FBI/DOJ/Obama corruption: Worse than Watergate? We shall see

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Corruption at the highest levels of the FBI. This is what happens in the early stages of a police state -- the surveillance and law enforcement apparatus of the government become tools for one political party to hold onto power. And this is still early in the investigation.

Worse than Watergate

The FISA Abuse Memo is out and now we know why the Democrats were desperate to keep its contents hidden from the public: it confirms the worst fears not just of President Trump’s supporters but of everyone concerned about the abuse of police power, government corruption, and the sanctity of our elections.

The memo shows interference in the 2016 presidential election by hostile elements within a United States intelligence agency. It wasn’t the Russians we had to worry about—it was rogue actors at the highest levels of the FBI and Department of Justice. Left unanswered is to what extent the West Wing knew about or was complicit in this gross abuse of power.

What we now know:

The FBI’s case to the FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court was based almost entirely upon a partisan hit-job bought and paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign....

Ohr’s wife was one of just seven employees at FusionGPS, the firm that was paying Christopher Steele. The personal financial relationship between the Ohrs and the dossier was concealed from the court.

The FBI could not corroborate the information in the Steele dossier, calling it only “minimally corroborated” but did not disclose this fact to the FISA Court thus leading it to believe that the information in the dossier was either FBI work-product or that it had been independently corroborated by the FBI. Neither was true.

The FBI did not disclose that the source of the information which formed the basis of their FISA application was a paid political operative of the Clinton campaign and the DNC.

The FBI and the Department of Justice intentionally misled the FISA court in their applications to obtain authority to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. They did this not once, but on four separate occasions over the course of a year, including after Donald Trump was in office. The misleading applications were signed off by James Comey (three times), Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rosenstein....

Comey lied to the president about the investigation while he was FBI director....

FBI agent Peter Strozk and his mistress FBI attorney Lisa Page met with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to discuss an “insurance policy” against Trump being elected president....

The texts between Peter Strozk and Lisa Page contain, “extensive discussions about the investigation, orchestrating leaks to the media, and include a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an ‘insurance policy’ against Trump’s election.”

The Nunes memo is just the beginning. There is more to come.

https://amgreatness.com/2018/02/02/wors ... watergate/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznY1bGADtg

This is a very one-sided account.

Firstly, this omits that Page had been under investigation for several years before the Steele dossier was presented to the US government. It also omits that he'd left the Trump team before the warrants were granted.

Secondly, the allegations weren't "cooked up by the DNC". The DNC (along with the Clinton campaign and some Republicans) paid an independent intelligence operative to investigate Trump, and that's what he turned up. By all accounts, Steele is one of the best intelligence operatives in the world - former head of the Russia Desk at MI6, and the guy who realised Litvinenko had been assassinated by the Russian government. He had a long track record of providing the FBI with reliable information.

Thirdly, if it were really a case of corruption then surely Ohr wouldn't have bothered recording Steele's anti-Trump comments?

Finally, I don't think there's any suggestion of bribery.

We've already seen that this hasn't had nearly the same splash as the Trump-Russia investigation. The BBC wrote three articles about it, but I didn't see them trend. It seems like people just don't really buy the conspiracy angle.

I had to try and think of a news source that I could trust and truthfully I couldn't think of any. On that intuition I actually did something really strange and looked at the New York Times take on it.

Whether it's credible or not they're suggesting that the democrats have a memo they want to release, that they're worried not enough (ie. selective) information was in the memo and that their memo will clean the air up around this. This doesn't really match Elizabeth Warren et. al circling in with Rand Paul agreeing that what happened was an outrage and needs to be dealt with and whether that was just their ignorance of the situation up until seeing the memo or whether it was something else.

There's going to be a lot of CYA in the next few weeks, some of it may be true and lots of it may be blue-sky BS.

What would be useful is whether anyone can say anything - at length - about the history with Carter Page and the justifications for requesting FISA warrants on him were up to snuff or indeed provide what that would actually entail.

From a couple relatively left-leaning sources: Jimmy Dore Show and HA Goodman. I'd suppose we can't take their word on this either because they're Sanders supporters and as Sanders supporters they're likely to side with pro-Trump propaganda since it serves their purposes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWb5yOFCUU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFHGvZNWnb4

More rats abandoning the sinking ship of Obama-era FBI corruption.

Two more officials cited in FBI texts step down
The FBI's media chief and the head of the Justice Department's anti-espionage section are both departing.

Two more senior government officials who were prominently discussed in text messages exchanged by FBI personnel formerly assigned to the Trump-Russia investigation are leaving their positions.

Mike Kortan, FBI assistant director for public affairs, is set to retire next week, an FBI spokeswoman confirmed. In addition, the chief of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, David Laufman, resigned this week, a department spokesman said.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/ ... ign-400533

The phony "Russia" narrative manufactured by the Media/Obama/Clinton/DOJ/FBI conspiracy isn't holding.

