Will The FISA Memo Expose Revelations That

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The 2017 Trump

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 WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL:
FISA Abuse Memo Likely To Be Released Thursday
By Cristina Laila
January 31, 2018, 9:05 Pm
THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC–
The FBI released a statement on Wednesday pointing to
“grave concerns” on the release of the House GOP FISA
memo.
House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) hit
back hard at the FBI’s statement in a press release
Wednesday.
A White House official said the FISA memo will likely be
released Thursday, according to Reuters.
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Reuters reported:
A Republican memo alleging anti-Trump bias at the FBI
and U.S. Justice department is likely to be released on
Thursday, a White House official said on Wednesday.
The FBI said earlier on Wednesday it had “grave
concerns” about the accuracy of the top-secret House
Intelligence Committee memo, challenging President
Donald Trump’s pledge to release it.
What version of the FISA memo is the American public
going to see?
The FBI sent 5 agents over to the White House this week
to alter the House Intel FISA memo.
Lou Dobbs: Our chief correspondent at the White House,
John Roberts, telling us that the new version of the
memorandum has been altered in some ways by the White
House review. Five professional members of the FBI were
at the White House to meet with the Chief of Staff John
Kelly to got through that.
Investigative reporter Sara Carter said the FBI is pushing
back on the release of the memo so fiercely, sources are
telling her they fear it may not be released to the public.
 GMA Gushes, Will Trump
‘Basically Lying’ Lead to Impeachment?
By Kristine Marsh
February 1, 2018 9:47 AM EST

case?” Stephanopoulos eagerly asked

Abrams.

Abrams suggested it could be used in a case for

impeachment.

“It could be. Certainly any lies can be part of an

obstruction case, right?” he replied.

Abrams then referenced Bill Clinton, saying that Ken Starr

based part of his argument for impeachment on Clinton
lying to the public. But he denied that one lie would be
The 2016 election still isn’t over for the liberals in the enough to impeach Trump. “I don't think that would be the
media, who keep trying to find ways to prove that case here just a lie in and of itself,” he added.
President Trump “obstructed justice” and should be
impeached, just past a year into his presidency. Thursday But that was enough for Stephanopoulos to cling to.
on ABC’s Good Morning America, anchor and former
President Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos eagerly
“But one piece!” he gushed.
hoped they had finally found the evidence needed to oust
Trump.
Abrams conceded, calling the allegation of lying “an
important piece in the puzzle,” “if true.”
ABC’s Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas began
by hyping a New York Times report based on anonymous
sources, (what else?), reporting that a former legal advisor
for Trump named Mark Corallo is expected to be
interviewed by FBI special counsel Robert Mueller soon,
and will tell Mueller that Hope Hicks and President Trump
knew the real reason for the Don Jr. Trump Tower
meeting, back in June of 2016, and tried to hide the
revelation from the public, making up a story about
Russian adoption.

Since President Trump denied knowing about the meeting

publically, ABC hoped this would be the crucial “piece of
evidence” for “obstruction of justice.”
“As always, the key question, what did the
president know, and when did he know it?”
Thomas ended his report on speculation. After that,
George Stephanopoulos sat down with ABC’s legal analyst
Dan Abrams to salivate over the news.
“It turns out to be a misleading statement. So
the big question there is,would the president
being involved in basically lying to the
public be part of an obstruction of justice
This isn’t the first time, nor will it be the last certainly, that
ABC has eagerly hyped they found a way to impeach
Trump. Back in May, Stephanopoulos brought fellow
Democrat Adam Schiff on GMA to gossip over whether
Trump could be impeached for “obstructing justice” by
firing James Comey. He brought up impeachment not once
but twice on that show alone. On another broadcast, where
he again talked with legal analyst Dan Abrams,
Stephanopoulos brought up impeachment again, citing an
Obama mentor who was recommending it. Even after
Abrams cautiously dismissed Stephanopoulos’s hype, the
journalist hoped the non-existent taped conversations

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between Comey and Trump would be “a piece of misleading statement. So the big question there is,would the
evidence” to prove “obstruction of justice.” president being involved in basically lying to the public be
part of an obstruction of justice case?
Read the entire exchange below:
DAN ABRAMS: It could be. Certainly any lies can be part of an
GMA obstruction case, right. When you're putting together possible
obstruction and different pieces and lies become part of those
pieces, but, remember, in the case of Bill Clinton, when Ken Starr
2/1/18
recommended the articles of impeachment, one of them was
strictly based on lying to the public. Now, I don't think that would
7:07:04-7:07:50AM be the case here just a lie in and of itself.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's talk to our chief legal analyst Dan STEPHANOPOULOS: but one piece!
Abrams about this right now. So you've got this meeting on Air
Force One, the president is there. Hope hicks, one of his closest
ABRAMS: But it becomes an important
aides is there. Don Trump Jr. is on the phone. It turns out to be a
piece in the puzzle if true.
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 Trump: US Must Modernize & Rebuild
Its Nuclear Arsenal To Deter Any Aggression
Published Time: 31 Jan, 2018 03:15 Edited Time: 31 Jan, 2018 10:44
FILE PHOTO: The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an
American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic
bomber © U.S. Air Force
The US must make its nukes “so strong and powerful” so
as to deter any aggression that might come from state and
non-state actors, President Donald Trump said, noting that
the world is “sadly” not ready to ditch nuclear weapons.
“As part of our defense, we must
modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal,
hopefully never having to use it, but making
it so strong and so powerful that it will deter
any acts of aggression by any other nation
or anyone else,” Trump said.
He added that the “magic moment” when countries would
be ready to get rid of their nuclear arsenals has not yet
arrived.
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“They are not there yet, sadly.”
One the greatest threats, according to Trump, comes from
North Korea, and the US president took the opportunity to
bash Pyongyang yet again.
“We need only look at the depraved
character of the North Korean regime to
understand the nature of the nuclear threat
it could pose to America and our allies," he
said.
Trump vowed to not “repeat mistakes of past
administrations,” referring to the previous US
government’s policy as “complacency and concessions”
that backfired in the form of “aggression and
provocation” by the North.
Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile program can “very soon”
pose an acute danger to the US, Trump claimed. He
denounced North Korea's "reckless pursuit" of nuclear
technology and pledged to continue Washington's
“campaign of maximum pressure” to deter Pyongyang – a
strategy which has spiraled into an exchange of belligerent
threats between Trump and North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un, UN sanctions, and missile tests by the North.
Sara Carter: Concerted Effort By FBI, DOJ, Intelligence
Community To Force President To Delay
Release Of Memo (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
January 31, 2018, 9:21 Pm

Sara Carter: It appears there is a concerted effort on the

part of the FBI, members of the intelligence community
and the Department of Justice to try to force the president
to delay the release of the memo. And they’re doing this to
buy time, according to sources that I’ve spoken with so
that they can leak information to try to find a way to either
discredit the memo or placate the members of the DOJ that
don’t want to see this released.

Via Hannity:

FOX News contributor and investigative

reporter Sara Carter told Sean Hannity
on Wednesday that the there was a
concerted effort by the intelligence
community to block the release of the
House Intel FISA memo.

According to earlier reports five FBI

officials visited the White House this
week and revised the House intelligence
memo.

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 #Releasethememo – Even Democrats Are Admitting That
This Memo Could Get Mueller And Rosenstein Fired
By Michael Snyder
January 31, 2018
Never before has there been so much talk about a memo in
Washington. In a previous article, I claimed that this could
be “the biggest scandal in D.C. since Watergate”, but the
truth is that this could actually be bigger than Watergate.
As you will see below, there are some that believe that this
memo will implicate members of the previous
administration all the way up to Barack Obama himself. In
the short-term, we are likely to see a number of top
government officials fired, and even Democrats are
admitting that this could include Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The
following comes from Reuters…
The top Democrat on the U.S. House of
Representatives Intelligence Committee said
on Wednesday a memo by the panel’s
Republicans opens the door for the White
House to fire the special counsel probing
Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S.
election or the No. 2 official at the Justice
Department.
“It … increases the risk of a constitutional crisis
by setting the stage for subsequent actions by
the White House to fire (Special Counsel
Robert) Mueller or, as now seems more likely,
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein,”
Representative Adam Schiff said in an opinion
piece in the Washington Post.
But if this memo is as damning as some believe that it will
be, getting fired will not be the end of the story for many
of these top officials.
If it is true that government surveillance powers were
illegally used to target Donald Trump and his associates,
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and if it is true that the Obama administration, the FBI and
the Clinton campaign illegally colluded in a desperate
attempt to destroy Donald Trump, we should be seeing a
lot of really big names go to prison.
In a previous article, I discussed how outraged many
Republican members of Congress were after they initially
read this memo. Since that time, we have learned that
current FBI Director Christopher Wray was “shocked to
the core” after reading the four-page FISA abuse memo,
and that he immediately asked Andrew McCabe to resign
the next day…
Carter: What we know tonight is that FBI
Director Christopher Wray went Sunday and
reviewed the four-page FISA memo. The
very next day, Andrew McCabe was asked to
resign.
Remember Sean, he was planning on resigning in March –
that already came out in December. This time they asked
him to go right away. You’re not coming into the office.
I’ve heard rep[orts he didn’t even come in for the morning
meeting – that he didn’t show up.
Hannity: A source of mine told me tonight
that when Wray read this, it shocked him to
his core.
It is absolutely imperative that the American people be
given the opportunity to see this memo.
I believe that this memo has the potential to end the
investigation that has haunted the president for nearly his
entire time in the White House, and I believe that this
memo also has the potential to throw the Democratic Party
into a complete state of disarray.
Personally, I have been very vocal about the need to
release this memo, and I don’t know why any of my
opponents don’t seem to want to speak out publicly about
this. Maybe they have been and I have just not seen it yet.
So if any of you know of any public statements by my
opponents on this matter please let me know.
As I stated during the recent candidate debate, I am not
going to shy away from the hard issues, and that definitely
sets our campaign apart from the exceedingly bland
campaigns of my opponents.
The good news is that it looks like this memo may be on
the verge of being released. According to Zero Hedge,
President Trump appeared to tell a member of Congress
that he was on board with releasing the memo as he was
leaving the State of the Union address…
It appears President Trump has managed to set another
narrative as he left the House Chamber.
As Trump shook hands up the aisle after his
SOTU address, Rep. Jeff Duncan called out
to Trump, asking him “Let’s release the
memo,” referring to the House Intelligence
Committee’s FISA memo.
As the following clip shows, Trump responded instantly:
“Oh yeah, don’t worry, 100%.”
Because this memo could potentially end the Special
Counsel’s investigation, it would definitely make sense for
Trump to release it.
And because this memo could be such a disaster for
Democrats, it also makes sense why they are vehemently
opposing any effort to make it public.
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If it was just embarrassing that would be one thing.
Unfortunately, it appears that this memo is going to
implicate many of the biggest names in the Democratic
Party including Barack Obama. Just consider what former
Secret Service agent Dan Bongino is saying…
Dan Bongino: It is not a coincidence that Devin Nunes
who has an entire scope of what happened went back in
March to the White House facility to read very specific
intel that I think will very likely be in this memo. What am
I saying by this?
That the information was likely breached to
Barack Obama.
What does that mean? That means that this information
was being used by Hillary and all of this other stuff that
was in this dossier and all of this spying was probably
being inserted into daily briefs by Barack Obama. Why
else would Nunes have to go to the White House to read it.
We shouldn’t be too optimistic until we actually get to see
the memo, but many are hoping that this could be the
trigger that leads to a true “draining of the swamp” in
Washington.
The rule of law should apply to everyone, and that includes
our elected officials. It appears that there has been a great
deal of malfeasance going on behind the scenes, and it will
be a great win for the American people if we can start to
expose it for all the world to see.
 Adam Schiff Hits Panic Button=> Claims FISA Memo
Cannot Be Released Because It Was “Secretly Altered”
By Cristina Laila
January 31, 2018, 9:37 Pm

Committee reviewed due to minor changes that were

THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC– made.

The FBI released a statement on Wednesday pointing to
“grave concerns” on the release of the House GOP FISA
memo.
House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) hit
back hard at the FBI’s statement in a press release
Wednesday.
Old Schiffty is melting down!
Schiff says because the memo was “secretly altered” it
cannot be released to the public. WOW he is desperate!
Did the FBI make changes to the memo knowing it would
prompt a second review by the House Intel Committee
thus delaying the release?
Sara Carter reported on Wednesday that there is a
concerted effort by the FBI, DOJ and Intelligence
community to delay or prevent the memo from being
released.

Rep. Schiff tweeted out a copy of a letter he sent to

Chairman Nunes (screenshot below):

In the letter, Schiff claims the Committee Minority

discovered that the memo Nunes shared with the White
House is not the same document that the House Intel

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 Adam Schiff Gets Put In His Place After GOP House Intel
Responds To Claims FISA Memo Was “Secretly Altered”
By Cristina Laila
January 31, 2018, 11:37 Pm
THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC–

Just as it was announced that the FISA memo would likely

be released Thursday according to a White House official,
Rep. Adam Schiff hit the panic button.

The FBI, DOJ, Deep State and especially suspected leaker

and ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Adam
Schiff (D-CA) are fiercely working to block the FISA
memo from being released to the public.

Adam Schiff sent a panicked letter to Chairman Nunes

claiming the FISA memo was “secretly altered” therefore
it must be reviewed by Committee Minority AGAIN
before being released to the public.

A GOP House Intel source responded with a statement and

put old Schiffty in his place.

Byron York of the Washington Examiner reported, “Just

talked with House Intel source. Said total changes to
memo were: A) Unknown number of ‘grammatical and
clarifying’ fixes. B) One change requested by FBI due to
sources & methods concerns. C) One two-word change
requested by Democrats for accuracy. House Intel GOP
statement”

The House GOP gave Adam Schiff a smackdown in a Adam Schiff is so desperate to keep the memo from being
statement: released that he’s complaining about changes he requested
and grammatical errors.

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 Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels
Cancels Scheduled Appearance On ABC’s 'The View'
By Brian Flood | Fox News
January 31, 2018

Trump that allegedly occurred more than a decade before

he was elected to the White House.
"I am not denying this affair because I was
paid 'hush money' as has been reported in
overseas owned tabloids. I am denying this
affair because it never happened," Clifford
said in the letter provided to Buzzfeed
News on Tuesday.
Her attorney confirmed to The Associated Press that his
Adult film star Stormy Daniels has canceled an appearance client's signed statement was authentic.
on “The View” that was scheduled for Thursday on the
heels of a guest panelist mocking her on the ABC morning
show.
“Stormy Daniels was supposed to be
coming on ‘The View,’ we are not sure
that’s happening anymore,” co-host
Whoopi Goldberg said on Wednesday’s
show.
An ABC spokesperson confirmed that Daniels canceled
the appearance.
Last week, HLN host S.E. Cupp appeared as a guest
panelist on “The View” and criticized the media for being
interested in the adult film star.
"Stormy Daniels, she's cleaning up," Cupp (© 2018 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All
said. "She's making a ton of money. Her rights reserved.)
career is revived. She's just playing the
hand she was dealt. No problem there. Daniels has been on a publicity tour in recent weeks amid
What bothers me, though, in giving her this news of the alleged 2006 tryst with the president and she
platform — you know, Monica Lewinsky appeared on ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on
was also caught having an affair with the Wednesday night following Trump's State of the Union
president. Who's going to interview her? I'd address.
love to see someone interview her." Kimmel even took a shot at Cupp, pointing out that he’s
While ABC did not provide an official reason for the interviewed Lewinsky multiple times.
sudden cancellation, Goldberg specifically discussed “Put that in your S.E. Cupp and smoke it,”
Cupp’s comments when reporting that Daniels’ appearance he joked after playing a montage of
was in question. Lewinsky’s appearances.
[Cupp] gave her opinion and that’s what the show is,” Despite Kimmel's best efforts, Daniels didn't answer any
Goldberg said. “You can’t really say you’re not going to specific questions about the alleged affair and now “The
come on because of that… I don’t personally care.” View” won’t have a chance to grill her.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, earlier this
week denied her reported affair with President Donald
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 HUGE: House Intel Committee Releases Monday’s Mtg.
Minutes – Schiff Admits To Secret Contact
With FBI Chief Chris Wray
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018, 7:38 Am
The House Intelligence Committee Released Minutes of its
stormy meeting held on Monday January 29, 2018. The
minutes show the Democrats on the Committee panicked
and lie their way to do all they can to obstruct the
investigation into FBI and DOJ abuses and side with the
perpetrators in the FISA abuse scandal rather than with
Americans who want the truth.
The House Intelligence Committee (IC) released their
minutes from Monday’s meeting. Here is a summary of
the comments and motions made during the meeting as
noted in the 58 page document –
P3 – The meeting begins with the IC noting that the
purpose of the meeting is to discuss the Democrats (Dems)
memo
P4 – Adam Schiff (D) declares that the memo that the
Republicans want to be made public contains ‘misleading
representations and factual problems’ and states that the
FBI wanted to appear to discuss the memo and the DOJ
described releasing the memo as reckless.
P5 – Schiff wants 3 motions – 1) To make the Dem’s
memo available to all members of the House. 2) To allow
the FBI and DOJ to review both documents and provide
classified briefing to entire House. He states that only he
and Rep Gowdy are apparently the only 2 members to
review underlying materials to FISA memo. 3) To release
both Dem and FISA memos to the public.
P6 – Rep Conaway (R) states that the
Dem document to date is “sight
20
unseen” [i.e. it has not been shared with
the Committee]
P7 – Rep Sewell (D) wants both memos released
P7 – Rep Quigley (D) freaks out about Russia
P9 – Schiff (D) wants Steve Bannon and
Corey Lewandowski to come in for more
interviews
P10 – Rep Swalwell (D) complains and doesn’t want FISA
memo released because the Committee violates “an
agreement with the DOJ”. He wants to release the Dem’s
10 page memo along with the FISA 4 page memo.
P11 – Schiff (suspected of leaking
sensitive documents) states his
concerns with leaks about the memos
P12 – Schiff complains and demands releasing both
documents to the House [the FISA memo has already been
shared with the House]
P14 – The Committee agrees to send the Dems memo to
the House
P16 – Rep King (R) moves to “disclose
publicly” the FISA memo
P18 – King claims that “contrary to
claims made in the media, this
committee has been transparent with
the FBI”. Reps Nunez and Gowdy
provided FBI director Wray a copy of
the FISA memo on Sunday and shared
memo with 2 senior FBI employees on
Monday before the IC meeting. The
Rep King states –
There are moments in our history when
full transparency is required so that all
Americans can understand what their
government has done. After all, this is
 the American people’s House, and we
work for them.
Having carefully balance the need to
keep the information secret with the
need to inform the public, I have
concluded that this matter requires us
to disclose the information in the memo
to the American people.”
P19 – Chair states that he believes FISA memo
was properly vetted with no classified information.
P20 – Schiff states that he talked with
FBI Director Wray [privately] and
states Wray wants to come before the
Committee to state his concerns with
the FISA memo [Why did Wray share
this only with Schiff? When did this
secret meeting or discussion take
place and who else was present?]
Schiff makes a motion to delay
releasing the FISA memo.
P21 – Chair states that the DOJ and FBI
have been under investigation by the
Committee for
“many, many months for FISA abuse
and other matters. That investigation
continues. And I would urge my
colleagues to vote no, we are not going
to be briefed by the people that are
under investigation by this committee.”
P22 – Chair notes how the Dems have opposed several
subpoenas and the FISA memo being made available to the
House.
P23 – Quigley (D) asks if the memo worked on with the
White House and the Chair states not to his knowledge.
P25 – Dems demand not to release the FISA memo
P27 – Rep Speier (D) says that the Committee has not
reviewed the FISA memo [even though made available to
the entire House? She must have not looked at it.]
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P27 – Rep Swalwell (D) asked to have an Inspector
General review the memo before being released.
P28 – Schiff says the DOJ and FBI are willing to
“cooperate” and says the memo is at the bidding of the
White House.
P30 – the Committee votes on Schiff’s motion on whether
to allow the FBI and DOJ to review the FISA memo and
provide a briefing to the House and delay the public
disclosure of the memo. The motion does not pass.
P34 – Schiff says he is “loath to see the
public misled” and motions to vote on
having the Dem’s memo released with
the FISA memo [even though no one on
the Committee has seen or had the
opportunity to see the Dem’s memo]
P37 – Schiff pretends to be concerned that not releasing
the Dem’s memo will look bad and demands that the FBI
be able to redact and edit the FISA memo before being
released.
P39 – Rep Sewell says she is so disappointed in the entire
Committee for politicizing this investigation.
P41 – After Dems bitching about
releasing the FISA memo the Committee
votes on whether to attach the Dem’s
memo to the FISA memo and send to
the President. [Again, the Committee
had not yet had the opportunity to
review the Dem’s memo nor had the
House had the opportunity to see it.]
P44 – The Committee agrees not to
attach the [unread] Dem memo with the
FISA memo and send to the President.
P44 – The Committee next votes on
whether to release the FISA memo to
the public [by first sending it to the
President for review.] The motion
passes.
P47 – Schiff motions to release the Dem’s memo to the
public [even though no one on the Committee or the House
has yet had opportunity to review it]. The motion fails
[again].
P51 – Schiff asks that the minutes of the meeting be made
public.
 Trump’s Financial Arsonists
The Next Financial Crisis -- Not If, But When
By Nomi Prins
7:41am, February 1, 2018.
There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington
lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald
Trump’s White House, you can hardly keep up with the
ongoing brouhahas from North Korea to Robert Mueller’s
Russian investigation, while it already feels like ages since
the celebratory mood over the vast corporate tax cuts
Congress passed last year. But don’t be fooled: none of
that is as important as what’s missing from the picture.
Like a disease, in the nation’s capital it’s often what you
can’t see that will, in the end, hurt you most.
Amid a roaring stock market and a planet of upbeat CEOs,
few are even thinking about the havoc that a multi-trillion-
dollar financial system gone rogue could inflict upon
global stability. But watch out. Even in the seemingly
best of times, neglecting Wall Street is a dangerous idea.
With a rag-tag Trumpian crew of ex-bankers and Goldman
Sachs alumni as the only watchdogs in town, it’s time to
focus, because one thing is clear: Donald Trump’s
economic team is in the process of making the financial
system combustible again.
Collectively, the biggest U.S. banks already have their get-
out-out-of-jail-free cards and are now sitting on record
profits after, not so long ago, triggering sweeping
unemployment, wrecking countless lives, and elevating
global instability. (Not a single major bank CEO was
given jail time for such acts.) Still, let's not blame the
dangers lurking at the heart of the financial system solely
on the Trump doctrine of leaving banks alone. They should
be shared by the Democrats who, under President Barack
Obama, believed, and still believe, in the perfection of the
Dodd-Frank Act of 2010.
While Dodd-Frank created important financial safeguards
like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even
stronger long-term banking reforms were left on the
sidelines. Crucially, that law didn’t force banks to separate
the deposits of everyday Americans from Wall Street’s
complex derivatives transactions. In other words, it didn’t
resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (axed in the
Clinton era).
Wall Street is now thoroughly emboldened as the financial
elite follows the mantra of Kelly Clarkston’s hit song:
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
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Since the crisis of 2007-2008, the Big Six U.S. banks --
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells
Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley -- have seen
the share price of their stocks significantly outpace those
of the S&P 500 index as a whole.
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the
nation’s largest bank (that’s paid $13 billion in settlements
for various fraudulent acts), recently even pooh-poohed the
chances of the Democratic Party in 2020, suggesting that it
was about time its leaders let banks do whatever they
wanted. As he told Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox
Business’s Wall Street Week,
“The thing about the Democrats is they will
not have a chance, in my opinion. They
don’t have a strong centrist, pro-business,
pro-free enterprise person.”
This is a man who was basically gifted two banks, Bear
Stearns and Washington Mutual, by the U.S. government
during the financial crisis. That present came as his own
company got cheap loans from the Federal Reserve, while
clamoring for billions in bailout money that he swore
it didn’t need.
Dimon can afford to be brazen. JPMorgan Chase is now
the second most profitable company in the country. Why
should he be worried about what might happen in another
crisis, given that the Trump administration is in charge?
With pro-business and pro-bailout thinking reigning
supreme, what could go wrong?
Protect or Destroy?
There are, of course, supposed to be safeguards against
freewheeling types like Dimon. In Washington, key
regulatory bodies are tasked with keeping too-big-to-fail
banks from wrecking the economy and committing
financial crimes against the public. They include the
Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange
Commission, the Treasury Department, the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency (an independent bureau of the
Treasury), and most recently, under the Dodd-Frank Act of
2010, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (an
independent agency funded by the Federal Reserve).
These entities are now run by men whose only desire is to
give Wall Street more latitude. Former Goldman Sachs
partner, now treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin caught
the spirit of the moment with a selfie of his wife and him
holding reams of newly printed money “like a couple of
James Bond villains.” (After all, he was a Hollywood
producer and even appeared in the Warren Beatty flick
Rules Don’t Apply.) He’s making his mark on us, however,
not by producing economic security, but by cheerleading
for financial deregulation.
Despite the fact that the Republican platform in election
2016 endorsed reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, Mnuchin
made it clear that he has no intention of letting that
happen. In a signal to every too-big-not-to-fail financial
outfit around, he also released AIG from its regulatory
chains. That’s the insurance company that was at the
epicenter of the last financial crisis. By freeing AIG from
being monitored by the Financial Services Oversight
Board that he chairs, he’s left it and others like it free to
repeat the same mistakes.
Elsewhere, having successfully spun through the revolving
door from banking to Washington, Joseph Otting, a former
colleague of Mnuchin’s, is now running the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). While he’s no
household name, he was the CEO of OneWest (formerly,
the failed California-based bank IndyMac). That’s the
bank Mnuchin and his billionaire posse picked up on the
cheap in 2009 before carrying out a vast set of foreclosures
on the homes of ordinary Americans (including active-duty
servicemen and -women) and reselling it for hundreds of
millions of dollars in personal profits.
At the Federal Reserve, Trump’s selection for chairman,
Jerome Powell (another Mnuchin pick), has repeatedly
expressed his disinterest in bank regulations. To him, too-
big-to-fail banks are a thing of the past. And to round out
this heady crew, there’s Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) head Mick Mulvaney now also at the helm of the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), whose
very existence he’s mocked.
In time, we’ll come to a reckoning with this era of
Trumpian finance. Meanwhile, however, the agenda of
these men (and they are all men) could lead to a financial
crisis of the first order. So here’s a little rundown on them:
what drives them and how they are blindly taking the
economy onto distinctly treacherous ground.
Joseph Otting, Office of the Comptroller
of the Currency
The Office of the Comptroller is responsible for ensuring
that banks operate in a secure and reasonable manner,
provide equal access to their services, treat customers
properly, and adhere to the laws of the land as well as
federal regulations.
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As for Joseph Otting, though the Senate confirmed him as
the new head of the OCC in November, four key senators
called him “highly unqualified for [the] job.” He will run
an agency whose history snakes back to the Civil War.
Established by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it was
meant to safeguard the solidity and viability of the banking
system. Its leader remains charged with preventing bank-
caused financial crashes, not enabling them.
Fast forward to the 1990s when Otting held a ranking
position at Union Bank NA, overseeing its lending
practices to medium-sized companies. From there he
transitioned to U.S. Bancorp, where he was tasked with
building its middle-market business (covering companies
with $50 million to $1 billion in annual revenues) as part
of that lender’s expansion in California.
In 2010, Otting was hired as CEO of OneWest (now
owned by CIT Group). During his time there with
Mnuchin, OneWest foreclosed on about 36,000 people and
was faced with sweeping allegations of abusive foreclosure
practices for which it was fined $89 million. Otting
received $10.5 million in an employment contract payout
when terminated by CIT in 2015. As Senator Sherrod
Brown tweeted all too accurately during his confirmation
hearings in the Senate,
"Joseph Otting is yet another bank exec
who profited off the financial crisis who is
being rewarded by the Trump
Administration with a powerful job
overseeing our nation’s banking system."
Like Trump and Mnuchin, Otting has never held public
office. He is, however, an enthusiastic proponent of
loosening lending regulations. Not only is he against
reinstating Glass-Steagall, but he also wants to weaken the
“Volcker Rule,” a part of the Dodd-Frank Act that was
meant to place restrictions on various kinds of speculative
transactions by banks that might not benefit their
customers.
Jay Clayton, the Securities and
Exchange Commission
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was
established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
1934, in the wake of the crash of 1929 and in the midst of
the Great Depression. Its intention was to protect investors
by certifying that the securities business operated in a fair,
transparent, and legal manner. Admittedly, its first head,
Joseph Kennedy (President John F. Kennedy’s father),
wasn’t exactly a beacon of virtue. He had helped raise
contributions for Roosevelt’s election campaign even
while under suspicion for alleged bootlegging and other
illicit activities.
Since May 2017, the SEC has been run by Jay Clayton, a
top Wall Street lawyer. Following law school, he
eventually made partner at the elite legal firm Sullivan &
Cromwell. After the 2008 financial crisis, Clayton was
deeply involved in dealing with the companies that tanked
as that crisis began. He advised Barclays during its
acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ assets and then
represented Bear Stearns when JPMorgan Chase acquired
it.
In the three years before he became head of the SEC,
Clayton represented eight of the 10 largest Wall Street
banks, institutions that were then regularly being
investigated and charged with securities violations by the
very agency Clayton now heads. He and his wife happen to
hold assets valued at between $12 million and $47 million
in some of those very institutions.
Not surprisingly in this administration (or any other recent
one), Clayton also has solid Goldman Sachs ties. On at
least seven occasions between 2007 and 2014, he advised
Goldman directly or represented its corporate clients in
their initial public offerings. Recently, Goldman
Sachs requested that the SEC release it from having to
report its lobbying activities or payments because, it
claimed, they didn’t make up a large enough percentage of
its assets to be worth the bother. (Don’t be surprised when
the agency agrees.)
Clayton’s main accomplishment so far has been to
significantly reduce oversight activities. SEC penalties, for
instance, fell by 15.5% to $3.5 billion during the first year
of the Trump administration. The SEC also issued
enforcement actions against only 62 public companies in
2017, a 33% decline from the previous year. Perhaps you
won’t then be surprised to learn that its enforcement
division has an estimated 100 unfilled investigative and
supervisory positions, while it has also trimmed its wish
list for new regulatory provisions. As for Dodd-Frank,
Clayton insists he won’t “attack” it, but thinks it should be
“looked” at.
Mick Mulvaney, the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau and the Office of
Management and Budget
As a congressman from South Carolina, ultra-conservative
Republican Mick Mulvaney, dubbed “Mick the Knife,”
once even labeled himself a “right-wing nut job.” Chosen
by President Trump in November 2016 to run the Office of
Management and Budget, he was confirmed by Congress
last February.
As he said during his confirmation hearings, “Each day,
families across our nation make disciplined choices about
how to spend their hard-earned money, and the federal
government should exercise the same discretion that hard-
working Americans do every day.” As soon as he was at
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the OMB, he took an axe to social programs that help
everyday Americans. He was instrumental in creating the
GOP tax plan that will add up to $1.5 trillion to the
country’s debt in order to provide major tax breaks to
corporations and wealthy individuals. He was also a key
figure in selling the plan to the media.
When Richard Cordray resigned as head of the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau in November, Trump
promptly selected Mick the Knife for that role,
undercutting the deputy director Cordray had appointed to
the post. After much debate and a court order in his favor,
Mulvaney grabbed a box of Dunkin' Donuts and headed
over from his OMB office adjacent to the White House. So
even though he’s got a new job, Mulvaney is never far
from Trump’s reach.
The problem for the rest of us: Mulvaney loathes the
CFPB, an agency he once called “a joke.” While he can’t
unilaterally demolish it, he’s already obstructed its ability
to enforce its government mandates. Soon after Trump
appointed him, he imposed a 30-day freeze on hiring and
similarly froze all further rule-making and regulatory
actions.
In his latest effort to undermine American consumers, he’s
working to defund the CFPB. He just sent the Federal
Reserve a letter stating that, “for the second quarter of
fiscal year 2018, the Bureau is requesting $0.” That
doesn’t bode well for American consumers.
Jerome “Jay” Powell, Federal Reserve
Thanks to the Senate confirmation of his selection for
chairman of the board, Donald Trump now owns the Fed,
too. The former number two man under Janet Yellen,
Jerome Powell will be running the Fed, come Monday
morning, February 5th.
Established in 1913 during President Woodrow Wilson’s
administration, the Fed’s official mission is to “promote a
safe, sound, competitive, and accessible banking system.”
In reality, it’s acted more like that system’s main drug
dealer in recent years. In the wake of the 2007-2008
financial crisis, in addition to buying trillions of dollars in
bonds (a strategy called “quantitative easing,” or QE), the
Fed supplied four of the biggest Wall Street banks with an
injection of $7.8 trillion in secret loans. The move was
meant to stimulate the economy, but really, it coddled the
banks.
Powell’s monetary policy undoubtedly won’t represent a
startling change from that of previous head Janet Yellen,
or her predecessor, Ben Bernanke. History shows that
Powell has repeatedly voted for pumping financial markets
with Federal Reserve funds and, despite displaying
reservations about the practice of quantitative easing, he
always voted in favor of it, too. What makes his
nomination out of the ordinary, though, is that he’s a
trained lawyer, not an economist.
Powell is assuming the helm at a time when deregulation is
central to the White House’s economic and financial
strategy. Keep in mind that he will also have a role in
choosing and guiding future Fed appointments. (At
present, the Fed has the smallest number of sitting
governors in its history.) The first such appointee, private
equity investor Randal Quarles, already approved as the
Fed’s vice chairman for supervision, is another major
deregulator.
Powell will be able to steer banking system decisions in
other ways. In recent Senate testimony, he confirmed his
deregulatory predisposition. In that vein, the Fed has
already announced that it seeks to loosen the capital
requirements big banks need to put behind their riskier
assets and activities. This will, it claims, allow them to
more freely make loans to Main Street, in case a decade of
cheap money wasn’t enough of an incentive.
The Emperor Has No Rules
Nearly every regulatory institution in Trumpville tasked
with monitoring the financial system is now run by
someone who once profited from bending or breaking its
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rules. Historically, severe financial crises tend to erupt
after periods of lax oversight and loose banking
regulations. By filling America’s key institutions with
representatives of just such negligence, Trump has
effectively hired a team of financial arsonists.
Naturally, Wall Street views Trump’s chosen ones with
glee. Amid the present financial euphoria of the stock
market, big bank stock prices have soared. But one thing
is certain: when the next crisis comes, it will leave the last
meltdown in the shade because our financial system is, at
its core, unreformed and without adult supervision. Banks
not only remain too big to fail but are still growing, while
this government pushes policies guaranteed to put us all at
risk again.
There’s a pattern to this: first, there’s a crash; then comes a
period of remorse and talk of reform; and eventually
comes the great forgetting. As time passes, markets rise,
greed becomes good, and Wall Street begins to champion
more deregulation. The government attracts deregulatory
enthusiasts and then, of course, there’s another crash,
millions suffer, and remorse returns.
Ominously, we’re now in the deregulation stage following
the bull run. We know what comes next, just not when.
Count on one thing: it won’t be pretty.
 Wyden Threatens To Release Other
Classified Info If Nunes Intel Memo Is Released
Kerry Picket - Reporter
8:40 AM 02/01/2018

Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden threatened whole thread or ask before making wild
Wednesday to release sensitive and classified information accusations.”
if the House Intelligence Committee’s majority memo is
released to the public.
Wyden’s remark comes in the wake of reports that the
memo, written by Republican staffers and members on the
committee, which describes how the FBI conducted its
probe of the Clinton email case and Russia investigation,
could be released at any point this week. The bureau
claimed that the agency has “grave concerns” over making
the memo public.

Democrats on the Committee, particularly ranking member

California Rep. Adam Schiff, say Committee Chair Devin
Nunes altered the memo after the committee voted to
“If this memo comes out, I have a long list of
release the memo to the public.
less sensitive, but still classified, information
that the American people deserve to see,” he
tweeted to his followers. “Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes
made material changes to the memo he sent to
White House — changes not approved by the
Wyden spokesman Keith Chu disputed the Oregon
Committee. White House therefore reviewing a
Democrat was threatening to release anything telling the
document the Committee has not approved for
Daily Caller in an e-mail statement,
release,” Nunes said in a statement Wednesday
night.
“You’ve misread Sen. Wyden’s tweet. Wyden is
pledging to ramp up his 17-year fight to stop
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy,
government from abusing the classification
however, noted that the FISA memo “will be
system through secret law. Please read his
embarrassing” to Schiff.

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 Twitter Censorship CRUSHED
As Conservatives Send #Fullofschiff Hashtag VIRAL
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 9:46 Am

The hashtag #FullofSchiff began

trending Thursday following Rep. Adam
Schiff’s latest attempt to discredit the
FISA abuse memo set for release today.
Conservatives from across America and
beyond are fighting back after the
California Democrat claimed
Wednesday evening that House
Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes
made secret “material changes,” to the
memo without the consent of
congressional investigators.

Credit: @thebradfordfile

Shortly after Schiff’s tweet, the Washington Examiner‘s

Byron York set the record straight. The “material
changes,” were in fact mere “‘grammatical and clarifying’
fixes,” along with a modification requested by Democrats.

As has been the case since Schiff began fighting against

the memo’s release, his false alarmist tactic was squished
like a bug.

Missed Schiff hitting the panic button last night? The

California Democrat tweeted this Wednesday evening:

“BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that

Chairman Nunes made material changes to
the memo he sent to White House –
changes not approved by the Committee.
White House therefore reviewing a
document the Committee has not approved
for release.”
“On FBI-requested change to House Intel
memo, remember that Nunes showed
memo to Wray on Sunday, to two FBI
officials on Monday, and WH showed to
five more FBI officials on Tuesday. Not

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 shocking that change would be made to
address FBI concerns,” added York.

Infowars Editor-at-Large Paul Joseph Watson lent a huge

helping hand to the cause.

“It would be awful if #FullofSchiff began

trending,” tweeted Watson.
“On re-vote: Committee can just do it
Monday, with White House release
immediately after. World won’t end. OTOH,
Congress often does not make members
re-vote on ‘technical and conforming’
changes. If these changes go beyond that,
they can re-vote.”

Tired of the Schiff’s smears, leaks and lies,

Conservatives launched the Twitter
hashtag #FullOfSchiff.
Watson also pointed out the hashtag no longer trends on
Independent journalist and author Jack Posobiec kicked his end.
things off.
“#FullOfSchiff was trending. Presumably,
“Get #FullOfSchiff trending!” Twitter intervened.”
tweeted Posobiec.

GOP insider Arthur Schwartz let the House Intelligence

Committee member have it, tweeting “Desperate &
pathetic leaker @RepAdamSchiff is going to have a rough
day. Because he’s #FullofSchiff.”

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 RebelTV host John Cardillo called on his follower to
get #FullofSchiff trending.

“Hey all, #FullofSchiff needs to trend. It’s

nowhere near popular enough considering
how perfectly it fits,” tweeted Cardillo.

Former Trump state campaign official James Brower

discovered Twitter appears to be censoring the hashtag.

Donald Trump Jr. helped blast the hashtag into viral

territory, tweeting an article about Schiff claiming the
memo was altered.

Trump surrogate Scott Presler called Schiff out on his lies.

Author Kevin Jackson tweeted, I’m sure

#FullOfSchiff @AdamSchiffCA will claim
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 that Russian BOTS are the reason he’s
trending!”

“Do we really trust this guy to tell us what is

good for our country? I didn’t vote for
President Schiff.. #FullofSchiff
#ReleaseTheMemo,” tweeted the founder
of New Right US.
Radio host Mike Opelka chimed in, “Happy
to help, #FullOfSchiff — can we add
#SchiffForBrains?”

