford Law & Policy Review in the Spring of 2006, on page 461, under the title Piercing the "Historical Mists": The People and Events Behind the Passage of FISA and the Creation of the "Wall".

I originally posted a report on this article, which has critical inside details on how the Dept of Justice was corrupted, in this August 2005 post on the FreeRepublic.com website (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473116/posts?page=616#616).

I have mentioned this article twice so far here on ProjectAvalon.net:

August 2012: Millions Against Monsanto - Post #6 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49051-Millions-Against-Monsanto&p=544905&viewfull=1#post544905)
January 2017: Oh my god - Jamie Gorelick is Jared Kushner's lawyer - bad sign! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95406-Oh-my-god-Jamie-Gorelick-is-Jared-Kushner-s-lawyer-bad-sign-&p=1126776&viewfull=1#post1126776)

The original draft document that I found back in 2005 is available in the Avalon Library at Piercing the Historical Mists - Radack/Piette. (http://avalonlibrary.net/Paul/Historical-Mists.doc)

A few months after I posted the above January 2017 thread concerned that Jamie Gorelick was Jared Kushner's lawyer, Jamie Gorelick stepped down as Jared Kushner's lawyer in the Russian Collusion probe (see here (http://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-gorelick-lawyer-leaving-jared-kushner-russia-investigation-2017-7)), but she's still apparently retained by Jared Kushner to work on other matters. I deeply distrust Jamie Gorelick, as explained in my January 2017 thread. She has long been deeply entangled with corruption of the US Dept of Justice.

Perhaps by some miracle, as has been suggested of Robert Mueller of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Jamie Gorelick has also changed sides and is helping to honestly investigate and reform the Dept of Justice (DOJ). If so, I cannot think of two more powerful and experienced people to have on such work. But my instincts are that such is wishful thinking, and that we are seeing just some of the "cut-outs" (Comey and below) being thrown under the bus, while the real corruption continues, more deeply engrained, and while the reforms that we'll likely see over the next year or two in the laws, regulations, procedures, institutions and leadership of the FBI and DOJ will just implant the corruption more deeply and thoroughly.

That is, I am concerned that we are transitioning from a period of crude Clintonista style corruption, to a more polished and durable corruption, more thoroughy engrained into the fabric of the US federal government. The "business model" of the Clinton Crime Family (charity fraud, drugs, arms, human organs, human children, Saudi petro, uranium, ...) may no longer be a good model for the future, but the deep state control seems like it's not going out of style anytime soon.

For more background on this, if you're interested, see my above three links, which I'll repeat here:

August 2005: this post on the FreeRepublic.com website (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473116/posts?page=616#616).
August 2012: Millions Against Monsanto - Post #6 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49051-Millions-Against-Monsanto&p=544905&viewfull=1#post544905)
January 2017: Oh my god - Jamie Gorelick is Jared Kushner's lawyer - bad sign! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?95406-Oh-my-god-Jamie-Gorelick-is-Jared-Kushner-s-lawyer-bad-sign-&p=1126776&viewfull=1#post1126776)

Helene West

3rd February 2018, 03:15

@Paul
Very valid concerns. Along those lines wasn't it the Abel Danger guys that brought up that when clinton was working at the Rose Law firm their big thing was attempting to own as much of the patents of advanced technological research as possible and it was during that time, early to mid-'90s that they brought in comey, mueller and I think rosenstein as well? not all at the same time but these guys all know eachother for a long time.
That's why I likewise as you have a hard time believing they're becoming white hats now after assisting the likes of the clintons.

And your hunches about transitioning from gross corruption to a more sneaky sophisticated corruption I've been wondering about as well. E.g., the way trump emphasizes how he/his team are protecting the 2nd amendment. he made that point again at Greenbrier. I wonder if behind 'protecting our rights' they are just working on/perfecting their remote control technologies to the point where they won't need to worry about sheeple with guns. No shoot-outs necessary if they can control you from a distance.
Sometimes this '2nd American Revolution' feels a little narrow to me....

edina

3rd February 2018, 03:30

The best genuinely simple summary of the entire thing that I've yet heard, from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.

16 mins, excellently explained.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frTGd8-Nn8

I had just been reading these two articles by Natural News earlier today.

Mother Jones, WashPost, NYT, CNN and Yahoo all exposed as deep state propaganda puppets in shocking FISA memo (https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-02-02-mother-jones-washpost-nyt-cnn-and-yahoo-exposed-as-deep-state-puppets-in-shocking-fisa-memo.html)

JOURNO-TERRORISM: The goal of the left-wing media has always been to terrorize voters and hypnotically control them using orchestrated fear programming (https://www.naturalnews.com/055998_journo-terrorism_left-wing_media_hypnotic_control.html)

I like how Mike is tying this back to 9/11.

And this term he's come up with "Journo-Terrorism".

Not here, but in other places, I've been trying to help people understand the media's role in all of this.

Mockingbird Media.

Ozmedia.

And I agree with Mike Adams.

We need to hold the complicit media accountable in this very expensive, cover-up charade.

Someone mentioned clif high's data sets that pointed to "re-education camps" and how that data set may be what happens to help people de-program, rather than program.

This is something the whole QAnon phenom is helping with, training people how to ask questions, and rethink the assumptions presented in media.

To connect information in a way that people may not normally consider. To think deeper.

For example, how many people would think to connect the recent death of the Hamas co-founder, with the Klaus Eberwein?

This memo and the attention around it is necessary to help bridge the gap between what huge numbers of people have been led to believe and what is true.

That gap is what causes the cognitive dissonance.

It causes people to shut down cognitively.

We can help.

edina

3rd February 2018, 04:00

ThePythonicCow

3rd February 2018, 04:17

edina

3rd February 2018, 04:23

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3rd February 2018, 04:49

JUST IN: GOP lawmaker says he will seek criminal prosecution of DOJ, FBI officials over "treason" outlined in memo

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Omni

3rd February 2018, 12:07

Found this as the headlining twitter top news for #ReleaseTheMemo. Social engineering involving the Russian collusion hoax on the day of the memo release (pictured). Note the manipulative NLP usage. This is what modern Operation Mockingbird looks like. Pure U.S. government garbage propaganda.

http://thepythoniccow.us/twitter_hashtagreleasethememo_putin_nlp_DVGz33BVMAAzbgP.jpg

Bill Ryan

3rd February 2018, 13:42

Another very easy-listening summary, from Doug Hagmann — yesterday morning, before the memo was released:

http://blogtalkradio.com/the-doug-hagmann-radio-show/2018/02/02/the-hot-war-begins-today.mp3

Carmody

3rd February 2018, 14:01

It's always good to remember, in these given times.... that the political parties are on backward, at least in title and perception.