Most Think Obama White House Spied On Trump Campaign, Want Special Counsel: IBD/TIPP Poll

Spying On Trump: Americans overwhelmingly believe the Obama administration "improperly surveilled" Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and a majority say they would like to see a special prosecutor appointed to look into possible misconduct by the FBI and Department of Justice in spying on Trump, the latest IBD/TIPP poll shows.

One fact emerges from the poll of 900 people conducted from Jan. 25 to Feb. 2: The public doesn't necessarily buy into the Democratic narrative that the Trump campaign "colluded" with Russia to tamper with the 2016 presidential election.

The poll also suggests that many Americans think the roots of the allegations made against Trump extend beyond the two major party campaigns in the last presidential election and deep into the Obama era's intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies, and may involve active political bias on the part of supposedly nonpartisan employees of both the Justice Department and FBI.

https://www.investors.com/politics/edit ... tipp-poll/

Huge timeline of the conspiracy against Trump. Vastly bigger than Watergate. Is it treason? Sedition? The largest criminal conspiracy inside the government in the history of the Republic? Maybe all of the above.

https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/02/23/ ... -timeline/

Swamp creatures still trying to avoid the light.

Page Faces Contempt Charge and More if She Doesn’t Testify This Week
Former FBI lawyer could face drastic congressional sanctions, including the possibility of confinement, unless she starts talking

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page will be held in contempt of Congress if she fails to comply with her subpoena to testify by Friday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) warned Wednesday night on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

“I’m hopeful we’ll see her tomorrow or Friday,” said Meadows (pictured above left), adding that Page “will be held in contempt” if she does not appear before Congress on Thursday or Friday....

Strzok testified in a closed session before Congress in late June, and Page was subpoenaed to testify before Congress Wednesday. But Page never appeared. Her lawyer, Amy Jeffress, told CNN that Page “went to the FBI today to review the materials that were previously produced to Congress relating to her proposed interview, but after waiting for more than three hours, we were not provided with any documents.”

Jeffress continued, “We have asked the committees to schedule another date that would allow sufficient time for her to prepare. The committees have not honored this request. As a result, Lisa is not going to appear for an interview at this time.”

But Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said the lawyer’s account was false....

If Page fails to comply with her subpoena by Friday, Meadows said she will get “referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution.”

https://www.lifezette.com/2018/07/page- ... this-week/

Does the creature from the Black Lagoon wear shades and sunscreen to avoid the light?
What do you do when you emerge from the swamp Darmok?
SPF 100??

I like to wear a cool layer of sphagnum moss.

There’s a Direct Line from Obama, Holder, Rice, Lerner, and Clinton to FBI Scandals

Defying Congress, weaponizing government, lying to voters, and erecting a justice double standard created a bitter harvest today

Former President Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were marked by four huge scandals, each of which uniquely contributed to the unprecedented level of corruption now being exposed in the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation.

The four scandals include:

1.) Fast & Furious (2011), which exposed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) selling high-powered rifles and other firearms to individuals known to be straw buyers for Mexican drug cartels.

2.) Benghazi (2012), the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in a U.S. consulate in Libya, including J. Christopher Stevens, the country’s ambassador to Libya, and the Obama administration’s false explanation of it.

3.) IRS targeting (2013), in which the federal tax agency’s illegally singled out Tea Party, conservative, and evangelical nonprofit applicants for illegal harassment during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns.

4.) Hillary email (2015), which included hundreds of emails containing highly sensitive classified information to and from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her private server, which was compromised by multiple foreign powers and hackers.

Official wrongdoing seen separately in each of these four scandals came together to create the current FBI scandal.

https://www.lifezette.com/2018/07/there ... -scandals/

Please, somebody, put at least ONE of these people in an orange jumpsuit (my preference would be Hiliary, of course)! !

The wheels of justice keep grinding on. More and more of the attempted coup is being exposed.

FBI OFFICIALS DISCUSSED ‘MEDIA LEAK STRATEGY’ AHEAD OF MAJOR TRUMP-RUSSIA REVELATION

--Peter Strzok sent Lisa Page a text message about “media leak strategy” during a key point in the Trump-Russia probe.
--Strzok sent the message just before The Washington Post published a bombshell story about the FBI obtaining surveillance warrants against Carter Page.
--North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows says the messages raise “grave concerns” about an “apparent systemic culture of leaking” at the FBI and DOJ.

Newly released text messages show disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok asked to speak to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page about a “media leak strategy” during a crucial period of the Trump-Russia investigation in 2017.

The text messages were revealed Monday by North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, a member of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee.

“Our review of these new documents raises grave concerns regarding an apparent systemic culture of media leaking by high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ related to ongoing investigations,” Meadows wrote to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the letter, which was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation and first reported by Sara Carter.

Meadows pointed to text messages Strzok sent to Page on April 10, 2017, and April 12, 2017.

In the first message, Strzok, who then served as deputy chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, wrote to Page that: “I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I want to talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go.”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/10/strzo ... leak-text/