The founder of New Right US also raised concerns about

the hashtag possibly being suppressed.
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 Trump’s Dismal State Of The Union
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
1-31-2018
Trump heads a neocon infested police state, a fantasy
democracy, a warrior nation waging endless wars of
aggression, raping and destroying one country after
another - exploiting people at home and abroad, wanting
dominance over all other nations.
On Tuesday, he delivered his first State of the Union
address. The White House website promoted it, posting
propaganda, suppressing reality, saying:
“President Donald J. Trump Is Promoting
Free, Fair, and Reciprocal Trade.”
His administration wants US corporate predators
benefitting at the expense of foreign interests.
“President Donald J. Trump’s Foreign
Policy Puts America First.”
He’s waging war on humanity, seeking US global
dominance, uncaring about the nation’s most
underprivileged.
“President Donald J. Trump Will Rebuild
American Infrastructure and Forge a Path
Towards Greater Prosperity.”
His $1.5 trillion plan over the net decade involves
privatizing state assets, letting corporate predators and
investors profit at the expense of ordinary people - cutting
social services to help pay for it, including Medicare,
Medicaid and maybe Social Security - how he’s helping to
finance his great GOP tax cut heist.
“President Donald J. Trump Is Reshaping
the Government.”
He filled his administration with neocons, hawkish
generals, crooked billionaires, Wall Street predators, and
other corporate insiders.
Instead of draining the Washington swamp, he filled it to
overflowing.
“President Donald J. Trump’s ‘American
Model’ Economy.”
It’s modeled exclusively for the nation’s privileged few at
the expense of most others.
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“President Donald J. Trump Wants
Immigration That Makes America Stronger
and Safer.”
Referring to the “shame of the union,” the ACLU called
his anti-immigration agenda “hateful,” dressed up in lofty
rhetoric fooling no one.
He gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents
“free rein to terrorize immigrant
communities who’ve worked hard to build
lives here.”
He “cultivat(ed) a climate of fear” in the country,
breaching constitutional rights.
“President Donald J. Trump Protects
America Through Lawful Detention of
Terrorists.”
Terrorists ‘R us. State terrorism defines Washington’s
agenda at home and abroad - including use of ISIS and
like-minded groups as imperial foot soldiers.
Trump supports what he vowed to combat and eliminate.
He’s a war criminal belonging in prison, not high office,
not president of the United States, not commander-and-
chief with his finger on the nuclear trigger he may be
itching to squeeze.
His public addresses make painful listening - his remarks
belying his deplorable agenda, shameful, disgraceful,
lawless, harmful to countless millions worldwide.
He lied claiming
“(o)ver the last year, we have made
incredible progress and achieved
extraordinary success” –
for privileged interests exclusively, ordinary Americans
and others worldwide harmed grievously.
His address repeated earlier duplicitous claims about the
economy, overall state of the nation, an American dream
more nightmarish than real for most people, and a future
perhaps ended by nuclear war he may wage.
His war on regulations permits unfettered corporate
predation, risking ecocide. He failed to end Big Pharma
price-gouging as promised. He lied saying “(p)rices will
come down.” They’re increasing as anyone refilling
prescriptions knows.
His administration continues unfair trade practices.
Offshoring jobs to low-wage countries continues unabated.
He lied claiming otherwise.
“The era of economic surrender is over,” he
roared. The “era of economic” exploitation
of workers continues unrestrained.
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Trump’s entire address was a recitation of unfulfilled
promises, dirty business as usual continuing on his watch,
the state of the nation and world more dismal since he took
office - testimony to US ruthlessness and indifference to
the rights and needs of ordinary people everywhere.
His deplorable first year in office was beautiful for
America’s privileged class alone, dismal for humanity -
risking its demise if he squeezes the nuclear trigger,
waging endless wars of aggression for unchallenged US
global dominance.
 Anti-Trump FBI Officials Sought
'To Get Around' Rule To Keep Texts
By Paul Bedard
Feb 1, 2018, 9:51 AM
The J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Building
is seen in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn
Kaster)
In a new and potentially explosive revelation, the two pro-
Clinton, anti-Trump officials at the center of a growing
scandal at the agency were eager to “get around” rules
requiring the preservation of their phone texts and even
sought to get different phones that would make that easier.
What’s more, according to newly released texts between
former agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page,
ignoring the archiving rules was widely accepted
throughout the Obama government.
In new texts between the two released Thursday by the
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee, Page wrote that she was to get an Apple
iPhone, likely from the FBI’s IT director.
Texted Strzok: “Hot damn. I’m happy to
pilot that...we get around our
security/monitoring issues?”
Page: “No, he’s proposing that we just stop
following them. Apparently the requirement
to capture texts came from omb, but we’re
the only org (I’m told) who is following that
rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it
why should we.”
While it is unclear if the iPhones were private or
government, the committee raised concerns of a plot to
avoid rules to capture official correspondence by using
non-government phones.
Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, in a letter dated
January 31 to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
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said, “According to text messages produced to the
committee, Ms. Page and Mr. Strzok make references to
communicating with other FBI employees via text
message, phone call, email and voicemail. Additional text
messages suggest that FBI officials used non-official email
accounts and messaging programs to communicate about
official business.”
Strzok was pushed out of the agency after the biased texts
became public, including one in which he called Trump an
"idiot."
The committee is still trying to determine the context, but
the two have been at the center of one of the FBI’s
controversies linking the probe of Hillary Rodham
Clinton’s private email system and the probe into Russian
influence of the 2016 election. In their texts, they spouted
pro-Clinton, anti-Trump feelings.
The committee has sought all of their texts and two weeks
ago were advised that many were missing. The Justice
Inspector General’s office, however, has found a way to
recover many.
The indication that they tried to hide their texts is alarming
and prompted Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, to
demand more from Justice and the FBI.
In his letter laying out the issue, he demanded texts,
emails, iPhone messages and voicemails dating back to
January 1, 2015 and related to the Clinton and Russia
probe, from 16 current and former officials, including the
FBI IT chief, Page, Strzok, former FBI Director James
Comey, and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe,
who left the agency this week.
McCabe was mentioned in the new texts as somebody,
according to Page,
“had a terrible time with his phone
[redacted] which made him concerned for
our folks all over the place.”
She added about her Samsung phone,
“These phones suck as much as they do
because of the program we use to capture
texts, full stop.”
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TRUMP WH Deputy Press Secretary: President Will Make
Announcement Today – Congress Will Release
FISA Memo (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018, 9:59 Am
Deputy White House Press Secretary
Raj Shah went on with Stuart Varney on
Thursday morning to discuss the much
anticipated release of the House
Intelligence FISA memo.
Raj Shah said the President will be briefed today and will
make a decision on the classified memo.
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Then after President Trump makes his
decision Congress will release the
memo.
Raj Shah: This is fundamentally a legislative document
and a legislative process. They voted this out of
committee. We as a White House will consider anything
the House Intelligence Committee were to vote out and
work it through the same process… We believe again the
public has a right to know. Again this is a legislative
document. We will give it back to the legislature and they
would make a call on how to release it.
 MSNBC’s Joy Reid Is Now SHILLING For MS-13 After
Attacking President Trump For Using Words Such As
Church And Family
Alex Thomas
February 1st, 2018

First off. In no way shape or form did President Trump say

MS-13 was the “biggest” issue in America, that claim is all
in the head of Reid and Reid alone. Secondly, MS-13 is
incredibly dangerous and has killed an untold number of
American citizens and people across the world. How
someone could appear on television and seemingly defend
them while attacking the American people is beyond me.

Amazingly, this shilling for MS-13 came around the same

time that Reid was actually triggered by the president
using words such as church and family.

While this seems insane to a normal person, it actually

Another day, another example of the extreme anti- makes sense when you consider the anti-family agenda of
American sentiment running through parts of the the globalist world order.
Democratic Party as MSNBC’s Joy Reid not only attacked
the president for using seemingly normal words such as
church and family but also spent time directly shilling for
the murderous illegal immigrant gang known as MS-13.

That’s right, not content with attacking the very idea of

America, Reid used her on air time during the networks
coverage of the State of the Union address to laughably
claim that no one has ever heard of MS-13 unless they
watch Fox News. Or, in other words, MS-13 isn’t actually
a danger to Americans and should be left alone.
“This is not satire. I repeat this is not a
Fox News reports: satirical piece. Joy Reid was actually
triggered and angered by the use of the
During MSNBC’s coverage of the State of words family, church, police, and military. If
the Union, Reid mocked the president’s this is not direct proof of hardcore anti-
remarks while analyzing the speech with American, pro-globalist sentiment I don’t
“Hardball” host Chris Matthews. know what is,” I reported at the time.
“He gives a speech tonight, in which he
makes it sound like the biggest issue in the Paul Joseph Watson also noted the insanity:
United States, the biggest threat is MS-13,
a gang nobody that doesn’t watch Fox Yes, you read that right. Reid is literally
News has ever heard of. So he makes it upset that Trump used the words church,
sound like they’re the biggest threat.” family, police, military and the national
Reid said Trump simply mentioned the anthem during his address to lawmakers.
deadly gang to accommodate the
“audience he wants applause from.”
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the night, and there was no shortage of
competition.
Twitter users took Reid to task for her
apparent unease with every day words and
‘American as apple pie’ concepts.
“No, Joy, the Left is so out of touch you
don’t even recognize normal when you see
it,” responded one.
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It has become strikingly clear that hard-left deep state
puppets such as Reid are becoming more and more bold in
their anti-American proclamations at a time when the
mainstream media has been willing to cheer on literally
anyone that “stands against” Donald Trump.
One has to wonder how long it will take some Democrats,
and, more importantly, independents, to realize that the
Democratic Party of yesterday no longer exists and has
been replaced by one that openly puts the needs of illegal
immigrants in front of the American people?
 THEY’RE FREAKED OUT=> Pelosi Calls
On Speaker Ryan To Remove Nunes As Chair And
End Deep State Probe
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018, 10:16 Am
Minority Leader Pelosi Calls on Speaker
Ryan to Remove Devin Nunes and End
Deep State Probe
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DEMOCRATS ARE IN PANIC MODE–
It’s interesting that the Democrats AND
Deep State are both absolutely in panic
mode over this Nunes FISA memo.
Pelosi Sends Letter to Speaker Ryan
Calling for Removal of Chairman Nunes
and End to House Republicans’ Partisan
Charade
Washington, D.C. – Today, Democratic Leader Nancy
Pelosi sent a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan demanding the
removal of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes
after it was revealed that he altered the contents of a
reckless, partisan memo released to the White House after
it had already been voted on by the Committee and
presented to House Members. Chairman Nunes’ action is a
violation of House rules and is part of a partisan pattern to
discredit the investigations into the Trump-Russia scandal.
Both the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of
Investigation have warned against the release of Nunes’
memo, stating grave concerns about the accuracy of the
memo and its misrepresentation of classified information.
Leader Pelosi wrote,
“Chairman Nunes’ deliberately dishonest
actions make him unfit to serve as
Chairman, and he must be immediately
removed from this position… House
Republicans’ pattern of obstruction and
cover-up to hide the truth about the Trump-
Russia scandal represents a threat to our
intelligence and our national security… It is
long overdue that you, as Speaker, put an
end to this charade and hold Chairman
Nunes and all Congressional Republicans
accountable to the oath they have taken to
support and defend the Constitution, and
protect the American people.”
 UNHINGED: Nancy Pelosi DEMANDS Speaker Ryan
REMOVE Devin Nunes From Chair Of House Intel
Committee As DEEP STATE DEMS’ Panic Continues
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 1, 2018
Critics have lashed out at Democrats and their media allies
for working to conceal a report that has major implications
for the American people
(National Sentinel) Fat Chance: House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded on Thursday that House
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., remove Rep. Devin Nunes, R-
Calif., as head of the House Intelligence Committee as
rumors swirled that President Donald J. Trump would
release the so-called “FISA memo” on Friday.
“@DevinNunes’ deliberately dishonest actions
make him unfit to serve as Chairman of the
House Intelligence Committee. @SpeakerRyan
must immediately remove him from this
position,” she tweeted, with a #RemoveNunes
hashtag.
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“Today, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a
letter to Speaker Paul Ryan demanding the
removal of House Intelligence Chairman Devin
Nunes after it was revealed that he altered the
contents of a reckless, partisan memo released
to the White House after it had already been
voted on by the Committee and presented to
House Members,” said a statement from the
House minority leader’s office.
“Chairman Nunes’ action is a violation of House
rules and is part of a partisan pattern to
discredit the investigations into the Trump-
Russia scandal. Both the Department of Justice
and Federal Bureau of Investigation have
warned against the release of Nunes’ memo,
stating grave concerns about the accuracy of
the memo and its misrepresentation of
classified information,” the statement said.
Nunes has pushed back against allegations he somehow
made secret, substantive changes to the FISA memo in
conjunction with the White House.
“Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for
information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to
see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections
to allowing the American people to see
information related to surveillance abuses at
these agencies,” Nunes said in a statement
posted to the committee’s website.
“The FBI is intimately familiar with ‘material
omissions’ with respect to their presentations to
both Congress and the courts, and they are
welcome to make public, to the greatest extent
possible, all the information they have on these
abuses,” he continued.
“Regardless, it’s clear that top officials used
unverified information in a court document to
fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during
an American political campaign. Once the truth
 gets out, we can begin taking steps to ensure The film is a drama about how the Washington Post
our intelligence agencies and courts are never pushed back against federal government threats to publish
misused like this again.” the Pentagon Papers, which showed that the Johnson
administration lied about the depth and scope of America’s
Critics have lashed out at Democrats and their media allies involvement in Vietnam.
for working to conceal a report that has major implications
for the American people, especially as the movie “The
Post” remains in theaters.
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 STUNNING ADMISSION: James Clapper Admits Steele
Dossier Was Used For FISA Surveillance
“Extension” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 10:49 Am

In a stunning admission to CNN‘s Jake “extension” of a previous application for FISA-702

Tapper Wednesday, former Director of surveillance.
National Intelligence James Clapper
admitted the Steele dossier was used
for an extension of FISA surveillance.
“As I understand it, this was simply an
extension of the original FISA request.
Meaning that, or implying, that apparently,
there was information that was considered
valuable that was being obtained, via the
initial FISA request,” Clapper told Tapper.

In the very same interview, Clapper praises the dossier’s

author, former British intelligence officer Christopher
Steele. Clapper then reveals U.S. intelligence agencies
used the discredited document to corroborate its findings.
The admission should come as concerning as Steele
recently told a court that document contains “limited
intelligence.”

Steele also admitted part of “his final December memo,”

Conservative Tree House points outs: was unvetted.

As much as he is a stuttering doofus, and
therein showcases his political value for the
former administration; and to the extent
that Clapper has previously stated there
was no attempt by the DOJ/FBI to gain a
FISA authorized approval for surveillance
on any Trump campaign officials: “none
that I’m aware of“; …it is always valuable to
listen to Clapper because he has a
tendency to, well, to let slip stuff that makes
the black hats cringe.
Cue the audio visual “slippage.” Inside tonight’s interview
by Jake Tapper, former DNI James Clapper now
unwittingly refutes his previous assertion of “no Trump
FISA warrant“, and simultaneously lets it slip out that the
Clinton/Steele dossier was not used in gaining origination
authority for FISA-702 surveillance, but rather for an
“Such intelligence was not actively sought;
it was merely received,” Steele added.
The dossier contains explosive, but unverified, opposition
research that alleges intel ties between Russia and Trump
and also claims Russia holds blackmail material over
Trump.
In what was the second major “leak,” to come from the
FISA abuse memo, a new report reveals Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein signed off on an application to
extend surveillance of Trump campaign official Carter
Page.
In June, The Gateway Pundit reported, Page sent a request
to Rosenstein seeking the release of information used to
allegedly obtain a FISA warrant to monitor his
communications.

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Page, a former investment banker, was a foreign policy The Daily Beast recently reported former FBI Director
advisor to the Trump campaign. James Comey, bureau Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are
officially named in the “shocking” FISA abuse memo.
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 Major Garrett: Memo Will Be Sent Back To House Intel
Committee Friday With Redactions From WH –
Committee To Release On Its Timetable
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018, 11:02 Am

“Administration officials tell me

THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC–
Trump supporters want the FISA memo released to the
public immediately, however; the FBI and DOJ are
fiercely fighting to delegitimize the document and delay
the release.
House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is under
heavy fire from the Deep State and Dems as he fights to
expose the FISA abuse that took place under the Obama
administration.
#GOPMemo will be sent back to House
Intelligence Committee on Friday with
redactions from the #WH based on internal
consultations w @FBI & other agencies.
WH will not “release” memo but send it
back to committee for it to release on its
timetable”

Crazy Pelosi is so desperate that she called on House

Speaker Paul Ryan to remove Chairman Nunes on
Thursday!

The Democrats are pulling out all the stops to prevent the
FISA memo from being released.

Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) hit the panic button late

Wednesday evening.

Schiff says because the memo was “secretly altered” it

cannot be released to the public. WOW he is desperate!

Rumors were swirling the FISA memo would be released
Thursday, now sources are saying maybe Friday. That is if
the House Intel Committee releases it Friday says CBS’s
Major Garrett.
CBS’s Major Garrett tweeted,
It turns out the changes were just grammatical errors, one
change by the FBI and another request by the Minority
Committee.
Release the memo now and clean house at the FBI and
DOJ!

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 Trump Approves Release Of FISA Memo
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
11:23 AM 02/01/2018

After the president’s approval the memo will be

transferred back to the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence who will then publicly release it. Trump
reviewed the memo after the committee voted to declassify
the memo Monday. Administration officials insisted the
memo was undergoing a thorough national security review
before any decision on its release.

President Donald Trump has approved the release of a

classified memo compiled by House Republicans on the
intelligence committee, clearing the way for its release
Friday, multiple outlets report.

The document allegedly contains proof that some of the

top officials in the Obama-era national security
establishment abused their authority to obtain surveillance
warrants on members of the Trump 2016 campaign.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin
Nunes assembled the memo with fellow Intel committee
members and staff based on classified information turned
over by the FBI and the DOJ.

The memo will be released with some technical redactions

requested by the FBI, which continues to object to the
“As expressed during our initial review, we
document’s release. House rules dictate that the legislature
have grave concerns about material omissions
can vote to declassify material in the public interest
of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s
stipulating the president must approve its release within 5
accuracy,” the bureau said in a rare public
days.
statement Wednesday.

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 Report: House Intel Source Says Nunes Edits To FISA
Memo Were Made BEFORE Vote To Release
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 11:43 Am

In his unrelenting efforts to keep the

FISA abuse memo classified, has Dem
Rep. Adam Schiff been caught in his
biggest lie yet?

The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross tweeted Thursday that a
House Intelligence Committee Republican told him the
edits were made to the memo prior to the vote. This new
information contradicts Schiff’s claim about the memo
being altered after it was released. It also raises questions
if Schiff even read the reported edits made prior to voting
on its release.
Another question that comes to mind is, how many edits
were made?
In a letter published Wednesday night, Schiff claimed the
memo was altered after the House Intelligence Committee
voted for its release.
Missed Schiff hitting the panic button last night? The
California Democrat tweeted this Wednesday evening:

“BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that

Chairman Nunes made material changes to
the memo he sent to White House –
changes not approved by the Committee.
White House therefore reviewing a
document the Committee has not approved
for release.”

“A House Intel Committee Republican

source is telling me that edits to the FISA
memo were made *before* the committee
voted to release. Suggests maybe
Democrats didn’t see the changes, which
source says were “minor” edits,” tweeted
Ross.
“Reading Schiff’s letter closely, he alleges
that Nunes “secretly altered” the memo
between when it was made available to
Congress on Jan. 18 and when it was
provided to the White House,” Ross added.

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Shortly after Schiff’s tweet, the Washington Examiner‘s
Byron York set the record straight. The “material
changes,” were in fact mere “‘grammatical and clarifying’
fixes,” along with a modification requested by Democrats.

But it is not clear from York’s

statements when these edits were
made.

“On re-vote: Committee can just do it

Monday, with White House release
immediately after. World won’t end. OTOH,
Congress often does not make members
re-vote on ‘technical and conforming’
changes. If these changes go beyond that,
they can re-vote.”

“On FBI-requested change to House Intel

memo, remember that Nunes showed
memo to Wray on Sunday, to two FBI
officials on Monday, and WH showed to
five more FBI officials on Tuesday. Not
shocking that change would be made to
address FBI concerns,” added York.
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 BREAKING: Sen. Ron Johnson Demands OBAMA,
HILLARY, COMEY & McCABE EMAILS After Strzok-
Page Texts Raise RED FLAGS
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 12:25 Pm
In a letter sent Thursday, Senate
Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson
(R-WI) is demanding Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein produce
additional texts and emails from 16 FBI
Additional text messages sent and received by disgraced
FBI agent Peter Strzok were recently handed over to
Congress, reported the AP.
Buried in the report are text messages between Strzok and
FBI lawyer Lisa Page discussing how hackers likely
obtained an email exchange between then-President
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The exchange was later covered-up by the FBI after the
incident was removed from Comey’s closing statement on
Clinton’s email investigation.
AP reports:
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officials, including former FBI Director
James Comey and Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe.
Johnson has asked for the
communications due to concerns that
private phones were used to conduct
government business. Johnson also
asked for emails exchanged between
former President Obama and Hillary
Clinton, while the then-Secretary of
State was reportedly in “territory of
a sophisticated adversary.”
Credit: ABC News
One of the messages references a change
in language to Comey’s statement closing
out the email case involving Clinton,
Trump’s Democratic opponent in the 2016
presidential election. While an earlier draft
of the statement said Clinton and President
Barack Obama had an email exchange
while Clinton was “on the territory” of a
hostile adversary, the reference to Obama
was at first changed to “senior government
official” and then omitted entirely in the final
version.
A day after the New York Times reported FBI Director
Christopher Wray confronted outgoing Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe over unspecified findings in Horowitz’s
report, the Washington Post revealed the embattled bureau
official is being probed over his role in examining emails
found on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
Johnson’s letter follows another report revealing McCabe
delayed notifying Congress of Hillary Clinton emails
discovered on ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
Wall Street Journal reports:
Top FBI officials were aware for at least a month before
alerting Congress that emails potentially related to an
investigation of Hillary Clinton had emerged during a key
.
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stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to text
messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had learned about the
thousands of emails by Sept. 28, 2016, and Director James
Comey informed Congress about them on Oct. 28, 11 days
before the presidential election, the messages show.
Reporter Sara A. Carter told Fox News host Sean Hannity
Monday evening that Michael Horowitz, Justice
Department Inspector General, is investigating whether or
not outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe asked
bureau agents to “change their 302s.”
 Eric Holder PANICS Over FISA Abuse Memo –
Trashes Chairman Nunes In Unhinged Tweetstorm
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018, 12:31 Pm

THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC–

Trump supporters want the FISA memo released to the

public immediately, however; the FBI and DOJ are
fiercely fighting to delegitimize the document and delay
the release.

Former Attorney General Eric ‘Fast and Furious’

Holder came unhinged over the FISA memo Wednesday
and trashed Chairman Nunes.
Eric Holder then tweeted out the FBI’s statement regarding
God Bless Chairman Nunes for taking all of the arrows the FISA memo, “From the FBI about the Nunes memo:”
from the Deep State. He has been fighting to expose the
unmasking scandal for nearly a year.

Eric Holder, like many other Obama-era criminals knows

this FISA memo will expose the corruption at top levels of
DOJ and FBI.

Holder first tweeted,

“People must understand what is at stake

by release of the bogus, contrived Nunes
memo. It uses normally protected material
and puts at risk our intell capabilities in
order to derail a legitimate criminal
investigation. This is unheard of- it is
dangerous and it is irresponsible”

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Eric Holder appeared to accept that the memo will be
released whether he likes it or not. Perhaps Holder realized
that he is no longer the AG and will only be remembered
as the first AG to be held in contempt of Congress.
The FISA memo will be sent to the House Intel Committee
Holder tweeted, Friday with redactions from the White House. The
Committee will then release the memo on its timetable,
“If the Nunes nonsense gets released – reports CBS’s Major Garrett.
unbelievable – then, in some proper way,
the Schiff analysis must also be shared Watching lunatic Democrats like Eric Holder screeching
with the public. Republicans on the on Twitter about the FISA memo is a friendly reminder
Committee have a duty to the American that the demons scream the loudest when they are being
people that outweighs their desire to exorcised.
protect a corrupt process and individuals.”
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 Mika SHUTS DOWN Michael Wolff For
Disproven Trump Affair Rumors [VIDEO]
By Lucian Wintrich By Lucian Wintrich
February 1, 2018, 12:38 Pm

Despite the continued attacks that “Morning Joe”
host Mika Brzezinski has leveled against President Trump
since he took office, Brzezinski apparently found a line
that she was unable to cross: going along with the false
rumors Wolff was spreading about the President’s affair
with a senior official.
When Wolff originally began spreading the false
rumors, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley was a target by the
leftist Internet as the purported woman Wolff was
referencing. He perpetuated those rumors, claiming that
she “embraced” them, while Haley herself fiercely denied
them and called them “disgusting”.
When Wolff went on the trash MSNBC program “Morning
Joe”, Brzezinski finally called him out:
“Come on, are you kidding? You’re on the
set of Morning Joe. We don’t BS here.”
She then gave him the boot.
“I’m sorry, this is awkward, you’re here on
the set with us, but we’re done. Michael
Wolff, thank you.” Mika told the camera,
“We’re gonna go to break now. Bye,
everyone,” and the show cut to
commercial.
Since that disastrous appearance for Wolff, which could
very well lead an end to his career of fabrications
functioning under the guise of “reporting”, Wolff sent out
a “fire and fury” of tweets:

Via Daily Beast:

Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, the

controversial book about Trump’s first year
in office, denied he ever publicly suggested
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley had an affair
with the president.

To that denial, a disgusted Brzezinski replied:

“You might be having a fun time playing a

little game dancing around this, but you’re
slurring a woman. It’s disgraceful.”

When Wolff continued his denial, Brzezinski became

frustrated:

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Wolff’s claims that he did not reference Haley in his work
of fiction were quickly corrected by another Twitter user,
even more interesting is that it is a leftist Twitter user, the
Washington Post book critic: Could this be the end of Michael Wolff’s deceptive book
and rise to prominence among the left?

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 Morning Joe Panel Pulls 180,
Turns On Michael Wolff
By Bill D'Agostino
February 1, 2018 12:02 PM EST
On Thursday, the panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe dog
piled author Michael Wolff for propagating an unfounded
rumor that President Trump had been having an affair with
his ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley. The
confrontation became so heated that the show’s co-anchor
Mika Brzezinski eventually cut the interview short and
asked Wolff to leave.
Michael Wolff became a media fixation in January upon
publishing his anti-Trump book, Fire and Fury: Inside
the Trump White House. Following the controversial
book’s release, he appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill
Maher, where he claimed that President Trump was having
an affair. Although he did not identify the President’s
supposed mistress in the book, readers have surmised that
he was subtly pointing to Haley, whom the book describes
as having spent considerable time alone with Trump
aboard Air Force One. Ambassador Haley has soundly
denied this rumor.
After a brief discussion about Mark Corallo, the
spokesman for the President’s legal team during the 2016
election, political strategist Susan Del Percio turned the
conversation on the Morning Joe set to the issue of
Wolff’s the allegations about Haley:
“After a lot of rumors came out, it was
speculation that you meant Nikki Haley and
you said she's embraced it.”
Del Percio asked whether Wolff found it inappropriate to
“go after her without any evidence, without
any facts. It just seems that is so
irresponsible.” Wolff denied that he’d gone
after Haley. “Certainly what I meant was I
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found it puzzling that she would deny
something she was not accused of.”
Mika Brzezinski then joined the fray, attacking not just the
allegation but the entirety of Wolff’s book:
“Let’s put this next question on the entire
credibility of your book, which was written
really quickly.” “Excuse me?” asked a
perturbed Wolff. “Your book,” she snapped.
“Let’s put it on this next question. Do you
regret inferring anything about Nikki
Haley?”
Wolff once again denied having implied anything about
Haley, which led to a brief back-and-forth in which
Brzezinski repeatedly leveled the same accusation and
Wolff continuously denied it.
Finally, Brzezinski lost her patience:
“Are you kidding? You're on the set of
Morning Joe. We don't BS here.”
When Wolff responded with a request that Brzezinski read
him the language of the quote she had been referring to,
she abruptly ended the segment.
The interview was a far cry from Morning Joe’s previous
coverage of Wolff’s book. In early January, Scarborough
vehemently defended Fire and Fury against critics.
“Through the weekend you would find
somebody who’d say, ‘Oh, that's not true,’
as if that’s going to discredit the entire
book,” he reasoned. “...When the truth is, we
all know the portrait painted by Michael
Wolff’s book is deadly accurate.”
At the time, Brzezinski was in full agreement.
“If it rings true, it is true,” she quipped.
Curiously, on Thursday, Scarborough raised no objection
when his co-host asserted that the credibility of Wolff’s
entire book rested on the veracity of his claims about Nikki
Haley.
 REPORT: FBI Director Wray Demanding
ALL NAMES REDACTED From FISA Memo
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 12:55 Pm

Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter
reports FBI Director Christopher Wray,
along with the Justice Department, are
pressuring the White House to redact all
names in the FISA abuse memo prior to
its release.
and the Department of Justice to try to force the president
to delay the release of the memo. And they’re doing this to
buy time, according to sources that I’ve spoken with so
that they can leak information to try to find a way to either
discredit the memo or placate the members of the DOJ that
don’t want to see this released.

Via Hannity:

“BREAKING: @FBI Director Christopher

Wray and DOJ wants all names redacted
from #FISAMemo putting pressure on
White House and House Intelligence
Committee, Government officials say … is
releasing names a threat to national
security?” tweeted Carter.
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino
pointed out that it is “Ironic that the FBI is
battling to “mask” the names of government
officials involved in the unmasking of
Trump team officials in an illicit spying
operation.”

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Carter told

Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday that there was a
CBS News contributor Fran Townsend reported Thursday
concerted effort by the intelligence community to block
that Wray has prepared a full rebuttal of the memo if
the release of the memo.
released by the Trump administration.
According to earlier reports, five FBI officials visited the
“I think we have to remember the Nunes
White House this week and revised the House intelligence
memo is an advocacy piece. It’s not a fact
memo.
piece. This is Chairman Nunes’ summary
of what he believes the abuses are. For
Sara Carter: It appears there is a concerted effort on the that reason, it’s one-sided,” Townsend told
part of the FBI, members of the intelligence community CBS News.
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 MEMO COMING…FBI In
PANIC Mode As RELEASE Is Imminent
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 1, 2018
Fox News was told the memo was “drafted deliberately to
eliminate national security information”
(National Sentinel) Deep State: A four-page memo written
by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that
reportedly details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court by Obama-era officials in the FBI and
Justice Department is likely to be released on
Thursday, The Associated Press is reporting, quoting a
Trump administration official.
Earlier, the FBI and Justice Department both said they
have “grave concerns” about the memo’s release, which
many believe will show how the Obama administration,
using DOJ operatives, used a bogus opposition research
document — the “Trump dossier” — to improperly obtain
.
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a surveillance warrant to spy on President Donald J.
Trump’s campaign.
“The FBI was provided a limited opportunity to
review this memo the day before the committee
voted to release it,” the FBI said in a statement.
“As expressed during our initial review, we have
grave concerns about material omissions of fact
that fundamentally impact the memo’s
accuracy.”
But Fox News reported earlier this week that two FBI
officials — one from the counterintelligence division and
another from the legal division — cleared the memo,
stating they found “no factual inaccuracies” in the memo
and that releasing it that releasing it won’t compromise
national security.
Fox News was told the memo was “drafted deliberately to
eliminate national security information” that could be
damaging if viewed by individuals outside of Congress.
Update: 12:59 CST: Fox News is reporting that
the White House is planning on releasing the
memo Friday morning….developing…
 BOOM! Atlanta Fed Upgrades
Trump First Quarter GDP To 5.4%
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018, 1:53 Pm
Since his inauguration President Trump has focused his
efforts on the security of the country and on the prosperity
of its economy.
The results of his actions are historic.
The US GDP has increased each quarter
in 2017 with the 3rd Quarter GDP
increasing to $19.496 trillion – the
highest GDP for any country in world
history.
On the other hand, the President has curtailed US
spending.
The result is that the US Debt to GDP
ratio has decreased year to date from
105% to 104%.
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No President in more than 50 year years
has decreased the Debt to GDP ratio in
his first year in office by more than 1%.
The stock market has set 99 new records since Donald
Trump won the presidential election in 2016.
The stock market is up over 40% since his stunning
victory.
Now this…
The Atlanta Fed upgraded the US first-
quarter GDP growth to above 5%.
To put this in perspective — Barack
Obama never pulled off a single year
ABOVE 3% GDP growth.
Reuters reported:
The U.S. economy is on track to grow at a
5.4 percent annualized rate in the first
quarter following the latest data on
manufacturing and construction spending,
the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow
forecast model showed on Thursday.
The latest estimate on gross domestic
product was faster than the 4.2 percent
growth pace calculated on Monday, the
Atlanta Fed said.
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Meghan Mccain Schools ‘View’
Co-Hosts After They Slam Trump’s Approval Ratings
Katie Jerkovich - Entertainment Reporter
2:19 PM 02/01/2018

anyway was to dismantle all of the social

institutions that have kept people afloat all these
years. That will happen. That will be something
that will be a result of these tax cuts and
because you get a $20 raise a week, you’re
ready to throw the whole country under the
bus? Really? Come on.”

Whoopi Goldberg responded by saying the Democrats are

Meghan McCain schooled her co-hosts on “The View”
Thursday when they tried to downplay President Donald
Trump’s approval rating jumping by 10 points after the
State of the Union.
“I think he’s a very good publicity person for
himself,” guest co-host Yvettee Nicole Brown
first posed. “I believe he has no problem
speaking up about things great in the country
whether they were because of him or not and I
think that most people don’t do the research to
find out maybe an economic upswing may have
already been happening before he got in office.”
WATCH:
the party that believes
“I am allowed to be who I am.”
Behar proceeded to slam the poll numbers and said “trust
and believe” Trump will say something stupid pretty soon
and the numbers will go down.”
“With all due respect, we’re in power right now,”
McCain interjected. “We control all three
branches of government. I just told you the
trend is continuing in a pro-Republican trend
and that it’s going down.”
“What you’re saying to me is ‘Republicans, you
have all the problems, you have all the
problems, impeach Trump.’ At a certain point,
you are going to have to look inside your own
party.”

“Well, it’s the tax cuts I think mostly doing it,”

Joy Behar added. “People are running up a
deficit because they’re giving tax cuts to very,
very, very wealthy people and that will lead to
cuts in medicare and social security which is
what Republicans have always wanted to do
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 UPDATE: White House Snubs Deep State –
Says They Will Release Memo Without Redactions –
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018, 2:26 Pm
TRUMP SNUBS DEEP STATE
REQUESTS — WILL RELEASE FISA
MEMO WITHOUT REDACTIONS
As reported earlier by Josh Caplan at TGP — Fox News
contributor Sara A. Carter reported earlier FBI Director
Christopher Wray, along with the Justice Department, are
pressuring the White House to redact all names in the
FISA abuse memo prior to its release.
Democrats, the FBI and Deep State want President Trump
to hide the names of the FISA abusers on the House
Intelligence FISA memo.
.
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But the Trump White House told reporters on Thursday the
memo will be released without redactions.
The Examiner reported:
President Trump is expected to approve
the release of a classified memo
spearheaded by the staff of House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes.
According to a Thursday afternoon pool
report, a White House official confirmed
upon arrival to West Virginia that the
president “has read the memo.”
Trump will declassify the controversial four-page memo
that reportedly details surveillance abuses by the
Department of Justice and FBI, and send it back to House
Intelligence for a Friday morning release.
“The president is OK with it,” a senior
administration official told reporters. “I
doubt there will be any redactions. It’s
in Congress’ hands after that.”
 Stephen King Celebrates Train
Crash Involving Republican Lawmakers
“My Friend Russ Calls That Karma”
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
February 1, 2018

After an immediate backlash, the author followed up by

tweeting,

“Of COURSE sorry the truck driver died.”

Respondents expressed their outrage.

“There was a fatality in that wreck. But, yeah,

laugh it up,” tweeted one.

“Was it karma when that van hit you?” asked

Writer Stephen King has stoked controversy another, referring to a 2000 incident when King
by appearing to welcome the train crash
was struck by a truck, leaving him with multiple
yesterday involving Republican lawmakers,
injuries which almost cost him his leg.
tweeting that the accident was “karma”.
“Wow…you people. Its responses like this that
The chartered train collided with a garbage truck yesterday
will keep folks like me, who are on the fence, to
morning in Virginia, killing one person. The train was
pull the Red lever moving forward,” responded
carrying House and Senate Republicans to a retreat in
Jed Hohlfeld.
West Virginia. No lawmakers or staff members were
injured.
In appearing to celebrate the train wreck, King is following
the example of numerous other leftists who tweeted their
“A trainload of Republicans on their way to a pleasure at the accident as soon as the news broke.
pricey retreat hit a garbage truck. My friend
Russ calls that karma,” King tweeted earlier
today. Liberal author and CNN contributor Jonathan Tasini
responded to the crash by tweeting,

“God is working hard today to clean up the

stink.”

CNN later claimed to have nothing to do with Tasini,

despite Tasini describing himself as a “CNN talking head”
in his own bio, and pinning a video in which he appeared
on CNN to the top of his Twitter profile.

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 GOP Rep: FISA Memo Will Show How Obama Officials,
Hillary Clinton And DNC Weaponized FBI To
Target Political Adversaries
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018, 2:38 Pm

“Having read “The Memo,” the FBI is right

The Deep State and FBI are in overdrive to have “grave concerns” – as it will shake
to prevent the FISA memo from being the organization down to its core – showing
released to the public. Americans just how the agency was
weaponized by the Obama
In a last ditch effort, the FBI is pulling officials/DNC/HRC to target political
out all the stops to either delay the adversaries.” #ReleaseTheMemo
release, delegitimize the memo or redact
names from the document.
On Thursday, GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-
SC) said after reading the FISA memo, it
is clear the FBI will be shaken to the
core. Duncan also said the memo will
reveal the FBI was weaponized by
Obama officials, the DNC and Hillary
Clinton to target political adversaries.

The FISA memo will be sent to the House Intel Committee

Friday with redactions from the White House. The
Committee will then release the memo on its timetable,
reports CBS’s Major Garrett.

Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter reported Thursday

FBI Director Christopher Wray, along with the Justice
Department, are pressuring the White House to redact all
names in the FISA abuse memo prior to its release.

GOP Rep Jeff Duncan said, Release the memo without redacting names and let the
chips fall where they may.

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 Ghoulish: Stephen King
Calls Deadly GOP Trainwreck ‘Karma’
By Corinne Weaver
February 1, 2018 3:10 PM EST
Reality is darker and scarier than fiction.
Novelist Stephen King took a page out of his own books
on February 1 when he decided to comment on
Wednesday’s train wreck in Charlottesville. The train was
carrying a number of GOP lawmakers was headed to
a retreat in West Virginia. It hit a garbage truck, killing
one person in the truck and injuring many others.
In a tweet, Stephen King posted:
“A trainload of Republicans on their way to a
pricey retreat hit a garbage truck. My friend
Russ calls that karma.”
In the aftermath of the tweet, King tried to make his
comment better by saying,
“Of COURSE sorry the truck driver died.”
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But he did not retract his previous statement.
In the past, King has banned President Donald Trump from
seeing films based on his books, including It and Mr.
Mercedes. While in 2015, King referred to the GOP
candidates running for president as “a horror story,” the
real horror story is the fact that King sees no problem in
calling a deadly train accident “karma.”
In addition, given that Stephen King has a net worth to the
tune of $400 million, the author has no business
whatsoever criticizing the “pricey retreat” that GOP
lawmakers were headed to. Then again, the man literally
wrote an essay titled “Tax Me For *&%$’s Sake!”
Jonathan Tasini, an author who had penned columns for
CNN, tweeted about the train wreck yesterday, “Wow,
btwn train full of Goopers hitting truck and this, God is
working hard today to clean up the stink. Thank her.
#TreyGowdy #goptrainwreck.” Eventually, Tasini deleted
his tweet. But the sentiment seems to remain, especially
since CNN has not commented on this statement,
according to Fox News.
 WOW! New Strzok-Page Texts Suggest Intent To
“Copy/Take Classified” Information
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 3:30 Pm
Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter
reports newly-released text messages
exchanged between FBI agents Peter
Strzok and Lisa Page reveals
discussions about purchasing Apple
iPhones to bypass “government
collection,” systems. During one of their
exchanges, Strzok tells Page, “If I want
to copy/take classified, I’m sure as hell
not going to do it on this phone.”
Carter reports:
“According to text messages produced by
the committee, Ms. Page and Mr. Strzok
make references to communicating with
other FBI employees via text message,
phone call, email, and voice mail,” stated
Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Ron
Johnson, in a letter dated Jan. 31, to
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
“Additional text messages suggest that FBI
officials used non-official email accounts
and messaging programs to communicate
about official business.”
Here’s a portion of the text messages:
Credit: ABC News
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Strzok: “Hot damn. I’m happy to pilot
that…we get around our
security/monitoring issues?”
Page: “No, he’s proposing that we just stop
following them. Apparently, the requirement
to capture texts came from omb, but we’re
the only org (I’m told) who is following that
rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it
why should we.”
Page: Helps that Dd had a terrible time with
his phone [redacted] which made him
concerned for our folks all over the place.
Page: These phones suck as much as they
do because of the program we use to
capture texts, full stop.
Strzok: No doubt.
Strzok: I’m not convinced short of OPR,
that text capture capability really deters
anything.
Strzok: If I want to copy/take classified,
I’m sure as hell not going to do it on this
phone.
In the above text messages, Strzok’s reference to “Dd” is
possibly referring to Deputy Director Andrew McCabe,
per Johnson’s letter’s footnote.
In the same letter, Johnson asked Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein produce additional texts and emails from
16 FBI officials, including former FBI Director James
Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Johnson has asked for the communications due to concerns
that private phones were used to conduct government
business. Johnson also asked for emails
exchanged between former President Obama and Hillary
Clinton, while the then-Secretary of State was reportedly
in “territory of a sophisticated adversary.”
This isn’t the first instance where Strzok and Page have
discussed funny business pertaining to information.
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte joined Fox
News‘ Maria Bartiromo Sunday to discuss the latest about
the Strzok-Page text message saga. During their
discussion, Bartiromo says she was told texts between the
two FBI agents spoke of the intent to “destroy evidence.”
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“After the election, they talked about this
secret society, did they also talk about
destroying evidence?” asked Bartiromo.
Before the Republican lawmaker could reply, the “Sunday
Morning Futures” host followed up with a stunner, saying,
“I’m told there are some texts that
haven’t been released yet about ‘we
gotta get our hands on the hard drive or
we gotta get our hands on the thumb
drive’.”
Sidestepping the question, Rep. Goodlatte replied,
“Well, there is certainly a lot of questions
about things we do know about, with regard
to the earlier investigation, led by former
Director Comey, where evidence was
destroyed, before anybody outside of the
FBI could get a look at it.”
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 Did Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
Deliberately DELAY Probing New Classified Clinton
Emails Found Weeks Before 2016 Election?
By JD Heyes
02/01/2018
The more that fair-minded Americans learn about the
activities and behavior of certain FBI and Justice
Department officials who were obviously aligned against
President Donald J. Trump during the 2016 election, the
more they begin to believe there really are two sets of
rules: One set for “us” and one set for “them,” with ‘them’
being the Deep State elite.
One of them, apparently, is former FBI deputy director
Andrew McCabe; he was removed from his post on
Monday after his boss, FBI Director Christopher Wray,
reportedly went to Capitol Hill the day before to read a
classified House Intelligence Committee memorandum
that may detail abuses of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court by McCabe and other FBI officials.
As Newstarget reported on Wednesday, it’s also possible
that McCabe took actions in the weeks immediately before
the November 2016 election to protect Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton.
According to additional reporting, McCabe was informed
in late September or early October that FBI agents
involved in a separate investigation into former U.S. Rep.
Anthony Weiner, then-husband of top Hillary aide Huma
Abedin, discovered additional classified emails belonging
to or originating from the Democratic nominee on
Weiner’s laptop.
As the Washington Post noted further:
The Justice Department’s inspector general has
been focused for months on why Andrew
McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI,
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appeared not to act for about three weeks on a
request to examine a batch of Hillary Clinton-
related emails found in the latter stages of the
2016 election campaign, according to people
familiar with the matter.
The inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, has
been asking witnesses why FBI leadership
seemed unwilling to move forward on the
examination of emails found on the laptop of
former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
until late October — about three weeks after
first being alerted to the issue, according to
these people, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
By slowing down or slow-walking a new probe into those
emails, McCabe could serve as the gatekeeper against
information that could prove damaging to Hillary’s
election chances, as the Post further noted: “A key
question of the internal investigation is whether McCabe
or anyone else at the FBI wanted to avoid taking action on
the laptop findings until after the Nov. 8 election, these
people said. It is unclear whether the inspector general has
reached any conclusions on that point.”
You may recall that in the weeks before the election, it was
none other than McCabe’s boss at the time, James Comey,
who actually announced that the bureau was looking into
additional classified emails tied to Hillary Clinton just 11
days before the November 2016 election, a decision he
would later defend. A week later the FBI would close the
investigation, announcing that no wrongdoing had been
found.
Was Comey referencing the Weiner laptop emails? We
don’t know. (Related: Deep State unraveling as FBI deputy
director McCabe resigns amid “insurance policy” scandal:
#ReleaseTheMemo.)
What we do know is that just days before the election, as
Natural News reported, the FBI wasn’t permitted to
examine the Weiner laptop due to immunity deals the
bureau passed out to just about everyone involved in
helping Hillary Clinton violate the Espionage Act — and
that included Huma Abedin.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal at the time,
investigators discovered 650,000 emails on a laptop "that
they believe was used" by Weiner and Abedin, with
"underlying metadata" suggesting that "thousands of those
messages could have been sent to or from" Clinton's
private server.
.
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Those emails had to be the ones that Comey was
referencing. The immunity deal also explains why no
charges were filed and the probe was closed just a week
later.
As for McCabe, he was right in the middle of all of this; as
the Post noted, he was notified weeks in advance of the
existence of the Weiner laptop emails.
But he didn’t act on them, at least, not quickly. The
question is, why not?
 FAKE NEWS: CNN Botches Report About
FBI Director Christopher Wray Amid FISA Firestorm
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018

The latest concern surrounding the FISA

memo is that FBI Director Christopher Wray
may resign if the White House releases the
document. Or is it?

“FBI Director Wray has no intention of quitting if

controversial House memo is released, despite
objections, senior FBI official tells Peter
Williams,” reported NBC News.

