Wake we when Hilary's personal assistant's secretary's assistant gets a week of probation.
No, we are all screwed.aggiehawg said:
Is there one honest public servant who can do their job with integrity in DC?
Sheesh!!
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One of those rare Q/Mueller mergers again.
So if the FBI just surveilled them, but never went after them, how would they know they have a case?aggiehawg said:
No Woods file? Not even on the original application? Every person they unmasked under the two hop system should be able to sue the DOJ. Big issue. Or at least under the rule of law it should be a big issue.
I just checked parler. Didn't find anything. Case closed.Towns03 said:
Bump in hopes of a earth shaking report.
Believe me if I was a buddy or business associate of Carter Page in communication with him during that time, I'd sure as hell would check phone and email records to document those communications. Uphill battle but the missing Woods file for the original FISA Application is that serious of a breach of the FISA laws.SeMgCo87 said:So if the FBI just surveilled them, but never went after them, how would they know they have a case?aggiehawg said:
No Woods file? Not even on the original application? Every person they unmasked under the two hop system should be able to sue the DOJ. Big issue. Or at least under the rule of law it should be a big issue.
This may be a literal translation of your words, but is there an issue with awareness?
We do need FISA reform, including criminal penalties for blatant violations such as what happened to Carter Page, et. al. Lawyers working at the FBI and Nat Sec division of DOJ signing off on faulty applications at any level of the process need to be held accountable.biglebowski said:
We do not need reforms of any kind. Just need laws to be carried out and if they were broke we need justice. System is fine, but carrying out justice is the glaring problem.
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Among the bombshell revelations is an admission by Steele that he violated his confidential human source agreement with the FBI and leaked information from his dossier to the news media in the final weeks of the election because he wanted to counteract new revelations in the Hillary Clinton email scandal that were hurting her election efforts. The former foreign intelligence officer made the confession in a fall 2017 interview with agents.
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The soon-to-be-released records also expose a tantalizing connection between Steele, his primary source and one of the Democrats' key impeachment witnesses in the Ukraine scandal, former Trump National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill.
Steele divulged to the FBI that he was introduced by Hill to his primary sub-source of information for his anti-Trump dossier and that he later told Hill that the source had provided information for his now infamous memos.
The documents also will settle a long-debated question in Washington about whether the FBI's tactics amounted to spying on the Trump campaign.
Tasking instructions the FBI gave to Halper, an academic who long worked as an FBI informant, make clear he was instructed to infiltrate the Trump campaign by posing as someone who wanted to work for the GOP nominee and then targeting campaign advisers to find out what they knew about Trump or his campaign's ties to Russia.
Halper was specifically instructed by the FBI to focus on campaign advisers Sam Clovis, George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, in some cases recording some of their conversations, the records are expected to show.
In her impeachment testimony in 2019, Hill acknowledged she knew Steele since 2006 when he worked for MI6 and she worked for the Bush administration.
She, however, did not make any mention of introducing Steele's primary subsource and in fact expressed her own doubts about the Steele dossier, suggesting it could very well have been Russian disinformation.
Fiona Hill testified that she believed the Steele Dossier was Russian disinformation from the get-go. Now we know that she wasn't as astute as she was complicit.Quote:
The soon-to-be-released records also expose a tantalizing connection between Steele, his primary source and one of the Democrats' key impeachment witnesses in the Ukraine scandal, former Trump National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill.
Steele divulged to the FBI that he was introduced by Hill to his primary sub-source of information for his anti-Trump dossier and that he later told Hill that the source had provided information for his now infamous memos.
That is quite interesting.aggiehawg said:Fiona Hill testified that she believed the Steele Dossier was Russian disinformation from the get-go. Now we know that she wasn't as astute as she was complicit.Quote:
The soon-to-be-released records also expose a tantalizing connection between Steele, his primary source and one of the Democrats' key impeachment witnesses in the Ukraine scandal, former Trump National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill.
Steele divulged to the FBI that he was introduced by Hill to his primary sub-source of information for his anti-Trump dossier and that he later told Hill that the source had provided information for his now infamous memos.
It is isn't it? People have long scoffed that a conspiracy this big involving Russia, Russia , Russia was even possible.captkirk said:That is quite interesting.aggiehawg said:Fiona Hill testified that she believed the Steele Dossier was Russian disinformation from the get-go. Now we know that she wasn't as astute as she was complicit.Quote:
The soon-to-be-released records also expose a tantalizing connection between Steele, his primary source and one of the Democrats' key impeachment witnesses in the Ukraine scandal, former Trump National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill.
Steele divulged to the FBI that he was introduced by Hill to his primary sub-source of information for his anti-Trump dossier and that he later told Hill that the source had provided information for his now infamous memos.
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The Central Intelligence Agency will neither confirm nor deny that it fabricated the Russian "fingerprints" in Democratic National Committee emails published in 2016 by "Guccifer 2.0," and the FBI implicitly acknowledged today that it never reviewed the contents of DNC employee Seth Rich's laptop despite gaining custody of the laptop after his murder.
The revelations came in two separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by my clients in the Eastern District of Texas. For those of you who live under a rock, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange strongly implied in a 2016 interview that the leaked DNC emails came from Mr. Rich, while the political / bureaucratic / media establishment has steadfastly maintained that the emails were hacked by agents of Russia.
The latest admissions blow a hole in the government / media narrative, suggesting that federal officials not only ignored Seth Rich's role in the leaks, but fraudulently shifted the blame to Russia.
In The Transparency Project v. Department of Justice, et al., my client asked to see records indicating whether the CIA or its Directorate of Digital Innovation, its contractors, etc. inserted Russian "fingerprints" into the metadata of the emails that were released publicly. (You can review the entire request by clicking here and reading Paragraph 11).
In a joint report filed today, the CIA informed the court that it intends to assert a Glomar response to the request, i.e., that it "cannot confirm or deny" the existence of such records. To make sure I was not reading too much into that non-response, I contacted one of my investigators, Larry C. Johnson, who retired from the CIA. [Continued on p. 2]