During the civil war, the democratic party was the party of the south and the republicans were the party of the north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_Party_(United_States)

At the least, it was very messy. The USA may finally be moving back to more than two main political parties, as...in that messy stew of motions and actions...real politics that actually function...can emerge.

happyuk

3rd February 2018, 20:18

Suffice to say that the House HPSCI Committee recommended the release of the memo to the White House. Everyone should try and grasp its three most obvious features:

1. A DNC actively engaged in using FBI source Chris Steele to find something - anything - to tie Trump to the Wicked Russians;
2. The FBI's belief that Steele was a greedy flake who they later fired;
3. The casually mentioned sleaze of sex and money on the Democrat side entirely omitted from Comey's original report and testimony.

I do not doubt that Trump has borrowed money from dubious sources in the past, nor do I doubt for even a moment that Trump is little more than an orange-coloured Ponzi scheme on legs with slightly lower emotional intelligence quotient than my 4 year old nephew.

But how anyone can think the Clinton campaign can emerge unscathed from this is beyond me. The BBC, New York Times and Washington Post decide to ignore that element entirely, just as Comey did, choosing instead to spin it as "another attempt by the Trump White House to torpedo any enquiries getting close to Trump's role in the Russian destabilization plot".

Shheeeeeeeessshhh!

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3rd February 2018, 21:11

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Satori

5th February 2018, 00:57

Found this on the CBTS on reddit:

Legal commentary thread on #Memo: It is important to remember that FISA courts are not like other courts; there needs to be specific evidence of a particular national security threat to circumvent regular federal courts. It is a HIGHER standard because its jurisdiction is LIMITED

That is a true statement, in theory. But, in practice, there are departures from theory for political and for other expedient reasons.

Michelle Marie

5th February 2018, 05:14

I've got a strange feeling this is going to be a flat tire story. Nothing is going to happen, the show must go on and people must continue paying taxes to this slave system.

Something really needs to fall from the sky and make serious changes

If this "FISA Memo" show does seem to go on, it could be that it's doing it's job of distracting us from more serious crimes, by more powerful people. Perhaps some high level Dept of Justice officials such as McCabe, Comey, Yates, Boente, Rosenstein, and Ohr have become the "cut-outs", the one's who are getting thrown under the bus, to protect their bosses from more serious charges.

Yes, our attention is usurped and we become myopic by focusing on the ever-exciting unfoldment in Washington, DC.
Meanwhile, our local towns, cities, and communities are falling into deceptive traps (compliments of Rockefeller Foundation and Rothschilds) that lead to financial ruin and an ever increasing homeless population with PTSD.

I guess some people will only wake up when their own town gets devastated. I'm paying attention to this. These are dire warnings that if heeded could cause a whole other uprising of truth that could set us free from potential consequences. :bounce:

Very few people that I know are aware and care. I DO know some.

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Deborah Tavares -- January 28, 2018

GENOCIDE is happening.

Rothschild's resilience plan
Homer Parkhill and Stephen Antinelli : Restructuring N. America named Oct, 2017 in press release
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Through Rand Corporation (connected to Tavistock--NGOs-CIA, etc)
Citizen boards use "group think" and you are made to conform
Sounds like they ***own Congress*** (gave them "reading list") ***and all levels of corporatized government.***
They destroy cities financially with unnatural disasters and DEWs
--through climate change agendas create local laws--
Then through funding trick officials to sign agreements that lead to their takeover

SINISTER! And it's happening right under our noses!!!

*****Climate change + weaponized weather = Rothschild/Rockefeller land grabs & CONTROL of everything!*****

Cities approved "Climate Action Plans". (The setup)

Air B & B global takedown of local month to month
Run by Google "to displace people globally"

Rockefeller Foundation: "10% Resilience Pledge Statement" for cities

They are ruining lives. :no:
Hundreds of thousands of people in Northern California wandering around with PTSD.
Some stay in RVs, some with friends, some in Air B & Bs

Remember "Silent Weapon"
Check out the plans for education in this video

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Personally, I don't think we should totally rely on our compromised government, even though it appears to be changing directions. There are many levels of work to do. Complacency could have extreme unwanted consequences.
From a change of consciousness, to taking action-- strength :muscle: and :sun: courage are required in this hour. :star:

MM

PS. Right here in my community they are having meetings to entice people to buy into their climate change agendas. I wrote an email to one of them and provided links to truth information. Oh, wait...make that two. The second one was from a regional education association who used the word "Resilience". I sent them an email telling them "What a coincidence! I just learned Agenda 21 is now called 'Resilience'" and sent them a video. I wonder which ones really know and which ones are just being deceived with "Opposite Day" words.

I have a third one on my list. I find their flyers at a local library.

Resilience: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQfXQWHRAw

Bill Ryan

5th February 2018, 15:10

Another easy-listening, hour-long analysis by Doug Hagmann, as of just an hour ago. Hagmann, who spent his whole weekend researching, drills down into important legal detail, very clearly presented, to show just how VERY VERY VERY serious this is.

https://blogtalkradio.com/the-doug-hagmann-radio-show/2018/02/05/preparing-for-phase-two--constitutional-crisis.mp3

Hervé

5th February 2018, 16:15

Easy reading Jon Rappoport's take on the FISA Barnum Circus:

Secret House memo released: the fallout, the lies, and the bigger picture (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/secret-house-memo-released-the-fallout-the-lies-and-the-bigger-picture/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Feb 5 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/secret-house-memo-released-the-fallout-the-lies-and-the-bigger-picture/), 2018

The House Intelligence Committee’s 4-page memo has been released.

The hullabaloo about the memo unfairly “damaging the reputation” of the FBI and the Dept. of Justice is a joke.

The same types of Democrat ideologues who are spouting that line, now, were screaming at the FBI, decades ago, when COINTELPRO, the Bureau’s op to place spies inside dissident Left groups across the US, was exposed. But suddenly, now, the FBI is pure as the driven snow, and its reputation must not be besmirched; otherwise, Democracy itself could collapse.

And in more recent times, the mainstream Left press, without an ounce of regret or remorse, exposed monumental fraud and incompetence at the FBI’s vaunted forensic lab and stuck a dagger in its heart:
Washington Post, April 18, 2015 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html): “The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000…the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death…Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison…”
So forget the idea that the Left is valiantly trying to protect the FBI’s reputation. The Left is trying to say Trump is a crook and a traitor; and whatever works toward that end—including spreading praise on the FBI as a holy church—is in the game plan.

At the heart of the House Committee memo is the charge, boldly expressed, that FBI/DOJ spying on the Trump team was launched or expanded after obtaining a FISA court warrant.

And that warrant, opening the door to spy on Trump team member, Carter Page, was granted based on the notorious Trump dossier, compiled by ex-MI-6 agent, Christopher Steele.

But wait. The dossier was bought and paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton camp. And therefore, in effect, a political op, launched to win the election for Hillary, helped start the ball rolling against Trump and his supposed Russian connections.

That’s bad enough, but that’s not all.

The focus comes back to the Trump dossier. Was it fake or real? Was it accurate or cooked up?

If it was fake, a whole pillar of the FBI/DOJ investigation of Trump—including the Mueller probe—collapses.

Many observers have thrown dirt on the dossier, but they are missing one point that stands out like a mountain on a clear day. I’ll explain.