CNN reports:

Top White House aides are worried FBI Director

Christopher Wray could quit if the highly
controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI
abused its surveillance tools is released,
multiple sources with knowledge of the situation
tell CNN. […] Wray’s stance is “raising hell,”
one source familiar with the matter said. […]
One person briefed on the matter said the
White House believes that redactions could
cure the problem, given the White House plan is
to approve the release of the memo and leave it
up to Nunes’ committee to officially release the
document. But it is not clear redactions will be
enough to satisfy concerns at the FBI,
according to other officials, because their
concerns are that substantial omissions make
the document inaccurate, which is something
redactions won’t address.

Not so fast, CNN. NBC News reports Wray has
“has no intention of quitting if controversial
House Intel memo is released despite his
objections.”
CNN’s report comes on the heels of Fox News contributor
Sara A. Carter reporting Wray, along with the Justice
Department, are pressuring the White House to redact all
names in the FISA abuse memo prior to its release.

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 “BREAKING: @FBI Director Christopher Wray
and DOJ wants all names redacted
from #FISAMemo putting pressure on White
House and House Intelligence Committee,
Government officials say … is releasing names
a threat to national security?” tweeted Carter.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Carter told
Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday that there was a
concerted effort by the intelligence community to block
the release of the memo.
According to earlier reports five FBI officials visited the
White House this week and revised the House intelligence
memo.
Sara Carter: It appears there is a concerted effort on the
part of the FBI, members of the intelligence community
and the Department of Justice to try to force the president
to delay the release of the memo. And they’re doing this to
buy time, according to sources that I’ve spoken with so
that they can leak information to try to find a way to either
discredit the memo or placate the members of the DOJ that
don’t want to see this released.
Via Hannity:
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CBS News contributor Fran Townsend reported Thursday
that Wray has prepared a full rebuttal of the memo if
released by the Trump administration.
“I think we have to remember the Nunes memo
is an advocacy piece. It’s not a fact piece. This
is Chairman Nunes’ summary of what he
believes the abuses are. For that reason, it’s
one-sided,” Townsend told CBS News.
As noted by The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft, Fox News
correspondent Catherine Herridge reported on Monday
that FBI Director Christopher Wray viewed the explosive
FISA memo this weekend.
Fox News reporter Chad Pergram tweeted,
“Colleague Catherine Herridge reports FBI
Director Christopher Wray went to Capitol Hill
Sunday to view the four page memo on FISA
abuses.”
 MONICA CROWLEY: This Is The First Of Several
Memos To Be Released – “There Is Worse Coming
Down The Pike” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018

Monica Crowley then dropped a bombshell…

THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC–
Trump supporters want the FISA memo released to the
public immediately, however; the FBI and DOJ are
fiercely fighting to delegitimize the document and delay
the release.
“I also understand from some very good
sources that this is the first of several memos
so as bad as this memo might be, my
understanding is there is worse coming down
the pike.”

The FBI is in panic mode; the memo must be devastating. VIDEO via FOX Business:

There’s more…

FOX News contributor Monica Crowley appeared on FOX

Business early Thursday morning and said this is the first
of several memos to be released. Not only are there several
more memos, Crowley said her sources are saying

“there is worse coming down the pike”.

This memo is sure to rock the FBI to its core says GOP
Rep Jeff Duncan (R-SC). Duncan said on Thursday the
memo will

“show Americans just how the agency was

weaponized by the Obama officials/DNC/HRC
to target political adversaries”.

The FISA memo will be sent to the House Intel Committee

Friday with redactions from the White House. The
“This memo is about origination,”Crowley Committee will then release the memo on its timetable,
began. reports CBS’s Major Garrett.

“From what I’m hearing from my sources, this is Release the memo without redacting names and let the
about how this FISA warrant came into being chips fall where they may.
and why and how it got approved and why and
how it was used,” Crowley continued.
.

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 CNN Panelist: Releasing The Memo
Is A 'Constitutional Abomination'
By Ryan Foley
February 1, 2018 5:04 PM EST
During a discussion on CNN’s Wolf Thursday afternoon,
former Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Wehle referred to the
decision to release the so-called “mystery memo” that
details surveillance abuse by the FBI as a “Constitutional
abomination” and “a scam on the American public.”
The panel went on to discuss a statement from former CIA
Director John Brennan, who criticized the “political
partisan behavior” of the House Republicans and the
“absence of moral and ethical leadership in Washington.”
If only Brennan had the courage to speak up about the
“political partisan behavior” that took place in Washington
during his tenure, such as the IRS scandal.
The media spent all day Thursday trying to convince its
viewers that the President and the Republicans want to
release the memo as part of their effort to paint the Russia
probe as a partisan witch hunt. At the same time, the media
has encouraged its viewers to dismiss the contents of the
memo because of its partisan origins.
It looks like soon the American people will have the ability
to take a look at the memo and decide for themselves.
Here's the relevant transcript from CNN's Wolf on
February 1, 2018:
WOLF BLITZER: For the President to ignore the strong words
coming from his Justice Department, from the FBI, men that he
named who are both Republicans.
KIM WEHLE: Absolutely. I’m also a Constitutional Law professor
and I worked on Ken Starr’s Whitewater investigation. And I
would say this is really a constitutional abomination and
potentially a scam on the American public in that we have a three
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part system of government and the challenges here in the memo
are to a judge’s decision to issue a warrant. That’s a judicial
determination by an Article III judge and an Article II prosecutor
making a determination to present that to the judge. So, in, in the
memo itself, we know was actually created by a member of
Congress. This is not some kind of factual piece of evidence that,
they was in a file somewhere that actually demonstrates real-time
information. This was a memo created by a partisan branch of, of
the government. And so, the American people, regardless of
which side they are on the aisle have to understand, this has
severe consequences, potentially, to the integrity of our
separation of powers. I mean, Paul Ryan has said “this is about
accountability” and this is not how accountability works in our
tripartite structure of government.
BLITZER: As you know Molly, the President, he wants people to
be loyal to him, and now we’ve been reporting that back in
December, he asked the Deputy Attorney General. CNN is
reporting that the President asked Rod Rosenstein, Deputy
Attorney General, if he was “on my team.” “Are you on my team?”
That sounds like he’s seeking some sort of loyalty test.
MOLLY BALL: Well, and it wouldn’t be the first time, right? That’s
what he did to Comey, according to Comey’s allegation. The
whole “who did you vote for”, with I believe McCabe. So this is
obviously a repeated pattern, this is Trump’s obsession. He
wants people who he thinks work for him, serve him primarily.
When somebody seems to be loyal instead, to, to the law like Jeff
Sessions recusing himself, Trump gets very angry at that and
sees that as disloyalty. And so what is the potential end game
here? We know, based on reporting last week, that Trump has
already has tried to fire Mueller and was convinced that would be
a disaster. Above all, it would be a political problem for him. So, if
this memo comes out, and he manages to convince a large
enough swath of the American public that the whole investigation
is dirty, potentially, that means perhaps that he believes that he
can then fire Mueller with a clean conscience.
BLITZER: Let me read to you and to our viewers, Jim, what the
former CIA director John Brennan is now saying. He’s blasting
Republicans for wanting to release this controversial memo. “I
had many fights with Congressional Dems, Democrats, over the
years on national security matters. But I never witnessed the type
of reckless partisan behavior I am now seeing from Nunes and
House Republicans. Absence of moral and ethical leadership is
why it’s fueling this government crisis. Let me repeat that.
Absence of moral and ethical leadership in the White House is
fueling this government crisis. Those are serious, serious words.
 “Deep State At Its Most Frightening”: Judge Napolitano
Hints NSA Behind Delay Of FISA Memo Release
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 5:21 Pm

In an op-ed for Fox News Wednesday, Judge
Napolitano wrote he believes the House
Intelligence Committee delayed releasing
the FISA memo over concerns it would
thwart efforts to boost surveillance powers
of U.S. intelligence agencies. Who was
behind efforts to force Congress to delay
the memo’s release? The National Security
Agency, hinted Napolitano.
unseen parts of the government that are not
authorized by the Constitution and that
never change, no matter which party
controls the legislative or executive branch.
This time, they almost blew it. If just one
conscientious senator had changed her or
his vote on the FISA expansion — had that
senator known of the NSA and FBI abuses
of FISA concealed by the House Intelligence
Committee — the expansion would have
failed.”

“If the GOP memo is as advertised we’ll see the

deep state at its most frightening,” says
Napolitano.

Last week, Napolitano suggested lawmakers bypass the

political brinksmanship and release the memo by reading it
on the House floor.

“…release it there because the constitution

protects anything that is said there,” Napolitano
Judge Napolitano writes: told Fox News.

“Ignorant of the hot potato on which the House

Intelligence Committee had been sitting,
Congress recently passed and President
Donald Trump signed a vast expansion of
spying authorities,” Napolitano wrote in a
Wednesday op-ed. “The FISA expansion would
never have passed the Senate had the House
Intelligence Committee memo and the data on
which it is based come to light seven days
sooner than it did.”

“Why should 22 members of a House

committee keep their 500-plus congressional
colleagues in the dark about domestic spying Despite the FBI and Justice Department’s best efforts, the
abuses while those colleagues were debating latest reports suggest the White House will likely release
the very subject matter of domestic spying and the memo on Friday.
voting to expand the power of those who have
abused it?” Napolitano added. […] Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter reports FBI Director
Christopher Wray, along with the Justice Department, are
The NSA shows its might to the legislators pressuring the White House to redact all names in the
who supposedly regulate it. In reality, the FISA abuse memo prior to its release.
NSA regulates them,” Napolitano wrote. “This
is but one facet of the deep state — the
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 “BREAKING: @FBI Director Christopher Wray
and DOJ wants all names redacted
from #FISAMemo putting pressure on White
House and House Intelligence Committee,
Government officials say … is releasing names
a threat to national security?” tweeted Carter.
Missed Schiff hitting the panic button last night? The
California Democrat tweeted this Wednesday evening:
“BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that
Chairman Nunes made material changes to the
memo he sent to White House – changes not
approved by the Committee. White House
therefore reviewing a document the Committee
has not approved for release.”

“The president is OK with it,” a senior White

House official told the press Thursday.

“I doubt there will be any redactions. It’s in

Congress’ hands after that,” the official added.

House Intelligence Committee Democrats, such as Rep.

Adam Schiff (D-CA), are also waging their best effort to
keep the memo under warps.

In a letter published Thursday night, the California

lawmaker claimed House Intelligence Committee
chairman Devin Nunes altered the memo after the panel
voted for its release.
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 Crooked Cop Comey Fires Off Panicked Tweet As FBI
Fiercely Fights To Prevent FISA Memo
From Being Released
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018, 5:35 Pm

James Comey is a delusional man.

THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC–
Comey tweeted,
The Deep State and FBI are in overdrive to prevent the
FISA memo from being released to the public. “All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I
wish more of our leaders would. But take heart:
In a last ditch effort, the FBI is pulling out all the stops to American history shows that, in the long run,
either delay the release, delegitimize the memo or redact weasels and liars never hold the field, so long
names from the document. as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or
streets named for Joe McCarthy.”
The corruption in the FBI is about to be exposed; GOP
Rep Jeff Duncan (R-SC) says the FISA memo will reveal
the FBI was weaponized by Obama officials, the DNC and
Hillary Clinton to target political adversaries.

Former FBI Director James Comey fired off a panicked

tweet Thursday evening because he knows he’s in hot
water.

Yes, Comey, in the long run weasels and liars never hold
field which is why you and your partners-in-crime such as
Andrew McCabe, James Baker and James Rybicki have
been driven out of their positions at the FBI.

Comey of course was praising FBI Director Christopher

Wray for pushing back on the release of the FISA memo.

Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter reported Thursday

Comey is panicking. Instead of his usual cryptic
philosophical quotes or holier-than-thou Bible verses, the
fired FBI Director went on the attack and even compared
President Trump or perhaps Chairman Nunes to former
Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Former Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy was known
for sounding the alarm on Communists who had infiltrated
many different American institutions including the
government. Today, the term ‘McCarthyism’ refers to a
person who makes unsubstantiated claims and publicly
attacks a political opponent’s patriotism.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, along with the Justice
Department, are pressuring the White House to redact all
names in the FISA abuse memo prior to its release.
CNN also reported FBI Director Wray was “raising hell”
over the FISA memo and may quit if the memo is released
to the public ultimately exposing the corruption in top FBI
brass.
NBC News smacked down CNN’s report. NBC reported
Wray has

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 “has no intention of quitting if controversial The Trump White House told reporters on Thursday the
House Intel memo is released despite his memo will be released without redactions.
objections.”

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 CBS Buries Own Poll Result That
Shows 43 Percent Of Dems Liked Trump’s Speech
By Geoffrey Dickens
February 1, 2018 5:52 PM EST

Curiously, that 43 percent figure did not appear on the

January 31 editions of CBS This Morning or CBS Evening
News. That data point also did not show up in this January
30 CBSNews.com article on the poll results.

In fact, the only mention of the poll results, on CBS’s

broadcast programs, came in a 17-second brief by co-host
John Dickerson on the January 31 edition of CBS This
Morning:

JOHN DICKERSON: A CBS news poll

According to a CBS News/YouGov poll a pretty
impressive 43 percent of Democrats approved of Donald
Trump’s State of the Union speech. However, you
wouldn’t know this if you only watched the next day’s
editions of CBS This Morning or CBS Evening News.
So far, only CBS’s streaming service CBSN has revealed
that number. CBSN’s Anne-Marie Green, on January 31,
reported the following:
shows three out of four Americans who
saw the speech approve of the president’s
message. Eight in ten Americans who
watched say they believe Mr. Trump was
trying to unite the country rather than divide
it. The audience, according to our poll, was
42 percent Republican, and 25 percent
Democrat.

ANNE-MARIE GREEN: So we’re following the latest

reaction to President Trump’s State of the Union speech.
In a CBS News poll most Republicans watching the speech
overwhelmingly approved of the President’s message.
While 43 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of
independents said that they approved of the speech.

An accompanying graphic to Green’s report showed that,

among speech watchers, 97 percent of Republicans
approved of Trump’s speech, with 72 percent of
independents approving of it, and 43 percent of Democrats
liking it.

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 GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz CLUBS Adam Schiff, Says FISA
Memo Changes Were “Merely A Syntax Change With
Almost No Significance” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018

A) Unknown number of ‘grammatical and

THE DEEP STATE IS IN DEEP PANIC– clarifying’ fixes.

Just as it was announced that the FISA B) One change requested by FBI due to
memo would likely be released Thursday sources & methods concerns.
according to a White House official, Rep.
Adam Schiff hit the panic button. C) One two-word change requested by
Democrats for accuracy. House Intel GOP
The FBI, DOJ, Deep State, liberal media, and statement”
especially suspected leaker and ranking
member of the House Intel Committee, Now this…
Adam Schiff (D-CA) are fiercely working to
block the FISA memo from being released to
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went on Cavuto on
the public.
Thursday and told Neil the only changes
made to the FISA memo was “merely a
As TGP’s Cristina Laila reported Adam Schiff sent a syntax change with almost no significance.”
panicked letter to Chairman Nunes claiming the FISA
memo was “secretly altered” therefore it must be reviewed
That says it all.
by Committee Minority AGAIN before being released to
the public.
This memo must be truly explosive because
there are a whole lot of deep state players in
A GOP House Intel source responded with a
a complete panic this week.
statement and put old Schiffty in his place.

Byron York of the Washington Examiner reported,

“Just talked with House Intel source. Said total changes to

memo were:

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 How Would Trump Attack North Korea? President
Considering ‘Bloody Nose’ Strike, Reports Say
By John Haltiwanger
2/1/18 At 6:31 PM
The Trump administration is mulling over whether to
conduct a "bloody nose" strike against North Korea,
according to multiple reports, a move that experts warn
could lead to a full-blown conflict.
A "bloody nose" strike would essentially involve a military
action that's limited enough it wouldn't spark a war but
also strong enough it convinces Pyongyang to give up on
its nuclear ambitions.
Trump's advisers are reportedly split on this issue.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary
James Mattis have urged for the president to be cautious
about employing a military option, but national security
adviser H.R. McMaster has pushed for it to be seriously
considered, CNN reported.
This undated picture released from North Korea's official
Korean Central News Agency on January 12, 2014, shows
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the
command of Korean People's Army Unit 534. Getty
Images
The debate over the issue also led the president to walk
back on nominating Victor Cha for ambassador to South
Korea, according to multiple reports. Cha recently wrote
.
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an op-ed for The Washington Post outlining why he
opposed a "bloody nose" strike. "While our population in
Japan might be protected by U.S. missile defenses, the
U.S. population in South Korea, let alone millions of South
Koreans, has no similar active defenses against a barrage
of North Korean artillery (aside from counterfire
artillery)," Cha said.
"To be clear: The president would be putting at risk an
American population the size of a medium-size U.S. city
— Pittsburgh, say, or Cincinnati — on the assumption that
a crazy and undeterrable dictator will be rationally cowed
by a demonstration of U.S. kinetic power," he added.
Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel also warned
against pursuing a "bloody nose" strike in a recent
interview with Military Times, stating the U.S. should be
"smarter" than that and such an attack could ultimately
result in millions of deaths. "If you want to bet that if you
are going to attack North Korea, however you [are] going
to do that, and think that Kim Jong Un and the North
Koreans are not going to retaliate—it’s a pretty big
gamble. I wouldn’t want to take that gamble," Hagel said.
In November, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said a ground
invasion would be necessary to eliminate North Korea's
nuclear weapons, given there's limited intelligence on the
location of its military assets. A "bloody nose" strike, in
and of itself, would not denuclearize the rogue state and
Cha warned it could even "exacerbate" Pyongyang's efforts
to develop nuclear weapons.
North Korea is estimated to possess between 25 to 60
nuclear weapons but it does not yet have the technology
necessary to successfully launch a nuclear-tipped ballistic
missile at the mainland U.S. However, CIA Director Mike
Pompeo recently said the isolated nation is only a "handful
of months" away from reaching this goal.
 GOP Case: FBI Probe Based
On Tainted Evidence Linked To Clinton
By John Solomon
02/01/18 06:43 PM EST
Congressional Republicans are seeking to make the case
that the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s
campaign and possible collusion with Russia was based on
flawed or politically tainted evidence connected to
partisans loyal to Hillary Clinton.
The House Intelligence Committee memo spearheaded by
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) that is the talk of Washington
will be at the center of the argument. The release of that
four-page memo is expected as early as Friday.
Another document — an eight-page criminal referral filed
with the Justice Department by Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — is also part of the GOP case.
While the FBI has been protesting the release of the Nunes
memo, it has been working behind the scenes to vet a
version of the Grassley-Graham memo, which is expected
to be released in redacted form soon. The FBI is also
seeking redactions to the Nunes memo, though it is not
clear the White House or congressional Republicans will
agree to them.
Republicans believe both documents will back up
arguments that evidence used to justify the FBI’s probe
came from partisans loyal to Clinton, sources said. They
are also expected to play into arguments from some
Republicans that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe
into Russia is based on false information.
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Those suggestions have provoked a backlash from
Democrats. Some Republicans have also expressed
concerns, with GOP leaders saying Mueller should be
allowed to continue his work. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-
Wis.) on Tuesday backed releasing the Nunes memo but
also offered support for Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein.
The GOP's arguments that the FBI investigated on flimsy
evidence will zero in on ex-British intelligence operative
Christopher Steele, whose unverified dossier of Trump
allegations gave enormous momentum to the probe during
the bitterly fought 2016 presidential election, say sources
familiar with the memo.
They will argue the FBI failed to critically assess the
political motives and credibility of Steele and did not fully
disclose that evidence came from Clinton supporters as it
sought to get permission from courts for surveillance
warrants.
“The fact that half to three-quarters of the
evidence the FBI used to unleash the most
awesome of surveillance powers upon Donald
Trump’s inner circle came from sources tied
directly to his Democratic opponent should
worry us all, especially when that happened
during an election,” said one senior Republican
directly familiar with the evidence, describing
the party’s core concerns.
“The FBI allowed itself to be used by Clinton
partisans to parlay single-sourced, mostly
unverified evidence into a counterintelligence
probe with clear weaknesses that weren’t
disclosed,” the source added.
Sources in both parties and in law enforcement say the
emergence of Steele and his dossier in the summer of 2016
gave the FBI the jolt to open a full counterintelligence
probe into alleged Trump-Russia collusion.
Steele, a British intelligence officer for decades, had
provided reliable evidence that helped the FBI in a prior
foreign corruption case and his early package of
information contained multiple allegations of Trump-
Russia collusion organized and sourced liked real raw
intelligence, sources said.
So the FBI put great credence in Steele’s work product
when it approached the courts for legal surveillance
authority, even though much of what Steele provided could
not be immediately corroborated, the sources said.
Steele was employed by the research firm Fusion GPS,
which was in turn being paid to do opposition research on
Trump by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic
National Committee (DNC).
Fusion GPS was initially hired by the Washington Free
Beacon, a conservative website backed in part by
Republican donor Paul Singer, to dig into Trump. As
Trump was clinching the GOP nomination, the Free
Beacon told Fusion GPS to stop doing research. Fusion
GPS was then hired by Clinton and the DNC through the
law firm Perkins Coie.
Republican investigators say they have evidence that
Steele first approached the FBI with his allegations on July
5, 2016, the same day then-FBI Director James Comey
announced he would not pursue criminal charges against
Clinton for passing more than 100 classified documents
through her private email server.
Republicans believe the date of Steele's approach to the
FBI is evidence of politics, since his employer was being
paid by a Clinton campaign that for months was angered
by the bureau's probe of the email controversy.
Republican investigators say it is unclear exactly when the
FBI learned that Steele was being paid by Clinton's
campaign. But by late July 2016, just weeks after he first
contacted the FBI, the formal counterintelligence probe
was opened, the sources said.
After Steele came forward, the FBI received information
from a friendly foreign government that also pointed to
possible links between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
The diplomat from Australia heard a Trump campaign aide
named George Papadopoulos boasting in a bar that Russia
was considering the release of damaging emails from
Clinton during the election. The diplomat actually heard
the conversation in May 2016 but it did not get reported to
U.S. authorities until weeks later, after Steele had begun
cooperating with the FBI, the sources said.
The FBI gave credence to the information both because it
came from a trusted foreign source and because emails
hacked from the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign
chairman John Podesta had already leaked onto the
internet, the sources said. The FBI already suspected
Russia was involved in those hacking attacks by the time
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the information was reported by the Australian diplomat,
the sources said.
As the investigation was unfolding, Steele also forwarded
the FBI a new piece of evidence with substantially similar
information as that contained in his dossier. The FBI
learned that information came from a private
investigator with longtime ties to the Clinton inner circle,
according to sources familiar with the evidence.
The sources declined to provide the private investigator's
name, though British papers have suggested a Clinton
supporter named Cody Shearer may have offered Steele
information about Trump and Russia.
Republican investigators say they have developed
evidence that Steele broke off his relationship with the FBI
shortly before Election Day 2016 as he and his employer,
Fusion GPS, began talking to reporters.
The investigators say the bumpy ending was due in part to
the fact that Steele and Fusion GPS were upset the FBI
suddenly reopened the Hillary Clinton email case but did
not seem as invested in the Trump-Russia case. Many
Democrats believe the FBI's reopening of the Clinton
investigation cost her the election.
Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS who hired
Steele, acknowledged to the House Intelligence Committee
in an interview that he and Steele began talking to
reporters because they were angry about the reopening of
the Clinton email case.
"We decided that if James Comey wasn't going
to tell people about this investigation ... we
would only be fair if the world knew that both
candidates were under FBI investigation,"
Simpson testified.
Simpson separately told the Senate Judiciary Committee
that Steele ended his FBI relationship because he was
alarmed by a story in The New York Times on Oct. 31,
2016, that claimed the FBI had looked into ties between
the Trump campaign and Russia but found nothing.
“Chris severed his relationship with the FBI out
of concern that he didn't know what was
happening inside the FBI and there was a
concern that the FBI was being manipulated for
political ends by the Trump people,” Simpson
said.
According to the Republican investigator, the FBI also
developed concerns that either Steele or his employer,
Fusion GPS, were contacting media organizations to
disseminate the very intelligence that was at the heart of its
probe, the sources said.
Simpson, in his testimony, said he and Steele had
conducted off-the-record briefings with reporters in the fall
of 2016, but claimed none of the memos written by Steele
were shown or given to the journalists who attended. The
purpose of the briefings, he said, was to encourage
reporters to ask questions about whether the FBI was in
fact investigating ties between the Trump campaign and
Russia.
Republicans plan to portray the timing of Steele’s
cooperation, its abrupt ending, his connections to the
private investigator, and the Clinton and DNC payments as
prima facie evidence of politically motivated digging
rather than high-quality intelligence worthy of the FBI’s
extensive investigation, the sources said.
Grassley referred Steele to the Justice Department for
contacts he and Fusion GPS had with the media around the
same time he was cooperating with the FBI. Grassley has
asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether
Steele concealed those contacts from the FBI or whether
the FBI knew about the contacts and did not properly
disclose them to Congress or the courts.
The reason the media contacts raised red flags for both
Senate and House GOP investigators is that the FBI used a
.
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fall 2016 news story with allegations of Trump-Russia
collusion that were similar to Steele’s dossier as evidence
to ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to issue
a surveillance warrant against Trump campaign adviser
Carter Page, the sources said.
The sources declined to identify the specific story. An Oct.
31, 2016, story by reporter David Corn in Mother Jones,
however, is the first known story to make mention of
Steele's work.
The Steele dossier, the PI report and the news story “all
seem like independent corroborating evidence” but
Republicans now believe they were
“the fruits of a single politically poisoned tree
planted by Clinton partisans,”
said a source familiar with concerns that are raised in the
House Republican Intelligence panel memo.
“Rather than quality double-sourced
intelligence, it is our conclusion it was nothing
more than thinly veiled, single-sourced political
opposition research masquerading as intel," the
source said.
 This Was Nuts=> Adam Schiff: Russian Ads Promote 2nd
Amendment So We Kill Each Other (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018, 6:45 Pm
Rep. Adam Schiff is a vocal leader in the Democratic Party they’re really glad that we have one,” Schiff
today. said. “The Russians would be thrilled if we were
doing nothing but killing each other every day,
and sadly we are.”
This is despite the fact that the man keeps getting caught in
lie after lie and pushing conspiracy after conspiracy.

On Thursday Democrat Schiff spoke to a crowd at the

University of Pennsylvania.

Schiff told the crowd Russian ads promoted

the Second Amendment during the 2016
election “so we will kill each other.”

NTK Network reported:

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Thursday that

Russia promoted content that supported the
Second Amendment on social media during the
2016 election because they wanted Americans
to kill one another.
“You had the content that was clearly anti-
Hillary, and you had the content that was very
pro-Trump. But even the bigger quantity of
content that was being pushed through social
media was just content designed to pit us
against each other,” Schiff said while speaking
at the University of Pennsylvania.
“They also trumpeted the Second Amendment.
Apparently Russians are very big fans of our
Second Amendment. They don’t particularly
want a Second Amendment of their own, but
This was crazy — AND inaccurate.
Democrats and their #FakeNews media claimed Russia ads
on Facebook flipped the election away from Hillary to
Trump.
Facebook executive Colin Stretch told the
US Senate Judiciary Committee in
November that the total number of those
illegitimate ads are a drop in the ocean —
less than 0.004 percent of all content — or
about 1 in 23,000 news feed items.
Russia didn’t flip the election.

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 MRC’s Bozell: Liberal Media ‘Chose
To Echo’ Dems On SOTU Because ‘They Hate’ Trump
By NB Staff
February 1, 2018 6:54 PM EST

Following up his statement blasting the liberal media’s
reaction to the State of the Union, MRC President Brent
Bozell told the Fox Business Network’s Liz MacDonald
on Thursday night that President Trump “hit three home
runs” talking about America in the mold of Ronald Reagan
while Democrats and the media condemned it because
“they hate” and “despise him.”
“Well, I think that the State of the Union
was single best night of President
Trump's career. Now I say this because
he didn’t hit a home run. He hit three
home runs simultaneously,” Bozell
stated on Risk and Reward after a montage
of ABC journalists and MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews condemning the address.
trying to do in fixing the country,” Bozell
responded: “[T]hey hate him, they
despise him, it’s just — it’s personal
with the press. It’s personal with the
Democrats.”
Bozell concluded that, while the left and their media allies
hated Trump, his speech, and it’s content, the American
people felt differently:
The American people watching it. They
were feeling very good. You showed it with
your numbers. They were feeling very good
about this. They were liking the
commander in chief, they were liking the
executive in the White House. They like the
fact that he was talking to them and he was
using first person plural. He was making a
joint American thing. Look how many times
he talked about America and then the best
line of them all, saying we are dreamers
too. It was beautiful.

Here’s the relevant transcript from FBN’s Risk and

Reward on February 1:

FBN’s Risk and Reward

February 1, 2018
5:45 p.m. Eastern
Bozell ruled that the first was “an
extraordinary speech” and a tone that he [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Risk Alert; Media Bias on SOTU
“should have been doing for a year,” but Address]
shook off “this silly narcissism and went
Ronald Reagan” by talking about the
country as “we” instead of “I” like Barack
Obama and Bill Clinton did.
After his second point about the dour mood
of Democrats on Tuesday, his third point
was the media’s reaction that “could have
echoed public sentiment” that widely
approved of the speech but instead “chose
to echo Democratic position of those
people who were sitting on their
thumbs.”
When MacDonald wondered why “some of GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: One thing is pretty clear, Jon.
the media are still incapable of He did not unify that chamber tonight.
acknowledging what the President is

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JONATHAN KARL: George, I've never seen anything like it.
Right now, the Democrats have basically run for the exits.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: It almost got ugly. Very tough about saying
immigrants are basically killers.
MARTHA RADDATZ: It was also just a particularly gloomy
speech. I mean, he didn't mention the word carnage, but he
talked a lot about carnage. It was a sad speech there at the end
and did not unify.
ELIZABETH MACDONALD: Well, is the media seeing what it
wants to see? Did you watch the speech? Was it gloomy? Or
was it upbeat? You can see the media criticism there of
President Trump’s State of the Union address. It’s a speech
they’re labeling as also divisive. However, look at this. A CBS
poll, 75 percent of viewers approve of the President's speech. 65
percent said, made them feel proud. Let’s bring in Media
Research Center President Brent Bozell What’s going on with
this disconnect here?
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Risk Alert; Trump Speech Media
Bias]
BRENT BOZELL: Well, I think that the State of the Union was
single best night of President Trump's career. Now I say this
because he didn’t hit a home run, he hit three home runs
simultaneously. The first home run, an extraordinary speech. He
did what Donald Trump should have been doing for a year. He
got off this silly narcissism and went Ronald Reagan. Talking
about we, we, we, over a 100 times in juxtaposition to Barack
Obama, who could only talk about himself. Bill Clinton who could
only talk about himself. It was a warm, unifying, positive speech
extolling great American values and the public loved it, home run
number one. Home run number two, the public then saw the
Democrats, sitting on their thumbs, clearly nervous, clearly
disoriented, clearly not knowing what to do because they were
not expecting this knowing that cameras were on them, but they
could not move and they looked — they were exposed for what
they were. That was home run number two. Home run number
.
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three, it became the media reaction to this. The media could
have said, could have echoed public sentiment. 43 percent of
Democrats supported it as well. When is last you heard that one?
They could have reflected public sentiment by saying what a
great speech it was, which is what they said after every Obama
speech, after every Clinton speech, but they chose to echo
Democratic position of those people who were sitting on their
thumbs. So the media gave the absolutely validation to Donald
Trump about how much they are vested with liberal Democrats.
Three home runs in one night.
MACDONALD: You know, Brent, that was really terrific how just
you broke that down for us. You know, the President — he even
sounded — took Democrat ideas, family leave, taxing, you know,
what the Democrats like to talk about, family leave, tax credits,
infrastructure. Why? I don't get it, why are some of the media are
still incapable of acknowledging what the President is trying to do
in fixing the country?
BOZELL: You know — they hate him, they despise him, it’s just
— it’s personal with the press. It’s personal with the Democrats.
Look what he was talking about. He was saying we should stand
for national anthem, Republicans cheered, Democrats sat. He
said we should give money to our friends not our enemies,
Republicans cheered, Democrats sat. He talked about black
unemployment in record lows and same thing for Hispanic
unemployment. Republicans cheered, Democrats sat. Do you
know who else was cheering watching it? The American people
watching it. They were feeling very good. You showed it with your
numbers. They were feeling very good about this. They were
liking the commander in chief, they were liking the executive in
the White House. They like the fact that he was talking to them
and he was using first person plural. He was making a joint
American thing. Look how many times he talked about America
and then the best line of them all, saying we are dreamers too. It
was beautiful.
MACDONALD: Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.
Thank you so much for coming on. We really appreciate it.
BOZELL: Thanks so much.
 Rep. Steve King: “EARTH-SHAKING” FISA
Memo Supported By Testimonies From
FBI, DOJ Officials (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 7:04 Pm

“I have read the memo. The sickening reality

has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an
innocent explanation for the information the
public has seen. I have long said it is worse
than Watergate. It
was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #releaseth
ememo,” tweeted King.

During an interview with CNN’s Chris

Cuomo, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said the
“earth-shaking,” FISA memo is deeper than
Watergate. Cuomo asked King how the
memo goes deeper than Watergate.
“Because, the FBI and the DOJ, by the
information I have observed and the testimony
— I’m going to say the testimony I have
analyzed from listening to and questioning
multiple members of the FBI and DOJ — tells
me that FBI and DOJ have been weaponized,”
King replied .
As reported by The Gateway Pundit’s Jim
Hoft, Democrats, the FBI and DOJ want President Trump
to hide the names of the FISA abusers on the House
Intelligence FISA memo. But the Trump White House told
reporters on Thursday the memo will be released without
redactions.
According to Fox News reporter John Roberts, the memo
will be transmitted back to the HPSCI Friday morning for
release.

“SCOOP – @FoxNews IS TOLD

@realDonaldTrump WILL DECLASSIFY THE
FISA MEMO AND TRANSMIT BACK TO
HPSCI TOMORROW MORNING FOR
RELEASE,” tweeted Roberts.

Earlier this month, King joined the chorus of lawmakers

demanding the classified FISA abuse memo be released.

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 GOP Rep Read The Memo,
Dropped A HUGE Hint About What’s In It
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
7:05 PM 02/01/2018

Republican South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan has read the
FISA memo and says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
should be scared of its contents.
The memo is set to be released as soon as Friday. The
Trump administration will send the House a redacted
version of the memo for release Friday morning, according
to reports. Democrats and intelligence agencies criticized
the release and authoring of the memo.
Many Republican members of Congress who have seen it
say it will shed a great deal of light on the way Obama’s
Justice Department operated. One of those Republicans is
Jeff Duncan, who said this on Twitter Thursday:
Upon hearing of the redaction, Duncan also tweeted this
soon after:
FBI Calling for names to be “redacted” in “The Memo”
defeats the purpose of “The Memo” in providing the
transparency into the rogue actions of those named! Seems
like FBI in total CYA mode after Wray read Memo
#Transparency
#ReleaseTheMemo
#AmericansHaveTheRightToKbow

Having read “The Memo,” the FBI is right to

have “grave concerns” – as it will shake the
organization down to its core – showing
Americans just how the agency was
weaponized by the Obama officials/DNC/HRC
to target political
adversaries. #ReleaseTheMemo

The memo allegedly details spying abuses by the Obama

Justice Department and FBI.

The release will be very interesting.

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 JOHN SOLOMON BOMBSHELL: GOP Lawmakers
Making Case FBI Russia Probe Based On Tainted Evidence
Linked To Hillary Clinton
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018, 7:29 Pm
GOP Lawmakers are seeking to make the
case that the Mueller investigation and the
FBI probe into Trump’s campaign was based
on potentially tainted and flawed evidence
connected to Hillary Clinton, reports John
Solomon of The Hill.
Via John Solomon of The Hill:
Congressional Republicans are seeking to make the case
that the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s
campaign and possible collusion with Russia was based on
flawed or politically tainted evidence connected to
partisans loyal to Hillary Clinton.
The House Intelligence Committee memo spearheaded by
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) that is the talk of Washington
will be at the center of the argument. The release of that
four-page memo is expected as early as Friday.
Another document — an eight-page criminal referral filed
with the Justice Department by Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — is also part of the GOP
case.
[…]
Republicans believe both documents will back up
arguments that evidence used to justify the FBI’s probe
came from partisans loyal to Clinton, sources said. They
are also expected to play into arguments from some
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Republicans that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe
into Russia is based on false information.
[..]
“The fact that half to three-quarters of the
evidence the FBI used to unleash the most
awesome of surveillance powers upon Donald
Trump’s inner circle came from sources tied
directly to his Democratic opponent should
worry us all, especially when that happened
during an election,” said one senior Republican
directly familiar with the evidence, describing
the party’s core concerns.
“The FBI allowed itself to be used by Clinton
partisans to parlay single-sourced, mostly
unverified evidence into a counterintelligence
probe with clear weaknesses that weren’t
disclosed,” the source added.
Also according to John Solomon’s report, Republican
investigators say they have evidence dossier author
Christopher Steele first approached the FBI with his
‘Trump-Russia’ allegations the same exact day Comey
exonerated Hillary Clinton of her criminal email
investigation in July:
Republican investigators say they have evidence that
Steele first approached the FBI with his allegations on July
5, 2016, the same day then-FBI Director James
Comey announced he would not pursue criminal charges
against Clinton for passing more than 100 classified
documents through her private email server.
Crooked Hillary admitted her campaign paid for the Russia
dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele
(who was employed by Fusion GPS) shortly after the
Washington Post published their bombshell in mid-
October exposing her dirtiest political trick to date.
It is reported the FBI used portions of the phony Russia
dossier to obtain a FISA warrant in order to spy on
Trump’s presidential campaign.
Reports also suggest the FBI even partially paid for the
Russia dossier and perhaps paid for Christopher Steele’s
travel.
The FISA abuse memo is set to be released Friday and is
expected to expose massive corruption in the top FBI and
DOJ brass.
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GOP Rep Jeff Duncan hinted the memo will
reveal the FBI was weaponized by Obama
officials, the DNC and Hillary Clinton to
target political adversaries.
No wonder why the FBI is in panic mode!
 Sean Hannity Has Been Advising Donald Trump
On The Nunes Memo, Because Of Course He Has
Donald Trump Continues To Get His Policy Advice From
The People On ‘The Shows.’
Lachlan Markay & Asawin Suebsaeng
02.01.18 7:46 PM ET
President Donald Trump is at odds with his own chief law-
enforcement officers over a controversial memo fueling
Republican allegations of a conspiracy against the Trump
presidency. But by all indications, the president is less
amenable to the concerns of his own FBI than those shared
by a less formal, more bombastic adviser.
That adviser is Sean Hannity, who has been hyping the so-
called Nunes memo all week, and with whom the president
continues to speak regularly.
According to three sources with knowledge of their
conversations, Trump has been in regular contact with
Hannity over the phone in recent weeks, as the Fox News
prime-time star and Trump ally has encouraged the prompt
release of a controversial four-page memo crafted by
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee.
Hannity has gone to the wall to push for the public release
of the memo, which the intelligence panel and its
chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), authorized this week
in a party-line vote despite the classified information
therein.
Sources say Hannity’s persistent advocacy reinforced
Trump’s already growing determination to get that memo
into the public realm—despite huge potential fallout within
the law enforcement and intelligence arms of his own
administration.
In their conversations, Trump and Hannity discussed the
Nunes memo’s supposed bombshell-level significance, and
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how it could shed light on the alleged anti-Trump bias and
“corruption” at the FBI. On these calls, Trump has directly
referenced specific recent Hannity segments related to
#ReleaseTheMemo, according to one of three sources with
knowledge of their conversations.
The White House press office did not respond to requests
for comment, and Hannity declined to comment. Sources,
two in the White House and the other an outside adviser,
spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private
conversations.
Trump not only deeply values the private, after-hours
political and policy advice and gossip from his favorite
cable-news hosts, but is a notoriously avid consumer of
their broadcasts, particularly highly sympathetic shows
like Hannity and Fox & Friends. As he has inched closer
to publicly releasing the Nunes memo—he has privately
said it’s all but a foregone conclusion—cable news and
right-wing media have shaped his views on the issue, as
they have on many other topics, far more so than the
briefings or private intelligence provided by those within
his administration, White House officials say.
On Monday afternoon, the day before President Trump’s
State of the Union address, the White House summoned
some of the president’s most trusted allies and outside
advisers to the Entrance Hall in the official residence. The
meeting included a who’s who of pro-Trump surrogates
and media commentators, including cable-news regulars
Jason Miller, Larry Kudlow, and Jack Kingston.
“Man, are you a warrior—you’re a warrior!”
Trump told a person in the group,
according to three sources present. “We’re
all warriors in this fight.”
As the meeting wound down, President Trump made sure
to approach people one-on-one to commend them for their
performances and appearances on live TV. In some cases,
he cited specific TV interviews and segments from the past
weeks that he found particularly compelling and fun to
watch. Some attendees were surprised at how closely the
president of the United States had been watching them. For
others, it was simply additional confirmation of “how
much of a [TV] addict” Trump is, according to another
person at the White House meeting.
Hannity, while not in the room that day, is one of Trump’s
top “warriors” on the outside, along with his other Fox
News colleagues who double as informal advisers to
Trump, such as Lou Dobbs and Laura Ingraham. Among
other things, Trump consulted Hannity on the Iran deal late
last year shortly before the president strongly weighed
killing it.
"Senior counselor to the president, Sean
H[annity]," one senior White House official
joked to The Daily Beast this week.
Hannity has worked himself into a frenzy this week,
promising viewers “the biggest political scandal in
American history.” On Wednesday evening, Hannity even
hinted that he was privy to non-public information.
“There's so much more coming, I wish I could share it with
you now,” he said.
Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro (another
part-time Trump adviser) has already determined
culpability.
“I have been saying from the beginning,
Sean, this guy McCabe needs to be taken
out in cuffs,” she told Hannity on Tuesday
evening.
For other Fox opinionators, it’s been a week of pleading
with the president to release an unredacted copy of the
memo—direct pleading, in some cases, in the hope that
Trump happens to be tuned in.
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“I know he watches certain shows on this
channel, so let’s send a very clear
message,” said Sebastian Gorka, current
Fox News contributor and former official in
the Trump White House, in a Tuesday
appearance on Lou Dobbs’s Fox Business
show. “Mr. President, the American people
need to see the whole memo. Please
release the unredacted memo.”
Though Hannity and other Trump-friendly pundits will
likely proclaim its vast significance in any case, releasing
the memo could produce little tangible upside for a
president who hopes to kneecap special counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation—even as it results in massive
political fallout.
According to CNN, the White House is also concerned that
releasing the memo would spur FBI Director Christopher
Wray to resign in protest. If that happens, former FBI
agents told The Daily Beast on Thursday, Wray’s
subordinates should consider following his lead.
“People in Washington should be prepared
for a Saturday Night Massacre,” said
former Special Agent Ali Soufan, referring
to the Nixon White House bloodbath.
“Many honorable men and women should
be prepared to resign, to walk out over
this.”
In the end, though, Trump’s favorite media personalities
may hold greater sway over the president’s decision than
even his own FBI director.
 Comey Blasts ‘Weasels And Liars’
Over Release Of FISA Memo
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
8:36 PM 02/01/2018

The former FBI director, who has continued to take

shots at Trump on Twitter since being fired by the
president in May, said everyone should appreciate the FBI
for trying to block the release of the memo.
(RELATED: FBI Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Block
Release Of Secret Spy Memo)

“All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I

wish more of our leaders would,” Comey
tweeted. “But take heart: American history
shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars
never hold the field, so long as good people
stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named
for Joe McCarthy.”

