All roads lead back to Clinton.
Put everything in Judge Ellis' CourtRockdoc said:
Well the dems all stick together and the media protects them, while the republicans flounder around bumping into walls. If something makes it to the courts, we better pray for a favorable venue and a conservative judge.
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...In 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York, announced an indictment against a Russian Operative Evgeny Buryakov. LINK HERE In March of 2016 Buryakov pleaded GUILTY: Carter Page was an FBI cooperating asset in 2013, and remained the primary FBI witness through May of 2016 throughout the duration of the Buryakov case.
If Carter Page was an FBI asset and witness, responsible for the bust of a high level Russian agent in 2013, and remained so throughout the court case UP TO May of 2016, how the **** it is possible that on October 21st, 2016, Carter Page is put under a FISA Title-1 surveillance warrant as an alleged Russian agent?
Conclusion: He wasn't.
The DOJ National Security Division and the FBI Counterintelligence Division, knew he wasn't a Russian agent. The DOJ-NSD and FBI flat-out LIED to the FISA court.
Now, go back to the March 2016 DOJ Press Release of the guilty pleading for Evgeny Buryakov, announced from the New York office:Because "FISA Title-I" surveillance authority against a U.S. citizen is so serious (the U.S. government is essentially calling the target a spy), only a few people are authorized to even apply for such surveillance warrants.Quote:
"Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced"
One of the four people authorized to make such a filing is the Asst. Attorney General who is head of the National Security Division of the DOJ. At the time that person was John P Carlin. The same John P Carlin who worked with the FBI counterintelligence unit, conscripted Carter Page as an FBI asset/witness, gained a guilty plea, then turned around six months later accuses their star witness of being a Russian Spy?
Think about this?
Why? Likely because the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) and FBI Counterintelligence needed to find a legal way to spy on the Trump campaign. The 2016 FISA Title 1 surveillance of former FBI employee Carter Page became that legal way. ["The Insurance Policy"]
In October of 2016, at approximately the same time the DOJ was making the FISA Court filing against Page, and successfully gaining the surveillance warrant, Asst. Attorney General John P Carlin resigned as head of the DOJ-NSD. SEE HERE Did Carlin resign in protest? or, did Carlin resign knowing he too had served a larger purpose?...
Is it possible Carter Page was the FBI plant?drcrinum said:
John Carlin was involved in the Buryakov spy case and knew that Carter Page was a cooperating FBI asset through May 2016, yet Carlin filed the FISA warrant application against Page in October 2016, just 5 months later. Carlin knew Page wasn't a Russian agent.
No, it was Stefan Halper...who was performing 'source validation' on Page & Papdopoulos.benchmark said:Is it possible Carter Page was the FBI plant?drcrinum said:
John Carlin was involved in the Buryakov spy case and knew that Carter Page was a cooperating FBI asset through May 2016, yet Carlin filed the FISA warrant application against Page in October 2016, just 5 months later. Carlin knew Page wasn't a Russian agent.
They had to het the FISA Title 1 to cover the fact that they had been spying without a warrant using contractors and the GCHQ. When Mike rogers cut off their access they had to get an actual warrant to open up those channels again, and to cover their tracks for spying the past year without a warrant. They didn't know what all Mike Rogers knew, and they couldn't take a chance if he was wise to them or at least suspected it, so they doctored up a FiSA app and were turned down three times in July, so they added in the GPS dossier and Contreras signed off on it, and they two hopped retroactively and thought they had covered their asses. But Mike Rogers knew far more than he was letting on and as soon as Trump won, he went to Trump tower and told him to pack up and move your transition team while they debugged Trump Tower.drcrinum said:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/18/president-trump-questions-fbi-and-doj-campaign-surveillance-and-spy-operations-carter-page-and-george-papadopoulos/Quote:
...n 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York, announced an indictment against a Russian Operative Evgeny Buryakov. LINK HERE In March of 2016 Buryakov pleaded GUILTY: Carter Page was an FBI cooperating asset in 2013, and remained the primary FBI witness through May of 2016 throughout the duration of the Buryakov case.
If Carter Page was an FBI asset and witness, responsible for the bust of a high level Russian agent in 2013, and remained so throughout the court case UP TO May of 2016, how the **** it is possible that on October 21st, 2016, Carter Page is put under a FISA Title-1 surveillance warrant as an alleged Russian agent?
Conclusion: He wasn't.
The DOJ National Security Division and the FBI Counterintelligence Division, knew he wasn't a Russian agent. The DOJ-NSD and FBI flat-out LIED to the FISA court.