The Trump dossier: what no one is talking about
A British spy’s fantastical story.

First, a bit of background.

The dirty Trump dossier made several claims:
One: Russia had strong blackmail material on Trump and COULD THUS CONTROL A SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES;

Two: Most damning in that material, Trump used prostitutes while he was in Russia, and paid several of them to urinate on a hotel bed Obama had once slept in;

Three: Russia hacked DNC (Democratic National Committee) emails and passed them on to WikiLeaks, who published them. The emails were damaging to Hillary and helped Trump win the election;

Four: Russia obviously wanted Trump to win the election.
British ex-spy, Christopher Steele, who put together the dossier, once worked in Russia and allegedly had many connections there.

Steele assembled the Trump dossier after consulting with a number of Russians and spreading some money around.

Steele claims, in the dossier, that he was talking with well-placed Russian officials. That’s where he obtained his information.

What??

Why would these Russians speak with him? Why would these Russians expose a purported plot to hand the election to Trump?

If such a Russian plot existed, it would be a tightly held secret.

VERY TIGHTLY HELD.

BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE NUMBER-ONE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OP.

AN OP FOR THE AGES.

THE HOLY GRAIL.

BLACKMAIL CONTROL OVER A SITTING US PRESIDENT.

Yet, here are Russian intelligence people spilling the beans to Steele, a former British spy.

And by spilling the beans, they’re pretty much committing suicide, because their Russian colleagues and superiors will be able to track them down and identify them, since they’ve had connections to Steele in the past.

Steele goes to Russia, sits down with a number of Russian intel people, asks them questions, and they tell him all about a top-secret plot to sway a US election and CONTROL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. No problem.

OR…

Steele never accumulated all the information in the Trump dossier. He made unwarranted leaps of inference. He invented key facts. He wanted to satisfy his employers, Hillary Clinton, and the DNC. They wanted dirt on Trump, and he gave them dirt.

Daniel Craig could play the Steele role in a Netflix series.

I’m working on a script. Here are the first few lines:
Steele: Hi, Ivan, remember me?

Ivan: Why, it’s Chris Steele! Haven’t seen you in years. Let’s see, you were working for MI-6 in the old days here in Moscow, right? Pretending you were a diplomat. Yes, we had a few lunches back then.

Steele: Right. Look, I was wondering whether you can tell me about a super-secret file you guys are building on Donald Trump. This is the off the record, of course.

Ivan: Sure. We’re blackmailing him. If we can help him win the election, he’ll be under our thumb, completely. This is a Putin operation. It’s a little noisy here in the restaurant. Why don’t we go over to my office and I’ll show you all the data.

Steele: That’d be great.

Ivan: Putin wants Trump to win. I don’t like Trump. I prefer Hillary. I assume you do, too.

Steele: Well, sure. I’m working for her. That’s why I’m here.

Ivan: Wonderful…
It’s a sure-fire hit.

It’s so believable.
Now to the bigger picture: to what degree is the secret House memo, just released, a limited hangout?

If the FBI/DOJ offered up a fake dossier to the FISA, in order to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump team, what else did they do?

The FBI, CIA, and NSA form a blanket of surveillance across America, collecting billions of messages. Are we supposed to believe the FISA warrant was the only effort to gain permission to spy on Trump? Or that legal permission was an issue in the first place?

Of course it wasn’t. The House memo focuses on the legal side of things as a smokescreen.

A politicized group of spying agencies would go a lot further in spying on Trump—but beyond that, we’re talking about spying on all citizens, including Congressional and other government officials (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/snowden-nsa-blackmail-and-the-boys-in-the-back-room/), regardless of party affiliation.

There is only one barrier the NSA, CIA, FBI, and other intelligence agencies face: when they use surveillance-material in criminal ways, how can the material be released and falsely attributed to other sources?

This is analogous to “parallel construction.” If a law-enforcement agency tries to use illegally obtained evidence as a basis for prosecution, a court will disallow the evidence. Therefore, the agency must concoct a “parallel” investigation that arrives at the desired goal through another route.

In the case of spying on government officials, this “parallel” is rather easy to pull off. It’s accomplished, for example, by anonymous leaks to the press.

You could call this meta-government. Officials are threatened, blackmailed, smeared, and controlled by intelligence agencies.

It works. There is no need for a Steele dossier that blames Russia and Putin or any foreign actor. Actually, placing blame on the Russians—with enough press support—deflects attention from ongoing home-grown operations.

The Trump-FISA-dossier scandal is just the tip of an exceedingly large surveillance iceberg.

An American iceberg.

William Binney, cryptanalyst-mathematician, served 30 years at the NSA:
“The FBI has access to the data collected, which is basically the emails of virtually everybody in the country. And the FBI has access to it. All the congressional members are on the surveillance too, no one is excluded. They are all included. So, yes, this can happen to anyone. If they become a target for whatever reason – they are targeted by the government, the government can go in, or the FBI, or other agencies of the government, they can go into their database, pull all that data collected on them over the years, and we analyze it all. So, we have to actively analyze everything they’ve done for the last 10 years at least.”
That’s a lot more spying than three warrants granted by a FISA court to surveil the Trump team. But you’re supposed to look at the warrants and how they were obtained, and not look at the wall-to-wall spying on every American.

You’re supposed to get embroiled in the Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee vs. the Democrat members, as they fling accusations at each other.

You’re not supposed to realize the NSA already has thousands of Trump-related documents, illegally obtained over a long period of time, as well as Obama-related documents, and documents on anybody and everybody who communicates electronically.

The endless spying is not for the purpose of catching terrorists. Ultimately, it’s not even for blackmail. It’s for implementing a long-range plan to profile and track and control every person— the Technocrats’ wet dream—and the real-time ongoing energy consumption of each human will be radically diminished, with quotas numerically assigned From Above, and regulated, at automated choke-points, in the Brave New World of promoted and fabricated Scarcity.
“We’re saving the planet. Thank you for your (enforced) participation. Be happy. Feel inspired.”
You’re definitely not supposed to look at that and resist it.

Jon Rappoport

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Nevertheless, there is now a crowbar in that door to start a "House Cleanup."

Operator

5th February 2018, 16:39

Here's another video of this very clever guy. He presents his stuff in a sympathetic, non-agressive, easy understandable way:

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In the 2nd part he explains that it is all about a FISA 702 article 1 warrant making the situation even worse ...

Bill Ryan

5th February 2018, 16:55

Here's another video of this very clever guy. He presents his stuff in a sympathetic, non-aggressive, easy understandable way:

The Overlooked Problem With FISA Title 1 Surveillance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9wz964E0i0

In the 2nd part he explains that it is all about a FISA 702 article 1 warrant making the situation even worse ...

Yes, good. This is exactly what Doug Hagmann was stressing in his show this morning, which I posted here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101580-FISA-Memo-Released--US-House-of-Representatives-report-2-Feb-2018-&p=1206315&viewfull=1#post1206315).

https://blogtalkradio.com/the-doug-hagmann-radio-show/2018/02/05/preparing-for-phase-two--constitutional-crisis.mp3

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5th February 2018, 18:20

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ThePythonicCow

5th February 2018, 20:01

In the 2nd part he explains that it is all about a FISA 702 article 1 warrant making the situation even worse ...