Former FBI Director James Comey blasted “weasels and

liars” who are pushing for the release of the FISA memo in
a tweet Thursday night.
Besides taking occasional shots at the president, the former
FBI agent signed a multimillion dollar book deal with
Comey’s tweet comes as the memo, which alleges that top Flatiron Books in August. The book is reportedly about
officials in the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership.
misled a federal surveillance court in order to obtain a spy
warrant against a former President Donald Trump
campaign adviser, is expected to be released to the public.

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RUMBLINGS: FISA Memo Contains Four “EXPLOSIVE”
Revelations That Have NOT LEAKED (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 1, 2018, 8:21 Pm

Notably, Rep. Matt Gaetz hinted to Judge Jeanine Pirro

that the memo outlines how the U.S. government may have
committed fraud by presenting the courts with “false
information,” to obtain FISA warrants.

“You’re aware as a Judge of the way evidence

has to be authenticated and presented to a
court to get a warrant,” began the Florida
Republican.

“It has to be probable cause to sign a warrant,”

Appearing on Fox News Thursday evening Judge Jeanne interjected.
with host Martha MacCallum, the network’s
chief national correspondent, Ed Henry,
“Of course, and prosecutors and investigators
revealed those eager to see the FISA abuse
cannot perpetrate frauds on the court by
memo released may be in for even more
presenting false information or information they
surprises than previously thought.
know to be false,” Rep. Gaetz continued.
“Senior Republicans are pushing back on
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) told “Fox & Friends,”
reports suggesting that this memo will not live
that he believes the bombshell FISA memo
up to the hype, telling me there are four
should be released to the American
separate explosive revelations in the memo that
people. Asked if he could confirm information
have not leaked out ahead of tomorrows
compiled by dossier author Christopher Steele
expected release,” Henry told MacCallum.
was used by the Obama administration to spy
on Trump officials, DeSantis told host Brian
Kilmeade, “I think that’s one of the central
issues in the memo and I definitely want all
Americans to be able to read what actually
happened in that respect.”

During an appearance on CNN‘s morning show

“New Day”, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) told host

Henry went on to say that if the claim is true, it would
vindicate House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes. The
California Republican has been accused of playing politics
with the memo by Democrats Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep.
Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Republican
lawmakers have dropped hints about what the memo
contains.
Chris Cuomo that the “essence” of the
“shocking,” FISA abuse memo centers around
whether or not the FBI and Justice Department
provided false information to the FISA court for
the purpose of obtaining spy warrants.
“It’s primarily dealing with the Department of
Justice and FBI and imagining this, did they
propose or provide information to the FISA
courts, and was that information accurate?
That’s the essence of this,” Rep. Stewart
revealed to Cuomo.

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 ‘Hardball’ Goes DEFCON-1 Over Memo Causing
‘Constitutional Crisis’; GOP Putting ‘Party Over Principle’
By Curtis Houck
February 1, 2018 8:56 PM EST
In another sign of tension ahead of the highly-anticipated
intelligence memo’s release, Thursday’s Hardball was in
DEFCON-1 territory with MSNBC host Chris Matthews
and his A-Block guests melting down over the
“all-out war” that could lead to a
“constitutional crisis.”
Matthews began with a grim mood, almost as if he were
reading a script announcing the end of the world, declaring
that
“[i]n a year of all-out war between the
President of the United States and the
American justice system, this latest
battle might reach a new height all
together.”
“President Trump appears now to be
ready for war with his own FBI director.
It's over whether or not to release a
partisan report dressed up as an
intelligence document. It's authored by
the staff of Trump's chief congressional
defender, Devin Nunes. The battle lines
are as clear as they are astounding,” he
added.
After speaking for awhile longer in his
apocalyptic tone, he seemed as exhausted
as he told Democratic Congressman Eric
Swalwell (Calif.) that “this is
extraordinary” and wondered if President
Trump “understand[s] what he's doing
here basically trying to crash into the
very people protecting this country's
security.”
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In a follow-up, he insinuated that Nunes was betraying
America and the Constitution, asking if he’s
“working for the United States Congress
and fulfilling his oath or is he working
for the White House.”
Former intelligence official Frank Figliuzzi decided to
flash his partisan credentials, hyping that
“in the long term, they're going to come
to regret this as an party” by releasing
the memo.
“I think it's going to irreparably harm in
the near term and long-term the
Republican Party. So there's many
things wronging with this picture,” he
complained before arguing, using fake
news, that Nunes could have committed a
crime by putting together the memo.
Meanwhile, The Atlantic’s Natasha Bertrand showed just
how little daylight there is between reporters and liberal
politicians, blasting the memo and criticism of the FBI as
“contrived from the beginning because
it was as if the White House was
laundering kind of classified information
through Devin Nunes.”
Going back to Matthews, the doomsday pundit told his
panel that
“[w]e’re going to talk about a
constitutional crisis some day” because
“[i]t seems to me the Constitution has
always been turned on its butt” with
Nunes turning the Intelligence Committee
“into a tool of a President who’s playing
defense.”
Matthews capped off the A-Block with previews for the
rest of the show, including one wondering if Republicans
would be acting the same way if Hillary Clinton were in
Trump’s spot:
Can you imagine is the outrage from Republicans had it
been Hillary Clinton who were president right now and
had done the kinds of things Donald Trump has been doing
and Chelsea. I mean, imagine, just flip it around and say
suppose they had done anything like this. When you lay it
out like that and we will tonight, it's staggering to see how
Republicans continue to put party over principle[.]
Here’s the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
February 1:
MSNBC’s Hardball
February 1, 2018
7:00 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: In a year of all-out war between the
President of the United States and the American justice system,
this latest battle might reach a new height all together. President
Trump appears now to be ready for war with his own FBI director.
It's over whether or not to release a partisan report dressed up as
an intelligence document. It's authored by the staff of Trump's
chief congressional defender, Devin Nunes. The battle lines are
as clear as they are astounding.
(....)
MATTHEWS [TO DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN ERIC
SWALWELL]: Congressman, this is extraordinary and I wonder,
does — does the President understand what he's doing here
basically trying to crash into the very people protecting this
country's security?
(....)
MATTHEWS [TO SWALWELL]: Is the chairman of your
committee working for the United States Congress and fulfilling
his oath or is he working for the White House?
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN ERIC SWALWELL (Calif.): I’m
afraid he never left the transition team.
MATTHEWS: They are not the same thing.
SWALWELL: He never left the transition team just by his actions.
He continues to work hand-in-hand to try and protect the
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President and that's such a damn shame, Chris, because we've
always been a bipartisan committee. We travel to the hardest
and roughest spots in the world to meet with our military and
we've always just, you know, worked to, you know, keep our
nation safe and he has — I'm afraid — destroyed that and he —
it's almost irreparable now as long as he's there.
MATTHEWS: Does he know he took an oath to the Constitution
and not to one man?
SWALWELL: I don't know. I can be tell you again his actions. His
actions are destructive.
(....)
MATTHEWS: I'm going to get to the goofiness of the entire
Republican party led by President Trump to hang their hat on the
goofy performance of Carter Page and the goofiness of
defending him against any kind of surveillance as if all his years
of Russian connections and his selling of his Russian
connections to the Trump campaign and his involvement as an
intermediary back and forth, God knows who he’s working for, if
that's not worthy of investigation, I don't know what is in terms of
this. We know the Russians screwed with our election. We know
the Trump people were involved and we want to get to one of the
people doing it. And for some reason, Chairman Nunes says that
is man must be protected from surveillance. We must not know
what Carter Page was doing with the Russians over in Moscow. I
find it an incredible thing for the party that the long fought
communism in Russia around the world has somehow decided
they're going to go down on the issue of defending Carter Page
and the role that the Trump people played with the Russians.
Your thoughts? Frank?
FRANK FIGLIUZZI: I think — I think in the long term, they're
going to come to regret this as an party. I think it's going to
irreparably harm in the near term and long-term the Republican
Party. So there's many things wronging with this picture. Let’s
just pick one or two. First, the testimony of the committee that
was released by Congressman Schiff where they asked Nunes,
did you conspire? Did you talk with anybody in the White House
about this memo about drafting it? And the lack of response on
that. I'm not answering any further questions. I don't know if
anyone talked to the White House on this. This smacks of further
obstruction because remember, the obstruction statute speaks to
the need for intent and if you're talking to the White House about
crafting this memo, when to release it, what the contents are,
you're essentially conspiring to obstruct. Let’s pick one more
wrong thing with this. If you don't trust your FBI director to deal
with alleged misconduct involving an affidavit submitted to court,
get rid of him. If you don't trust the Department of Justice
Inspector General to deal with allegations of misconduct, get rid
of him. They're not choosing to do that. They’re choose to do a
dramatic release tomorrow in the form of essentially a press
release.

(....)

NATASHA BERTRAND: The whole thing was extremely
contrived from the beginning because it was as if the white
House was laundering kind of classified information through
Devin Nunes so he could then make it public and create a case
to go after the FBI and the DOJ.
(....)
MATTHEWS: We're going to talk about a constitutional crisis
some day. It seems to me the Constitution has always been
turned on its butt. We've got a chairman of a Committee on
Intelligence which has historically been a bipartisan committee.
It’s usually an even-even members. They're basically there to
work together and find out if our Intelligence Committees are
doing their job and it's been turned into a tool of a President
who’s playing defense.
(....)
MATTHEWS: Plus, role reversal. Can you imagine is the outrage
from Republicans had it been Hillary Clinton who were president
right now and had done the kinds of things Donald Trump has
been doing and Chelsea. I mean, imagine, just flip it around and
say suppose they had done anything like this. When you lay it out
like that and we will tonight, it's staggering to see how
Republicans continue to put party over principle and back to the
real world with the Hardball roundtable tonight and the reckoning
coming for the Republican Party as they for an whatever
historical reasons defend Trump in what is sure to be a collision
with Robert Mueller.
(....)
MATTHEWS: Ken, it goes back to something we all understood.
The Clinton [sic] family, I always them the Romanovs. They all
seemed to move as family. The son-in-law Jared and they
brought in the — I'm sorry, the son Jared, the son-in-law and, of
course, Don Jr. and they all went in with the Manafort has all
those Russian ties to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, the opponent and
then they had it say we didn't do that because that seems sleazy,
maybe illegal.

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 Trump Attorney Goes Off On Deep State Over
FISA Memo In Epic Rant (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018
On Thursday, an attorney for Trump, Jay
Sekulow went off on the Deep State over the
FISA memo which is set to be released
Friday.
Sekulow even named FBI scalps collected so far as the
swamp drains itself.
Jay Sekulow posted a one minute video to his social media
that is sure to get you hyped up.
Sekulow captioned the video:
“A bombshell memo that reportedly details
unthinkable abuses by the #DeepState
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bureaucracy is sending shockwaves through
Capitol Hill. The American people deserve to
see it.”
Jay Sekulow went down a timeline of events which
ultimately led us to where we are today on the eve of the
release of the FISA memo.
“The dossier, was the dossier verified? No.
Was it salacious? Yes. Was it used as a FISA
warrant? Maybe. Maybe that’s what we’re
gonna find out” Sekulow began.
Sekulow then brought up demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr
and his wife Nellie Ohr working for Fusion GPS.
Then onto Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok and his
FBI lawyer mistress Lisa Page and the ‘missing’ texts.
Sekulow finished by naming FBI scalps already collected.
James Baker–OUT, McCabe–OUT, Rybicki-OUT.
To see all the pieces of the puzzle come together like this
is incredible. Stay tuned. The Gateway Pundit will be
providing all news related to the release of the FISA memo
in real time.
We want more names; we want more scalps.
 Desperate Adam Schiff Claims Nunes’ FISA Memo Could
Lead To “Constitutional Crisis” –
Compares Trump To Nixon
By Cristina Laila
February 1, 2018, 9:33 Pm
Ranking member of the House Intel
Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is in full
blown panic mode as the FISA memo
threatens to rock him and the Deep State.
Old Schiffty penned a crazy op-ed for WaPo making all
kinds of outrageous claims like the FISA memo being
released will lead to a Constitutional crisis and even
compared Trump to Nixon.
Adam Schiff tweeted out his garbage op-ed late
Wednesday night in a last ditch effort to fight Chairman
Nunes on the FISA memo which is going to rock D.C.
once it is released to the public.
Schiff claimed in the WaPo op-ed that releasing the FISA
memo would increase the risk of a Constitutional crisis and
another Saturday Night Massacre.
Saturday Night Massacre refers to former President
Richard Nixon’s orders to fire Special Prosecutor
Archibald Cox which then led to the resignations of the
Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General during the
Watergate investigation.
The panicked Democrat then accused Nunes of ‘cherry-
picking’ facts for his memo, potentially revealing
intelligence sources and methods while aiming to smear
the FBI and DOJ.
Another lie from Adam Schiff. Fox News‘ Catherine
Herridge reported FBI officials could not identify any
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errors in the “shocking,” FISA abuse memo set to be
released. Sources and methods are also not revealed in the
FISA memo according to many GOP Reps who have
viewed the document in the SCIF.
Schiff then claimed the Republicans voted against the
release of the junk Dem memo. Another lie. He also
claimed the Republicans are looking to derail Mueller
while pushing a ‘conspiracy theory’ that a “cabal of senior
officials within the FBI and DOJ” are tainted with anti-
Trump bias against the president thus poisoning the
investigation.
The party-line vote to release the Republican memo but
not a Democratic response was a violent break from the
committee’s nonpartisan tradition and the latest troubling
sign that House Republicans are willing to put the
president’s political dictates ahead of the national interest.
In response, they have drawn on the stratagem of many
criminal defense lawyers — when the evidence against a
defendant is strong, put the government on trial. The
Nunes memo is designed to do just that by furthering a
conspiracy theory that a cabal of senior officials within the
FBI and the Justice Department were so tainted by bias
against President Trump that they irredeemably poisoned
the investigation. If it wasn’t clear enough that this was the
goal, Nunes removed all doubt when he declared that the
Justice Department and the FBI themselves were under
investigation at the hearing in which the memo was
ordered released.
Schiff said Nunes and the GOP Intel Committee voting to
release the memo crossed a dangerous line then compared
President Trump to former President Nixon who was under
investigation for the Watergate scandal.
But it also increases the risk of a constitutional crisis by
setting the stage for subsequent actions by the White
House to fire Mueller or, as now seems more likely,
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, an act that
would echo the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre.
As multiple investigations work to unearth the full truth,
the president has lashed out with Nixonian ferocity at the
Justice Department, the FBI, congressional investigators
and the media.

A year later and there is ZERO proof Trump’s camp

hacked the DNC server in order to disseminate the Podesta
emails.

This is also ironic given Hillary Clinton’s actions during

the 2016 presidential campaign. Instead of breaking into
the Republican headquarters, she used a phony Russia
dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on her political
opponent. FISAgate eclipses Watergate!

Schiff tweeted,

“The decision by Nunes to employ an obscure

rule to release classified information for partisan
political purposes crossed a dangerous line,
and increases the risk of a constitutional crisis
and another Saturday Night Massacre.

My oped on Washington Post:”

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 Nets Find 3.5x More Controversy In
Releasing Nunes Memo Than Allegations Within
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 1, 2018 10:00 PM EST

Since the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), voted on Monday to
release a memo detailing alleged misconduct and legal
abuses by the FBI, the three major broadcast
networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have been acting like the
mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. Between January 29
(when the vote was held) and February 1, the networks
dedicated roughly three and a half times the coverage to
worries about releasing the memo than the allegations
against the FBI.
During this time frame, the network evening newscasts
dedicated a whopping 17 minutes and 20 seconds of
airtime to Democratic Party talking points and FBI
pleas not to release the memo. In sharp contrast, they only
spent four minutes and 54 seconds on the content of the
memo, which included allegations of misconduct during
the early days of the Russia investigation and abuse of
FISA warrants.
seconds on this narrative. And as for the allegations
against the FBI, they were largely dismissive and none of
them broke a minute of airtime, with ABC at 51 seconds;
CBS at 37 seconds; and NBC at 20 seconds.
Come Wednesday, the networks clamped down, repeating
the memo’s allegations against the FBI as Democrats
ramped up their outrage and the Bureau claimed they had
“grave concerns.” ABC only aired 22 seconds of
allegations to their two minutes and 50 seconds of
opposition. For CBS, it was 24 seconds for the allegations
versus one minute and 34 seconds for the pushback. NBC
cut back hard on the allegations, allowing only 13 seconds
to the one minute and 28 seconds for pushback.

Along with barely touching on the allegations, NBC White

House Correspondent Peter Alexander pushed fake news
about the memo in the form of a debunked smear:

“Tonight, the transcript of a closed-door

House Intelligence Committee meeting
In the run-up to the Intelligence Committee vote, the nets
this week shows the Republican chair,
were largely silent as Democrats were insisting that those
Devin Nunes refused to answer whether
on social media calling for the memo to be released were
the White House worked with anyone on
Russian bots. And on the day of the vote, ABC and CBS
his staff as they put that memo
seemed to be still downplaying the memo since they didn’t
together.” But as The Federalist’s Mollie
report on the vote at all while NBC Nightly News dedicated
Hemingway expertly pointed out, the
a solid two minutes to the story, with only 36 seconds
transcript proved the exact opposite.
going to the allegations and the rest going to fears about it
being released.
Word came on Thursday that President Trump had read the
memo and was strongly considering releasing it, which
On Tuesday night prior to the State of the Union address,
perhaps explained why the networks had more coverage.
the tide shifted and all three networks were loading up on
ABC kept up the heavy opposition to the memo with two
opposition to releasing the memo. ABC donated two
minutes and 48 seconds vs. 40 seconds of allegations. CBS
minutes, 25 seconds to opposing the memo's release, while
stayed consistent with one minute, 34 seconds of memo
CBS chipped in one minute and 31 seconds. What about
pushback to 44 seconds to allegations. NBC had bizarrely
NBC? The peacock network spent one minute and 13
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dedicated only 38 seconds to the story altogether, with
only seven seconds going to the allegations.
And with momentum building on Thursday to release the
memo, ABC and CBS amped up the dire tone by harping
on the FBI’s “grave concerns” and peddled rumors that
FBI Director Christopher Wray might resign.
During World News Tonight, ABC White House
Correspondent Jon Karl highlighted a clip of himself
shouting questions to Trump as he walked by the press:
“Mr. President, what about the FBI
director's grave concerns? Don't you
trust him?”
And CBS News Justice Correspondent Jeff Pegues ended
his segment on the Evening News by touting an obnoxious
tweet by former FBI Director James Comey.
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"‘American history shows that in the
long run, weasels and liars never hold
the field so long as good people stand
up.’ That is a reflection of how intense
this controversy has now become,” he
chided.
The Nunes memo leveled serious allegations of
misconduct against officials at the FBI's high levels, and
it’s argued that the release of the memo was needed for
proper oversight. But the liberal media were not interested
in transparency and accountability. Many in the media
have argued a hands-off approach to let the Inspector
General’s investigation run its course. Yet, they don’t
share that same mindset with the Russia investigation that
they say is bearing down on Trump.
 Confused Nancy Pelosi Stutters – Forgets
Who’s President – Calls Trump “Bush” Again (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 1, 2018

Minority Leader Pelosi got confused and mixed up on

She did it again! Thursday when speaking to reporters on the pending
release of the House Intelligence FISA memo.
Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi called
President Trump “President Bush” at least Pelosi stuttered and once again called President Trump
five times in 2017. “Bush” to a gaggle of reporters.

She’ll get it one of these days.

She did it again today.

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 Trump Would Okay New Nuclear
Test For ‘Political Reasons’ - Reports
© Ap Photo/ Ed Gunder - Military & Intelligence
00:05 04.02.2018
Although the US has not tested a nuclear weapon since
1992, the administration of US President Donald Trump
has quietly ordered that the Pentagon’s Nevada National
Security test site put itself in a state of readiness to
detonate a nuclear bomb within a time frame of as little as
six months, according to reports.
After proposing a $1.2 trillion deal to modify and redesign
America's entire nuclear-weapons program, Trump,
in authorizing the development and manufacture of the
first new US nuclear warhead in 34 years, has also
requested that the long dormant testing facility some 90
miles northwest of Las Vegas be put on a speeded-up
timetable for detonation readiness: to six months from the
Department of Energy's earlier forecast of two to three
years.
Although the Trump White House describes upcoming
potential underground nuclear detonations as "a simple
test, with waivers and simplified processes," sources close
to the US National Nuclear Security Administration have
claimed that any new atom bomb explosion in the Nevada
desert would be less about the technicalities and more
about political theater, according to Time.
In demonstrating to Iran, China, Russia and the People's
Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK), that the US is
rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons program,
Washington would not be testing technical details
but rather detonating weapons "for political purposes,"
cited by Time.com.
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While Trump has not currently ordered a new nuclear
weapons test, the straightforward nature of what many
consider to be a provocative show of force by Washington,
after decades of US restraint, appears to many to be an
announcement of a new global nuclear arms race.
"We must modernize and rebuild our
nuclear arsenal," Trump declared
during his January 30 State of the Union
speech.
Although every US president since Republican Dwight
Eisenhower has avoided suggesting that the US could
again launch a nuclear weapon against an enemy, Trump,
in contrast, has suggested the unthinkable by asserting that
his administration would unleash "fire and fury like the
world has never seen," against the DPRK.
The 45th US president has also displayed a knee-jerk
hostility toward existing nuclear agreements, including the
landmark 2015 JCPOA agreement to stop Iran
from becoming a nuclear power and the 2010 New START
treaty between Washington and Moscow limiting nuclear
weapon development.
Trump reportedly demanded the development and
manufacture of additional nuclear bombs during a July 20,
2017, Pentagon briefing, while criticizing military advisers
for suggesting any reduction in US nuclear stockpiles,
according to Time.
The strikingly unpopular world leader has also publicly
trashed the work of his own Secretary of State, Rex
Tillerson, by ignoring ongoing negotiations and taunting
Pyongyang with a "much bigger & more powerful" button
that Trump would ostensibly push to launch a deadly
nuclear attack against the isolated country of some 26
million.
The global community has watched in astonishment
as Trump has gone against almost every notion
of humanity's denuclearization.
"The long-standing strategic policy of the
United States has been to reduce the role
 and number of nuclear weapons," observed "That idea seems to have been balled
Andrew Weber, a 30-year nuclear-weapons up and thrown out the window," he noted.
expert for the US State and Defense
departments prior to his 2015 retirement,
cited by Time.com.
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 Why Did The Democrats
Lie So Baldly About The Memo?
By Roger L Simon
February 2, 2018
Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, among
seemingly dozens of Democrats, not to mention half the
mainstream media, had been warning us for days that the
release of the memo authored by Republican members of
the House Intelligence Committee would place our
national security at grave risk. "Sources and methods"
would be revealed.
Now that we have seen the memo, it's clear that was an
absolutely bald-faced lie of the most obvious sort. Nothing
in it impacts national security in the slightest. There's no
mention whatsoever of any "sources and methods."
Unless they were lobotomized, those Democrats and their
dependable PR team (aka the media) must have realized
they were blatantly lying to the American public.
Evidently, they didn't care. How're we now supposed to
trust what these people say about anything? Falsus in uno,
falsus in omnibus.
Their latest meme is "cherry picking." The memo was
cherry-picked and therefore to be ignored. That's like
saying a murderer who has a clean driving record and is a
good cook is not a murderer. Whatever else happened, the
FBI clearly used a slanderous fictional document to get a
FISA ruling to surveil Carter Page without telling the court
the document was a pack of lies paid for by the Clinton
campaign and written by a creepy spy with old-line Soviet
connections. And they did it multiple times.
So what was up here below the surface? It can't just be the
"evil party" trying to live up to its nickname, although that
certainly happened.
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It seems this particular lie was a last line of defense — for
now — against a coming potential Armageddon for their
party. This memo, bad as it is, is apparently only the first
of many, a small percentage of what is to come. And the
Democrats know it.
Fear is operative. Maybe panic. An entire weltanschauung
is under threat — jobs, friends, self-image, who knows
what. If this goes on much longer and much more comes
out, some Democrats -—not apparatchik Schiff, needless
to say, but others — might have to face reality and say
something. A few journalists (not at CNN, but maybe
someplace else) might have to report the truth. It happened
with Watergate. Republicans turned against Nixon. But, of
course, they're "the stupid party."
But speaking of stupid, something else occurred that few
are mentioning, but may be of more significance than
anything. What were these FISA judges thinking who
allowed for the surveillance? They actually read the
Steele dossier, one would assume. Were they imbeciles or
as biased as McCabe, Strzok and the rest of that seedy FBI
cabal? Whether they were told that document came from
the Clinton campaign or not, it read like an outtake from
the back pages of the National Enquirer — and not one of
the good issues (John Edwards, etc.).
The dossier was ludicrous on its face, yet the
supposedly great legal minds of the FISA court
accepted it as what appears to be the most
important evidence for the case.
Think about that.
What we need, obviously, is the old word transparency.
The public needs to see the full details of what went into
the FISA decisions — and we don't need to hear any of
that fake palaver about national security. Everybody's
security depends on the FISA court working in a one-
hundred percent unbiased manner. Otherwise we're living
a nightmare.
That court, and its workings, and its personnel should be a
key part of any investigation going forward. New rules and
regulations have to be put in place.
FINALLY:
Looking good in all this is Senator Rand Paul.
He warned us about our fragile privacy. Looking
especially bad, the American Civil Liberties
.
Union who are defecating on their charter.
Looking even worse: Barack Obama. He led the
charge to turn the intelligence agencies against
the people. Looking lost — Robert Mueller. How
will he get half the country to believe anything
he says at this point?

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 President Trump Hints At What’s In House Intelligence
Committee FISA Memo – Corrupt Deep
State In FBI And DOJ
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 7:16 Am

The President next quoted Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch

–

“You had Hillary Clinton and the

Democratic Party try to hide the fact that
they gave money to GPS Fusion to create
a Dossier which was used by their allies in
the Obama Administration to convince a
Court misleadingly, by all accounts, to spy
on the Trump Team.”
President Trump hinted this morning
about what’s in the House Intelligence
Committee’s FISA memo through tweets
about the corrupt Deep State in the FBI
and DOJ.

President Trump’s first tweet was about the corrupt

leadership and investigators of the FBI and DOJ which
have politicized the

“sacred investigative process in favor of

Democrats and against Republican –
something that would have been
unthinkable just a short time ago.”
Today the House Intelligence
Committee’s FISA memo is expected to
be released that will be damning to the
Deep State and the corrupt leaders of
the FBI and DOJ. President Trump has
read the memo and based on his tweets
the light is going to shine on the
cockroaches in these departments
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 Deep Statist John McCain, Who Trafficked The Fake
Trump Dossier To The FBI, Makes Bizarre Claim About
FISA Memo Release: “We Are Helping Putin”
By JD Heyes
Friday, February 02, 2018

president, must stop looking at this investigation

through the warped lens of politics and
manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we
continue to undermine our own rule of law, we
are doing Putin’s job for him.”

Why would he do that? Well, for one, McCain is a

#nevertrumper; ever since the president insulted his
Vietnam service, most of which was spent in a brutal
North Vietnamese prison, the senior Arizona senator has
had it in for Trump. (Granted, Trump shouldn’t have done
that, but lest we forget, McCain had already begun
savaging his presidential bid, so our president — always
the counter-puncher — hit back.)
There is one thing we can deduce from Friday’s release of
the infamous “FISA memo,” thanks to heroes and
champions of government accountability and transparency
in Congress and the White House: It’s now confirmed that
the Obama administration was the most corrupt in the
history of our country.

There’s no denying that, despite the fact that Democrats

continue to do so and will continue to do so for as long as
they draw a breath.

But they’re not the only enemies of government and

political accountability. Not by a long shot. In fact, one of
their best allies is in the U.S. Senate, and — technically
speaking anyway — he’s not even a member of their party.
That would be Deep Statist Sen. John McCain, RINO-
Arizona. Rather than cheer the release of the memo, which
revealed serial abuses of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court by upper echelon officials in the FBI
and Justice Department to prevent Donald J. Trump from
becoming president, and to undermine him after he
defeated Hillary Clinton in November 2016, he criticized
it.
“The latest attacks on the FBI and Department
of Justice serve no American interests – no
party’s, no president’s, only [Russian President
Vladimir] Putin’s,” McCain said in a statement.
“Our nation’s elected officials, including the
For another, let’s not forget that McCain gave his Deep
State buddy former FBI director James Comey a copy
of the bogus “Trump dossier” — the same one that was
misrepresented as “intelligence” and used to secure an
October 2016 surveillance warrant from the FISA court so
the bureau could spy on the Trump campaign.
As reported by The National Sentinel:
…[A]s many suspected, the discredited and
unverified “Trump dossier” was used not once
but on three separate occasions to secure a
FISA court surveillance warrant to allow the
Obama administration to spy on Team Trump
during his campaign.
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 “includes testimony from a high-ranking
government official who says without the
infamous Trump dossier, the FBI and DOJ
would not have secured surveillance warrants
to spy on at least one member of the Trump
team.”
The memo further pointed out that in December 2017,
then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe testified that
“no surveillance warrant would have been sought” from
the FISA court “without the Steele dossier information.”
(Related: SHAMELESS: No Democrats or left-leaning
publishers denounce shocking abuses of power detailed
in FISA memo release)
Think about that. McCain helped to enable the whole
thing. McCain helped enable illegal spying on an
American citizen — former Trump campaign foreign
policy advisor Carter Page — by supplying the dossier to
the FBI.
So Obama could spy on the presidential
nominee of his own party.
“The ‘dossier’ compiled by Christopher Steele
(Steele dossier) on behalf of the Democratic
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National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary
Clinton campaign formed an essential part of
the Carter Page FISA application,” the memo
states.
“Steele was a longtime FBI source who was
paid over $160,000 by the DNC and Clinton
campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and
research fir Fusion GPS, to obtain derogatory
information on Donald Trump?s ties to Russia,”
it continued.
How likely is it that McCain — still butt-hurt over
Trump’s insult — didn’t know the dossier was a
political document, that it was just opposition
research and not actual intelligence?
In his statement, McCain claimed that releasing
the memo was “helping Putin” to ‘undermine our
democracy.” Actually, senator, saddling our
president with fake charges of “Russian
collusion” have helped Putin “undermine our
democracy.”
Which means Deep Statists like you are helping the enemy
— not Trump.
 MEMO WATCH: Mark Meadows Drops Hints On What
We Can Expect To See In House Intel FISA Memo
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 7:55 Am

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is the chair of the House

Freedom Caucus. The Freedom Caucus formed in January
with the declared aim of pushing the House GOP
leadership rightward on certain fiscal and social issues.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) are
all members of the Freedom Caucus.
The group have been outspoken critics of the shady and
unethical and possibly illegal actions of Deep State
bureaucrats.
On Thursday night Rep. Mark Meadows posted a series of
tweets discussing the House Intel FISA memo that is
expected to be released today.

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 Here is the string of tweets in paragraph form:
THREAD:
Because through all the “memo” news and
headlines, it’s critical to remember why this
issue is important and why it should matter
to everyday Americans. What this issue is
all about: whether the Department of
Justice and FBI, under President Obama,
abused their surveillance authority against
American citizens and political opponents.
Put another way: was the Obama DOJ
weaponized to spy on the Trump
campaign? Remember, in general, the DOJ
and FBI spying on American citizens
should automatically be met with MAJOR
skepticism. That’s what the Fourth
Amendment is designed to protect against.
When those American citizens are ALSO

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 political opponents? It should raise even
more red flags. So, take that principle, and
look at what happened in this case. The
DOJ spied on Carter Page, an American
citizen. Red flag. Carter Page was also part
of the Trump campaign. Double red flag. It
should automatically raise questions.
Now, pause:
We know about the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page
texts, the “missing” texts, the McCabe
concerns, etc. But this is about more.
Focus on the dossier here–the political
opposition research project put together by
Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the
DNC by extension. Quite simply: This
infamous “Russian Dossier” was unverified
political opposition research paid for by the
Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. If
the Department of Justice used information
like that as a key part of getting a
surveillance warrant, it would be a HUGE
problem. Now, from what we’ve already
known for months, it sure looks like that’s
exactly what happened: that the FBI used
that very dossier to get a warrant.
@Jim_Jordan asked the FBI about it 2
months ago. I asked too. We asked for the
FISA application, and the FBI wouldn’t
show us. We’ve asked repeatedly for
information from the FBI, both privately and
publicly. We’ve openly told FBI and DOJ
officials–if we’re wrong, tell us! Tell us what
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was in the FISA application. Let us see the
document. But we’ve been stonewalled for
almost a year.
So the bottom line is this: if, in 2016, the
DOJ and FBI used an unverified,
Clinton/DNC paid-for dossier to spy on
American citizens (and political opponents)
in the Trump campaign, that is as wrong as
it gets.
If that happened, Americans deserve to
know about it. Period.
I know we live in a hyper-partisan
environment, and I know it can be easy to
disregard any inquiry like this as party
politics. I understand that.
But this is so far above politics, folks. Lady
Justice wears a blindfold. Her scale is
supposed to be balanced. If any
Department of Justice, Republican or
Democrat, put their thumb on the scale for
the sake of politics–it would undermine the
very fabric of who we are as a nation.
Americans deserve the truth, one way or
the other. Last point: If you remember
anything from this news cycle, remember:
your right as an American to privacy from
your government spying on you is critical. It
is foundational to who we are as a
Republic. Never take that right for granted,
no matter the political party you belong to.
 Mother Jones, Washpost, NYT, CNN And Yahoo All
Exposed As Deep State Propaganda Puppets In
Shocking FISA Memo
By Mike Adams
Friday, February 02, 2018
The most horrific political scandal in the history of our
nation is breaking now. The FISA memo has been
released. (FISA stands for Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.)
Read the full text of the shocking memo at this Axios link
or find a short summary at the Washington Examiner. It’s
also available at this House.gov link, but that link seem to
be inoperable due to a surge of traffic.
Among other stunning revelations of deep state
criminality, treason and “weaponization of the intelligence
community,” the memo reveals that numerous left-leaning
media outlets conspired with deep state criminals to
knowingly publish false, salacious information in an
attempt to overthrow the elected government and install
Hillary Clinton as President.
“…the firm behind the [Trump] dossier, Fusion
GPS, briefed major American news outlets to
include New York Times, Washington Post,
CNN, New Yorker, Yahoo and Mother Jones,”
reports Fox News, referring to the collusion
between deep state operatives and anti-Trump
media outlets.
The “dossier,” of course is the utterly fabricated
collection of malicious lies produced by Fusion GPS —
with funding from the Clinton campaign — to create fake
evidence that could be taken to the FISA court in order to
earn approval for spying on Trump campaign members.
This gross abuse of power constitutes the most egregious
political scandal in America’s history, easily dwarfing the
Watergate fiasco.
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Mother Jones, CNN and other deep state
#FakeNews media liars now caught red-
handed
Mother Jones, the Washington Post, NYT, CNN and other
malicious anti-Trump publishers have now been caught
red-handed peddling false, fake “intelligence” that turns
out to be not just complete fiction but even treasonous
fiction.
Will these publishers come clean and apologize for their
complicity in this scandal? Of course not. They will double
down on their lies, attack the memo and try to pull the
wool over the eyes of their own readers, all while openly
attempting to overthrow the democratically-elected
President of this nation. These radical left-wing fake news
organizations, it turns out, are willing to sacrifice any last
shred of credibility they once had in a last-ditch attempt to
unseat an elected President and destroy the very concept of
democracy.
Above all, these memo revelations reveal that the left-
leaning media is a clear and present danger to America.
They were all willing to lie, collude and publish false
“facts” in a coordinated effort to overthrow the
government and override the will of the People. Note that
I was the first independent media journalist to correctly
label these organizations “journo-terrorists.” The FISA
memo confirms almost everything I’ve said about the lies
and corruption of the dishonest left-wing media (and their
danger to a free society).
Check back with this site for more coverage of FISA
memo details.
 SECRET WARRANT: Rep. Jim Jordan Drops MAJOR
CLUE About FBI’s Ominous Conduct
Toward FISA Court (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 8:29 Am

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-IL), along with Rep. presented to a court to get a warrant,”
Steve King (R-IA), joined Fox News host began the Florida Republican.
Tucker Carlson Thursday night and
“It has to be probable cause to sign a
dropped a major clue about the FBI’s
warrant,” Judge Jeanne interjected.
role in obtaining a “secret warrant,” that
may have been used to surveil Trump
campaign officials.
Rep. Jordan:
“I think tomorrow, I think tomorrow, Tucker
— and I always say this — never forget
what we’re talking about here. A secret
court, where the FBI goes to get a secret
warrant to spy on American citizens, and
tomorrow, when this memo comes out, the
American people,
I think, will see very clearly what the FBI
told the court to get that secret warrant
and what they didn’t tell the court. And
to me, that is critical, particularly when this
all happened in the context of a campaign
for the presidency of the United States.”
Earlier this month, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) suggested
something very similar to Jordan’s comments.
Gaetz hinted to Judge Jeanine Pirro that the memo outlines
how the U.S. government may have committed fraud by “Of course, and prosecutors and
presenting the courts with “false information,” to obtain investigators cannot perpetrate frauds on
FISA warrants. the court by presenting false information or
information they know to be false,” Rep.
“You’re aware as a Judge of the way
Gaetz continued.
evidence has to be authenticated and
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 The Pentagon Papers Vs. The FISA Memo: Once Upon A
Time When The “Mainstream Media” Was All About
“Government Transparency”
By JD Heyes
02/01/2018
Last month a new movie hit theaters around the country
starring, among others, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep
called “The Post.”
The movie is about, according to IMDB.com,
“a cover-up that spanned four U.S.
Presidents [and] pushed the country's first
female newspaper publisher and a hard-
driving editor to join an unprecedented
battle between the press and the
government.”
The film traces the Washington Post’s reporting on the
“Pentagon Papers,” which were officially titled, “United
States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study
Prepared by the Department of Defense.” The study,
which was conducted in secret without informing President
Lyndon Johnson, was commissioned in 1967 by then-
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The papers noted
that the Johnson administration had systematically lied to
the American people about its involvement in Vietnam.
Initially, the papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg, who
had worked on the study; the existence of the papers was
first reported in 1971 by The New York Times during the
Nixon administration. The Times was threatened with legal
action by the government and Ellsberg was charged with
conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property
(charges that were later dismissed).
Soon after the Times report, the Post was given a copy of
the Pentagon Papers by Ellsberg, who approached reporter
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Ben Bagdikian. He then brought the information to Post
editor Ben Bradlee (played by Hanks in the film “The
Post”). He subsequently informed the Post’s publisher,
Kay Graham (played by Streep), and in short order, the
decision was made to begin publishing a series of articles
detailing the papers.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General William Rehnquist —
later U.S. Supreme Court chief justice — asked the Post to
cease publication, but the paper’s management refused.
Rehnquist then asked a federal court to block the paper
from publishing any additional materials taken from the
papers but the court refused; the government appealed the
case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 6-
3 on June 30, 1971, against the government and for the
Post (and a dozen or so other papers that had begun
publishing portions of the Pentagon Papers).
At the time the information contained in the Pentagon
Papers was truly explosive. The country was still fighting
the Vietnam War, tens of thousands of U.S. service
personnel had already been killed, and it grew deeply
unpopular the longer it went on. Throw into that mix the
late 1960s-early 1970s social upheaval on college
campuses against the old traditional order, and the
discovery that the government had lied the entire time
about its involvement in Southeast Asia was devastating to
the country.
And yet, journalists back then correctly
decided that the American people had the
right know they had been duped by their
government.
Today, however, some of the same media outlets are siding
with Democrats against the release of a report that
promises to be equally damaging to the American psyche:
The so-called FISA Memo, which purports to show
Obama-era abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court in order to manipulate judges with a bogus “Trump
dossier” in order to secure a warrant so Hillary Clinton-
aligned operatives within FBI and DOJ could spy on the
Trump campaign.
Yesterday’s quest for government transparency from the
Times, the Post and other legacy media outlets has
transformed into partisan attacks and calls for outright
secrecy because the “wrong” political party is about to get
implicated.
Just to show you the difference between today’s
Democrats and Democrats of the time the Pentagon Papers
were making headlines, former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel, D-
Alaska, the lawmaker who introduced the Pentagon Papers
to the public by entering them into the official
Congressional Record, said Republicans will demonstrate
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“the height of cowardice” if they refuse to release the
FISA memo.
My, how times have changed. If the Times,
the Post, and a few other legacy media
outlets were all that existed today, as was
the case in 1971, Americans would never
discover how badly they’ve been lied to —
again — by their government. This is
another reason to celebrate the
independent media.
 EPIC! Rep. Matt Gaetz FIRES BACK At James Comey
Over ‘Weasels And Liars’ Tweet (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 9:16 Am

On Thursday evening, Rep. Matt Gaetz
fired back at former FBI Director James
Comey after the fired bureau chief
lashed out ahead of the FISA memo’s
release.
Gaetz’s reply was spot on.
“I would remind Director Comey that I don’t
know that too many schools or streets are
going to be named after him once this
memo is into the public square,” Gaetz told
Fox News host Martha MacCallum.

Missed Comey hitting the panic button? Last night, the

fired bureau chief tweeted,

“All should appreciate the FBI speaking up.

I wish more of our leaders would. But take
heart: American history shows that, in the
long run, weasels and liars never hold the
field, so long as good people stand up. Not
a lot of schools or streets named for Joe
McCarthy.”

As the Daily Beast reported, Comey has reason to worry

over the memo’s release. The fired bureau chief, along
with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are officially named in
the “shocking” FISA abuse memo.

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 Trump Approval Rating Almost
Tied With Obama At Same Stage Of His Presidency
President Pops To 49% After State Of The Union Speech
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
February 2, 2018

approval index of minus 3, which is four points better than

Obama.

