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lol trump upset about Feinstein
Looks like Steele was a whisteblower,
informing the FBI of Trash/Trash mafiya business with Pootin,
so naturally the corrupt, lawless Repugs (eg, Grassley, Nunes, "Trash is a kook" L. Graham), try to obstruct justice,
by referring Steele for a criminal investigation.
Repugs and Repug/Trash supporters are corrupt.
Will the mythical, apocryphal? rule of law win, or will corrupt oligarchy- 'd Repugs win?
lol trump upset about Feinstein
Trill Clinton
"Somebody do something!"
this rant means something new is about to come up
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/10/168736...weet-feinsteinThe key takeaway is that the FBI was already investigating potential links between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government before they got the Steele dossier. The hearing lasted for hours, and the transcript is extremely long and fairly tedious. But Simpson does clearly state that when Steele spoke to the FBI about his findings, the bureau “believed Chris’s information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing, and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/10/168736...weet-FeinsteinThe key takeaway is that the FBI was already investigating potential links between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government before they got the Steele dossier. The hearing lasted for hours, and the transcript is extremely long and fairly tedious. But Simpson does clearly state that when Steele spoke to the FBI about his findings, the bureau “believed Chris’s information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing, and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization.”
Interesting that your post doesn't acknowledge that he answered no, and that was readily ascertainable in your excerpt.
Conservatives have recently been pushing a theory that the basis for the FBI investigation was an opposition research do ent compiled at the behest of Clinton’s campaign. Simpson’s testimony seems to confirm the Times account and thereby debunk a conservative counternarrative that places the dossier itself at the center of the story.
TSA and Darrin have been trying their damndest to bury the lede here. Thanks for reminding everyone.
Sorry but he did not answer no and left it open.
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Pavlov 2017 dossier good
Pavlov 2018 dossier bad
“Papadopoulos was the start of the investigation”
We’ll see
TSA still trying to bite dem ankles.
The dossier itself is just a thing.
2017 Times pushes dossier as central piece of story
2018 Times laughs at dossier as central piece of story
Papadopoulos was the start of the investigation, but FISA warrant is on Page.
TSA 2017 Pizzagate!
TSA 2018 Corrupt FISC judge!
It doesn't matter what started the investigation...it's all just a distraction attempt to deflect from the revelations coming out from the top of the DOJ and FBI.
Is he actually saying that?
2017: Dossier pee pee good
2018: Dossier got even better
Keep your eyes out for Dana Boente and John Carlin when the OIG investigation results start being revealed.
What are you saying will happen with them?
Mike Rogers---true Patriot
Adm. Michael Rogers: So in 2016 I had directed our office of compliance let's do a fundamental baseline review of compliance associated with 702. We completed that effort. My memory is I was briefed on something like October 20. That led me to believe technical solution we put in place is not working with the reliability that's necessary. Then from memory, had through -- went to the department of justice and then onto the FISA court. At the end of October I think it was something like the 26th of October and we informed the court we have a compliance issue here and we're concerned there's an underlying issue with the technical solution that we put in place. We told the court we need to work our time to work through that. The court granted us that time. In return, the court also said we will allow you to continue 702 under the 16 authorizations, but not re-authorize 17 until you show us that you have addressed this. We then went through an internal process interacted with the Department of Justice as well as the court and by March we had come to a solution that the FISA court was comfortable with. The court then authorized us to execute that solution and also then granted us authority for the 17-702 effort.
Senator Lankford: So, you reported initially to the court and said we have an issue or the court initially came to you that said we have an issue?
Adm. Michael Rogers: I went to the court and said we have an issue.
Senator Lankford: And it got held up, went through the process of review. Then the court signed off on the other 16?
Adm. Michael Rogers: That's correct.
Senator Lankford: How has it harmed your collection capabilities to be able to not do the about collections?
Adm. Michael Rogers: I acknowledged in doing this that we were going to lose some intelligence value but my concern was, I felt it was important we needed to be able to show we are fully compliant with the law and the technical solution we put in place I didn't think was generating the level of reliability. And as a result of that, I said we need to make the change. I will say this -- in the FISA court opinion also says the same thing. Also told the court at the time, if we can work that technical solution in the way it generates greater reliability, I would potentially come back to the Department of Justice and the court to recommend that we reins ute it. In fact, the court acknowledged that in their certification.
