https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-34/
I guess we will have to wait to find out what the phrase "to provide for the immediate declassification" means.
Looks like the text messages mentioned in the second paragraph will be "publicly" released. The other declassified material mentioned before that does not say if it will be released publicly.drcrinum said:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-34/
I guess we will have to wait to find out what the phrase "to provide for the immediate declassification" means.
aggiehawg said:
It means, "Sit down and STFU, Wray or you're fired."
I'm assuming this info has already been available to Horowitz and Durham during their investigations ... therefore, this is mostly about attempts to redact this info from Horowitz's OIG report that is currently under review.Quote:
- Pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 #CarterPage FISA
- All FBI reports of Russiagate-related interviews with Bruce Ohr
- All FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.
That Press Statement was from Sept 17 - 2018drcrinum said:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-34/
I guess we will have to wait to find out what the phrase "to provide for the immediate declassification" means.
Alright, that's it, I'm writing Trump telling him to get you on the staff.aggiehawg said:
It means, "Sit down and STFU, Wray or you're fired."
In September of 2018, that obviously would have been under Sessions. What a tremendous waste of oxygen Sessions was as AG. I was thinking this morning is how Sessions would honestly assess his tenure as AG. Would he realize his failures were detrimental to the country as a whole?drcrinum said:
What! My bad.
Edit. The person I follow who posted that tweet has now apologized and deleted it after discovering the document was dated September 18, 2018. I guess both of us have too much hope that the evil ones will be exposed & prosecuted.
Ditto Bormann, Goering, Doenitz, Hess, Jodel, Keitel, Ribbentrop, et al.Quote:
McCabe: "To be clear, I absolutely reject the findings and conclusions of the IG report that accused me of exhibiting a lack of candor in several instances. .... I never intentionally misled anyone about anything and I certainly have not committed a crime."
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Josh Campbell, who was Comey's personal assistant at the FBI, writes in "Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI," that FBI leadership had "intense discussion" about how to interview Flynn regarding phone conversations he had in December 2016 with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
"With all the chaos we thought we might actually get away with sending agents over to the White House to sit down with Flynn," Campbell quotes Comey saying about arranging the Jan. 24, 2017, interview with Flynn.
Campbell, who left the FBI to join CNN in February 2018, writes that normal FBI protocol for an interview with a high-level White House official would have the bureau send a request to the White House counsel's office, and then wait for approval to send over agents.
But Comey decided to work around those guidelines in hopes of catching Flynn with his guard down.
"We just decided, you know, screw it," Comey said, according to the book......
Powell told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday that the revelations in Campbell's book show that Flynn was unfairly prosecuted.
"The conduct of the FBI and its upper echelon in planning the ambush interview of General Flynn is antithetical to our system of justice," Powell told the DCNF......
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12. Unredacted copies of all memos created by or other communications from James Comey that mention or deal with any investigation, surveillance, FISA applications, interviews, or use of a confidential human source or "OCONUS lures" against Mr. Flynn.
What a load of horse pookie! I know at least one of Flynn's calls with Kisylak was while he was on vacation with his wife in the Dominican Republic. Spotty cell service and being on vacayQuote:
"According to a person familiar with the interview, the goal of the FBI in speaking with Flynn was not to trap him in a lie but to find out whether there was criminal intent in his conduct with the Russian ambassador and to shed light on his thought processes," he writes.
Campbell also reveals internal FBI discussions about Flynn's interview. He reports that one top FBI official asked him whether Flynn was losing his mind, or inebriated during the White House interview.
"One member of the leadership team told me they actually wondered if Flynn was suffering from dementia, or whether he had been intoxicated when he spoke with Kislyak," Campbell writes.
LINKQuote:
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge (SAC), now retired, based on allegations that the SAC committed misconduct by engaging in an intimate relationship with a subordinate and by taking various actions that lacked impartiality and favored the subordinate. The SAC admitted to the OIG to having engaged in an intimate relationship with the subordinate when the SAC was supervising the subordinate. However, the SAC denied that any actions involving the subordinate lacked impartiality or demonstrated favoritism. The OIG found that the SAC committed misconduct because the SAC failed to report the relationship to appropriate personnel as required by FBI policy. The OIG also found that several of the SAC's actions involving the subordinate, including participating in the awards process resulting in the subordinate receiving a performance award, lacked impartiality, demonstrated favoritism, and created an appearance of bias toward the subordinate. We further found that the SAC's relationship with the subordinate was a contributing factor in the decline in morale among some staff. The SAC retired during the course of the OIG investigation. The OIG has completed its investigation and provided its report to the FBI.
He was fired, but he is currently suing, alleging that his firing violated his first amendment rights.Quote:
Strzok? Did he retire or was fired? Was he technically Lisa's superior? Or this someone else?
should be funTurkeyBaconLeg said:Looks like the text messages mentioned in the second paragraph will be "publicly" released. The other declassified material mentioned before that does not say if it will be released publicly.drcrinum said:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-34/
I guess we will have to wait to find out what the phrase "to provide for the immediate declassification" means.
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"In addition, President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr."