President Donald Trump’s approval

rating is now virtually tied with Barack
Obama’s at the same stage of his
presidency after Trump popped to 49%
following his State of the Union speech.
Put simply, amongst Americans with forthright views,
According to Rasmussen, voters are evenly split with 49% Barack Obama was more unpopular than Trump is now at
disapproving of Trump and 49% in his corner, Trump’s the same stage of his presidency eight years ago.
highest voter approval since March 7, 2017.
With today’s jobs numbers beating expectations again and
Looking at historical records of Obama’s approval rating wage growth at its highest in eight years, after a difficult
from the same polling firm, we find that on this day in summer the president is seemingly on a roll.
2010, the same duration into Obama’s first term, his
approval rating stood at 50%, just one percentage point Trump’s well received State of the Union speech was a big
higher than Trump. reason for his approval surge, but the recent tax cut has
also boosted his popularity.
In addition, on the same date in 2010, Obama’s “strongly
disapprove” rating was 39% compared to his “strongly It remains to be seen whether the release of the notorious
approve” rating of 32%, giving him a total approval index FISA memo will benefit Trump even further in derailing
of minus 7. the “Russian collusion” investigation into his
administration.
Trump’s “strongly disapprove” rating is at 38% compared
to his 35% “strongly approve rating,” giving him a total
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 Evidence Suggests Obama Admin Spied On Candidate
Trump And Campaign LONG BEFORE FISA
Request Was Presented To FISA Court
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 9:54 Am
It’s illegal to spy on Americans without
proper warrant from an entity like the
FISA Court. More and more evidence is
being uncovered that suggests the
Obama Administration not only spied on
citizen and Presidential candidate
Donald Trump but did so before
obtaining their bogus warrant through
the FISA Court to do so.
This past fall text messages were uncovered between
corrupt lovers, FBI agent Peter Strzok, former Chief of the
Counterespionage Section during the FBI’s investigation
into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email use and
former lead FBI investigator on Mueller’s fake Russia
scandal, and his mistress, Lisa Page, the former FBI top
attorney who was also on the Mueller team. In one text the
dishonest lover Strzok wrote –
I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration
in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected —
but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an
insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before
you’re 40.
Although the Wall Street Journal reported that the
‘insurance policy’ was related to the Russia collusion
farce, others hint that it may be more sinister than even
that. The Russia farce was beyond imagination but some
believe that it may not be the ‘insurance policy’.
Conservative commentator, author and former Secret
Service Agent, Dan Bongino, have asked what reason was
there to spy on President Trump in the first place?
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There was no legal reason to date that justifies the federal
government obtaining permission to spy on President
Trump, before the election or at any time. Former NSA
Director James Clapper was on CNN yesterday and as
reported by TGP’s Joshua Caplan, Clapper stated that the
Steele Dossier Was Used For FISA Surveillance
“Extension”.
It now is beginning to look like the corrupt Obama
Administration and its ‘deep state’FBI, DOJ and NSA
were all spying on President Trump long before a warrant
in court was ever issued.
Was the ‘insurance policy’ obtaining a
warrant to spy on President Trump in
case he won the election? Was this
obtained so that the crooks could claim
that they had proper legal justification
to do so?
Also, what is so damning that these
crooks would go through such extreme
measures to attempt to unseat the
President from his election win? It must
be really, really bad!
Finally, why did the Judge appointed by
Obama to the FISA Court who was also
involved in the case against General
Flynn later recuse himself from the
Flynn case?
 President Trump Is Stepping Up His
Attacks On His Own FBI And Justice Department
By Nash Jenkins
Updated: February 2, 2018 10:04 AM ET
President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National
Committee winter meeting at the Trump International Hotel on
February 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Pool—Getty Images
President Donald Trump accused the country’s top law
enforcement officials of political bias against the
Republican Party and his administration in a tweet he sent
early Friday morning. The tweet came just hours before
the expected release of a memo commissioned by G.O.P.
lawmakers that chronicles the F.B.I.’s purported abuses of
its surveillance authorities during the 2016 presidential
campaign.
“The top Leadership and Investigators of the
FBI and the Justice Department have politicized
the sacred investigative process in favor of
Democrats and against Republicans —
something which would have been unthinkable
just a short time ago,” Trump tweeted. “Rank
and file are great people!”
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It is the latest marker of the rift between the president and
the justice officials he appointed. Amidst the ongoing
Department of Justice investigation into Russian
involvement in the 2016 presidential election, Trump —
and a good number of his Republican allies in Congress —
have accused these officials of political bias and ulterior
motive.
The memo, spearheaded by House Intelligence Committee
chairman Rep. Devin Nunes of California, is said to
describe the F.B.I.’s unlawful wiretapping of Carter Page,
a former Trump campaign advisor. Republicans have
called on Trump this week to release the memo.
“This stinks to high heaven,” North Carolina
Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman
of the conservative House Freedom Caucus,
tweeted on Jan. 23. “If this is anything what it
looks like — the FBI changing course on
investigation, putting their thumb on the scale to
undermine Donald Trump and essentially help
Hillary Clinton — that is as wrong as it gets.
This demands further investigation.”
 REPORT: Sean Hannity Has Been Advising POTUS
Trump On The Classified House Intel FISA Memo
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 10:13 Am
This should give some comfort to
Trump supporters and FOX News fans.
Sean Hannity is giving President Trump
advice on how to release of the House
Intel FISA memo.
Hannity has managed to survive and thrive in the media
spotlight for over twenty years as a top conservative voice
in America. Sean also knows better than anyone how the
liberal mainstream media operates in America. Sean
Hannity, like President Trump, has impeccable instincts on
operating in the mainstream media minefield.
Of course, this infuriates the left.
.
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Lachlan Marchay at the Daily Beast reported:
President Donald Trump is at odds with his own chief law-
enforcement officers over a controversial memo fueling
Republican allegations of a conspiracy against the Trump
presidency. But by all indications, the president is less
amenable to the concerns of his own FBI than those shared
by a less formal, more bombastic adviser.
That adviser is Sean Hannity, who has been hyping the so-
called Nunes memo all week, and with whom the president
continues to speak regularly.
According to three sources with knowledge of their
conversations, Trump has been in regular contact with
Hannity over the phone in recent weeks, as the Fox News
prime-time star and Trump ally has encouraged the prompt
release of a controversial four-page memo crafted by
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee.
Hannity has gone to the wall to push for the public release
of the memo, which the intelligence panel and its
chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), authorized this week
in a party-line vote despite the classified information
therein.
Sources say Hannity’s persistent advocacy reinforced
Trump’s already growing determination to get that memo
into the public realm.
 ‘COLLUSION IS DEAD’:
Trump Celebrates Release Of FISA Memo
SAAGAR ENJETI -
White House Correspondent
10:13 AM 02/03/2018

President Donald Trump celebrated the Friday release of a
FISA memo compiled by House Republicans alleging to
show broad abuse of authority in the top ranks of the FBI
and the Department of Justice.
dossier in its FISA application on Trump campaign
associate Carter Page and revealed previously undisclosed
testimony from former FBI deputy director Andrew
McCabe that an investigation into Page would not have
occurred without the dossier.

The White House released a statement immediately after

the memo’s release saying

“the memorandum raises serious concerns

about the integrity of decisions made at the
highest levels of the Department of Justice and
the FBI to use the Government’s most intrusive
surveillance tools against American citizens.”

The memo found that the FBI and the Department of

Justice did not disclose the political origins of the Steele
.

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 “OBAMA SPIED ON TRUMP”: Ex-Secret Service Agent
Predicts FISA Memo Will Be America’s ‘Most
Consequential Political Scandal’ Ever
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 10:40 Am
Filling in for radio host Mark Levin
Thursday, former Secret Service Agent
Dan Bongino explained why he believes
revelations in the FISA memo will
amount to the “most consequential
political scandal in the history of the
United States.”
Credit: Conservative Review
Conservative Review’s Jordan Schachtel summed up key
take-aways from Bongino’s segment.
“Obama spied on Trump. His team did spy
on Trump,” Bongino reminded listeners.
“None of that is in dispute.”
“The slobs up on [Capitol] Hill in the
Democrat Party who are now, in effect,
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police state supporters — history is going
to judge you harshly.” (2:50)
Bongino singled out Democratic Rep. Adam “Shifty”
Schiff as a “lying, manipulative sleazeball” who he
accused of lying to the American people about the truth of
the “Obamagate” scandal.
This isn’t the first time Bongino has rang the alarm
pertaining to the memo’s explosive contents.
The former Secret Service agent has warned Obama will
be faced with only two options once the memo is released.
“After they #ReleaseTheMemo Obama will
only have two options:
OPTION 1) I didn’t know anything about
the most important CI investigation in
American history, despite being notified
about it, or
OPTION 2) I did know and I approved of
using the police state to spy on my
opposition.”
The CRTV contributor also warned the release of the FISA
report will destroy the image of his former boss Barack
Obama.
 “My sincere apologies for the expletive but
SHIT IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN. The
former Obama administration’s going to
have a lot of explaining to do,” Bongino
added.

“Take it to the bank, the FBI/FISA docs are

devastating for the Dems. The whole image
of a benevolent Barack Obama they’ve
disingenuously tried to portray is about to
be destroyed. The real Obama, the
vengeful narcissist, is going to be exposed
for all to see,” tweeted Dan Bongino
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 Sean Hannity Warns “TICK TOCK…
Next Hour” — FISA MEMO RELEASE!
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 10:24 Am

Conservative heavyweight Sean Hannity

tweeted a warning out to his millions of
followers Friday morning on what
people are dubbing “Memo day”.
“Tick Tock… next hour” Hannity tweeted.
(More reaction below)

It was also reported Sean Hannity is

giving President Trump advice on how
to release the House Intel FISA memo.
The FBI and Deep State fiercely worked to prevent the
release of the FISA memo. President Trump approved the
release of the memo Thursday and sent the document back
to the House Intel Committee to be released Friday.
Some of the reaction from excited Trump supporters:

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 HERE IT IS — MEMO RELEASED=>
House Intelligence Committee Releases
Classified FISA Memo
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 10:58 Am
The House Intelligence Committee
released their classified FISA memo on
Friday morning.
The House voted on Monday along party
lines to share the explosive memo with
the American public.
This comes after the approval of
President Donald Trump.
Sean Hannity posted a one hour warning at 10:20 AM ET.
The House Intelligence Committee
released the four page memo on Friday
morning.
FOX News says there is testimony from a high-ranking
official included in the classified memo.
FOX News: Memo says FBI, DOJ used the media to lend
credibility to the dossier.
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Byron York at The Washington Examiner posted on the
memo—
The House Intelligence Committee has released its
controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret
surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the
Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points:
 The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the intial
and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter
Page.
 Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would
have been sought from the FISA Court without the
Steele dossier information.
 The political origins of the Steele dossier were known
to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the
FISA applications.
 DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the
summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about
Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was
desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president
and was passionate about him not becoming president.
The FBI and Justice Department mounted a months-long
effort to keep the information outlined in the memo out of
the House Intelligence Committee’s hands. Only the threat
of contempt charges and other forms of pressure forced the
FBI and Justice to give up the material.
Once Intelligence Committee leaders and staff compiled
some of that information into the memo, the FBI and
Justice Department, supported by Capitol Hill Democrats,
mounted a ferocious campaign of opposition, saying
release of the memo would endanger national security and
the rule of law.
But Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes never
wavered in his determination to make the information
available to the public. President Trump agreed, and, as
required by House rules, gave his approval for release.
CLASSIFIED MEMO BELOW—
(Still waiting – will post ASAP)
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 THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 2, 2018
The Honorable Devin Nunes
Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Mr. Chairman:

On January 29, 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (hereinafter “the
Committee”) voted to disclose publicly a memorandum containing classified information provided to the
Committee in connection with its oversight activities (the “Memorandum,” which is attached to this
letter). As provided by clause 11(g) of Rule of the House of Representatives, the Committee has
forwarded this Memorandum to the President based on its determination that the release of the
Memorandum would serve the public interest.

The Constitution vests the President with the authority to protect national security secrets from it
disclosure. As the Supreme Court has recognized, it is the President’s responsibility to classify,
declassify, and control access to information bearing on our intelligence sources and methods and national
defense. See, Dep of Navy v. Egan, 484 US. 518, 527 (1988). In order to facilitate appropriate
congressional oversight, the Executive Branch may entrust classified information to the appropriate
committees of Congress, as it has done in connection with the Committee’s oversight activities here. The
Executive Branch does so on the assumption that the Committee will responsibly protect such classified
information, consistent with the laws of the United States.

The Committee has now determined that the release of the Memorandum would be appropriate. The
Executive Branch, across Administrations of both parties, has worked to accommodate congressional
requests to declassify specific materials in the public interest. However, public release of classified
information by unilateral action of the Legislative Branch is extremely rare and raises significant
separation of powers concerns. Accordingly, the Committee’s request to release the Memorandum is
interpreted as a request for declassification pursuant to the President’s authority.

The President understands that the protection of our national security represents his highest obligation.
Accordingly, he has directed lawyers and national security staff to assess the declassification request,
consistent with established standards governing the handling of classified information, including those
under Section 3.1(d) of Executive Order 13526. Those standards permit declassification when the public
interest in disclosure outweighs any need to protect the information. The White House review process also
included input from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice.
Consistent with this review and these standards, the President has determined that declassification of the
Memorandum is appropriate.

Based on this assessment and in light of the significant public interest in the memorandum, the President
has authorized the declassification of the Memorandum. To be clear, the Memorandum reflects the
judgments of its congressional authors. The President understands that oversight concerning matters
related to the Memorandum may be continuing. Though the circumstances leading to the declassification
through this process are extraordinary, the Executive Branch stands ready to work with Congress to
accommodate oversight requests consistent with applicable standards and processes, including the need to
protect intelligence sources and methods.

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Sincerely,

Donald F. McGahn II
Counsel to the President
cc: The Honorable Paul Ryan
Speaker of the House of Representatives
The Honorable Adam Schiff

Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Declassified by order of the President

February 2, 2018
January 18, 2018
To: HPSCI Majority Members
From: HPSCI Majority Staff

Subject: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation

Purpose

This memorandum provides Members an update on significant facts relating to the Committee’s ongoing
investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their
use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Our
findings, which are detailed below, 1) raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and
FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and 2) represent a troubling
breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the ISA
process.

Investigation Update

On October 21, 2016, DOJ and FBI sought and received a ISA probable cause order (not under Title VII)
authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC. Page is a US citizen who served as a
volunteer advisor to the Trump presidential campaign. Consistent with requirements under FISA, the
application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the
approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant
Attorney General for the National Security Division.

The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant targeting Carter Page and three FISA renewals from
the FISC. As required by statute (50 U.S.C. a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed by the
ISC every 90 days and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. Then-Director James
Comey signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe signed one. Sally Yates, then-Acting DAG Dana Boente, and DAG Rod Rosenstein each signed
one or more FISA applications on behalf of

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Due to the sensitive nature of foreign intelligence activity, FISA submissions (including renewals) before
the ISC are classified. As such, the public’s confidence in the integrity of the FISA process depends on
the court’s ability to hold the government to the highest standard -- particularly as it relates to surveillance
of American citizens. However, the rigor in protecting the rights of Americans, which is reinforced by 90-
day renewals of surveillance orders, is necessarily dependent on the government’s production to the court
of all material and relevant facts. This should include information potentially favorable to the target of the
FISA application that is known by the government. In the case of Carter Page, the government had at least
four independent opportunities before the FISC to accurately provide an accounting of the relevant facts.
However, our findings indicate that, as described below, material and relevant information was omitted.

1) The “dossier” compiled by Christopher Steele (Steele dossier) on behalf of the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the
Carter Page FISA application. Steele was a longtime FBI source who was paid over $160,000 by
the DNC and Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and research firm Fusion GPS, to
obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.

a) Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role
of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or. any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the
political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials.
b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named US. person, but does not name
Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a US. Law firm (Perkins Coie)
representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOI at the, time that political actors were
involved with the Steele dossier). The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on
behalf of -- and paid by -- the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized
payment to Steele for the same information.

2) The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News
article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow. This article does
not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele
himself to Yahoo News. The Page FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not
directly provide information to Yahoo News. Steele has admitted in British court filings that he
met with Yahoo News -- and several other outlets – in September 2016 at the direction of Fusion
GPS. Perkins Coie was aware of Steele’s initial media contacts because they hosted at least one
meeting in Washington DC. in 2016 with Steele and Fusion GPS where this matter was
discussed."

a) Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most
serious of violations -- an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in an
October 30, 2016, Mother Jones article by David Corn. Steele should have been terminated for his
previous undisclosed contacts with Yahoo and other outlets in September -- before the Page
application was submitted to the FISC in October -- but Steele improperly concealed from and lied to
the FBI about those contacts.

b) Steele’s numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling --
maintaining confidentiality -- and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source
for the FBI.

3) Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce 0hr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with
Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began
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 interviewing 0hr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in September 2016,
Steele admitted to 0hr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he “was
desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not, being
president.” This clear evidence of Steele’s bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently
in official FBI files – but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications.

a) During this same time period, Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of
opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research,
paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and
Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC.

4) According to the head of the counterintelligence division, Assistant Director Bill Priestap,
corroboration of the Steele dossier was in its “infancy” at the time of the initial Page FISA
application. After Steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent
unit within FBI assessed Steele’s reporting as only minimally corroborated. Yet, in early January
2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even
though it was -- according to his June 2017 testimony – “salacious and unverified.” While the
FISA application relied on Steele’s past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it
ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations. Furthermore, Deputy
Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant
would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.

5) The Page FISA application also mentions information regarding fellow Trump campaign advisor
George Papadopoulos, but there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page
and Papadopoulos. The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI
counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was
reassigned by the Special Counsel’s Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages
with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both
demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, Whom Strzok had also
investigated. The Strzok/Lisa Page texts also reflect extensive discussions about the investigation,
orchestrating leaks to the media, and include a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss
an “insurance” policy against President Trump’s election.

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 Typical Politifact On SOTU:
Trump Mostly False, Joe Kennedy Mostly True
By Tim Graham
February 2, 2018 11:00 AM EST
PolitiFact demonstrated its usual imbalance of aggression
in its State of the Union speech coverage. President
Trump’s speech drew twelve different articles with factual
evaluations (seven of them False or Mostly False), while
the Democratic response by Rep. Joe Kennedy III drew
one evaluation – “Mostly True.”
The PolitiFact “thumbs up” came when Congressman
Kennedy asserted "top CEOs making 300 times their
average worker is not right." A similar fact check of the
Kennedy speech by NPR had a different take:
In a 2015 fact check of Hillary Clinton, who
also used this figure on the campaign trail,
the Washington Post traced this figure to
the left-leaning [union-funded] Economic
Policy Institute. That Post fact check
pointed out that calculations by the Wall
Street Journal and Bloomberg found ratios
closer to 200 to 1.
PolitiFact understood this exaggerated math, but still
granted it a “Mostly True”:
The first measure assumed stock options
were cashed in, and therefore were added
to CEOs salary, bonuses and other
payouts. Under that measure, CEO
compensation was found to 271 times the
average worker’s pay. Under the second
measure, in which stock options were
granted but not cashed in, the ratio was
224-to-1.
We snicker at their summary:
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"His numbers describing today’s ratio,
while credible, are on the high side of
research."
We could have picked on other nuggets in the Kennedy
address, even though there really weren't many facts in it.
Take, for example, Kennedy attack on Republicans
favoring one category of Americans over another:
“Where we can guarantee America's
safety, if we slash our safety net.” PolitiFact
won’t evaluate if the metaphorical “safety
net” is presently being “slashed” in
anyone’s budget plan.
That is False.
Or take this preposterous (but lovely) rhetorical flourish
aimed at Trump:
“Bullies may land a punch, they may leave
a mark, but they have never, not once, in
the history of our United States, managed
to match the strength and spirit of a people
united in defense of their future.”
One could argue this isn’t a factual statement, but more of
a poetic eruption. But would the Left really agree if a
conservative said bullies (like slave masters) never –
“not once in our history” –
matched the strength of the people they held in bondage?
Wouldn’t they typically argue that America’s history is
filled with ignorant bullies winning?
Just before the State of the Union, Trump
also drew a mysterious "Half True" for
tweeting at the rapper Jay-Z that because
of his policies, black unemployment is "at
the lowest rate ever recorded."
PolitiFact says the fact is factual:
"As we’ve noted, the unemployment rate
for African-Americans is currently the
 lowest since the statistic was first
calculated in 1972."
But what makes it half-true is that it was already coming
down under Obama:
"More to the point, as we’ve noted in regard
to presidents of both parties, presidents
don’t deserve either full credit or full blame
for the unemployment rate on their watch.
The president is not all-powerful on
economic matters. Broader factors, from
the business cycle to changes in
.
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technology to demographic shifts, play
major roles."
Does anyone think that if Obama said black
unemployment went down due to his policies, he'd get a
Half True? Try this "Mostly True" article. Or see
PolitiFact stretching beyond the facts to give Obama a
"Mostly True" when he boasted America is seen as
stronger and more respected since he took office.
Somehow, they didn't say
"Obama doesn't deserve full credit or
blame for international public opinion...."
 TRUMP REACTS TO FISA MEMO:
“I Think It’s Terrible. I Think It’s A Disgrace What’s
Happening In Our Country”
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 11:10 Am

President Donald Trump spoke to
reporters after the release of the secret
House Intelligence FISA memo.
President Trump was meeting with North Korean
dissidents in the White House when reporters asked him
about his reaction to the House Intelligence FISA memo.
According to FOX News the FISA memo was NOT
redacted and the names are included on the post.
President Trump:
“I think it’s terrible. I think it’s a disgrace
what’s happening to our country.

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 Intel Dem Accuses Tucker Of Jeopardizing
National Security With Pro-Trump, Pro-Putin Narrative
By Debra Heine
February 3, 2018
During a highly contentious segment on Fox News Friday
night, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) accused host Tucker
Carlson of jeopardizing national security by peddling pro-
Trump narratives that are also pro-Putin narratives that are
retweeted by Russian bots.
Carlson started the raucous conversation by asking
Swalwell to explain why Democrats were saying that
releasing the FISA abuse memo would jeopardize national
security which, he said,
"turned out to be a lie."
"You should be concerned about this too,"
Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence
Committee, began. *"It does reveal sources.
You should read the memo. Just because you
knew the sources beforehand because they
were reported on doesn't mean we
acknowledge them in an ongoing investigation."
Tucker insisted that Swalwell "be precise" about how the
memo was jeopardizing national security, because it's a
"serious charge" that he wouldn't want to "play any role
in."
Swalwell replied,
"You're playing a role right now -- because we
don't acknowledge sources in ongoing
investigations."
"What source are you talking about?" the
perplexed Carlson asked.
"The memo goes into Papadopoulos and Page
and others that you only knew about because
they were reported on," Swalwell responded.
Confused, Carlson tried to get Swalwell back on track.
"You just accused me of endangering American
national security, and I think it's fair to ask you
to be very precise in explaining that," he said.
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Swalwell tried to meander off into a "larger point" about
"the rule of law" and how [people like?] Carlson were
using the police to go after their political enemies. [?!]**
He was making no sense and Tucker was losing patience.
"You got two choices. You can either apologize
and take it back or you can explain it," he
insisted.
"Because we don't reveal the sources in
ongoing investigations," Swalwell replied. He
compared the Trump/Russia probe to the police
interrogating a suspect. "And you're suggesting
that we should give the suspect the evidence
before we ask them the questions," he argued.
"Who's the suspect?! What the hell are you
talking about?" Carlson exclaimed.
"They gave the White House evidence in the
Russia investigation," Swalwell answered.
"I'm not talking about the White House," Tucker
shot back. "I'm talking about me as an
American citizen who got a chance to read this
much-talked-about memo today and I listened
to people like you tell me -- and now explicitly
tell me -- that I'm hurting our country by reading
it. And I wanna know how I'm doing that!"
Swalwell's answer was bizarre:
"You're also hurting our country by not
acknowledging the rule of law has been run
over! They're using the police to attack their
enemies [?!] and they're attacking the police
because they're under investigation."
"Okay! One serious crime at a time," the
increasingly perplexed Tucker said. "You don't
have an answer, which is why you're not
answering my question."
"I gave you a bunch of answers, Tucker," said
Swalwell.
 "I have literally no idea what you're talking
about!" Carlson protested.
He asked Swalwell if he actually thinks Carter Page is
betraying his country.
"I think you're not allowing the FBI to answer
that question with what you and others are
doing to undermine their work," Swalwell
answered.
"You've got to be kidding!" Tucker exclaimed.
"All I want is for my questions to be answered."
"These are important times in our history. Either
you are supporting those that are undermining
the independence of the Department of Justice
and the rule of law, or you're standing firm and
saying this is wrong," Swalwell intoned.
"I'm not sure what the hell you're talking about,"
the confused Carlson insisted.
"You don't like what I'm talking about!" Swalwell
shot back.
"Oh! Well I definitely don't like what you're
talking about, but more profoundly, I don't
understand it," Tucker argued.
He challenged the Democrat to come up
with one thing he has done to make America
less safe.
"You continue to support the idea that we
should give suspects in criminal cases the
evidence against them before we ask them any
questions," Swalwell answered. "Do you think
it's a problem that the White House was sent
evidence of the Russia investigation when they
are subjects of an investigation?"
"Who are THEY?!" Tucker exclaimed.
"Donald Trump and Don McGahn," Swalwell
answered.
Tucker decided to try one last time to get a coherent
answer.
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"In the case of today's memo, what specifically
have I espoused that empowers -- threats to our
country?" he asked.
"You're peddling the narrative that the Trump
administration is putting out -- which also is the
Putin narrative because they're retweeting this
with their Russian bots," Swalwell answered. "If
you're on the same side as WikiLeaks and Putin
...you should take a step back and wonder
whose bidding are you really doing!"
Carlson was speechless.
"I don't even know what to say," he sighed. "I
don't want to explode on TV so I'm just going to
end this segment now."
* Liberal projection:
When Democrats accuse Republicans of
something, it's a pretty safe bet that they are
actually guilty of the thing. As far as "sources
and methods" are concerned, the Democrat
countermemo might have a problem.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) said on Fox
News' "The Ingraham Angle" Friday night that
although he is in favor of releasing Rep. Schiff's
memo, it is "chock full of sources and methods"
so it will have to be "heavily redacted first."
** More liberal projection: Twice Swalwell
brought up how [the GOP] was using law
enforcement to go after political enemies. That,
as we all know, is what the Obama
administration did to conservatives for eight
years. It's very strange that he wanted to talk
about that.
 DISGRACE! AG Sessions PRAISES Rod Rosenstein
On SAME DAY FISA Memo Is Released (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 12:16 Pm

On Friday, Attorney General Jeff and leadership that we want in the

Sessions lavished praise on Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
and Associate Attorney General Rachel
Brand. Sessions’ remarks came on the
same day the FISA memo was released.
department.”
That’s a departure from President Donald Trump, who was
asked Friday whether he has confidence in Rosenstein.
Trump said, “You figure that one out.”

Meanwhile, President Trump is none too pleased about the

memo.

When asked about the document in the Oval Office Friday,

the President responded, “”The memo was sent to
Congress. They’re going to do whatever they’re going to
do, but it’s a disgrace what’s happening in our country,””

Below is footage of the exchange between Trump and the

press on Rosenstein.

KFYRTV reports:

Sessions broke from prepared remarks in a

speech Friday on human trafficking. He
praised Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein (ROH’-zen-styn) as well as the
department’s No. 3 official, Rachel Brand.
Sessions says both are experienced
lawyers and “represent the kind of quality

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Last week, Sessions Justice Department called on House
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) to allow the
FBI to review the “shocking,” FISA abuse memo to ensure
its release will not harm national security.

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 Deep Statist John McCain, Who Trafficked The Fake
Trump Dossier To The FBI, Makes Bizarre Claim About
FISA Memo Release: “We Are Helping Putin”
By JD Heyes
Friday, February 02, 2018

must stop looking at this investigation

through the warped lens of politics and
manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we
continue to undermine our own rule of law,
we are doing Putin’s job for him.”

Why would he do that? Well, for one, McCain is a

#nevertrumper; ever since the president insulted his
Vietnam service, most of which was spent in a brutal
North Vietnamese prison, the senior Arizona senator has
had it in for Trump. (Granted, Trump shouldn’t have done
that, but lest we forget, McCain had already begun
savaging his presidential bid, so our president — always
the counter-puncher — hit back.)
There is one thing we can deduce from Friday’s release of
the infamous “FISA memo,” thanks to heroes and
champions of government accountability and transparency
in Congress and the White House: It’s now confirmed that
the Obama administration was the most corrupt in the
history of our country.

There’s no denying that, despite the fact that Democrats

continue to do so and will continue to do so for as long as
they draw a breath.

But they’re not the only enemies of government and

political accountability. Not by a long shot. In fact, one of
their best allies is in the U.S. Senate, and — technically
speaking anyway — he’s not even a member of their party.
That would be Deep Statist Sen. John McCain, RINO-
Arizona. Rather than cheer the release of the memo, which
revealed serial abuses of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court by upper echelon officials in the FBI
and Justice Department to prevent Donald J. Trump from
becoming president, and to undermine him after he
defeated Hillary Clinton in November 2016, he criticized
it.
“The latest attacks on the FBI and
Department of Justice serve no American
interests – no party’s, no president’s, only
[Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s,”
McCain said in a statement. “Our nation’s
elected officials, including the president,
For another, let’s not forget that McCain gave his Deep
State buddy former FBI director James Comey a copy
of the bogus “Trump dossier” — the same one that was
misrepresented as “intelligence” and used to secure an
October 2016 surveillance warrant from the FISA court so
the bureau could spy on the Trump campaign.
As reported by The National Sentinel:
…[A]s many suspected, the discredited and
unverified “Trump dossier” was used not
once but on three separate occasions to
secure a FISA court surveillance warrant to
allow the Obama administration to spy on
Team Trump during his campaign.
As Fox News added, the FISA memo also “includes
testimony from a high-ranking government official who
says without the infamous Trump dossier, the FBI and

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DOJ would not have secured surveillance warrants to spy
on at least one member of the Trump team.”
The memo further pointed out that in December 2017,
then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe testified that
“no surveillance warrant would have been sought” from
the FISA court “without the Steele dossier information.”
(Related: SHAMELESS: No Democrats or left-leaning
publishers denounce shocking abuses of power detailed
in FISA memo release)
Think about that. McCain helped to enable the whole
thing. McCain helped enable illegal spying on an
American citizen — former Trump campaign foreign
policy advisor Carter Page — by supplying the dossier to
the FBI.
So Obama could spy on the presidential
nominee of his own party.
“The ‘dossier’ compiled by Christopher
Steele (Steele dossier) on behalf of the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and
the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an
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essential part of the Carter Page FISA
application,” the memo states.
“Steele was a longtime FBI source who
was paid over $160,000 by the DNC and
Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins
Coie and research fir Fusion GPS, to
obtain derogatory information on Donald
Trump?s ties to Russia,” it continued.
How likely is it that McCain — still butt-hurt over
Trump’s insult — didn’t know the dossier was a political
document, that it was just opposition research and not
actual intelligence?
In his statement, McCain claimed that
releasing the memo was “helping Putin” to
‘undermine our democracy.” Actually,
senator, saddling our president with fake
charges of “Russian collusion” have
helped Putin “undermine our democracy.”
Which means Deep Statists like you are helping the
enemy — not Trump.
 TOM FITTON: “Will Rosenstein Be Fired?”
Memo Shows FISA Court Was Misled By Deputy AG
Rosenstein – POTUS Trump May Have To Act
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 12:25 Pm

“Memo shows FISA court was misled by

The House Intelligence Committee Comey, McCabe, Yates, and Rosenstein.
released their classified FISA memo on Will Rosenstein be fired? Will he have to
Friday morning. recuse himself, in the least?
@RealDonaldTrump may have to act.”
The unclassified memo shows Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court.

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton asked if Rod

Rosenstein will be fired or at lease have to recuse himself.
President Trump may have to act.

Fitton also said,

“Memo: No FISA warrant without Dossier.
Which means no Russia collusion story
without Dossier. Which means no Mueller
special counsel without Dossier paid for by
Clinton/DNC. Shut it down.”

We know from the unclassified FISA memo that a FISA

warrant would never have been issued to spy on Trump’s
camp without Hillary’s phony Russia dossier, according to
Andrew McCabe.

This also means there would be no ‘Russian collusion’

story and no Mueller investigation. Rod Rosenstein has BOOM!
known all along the Russian investigation stemmed from
phony Dem oppo research PAID FOR BY HILLARY’S
CAMP and unverified ‘intelligence’ yet he still appointed
Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to carry out a witch
hunt against President Trump.

Rod Rosenstein needs to go and the Muller witch hunt

needs to be shut down!

Tom Fitton tweeted,

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 House Memo States Disputed Dossier Was Key To FBI’s
FISA Warrant To Surveil Members Of Team Trump
By Alex Pappas, Catherine Herridge, Brooke Singman
February 2, 2018

A much-hyped memo that shows alleged government
surveillance abuse during the 2016 campaign has been
released to the public and cites testimony from a high-
ranking government official who says the FBI and DOJ
would not have sought surveillance warrants to spy on a
member of the Trump team without the infamous,
Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee
released the memo Friday. The White House responded by
saying the memo
secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA,
court to eavesdrop on Trump campaign and transition team
communications.
The memo states that in December 2017, then FBI deputy
director Andrew McCabe testified that “no surveillance
warrant would have been sought” from the FISA court
“without the Steele dossier information.”

“raises serious concerns about the integrity of

decisions made at the highest levels of the
Department of Justice and the FBI to use the
government’s most intrusive surveillance tools
against American citizens.”

The dossier, authored by former British spy Christopher

Steele and commissioned by Fusion GPS, was paid for by
the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's The memo also says Steele was eventually cut off from the
presidential campaign through law firm Perkins Coie. It FBI for being chatty with the media. It says he was
included salacious and unverified allegations about terminated in October 2016 as an FBI source
Trump's connections to Russia.
“for what the FBI defines as the most serious of
The memo, which has been at the center of an intense violations—an unauthorized disclosure to the
power struggle between congressional Republicans and the media of his relationship with the FBI.”
FBI, specifically cites the DOJ and FBI’s surveillance of
Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, saying the dossier
"formed an essential part" of the application to spy on him.

But even after his termination, Steele remained in close

Republicans have charged that the FBI used the dubious contact with then-Associate Deputy Attorney General
dossier, prepared as campaign opposition research for Bruce Ohr. Ohr’s wife, Nellie, began working for Fusion
Clinton’s presidential bid, to get permission from the GPS, the firm behind the dossier, as early as May 2016.

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According to the memo, Steele told Ohr that he
“was desperate that Donald Trump not get
elected and was passionate about him not
being president.” But it says the FISA
application process “ignored or concealed his
anti-Trump financial and ideological
motivations."
“This clear evidence of Steele’s bias was
recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently
in official FBI files – but not reflected in any of
the Page FISA applications,” the memo reads.
It also claims the FBI and DOJ used media reporting to
lend credibility to the dossier. Fusion GPS, it says, briefed
major American news outlets to include New York Times,
Washington Post, CNN, New Yorker, Yahoo and Mother
Jones on its contents.
Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm
behind the memo. (AP)
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump, who has read the
memo, called the contents “a disgrace.”
“A lot of people should be ashamed of
themselves,” he said.
Attorney General Sessions responded to the release by
saying he will
“forward to appropriate DOJ components all
information I receive from Congress regarding
this.”
A senior U.S. official said that indicates Sessions will be
referring the allegations in the memo to the Department of
Justice Inspector General, which can work directly with
US attorneys to build prosecutions.
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“I am determined that we will fully and fairly
ascertain the truth,” Sessions said.
The memo pointed out that in December 2017, then FBI
deputy director Andrew McCabe testified that “no
surveillance warrant would have been sought” from the
FISA court “without the Steele dossier information.”
But the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence
Committee on Friday challenged the accuracy of the
memo.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said he read the classified
documents that formed the basis for the memo, and
"they simply do not support its conclusions."
Former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by
Trump last year and has been publicly criticizing the
president online, also lambasted the memo as “dishonest
and misleading.”
“That’s it?” he tweeted. “Dishonest and
misleading memo wrecked the House intel
committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence
Community, damaged relationship with FISA
court, and inexcusably exposed classified
investigation of an American citizen. For what?
DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.”
The memo stated that on Oct. 21, 2016, the Justice
Department and the FBI “sought and received” a FISA
probable cause order authorizing “electronic surveillance”
on Page from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
At the time, Page was a volunteer adviser on the Trump
campaign.
According to the memo, the FBI and DOJ obtained “one
initial FISA warrant” targeting Page, and three FISA
renewals from the FISA court. The statute required that
every 90 days, a FISA order on an American citizen “must
be renewed.”
The memo stated that then-FBI Director Comey signed
three FISA applications for Page and McCabe signed one.
Trump’s current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
also signed at least one FISA application for Page – along
with former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and
former Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente.
Page’s FISA application “cited extensively” a September
23, 2016 Yahoo News article, which focused on Page’s
trip to Moscow. The memo read that the “article does not
corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from
information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News.”
In a statement to Fox News, Page said the memo reveals an
"unprecedented abuse of process.”
“The brave and assiduous oversight by
Congressional leaders in discovering this
unprecedented abuse of process represents a
giant, historic leap in the repair of America’s
democracy,” Page said.
He added:
“Now that a few of the misdeeds against the
Trump Movement have been partially revealed,
I look forward to updating my pending legal
action in opposition to DOJ this weekend in
preparation for Monday’s next small step on the
long, potholed road toward helping to restore
law and order in our great country.”
The White House sent a letter to Intelligence Committe
Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., accompanying the
unredacted, declassified memo Friday.
“Consistent with this review and these
standards, the president has determined that
declassification of the Memorandum is
appropriate,” White House counsel Don
McGahn wrote.
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The release of the four-page memo comes after the
Intelligence Committee voted earlier this week, over
Democratic objections, to make the document public.
This led to a rare and stunning rebuke from the bureau,
which said Wednesday they had
“grave concerns about material omissions of
fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s
accuracy.”
In a last-ditch objection, the top Democrat on the House
committee claimed overnight that Nunes had made
“material changes” to the memo that was sent to the White
House for review.
But Nunes’ office described the changes as minor and
blasted the complaint as a “bizarre distraction from the
abuses detailed in the memo.”
The White House had backed the memo’s release, calling
for “transparency.”
Just more than two weeks, Republican lawmakers first
drew attention to the memo, with some calling it
“shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming” and one likening
the details to KGB activity in Russia. They argued the
memo should be immediately made public, leading to a
social media #ReleaseTheMemo campaign.
California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the top
Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, indicated
Friday that he believes the panel will now publish a
counter-memo authored by Democrats. Sarah Sanders, the
White House press secretary, suggested Friday the
president will not oppose that effort.
“The administration stands ready to work with
Congress to accommodate oversight requests
consistent with applicable standards, including
the need to protect intelligence sources and
methods,” Sanders said of the Democratic
memo.
 James Comey Fires Off Unhinged Tweet
After FISA Memo Released Showing FBI Corruption
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 12:56 Pm
Media was set ablaze after the House
Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday
morning.
The unclassified memo shows former FBI Director James
Comey, Andrew McCabe, Yates and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court.
James Comey is unhinged. The fired FBI Director
unleashed an angry tweet shortly after the FISA memo was
released to the public exposing the FBI’s corruption.
James Comey attacked Nunes’ memo as “dishonest and
misleading” and said it wrecked the House Intel
Committee and exposed a classified investigation of an
American citizen.
In other words, Comey is angry he and his criminal cabal
of crooked cops have been exposed.
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Comey tweeted,
“That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo
wrecked the House intel committee,
destroyed trust with Intelligence
Community, damaged relationship with
FISA court, and inexcusably exposed
classified investigation of an American
citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep
doing their jobs.”
We know from the unclassified FISA memo that a FISA
warrant would have never been issued to spy on Trump’s
camp without Hillary’s phony Russia dossier, according to
Andrew McCabe.
This also means there would be no ‘Russian collusion’
story and no Mueller investigation. Rod Rosenstein has
known all along the Russian investigation stemmed from
phony Dem oppo research PAID FOR BY HILLARY’S
CAMP and unverified ‘intelligence’ yet he still appointed
Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to carry out a witch
hunt against President Trump.
 FISA Memo: James Comey Lied Under Oath
About Trump Surveillance And Is Now Pathetically
Attacking Republicans For Revealing His Corruption
Alex Thomas
February 2nd, 2018

Dishonest and misleading? I think not. Full of shocking

The recently released FISA memo has proven that
FBI Director James Comey lied under oath when
Congress that there was no information within the
DOJ regarding surveillance on the Donald
campaign.
The memo’s release has confirmed that to be an outright
lie, detailing the shocking fact that Comey’s FBI used
information obtained by Christopher Steele, from Russian
sources, to secure a FISA warrant against Trump campaign
aide Carter Page.
facts that exposes Comey and his Clinton crew as working
former against the president? I think so.
he told
FBI or
Trump Comey’s tweet should confirm once and for all that the
man was absolutely actively working against President
Trump and was willing to not only leak classified details to
the media but is also now apparently willing to lie about
the the contents of the memo to cover for himself and his
deep state lackeys.

Or, in other words, Trump was completely right to fire

Comey who not only allowed Hillary Clinton to get off
free but was actively working against the then Republican
candidate during the election itself.

For his part, Comey has laughably tried to downplay the

revelations contained in the FISA memo (which confirm
him to be a liar) in a series of Tweets that attempts to act
as if the revelations are a big nothingburger.

“Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the

House intel committee, destroyed trust with
Intelligence Community, damaged relationship
with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed
classified investigation of an American citizen. Comey also used the anti-Trump dossier despite knowing
For what?” Comey tweeted Friday morning. it was completely unverified:
“DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs,” he
continued.
One glaring possible inconsistency centers on
Comey’s June 8, 2017 prepared remarks for the

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 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
where he referred to the anti-Trump dossier as
containing “salacious and unverified” material.
Yet, according to the memo crafted by House
Republicans, Comey personally signed three
FISA court applications utilizing that same
dossier that he labeled “salacious and
unverified” eight months later to obtain FISA
court warrants to conduct surveillance on Carter
Page, who briefly served as a volunteer foreign
policy adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The memo documents that on October 21,
2016, the FBI and Justice Department sought
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and received the FISA order against Page, and
that the agencies sought the renewal of the
order every 90 days in accordance with court
requirements. Renewals require separate
finding of probable cause each time, the memo
relates.
According to the memo, Comey “signed three
FISA applications in question on behalf of the
FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
signed one.” Sally Yates, then-Acting Deputy
Attorney Gernal Dana Boente, and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein signed one or
more of the applications on behalf of the Justice
Department.
 John McCain Takes Time Out To Condemn The FISA
Memo: “Serve(S) No American Interest… Only Putin’s”
By Jim Hof
February 2, 2018, 12:58 Pm
The House Intelligence Committee
released their classified FISA memo on
Friday morning.
The House voted on Monday along party
lines to share the explosive memo with
the American public.
This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump.
** Read the entire un-redacted
document here.
Senator John McCain weighed in after
the document’s release today.
McCain was one of the leading
cheerleaders in the Russia-Trump
collusion conspiracy.
McCain says the document only helps
Putin.
Unreal.
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Here is Senator McCain’s full statement.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ),
Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
released the following statement on partisan attacks on the
FBI and Department of Justice:
“In 2016, the Russian government engaged
in an elaborate plot to interfere in an
American election and undermine our
democracy. Russia employed the same
tactics it has used to influence elections
around the world, from France and
Germany to Ukraine, Montenegro, and
beyond. Putin’s regime launched
cyberattacks and spread disinformation
with the goal of sowing chaos and
weakening faith in our institutions. And
while we have no evidence that these
efforts affected the outcome of our election,
I fear they succeeded in fueling political
discord and dividing us from one another.
“The latest attacks on the FBI and
Department of Justice serve no American
interests – no party’s, no president’s, only
Putin’s. The American people deserve to
know all of the facts surrounding Russia’s
ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy,
which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s
investigation must proceed unimpeded.
Our nation’s elected officials, including the
president, must stop looking at this
investigation through the warped lens of
politics and manufacturing partisan
sideshows. If we continue to undermine our
own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for
him.”
 Memo On FBI, DoJ Violations 'Destroyed Trust' In
Intelligence Community - Comey
© Afp 2018/ Saul Loeb Us
11:10 03.02.2018(Updated 13:05 05.02.2018)
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The memo released by Republicans
in the US House of Representatives regarding alleged
abuses committed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) within the
Russian probe has "destroyed trust" in the intelligence
community, former FBI Director James Comey said.
"That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the
House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence
Community, damaged relationship with FISA [Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act] court, and inexcusably
exposed classified investigation of an American citizen.
For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs," Comey
wrote on Twitter on Friday.
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On Wednesday, FBI said in a statement that the bureau had
serious concerns about the accuracy of the Republican-
drafted memorandum.
Efforts to release the memo also sparked opposition
from Democrats in Congress, who called it an effort
to distract attention from a Justice Department probe
of Russian attempts to influence the election.
The memo, which was released on Friday, accuses FBI and
Justice Department officials of political bias
against President Donald Trump in their investigation
of Russian alleged interference in the 2016 presidential
election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
According to the memo, FBI and DOJ staff also abused
surveillance laws in the investigation of Trump campaign.
The US Congress is currently investigating Russia's
alleged meddling in the 2016 US election and collusion
between Trump's campaign team and the Kremlin. Another
investigation into the purported interference is being
conducted by the FBI and the Department of Justice
under Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
In May, Trump fired Comey over the poor handling of the
investigation into the Hillary Clinton private server and
email scandal. However, many believe that the decision is
connected with the probe into alleged ties to Trump's
campaign team to Russia, as Comey reportedly was
seeking funding to extend the bureau’s inquiry. Kremlin,
as well as the White House have repeatedly refuted these
allegations.
 Nunes Tells Fox News Memo
Was Released Out Of Public Obligation
By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News
February 2, 1:15, 2018
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-
Calif., told Fox News on Friday that the memo alleging
intelligence abuse during an investigation into the 2016
presidential campaign was released out of “an obligation to
the American people.” He also said there's “damning”
evidence that the courts were misled in an attempt to
surveil a Trump campaign member.
Appearing on “Special Report,” Nunes told Fox News’
Bret Baier that the motivation behind releasing the memo
was protecting the rights of American citizens
“I have an obligation to the American people
when we see FISA abuse," Nunes said. "These
are secret courts that exist to target for
foreigners, for catching terrorists, for catching
people who might be bad actors and the
American citizens that are represented before
this court have to be protected, and the only
place that can protect them is the U.S.
Congress when abuses do occur.”
The four-page memo, written by Nunes and his staff,
alleges intelligence abuse by the DOJ and FBI during the
2016 Trump campaign, citing a high-ranking government
official who says both agencies would never have sought
surveillance warrants in the absence of a disputed anti-
Trump dossier funded by Democrats.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified to
the committee that
“no surveillance warrant would have been
sought” from the FISA court “without the Steele
dossier information.”
The memo said it was not disclosed that the dossier was
authored by an outspoken Trump critic, Christopher Steele.
Democrats say the court was notified.
“No,” Nunes said when asked if this was true.
“These guys tell so many lies you can’t keep
track of them. The court was not made aware.”
If this was the case, Baier asked Nunes, why not include a
transcript of McCabe’s testimony?
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“I wouldn’t mind doing that,” Nunes said. “The
quotes are pretty damning themselves,” but he
added that it is a long process. “It’s a
summation of a long interview but that is
definitely what he said.”
Nunes noted that there are other testimonies to corroborate
McCabe’s statement.
“We have other witnesses who said very similar
things. The fact of the matter is the main things
that were used to go out and get this warrant
was the dossier and the story that corroborated
the dossier.”
Nunes said he strongly believes that without the dossier,
the court would not have authorized the surveillance.
“They wouldn’t have received a warrant without
the dossier. The dossier was presented to the
court as if it were true. The court was not told
that the Democrats actually paid for this,”
Nunes said.
Baier also asked the congressman if he manipulated the
memo when writing it, something Democrats have alleged.
“So we looked specifically at just FISA abuse;
we wanted to keep sources and methods out;
remember 10 days ago we were accused of a
lot of things, especially that we were going to
disclose our nation’s top secrets."
That, he said, turned out to be a falsehood by the left and
the mainstream media.
Nunes said it was actually Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who
reviewed the FISA documents and later briefed the rest of
the committee.
“This has been one of these bogus news stories
that have been put out. So the agreement we
made with the DOJ was to create a reading
room and allow one member and two
investigators to go over and review the
 documents. I thought the best person for this
was Trey Gowdy,” he said. “They would come
back with their notes and brief the rest of the
committee members”
Nunes told the Fox News host that the investigation never
worked in cooperation with the Trump administration, any
Trump lawyers or any outside conservative groups.
He added that he would vote yes to release the Democrats'
own memo, which purports to fill in gaps and provide
context for the one released Friday, but could not say when
.
it might be released, since it would have to go through the
same review and approval process that the Nunes memo
went through.
Nunes concluded that “Phase 1” of the
investigation focusing on FISA abuse was
complete, and that “Phase 2” included ongoing
investigations into other departments including
the State Department.

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 Adam Schiff Melts Down After FISA Memo Released –
Accuses POTUS Trump Of Undermining Mueller Probe
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 1:32 Pm

Schiff has been in overdrive leading up to the release of

Media was set ablaze after the House the FISA memo.
Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday Schiff wasted no time in responding to the allegations. He
morning. is itching to release his junk counter-memo.

The Deep State and Dems are in a panic as the world sees
the FBI was weaponized to target a political campaign.
Fired FBI Director James Comey came out swinging
shortly after the FISA memo was released and mocked the
memo.
The President’s decision to publicly release a misleading
memo attacking DOJ & FBI is a transparent attempt to
discredit these institutions and undermine Mueller’s probe.
We’ll fight to release our classified response. Until then
here’s a glimpse at what’s wrong with their memo:

Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Rep.

Adam Schiff (D-CA) melted down after the FISA memo
was published. He attacked President Trump’s decision to
release the document.

Screenshot of Schiff’s response below:

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 Report: Deputy AG Rosenstein Threatened
To Subpoena GOP Intel Reps' Calls And Texts
By Debra Heine
February 3, 2018

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett made the same claim
on Fox News Friday night.

"A congressional source tells me that Rod

Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks ago
threatened Chairman Nunes and members of
Congress that he was going to subpoena their
texts and messages because he was tired of
dealing with the Intel Committee," Jarrett said at
the end of a segment on "Hannity."
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein . (AP Photo/Andrew
Harnik)

Highly placed congressional sources are telling Fox News

personalities off the record that last month, out of
frustration, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
threatened to subpoena the communication records of
Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee.
If true, the threat could constitute an abuse of power or
even obstruction, a Fox News legal analyst says.

On Fox Business' “Making Money” Friday, conservative

talk show host David Webb said a "highly placed
congressional source" told him that during a January 10, Saturday morning, Jarrett tweeted that a second source had
2018, meeting with FBI Director Christopher Wray, told him Rosenstein had threatened members of the House
Rosenstein, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Intelligence Committee, calling it likely
Nunes were in attendance, Rosenstein got so irritated by
the requests for outstanding documents that he threatened "an abuse of power and obstruction."
to subpoena Congress and launch an investigation.

Webb pointed out that investigating Congress is not

something the deputy AG can do just because of

"the constant requests that he wasn't filling."

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 Jarrett says if the allegations are true,

"Rosenstein must resign or be fired."

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Releases Statement After FISA
Abuses Revealed — WH Offers To Help
With Dem Counter-Memo!
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 1:44 Pm

White House press Secretary Sarah

Huckabee Sanders released a statement
following the FISA abuse memo’s
release. Sanders made clear the
decision to release the memo “was
made with input from the President’s
national security team — including law
enforcement officials and members of
the intelligence community, for whom
the President has great respect.”

“The memorandum raises serious concerns

about the integrity of decisions made at the
highest levels of the Department of Justice
and the FBI to use the government’s most
intrusive surveillance tools against
American citizens,” the statement says.
“This decision was made with input from
the president’s national security team—
including law enforcement officials and
members of the intelligence community, for
whom the president has great respect. He
is especially grateful to the hardworking
rank-and-file public servants who work
every day to keep America safe and uphold
our laws while protecting the constitutional
rights of all Americans. Minority members
of the Committee have reportedly
drafted a separate memorandum. The
Administration stands ready to work
with Congress to accommodate
oversight requests consistent with
applicable standards, including the
need to protect intelligence sources and
methods.”

Meanwhile, President Trump is none too pleased about the

memo.

When asked about the document in the Oval Office Friday,

the President responded,

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 “”The memo was sent to Congress. They’re
going to do whatever they’re going to do,
but it’s a disgrace what’s happening in our
country,””
Below is footage of the exchange between Trump and the
press on Rosenstein.
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In what was a desperate attempt to distract the American
people from the imminent release of the “shocking,” FISA
abuse report, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced House
Intelligence Committee Democrats would release a
counter-memo.
The California lawmaker claimed House Intelligence
Democrats have drafted their own memo
“exposing the misleading character of the
Republicans’ document so that members of
the House are not left with an erroneous
impression of the dedicated professionals
at the FBI and DOJ.”
When push came to shove, the panel voted against
releasing the counter-memo, reported NPR:
But this time, Democrats complain they are being denied
their chance to fire back at what they call the cherry-
picked version of events in Nunes’ file. House Intelligence
Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff told reporters
on Monday evening that the majority used another party-
line vote to reject his motion to release his secret memo
responding to Nunes’ memo.
Credit: Jim Hoft
Corrupt FBI, DOJ Officials Committed TREASON, Warns
Lawmaker; James Comey Could Face DEATH Penalty
By: Mike Adams
Saturday, February 03, 2018

His full statement:

The House Permanent Select Committee on

Intelligence memorandum on the FBI abuse of
FISA warrants and targeting a sitting President
is not just evidence of incompetence but clear
and convincing evidence of treason.

The FBI knowingly took false information from

the Democratic National Committee and the
Hillary Clinton campaign and then used it to
smear Donald Trump in order to hurt his
campaign.

The shocking revelations uncovered in yesterday’s release
of the FISA memo reveal a pattern of treason among top
officials at the FBI and DOJ, warns Congressman Paul
Gosar of Arizona. The FISA memo documented how the
most powerful law enforcement elements of the United
States government were weaponized under President
Obama to illegally spy on Republican political targets. A
secret FISA warrant application that gained approval for
the spying operation was fraudulently engineered, relying
largely on a fictional “dossier” of salacious lies that was
largely funded by the Clinton campaign.
Furthermore, false stories were planted in left-wing media
outlets to lend “credence” to the fake dossier, and
publishers such as Mother Jones, CNN, NYT and the
Washington Post gladly played along as propaganda
puppets in this dangerous charade. In effect, the left-wing
media, FBI, DOJ, Clinton operatives and Obama
administration all conspired to roll out “a coup against
America,” warns Daniel Greenfield. (These tactics,
interestingly enough, mirror the fraud, deceptions and
militant “dark ops” actions of the corrupt vaccine industry,
which has been extensively documented at
Vaccines.news.)
This is third world politics where the official
government agencies are used as campaign
attack dogs. The full throated adoption of this
illegal misconduct and abuse of FISA by James
Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and Rod
Rosenstein is not just criminal but constitutes
treason. I will be leading a letter to the Attorney
General seeking criminal prosecution against
these traitors to our nation.
Finally. Let me say this to those members of
Congress who fought so hard to keep the truth
from the American public. Your efforts to protect
a corrupt organization are duly noted. I am not
surprised Sen. Flake has again cast his lot with
the Democrats and those that attack true
patriots. Good riddance.

“Clear and convincing evidence of

treason…”

The statement released by congressman Paul Gosar cites

“clear and convincing evidence of treason” and warns that
the actions of Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein and others “is
not just criminal but constitutes treason.”

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 Lynch, Rosenstein, Comey, McCabe, Yates
and Strzok… all TREASONOUS criminals
and enemies of America
The FISA memo, released by members of Congress who
investigated the scandal, reveals a dangerous pattern of
fraud, abuse of power and outright treason on the part of
numerous Obama operatives, including Loretta Lynch,
Rod Rosenstein, Jomes Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally
Yates and others. Even more shockingly, these deep state
operatives literally colluded with Russian sources to
develop the fictitious “Trump dossier” that they used to
commit FISA court fraud. As Breitbart.com explains:
Much of the “salacious and unverified” material
in the dossier came from the Russians. In other
words, those disgusting dossier lies about
Trump’s personal behavior came from Russian
operatives. So there is no question that it was
the Clinton campaign, Democrats, Steele, the
FBI, and DOJ who colluded with the Russians
to rig a presidential election.
In an effort to prevent these shocking details from being
made public, the FBI withheld details from Congress for
months. Even more disturbingly, Rod Rosenstein
reportedly threatened House Intelligence Committee
members to try to prevent them from approving public
release of the memo.
Democrats APPROVE of treason, as long as
it targets their political enemies
To the alarm of many observers, there isn’t a single
prominent Democrat or left-wing media organization that
has denounced the gross abuse of power detailed in the
FISA memo. Without exception, every left-wing media
outlet and Democrat lawmaker remains complicit in the
treason, even sometimes endorsing the tactics as
“necessary” to remove a President that was elected by the
will of the People through a lawful democratic process.
This realization proves just how dangerous the
Left Cult has become, demonstrating that they
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are totalitarians through and through,
believing that the “proper” role of government is
to be deployed as a weapon to destroy political
opponents.
In effect, as I’ve stated numerous times, these
revelations prove that Democrats are not
qualified to participate in any democracy.
They do not honor the rule of law, and they reject the
outcomes of any elections they don’t fully control.
It’s clear from these events that Democrats are
a clear and present danger to this Republic
(and all its citizens).
Under current U.S. law, individuals found
guilty of treason may be put to death
Today,
I am calling for the arrest, indictment and
prosecution of not only these individuals who
committed acts of fraud and treason, but also
the arrest and indictment of so-called
“journalists” who took money to plant fake
stories in the left-wing media.
They are complicit, of course, in the treason. And it’s time
they finally faced real repercussions for their role in the
attempted political coup targeting our country.
Real Americas must also get prepared to
defend your country against the attempted
violent coup of the deranged Left,
which first tried to achieve a coup via “shadow
government” means, but has now been exposed. Their next
gambit will involve a physical “revolt” attempt that’s
likely to thrust America into a bloody civil war conflict
across many U.S. cities.
Ultimately,
it’s clear that Democrats respect no laws or
democratic processes whatsoever
and are filled with so much blinding anger and rage that
they are incapable of being reasoned with. This is what
makes them so dangerous to any civil society. Sooner or
later, We the People are going to have to defend our
country against their animated attempts to overthrow it by
force.
Finally, investigations that follow the facts of the FISA
memo will inescapably lead to the doorstep of both Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom have
deliberately acted as criminal traitors to this country. If we
are to take back this country from the deep state shadow
government, both Clinton and Obama must be arrested and
indicted for their roles in these high crimes of treason that
targeted our sacred Republic. It’s likely that Obama will
never actually face criminal indictment due to the
protections inherent in the Office of the Presidency, but
Hillary Clinton’s crimes of theft of government property,
destruction of evidence, mishandling of secret materials
and criminal conspiracy enjoy no such protections.
If Clinton is not ultimately indicted before the end of 2020,
then we have forever lost our country to the swamp. This
.
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is the key milestone to watch. It is the true litmus test of
whether the United States of America is a nation with true
equality under the law. It’s even ironic, by the way, that
Hillary Clinton demands “equality” when it comes to
gender and social issues,
yet she has never been held to anything
resembling equal accountability under the
law.
Perhaps that day is finally coming in the near future.
 Julian Assange Moves In With
Kill Shot After Comey Mocks FISA Memo
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 1:55 Pm

Media was set ablaze after the House

Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday
morning.

The unclassified memo shows former FBI Director James

Comey, Andrew McCabe, Yates and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court.
Julian Assange destroyed Comey.
Assange tweeted,
“James Comey, master of logic: FISA
memo is nothing — and also the destroyer
of worlds.”
Comey’s schizophrenic tweet tells us everything we need
to know. The Dems and Deep State wish the FISA memo
was a nothingburger. In their efforts to attack the damning
memo, they downplay the content while simultaneously
attacking the messenger for ‘exposing a classified
investigation’.
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Rep.
Adam Schiff does the same thing. He claims the memo is
misleading and full of factual errors while simultaneously
claiming the document will lead to a Constitutional crisis.

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 Trump On The Attack
Vs. FBI, Justice Department
By Michael Walsh
February 3, 2018
Photo courtesy AP Images.
The release of the Nunes memo at noon Eastern yesterday
was timed to dominate the news cycles on both the East
and West Coasts, as well as all points in between. The
Super Bowl is coming up tomorrow, but in the aftermath
of both the political news and the #takeaknee movement,
there's little Super Hoopla evident; by Monday nobody
will care who won. But the beat in Washington will go on:
Rod J. Rosenstein’s tenure as deputy attorney general and
the top Justice Department official overseeing the Russia
investigation appears to be in peril after President Trump
refused to say Friday whether he had confidence in
him. After Trump authorized release of a controversial
memo on FBI surveillance practices by House Intelligence
Committee Republicans, he was asked by a reporter
whether he was more likely to fire Rosenstein and whether
he had confidence in the 27-year-veteran of the Justice
Department who oversees its day-to-day operations and
special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation.
“You figure that one out,” Trump replied.
Well, duh. Rosenstein is, after all, the guy who instigated
the Mueller "Russian collusion" probe when, acting in the
stead of the late Jeff Sessions, he authorized the year-long,
open-ended fishing expedition into... something. And that's
not all:
The memo says that Rosenstein signed an application to
renew a surveillance warrant on Carter Page, a former
Trump campaign adviser, and says that information
justifying that and other warrant requests to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court was tainted by political
bias. The FBI has said it has “grave concerns” that the
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memo leaves out important material, creating an inaccurate
impression of its work.
As it happens, the president also has grave concerns about
the FBI, as well as the Justice Department. To wit:
Trump Calls Justice Department and F.B.I.
Conduct ‘a Disgrace’
President Trump on Friday intensified his attacks on his
own Justice Department and F.B.I. for their handling of the
investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016
elections, hinting that senior leaders there should face
consequences for conduct he called “a disgrace.”
Mr. Trump, who has become increasingly outspoken in his
suggestions of wrongdoing by law enforcement officials as
the inquiry has reached deeper inside the White House,
made his comments as he announced that he had
declassified a secret memo prepared by House Republicans
that insinuates that the Russia investigation has been
tainted by Democratic bias. “I think it’s terrible,” Mr.
Trump said of the actions described by the document,
which accuses federal law enforcement officials of abusing
their authority when they sought permission to surveil a
former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.
“It’s a disgrace what’s happening in our
country,” Mr. Trump added. “A lot of people
should be ashamed of themselves, and much
worse than that.”
This, of course, sent the anti- and never-Trump factions
into their usual fainting-sofa tizzy, while their media allies
scrambled to inform the public that the very memo they
had so confidently predicted threatened the very fabric of
our democracy was, after all, old news, nothing new, and
who cares.
The release of the memo raised fresh questions about
whether Mr. Trump — who last year fired James B.
Comey, the F.B.I. director overseeing the Russia inquiry,
and then sought to remove Robert S. Mueller III, the
special counsel named to take it over — might seek next to
oust Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who
named Mr. Mueller.
Well, why shouldn't he? If the Nunes memo is true,
Rosenstein bears more than a little culpability for the
ongoing mess, which has so far speared only Mike Flynn
for a process violation, and a couple of supernumeraries
named Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, the
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of this farcical rewrite
of Hamlet, starring James Comey in the title role. All
incoming presidents should have the clear right to put their
own people into top political jobs; it's long past time for
the Civil Service concept (a Republican "good
government" idea introduced in 1883 to replace Tammany
Hall's notorious spoils system) to be rigorously re-
examined and jettisoned where and when necessary for the
smooth functioning of a government elected by the people.
As the great Tammany fixer, George Washington Plunkitt,
famously observed:
This civil service law is the biggest fraud of the
age. It is the curse of the nation. There can't be
no real patriotism while it lasts. How are you
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goin' to interest our young men in their country if
you have no offices to give them when they
work for their party? Just look at things in this
city today. There are ten thousand good offices,
but we can't get at more than a few hundred of
them. How are we goin' to provide for the
thousands of men who worked for the
Tammany ticket? It can't be done. These men
were full of patriotism a short time ago. They
expected to be servin' their city, but when we
tell them that we can't place them, do you think
their patriotism is goin' to last? Not much. They
say: "What's the use of workin' for your country
anyhow? There's nothin' in the game." And
what can they do? I don't know, but I'll tell you
what I do know. I know more than one young
man in past years who worked for the ticket and
was just overflowin' with patriotism, but when he
was knocked out by the civil service humbug he
got to hate his country and became an
Anarchist.
 MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Reacts To FISA Memo:
“I’m Very Suspicious… This Is A Trump Document”
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 2:04 Pm

The House Intelligence Committee
released their classified FISA memo on
Friday morning.
The House voted on Monday along party
lines to share the explosive memo with
the American public.
This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump.
** Read the entire un-redacted document here.
Matthews instead accuse Rep. Devin Nunes’ staffers of
being Trump pawns.
Chris Matthews:
“I,m very suspicious this is staff written by
someone who is very involved with the
Trump people… I think it’s a political
document … I’m very suspicious that this
was written by a staff member close to
Trump people … This is a Trump
document.”
That’s all they got.
Blame Trump for illegal spying on
Trump.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews reacted to the explosive

document in predictable fashion — By ignoring the
content.

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 Nancy Pelosi Comes Unglued After FISA Memo Released:
‘Trump Just Sent His Friend Putin A Bouquet’
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 2:27 Pm
Media was set ablaze after the House
Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday
morning.
The unclassified memo shows former FBI Director James
Comey, Andrew McCabe, Yates and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court.
The Dems and Deep State are scrambling to discredit the
damning FISA memo.
Nancy Pelosi tweeted out her official statement in response
to the release of the FISA memo.
Pelosi tweeted, “.@realDonaldTrump has surrendered his
constitutional responsibility as Commander-in-Chief by
releasing Nunes’ unredacted, classified memo. His
decision undermines our national security and is a bouquet
to his friend Putin.”
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Actually, Pelosi, President Trump declassified the memo
which is in his full authority as Commander-in Chief.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in her
statement that President Trump has surrendered his
constitutional responsibility as Commander-in-Chief by
releasing the highly classified and distorted intelligence.
Pelosi said by not protecting intelligence sources and
methods, he has sent his ‘friend Putin a bouquet’.
The crazed Dem said Nunes’ memo discredits Mueller’s
investigation and is a desperate attempt to distract the
American people from the truth about the Trump-Russia
scandal.
The truth about the Trump-Russia scandal has been
revealed to the world. According to Andrew McCabe, a
FISA warrant would have never been issued to spy on
Trump’s camp but not for the phony, Hillary-funded
Russia dossier.
That’s the truth and now the Dems are fighting for their
lives to cover up one of the biggest scandals to ever rock
D.C.
God Bless Chairman Nunes for having the guts to march
forward in his quest to get the truth out to the American
people.
Screenshot of Pelosi’s statement:
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 Dow Plunges 666 Points In
Biggest Drop Since Great Recession
By Kevin Dugan
February 2, 2018 | 2:53pm
In the worst sell-off since President Trump was elected,
US stocks tumbled on Friday on fears a still expanding
economy was finally pushing interest rates into the red
zone.
As investors fled equities, the Dow Jones industrial
average tumbled 666 points — the largest point decline for
the index since the Great Recession.
One hour after the Labor Dept. on Friday morning reported
a better-than-expected 200,000 jobs were created in
January — all but ensuring a robust Federal Reserve attack
on interest rates — investors opened the Dow down 125
points, and it went south from there.
“We all know that many bull markets have ended by the
Federal Reserve as they raise the rates to the point of
slowing the economy down perhaps too much,” Quincy
Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial, told
The Post.
“It’s come on quickly and it caught the
market off guard,” Krosby said.
The Dow sell-off brought it below the 26,000 plateau — to
25,520.96 — the biggest points drop since Dec. 1, 2008.
The 2.5 percent drop, on a percentage basis, was the
biggest since the day after the UK voted to exit the
European Union — an event that sent markets into a free-
fall the world over.
The Friday sell-off put the Dow on pace for its worst week
in more than two years.
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Even amid the fire and brimstone, some Wall Street
stalwarts shrugged off the decline as no big deal.
“Stay the course,” said Greg McBride, chief
financial analyst at Bankrate.com. “Markets
go up and down, not just up. But they go up
a lot more than they go down, so hang in
there and consider buying more.”
The Dow had increased more than 7 percent so far this
year, to a peak of 26,616 last week — one of the best starts
even to a year.
The pullback only brings the index back to the level of Jan.
10, Bankrate.com spokesman Ted Rossman noted.
“That’s right, all we’ve done is unwind three
weeks’ worth of gains,” he added.
The strong January jobs report — which included news
that wages have grown by 2.9 percent over the past year,
the biggest rise in four years — sparked a cascade of
panic-selling.
Bond investors sold off government debt, on fears that the
Fed may have to raise rates four times this year — one
more time than the central bank has forecast, Krosby said.
Earlier this week, the Fed had hinted that it would likely
raise rates for the first time this year in March. The central
bank tends to shy away from specific guidance to the
markets.
The yield on the 10-year bond, which moves in the
opposite direction of price, rose as high as 2.85 — which it
hadn’t seen since 2014, an ominous sign that investors
expect the US economy to inflate.
Practically, that means that it’s going to get more
expensive to borrow money for both businesses and
individuals who want to buy a house, car, or put a vacation
on a credit card.
“Mortgage rates have already moved
higher,” Krosby said. “The cost of money in
essence goes up.”
The S&P 500, a broader index of stocks, fell 2.12 percent,
to 2,762.13. The Nasdaq composite dropped 1.96 percent,
to 7,240.95.
 'Leaker' Comey Blasts GOP
"Weasels & Liars" In Confusing Tweet
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/02/2018 - 03:00
Not The Onion.
Former FBI Director and admitted document-leaker James
Comey took to Twitter this afternoon to apparently
confuse and condemn those who dare to cross his or his
old establishment buddies' paths.
In an apparent show of support for the current (and former)
FBI leadership, who, among others, face alleged exposure
from Nunes' memo for their anti-Trump bias and abuse of
FISA in surveiling Trump campaign officials, Comey
tweeted the following 'riddle'...
“All should appreciate the FBI speaking up,”
Comey said Thursday in a tweet. “But take
heart: American history shows that, in the
long run, weasels and liars never hold the
field, so long as good people stand up. Not a
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lot of schools or streets named for Joe
McCarthy.”
We have a few questions, thoughts on the matter.
1) The FBI "speaking up"? Presumably refers to FBI
Director Wray's "grave concerns" about the memo's
contents (which would allegedly expose the secretive
agency that he runs for possible corruption and bias).
Where were the "speaking up" FBI when it came to
Hillary's emails? Did they "speak up" about high-
ranking officials "insurance" policies against the
democratically-elected President?
2) "Weasels and liars never hold the field" - well to be
frank Mr.Comey, Democrats and Republicans have
'held their field' in Washington for decades skimming
from the rest of America... and one other thing... is it a
"weasel"-like act to leak documents to the press?
3) Referencing Joe McCarthy seems odd - is it not "all
17 intel agencies" and every Democrat that proclaims
anyone not toeing the "Russians disrupted our
Democracy" bullshit as a "puppet of putin" to be villified
and ostricized and removed from social media and the
internet as Russian co-conspirators or "useless idiots"
in the biggest McCarthy-esque witch-hunt, blame-
scaping ever?
4) What no virtue-signaling, scripture quotes?
We will just have to see what the memo says tomorrow,
won't we...?
 FISA Fireworks=> Sean Hannity GRILLS James Comey,
Reads Him His Rights On Live TV (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 3:07 Pm

exposed classified investigation of an American

citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing
their jobs,” tweeted Comey.

Sean Hannity continues to be the media’s

leading voice against corruption committed
at the highest levels of the FBI and Justice
Department. Thursday evening, the Fox
News host put former FBI Director James
Comey on notice, reading him his Miranda
Rights on live television.

HANNITY: By the way, the last thing we need is lectures

from Jim Comey — and by the way, Jim — just a
reminder, you have the right to remain silent. Anything
you say, can and will, be used against you. And Jim
Comey needs to be put under oath. He needs to be
questioned. I wanna know why you exonerated Hillary
Clinton months before you did the investigation — before
it ever took place. And Jim, what do you know about
Trump hating FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page? And
Jim Comey, what do you know about Andrew McCabe
waiting three weeks to alert Congress about the emails that Soon after, Hannity quipped,
have been found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop? And by the
way, what did you know, and when did you know about
“Jim, You have the right to remain silent. I
Hillary Clinton’s paid for Dossier? Did you know it was
suggest you exercise that right….”
phony, Jim? And did you know it was bought and paid for
by an opposition party candidate?

Following the memo’s release, Comey downplayed the

FISA abuses revealed.

“That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo

wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed
trust with Intelligence Community, damaged
relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably
.

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 FBI Accused Of Blocking
Key Details On "Trump Dossier" Author
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 15:33
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley's
push to force the DOJ to open a criminal investigation into
ex-British spy and "Trump dossier" author Christopher
Steele is being met with resistance from the bureau, the
latest sign that it doesn't want information about its
relationship with Steele to be shared with the public.
Bloomberg reported Monday that Senate
Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley
criticized the FBI for blocking the
release of key portions of a memo he
wrote calling for a criminal investigation
of Christopher Steele, the former British
spy who compiled a dossier of unverified
allegations on Donald Trump.
Grassley also released the memo in its redacted form to the
press.
"Seeking transparency and cooperation
should not be this challenging,"
Grassley said in a statement after posting a
heavily redacted version of the criminal
referral that he and GOP Senator Lindsey
Graham of South Carolina sent to the
Justice Department last month. "The
government should not be blotting out
information that it admits isn’t secret."
Grassley has been pursuing questions about the FBI’s
reliance on Steele separately from House Intelligence
Chairman Devin Nunes, the author of the four-page "FISA
memo" that was released last week and inspired President
Trump to declare that he has been "vindicated" by its
findings.
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Conservative lawmakers have demanded that President
Trump fire Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, the official
responsible for supervising the Mueller probe - and some
have even called for Mueller's firing. But others, including
outgoing Congressman and House Oversight Committee
Chairman Trey Gowdy, have said the revelations packaged
in the memo wouldn't justify ending the Russia probe.
Grassley's push is emblematic of the intense rivalry that
has sprung up between the various Congressional
committees pursuing their own independent investigations
of Trump and Hillary Clinton's relationships with Russian
entities or officials.
Democrats have dismissed the memo as inaccurate and
misleading and are pushing for release of their own
document challenging the Republican account. The Intel
Committee is set to meet Monday at 5 pm to decide on
whether to release the memo. Washington time to vote on
the possible release of the Democratic response.
As the rivalry between the White House and Republicans
on one side, and the FBI and DOJ, on the other,
accelerates,
Grassley and Graham asked the DOJ to
investigate whether Steele made false
statements to federal investigators.
In the newly released memo, the pair wrote that they had
sent the criminal referral because there’s evidence that
Steele, whose opposition research was funded largely by
Trump rival Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, either lied
to the FBI or to a British court, or that classified
documents reviewed by the committee are false.
As Bloomberg also notes, Grassley asked the FBI to
approve a declassified version of his Steele referral by
Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Politico reports that Grassley
and Graham on Monday also asked the
Department of Justice and FBI to
declassify more information related to
their Steele referral, including an
application to conduct surveillance of
 former Trump campaign adviser Carter
Page.
That surveillance application, Republicans have said,
improperly involved research conducted by Steele that was
paid for by the Clinton campaign. Republicans on Friday
released a declassified memo they wrote on the subject.
Suspiciously, the redacted letter includes a blacked-out
section led by the sentence
"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."
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Furthermore, a section on a second memo
by Steele says he received information
from the State Department, which in
turn got it from a foreign source who
was in touch with “a friend of the
Clintons.”
"It is troubling enough that the Clinton
Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but
that these Clinton associates were
contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele
allegations raises additional concerns
about his credibility," Grassley and Graham
wrote in their criminal referral.
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 Rep. Zeldin NUKES CNN’s ‘Anonymous Sources’,
McCabe’s Testimony That Dossier Was Used For
FISA Warrants Was Recorded
By Cassandra Fairbanks
February 2, 2018, 3:40 Pm

Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY) took to Twitter following
the release of the memo detailing FISA abuse and
misconduct against the Trump campaign and asserted that
former-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s statements
regarding the dossier were recorded during his sworn
testimony.
His tweets nuked the claims of CNN’s “anonymous
sources” that said McCabe never made the statements laid
out in the memo.
“McCabe did in fact testify under oath that there
would not have been a FISA warrant if not for
the dossier. It was recorded,” Rep. Zeldin
tweeted.
The comments came shortly after CNN’s
Chief National Security Correspondent Jim
Sciutto cited two anonymous sources on air
— claiming that McCabe did not say that the
dossier was used for the warrants.

FILE PHOTO: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe pauses while

testifying before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in Washington, U.S.,
June 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files

As Democrats frantically attempted to discredit the memo,
Zeldin wrote that McCabe testified under oath that there
would not have been a warrant without the dubious
Christopher Steele dossier which was commissioned by
Fusion GPS and paid for by the Democratic National
Committee and the Clinton campaign.
Additionally, Rep. Zeldin asserted that the DOJ and FBI
had known that the dossier’s source was unreliable and
should not have been used, but they filed the warrant
application with it anyways. He also stated that the dossier
was used to file extensions of the FISA despite already
having fired Steele as a source.

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Speaking to reporters on Friday, President Donald Trump
called the contents of the memo a “disgrace” and stated
that “a lot of people” involved in the plot against his
campaign “should be ashamed of themselves.”
The memo claims that former-FBI Director James Comey
signed three FISA warrant applications for Carter Page and
.
McCabe signed one. Current Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein also signed at least one of the FISA
warrant applications, as did former-Deputy Attorney
General Sally Yates and former Acting Deputy Attorney
General Dana Boente.

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 Deep State Death Spiral:
Dems In Denial Over Damning FISA Memo
Democrats Claim Nothing Burger After Clamoring To Block Its Release
Adan Salazar | Infowars.Com
February 2, 2018

Friday saw the public release of a much-

anticipated memorandum written by House
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes,
detailing how the FBI obtained a FISA
warrant to investigate the Trump campaign
based off information in a dossier compiled
by a foreign spy funded by the Clinton
campaign.

The memo dealt a major blow to the intelligence

community, which launched a special counsel probe into
Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
For Clinton campaign apologists, however, the memo’s
revelations were a big nothingburger.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow laughed off the memo’s
Former FBI Director James Comey, who infamously let damning revelations, tweeting “LOL.”
Clinton off the hook for “extreme carelessness” ahead of
the 2016 election, asked, “That’s it?”

Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed

President Trump releasing the memo meant he had ceded
“his constitutional responsibility as Commander-in-Chief.”

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 “So… is there some other memo? Because this
one says it was Papadopoulos, not the dossier,”
Maddow tweeted, pointing out a passage in the
memo which states info regarding Trump staffer
George Papadopoulos “triggered the opening of
an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late
July 2016…”

Arizona Sen. John McCain, no fan of the president, also

criticized the declassification of the memo, claiming
Trump was “doing Putin’s job for him.”

“The latest attacks against the FBI and

Department of Justice serve no American
interests ― no party’s, no President’s, only
Putin’s,” McCain stated. “The American people
deserve to know all the facts surrounding
Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our
democracy, which is why Special Counsel
Mueller’s investigation must proceed
unimpeded. Our nation’s elected officials,
including the president, must stop looking at this
investigation through the lens of politics and
manufacturing political sideshows. If we
continue to undermine our own rule of law, we
are doing Putin’s job for him.”

While Democrats were in complete denial over proof that

the Obama Justice Department omitted information in
obtaining a FISA warrant to conduct illegal spying on the
Trump campaign, Trump supporters celebrated the
memo’s contents as vindication a year after the Russian
witch hunt investigation has amounted to nothing.

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 VIDEO: FISA Memo Released… Trump Says
Democrats Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves!

Alex Jones Reads The FULL Declassified FISA Memo

On Air

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asserted he will get to

the truth of the allegations in order to restore confidence in
the Justice department.

“Congress has made inquiries concerning an

issue of great importance for the country and
concerns have been raised about the
department’s performance. I have great
confidence in the men and women of this
Department. But no department is perfect,” Mr.
Sessions stated.

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 TOM FITTON: FISA Memo DEVASTATING Blow To
Mueller Investigation – SHUT IT DOWN (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 3:50 Pm

Media was set ablaze after the House the whole thing is subject to being called off
Intelligence Committee released their now by the Justice Department if they are brave
classified FISA memo on Friday morning. enough,” Fitton argued.
The Deep State and Dems are in a panic as the world sees Tom Fitton became furious as he went through bullet
the FBI was weaponized to target Trump’s political points outlining the corruption in the top brass of the FBI
campaign. and DOJ.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton immediately hit When did Wray know? When and what did Mueller know?
the ground running after the FISA memo was released and Fitton asked
called out Comey, McCabe, Yates and Rosenstein for
Fox News played a clip of House Speaker Paul Ryan
misleading the FISA court.
claiming the memo does not impugn the Mueller
investigation or the Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein (even though the memo reveals Rosenstein
Fearless warrior Tom Fitton also hammered dirty cop
mislead the FISA court). Brilliant.
Mueller’s Russia investigation in an explosive interview
with Fox News Friday. Fitton unleashed on House Speaker Paul Ryan and the
establishment politicians in DC protecting the Mueller
investigation.
Tom Fitton called for the FISA applications to be
declassified and said Judicial Watch plans on suing for the
underlying records.
Shortly after Fitton’s appearance on Fox News, Judicial
Watch filed a lawsuit against the DOJ for the
FBI documents regarding the FISA (Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act) warrant application submitted to – and
responses from – the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court related to alleged collusion between Russia and
Tom Fitton wasted no time in attacking the Deep State and Trump campaign associates (Judicial Watch v. U.S.
Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation after the FISA Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00245)).
memo revealed McCabe confirmed the FISA court would VIDEO:
never have issued a FISA warrant to spy on Trump’s camp
but not for the phony, Hillary-funded dossier.
“The really devastating blow it strikes at the
Mueller investigation,” Fitton began.
“When you have the Obama DOJ take their
best shot with the FISA court and their best shot
is a Clinton campaign document to run the
narrative that there was Russian collusion,
requiring surveillance of a Trump campaign
official or volunteer and it turns out there was
nothing else really there but for the dossier paid
for by Clinton and DNC funds, then that means
there is no Mueller investigation without the
dossier paid for by Clinton and DNC funds so
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 DEMOCRATS Announce They Will Seek
Vote On Their Own Pretend Memo On Monday
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 4:06 Pm

four-page Republican document that was

released Friday afternoon.
The White House has signaled that it is open to
allowing the release of the Democratic memo,
as have some committee Republicans and
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

The House Intelligence Committee released

their classified FISA memo on Friday
morning.
The House voted on Monday along party
lines to share the explosive memo with the
American public.
This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump.
** Read the entire un-redacted document here.
Democrats panicked all week about the
looming release of the explosive document.
Then downplayed it today.

This afternoon Democrats said they will

seek a vote to release their own memo.
The Democrat document has not been
approved or verified by committee but
Democrats don’t seem to care.
The Hill reported:
House Intelligence Committee Democrats are
pushing for a vote as soon as Monday to
release their own classified memo countering a

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 Wait.. Did Rep. Adam Schiff Include Classified
Information In Letter Slamming FISA Memo?
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 4:10 Pm
Legal experts are weighing in after Rep.
Adam Schiff (D-CA) may have included
classified information in his Friday press
release rebuking the FISA abuse memo.
As the Washington Examiner’s Steven Nelson noted, the
California Democrat “cited two specific examples of
alleged inaccuracies,” in the memo.
“The Majority suggests that the FBI failed to
alert the court as to Mr. Steele’s potential
political motivations or the political motivations
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of those who hired him, but this is not accurate,”
Schiff said in a statement.
“The GOP memo also claims that a Yahoo
News article was used to corroborate Steele,
but this is not at all why the article was
referenced,” added the California Democrat.
Washington Examiner reports:
Steven Aftergood, director of the government secrecy
project at the Federation of American Scientists, said it’s
possible those refutations reveal classified information.
“In the abstract they could be problematic since
they go beyond the official public record” in
describing classified documents, he said. “But
under current circumstances, it is hard for me to
imagine anyone objecting.” […]
Mark Zaid, an attorney who has worked many national
defense cases dealing with the handling of classified
information, also said it’s possible the Schiff release
reveals classified information.
“At first blush I would have some concerns
about the details in this statement as to whether
it crosses a classification line, but it is possible
Rep. Schiff, having had access to the
underlying classified information, knows these
points are in unclassified paragraphs,” Zaid
said. “So much of these back and forths about
the memo are in a gray area on classification.”
Democrats have fought hard to paint the memo as a hyper-
partisan piece of propaganda aimed at discrediting the
‘Trump-Russia’ collusion investigation. Nobody worked
harder to keep the memo classified than Schiff.
Schiff’s position on the memo has been nothing short of
“Schiffty,” having first branded the memo nothing more
than Republican propaganda, then claiming the document
shouldn’t be made public because Americans wouldn’t
understand it, to announcing House Intelligence Democrats
would be releasing a “counter-memo.”
Today, the White House pledged to assist the Democrats
with “oversight requests,” pertaining to their “counter-
memo.”

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, the

Democrats are planning to vote on releasing the “counter-
memo,” on Monday.

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 GOP Rep. To Seek CRIMINAL PROSECUTION Of FBI,
DOJ Officials Over “TREASON” In FISA Memo
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 4:35 Pm

In a letter published Friday, Rep. Paul Gosar

(R-AZ) announced he will seek the criminal
prosecution of FBI and Justice Department
officials in response to the “treason,” laid
out in the recently released FISA abuse
memo.

Gosar revealed he would seek “criminal prosecution

“The FBI knowingly took false information from
the Democratic National Committee and the
Hillary Clinton campaign and then used it to
smear Donald Trump in order to hurt his
campaign,” wrote Gosar.
against these traitors to our nation.”
Under the U.S. constitution, the FBI and Justice
Department officials could be put to death if found guilty
of treason.

“The full-throated adoption of this illegal
misconduct and abuse of FISA by James
Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and Rod
Rosenstein is not just criminal but constitutes
treason,” Gosar continued.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft, the House
Intelligence Committee released their classified FISA
memo today.
Click here to read a summary of the memo’s abuses.