FISA Section 702, if I understand correctly, is NOT the "even worse" section. It is the more recently added, less pervasive, "incidental", spying authorization. Moreover, apparently unlike some had supposed until now, the Dept of Justice (DOJ) did not obtain this less severe Section 702 authority to spy on Carter Page and hence on the Trump campaign and subsequent transition teams, but rather DOJ obtained the more severe original Title 1 authority.

Title 1 of the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 can be used to extensively spy on any US citizens having contact with someone, perhaps even if that someone is a US citizen living in the US, if the Dept of Justice convinced the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that that someone was a foreign spy and a serious threat to national security.

The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (first enacted July 10, 2008) amended FISA, adding a Title VII (Roman numeral 7), which allowed, in its Section 702, less intensively focused, "incidental", spying, using bulk collection of the electronic communications of US citizens. FISA Section 702, which allows the US government to conduct warrantless communications collections, was born out of the post-9/11 surveillance era. As the law is written, the intelligence community cannot use Section 702 programs to target Americans, who are protected by the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. But the law gives the intelligence community space to target foreign intelligence in ways that inherently and intentionally sweep in Americans’ communications.

According to both Doug Hagmann (in Bill's post, above) and to this analyst, prayingmedic, the Dept of Justice asked the FISC for, and received, the more extensive spying authority provided for in Title 1 of the original 1978 FISA.

Bill Ryan

5th February 2018, 20:12

Here's another video of this very clever guy. He presents his stuff in a sympathetic, non-agressive, easy understandable way:

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Bumping this very well-presented video.

In the 2nd part he explains that it is all about a FISA 702 article 1 warrant making the situation even worse ...

But it's the other way round. The FISA approval of the Carter Page surveillance was under TITLE 1 — not Section 702. That's an entirely different ball of wax. A far, far bigger one, too.

And approval for a Title 1 warrant application should be extremely rigorous and well-supported with rock-solid documentation — exactly because it's such a huge, serious matter.

It allowed everyone even peripherally or casually connected to Carter Page — i.e. everyone in the Trump campaign — to be investigated in great depth as if they were suspected agents of a foreign power. In other words, spies.

That's the VERY big deal here. The warranted surveillance dragnet could extend to hundreds or even thousands of people.

And the FISA Memo summarizes that it was all based on baseless or fabricated and paid-for evidence, fraudulently presented and knowingly signed off by the head (3 times) and the deputy head (once) of the FBI.

This is why this is many magnitudes bigger than Watergate.

ThePythonicCow

5th February 2018, 20:23

Now to the bigger picture: to what degree is the secret House memo, just released, a limited hangout?

If the FBI/DOJ offered up a fake dossier to the FISA, in order to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump team, what else did they do?

The FBI, CIA, and NSA form a blanket of surveillance across America, collecting billions of messages. Are we supposed to believe the FISA warrant was the only effort to gain permission to spy on Trump? Or that legal permission was an issue in the first place?

Of course it wasn’t. The House memo focuses on the legal side of things as a smokescreen.

A politicized group of spying agencies would go a lot further in spying on Trump—but beyond that, we’re talking about spying on all citizens, including Congressional and other government officials (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/snowden-nsa-blackmail-and-the-boys-in-the-back-room/), regardless of party affiliation.
Yes.

Obviously, in much of what I and others have posted on this thread, and in much of what passes for news both in the main stream news media and in the alternative news media, Americans are being whipped to a frenzy over this "Russian collusion" (if you're main stream left leaning) or "Trump entrapment" (if you're alternative right leaning).

For example a big deal is now being made (by myself and others, immediately above) over the analysis that the Dept of Justice (DOJ) obtained the more intensively focused surveillance authority of the original Title 1 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), rather than the more recently added, less focused "incidental" bulk data collection authorized in Title VII of FISA.

Whenever such a storm of protest, from "both sides of the aisle", is being whipped up, over a period of months, now going on years ... one just knows, in their gut, that the real problems remain obscured behind the scene.

Bill Ryan

5th February 2018, 21:17

The crucial (and enormous) difference between a Title 1 warrant and a Section 702 warrant is now starting to be more widely presented.

Doug Hagmann stressed this in the last 10 mins of today's Infowars show, and Thomas Paine (who's pretty smart and well-informed, and appears to have an intelligence background) is talking about exactly the same thing here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4bSgRET7oM

Omni

5th February 2018, 23:07

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, the actual memo (read it yourself): http://pdf.deprogramming.tools/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/nunes-FISA-court-memo-white-house-letter.pdf

More analysis of the memo and situation: http://www.declassifieddocuments.com/2018/02/the-nunes-memo-downloadable-pdf-of-fisa-court-hpsci-memo.html

Excerpt from the declassifieddocuments.com (http://www.declassifieddocuments.com/) article:

What you see in the memo:
* A conspiracy within the U.S. government to undermine a Presidential candidate's election. Which is ironic, that is exactly what compromised mainstream media and the same government sources who sought to undermine Donald Trump's election say about Russia.
* Over $160,000 was paid to an agent of the DNC and Hillary Clinton to "obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump's ties to Russia."
* Department of Justice & FBI negligence/bias in stopping the unscrupulous undermining of then U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump's election campaign is reported in the memo
* The memo denotes that "political actors" were involved in the Steele dossier
* FISA court application negligence is reported in the memo
* Inconsistency between the Steel dossier and Steele's testimony in British court are reported in the memo
* The memo describes: An FBI definition of "the most serious of violations" - an asset speaking about their FBI relations with the media, which denotes a culture of secrecy in the FBI.
* Steele was noted to conceal information from the FBI, it is also said he lied to the FBI
* Key information was concealed from the FISA court. Such as the wife of a former Director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (Bruce Ohr) was working for Fusion GPS to drum up dirt on Donald Trump
* According to the declassified document Christopher Steele, who produced potentially slanderous allegations against the Trump White House and Russia with his dossier, "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected, and was passionate about him not being President"
* The Steele dossier was internally considered by the FBI to be "minimally corroborated", yet this didn't stop a psychological warfare charade demonizing Donald Trump and Russia with the Steele dossier
* The document finishes off stating that various FBI employees have a "clear bias" against Trump

Praxis

6th February 2018, 01:05

So here is my simple question:

What is trump doing to dismantle these programs so that they are not used in an illegal, treasonous manner again?

We need a complete overhaul of the IC starting with the NSA, as it is probably the heart of the whole operation(at least in terms of budget*based on info from the Church Committee Report which is dated to be sure).

I see that congress recently passed a re authorization of all this nonsense and trump signed it.

One gangster group,Clinton people, and another gangster people, the people behind Trump, are fighting for control over the US. The clinton group is taking heavy losses right now as their obvious corruption is open for all to see. The new gangster group gets to look good because they are taking down obviously bad people. But how long can this go on before they have to do something to actually change the path of the ship of state?

