Oh, so this is what a nothingburger looks like!

[Splits]

[Spurminator]

spurm shield activated

Nothing to shield. You're shooting blanks that make fart noises.

[djohn2oo8]

lol

[monosylab1k]

lol

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What in steele dossier has been verified or disproven?

[djohn2oo8]

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 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.


Hiding these facts from the FISC is hardly a nothingburger. Will be interesting to see how the FBI and DOJ try and spin these facts.

Horowitz beating your ass down

[djohn2oo8]

You are really trying to push this line. FISA warrants are retroactive. The Page warrant was used to cover for the 702 about queries they were abusing prior to being shut down by Adm. Mike Rogers.

Why would the FBI hide who funded the Steele dossier when they presented it to the FISC? Why would the FBI be seeking a FISA warrant for Page in the first place?

Christ almighty

[TSA]

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nervous bumping

[djohn2oo8]

Because it just revealed that the FBI hid the fact it was using a DNC funded dossier to obtain a FISA warrant. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The OIG investigation will build upon this and reveal far more damaging information.

Bwhahahahahahhaha

[djohn2oo8]

Did you even read the article? None of the below is minor.



The key finding of the Nunes Memo is that the Steele dossier “formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application,” without informing the FISA court that it originated from a partisan source, and that the “corroboration” for the Steele dossier was a Michael Isikoff article that was itself sourced from the dossier. As law professor Orin Kerr explains, that’s not necessarily a legal defect in the application. Nor, obviously, does it show that Carter Page should not have been a legitimate target for FISA surveillance. But it does suggest that the process of launching the Page investigation by the Obama DOJ and FBI got warped by presidential politics in the heat of campaign season and wasn’t adequately disclosed to the courts, two things that should not happen.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...t-does-it-mean

It focuses on then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, who do ented Steele’s statement in September 2016 to the effect that he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president,” and highlights that ever-present feature of incestuous DC operations: while Ohr was holding down a nominally nonpartisan job, his “wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump,” another fact not told to the FISA court.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...t-does-it-mean


"In other words, the Nunes Memo appears to reflect the FBI’s own view that the Steele dossier was in fact essential to the obtaining of the original FISA warrant."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...t-does-it-mean




"On the other hand, within those narrow confines, it does make a persuasive case – pending any detailed rebuttal by its partisan Democratic critics – that flimsily-corroborated Democratic Party campaign opposition research succeeded in influencing law enforcement to spy on a U.S. citizen involved in the political process at the height of a presidential campaign. That may not be an enormous scandal in size, but it is, if true, a scandal."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...t-does-it-mean

Horowitz says the dossier was in fact NOT a key part

[TSA]

keep melting down

[djohn2oo8]

[Spurtacular]

Oh yeah government spying on a presidential candidate due to a fake pee tape story funded by Clinton is a nothing burger

hole country

Nuked the OP for your entrance
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