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 BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee To Release
Memo On FBI, Christopher Steele And Russia Dossier
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 4:53 Pm
Media was set ablaze after the House
Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday morning.
The Deep State and Dems are in a panic as the world sees
the FBI was weaponized to target Trump’s political
campaign.
It turns out the Senate Judiciary Committee also has a
memo on Christopher Steele, the FBI and Russia dossier
they are working to declassify. Their memo is set to be
released including FBI redactions shortly.
Here comes the tsunami.
Paul Sperry of the New York Post reported,
“BREAKING: The Senate Judiciary
Committee also has a memo on Steele, the
dossier and the FBI, and is working to get it
declassified.”
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As previously reported, GOP Lawmakers are seeking to
make the case that the Mueller investigation and the FBI
probe into Trump’s campaign was based on potentially
tainted and flawed evidence connected to Hillary Clinton,
says John Solomon of The Hill.
Solomon’s report revealed part of the investigation
includes an eight page criminal referral filed with the DOJ
by Grassley and Graham:
Another document — an eight-page criminal
referral filed with the Justice Department by
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-S.C.) — is also part of the GOP
case.
While the FBI has been protesting the release of the Nunes
memo, it has been working behind the scenes to vet a
version of the Grassley-Graham memo, which is expected
to be released in redacted form soon. The FBI is also
seeking redactions to the Nunes memo, though it is not
clear the White House or congressional Republicans will
agree to them.
On January 5th, Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a letter to
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher
Wray demanding they investigate if Christopher Steele lied
to federal authorities.
The letter was the first criminal referral from Congress.
On January 26th, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent
a batch of letters to DNC leaders demanding information
regarding their interactions with dossier author Christopher
Steele.
The batch of letters were sent to former DNC chairwoman
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former interim DNC
chairwoman Donna Brazile, current DNC chair, Tom
Perez, former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta
and former Clinton campaign chief strategist Joel
Benenson.
It is being reported that several memos will be released
and the worst is yet to come.
 Bernstein On Memo: We Have ‘Not Seen Such Dark Days’
In America, Leaving Us ‘At A Crossroads’
By Curtis Houck
February 2, 2018 4:55 PM EST
Always prone to use ostentatious rhetoric, CNN
contributor Carl Bernstein unloaded Friday afternoon on
the release of the Republican House Intelligence
Committee memo, telling Jake Tapper that
“we may well have not seen such dark days
for American democracy and its
institutions” to the point that we are “at a
crossroads” because of the “demagogic
authoritarian” President Trump.
Tapper opened the floor to Bernstein and the famous
former Washington Post reporter complained that
“[w]e don't know enough because we
haven't seen the whole, underlying picture,
as the Democrats have pointed out, but
there's a much more important historical
point to be made here and that we may well
have not seen such dark days for American
democracy and its institutions since the
days of Joe McCarthy.”
Bernstein knocked Trump as a “demagogic
authoritarian...using this red herring to
contend that there is a witch hunt going on
when, in fact, there is a legitimate
investigation” in the form of the Trump-Mueller
probe.
After insinuating that Russia’s Vladimir Putin
won the election for Trump against Hillary
Clinton to “ruinous” and “stunning” ends, he
added that Republicans will “[h]opefully...get
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hold of their senses” and accept that “Donald
Trump is using this to avoid legitimate
investigation and to poison the are
institutions of American democracy.”
Tapper let Bernstein fear-monger away for almost two and
a half minutes before going on his own commentary
masquerading as a question before letting Bernstein take
back over.
Bernstein complimented Tapper’s points, hammering the
memo released Friday as “a disingenuous, partisan
document” and reiterated that it’s perfectly alright for the
FISA court to accept information from both biased and
unbiased individuals.
“So, this is all a red herring by the President
of the United States and his allies in
congress, which is sort of unfathomable, if
you think that the Republican Party is going
to hitch its future to the kind of
demagoguery authoritarianism in what we're
seeing here,” he continued.
Concluding like he’s performing for Jeffrey Zucker (which
it’s safe to say everyone at CNN is doing), Bernstein
warned that the country is “at a crossroads” in which we
must decide to continue accepting the findings of U.S. v.
Nixon, which was that
“no one in this country is above the law,
including the President of the United
States.”
Following almost seven and a half minutes of mostly
Bernstein dithering away, Tapper had to move on to his
next panel. That’s not being a journalist; it’s playing the
role of facilitator.
To read the relevant transcript from February 2's CNN
Newsroom, click “expand”:
CNN Newsroom
February 2, 2018
3:08 p.m. Eastern
JAKE TAPPER; Carl, first of all, your reaction to the release of A, Carter Page had already been spied upon for suspected
this memo and the claims in it about potential abuses of FISA by contacts with Russians. B, this spying was just a few days before
the FBI in order to spy on a Trump campaign adviser? the election, so I don't know how it would have affected the
election since James Comey, unlike the Hillary Clinton
CARL BERNSTEIN: We don't know enough because we haven't investigation, did not announce the Trump investigation and the
seen the whole, underlying picture, as the Democrats have third point, of course, that the George Papadopoulos
pointed out, but there's a much more important historical point to investigation had started months before all your points are
be made here and that we may well have not seen such dark correct.
days for American democracy and its institutions since the days
of Joe McCarthy and in the case of McCarthy, it was a senator,
not the President of the United States, who was a demagogic
authoritarian. What we are seeing here is a demagogic
authoritarian President who is using this red herring to contend
that there is a witch hunt going on when, in fact, there is a
legitimate investigation into what the Russians did and whether
or not the President of the United States and his cohort and aides
and families may or may not have been involved in helping the
Russians. If, indeed, there is exonerating evidence there, the
President of the United States ought to have enough confidence
in our institutions, including inspectors general of the FBI,
including Oversights Committee. There are plenty of times to go
back and look at the investigators of the investigation. But right
BERNSTEIN: All your points are correct. This is a disingenuous,
now, we need to know what the Russians did, whether or not the
partisan document. What we need to remember about
Trump organization, the President of the United States, his family
applications for surveillance of America's before — Americans
and aides were involved in some way. On top of which, the
before the FISA courts are — is that there is usually information
overriding question that is so disspiriting and demoralizing is in
brought before those judges that comes from good people, bad
the whole Cold War, the Russians were not able to do what Putin
people, reliable people, unreliable people, but that the whole
has done through Donald Trump, to destabilize the United States
point of getting the warrant is that there's some reason to believe,
and its democratic institutions. It's stunning. It's ruinous.
even if it were a partisan whistleblower or someone with an ax to
Hopefully, the Republican Party, which has gone along with him
grind, that doesn't negate the information underlying or the fact
in lockstep, will get hold of their senses and, remember, it's the
that it might be because, particularly with the other factors that
Republican Party who was always toughest on the Russians and
you have mentioned — thus perhaps, and I believe is the case,
what they were doing. And if they cannot see how Donald Trump
some surveillance by other foreign powers in which Carter Page
has been manipulated and how Donald Trump is using this to
may have been is your — surveilled and picked up. The idea that
avoid legitimate investigation and to poison the are institutions of
this is solely based on the Steele memo seems both spurious
American democracy, then the Republican Party is taking us
and even so, Christopher Steele was someone who would help
somewhere where we haven't been before and they were the
the FBI break and the world police organizations break the
heroes of Watergate because they were open to the truth.
conspiracy in the soccer leagues of the world through his skill.
There was reason to believe that he had good sources. So, this
TAPPER: Carl, one of the things that's interesting is that even if is all a red herring by the President of the United States and his
one is prepared to be open minded about the potential misdeed allies in congress, which is sort of unfathomable, if you think that
here that the FBI should have been more forthright with the FISA the Republican Party is going to hitch its future to the kind of
court about the fact that political opposition research against demagoguery authoritarianism in what we're seeing here. It is
President Trump written by Christopher Steele and paid for by very clear that Rod — that the President of the United States,
Fusion GPS through — conducted by Fusion GPS but paid for by that Donald Trump wants to get rid of this investigation, wants to
Democrats in the Hillary Clinton campaign, even if you're willing get rid of Rod Rosenstein, wants to get rid of any legitimate
to believe that possibly the FBI cooked the books and shouldn't inquiry into his conduct or even the conduct of the Russians,
have done what they did, this memo still acknowledges that members of his family, members of his coterie, members of his
before Carter Page started being spied on in October, at least business organizations. We are at a crossroads in this country
that's when the FISA court application happened, in July of 2016, that Watergate established the United States v. Nixon that no
the George Papadopoulos counterintelligence investigation by one in this country is above the law, including the President of
the FBI began. And, as Pamela pointed out, Carter Page, prior to the United States. Right now, we have the unprecedented
October 2016, had already been spied upon by the FBI because situation of one of the major political parties essentially asserting
of his relations with Russians in 2013, 2014. So already even and backing the President in showing and believing that he is
according to this own memo, which is being used by the above the law and that he can suppress legitimate investigation.
President's allies and President Trump to exonerate him, to
undermine the Mueller investigation, this memo doesn't fully
TAPPER: Carl Bernstein, thank you so much.
accomplish that if you look at some of the underlying facts here.
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 Former Judge: Ohr, Comey Could Be
Held In Contempt Of Court For Misrepresentations
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
5:22 PM 02/02/2018

A FISA court judge has grounds to hold Department of
Justice officials including Bruce Ohr in contempt of court
for making misrepresentations about the sources of
information used to obtain a surveillance warrant against a
Trump associate, a former judge and Republican
congressman said.
Gohmert said the judge should not be happy with that
omission.
“This was an action by the DNC and known
collusion with top officials at the DOJ and FBI to
commit a fraud upon the FISA court.”

“I think it’s important to know who the FISA
judge was, and why with all the info he’s had for
some time, he has not put anyone in jail for
committing fraud on his court,” Louie Gohmert,
a Texas Republican who serves on the
Committee on the Judiciary, told The Daily
Caller News Foundation Friday.
“You shouldn’t be able to get quotes from Bruce
Ohr or [former FBI Director Jim] Comey or
[deputy director Andrew] McCabe because they
ought to be sitting in jail for committing fraud
upon the court,” he said.
A memo declassified Friday showed that the Department
of Justice sought and a FISA court granted a warrant to spy
on former Trump campaign official Carter Page based on a
dossier that was funded by the Clinton 2016 presidential
campaign and the Democratic National Committee and
orchestrated by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
Fusion paid the wife of then-deputy associate attorney
general Bruce Ohr, and Ohr met with Fusion’s founder
Glenn Simpson.
The memo said
“Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to
assist in the cultivation of opposition research
on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of
his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the
DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS.
The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion
GPS was inexplicably concealed from the” court
when it was used to obtain a surveillance
warrant.
He said the actions of the judge on the secret court need to
be examined.
“The judge has to have known for months now
that he or she had a fraud committed against
them and he or she has done nothing. Any
judge worth any salt would have called them in
for hearings, and he can even order anyone
who committed fraud upon the court to go to
jail. This judge is either worthless or is in
cahoots with those who manipulated it.”
Attorneys can be sanctioned by the bar association for
misrepresentations, but they can also be held by the judge
for contempt of court, he said.
Gohmert said the underlying evidence upon which the
memo is based should also be released.
“The sources were high authorities in the FBI
and the Justice Department as well as an
uncorroborated hater of Donald Trump.”
“I’m totally in support of keeping methods and
sources secret, unless it’s a case like this where
the sources and methods are fraud, in which
case everyone needs to be able to assess that,”
he said.
He said beyond politics, the apparent approval of the
warrant despite problems with evidence raises the question
of whether others are unfairly subject to surveillance.
We need to find out if we need to stop the FISA
process entirely.”

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 FBI Director Wray Tells
Staff After Memo: "Keep Calm & Tackle Hard"
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/02/2018 - 17:32
While Democrats and Republicans argue over the veracity
and impact of the long-anticipated FISA memo, FBI
Director Christopher Wray - who despite being appointed
by President Trump opposed his push to have the memo
released –
sent a heartfelt note to the bureau's rank
and file employees, reassuring them
that this, too, shall pass, and thanking
them for their dedicated service.
While media reports have mostly focused on the
superficial partisan squabbling, the work that the FBI does
has a real impact on American communities that is felt far
and wide.
Wray
His upbeat, optimistic message contrasted with a tweet
sent by his predecessor, former FBI Director James Comey
- under whose watch most of these alleged abuses
occurred.
"That's it?" the former director asked,
before accusing the House Intelligence
Committee, which compiled the memo
under the leadership of Rep. Devin Nunes,
of producing a document that is "dishonest
and misleading."
Meanwhile, the Democratic leadership warned the
administration not to use the memo as a "excuse" to fire
Special Counsel Bob Mueller, and Republican Sen. John
McCain said the memo "serves only Putin's interests".
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Read Wray's note below in its entirety...
The American people read the papers, and they hear lots of
talk on cable TV and social media. But they see and
experience the actual work you do - keeping communities
safe and our nation secure, often dealing with sensitive
matters and making decisions under difficult
circumstances. And that work will always matter more.
Talk is cheap; the work you do is what
will endure.
We speak through our work. One case at a time. One
intelligence product at a time. One decision at a time.
We do that work, and we stay laser-focused on doing great
work, even when it's not easy, because we believe in the
FBI.
We believe in what it stands for and in
what this institution means to people.
And nothing is going to change that.
We're going to keep doing that work, because we know
who and what we are, and because we know that our
mission comes first. The American people come first.
So I ask you to keep doing your great work and keep being
the great people you are. And I know that I consider it an
incredible privilege to work beside you — and that I'm
determined to defend your integrity and professionalism
every day.
Remember: keep calm and tackle hard.
Thank you for standing strong together,
and for keeping your faith in this
institution that means so much to all of
us.
While excerpts of the memo leaked early in the afternoon,
the memo was published in its entirety for public
consumption a few hours later...
 Rep. Nunes Speaks On DOJ-FBI Spying On Trump:
“Stuff That Happens In Banana Republic” –
“I Don’t Know What They Were Smoking”
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 5:35 Pm

On the Dossier: If you look at the dossier from

AMAZING!
Chairman Devin Nunes spoke to Bret Baier
on Special Report Friday night after the FISA
memo was released earlier today.
the beginning, I don’t know what they were
smoking to think that Carter Page, who hasn’t
had a job in many years… The Russians called
an idiot… Do you think the Russians were going
to offer him 19% share of major oil companies?
This is crazy!… The dossier came from
Russia. It came from Hillary campaign.

The only truth in the dossier: Russia is a

country and Carter Page is a person.

On FBI investigation: We are looking at State

Department.

On House Intel Committee: We have the

facts. We know we are over the target by the
way they react.

This was a devastating interview for

Democrats.

Devin Nunes BLASTED the criminal Obama

FBI, State Department and Department of
Justice.

From the interview

On Comey: He lied under oath… Type of stuff

that happens in banana republics.

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 It BEGINS: GOP Lawmaker Calls For Comey,
McCabe, Others TIED To FISA Memo Abuse To Be
JAILED For ‘FISA Court Fraud’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 3, 2018
“They ought to be sitting in jail for committing
fraud upon the court”
(National Sentinel) Conspiracy: A Republican lawmaker
is calling for former and current ranking FBI and Justice
Department officials to be indicted for their role in
committing “fraud” against the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court following the release of the FISA
Memo.
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, a former judge
himself, said that former FBI Director James Comey,
former deputy director Andrew McCabe, Justice
Department official Bruce Ohr should face prison for using
what they knew to be a political document — the notorious
“Trump dossier” — in order to secure a FISC warrant to
allow the bureau to spy on the Trump campaign.
As reported by The Daily Caller:
A FISA court judge has grounds to hold
Department of Justice officials including Bruce
Ohr in contempt of court for making
misrepresentations about the sources of
information used to obtain a surveillance
warrant against a Trump associate, a former
judge and Republican congressman said.
“I think it’s important to know who the FISA
judge was, and why with all the info he’s had for
some time, he has not put anyone in jail for
committing fraud on his court,” Gohmert, who
serves on the Committee on the Judiciary, told
the news site.
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“You shouldn’t be able to get quotes from Bruce
Ohr or [former FBI Director Jim] Comey or
[deputy director Andrew] McCabe because they
ought to be sitting in jail for committing fraud
upon the court,” he said.
The FISA memo was released at noon on Friday, revealing
serial abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
by upper echelon officials in the FBI and Justice
Department to prevent Donald J. Trump from becoming
president, and to undermine him after he defeated Hillary
Clinton in November 2016.
Per Fox News, as many suspected, the discredited and
unverified “Trump dossier” was used not once but on three
separate occasions to secure a FISA court surveillance
warrant to allow the Obama administration to spy on Team
Trump during his campaign.
In addition, Hillary Clinton, U.S. media outlets, and
ranking officials within DOJ and FBI including former
FBI Director James Comey, former deputy director
Andrew McCabe, and Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein were all aware that the dossier was a political
document, not a serious piece of intelligence work, the
memo explains.
As Fox News reported further, the four-page memo [which
you can read here] also
“includes testimony from a high-ranking
government official who says without the
infamous Trump dossier, the FBI and DOJ
would not have secured surveillance warrants
to spy on at least one member of the Trump
team.”
The dossier was commissioned by opposition research firm
Fusion GPS, who hired former British spy Christopher
Steele to compile it. The dossier was paid for in large part
by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary
Clinton campaign.
Ohr’s wife went to work for Fusion as the dossier was
being compiled and disseminated throughout the
Washington media.
The memo said
“Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to
assist in the cultivation of opposition research
on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of
his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the
DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS.
The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion
GPS was inexplicably concealed from the” court
when it was used to obtain a surveillance
warrant.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who criticized the memo’s
release, also gave a copy of it to the FBI.
Gohmert said that the FISA court judge shouldn’t find any
of this acceptable.
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“This was an action by the DNC and known
collusion with top officials at the DOJ and FBI to
commit a fraud upon the FISA court,” he added.
But he also noted that the FISA court judge’s own actions
ought to be examined more closely.
“The judge has to have known for months now
that he or she had a fraud committed against
them and he or she has done nothing,” he said.
“Any judge worth any salt would have called
them in for hearings, and he can even order
anyone who committed fraud upon the court to
go to jail. This judge is either worthless or is in
cahoots with those who manipulated it.”
While attorneys can be sanctioned by bar associations for
fraud upon the court, judges can also hold attorneys in
contempt of court for such violations, said Gohmert.
 Judicial Watch Sues DOJ For
‘Russian Collusion’ FISA Documents
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 5:50 pm
Thank God for Judicial Watch.
Media was set ablaze after the House
Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday morning.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton immediately hit
the ground running after the FISA memo was released and
called out Comey, McCabe, Yates and Rosenstein for
misleading the FISA court.
Fearless warrior Tom Fitton also hammered dirty cop
Mueller’s Russia investigation in an explosive interview
with Fox News Friday.
Shortly after Fitton’s interview, conservative watchdog
group Judicial Watch announced it filed a FOIA lawsuit
against the DOJ for ‘Russian collusion’ FISA documents.
Via Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
against the Justice Department for FBI
documents regarding the FISA (Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant
application submitted to – and responses from –
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
related to alleged collusion between Russia and
Trump campaign associates (Judicial Watch v.
U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-
00245)).
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Judicial Watch filed suit in the United States District Court
of the District of Columbia after the agency rejected a July
19, 2017, FOIA request seeking:
Copies of all proposed and all final signed FISA
applications submitted to the FISC relating to
Russian interference in the 2016 election,
allegations of collusion between people
associated with the Trump campaign and
Russia, and any known Trump associates
regardless of context;
Copies of all FISC responses to the above-
mentioned applications in which the Court
notified the FBI or Justice Department that it
would not grant the proposed applications or
recommended changes. If any such FISC
responses were provided orally, rather than in
writing, please provide copies of FBI or Justice
Department records memorializing or otherwise
referencing the relevant FISC responses;
Copies of all FISC orders relating to the above
mentioned applications, whether denying the
applications and certifications, denying the
orders, modifying the orders, granting the
orders, or other types of orders.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton had this to say
about the FISA memo:
“Today’s House Russia FISA memo makes a
compelling case that the FISA court was misled
and severely abused by top officials in the
Justice Department and FBI. The American
people should be able to see for themselves the
details of how the Obama administration
officials (and Rod Rosenstein of the Trump
administration) justified spying on the Trump
team. From what we know publicly, this may be
the worst government abuse scandal in a
generation – which makes it urgent the Justice
Department stop stonewalling the release of the
alleged Trump-Russia collusion FISA
documents.”
 WHAAAT? Fox News Analyst Says Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein THREATENED Intel Chair Nunes And Panel
Members In Meeting WEEKS Ago (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 3, 2018

“I can tell you a congressional source tells me…
Meanwhile, Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter, an
investigative reporter for Circa News, added that the
revelations contained in the FISA memo are merely about
“10 percent” of what else is coming in terms of the abuses
associated with spying on the Trump campaign by the
Obama administration.

“This is even more important,” she said. “The

(National Sentinel) FISA Abuse: Fox News legal analyst
Gregg Jarrett said during an appearance on “Hannity”
Friday night following the release of the FISA memo
earlier in the day with a stunning claim.
investigation is now going to be reversed.” She
added that Republican members of Congress
would now be calling for a special counsel to
investigate anyone who was tied to using the
unverified “Trump dossier” in order to fool the
FISA court into issuing a surveillance warrant
so Obama-era FBI and Justice Department
officials could spy on Team Trump.

During the interview, Jarrett told host Sean Hannity and “They’re going to look at criminality here,”
others that sources told him Deputy Attorney General Rod Carter added.
Rosenstein, who took oversight of the “Russia collusion”
investigation after AG Jeff Sessions recused himself, Watch:
threatened House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes, R-Calif., and other GOP members of the panel over
the FISA memo.

“I can tell you a congressional source tells me

that Rod Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks
ago threatened Chairman Nunes and members
of Congress he was going to subpoena their
texts and messages because he was tired of
dealing with the intel committee,” Jarrett said.

“That’s threats and intimidation,” he added to a

stunned Hannity.

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 MSNBC Calls For Revolution
Against Trump Amid FISA Memo Release
“People Need To Start Taking To The Streets”
Infowars.Com –
February 2, 2018

He’s right. It’s under siege and Trump is taking it back!

“People need to start taking to the streets,” Deutsch

barked, calling Trump a dictator.

Continuing his bizarre rant, Deutsch said, “We need a

revolution at this point and I’m not doing T.V. here, this is
what’s going on. I want to know what the people of this
country are going to do if Rosenstein is fired. We can’t
take this sitting down.”

He goes on to angrily admit, “Trump is winning. He’s

winning kids. This crazy, wacky guy is winning. Half of
MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch called for a the country thinks the media totally lies. At this point, 44%
revolution in the streets after Trump released the of this country doesn’t trust the FBI.”
Nunes memo Friday.
Finishing his tirade, Deutsch once again calls for people to
Deutsch, a former talk show host and frequent guest on hit the streets if Rosenstein is fired.
MSNBC, says Trump is owned by Putin and that our
Democracy is under siege.
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 SHARK JUMPED: Evan McMullin Goes All ‘The End
Justifies The Means’ In Defense Of FISA Application
By Greg P.
Posted At 6:14 Pm On February 2, 2018

Because we know you were just dying to know what

TRUE REAL UBER CONSERVATIVE Evan McMullin
had to say on the Nunes memo, here it is:

And there it is: “The end justifies the means” defense:

And he also accidentally calls the FISA application “BS”:

Dear Twitter: Please go back to 140 characters, thanks!

Notice collusion was also downgraded to “likely”:

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 Buyer’s remorse has set in:

We also wonder what McMullin thinks might happen once

we start allowing this kind of thing:

Oh, well. Just don’t make the same mistake in 2020.

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 GOP Lawmaker: Comey, McCabe & Ohr Should Be In
PRISON For ‘Committing Fraud Upon FISA Court’
By Joshua Caplan
February 2, 2018, 6:24 Pm
If Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a former
judge, had his way, ex-FBI Director James
Comey, outgoing Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe and Justice Department official
Bruce Ohr would be in prison.
Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller reports:
A FISA court judge has grounds to hold
Department of Justice officials including Bruce
Ohr in contempt of court for making
misrepresentations about the sources of
information used to obtain a surveillance
warrant against a Trump associate, a former
judge and Republican congressman said.
“I think it’s important to know who the FISA
judge was, and why with all the info he’s had for
.
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some time, he has not put anyone in jail for
committing fraud on his court,” Louie Gohmert,
a Texas Republican who serves on the
Committee on the Judiciary, told The Daily
Caller News Foundation Friday.
“You shouldn’t be able to get quotes from
Bruce Ohr or [former FBI Director Jim]
Comey or [deputy director Andrew] McCabe
because they ought to be sitting in jail for
committing fraud upon the court,” he said.
As Byron York of the Washington Examiner reported
Friday,
“The political origins of the Steele dossier were
known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but
excluded from the FISA applications.”
In a sit down interview with Judge Jeanne earlier this
month, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) hinted one of the memo’s
biggest revelations is that senior FBI and Justice
Department officials may have committed fraud upon the
court.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft, the House
Intelligence Committee released their classified FISA
memo today.
The Democrats are planning to vote on releasing the
“counter-memo,” on Monday.
Click here to read a summary of the memo’s abuses.
 NYT Goes Manic Over FISA Memo
From ‘Stooge' Nunes; ‘Falls Well Short’ Of Scandal
By Clay Waters
February 2, 2018 6:43 PM EST
The days before the release of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act memo alleging a pattern of malfeasance
by the FBI and Justice Department in its surveillance of
members of the Trump campaign were marked by dread
and hysteria in the media, and the New York Times
participated.
Thursday’s front page used labeling to distract from the
content of the memo’s charges: “The Hard Right Praises
Moves By an Ex-Critic,” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and
Matthew Rosenberg. That would be Rep. Devin Nunes, the
Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
who instigated the public release of the information, over
the objections of the FBI and Department of Justice.
Representative Devin Nunes once called
Republicans “lemmings in suicide vests:”
Now it is Mr. Nunes, Republican of California
and chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee, who appears ready to blow
things up –
in this case the delicate relationship between American
intelligence and law enforcement agencies and the
committee that oversees them.
On Wednesday’s front page, legal reporter Charlie Savage
avoided the issues raised and insisted the “G.O.P. Memo
Uses Offense As a Defense:”
....as a matter of political reality, the memo --
written by Republican staffers for
Representative Devin Nunes of California, the
House Intelligence Committee chairman -- has
everything to do with defending President
Trump from Mr. Mueller’s investigation.
Savage tried to paint Republicans as paranoids:
Republicans are pushing the narrative that a
cabal of politically biased law enforcement
officials set out to sabotage Mr. Trump....Mr.
Nunes also has earned a reputation of being
a staunch Trump loyalist -- or “Trump’s
stooge,” as his hometown newspaper, The
Fresno Bee, called him last week....
Savage condescended:
That Mr. Nunes’s actions undermined his
credibility does not mean, however, that law
enforcement officials made no mistakes in the
highly fraught political environment of the day....
When the memo arrived Friday, the Times dismissed its
disturbing findings. The front-page NYTimes.com teaser
Friday afternoon had the pro-Democrat talking points teed
up:
The memo criticizes information used in an application for
a warrant to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump
campaign adviser, but does not provide all the evidence
used in the application.
It falls well short of what some Republicans promised: to
cast doubt on the origins of the Russia investigation.
fellow From the text, reported by Adam Goldman, Nicholas
Fandos and Charlie Savage:
But the memo falls well short of providing
the material promised by some Republicans:
namely, that the evidence it contained would
cast doubt on the origins of the Russia
investigation and possibly undermine the
inquiry, which has been taken over by the
special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
Instead, the document confirms that actions taken by
another former Trump foreign policy adviser, George
Papadopoulos, were a factor in the opening of the
investigation.
“Cabal” made another appearance:
The outlines of the memo were widely detailed
in news reports in recent days. Several details
from the complete memo show that it reflects a
line of attack circulating for weeks in
conservative media outlets, which have
been amplifying a narrative that the Russia
investigation is the illegitimate handiwork of
a cabal of senior Justice Department and
F.B.I. officials who were biased against
President Trump and set out to sabotage
him.
Savage provided a supposedly helpful “annotation” Friday
that was an excuse to provide the top Democrat on the
House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, a
rebuttal.
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 Excerpts And Full Video Of Bret Baier’s
Must Watch Interview Of Devin Nunes
By Greg P.
Posted At 6:52 Pm On February 2, 2018

Rep. Devin Nunes just finished up a must watch interview Nunes admitted he never actually read the FISA
with Fox News’ Bret Baier on his now infamous memo. application. That was Rep. Trey Gowdy’s job:
Full clip here:

Excerpts:
On coordination with the White House: No.

Nunes went on to say that Dems are lying about if the

FISA court was told of the political motives behind the
dossier:

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Nunes said “very little” of the Steele dossier has been
corroborated:

On Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein:

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 Well, since Nunes had Gowdy actually read the FISA
application, then maybe it’s Gowdy who we should be
listening to?
***

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 Gregg Jarrett: Criminal Acts By Comey, McCabe, Yates,
Rosenstein, Etc. Could Get 10 Years In Prison
#Fisamemo (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 7:06 Pm

Gregg Jarrett says the main players in this scandal who

lied to the FISA Court could face 10 years in prison.

Gregg Jarrett:

Two different crimes committed there. One was

perjury the other is abuse of power… Now we
know they knew the dossier wasn’t authentic
and reliable. They knew it came from
Democratic money. They knew it was likely
fabricated. And they knew they couldn’t get a
FISA warrant without it… The other is abuse of
power – ten years behind bars upon conviction.

Republican lawmaker Louie Gohmert said Comey,

McCabe and Ohr should be in prison.
The House Intelligence Committee released
their classified FISA memo on Friday
morning. Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

The House voted on Monday along party lines to share the

explosive memo with the American public.

This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump.

FOX legal analyst Gregg Jarrett went on Lou Dobbs

Tonight this evening to discuss this explosive evidence of
government and deep state corruption at the Department of
Justice and FBI.

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 The OBAMA Factor In The FISA Memo Scandal:
AG Lynch Signed Off On ALL Requests To Spy On Team
TRUMP; Prez Likely BRIEFED About The Spying
By J. D. Heyes, Editor-In-Chief
Posted On February 3, 2018
Really, how plausible is it that Obama didn’t know?
(National Sentinel) FISA Corruption: More information
continues to be revealed and released following Friday’s
publication of the scandal-filled FISA memo.
It has now become clear that there is a direct link from the
FISA approval process to the former president of the
United States, Barack Obama.
As ABC News reported:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court, commonly referred to as the “FISA
Court,” is a secret tribunal with legal authority to
grant (or deny) warrants for electronic
surveillance against would-be spies or
terrorists.
The court — made up of 11 federal judges,
serving 7-year terms and selected by the chief
justice of the Supreme Court — meets in
private, sometimes in the middle of the night.
FISA targets are highly classified.
More than a thousand applications for electronic
surveillance, all signed by the attorney
general, are submitted each year, and the vast
majority are approved.
The Obama administration said after President Donald J.
Trump claimed he was “wiretapped” by his predecessor
March 2017,
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“A cardinal rule of the Obama administration
was that no White House official ever interfered
with any independent investigation led by the
Department of Justice. As part of that practice,
neither President Obama nor any White House
official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S.
citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply
false.”
But changes made to the original Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 — via the FISA Amendments
Act of 2008 (and renewed in December 2012) give
presidents and the intelligence community much more
latitude when it comes to surveillance of “foreign”
persons.
As explained by Yale Law professor Jack Balkin in 2009:
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008, effectively
gives the President – now President Obama –
the authority to run surveillance programs
similar in effect to the warrantless surveillance
program [secretly implemented by George Bush
in late 2001]. That is because New Fisa no
longer requires individualized targets in all
surveillance programs. Some programs may be
‘vacuum cleaner’ programs that listen to a great
many different calls (and read a great many e-
mails) without any requirement of a warrant
directed at a particular person as long as no US
person is directly targeted as the object of the
program.
As the Brookings Institute noted in a policy paper arguing
for the Trump administration to renew legislation
reauthorizing Section 702 of the FISA Act, which
clarifies warrant requirements of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, information gathered via FISA warrants
“sometimes known as PRISM, comprises a
large part of the President’s Daily Brief.
If you can believe that Obama’s attorney general — the
one who spoke with the former president-husband of a
suspect currently under investigation for Espionage Act
violations (Hillary Clinton) — would not have informed
the head of the Executive Branch that his intelligence
community was spying on a rival presidential campaign,
well, okay.
But then, that information very probably was included in
the President’s Daily Intelligence Brief.
There’s more; Brookings’ policy paper arguing on behalf
of maintaining Sect. 702 also noted this important
distinction:
We often think about 702 as an NSA authority,
but it is also to a significant degree an FBI
.
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authority. Thus, the person and the integrity
of the FBI director is critically important to
the integrity of the program.
We now know, thanks to the release of the FISA memo on
Friday, that Comey was involved in approving the FISA
warrants used to spy on Trump campaign foreign policy
advisor Carter Page over his alleged “ties” to Russia
(foreign intelligence targets).
How likely is it that Obama — who received many of his
daily briefings electronically — didn’t know that Trump’s
campaign was under surveillance?
 WATERGATE X1000:
What The MSM Is Hoping YOU Ignore About
FISA MEMO Is More Than Dangerous,
It’s TERRIFYING
By Lucian Wintrich
February 2, 2018, 7:32 Pm
The now-infamous memo was FINALLY released today!
What we all have been too patiently waiting for. With the
release of the memo, we finally have proof that, without a
shadow of a doubt, the Clinton machine, powered by the
Obama Administration, using the DNC as its main
appendage, funded the creation of a false dossier, that they
simultaneously leaked to the press and sold to the FBI, and
then pressured top government employees to turn that into
a FISA warrant, and more broadly into what the MSM
refers to as the “Russia Investigation”. Do you remember
following each step of the way? When the MSM was
telling you that the Clinton investigation would be
dismissed, that “Trump/Russia collusion” was what you
*really needed to be worried about*? Well – again – with
the release of this memo, it proves that the entire narrative
was PAID FOR BY THE DNC, OKAYED BY OBAMA,
and then FUNNELED TO THE LEFT-CONTROLLED
MAINSTREAM MEDIA.\
This is blatant and rampant government corruption and it
all points to the Left, it spells out to the American public
what many in right-leaning media have been saying for
two years now. It is a MAJOR victory, but it’s bittersweet.
While many of us in the media, who have read and
interacted with these people on a day-to-day basis, knew
the elaborate scheme and continued to write about it –
seeing the FBI, itself, fully aware of the criminality and
attempt to dismiss it alongside leading Democrats and
media figures in the past 24-hours, causes immense alarm.
Have top branches of our government — that are
supposedly nonpartisan, that have access to the
information of every US citizen — under 8-years of
Obama, truly become this corrupt?
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Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the DNC manufactured
a completely false dossier, which led to the United States
government, under the Obama administration, spying on
Trump staffers. The DNC paid for the Steele dossier and
then used their Obama administration contacts to say that
it’s grounds for an investigation. Because the document
was unsubstantiated and they needed a second source to
justify spying on American citizens, so what did they do?
The same people behind the dossier “leaked” the
inaccurate and unsubstantiated information to Yahoo!
News, which ultimately to lead to the FISA warrant…
Which then led to the MSM as a whole reporting on the
investigation as valid, all to thwart the presidential
campaign of Donald J. Trump. See how that worked? But
the scheme didn’t end there…
The information from the ongoing investigation – that was
started from these false espionage “reports” – was THEN
illegally (again) leaked to the press in an attempt to steer
public opinion toward the impeachment of now elected
President Trump. This is supposed to be OUR government,
working for all Americans, and we have just seen plain as
day that for years it was working purely as an arm of the
DNC.
In hindsight, it’s obvious – as if it wasn’t already – that
president Trump was targeted during the election. They
were seriously worried and so they took measures to ease
their minds. The MSM kept saying that the Right was
whining about the surveillance, about the collusion, it was
obvious . . . And then the Russia narrative exploded onto
the scene and suddenly the entire discussion had been
flipped.
The memo is exactly what all of the voices on the Right
were shouting about and reporting on for a year. We were
called “conspiracy theorists” and were labeled tinfoil hat-
wearing fools by the mainstream media – and yet we were
right.
What the memo did, and what the fallout will expand
upon, is expose the FBI, DNC, DOJ, and the MSM for the
deceptive, manipulative forces that they are. The
mainstream media colluded with the DNC who were
colluding with the FBI and CLINTON is at the center of it
all.
These supposedly neutral government agencies acted and
functioned as wings and branches of the DNC under the
Obama administration and now they’re a deeply
entrenched machine that’s proved difficult to break up.
Heads need to role and a restructuring of all these
departments needs to be seen if any restoration of trust in
our government is to happen.
The MSM, in the aftermath of the memo’s release,
complained that it was all a “coordinated distraction” from
the “Russia Investigation”. The memo revealed the truth
and it has placed the “Russia Investigation” in sunlight –
it’s a scam and always was. Everyone who covered this up
.
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should be horrified and I’m quite sure they are. Heads
undoubtedly will roll.
What president Obama established is a precedent of abuse
that can lead to tyranny. Had Hillary Clinton been elected
and then another Democrat after her, the cycle would be
complete and the Democrats would have secured a
tyrannical, monopolistic control over the nation. This
would happen if a conservative wanted to consolidate the
power of the government agencies for their own benefit.
Our intelligence agencies are being weaponized by the
people at the highest rungs of our government.
A note to MSM Liberals: Imagine that after Donald
Trump’s 8 years and your influence in our government
fades, a Big Brother Neo-Con like Romney is
elected. Romney decides to not only allow the surveillance
of your preferred political candidates and their staff, but
he allows the surveillance of YOU, as originally
normalized and established by Obama. Would you feel
safe? By failing to report on this accurately, is this the
precedent you want to set?
[Repeated on nextpage in big letters so it will
sing in]
 A note to MSM Liberals:
Imagine that after Donald Trump’s 8 years
and your influence in our government
fades, a Big Brother Neo-Con like Romney
is elected.

Romney decides to not only allow

the surveillance of your preferred
political candidates and their staff, but he
allows the surveillance of YOU, as
originally normalized and established by
Obama.

Would you feel safe? By failing to report

on this accurately, is this the precedent
you want to set?
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 Isikoff Stunned That His Carter Page
Article Was Used To Justify Spy Warrant
Chuck Ross - Reporter
8:31 PM 02/02/2018
Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff said Friday that he
was surprised to find out that an article he wrote about
Carter Page prior to the election was used to obtain a spy
warrant against the former Trump campaign adviser.
The revelation, which was made in a memo released by the
House Intelligence Committee on Friday, “stuns me,”
Isikoff said in an episode of his podcast, “Skullduggery.”
The four-page memo alleges that the DOJ and FBI
submitted inaccurate and incomplete information in a
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant
against Page. The spy warrant was granted on Oct. 21,
2016.
One “essential” part of the application was the
uncorroborated Steele dossier, according to the memo.
And an article that Isikoff wrote for Yahoo! News on Sept.
23, 2016 that was based directly on the dossier was “cited
extensively” in the application.
Isikoff was shocked, he said, because his very article was
based on information that came from Christopher Steele,
the former British spy who wrote the dossier. He said it
was “a bit beyond me” that the FBI would use his article in
the FISA application. (RELATED: Spy Warrant Relied
On Dossier And News Stories Planted By Fusion GPS)
“Obviously the information that I got from Christopher
Steele was information the FBI already had,” he said,
noting that Steele began sharing information from his
dossier in July 2016.
Isikoff acknowledged the potential problem with the DOJ
and FBI citing his article to support the FISA against Page.
“It’s self-referential,” he said of the article and its
reliance on the dossier.
“My story is about the FBI’s own investigation,”
he continued.
“So it seems a little odd that they would be
citing the Yahoo! News story about the matter
that they are investigating themselves based on
the same material that had been separately
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presented to the FBI before I was ever briefed
by Christopher Steele.” (RELATED: Inside
Fusion GPS’s Media Outreach Campaign)
The Republican spy memo makes a similar argument.
“This article does not corroborate the Steele
dossier because it is derived from the
information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo!
News,” it reads.
It also asserts that the Page FISA application “incorrectly
assesses” that Steele was not a source for Isikoff.
The memo also says that corroboration of the dossier was
in its “infancy” at the time the FISA application was
submitted. An FBI unit that tried to verify Steele’s
research had determined that it was only “minimally
corroborated” at the time the FISA warrant was granted.
Isikoff said on his podcast that he met Steele at a
Washington, D.C. hotel in Sept. 2016. They were joined
by his “old friend” Glenn Simpson, the founder of
opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
Fusion hired Steele to investigate Donald Trump’s ties to
Russia. The firm was working for the Clinton campaign
and DNC, a fact which Isikoff was not aware of at the time
of the meeting with Simpson and Steele.
He said on “Skullduggery” that he was aware that
Simpson and Steele were working for Democrats, though
he did not know it was the campaign and DNC.
Isikoff said that he wonders whether the Republican memo
accurately characterized the FISA application or whether
the FBI/DOJ were trying to “dress up” the document. The
latter scenario would be “embarrassing” for U.S. officials,
he said.
Isikoff’s article was not considered a bombshell when it
was published, though the Clinton campaign did tout it in a
press release. The report did not initially gain much
traction on cable news or with other major outlets, but it
has picked up attention over the past year amid the
ongoing investigation into possible Trump campaign
collusion.
The article did reveal for the first time that investigators
were looking into Page’s contacts in Russia. It also
provided the most extensive reporting on Page’s alleged
activities in Russia up to that point in the campaign.
Isikoff reported that Page may have met secretly with the
Kremlin insiders during a much-publicized trip to Moscow
in July 2016.
The dossier — and the Isikoff report — identified the two
individuals as Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin. Page has
denied ever meeting the men. He is also suing Yahoo!
News for publishing the article suggesting he had.
Page denies other allegations made by Steele in the
dossier. Steele claims in the document that Page worked
with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to
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collude directly with Russian operatives. Page says he has
never met or talked to Manafort. The dossier also asserts
that it was Page’s idea to provide hacked DNC emails to
Wikileaks in order to push Bernie Sanders supporters away
from the Democrats’ camp.
Isikoff’s article also uses a quote from a senior U.S. law
enforcement official. The unidentified official told Isikoff
that Page’s contacts in Russia were on investigators’
“radar screen.”
The identity of that source remains a mystery, and Isikoff
did not disclose who it was. But he did rule out that the
source was Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official who
met with Steele and Simpson before and after the election.
The memo says that Ohr passed information from Steele to
the Justice Department. He also provided the FBI with
information from his wife, who worked as a contractor for
Fusion GPS. Ohr also met with Simpson after the election.
 BREAKING=> FOX Analyst: Rod Rosenstein Threatened
Chairman Nunes And House Intel Members In A
Meeting 3 Weeks Ago (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 2, 2018, 8:52 Pm

FOX News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett went The House voted on Monday along party lines to share the
on with Sean Hannity on Friday night after explosive memo with the American public.
the release of the House Intelligence FISA
memo. This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump.

Jarrett said his sources told him Rod Gregg Jarrett: I can tell you a congressional source tells
Rosenstein threatened the House me that Rod Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks ago
Intelligence Committee members three threatened Chairman Nunes and members of Congress he
weeks ago. was going to subpoena their texts and messages because he
was tired of dealing with the intel committee. That’s
threats and intimidation.

The House Intelligence Committee

released their classified FISA memo on
Friday morning.
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 WHAAAT? Fox News Analyst Says Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein THREATENED Intel Chair Nunes And Panel
Members In Meeting WEEKS Ago (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 3, 2018

“I can tell you a congressional source tells me…
Meanwhile, Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter, an
investigative reporter for Circa News, added that the
revelations contained in the FISA memo are merely about
“10 percent” of what else is coming in terms of the abuses
associated with spying on the Trump campaign by the
Obama administration.