The expansion of gauntanamo bay is not good. If you are pro trump, you will excuse this and say to yourself only bad people will be sent there(if you are honest you believe that Clinton will end up in Gitmo and receive enhanced interrogation.) Holding people, even terrorists(or so called terrorists) without a trial is Un American. Full stop. This is why we have a justice system. You either agree with that, or you disagree with the constitution.

The expansion of the wars in Afghanistan and IRaq and Syria. In the SOTU, he changed the rules of engangement . This signals a shift back to war. I bet within a year or two we will see this current Iran color revolution with the Hijab protests go full on Kermit Roosevelt and the US will be "required for the good of the Iranian people" to invade and occupy the final piece in the ME chess board. FUTURE PROVES PAST. Follow the white rabbit. There is a storm and all that. . . .

You are either on board with the united states foreign policy of the last hundred years since the Spanish American War or you are not. You are either agree with Colonel Smedley butler that war is a racket and the US military machine is enforcing a corporate world order(you call it Globalists) or you do not. Right now, we see more of the same with lots of domestic distraction. Yes clinton is bad. Yes she and her people are all the bad things that you can imagine, and so much more. God so much more. You think Uranium one and vince foster is bad. You have no idea. You need to look into mena arkansas and Arkansas development fund which connects to rose law firm. You probably just know vince foster as a name and not as his work in Arkansas.

Most of you know Im dubious of trump, and then falsely assume things about my political leanings. You have no idea how much contempt I have for Clinton, both of them, and Obama. But this is also for Bush, both of them, Reagan, Nixon, Ford, Johnson and it continues for most POTUS in last century. My contempt doesnt follow party lines, it follows moral lines.

The real question you need to ask: what is trump doing to fundamentally change US foreign Policy and the Intelligence Community? Do you agree with having FISC and FISA warrants? Do you agree with secret laws and secret judges with secret rulings? Do you agree with the NSA recording everything?

Yes Obama committed treason. Not just this instance either. YOu can get him and Clinton on many charges. The problem is them but also the system. In fact, More so the system is the problem because it allowed those monsters to dowhat they have done. This is my critique of the current pro trump movement. Where is the systemic change? We are operating at the level of the person and not the system.

Divide et impera

ExomatrixTV

6th February 2018, 01:33

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turiya

6th February 2018, 01:48

Here's another video of this very clever guy. He presents his stuff in a sympathetic, non-agressive, easy understandable way:

[youtube]_9wz964E0i0

In the 2nd part he explains that it is all about a FISA 702 article 1 warrant making the situation even worse ...

I think that this needs to be a bit more clear.
Its a FISA warrant under Title I - not article 1 - which is a warrant for the surveillance of a spy. In other words, Carter Page was the directly targeted individual, alleged to be a Russian spy.

The evidence: a Yahoo News article, along with the Steele dossier. Steele was the source of the so-called "evidence" - fabricated evidence. This is why Carter Page is taking Yahoo News to court (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/carter-page-to-update-his-lawsuits-against-the-press-after-nunes-memo-release/article/2647950).

This is different than a FISA warrant under Title VII (FISA-702) which involves surveillance of a targeted foreign person & anybody he may be connected to.

See this relevant article: Inside The HPSCI Memo – A Key Distinction Being Conflated “Title I” -vs- “Title VII”… (https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/02/inside-the-hpsci-memo-a-key-distinction-being-conflated-title-i-vs-title-vii/)

ExomatrixTV

6th February 2018, 01:49

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Bill Ryan

6th February 2018, 03:24

ThePythonicCow

6th February 2018, 06:56

So here is my simple question:

What is trump doing to dismantle these programs so that they are not used in an illegal, treasonous manner again?

My personal guess is that he's on it, and has been for quite a while. It's reasonable to assume that he and his advisers know exactly what's happening here, and have a very well-thought out strategy.

But he has to follow due process, and allow Congress to do its thing. Some may (understandably!) be dubious, but my personal bet is that slow-moving but very rigorous legal machinery is now in process that will be very hard for anyone to stop.

It's a legal battlefield now, and that's likely to be the proper and constitutional way to go.

My guess is that what Praxis asked about is not happening, and will not happen. I read his comments as asking when US foreign Policy and the Intelligence Community will be cleaned up.

Rather what I am expecting is two things.

First I expect some (rather small number) of deep state minions and front men will be thrown under the bus. Some small portion of the many and varied crimes and treasons of the Bush-Clinton-Neocon crime syndicate are being made matters of public controversy, such as with this FISA Memo, and this will result in a few going to jail, a few stepping down, and a few dying under unusual circumstances. Some serious fortunes will change hands.

Then I expect various rounds of reform, seemingly motivated by this exposed corruption (which actually won't expose 98% of it), which will reshape the Imperial American Empire into just another large nation in the next new world order.

The deeply held power in the large banks, the intelligence agencies, various other federal agencies, and major news, food, energy, web, etc corporations will continue evolving.

The struggle between liberty and tyranny will continue.

With this, there will be serious, multi-year, world-wide, economic, monetary and financial depression with a major monetary reset and a move of some power from the US to China.

With the jump upward in the US Ten Year Treasury Note interest rate, the jump downward in major US stock indices, the jump upward in the VIX (measure of stock market volatility), and the collapse of the crypto-currency market, all in the last few days, coincident with the release of this FISA memo ... we may well look back on this time as the beginning of the collapse, not just of the American Bush-Clinton crime syndicate, but also of the century of King Dollar and American Hegemony.

ThePythonicCow

6th February 2018, 17:19

mojo

6th February 2018, 17:29

Adam Shiff is on the intelligence committee and he seems to be accused of lying and leaking info among other things and he was a part of the opposition to release the GOP memo. Why is he still on the committee? If the Dems win Senate majority he will be the chairman of the intelligence committee. This does not seem logical to have someone of his character to be possible head of such an important committee.

Bill Ryan

6th February 2018, 18:04

Doug Hagmann has been seriously threatened — reported by him in his radio show this morning.

http://blogtalkradio.com/the-doug-hagmann-radio-show/2018/02/06/blowback-and-war-with-the-deep-state.mp3

He also reported that Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a memo yesterday — 95% (95%!) redacted (blacked out) by request of the FBI — detailing how the Clintons themselves supplied Christopher Steele, the dossier-maker, with information.

In detail: a foreign source gave information to friends of Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the Clintons gave it to an Obama State Department Official, who then gave it to Steele.

Sen. Grassley is asking for a criminal investigation into Steele's activities. Doug Hagmann states this will break more widely in the next few days, and is of crucial importance.

