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anon_c6dfa says

Nothing screams MAGA by the Great American Nationalist like protecting Israel. Very Important!

That’s what the forgotten labor in the rust belt was voting for, protection for Israel.

Booger says

See, everyone knew she was a guy. The sad thing, her package is bigger than Barack's.

We know who wore the pants in the family.

Hutch says

I guess that this memo ending the Mueller investigation was just more fake news.

Who said that was going to be the outcome?

Steele Goes Dark; Ditches London Court Appearance Following Criminal Referral By US Senate.

Former British MI-6 intelligence officer Christopher Steele was a no-show on Monday at a London courthouse, reports Fox News. Steele was expected for a long-requested deposition in a multi-million dollar civil case brought against Buzzfeed, which published a salacious and unverified "Trump-Russia" dossier.

Steele may have skipped out over concerns that he would be asked questions about his contacts with various media outlets in connection with at least two dossiers he had a hand in assembling and disseminating - for which he stands accused by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) of misleading the FBI about his contacts with journalists at various news outlets during the 2016 election.

"There is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility," reads the unredacted document that refers Steele for criminal prosecution in the US.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-06/steele-goes-dark-ditches-london-court-appearance-following-criminal-referral-us

Michael Cohen or Carter Page should sue him for libel in London, where the laws are a lot tougher. Since he himself leaked to the press, he can't say he was just providing a product to a client.

anon_f4ec1 says

Steele Goes Dark; Ditches London Court Appearance Following Criminal Referral By US Senate.

Now we know why:

HANNITY: The Senate releases 'Memo 2.0,' and it should scare you.

Hot on the heels of the House memo exposing deep state corruption comes an equally explosive document from the Senate that shows the story behind the phony dossier is even worse than you thought.

Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have released a heavily redacted, yet very revealing copy of their criminal referral against ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dubious dossier we now know was parlayed into a FISA warrant by Trump-hating operatives at the Justice Department.

Grassley and Graham tell us that, while working on a second dossier for Clinton opposition research firm Fusion GPS, Steele was being fed information directly from the Obama State Department and from Clinton allies as well as his usual, sketchy Russian sources. That’s right, teams Clinton and Obama were working with a foreign spy to undermine then-candidate Donald Trump.

" … Mr. Steele's memorandum states that his company received this report from (redacted), U.S. State Department, and that the report was the second in the series, and that the report was information that came from a foreign sub source who is in touch with a contact of (redacted), a friend of the Clintons who passed it to (redacted).”

So, in addition to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paying $12 million for a phony, fake-news Russian propaganda dossier to influence the election, we now learn that her associates and the Obama State Department teamed up with Russian sources to funnel allegations to Steele for a second dossier.

The senators are also accusing Christopher Steele of lying either to the FBI or to the British courts.

"There is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility," they wrote.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/06/sean-hannity-senate-releases-memo-2-0-and-it-should-scare.html

Actual PDF of the second memo:

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-06%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20%28Unclassified%20Steele%20Referral%29.pdf

anon_a6428 says

Hutch says

I guess that this memo ending the Mueller investigation was just more fake news.

Who said that was going to be the outcome?

Just the story writer and then ZH who used the words "end Mueller's investigation" in the headline to dupe people into clicking...

I want to see this

Sniper says

"Explosive", "Shocking" And "Alarming" FISA Memo Set To Rock DC, "End Mueller Investigation"

Is this the pre-spin spin ?



All we know for sure is that some are desperate to end this. IF there was nothing there, they would want Mueller ( a good republican) to report that there was no wrong doing by Trump (that we don't already know (i.e. Trump university, stiffing contractors, gabbing pussy, etc. , etc., etc)).

They should want that report, rather than being so desperate to end the investigation. What are they so terrified will come out ? Are there thnigs they've learned and now they are going to prevent us from learning what it is becasue of the way it was obtained ?

The dates are the key.

You know our old friend Victoria Nuland? She said the date she first knew of the Dossier was in June or early July. FBI "Circle of assholes" claims nobody got access before July 31st

The timeline is coming apart.

Tick -Tock, Tick- Tock

Mueller hauled before secret FISA court to address FBI abuses in 2002, Congress told.

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and current special prosecutor in the Russia case, once was hauled before the nation’s secret intelligence court to address a large number of instances in which the FBI cheated on sensitive surveillance warrants, according to evidence gathered by congressional investigators.

Trisha Anderson, who recently stepped down as the FBI’s principal deputy general counsel, told House investigators late last year in an interview that early in Mueller’s FBI tenure, nearly two decades ago, the FISC summoned the new director to appear before the judges to address concerns about extensive cheating on FISA warrants

“It preceded my time with the FBI but as I understood it, there was a pattern of some incidents of omission that were of concern to the FISA court that resulted in former Director Mueller actually appearing before the FISA court,” Anderson told Congress.

Other sources who worked for Mueller at the time told me the court's concerns arose in 2002 and 2003 — shortly after America was stunned by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks — when the FISC learned the FBI had omitted material facts from FISA warrant applications in more than 75 terrorism cases that dated back to the late 1990s.

A declassified FISC order from 2002 gives a glimpse into how serious the omissions were: In one case the FBI failed to tell the court that the person they were seeking a FISA warrant to surveil was, in fact, one of their own informants.

The court expressed concern that “misinformation found its way into the FISA applications and remained uncorrected for more than one year despite procedures to verify the accuracy of FISA pleadings.”

That’s because we now know the FBI, in 2016, omitted significant information from the application for the FISA warrant that allowed it to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in hopes of finding evidence of collusion between Russia and the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign.

Thanks to congressional oversight and declassified documents, we now know the FBI failed to tell the court that the primary evidence it used to support its warrant — the so-called Steele dossier — was political opposition research produced on behalf of and paid for by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, in hopes of harming Trump’s election chances.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/428755-mueller-hauled-before-secret-fisa-court-to-address-fbi-abuses-in-2002

Hey, but I'm sure Mueller is clean, right @Kakistocracy ?