Senator Lankford: When you say greater reliability, tell me what you mean by that.
Adm. Michael Rogers: It was generating errors. Our Office of Compliance highlighted the specific number of cases in 2016. And I thought to myself, clearly it's not working as we think it is. We were doing queries unknowingly to the operator in a handful of situations against U.S. persons. And I just said, hey, that is not in accordance with the intent of the law.
Senator Lankford: Clearly, it’s not only the intent, but actual statue itself. That we protect US persons from foreign directed. So, what I’m hearing is the accountability system worked? (4:03, can’t make out what the Senator is saying.)
Adm. Michael Rogers: Yes, sir.
Senator Lankford: The issue rose up - we do have information on U.S. persons. We don't want to get the information immediately - the process started going through to stop it -- the court then put the final stop on it. It was corrected and that's now cleared?
Adm. Michael Rogers: Yes, sir. We are purging the data as well. Not only have we stopped doing it but we are purging the data we collected under the previous authorization.
https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news...-investigation
Secret Court Rebuked N.S.A. on Surveillance
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us...itutional.html
Carlin steps down
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.b2f3dff61e90
Trump orders Intelligence Community to develop procedures when “unmasking” Americans
President Donald Trump ordered Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Tuesday to put in place procedures for intelligence and law enforcement officials requesting the unmasking of American citizens and the dissemination of those names in foreign intelligence reports, according to a White House memorandum obtained by this reporter.
Trump has given the DNI 30 days to “issue and release publicly a policy requiring that each element of the Intelligence Community (IC) develop and maintain procedures for responding to requests from Federal, State, local, tribal, or territorial government officials for non-public iden y information concerning known unconsenting United States persons that was originally omitted from disseminated intelligence reports.”
The DNI must develop procedures with all 16 intelligence agencies and law enforcement “for the collection, retention, and dissemination of information concerning United States persons established pursuant to section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981 (United States Intelligence Activities), as amended.”
The memorandum states the DNI must also include procedures for the “standard minimization procedures established pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.); and… any other procedures for the collection, retention, or dissemination of information concerning United States persons required by law.”
The memorandum also states that the DNI “may not modify or otherwise supersede the issued guidance, or any successor guidance, absent notification to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, of the proposed modifications or new guidance and the passage of 30 days following such notification.”
U.S. Intelligence and law enforcement officials told this reporter in a story published in December, that a controversial NSA surveillance program used to monitor foreigners was also being used by the FBI as ‘backdoor’ to gain warrantless access to American communications.
The whistleblowers, who recently disclosed the program’s process to Congressional oversight committees, said they were concerned over the warrantless surveillance program when it was disclosed earlier this year that Obama officials had accessed and unmasked communications of members of President Trump’s 2016 campaign, allegedly without clear justification.
The process, known as ‘reverse targeting,’ occurs when intelligence and law enforcement officials use a foreign person as a legal pretense for their intended target, an American citizen, the officials stated. The program, as it exists, failed to prevent terror attacks and in many cases made incorrect connections between a foreign target and an innocent American, they stated.
The whistleblowers said the program established after the September 11, 2001, attacks has not been successful in preventing terror threats, but instead infringes on privacy rights and could easily be abused for political purposes. Those concerns were also voiced to then FBI Director James Comey in 2014, and alternative options for the program were discussed, a source with knowledge said. And now, those intelligence officials want lawmakers to conduct extensive investigations into the program.
“The program can be misused by anyone with access to it,” said a former Intelligence official, with knowledge of the program. “There needs to be an extensive investigation of all the Americans connected to President Trump and the campaign who were unmasked in connection with the 2016 election.”
TSA doesn't question why Trash refuses to say anything negative about Pootin and Russia, nor why so many of Trash's mafiya were in contact with Russians of a long time, and then "forgot" about the contacts in Congressional/FBI testimony.
FISA / 702 isn't the problem at hand. It's the blantant, ongoing coverup, and failing to detail the financials with Russia by Trash and his mafiya of all of their dealings with Russia.
If those dealings were legal and at least above board, then why the coverup?
The smoke is too thick from too many people. There Will Be Fire.
TSA, etc are complicit with the coverup with unending deflections
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