Already reported on Fox News:

http://foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/05/clinton-associates-fed-information-to-trump-dossier-author-steele-memo-says.html

Hervé

6th February 2018, 19:53

Text version by A. Mercouris:

Grassley-Graham referral on Steele: Did US media and the Clinton campaign provide content for Trump Dossier? (http://theduran.com/grassley-lindsey-graham-referral-steele-us-media-clinton-campaign-trump-dossier/)

Alexander Mercouris The Duran (http://theduran.com/grassley-lindsey-graham-referral-steele-us-media-clinton-campaign-trump-dossier/)
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:15 UTC

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Senators Lindsey Graham (L) and Chuck Grassley(R) © Aaron P. Bernstein, Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Heavily redacted referral memo suggests US media, Clinton associates, had a hand in producing Trump Dossier

Hot on the heels of the publication of the GOP memorandum (discussed by me here (http://theduran.com/rampant-abuse-contempt-court-analysis-gop-memorandum/)) has come another potentially even more extraordinary development in the Russiagate scandal.

This is the publication of a massively redacted version of the referral sent by Senators Grassley and Lindsey Graham to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requesting that the Justice Department consider whether a criminal prosecution of Christopher Steele, the compiler of the Trump Dossier, should be brought.

The Senators' referral or memorandum is so heavily redacted (whole paragraphs have been entirely blacked out) that it is exceptionally difficult to follow, and any analysis of it must be treated as strictly provisional pending release of a less heavily redacted version.

However what can be read from the Senators' memorandum is disturbing enough.

Moreover it is now clear that over and above the lies Christopher Steele is alleged by the GOP memorandum to have told to the FBI about his contacts with the media, the Senators' concerns and their referral to Rosenstein extend to the content of the Trump Dossier itself.

In order to show how this is so I am going to set out the Senators' memorandum in its entirety. Given that the published version of this document is so incomplete, it seems to me that it might potentially distort it even further if I simply published extracts from it.

MEMORANDUM

FROM:

Charles E. Grassley, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the JudiciaryLindsey 0. Graham, Chairman, Subcommittee on Crime ~nd Terrorism,U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

TO:

The Honorable Rod J. Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of JusticeThe Honorable Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

RE: Referral of Christopher Steele for Potential Violation of 18 U.S. C. § 1001

[...]

Full article: http://theduran.com/grassley-lindsey-graham-referral-steele-us-media-clinton-campaign-trump-dossier/

[...] The notes and references can be found in a PDF of the original of the Senators' memorandum, which can been seen by following this link (https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-02%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Unclassified%20Steele%20Referral).pdf). [...]
(https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-02%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Unclassified%20Steele%20Referral).pdf)

Michelle Marie

6th February 2018, 20:48

The struggle between liberty and tyranny will continue.
If this article, Unprecedented Global “4th Turning” Unites The World Against Globalist Threat (http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2018/02/06/unprecedented-global-4th-turning-unites-the-world-against-globalist-threat/), is correct, then the struggle will not just continue ... it will erupt into an epic struggle.

Quoting from this article:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Because of globalization and world-wide communication, 4th turning cycles around the globe appear to be synchronized and are in fact leading to a dramatic global crescendo.
...
Famous Fourth Turnings of the past include: The Wars of the Roses (1459-1487), The American Revolution (1773-1794), The Civil War (1860-1865), and the Great Depression and World War II (1929-1946)

A Global 4th Turning

Because of globalization and world-wide communication, 4th turning cycles around the globe – including many different countries, cultures and governments – appear to be synchronized and are in fact leading to a dramatic global crescendo.

Previous 4th turning revolutions were directed at the leadership of individual nations. Deadly wars were fought and a new era began afterwards. While this remains true now, the revolution is against Globalists who represent a power structure that threatens all nations equally, at the same moment in history. It is this threat that binds like minded traditionalist and nationalist individuals across the globe. It is a truly unprecedented time period in human history.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I think you're right, Paul.

There is a paradox of synchronization and polarization that needs to be reconciled.

Interestingly, the majority of those synchronizing against the cabal don't choose war. They choose peace. I'm wondering if we can break the cycle of transitioning through the violent means of war, or if there is a power that non-violence can provide to effect change.

Those who are used to getting their way through destruction and deception won't suddenly put their tail between their legs and walk away. But still, I see their patterns being recognized and thwarted to some extent already. Their lack of integrity is disempowering. Their intelligence is lacking and lagging behind.

We see what Schiff is hiding by the way he tries to hide it. He is creating his own demise.

We will see how things unfold. ;)

MM

mojo

6th February 2018, 23:59

Just a few years ago Schiff was singing a different song about FISA...
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edit: body language specialist reviews Schiff talk.
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Omni

7th February 2018, 02:54

Excerpt Taken from psyop.wiki (http://www.psyop.wiki/index.php/Russian_Collusion_PSYOP):

The Russian collusion psychological operation is centered around the deep state framing Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Russia in general for crimes that they are in fact committing themselves. In use is an information warfare stratagem involving occulted mind programming knowledge, the anchoring of a false version of reality is occurring in place of it's true and occulted version.

From TacticsofWarfare.com (http://www.tacticsofwarfare.com/2018/02/cia-mind-programming-stratagem-russia-hoax.html):
Orchestrating the emergence of a false version of reality to obscure absorption of a threatening truth. This tactic can be seen as a shadow government method of shifting blame, as seen with the deep state's 2016 U.S. election / Russia hoax.

The bastardized version is released before the unadulterated truth, this way contrasting mind programming is established to suppress truth cognizance.

Tactic Rating: Dirty / Abominable - Not advisable to mimic[1] (http://www.tacticsofwarfare.com/2018/02/cia-mind-programming-stratagem-russia-hoax.html)

Russian Collusion PSYOP: http://www.psyop.wiki/index.php/Russian_Collusion_PSYOP

Hervé

8th February 2018, 00:48

Fortunes telling... the tale:

Adam Schiff's hatred for America makes sense when you realize he's related by law to elite globalist George Soros (http://50statereport.com/schiffs-hatred-for-americans-makes-sense-when-you-consider-his-sister-is-married-to-george-soros-son/)

50 State Report (http://50statereport.com/schiffs-hatred-for-americans-makes-sense-when-you-consider-his-sister-is-married-to-george-soros-son/)
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:14 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s22/450032/large/Soros_Shiff_862x453.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s22/450032/full/Soros_Shiff_862x453.jpg)

Adam Schiff, who fought last week's release of the memo, has described it as a misleading, inaccurate attempt to discredit the investigation of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into the Trump campaign's false ties to Russia. He has emerged as a visible nemesis of Americans, appearing almost daily on television to discuss the various fake investigations of President Trump.

"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!," President Trump tweeted, referring to former James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director; Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia; John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director; and James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence. "Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!"

Coincidentally, Adam Schiff's sister is the estranged wife of globalist George Soro's son.

Billionaire George Soros's son Robert and his estranged wife Melissa Schiff are at risk of forfeiting their entire art collection - including pieces by Jeff Koons and Christopher Wool - if they can't agree on its value, his lawyer said.

The former couple were in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday for the opening day of their $350 million divorce trial.

Soros' attorney, Alan Feigenbaum, said their prenuptial agreement states that if "the parties cannot agree on a value...property should be sold."

But Schiff's lawyer, Bernard Clair, disputed that interpretation. He argued that an appeals court ruled in April that "the prenup does not address the disposition of marital art."