Now, go back to the March 2016 DOJ Press Release of the guilty pleading for Evgeny Buryakov, announced from the New York office:Because "FISA Title-I" surveillance authority against a U.S. citizen is so serious (the U.S. government is essentially calling the target a spy), only a few people are authorized to even apply for such surveillance warrants.Quote:
"Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced"
One of the four people authorized to make such a filing is the Asst. Attorney General who is head of the National Security Division of the DOJ. At the time that person was John P Carlin. The same John P Carlin who worked with the FBI counterintelligence unit, conscripted Carter Page as an FBI asset/witness, gained a guilty plea, then turned around six months later accuses their star witness of being a Russian Spy?
Think about this?
Why? Likely because the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) and FBI Counterintelligence needed to find a legal way to spy on the Trump campaign. The 2016 FISA Title 1 surveillance of former FBI employee Carter Page became that legal way. ["The Insurance Policy"]
In October of 2016, at approximately the same time the DOJ was making the FISA Court filing against Page, and successfully gaining the surveillance warrant, Asst. Attorney General John P Carlin resigned as head of the DOJ-NSD. SEE HERE Did Carlin resign in protest? or, did Carlin resign knowing he too had served a larger purpose?...
This is unbelievable! John Carlin was involved in the Buryakov spy case and knew that Carter Page was a cooperating FBI asset through May 2016, yet Carlin filed the FISA warrant application against Page in October 2016, just 5 months later. Carlin knew Page wasn't a Russian agent. Carlin had announced his resignation in September and left the NSD the end of October, just days after filing the warrant application. BTW, prior to becoming the head of the FBI's NSD, he was Mueller's Chief of Staff.
WowRoscoePColtrane said:
SO VERY impressed with Grassley, he's setting a trap and daring them to lie to him.
Wowzer indeed! No question Rosenstein skirted Section 600.1 for Mueller's appointment ... shocked it took Grassley this long to challenge. This thread discussed the 600.1 conflict weeks ago.drcrinum said:
Oh my! Grassley is really after Rosenstein. He wrote him another letter. It's included and discussed in the above thread reader. He too is concerned about Rosenstein granting authority to Mueller that is contrary to the regulations and is demanding to see the unreacted memo Rosenstein sent to Mueller in August 2017. Fireworks expected.
He's seen the unredacted Scope now so he's pouncing, as long as they had most of the scoped blacked out he didn't want to spring it on them without being certain of what he was doing.benchmark said:Wowzer indeed! No question Rosenstein skirted Section 600.1 for Mueller's appointment ... shocked it took Grassley this long to challenge. This thread discussed the 600.1 conflict weeks ago.drcrinum said:
Oh my! Grassley is really after Rosenstein. He wrote him another letter. It's included and discussed in the above thread reader. He too is concerned about Rosenstein granting authority to Mueller that is contrary to the regulations and is demanding to see the unreacted memo Rosenstein sent to Mueller in August 2017. Fireworks expected.
benchmark said:
Interesting legal interpretation on Mueller's appointment (albeit from a former Obama DOJ hack):
Mueller Wasn't Appointed Pursuant to the DOJ Regs, Marty Lebermann, Jan 4, 2018Quote:
As I explained here back in August, Rosenstein almost certainly did not appoint Mueller pursuant to section 600.4 or pursuant to the Special Counsel regulations at all. In his appointment order, Rosenstein did not say that he was appointing Mueller pursuant to, or "under," the regulations. Nor did he cite the provision of the regulations, Section 600.1, that governs the appointment of a Special Counsel from outside the Department. Instead, he wrote that he was acting "by virtue of the authority vested in me as Acting Attorney General, including 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, and 515, in order to discharge my responsibility to provide supervision and management of the Department of Justice." (In particular, section 515 provides that "any attorney specially appointed by the Attorney General under law, may, when specifically directed by the Attorney General, conduct any kind of legal proceeding, civil or criminal, including grand jury proceedings and proceedings before committing magistrate judges, which United States attorneys are authorized by law to conduct.")
That is to say, Rosenstein relied only upon statutory, not regulatory, authorities in making his appointment of Mueller - the same authorities that gave the Attorney General the authority "to appoint subordinate officers" from outside DOJ (namely, Special Counsels Cox and Jaworski) "to assist him in the discharge of his duties" involving the Watergate investigations and prosecutions. U.S. v. Nixon, 418 U.S. at 694. [Clarification: To be sure, in 1973 the Attorney General did so by promulgating a "regulation" in the Federal Register specifically concerning the Watergate investigation, whereas Rosenstein acted by promulgating a letter. That difference in form is of no moment, however (except perhaps insofar as it effects what the AG would have to do to rescind the previous appointment): The important point is that each of the three actionsthe 1973 creation of the Watergate-related Special Counsel, the 1999 general, "framework" DOJ Special Counsel regs, and the 2017 creation of the Russia/Trump Campaign Special Counselwere directly authorized by the same set of statutes, especially section 515.]