It won't be that much fun... That was dated in 2018.We fixed the keg said:should be funTurkeyBaconLeg said:Looks like the text messages mentioned in the second paragraph will be "publicly" released. The other declassified material mentioned before that does not say if it will be released publicly.drcrinum said:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-34/
I guess we will have to wait to find out what the phrase "to provide for the immediate declassification" means.Quote:
"In addition, President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr."
Isnt hilarious that a career law enforcement officer, who likely spent time in counter intel training, would utter the words, "I never intentionally misled anyone about anything"Quote:
McCabe: "To be clear, I absolutely reject the findings and conclusions of the IG report that accused me of exhibiting a lack of candor in several instances. .... I never intentionally misled anyone about anything and I certainly have not committed a crime."
Roscoe flushing out the Phoenix tarmac story?Quote:
ChristopherSign replying to RoscoeBDavis
Oh Lord help us!benchmark said:Roscoe flushing out the Phoenix tarmac story?Quote:
ChristopherSign replying to RoscoeBDavis
Damnit!!!Quote:
It won't be that much fun... That was dated in 2018.
Bonfire1996 said:Isnt hilarious that a career law enforcement officer, who likely spent time in counter intel training, would utter the words, "I never intentionally misled anyone about anything"Quote:
McCabe: "To be clear, I absolutely reject the findings and conclusions of the IG report that accused me of exhibiting a lack of candor in several instances. .... I never intentionally misled anyone about anything and I certainly have not committed a crime."
Dude, that was part of your effing job on your way up. Dumbass. You couldn't be more transparent with your lies. My kids were better liars at five years old.
GreyhoundDad said:Bonfire1996 said:Isnt hilarious that a career law enforcement officer, who likely spent time in counter intel training, would utter the words, "I never intentionally misled anyone about anything"Quote:
McCabe: "To be clear, I absolutely reject the findings and conclusions of the IG report that accused me of exhibiting a lack of candor in several instances. .... I never intentionally misled anyone about anything and I certainly have not committed a crime."
Dude, that was part of your effing job on your way up. Dumbass. You couldn't be more transparent with your lies. My kids were better liars at five years old.
Trying to get out front of an "intent" defense
what's new about this? We already knew Horowitz recommended him for criminal prosecution, but the DOJ chose not to pursue. I don't see any new information in that article, unless I'm getting stories/actors confused.Prognightmare said:
SIAP
I didn't cross reference it so don't kill me.
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A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit was filed against the US Justice Department on Wednesday by legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, seeking records concerning FBI Special Agent Michael Gaeta - an agency Legal Attach in Rome who helped circulate the infamous Steele Dossier.
The JW lawsuit seeks:
- All records of communications, including emails (using [his or her] own name or aliases), text messages, instant chats and encrypted messages, sent to and from former FBI Legal Attach in Rome, Special Agent Michael Gaeta, mentioning the terms "Trump", "Clinton", "Republican", "Democrat", and/or "conservatives."
- All SF50s and SF52s of SA Michael Gaeta.
According to August 2018 testimony by the DOJ's former #4 official Bruce Ohr, dossier author Christopher Steele gave two memos from his salacious, Clinton-funded opposition research to Gaeta.
- All expense reports and travel vouchers submitted for SA Michael Gaeta.
According to the Epoch Times, Gaeta was authorized by former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to meet with Steele at his London office in order to obtain dossier materials.Quote:
In the July 30 meeting, Chris Steele also mentioned something about the doping you know, one of the doping scandals. And he also mentioned, I believe and, again, this is based on my review of my notes that he had provided Mr. Gaeta with two reports"
The only thing I recall him mentioning is that he had provided two of his reports to Special Agent Gaeta.The FBI's scramble to vet the dossier's claims are well known. According to an April, 2017 NYT report, the FBI agreed to pay Steele $50,000 for "solid corroboration" of his claims. Steele was apparently unable to produce satisfactory evidence - and was not paid for his efforts:Quote:
The purpose of the London visit was clear. Steele was personally handing the first memo in his dossier to Gaeta for ultimate transmission back to the FBI and the State Department.
For this visit, the FBI sought permission from the office of Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, who had been the recipient of many of Steele's reports, gave permission for the more formal meeting. On July 5, 2016, Gaeta traveled to London and met with Steele at the offices of Steele's firm, Orbis.Still, the FBI used the dossier to obtain the FISA warrant on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page - while the document itself was heavily shopped around to various media outlets. The late Sen. John McCain provided a copy to Former FBI Director James Comey, who already had a version, and briefed President Trump on the salacious document. Comey's briefing to Trump was then used by CNN and BuzzFeed to justify reporting on and publishing the dossier following the election.Quote:
Mr. Steele met his F.B.I. contact in Rome in early October, bringing a stack of new intelligence reports. One, dated Sept. 14, said that Mr. Putin was facing "fallout" over his apparent involvement in the D.N.C. hack and was receiving "conflicting advice" on what to do.
The agent said that if Mr. Steele could get solid corroboration of his reports, the F.B.I. would pay him $50,000 for his efforts, according to two people familiar with the offer. Ultimately, he was not paid. -NYT
"The FBI is covering up its role in the Russiagate hoax," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Judicial Watch has had to fight the FBI 'tooth and nail' for every scrap of information about the illicit targeting of President Trump."