Soros, who until recently ran his father's $28 billion investment management firm, wants to sell off their collection, while Schiff wants to keep selected pieces.

They're also fighting over a $5.85 million Rhinebeck farm, which Schiff testified that she "loves more than anything."

Soros filed for divorce from his wife of 22 years in 2014 (http://pagesix.com/2014/05/12/billionaire-george-soros-oldest-son-in-nasty-divorce/?_ga=2.256811725.794037605.1504638324-406466109.1493752536) - after an affair with a nude model.

Omni

10th February 2018, 05:31

What the memo speaks about is the tip of the iceberg of a conspiracy by the top occultists and their psychological warfare teams. You see the same psychological warfare tactic being played with Brexit by psyops crews in attempts to revote with a different conclusion. Treasonous acts are being perpetrated by world powers. I have added Brexit PSYOP analysis to my Russian Collusion PSYOP article (http://www.psyop.wiki/index.php/Russian_Collusion_PSYOP):

Propaganda has been focused at a high intensity ever since the Brexit conclusion was reached. In the grand scheme of things the shadow government has also framed Russia for the Brexit vote in an attempt to negate the original vote, revote, and change the first conclusion. Knowing the dirty nature of those that control events behind the scenes I suspect that highly criminal fraud is taking place to keep Britain in the EU.

Read more: http://www.psyop.wiki/index.php/Russian_Collusion_PSYOP

Hervé

25th February 2018, 11:40

Republicans refute 'point by point' the newly-released Democratic memo on Steele dossier (https://saraacarter.com/republicans-refute-point-point-democratic-memo-dossier/)

Sara Carter Sara A. Carter Blog (https://saraacarter.com/republicans-refute-point-point-democratic-memo-dossier/)
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:50 UTC

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA)(C) stands with Rep. Peter King (R-NY), (L) and Rep. Don DeSantis (R-FL) © Mark Wilson/Getty IMages

The FBI used political dirt paid for by the Democratic Party to spy on an American
- Devin Nunes (R-CA)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said the Democratic opposition memo did not change the facts or change the outcome of the investigation's finding his committee released in their own partisan memo several weeks ago.

On Saturday the much anticipated Democratic memo written by ranking minority member of the committee Rep. Adam Schiff, R-CA, was released (https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_redacted_minority_memo.pdf) and surmised that former British spy "Christopher Steele's raw intelligence reporting did not inform the FBI's decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation in late July, 2016" among other assertions. The dossier played a significant role in the investigation into President Trump's 2016 campaign and alleged that members of the Trump campaign were colluding with the Russian government against then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Nunes, R-CA, fought back Saturday against Schiff. Nunes said the Democratic memo did not dispel the original findings of the committee, which he noted were also validated by an investigation headed by the Senate Judiciary Committee into Steele and his role in providing the FBI with the unverified dossier. Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, made a criminal referral (https://saraacarter.com/referral-suggests-clinton-friends-feeding-british-spy-information/) to the Department of Justice last month and released their findings after receiving approval from the FBI.
"The American people now clearly understand that the FBI used political dirt paid for by the Democratic Party to spy on an American citizen from the Republican Party," said Nunes in a statement released Saturday.

"Furthermore, the FISA court was misled about Mr. Page's past interactions with the FBI in which he helped build a case against Russian operatives in America who were brought to justice," said Nunes, in a statement.

"It defies belief that the Department of Justice and FBI failed to provide information to a secret court that they had provided to an open federal court regarding their past interactions with Mr. Page, " Nunes said.

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Carter Page told this reporter Saturday that the accusations made against him in the Democratic memo will backfire and he is requesting that all his FISA applications be made public.

He said the "latest smear campaign by DNC loyalists is going to turn out the same way as their original multimillion dollar attack of 2016."
"As we've seen many times before with the felonious news leaks of the past year, this new round of misinformation surrounding efforts by Washington to illegally influence the 2016 election inflicts even more damages on the instigating perpetrators from the swamp," he said.

"Today's memo further underscores the critical importance of the immediate disclosure of all my FISA applications and other relevant documents."
The documents have also been requested by the House Intelligence Committee, both Congressional Judiciary Committees, Judicial Watch, the New York Times and Yale Law School, he added.

But Schiff and the Democrats argued that Nunes' committee left out crucial information in the memo they released last month on their investigation. Schiff argued that the FBI did reveal to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the dossier was possibly connected to the political opposition.

However, in a point by point rebuttal of Schiff's memo, Republican's point out that it was not the case. But rather, the FBI obscured the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee actually began funding Steele through the Fusion GPS research firm beginning in April, 2016.
"As clearly stated in the GOP memo , none of the Page FISA applications "disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts," stated a point by point document released Saturday from the Republican committee members.

"Instead, the FISA application relies on a convoluted statement buried in a footnote. This is clearly an attempt to avoid informing the Court, in a straightforward manner that t he DNC and Clinton campaign paid for the dossier. (Taking a cue from DOJ and FBI, the Democrat memo omits any reference to the DNC or Clinton campaign.)"
The Republican statement went on to say that the "footnote obscures, rather than clarifies Steele's political motivation - and what DOJ and FBI officials actually knew about the dossier's political origins . The footnote "speculates" on the "likely" motivation of "U.S. Person"

Here's the point by point refutation from Republicans of the Democratic memo:
Democrats: Christopher Steele's raw intelligence reporting did not inform the FBI's decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation in late July, 2016.

Republicans: As stated in the declassified GOP memo on FISA abuse, information about Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos "triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in the late July 2016 by FBI agent Peter Strzok." Once underway, the investigation was fueled by Christopher Steele's dossier, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used to get a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Carter Page. DOJ and FBI's reliance on the DNC - and Clinton - campaign funded dossier in court filings, not the overall investigation, is the focus of the GOP memo.

Democrats: DOJ's FISA warrant application was based on "compelling evidence" and "probable cause" of Page's pre-campaign activities.

Republicans: The Democrat memo fails to explain why, if evidence of Page's past activities was so compelling, the Steele dos-sier was used in the FISA application at all, much less formed the "bulk" of the Page FISA application.

The Democrat memo also fails to explain why, if DOJ and FBI had "probable cause" that Page was a Russian agent, they waited until shortly after receiving the Steele dossier to seek a warrant. (As noted on page 3 of the Democrat memo, the dossier "reach[ed] the counterintelligence team investigating Russia at FBI headquarters" in "mid-September 2016," just a few weeks before the initial FISA application.)

Additionally, the Democrat memo - like the FISA application itself - paints an incomplete and misleading picture of Page's past activities and interactions with the FBI . Both omit that, in a secretly - taped statement reproduced in a 2015 federal court filing, a Russian intelligence officer called Page "an idiot." This omission could mislead the reader regarding the Russians' assessment of Page's capabilities and utility, and it is troubling that DOJ failed to provide to a secret court material information from a public court filing .

By participating in voluntary interviews with FBI, Page cooperated with the successful prosecution of the Russian intelligence officer who called him "an idiot" - and two of his colleagues.

Democrats: A specific subsection of the Page FISA application refers to Steele's reporting on Page and his alleged coordination with Russian officials.

Republicans: As confirmed by Senators Grassley and Graham's criminal referral of Steele, the dossier formed "a significant portion " of the Carter Page FISA application.

Democrats: DOJ provided additional information obtained through multiple independent sources that corroborated Steele's reporting.

Republicans: At the time of the initial application, all of the Steele dossier's specific claims about Page - including that he met with Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin in Moscow in July 2016 - were uncorroborated by any independent source, and they remain unconfirmed.

Democrats: DOJ provided the Court with "more than sufficient information to understand the political context of Steele's research."

Republicans: As clearly stated in the GOP memo , none of the Page FISA applications "disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts."

Instead, the FISA application relies on a convoluted statement buried in a footnote . This is clearly an attempt to avoid informing the Court, in a straightforward manner that the DNC and Clinton campaign paid for the dossier. (Taking a cue from DOJ and FBI, the Democrat memo omits any reference to the DNC or Clinton campaign.)

Moreover, the footnote obscures, rather than clarifies Steele's political motivation - and what DOJ and FBI officials actually knew about the dossier's political origins . The footnote "speculates" on the "likely" motivation of "U.S. Person" - Fusion GPS Co - founder Glenn Simpson - while intimating that "Source #1" - Steele - was unaware "as to the motivation behind the research." In fact, as disclosed in the GOP memo and confirmed by the Graham - Grassley referral, Steele was motivated by a "desperate" desire to keep Donald Trump from becoming President.

Democrats: DOJ explained the FBI's reasonable basis for finding Steele credible

Republicans: FBI's reliance on Steele's credibility was badly misplaced. Steele violated FBI's trust by making unauthorized disclosures to the media in October 2016, resulting in his termination as an FBI source.

Moreover, as explained in Senators Graham and Grassley's declassified criminal referral of Steele, he "told the FBI he had not shared the Carter Page dossier information beyond his client [Glenn Simpson] and FBI," and DOJ "repeated that claim to the FISC" - four times . In reality, in September 2016 - before the initial FISA application - Steele had personally shared dossier information with:

Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News , which published a September 2016 article on Page using Steele's information (as now publicly confirmed by Isikoff);
At least four other U.S. media outlets (confirmed in Steele's May 2017 U.K. court filing, which was made before - but not disclosed in the June 2017 FISA renewal);
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, whose wife was employed by Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump (as described in the GOP memo);
A senior State Department official, Jonathan Winer (publicly confirmed by Winer in a Washington Post op - ed);
Perkins Coie , the law firm for DNC and the Clinton campaign (as described in the GOP memo).

Finally, notwithstanding FBI's confidence in Steele , at the time of the initial FISA application the agency had virtually no visibility into the credibility of Steele's sub-sources and sub- sub-sources who originated the dossier's allegations.

Democrats: The GOP memo does not cite evidence that Steele disclosed to Yahoo News details included in the FISA warrant.

Republicans: As noted in the Democrat memo, both the initial FISA application and the Steele dossier include the allegation from Steele that Carter Page met with two specific Russians, Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin, in July 2016. A September 2016 article by Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News contains the exact same allegation, attributed to a "well-placed Western intelligence source." Steele has admitted to meeting with Yahoo News in September 2016, and Isikoff has publicly confirmed that Steele was a source for the article.

Democrats: DOJ never paid Steele for the "dossier"

Republicans: As clearly stated in the GOP memo, FBI authorized payment to Steele for the dossier information - before he was terminated as an FBI source for making unauthorized disclosures to the media. This financial motivation was not disclosed to the Court.

Democrats: The GOP memo's reference to Bruce Ohr is misleading.

Republicans: Steele's desperation to keep Donald Trump from becoming President - described in the GOP memo and confirmed by the Graham-Grassley referral - was known to senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr before the initial FISA application, and known to FBI before any of the renewals. (The summary of Ohr's first interview with FBI about Steele is dated November 22, 2016.)

Remarkably, neither Steele's bias, nor Ohr's relationship with Steele or the FBI, nor the fact that Ohr's wife worked for Fusion GPS on its DNC - and Clinton campaign - funded Trump research, was disclosed to the Court in any of the FISA applications.

Democrats: Peter Strzok and Lisa Page's text messages are irrelevant to the FISA application.

Republicans: Strzok opened the counterintelligence investigation (https://saraacarter.com/new-strzok-page-emails-discuss-evasion-message-archiving/) of which the Carter Page FISA application was a part. Additionally, both Strzok and Lisa Page were members of the team conducting the investigation, which page 3 of the Democrat memo itself describes as "so closely held." Especially given the small size of the team, the apparent bias of the investigators displayed in Strzok - Page text messages is highly relevant to an analysis of the investigation, including the controversial decision to seek a FISA warrent. More details from RT (https://www.rt.com/usa/419756-democrats-intelligence-committee-memo/):
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump blocked the release of the Democrats' rebuttal, sending the document back to the House Intelligence Committee for revision, citing "national security concerns." The House Democrats heavily redacted the memorandum before releasing it on Saturday.

The White House called the release of the memorandum a "politically driven" attempt by the Democrats to "undercut" Donald Trump.
"While the Democrats' memorandum attempts to undercut the president politically, the president supported its release in the interest of transparency," said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.

"This politically driven document fails to answer serious concerns raised by the Majority's memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate, loaded with uncorroborated allegations, as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former associate of another candidate, at the height of a presidential campaign."
Sanders reiterated that the FISA judge was never informed that Hillary Clinton and the DNC funded the controversial Christopher Steele dossier, which allegedly served as the basis for the FBI's surveillance request to spy on the Trump campaign aide.
"As the President has long stated, neither he nor his campaign ever colluded with a foreign power during the 2016 election, and nothing in today's memo counters that fact," Sanders added.

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30th December 2022, 02:32

'It Is A Problem' Rand Paul Puts 'FBI Director' Wray In Panic Mode With Brutal Mueller Suit:

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It's amazing how he can't answer the question given him but still manages to waste all of the senator's time the clock should be stopped whenever the senator stops speaking and then resumed after the person being questioned answers the question

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15th April 2024, 13:06

GOP BETRAYS America, US House Votes To RENEW FISA, Warrantless Spying On Americans:

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The House renewed the FISA spying tool despite an earlier Republican revolt.
Section 702 of the law, allowing warrantless surveillance, expires on April 19th.
Renewal enables government surveillance without warrants, violating Fourth Amendment rights.
Congress rejected an amendment requiring warrants for personal conduct surveillance.
Surveillance laws passed post-9/11 risk creating a state resembling Stalinism.
Lack of accountability and politicization in government surveillance are concerning.
The tie vote in Congress allowed warrantless spying to continue, alarming critics.
Concerns raised about government's unchecked power and erosion of freedoms.
Influence of money in politics, with legislators spending more time fundraising than debating.
The system is skewed against the interests of the American people, fostering distrust.