“This is even more important,” she said. “The

(National Sentinel) FISA Abuse: Fox News legal analyst
Gregg Jarrett said during an appearance on “Hannity”
Friday night following the release of the FISA memo
earlier in the day with a stunning claim.
investigation is now going to be reversed.” She
added that Republican members of Congress
would now be calling for a special counsel to
investigate anyone who was tied to using the
unverified “Trump dossier” in order to fool the
FISA court into issuing a surveillance warrant
so Obama-era FBI and Justice Department
officials could spy on Team Trump.

During the interview, Jarrett told host Sean Hannity and “They’re going to look at criminality here,”
others that sources told him Deputy Attorney General Rod Carter added.
Rosenstein, who took oversight of the “Russia collusion”
investigation after AG Jeff Sessions recused himself, Watch:
threatened House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes, R-Calif., and other GOP members of the panel over
the FISA memo.

“I can tell you a congressional source tells me

that Rod Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks
ago threatened Chairman Nunes and members
of Congress he was going to subpoena their
texts and messages because he was tired of
dealing with the intel committee,” Jarrett said.

“That’s threats and intimidation,” he added to a

stunned Hannity.

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 Trump Attorney Goes Off On Comey And McCabe Amid
FISA Memo Firestorm “What A Breach Of Trust To The
American People” (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 9:10 Pm

Media was set ablaze after the House
Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday morning.
The unclassified memo shows former FBI Director James
Comey, Andrew McCabe, Yates and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court.
The Deep State and Democrats came unhinged after the
memo was released. Crazy Pelosi warned of a possible
Constitutional crisis.
James Comey fired off an unhinged schizophrenic tweet.
An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow gave a breakdown of
what he thought was the biggest takeaway from the FISA
memo Friday.
number two [at the FBI] who did sign off on
these testified to the House Committee that
they would not even have sought the
application of the FISA warrant if it wasn’t for
the dossier,” Sekulow said.
Sekulow then pointed out that the FISA applications were
renewed twice (memo says it was renewed three times)
and FBI and DOJ never told the FISA judge the
information upon which they are basing their application
for a FISA warrant was from oppo research from an
unverified dossier.
Lastly, Jay Sekulow blasted James Comey for briefing
then-President elect Donald Trump in January of 2017
about the dossier telling him it was no big deal AFTER he
had already signed off on a FISA application based on
information stemming from the dossier.

Sekulow said Comey’s statement to Trump in January of

2017 contradicts a previous statement he made under oath.

“What a breach of trust to the American

people,” Sekulow said in closing.

Video:

Jay Sekulow went off on crooked cops Andrew McCabe

and James Comey after the FISA memo was released.

“The first take away from this is the FBI and

DOJ obtained FISA warrants based on the
Steele dossier and Andrew McCabe, the former

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 Michael Flynn Jr. Reacts
To FISA Memo “I WANT JUSTICE!”
By Cristina Laila
February 2, 2018, 10:13 Pm

Media was set ablaze after the House

Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday morning.

The Russian collusion hoax is unraveling and the

Democrats are unhinged.

Hillary Clinton’s dirty dossier led to a FISA warrant to spy

on Trump’s team which then led to Mueller’s witch hunt
which ultimately led to charges against Trump’s former
NatSec Advisor General Flynn.

General Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr. reacted to the

bombshell news in the FISA memo Friday.

Flynn Jr.’s reaction to the bombshell news that McCabe

said under oath the FBI would never have sought a FISA
warrant to spy on Trump’s camp but not for the Russia
dossier.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE! I WANT JUSTICE!
#MemoDay

Michael Flynn Jr. went on an epic

tweetstorm Friday demanding justice for his
family name.
Flynn Jr.’s initial reaction to the memo:
WOW👀👀WOW #MemoDay

There’s no way Hillary and Obama didn’t know about the

dossier being used to obtain a FISA warrant which
ultimately sparked the Russia invesigation.

“Sooooo this is beginning to make a lot more

sense…” #MemoDay

Flynn Jr. hammered John McCain!

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 “I’m going to state the obvious….my father
@GenFlynn is a patriot who decided to help a
candidate get elected @POTUS He always said
the 2016 election was about the “heart and
soul” of this country.” #TruthWillPrevail
#ReleaseTheDocuments #ReleaseTheMemo

Flynn Jr. reacted to a reporter who said,

“we still havent found the person who leaked
the Flynn-Kislyak call contents to the press,
which is a felony.
But I think we are getting closer today, some
names to check out.”
“Thank you for bringing this to light,” Flynn Jr.
tweeted.

On December 1st it was reported General Michael Flynn

A few days before the memo was released, Michael Flynn
Jr stuck up for his father.
pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI deep state operatives in
the ongoing Trump witch hunt.
On Wednesday Special counsel Robert Mueller requested
the postponement of former National Security Advisor
Gen. Michael Flynn’s sentencing.
General Flynn should be pardoned and reimbursed for all
of his legal fees.

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 House Intel Chair Nunes Exposes Comey’s
Big DOSSIER LIE; Challenges Him To RE-TESTIFY
Before His Committee
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 3, 2018

“He’s welcome to come back and share that “Mr. Comey had a chance in January, February,
information” March, April…all the way til June (2016) to
come clean about who for the [falacious anti-
Trump dossier],” said Nunes, according to this
transcript.

“He was asked about it in January [2017] and

he said very clearly that he knew that it was
Republicans who started the dossier — which
was a lie — and then when asked and probed
further, ‘Well, who finished the dossier?’ he
didn’t know,” Nunes continued.
(National Sentinel) Self-Defense: House Intelligence
“Now maybe he was lying, maybe he didn’t
Committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., defended his
know. But both seem a problem,” Nunes added.
panel’s release of the scandalous FISA memo and disputed
“So Mr. Comey is welcome to come back, tell
former FBI Director James Comey’s criticism of it.
us when he learned that the Democratic Party
and the Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the
During a Fox News interview with newsman Brett Baier, dossier.
Nunes also extended an invitation to the fired former FBI
director to reappear before the Intelligence Committee to
“He’s welcome to come back and share that
answer new questions about the so-called “Trump
information, but I think the American people
dossier,” a political opposition document Comey and
understand that the FBI should not go to secret
others within the Obama administration misrepresented as
courts using information that was paid for by the
legitimate intelligence before the FISA court in order to
Democrats to open up investigations and get
get a surveillance warrant so they could spy on a President
warrants on people of the other political party,”
Donald J. Trump campaign figure, Carter Page.
Nunes said.
Nunes was also highly critical of the politicized Obama-
“That the type of stuff that happens in banana
era FBI, Justice Department and State Department, which
republics.”
he compared to a “banana republic.”

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 Can The Impending Collapse Of Russiagate
Halt The Slide Toward A Nuclear 1914?
James George JATRAS
02.02.2018
In the period preceding the World War I how many
Europeans suspected that their lives would soon be forever
changed – and, for millions of them, ended? Who in the
years, say, 1910 to 1913, could have imagined that the
decades of peace, progress, and civilization in which they
had grown up, and which seemingly would continue
indefinitely, instead would soon descend into a horror of
industrial-scale slaughter, revolution, and brutal
ideologies?
The answer is, probably very few, just as few people today
care much about the details of international and security
affairs. Normal folk have better things to do with their
lives.
To be sure, in that bygone era of smug jingosim, there was
always the entertainment aspect that “our” side had forced
“theirs” to back down in some exotic locale, as in
the Fashoda incident (1898) or the Moroccan crises (1906,
1911). Even the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 seemed less a
harbinger of the cataclysm to come than local dustups on
the edge of the continent where the general peace had not
been disturbed even by the much more disruptive Crimean
or Franco-Prussian wars.
Besides, no doubt level-headed statesmen were in charge
in the various capitals, ensuring that things wouldn’t get
out of hand.
Until they did.
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A notable exception to the prevailing mood of business-as-
usual, nothing-to-see-here-folks was Pyotr Durnovo,
whose remarkable February 1914 memorandum to Tsar
Nicholas II laid out not only what the great powers would
do in the approaching general war but the behavior of the
minor countries as well. Moreover, he anticipated that in
the event of defeat, Russia, destabilized by unchecked
socialist “agitation” amid wartime hardships, would “be
flung into hopeless anarchy, the issue of which cannot be
foreseen.” Germany, likewise, was “destined to suffer, in
case of defeat, no lesser social upheavals” and “take a
purely revolutionary path” of a nationalist hue.
When the great powers blundered into war in August 1914,
each confident of its ability speedily to dispatch its rivals,
the price (adding in the toll from the 1939-1945 rematch)
was upwards of 70 million lives. But the cost of a
comparable mistake today might be literally incalculable –
if there’s anyone left to do the tally.
During the first Cold War between the US and the USSR,
there was a general sense that a World War III was, in a
word, unthinkable. As summed up by Ronald Reagan:
“A nuclear war cannot be won and must
never be fought.” Then, it was understood
that all-out war, however it started, meant
massed ICBMs over the North Pole and the
“end of civilization as we know it.”
Not anymore.
What was unthinkable in the old Cold War has become all-
too-thinkable in the new one between the US and Russia.
As described by veteran arms control inspector Scott
Ritter, in analyzing a draft of the 2018 US Nuclear Posture
Review (NPR), the US threshold for the use of nuclear
weapons has become dangerously low:
‘The 2018 NPR has a vision of nuclear
conflict that goes far beyond the traditional
imagery of mass missile launches. While
ICBMs and manned bombers will be
maintained on a day-to-day alert, the tip of
the nuclear spear is now what the NPR
calls “supplemental” nuclear forces – dual-
use aircraft such as the F-35 fighter armed
with B-61 gravity bombs capable of
delivering a low-yield nuclear payload, a
new generation of nuclear-tipped
submarine-launched cruise missiles, and
submarine-launched ballistic missiles
tipped with a new generation of low-yield
nuclear warheads. The danger inherent
with the integration of these kinds of
tactical nuclear weapons into an overall
strategy of deterrence is that it
fundamentally lowers the threshold for their
use. […]
‘Noting that the United States has never
adopted a “no first use” policy, the 2018
NPR states that “it remains the policy of the
United States to retain some ambiguity
regarding the precise circumstances that
might lead to a US nuclear response.” In
this regard, the NPR states that America
could employ nuclear weapons under
“extreme circumstances that could include
significant non-nuclear strategic attacks.”
… The issue of “non-nuclear strategic
attack technologies” as a potential
precursor for nuclear war is a new factor
that previously did not exist in American
policy. The United States has long held that
chemical and biological weapons represent
a strategic threat for which America’s
nuclear deterrence capability serves as a
viable counter. But the threat from cyber
attacks is different. If for no other reason
than the potential for miscalculation and
error in terms of attribution and intent, the
nexus of cyber and nuclear weapons
should be disconcerting for everyone. […]
‘Even more disturbing is the notion that a
cyber intrusion such as the one perpetrated
against the Democratic National Committee
and attributed to Russia could serve as a
trigger for nuclear war. This is not as far-
fetched as it sounds. The DNC event has
been characterized by influential American
politicians, such as the Armed Services
Committee Chairman John McCain, as “an
act of war.” Moreover, former vice
president Joe Biden hinted that, in the
aftermath of the DNC breach, the United
States was launching a retaliatory
cyberattack of its own, targeting Russia.
The possibility of a tit-for-tat exchange of
cyberattacks that escalates into a nuclear
conflict would previously have been
dismissed out of hand; today, thanks to the
2018 NPR, it has entered the realm of the
possible.’
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The idea that a first-strike Schlieffen Plan could knock out
the Russians (and no doubt similar contingencies are in
place for China) at the outset of hostilities reflects a
dangerous illusion of predictability. Truth may be the first
casualty of war, but “the plan” is inevitably the second.
That’s because war planners generally don’t consult the
enemy, who – annoyingly for the planners – also gets a
vote.
Recently US Secretary of State James
Mattis declared that “great power
competition – not terrorism – is now the
primary focus of US national security,”
specifying Russia and China as nations
seeking to “create a world consistent with
their authoritarian models, pursuing veto
authority over other nations’ economic,
diplomatic and security decisions.” At least
we can drop the pretense that US policy
has been to fight jihad terrorism, not to use
it as a policy tool in Afghanistan, Bosnia,
Kosovo, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere. And
of course Washington never, ever meddles
in “other nations’ economic, diplomatic and
security decisions” . . .
There is much anticipation that release of a House
Intelligence Committee memo “naming names” of those in
the FBI and elsewhere inside and outside of government to
thwart the election of Donald Trump and cripple his
administration with a phony Russian “collusion” probe
will be a silver bullet that upturns the Mueller probe and
cleans the Augean stables of the Deep State. Even in that
unlikely case, the damage is already done. The primary
purpose of Russiagate was always to ensure Trump could
not reach out to Moscow, as seems to be his sincere desire.
Even as the narrative began to boomerang against those
who launched it, Trump’s defenders (such as fanatical
Russophobe Nikki Haley) are as adamant as his detractors
that Russia is and will remain the main enemy: Russia was
behind the Steele Dossier, Russia tried to “corner the
market” on “the foundational material for nuclear
weapons” with the Uranium One deal, etc. Hostility
toward Russia is not a means to an end – it is the end.
At this point Trump is fastened to the neocons’ and
generals’ axle, and all he can do is spin. Echoing Mattis, in
his State of the Union speech Trump lumped “rivals like
China and Russia” together with “rogue regimes” and
“terrorist groups” as “horrible dangers” to the United
States. (Note: The word “horrible” does not appear in
the posted text. That evidently was Trump’s adlib.) The
recently issued “name and shame” list of prominent
Russians is a veritable Who’s Who of government and
business, ensuring that there’s no American engagement
with anyone within screaming distance of the Kremlin.
To be fair, the Russians and Chinese are making their own
war preparations. Russia’s “Kanyon,” a doomsday nuclear
torpedo carrying a massive warhead, is designed to
obliterate the U.S east and west coasts, rendering them
inhabitable for generations. (Wait a minute. Is it any
coincidence, Comrade, that the coastal cities are just where
the Democrats’ electoral strength is? Talk about
“collusion!” Somebody call Bob Mueller!) For its part,
China is developing means to eliminate our white elephant
carrier groups – handy for pummeling Third World
backwaters but useless in a war with a major power –
with drone swarms and hypersonic missiles.
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Just as in 1914, when Durnovo referred to “presence of
abundant combustible material in Europe,” there is any
number of global flashpoints that could turn Mattis’s
“great power competition” into a major conflagration that
probably was not desired by anyone. However, if the worst
happens, and the lamps go out again – maybe this time
forever – Americans will not again be immune from the
consequences as we were in the wars of the 20th century.
The remainder of our lives, however brief, might turn out
very differently from what we had anticipated.
 GOP Reps Seek Criminal Prosecution
Of FBI, DOJ Officials For "Full Throated" Illegal
Misconduct And "Treason"
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/02/2018 - 23:30

Following the release of a four-page memo detailing
rampant FISA warrant abuse by the FBI and DOJ, Rep.
Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced that he will seek
the criminal prosecution of FBI and DOJ officials for the
"full throated adoption of this illegal misconduct and abuse
of FISA by James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates
and Rod Rosenstein" who Gosar called "traitors to our
nation."
Gosar focuses on the memo's claim that the FBI and DOJ
did not mention that Christopher Steele, the ex-MI6 spy
who compiled the dossier, was partially funded by the
Clinton campaign and the DNC.
- saying he should be "sent to prison for
his crimes":
"The leadership of the FBI and DOJ
behaved in a way we would expect of the
former Soviet Union, not the United States
of America. I applaud Representative
Nunes and other Republican members of
the House Intel Committee for fighting and
exposing corruption. Americans are tired of
corrupt bureaucrats and their career
politician enablers. If powerful leaders are
not held accountable, the American people
will never regain faith in the institutions
meant to protect us. Former FBI Director
James Comey was entrusted with one of
the most powerful positions in the world.
Sadly, he intentionally abused his power
in an effort to destroy Donald Trump's
presidency. He should be prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law and sent to
prison for his crimes. No one is above
the law. No one."

"This is third world politics where the

official government agencies are used
as campaign attack dogs," Gosar said.

The letter reads in part:

The House Permanent Select Committee

on Intelligence memorandum on the FBI
abuse of FISA warrants and targeting a
sitting President is not just evidence of
incompetence but clear and convincing
evidence of treason....

I will be leading a letter to the Attorney General seeking

criminal prosecution against these traitors to our nation."
We're sure Attorney General Jeff Sessions - who resisted
Meanwhile, Georgia GOP Gubernatorial candidate Sen. calls for a second special counsel to investigate FBI
Michael Williams is calling for the prosecution of Comey misconduct –

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 will take Gosar's request seriously,
despite praising Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein earlier today for representing
"the kind of quality and leadership that
we want in the department" - right after
the FISA memo detailing his conduct was
released.

Good thing Sessions isn't some deep-state concession

Trump had to agree to in exchange for GOP support during
the election.
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 NBC Panic Attack Peddles Spin:
‘Partisan Grenade’ Memo Could
Trigger ‘Constitution Crisis’
By Curtis Houck
February 3, 2018 1:11 AM EST
Following an exhausting day of the liberal media being in
a constant state of panic after the release of the Republican
House Intelligence Committee memo, Friday’s NBC
Nightly News pulled its weight in not emphasizing the
memo’s contents but how the “politically-charged”
“partisan grenade” has some claiming that this will
trigger “a constitutional crisis.”
Anchor Lester Holt set the tone from the
opening tease, declaring that the “wild day in
Washington” was triggered by the “disputed
secret memo” with “[u]npredcented
disclosures” that left the self-sanctimonious
James Comey furious.
The memo led the newscast with Holt knocking the
“politically-charged” memo’s release
“despite warnings from the head of the FBI
that it would be a mistake and tonight, he's
using it as ammo in his latest salvo against
his own Justice Department.”
So much for the memo being a giant nothingburger as
some in the media have claimed.
National correspondent Peter Alexander must have taken
talking points from Democratic Congressman and media
fan boy Adam Schiff (Calif.), starting his portion by
fretting that the memo’s arrival
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“comes amid months of relentless attacks
by President Trump against the very people
who are leading the Russia investigation.”
He also sought to discredit the memo before outlining a
single thing in the memo by blasting it as
“not a legal document” or “an intelligence
finding.”
Alexander bemoaned that the memo was
“first leaked to conservative media outlets”
then only summarized the memo and offered only one
direct quote (which he then used “a Democratic source” to
knock down the memo).
How original. What’s so pathetically predictable is how
Democrats leaking intelligence information have faced
zero scrutiny while the bar for any Republican is
insurmountable.
“Democrats and the intelligence community
argue the memo is inaccurate and
misleading..Its release unprecedented,
undercutting trust between the intelligence
community and members of Congress that
oversee it,” he added.
Chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson picked
up moments later, starting with a bang by dubbing the
memo a “partisan grenade.” Gee, one wonders if she’ll
do the same when the Schiff memo comes out.
After a soundbite from a member of Congress from each
party (Democrat Jackie Speier and Republican Jim
Jordan), Jackson dubiously declared:
“So, is the memo evidence of an anti-Trump
conspiracy or an attempt to smear the
Special Counsel's Russia investigation?
Depends who you ask.”
Right on cue following a Schiff soundbite, Jackson
promoted the apocalyptic and reckless argument from
Democrats that
“the memo is filled with factual errors and
could bring the U.S. to the brink of a
constitutional crisis.”
Wrapping up the segment with a soundbite from moderate
Republican and CNBC contributor Sara Fagen, Jackson
told Holt that
“Democrats want their so-called counter-
memo to be released as well, but it's not
clear if or when a vote on that will happen”
and that, in addition to wanting their memo
released, they want Nunes removed.
To see the relevant transcript from February 2's NBC
Nightly News, click “expand”:
NBC Nightly News
February 2, 2018
7:00 p.m. Eastern [TEASE]
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Secret Memo Revealed]
LESTER HOLT: Tonight, that disputed secret memo revealed as
President Trump overrules the FBI. What it says and doesn't say
about the feds, the Trump dossier and a British spy.
Unprecedented disclosures blasted by James Comey as
dishonest and misleading. A wild day in Washington.
(....)
7:01 p.m. Eastern
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Secret Memo Revealed]
LESTER HOLT: But we, of course, start with the firestorm raging
in Washington tonight. Hours after President Tump declassified a
Republican-crafted memo that tries to make the case that the FBI
played fast and loose in its gathering of evidence in the Russia
investigation. The President made the politically-charged memo
public despite warnings from the head of the FBI that it would be
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a mistake and tonight, he's using it as ammo in his latest salvo
against his own Justice Department. Tonight, a look at just what
that memo says and the telling glimpses it offers into how the
Russia investigation is proceeding. Let's start with NBC's Peter
Alexander. Peter, good evening.
PETER ALEXANDER: Hey Lester, good evening to you. The
release of this memo comes amid months of relentless attacks by
President Trump against the very people who are leading the
Russia investigation. This memo is not a legal document, not an
intelligence finding and tonight, even the President's own lawyer
says it's the opinion of the Republicans who wrote it. President
Trump tonight defying the FBI and Justice Department. [TO
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP] Why make this memo public?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think it's a disgrace what's
happening in our country. A lot of people should be ashamed of
themselves and much worse than that.
ALEXANDER: By midday, that memo, first leaked to conservative
media outlets was posted by House Republicans. It accuses
senior law enforcement officials of abusing their powers to spy on
a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, who they
suspected was a foreign agent for Russia. The memo alleges the
application for a warrant relies on an unverified dossier compiled
by Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence operative, and
fails to “disclose...the role of the DNC [or] Clinton campaign in
funding Steele's efforts.” But tonight, a Democratic congressional
source says the court was told about Steele's political bias but
may not have been specifically told that the information was
financed by Democrats. A former government lawyer says what
matters is whether Steele knew what he was talking about, not
what motivated him.
CHUCK ROSENBERG: We shouldn't be surprised when our
informants, the bases for our affidavits, are less than savory.
ALEXANDER: Democrats and the intelligence community argue
the memo is inaccurate and misleading. The disputed document
also reveals that Trump-appointed Justice Department officials,
including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, were among
those who signed off four times on renewing warrant requests,
meaning the surveillance of Carter Page was producing results.
Its release unprecedented, undercutting trust between the
intelligence community and members of Congress that oversee
it.
JEFFREY SMITH: It's that undermining of the trust which makes
it enormously more difficult for the FBI and the CIA to do their
jobs.
ALEXANDER: Tonight, FBI director Christopher Wray sending a
message to all his employees strongly defending his agency,
making clear he's not going to leave. Peter Alexander, NBC
News, the White House.
HALLIE JACKSON: I'm Hallie Jackson in Washington where that
four-page memo is now a partisan grenade.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Bitter Partisan Divide Over
Declassified Memo]
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN JACKIE SPEIER (Calif.):
Intent here is to shut down the investigation.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN (Ohio); Four
times they took this dossier and dressed it all up like it was some
legitimate intelligence.
JACKSON: So, is the memo evidence of an anti-Trump
conspiracy or an attempt to smear the Special Counsel's Russia
investigation? Depends who you ask with the man who oversees
the Special Counsel under a microscope, Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein.
TRUMP: You figure that one out.
JACKSON: Since Rosenstein oversees the Special Counsel,
Democrats worry the memo will be used as a pretext to discredit
and dismiss Rosenstein and ultimately end the Special Counsel
investigation.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF (Calif.): They
hope to help the White House in its effort to undermine the FBI,
undermine Bob Mueller, throw discredit on the government,
anything but look at the Russia investigation and what the Trump
campaign did.
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JACKSON: Democrats argue the memo is filled with factual
errors and could bring the U.S. to the brink of a constitutional
crisis. Some Republicans see it differently.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN MARK MEADOWS (N.C.):
There was nothing factually inaccurate.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN DEVIN NUNES (Calif.): The
American citizens that are represented before this court have to
be protected, and the only place that can protect them is the U.S.
Congress when abuses do occur.
JACKSON: Still, others in the GOP, like Susan Collins, argue the
legitimate oversight function congress should have has been
“tarnished by partisanship” with House Speaker Paul Ryan
cautioning this memo should not be used to “impugn the integrity
of the Justice system and the FBI.”
SARA FAGEN: It's really important for Republicans to take a step
back and think these are public servants. [SCREEN WIPE] We
need to stop and remember they're serving the country and our
language and our tone needs to be measured.
JACKSON: Democrats want their so-called counter-memo to be
released as well, but it's not clear if or when a vote on that will
happen. The political battle on this has gotten so heated the top
Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is telling NBC
News late tonight he thinks the top Republican should step down
from that chairmanship altogether. Lester?
HOLT: Hallie Jackson at the White House tonight, thank you.
 Obama’s Actions Related To The FISA Court Were
Beyond Corrupt – They Were Criminal! Time For A
Special Counsel To Bring The Obama Crooks To Justice!
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 8:13 Am

In addition, the report cites that at the same time that

Obama’s DOJ and FBI were illegally

searching Americans against their rights
and unbeknownst to them, Obama’s FBI was
providing this information to outside
contractors who had no business or legal
cause or claim to the information.

Yesterday the House Intelligence Committee released its

The Obama team’s actions with the FISA
Court were not just corrupt – they were
criminal!
The FISA Court was put in place in 1978
when Congress enacted the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
The Court sits in Washington D.C., and is composed of
eleven federal district court judges who are designated by
the Chief Justice of the United States.
Each judge serves for a maximum of seven
years and their terms are staggered to
ensure continuity on the Court.
Judges typically sit for one week at a time, on a rotating
basis.
FISA memo that described the corrupt actions taken by
Obama’s FBI and DOJ to obtain warrants to spy on the
Trump campaign. Obama’s DOJ and FBI used a document
created from information by Hillary Clinton campaign and
DNC funding to obtain multiple FISA Court warrants. The
political anti-Trump sources of the information were not
provided to the court when requesting the warrant and top
DOJ and FBI officials were the ones partaking in these
actions. As a result, Congressional leaders are calling for
prosecution of FBI and DOJ officials involved in the
criminal actions and FOX News’ Gregg Jarrett stated that
the criminal acts by Obama’s scoundrels involved in the
FISA crimes could qualify for sentences of up to 10 years
in prison.
Devin Nunes, the Chair of the House Intelligence
Committee, spoke yesterday on FOX about the Obama
Administration’s criminal actions listed in the FISA memo
–

As reported earlier by TGP, on April 26, 2017, an unsealed

FISA Court Ruling unveiled a number of criminal
activities that Barack Obama’s FBI and DOJ participated
in during his time in office. The FISA Court Ruling shows
widespread abuse of the FISA mandate.

According to the report,

Obama’s FBI and DOJ performed searches

on Americans that were against their 4th
Amendment rights. This went on for years.
One paragraph in the report states that 85%
of the Section 704 and 705(b) FISA searches
made during this time were non-compliant
with applicable laws and therefore criminal.
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The House Intelligence Committee also released a separate
memo to address left wing politician and MSM attacks on
the committee for releasing the memo.
Democrats and the media forget that it’s illegal to spy on
Americans without a proper warrant from an entity like the
FISA Court. Now more and more evidence is being
uncovered that suggests the Obama Administration not
only spied on citizen and Presidential candidate Donald
Trump but did so before obtaining their bogus warrant
through the FISA Court to do so. This may be why
Obama’s team produced the bogus FISA applications to
spy on President Trump. That or the Obama team was
trying to cover up other more serious crimes that they
partook in.
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In addition, the entire FISA court in late 2016 was stacked
with Obama appointees. The entire court in March of 2017
was Obama appointees. One of these appointees was also
involved in General Flynn’s criminal case. We know this
because he recused himself from the Flynn case.
Obama FISA Court appointee and U.S.
District Judge Rudolph Contreras recused
himself from former National Security
Advisor Michael Flynn’s criminal case in
December. It’s yet unknown the reason for
why Contreras recused himself.
It is high time that the Justice Department
creates a special counsel to look into the
corrupt and criminal Obama Administration.
Drain the swamp!
 EVERY BOGUS 2016 FISA REQUEST To Spy
On Trump Was Signed By Obama’s AG Loretta Lynch
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 8:22 Am

The President next tweeted:

Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire

tapping” a race for president prior to an
election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW
LOW!
On March 7th, 2016 The Gateway Pundit
reported – Only 1 in 10,000 FISA Requests
Was Denied in 6 Years — Obama’s First
Request to Wiretap Trump Denied in 2016.

We now know that the FISA requests to spy

on Carter Page were based on the
discredited and bogus fake Trump dossier
created by Fusion GPS and that the
dossier’s origin was not reported to the
court. We also reported that according to ABC News:

We also know that all of these requests More than a thousand applications for electronic
were signed off on by the Obama surveillance,
Administration’s Attorney General Loretta
Lynch and that the first request to spy on
all signed by the attorney general,
Trump was denied by the FISA Court.
are submitted each year, and the vast majority are
In March 2017 we reported that President Trump tweeted
approved. From 2009 to 2015, for example,
that former President Obama had petitioned a court [at
least] twice in order to wire tap current President Trump
when he was running for office. more than 10,700 applications for electronic
surveillance were submitted, and only one
was denied in its entirety,
In his first tweet President Trump tweeted:
according to annual reports sent to Congress. Another one
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my
was denied in part, and 17 were withdrawn by the
“wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the
government.
victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
A very disturbing fact about the wire tapping request of
President Trump is that the FISA Court turned down

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President Obama’s Administration’s first request to wire President Trump based on bogus
tap President Trump that was evidently signed off on by information, to take him down before the
Attorney General Lynch. With only two known applications 2016 election.
denied out of 10,700 from 2009 through 2015, the fact that
the Obama Administration’s application was denied by the The amazing thing is … Trump still won!
FISA Court is very disturbing. The odds of this happening
were 0.02%.

Now we know that Carter Page was spied on by the

Obama Administration and the information provided to the
Court to spy on him was bogus.

We now have additional evidence that the

Obama Administration, its AG, FBI and DOJ
were all corrupt and doing all they could,
including obtaining warrants to spy on
.

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 FLASHBACK: CNN’s Chris Cillizza
Called Trump ‘Bonkers’ For Saying Clinton
And FBI Were Behind Dossier
Chris White
February 3, 2018
CNN’s Chris Cillizza called President Donald Trump and
his followers “bonkers” and “crazy” last year for believing
the FBI and the Clinton campaign were involved in the
now-infamous Steele dossier.
Cillizza chastised Trump and his cadre of followers in
October of last year for suggesting and supporting the idea
that Democrats and elements inside the FBI were involved
in funding the dossier. He called them conspiracy theorists
at the time.
“He is suggesting that a dossier prepared by a
former member of British intelligence has not
only been totally discredited … but that it might
have been funded by some combination of
Russia, the Democratic Party and, wait for it,
the FBI!” Cillizza wrote in a missive at the time.
Trump has mercilessly lambasted CNN in the past for what
he calls promulgating fake news – the 24-hour news
network won the president’s fake news award in early
January. Cillizza has been a frequent critic of the Trump
administration. He implored Republicans in his October
article to dismiss the president’s alleged conspiracy
theories.
“You can love Donald Trump and still believe
that the idea that the Russians, the Democrats
.
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and the FBI co-funded a dossier designed to
discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign is totally
bonkers,” said Cillizza, a former writer with The
Washington Post who fashions himself a type of
advocacy journalist.
He added:
“But, there is no plausible scenario by which
what Trump suggested this morning — a wide-
scale conspiracy involving three separate actors
across federal agencies and continents —
actually happened.”
His criticisms came mere days before a report from WaPo
showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign and the Democratic National
Committee paid opposition research firm Fusion GPS to
investigate Trump as part of a project that led to former
British spy Christopher Steele’s dossier.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer for the Clinton campaign and
DNC, and his law firm, Perkins Coie, hired Fusion GPS in
April of 2016 to investigate Trump, according to an
October 24 report from WaPo, Cillizza’s former employer.
Cillizza’s remarks also came five months before
Republicans released a memo showing the FBI hid
evidence from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court (FISC) that Steele was stridently opposed to
Trump’s presidential campaign.
Steele received over $160,000 in payment from Fusion
GPS and Perkins Coie, both of which channeled the money
from the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton
campaign. The FISC did not hear about that, nor was it
told that, as the memo reports before granting the
Department of Justice a warrant to spy on former Trump
adviser, Carter Page.
 Obama Admin’s First Request To Spy On Trump
Campaign Was Rejected By FISA Court — So They Added
The Fake Dossier Knowing It Was Lie
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 8:51 Am

The President next tweeted:

On March 7th, 2017 The Gateway Pundit
reported – Only 1 in 10,000 FISA Requests Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire
Was Denied in 6 Years — Obama’s First tapping” a race for president prior to an
Request to Wiretap Trump Denied in 2016. election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW
LOW!
We now know that the FISA requests to spy
on Carter Page were based on the
discredited and bogus fake Trump dossier
created by Fusion GPS and that the
dossier’s origin was not reported to the
court.

We also know that all of these requests

were signed off on by the Obama
Administration’s Attorney General Loretta
Lynch and that the first request to spy on
Trump was denied by the FISA Court. We also reported that according to ABC News in March
2017:
In March 2017 we reported that President Trump tweeted
that former President Obama had petitioned a court [at More than a thousand applications for electronic
least] twice in order to wire tap current President Trump surveillance,
when he was running for office.
all signed by the attorney general,
The first request was turned down by the
FISA court.
are submitted each year, and the vast majority
are approved. From 2009 to 2015, for example,
In his first tweet President Trump tweeted:
more than 10,700 applications for
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my electronic surveillance were submitted,
“wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the
and only one was denied in its entirety,
victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
according to annual reports sent to Congress.
Another one was denied in part, and 17 were
withdrawn by the government.
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 A very disturbing fact about the wire tapping
request of President Trump is that the FISA
Court turned down President Obama’s
Administration’s first request to wire tap
President Trump that was evidently signed
off on by Attorney General Lynch.
With only two known applications denied out of 10,700
from 2009 through 2015, the fact that the Obama
Administration’s application was denied by the FISA
Court is very disturbing. The odds of this happening were
0.02%.
We also know from information released on
Friday by the House Intelligence Committee
that the Obama administration then went
back to the FISA court in September 2016
with the bogus Russia dossier attached to
their request to give their request some
additional “support”.
The Obama DOJ and FBI used the fake
dossier to ensure their FISA court request
would be granted.
Later, after Donald Trump won the
presidency, Deputy Director of the FBI,
.
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Andrew McCabe, testified to Congress that
the FISA court request would never have
been approved without the dossier that
everyone knew was a lie.
We know that Carter Page was spied on by the Obama
Administration and the information provided to the Court
to spy on him was bogus.
We now have additional evidence that the
Obama Administration, its AG, FBI and DOJ
were all corrupt and doing all they could,
including obtaining warrants to spy on
President Trump based on bogus
information, to take him down before the
2016 election.
We also believe it is highly probable the
Obama Administration was spying on
Donald Trump even before the FISA request
was approved in September 2016.
The amazing thing is, despite the Obama
administration’s criminal acts … Donald
Trump still won!
 BREAKING: Second Source Comes Forward=>
Claims Rosenstein Threatened Nunes And House Intel If
They Didn’t Stop Investigation!
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 11:22 Am

FOX News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett went House Intelligence members if they did not
on with Sean Hannity on Friday night after stop their investigation.
the release of the House Intelligence FISA
memo.

Jarrett said his sources told him Rod

Rosenstein threatened the House
Intelligence Committee members three
weeks ago.

The House Intelligence Committee

released their classified FISA memo on
Friday morning.

The House voted on Monday along party lines to share the Jarrett also named the crime Rosenstein may have
explosive memo with the American public. committed.

This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump.
Gregg Jarrett: I can tell you a congressional source tells
me that Rod Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks ago
threatened Chairman Nunes and members of Congress he
was going to subpoena their texts and messages because he
was tired of dealing with the intel committee. That’s
threats and intimidation.
“It is a crime for a government official to use his
office to threaten anyone, including a member
of Congress, for exercising a constitutionally
protected right. See 18 USC 242 and other
similar abuse of power statutes.”

Now this…

On Saturday morning Gregg Jarrett tweeted

out that a second source now says Rod
Rosenstein threatened Chairman Nunes and

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Jarrett also said,

“Again, if true, Rosenstein’s action was an

illegal abuse of power and he should no longer
serve as Deputy Attorney General. He allegedly
used threats to try to stop the Intelligence
Committee from exposing wrongful behavior in
an attempt to cover it up.’

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 What Is Nunes' FISA Memo?
6 Things To Know About The Secret Document
By Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Fox News
February 3, 2018
The controversial memo detailing alleged federal
surveillance abuses was declassified and released Friday
following approval by President Trump.
The memo, put together by House Republicans, shows
improper surveillance techniques used by the Department
of Justice and the FBI in the Russia investigation, GOP
lawmakers said.
Democrats have dismissed the memo, arguing that it was
selectively edited by Republicans to push a narrative that
the Russia investigation is biased against the president.
Here’s what we know about the memo and its connection
to the Russia investigation.
So what is this memo?
The four-page memo, put together by the staff of House
Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-
Calif., reveals improper use of surveillance by the FBI and
the Justice Department in the Russia investigation, GOP
lawmakers said.
The memo did “raise concerns with the legitimacy and
legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and
represent a troubling breakdown of legal processes
established to protect the American people from abuses
related to the FISA process,” it said.
Some key points of the memo include:
 Christopher Steele, who compiled the controversial
dossier containing colorful but unverifiable claims about
Trump, confirmed to former associate deputy attorney
general Bruce Ohr that he “was desperate that Donald
Trump not get elected and was passionate about him
not being president.”
 The dossier was key to the FBI’s FISA warrant in its
surveillance of members of Trump’s team.
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 The FBI and DOJ obtained an initial FISA warrant
targeting Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser
to Trump.
 The surveillance warrants and renewals did not
mention that the dossier was paid for, at least in part,
by the Democratic National Committee and the
campaign for Hillary Clinton. The memo says the DOJ
was aware at the time of the initial FISA application that
“political actors were involved with the Steele dossier.”
 While Ohr met with Steele, Ohr's wife was employed by
Fusion GPS, the firm contracted to produce the
dossier, and was assisting in opposition research on
Trump, according to the memo. This information was
also not included in the warrant.
 Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told the
House Intelligence Committee in December 2017 that a
surveillance warrant would not have been sought
without the dossier and what it purportedly revealed.
Earlier this week, the House Intelligence Committee voted
to release the classified memo on what Rep. Adam Schiff,
D-Calif., said was a party-line vote.
Republicans who support the release of the memo do so in
the interest of "transparency" for "anyone who cares about
America and our democratic system of government," Rep.
Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said in a letter signed by 65 other
lawmakers.
What was the argument against releasing it?
House Democrats have cautioned against releasing the
memo, calling into question its factual accuracies and
warning that it could be detrimental to national security.
 How has Trump reacted to the memo?
the memo.
Trump declassified the memo without redactions on
Friday.
“A lot of people should be ashamed of
themselves and much worse than that,” he said.
And on Saturday, Trump tweeted that "this
memo totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe. But
the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on."
In a statement, the FBI said it has “grave concerns” with
“With regard to the House Intelligence
Committee’s memorandum, the FBI was
provided a limited opportunity to review this
memo the day before the committee voted to
release it,” the statement said. “As expressed
during our initial review, we have grave
concerns about material omissions of fact that
fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

Justice Department officials had asked the White House to

He went on:
block the memo's release.

But what is so controversial about the FISA

surveillance program in the first place?

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

(FISA) – which was recently reapproved by Congress –
allows intelligence officials to oversee communications of
foreigners outside of the U.S. without a warrant.

Critics argue that although the law cannot be used to target

Americans, U.S. citizens are often swept up in the data
collection – which can be viewed without a warrant.
And the FBI?

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 RNC Co-Chair Paduchik On Record Fundraising: ‘
The Greatest Amount Of Credit Goes To President Trump’
By Dan Riehl3
Feb 2018

He also called the way Democrats are overreacting to the

news surrounding the revelations as “shocking,” pointing
out how they’ve shifted from saying the Friday release of a
memo by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes (R-CA) would be the end of the world, to now
saying it’s “a nothing-burger.”

“It’s just astonishing that the mainstream media

is so complicit in letting them shape-shift their
arguments the way they do,” he said.

When asked about Republican fundraising basically

doubling that of Democrats in 2017, Paduchik said, “The
greatest amount of credit goes to President Trump and his
steadfast resolve to keep the promises he made on the
campaign.”
Republican National Comittee (RNC) Co-
Chair Bob Paduchik credited President
“It’s such a refreshing thing,” he added, “an
Donald Trump for the RNC’s record
elected official who actually does what he says
fundraising in 2017 and also told Breitbart
he’s going to do – that’s a big part of it.”
News Saturday SiriusXM host Amanda
House he wasn’t shocked by recent
revelations regarding the FBI given the way He also credited the hardworking of RNC
the Obama administration also politicized Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel while pointing out that a
the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). large amount of the money raised came from small donors
across the country.
“This is very troubling but it’s not as shocking as
it might seem when you consider how the Breitbart News Saturday is broadcast live on SiriusXM
Obama administration politicized the IRS,” Patriot Channel 125 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
Paduchik told House, going on to discuss how
leaders at the IRS “mistreated” conservatives
and conservative groups under Obama.

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 Rep. Nunes Exposes COMEY’S BIG DOSSIER LIE
– Then Challenges Him To Come Back
To Congress And Testify (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 1:28 Pm

House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes spoke to

Bret Baier on Special Report Friday night
after the FISA memo was released earlier on
Friday.

Nunes compared the Obama-Comey-DOJ-FBI to a banana

republic.

This was an amazing interview.

Video from FOX News:

Devin Nunes BLASTED the criminal Obama

FBI, State Department and Department of
Justice.

During the interview, which was frequently

interrupted by Baier, Nunes accused fired
FBI Chief James Comey of lying to
Congress about the Russia dossier.

Nunes then challenged the former FBI chief to come back

to Congress and testify under oath again.

Transcript via Andrew Bostom:

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 A Tale Of Two Americas –
The Media Reacts To The Memo
By Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/03/2018 - 13:47
On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow was literally
laughing. Over on Fox News, Sean
Hannity put up his dukes.
At 9 last night,
Axios points out that you could just flip
between the two and see an
encapsulation of our two Americas
- total dismissal of the memo's import,
versus the assertion that it's "only about 15
percent of what's coming."
So, Rachel, how was your day?
 "This thing?! This was two weeks of: This memo is
going to end everything. This memo, have you heard
about the memo? Hashtag: Release the memo! This
memo will make Donald Trump innocent. This memo
will put Robert Mueller in jail. It will abolish the FBI. The
Justice Department will have to rename itself the
Donald J. Trump & Family Private Security Task
Force."
 "I mean, I can't believe this is it."
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 "I don't really believe in the whole Cable News Wars
idea. I know people who work across the street at the
Fox News Channel. I've got friends that work there. I
think we're all doing our own thing in our own way best
we can."
 "But, oh my God, right? ... [T]his ... hyping and
huffing and puffing and working their audience up into a
frenzy for two solid weeks."
 "And apparently, despite all of that, ... they either
didn't know or they didn't notice that this thing they
have been clamoring for and hyping for two solid
weeks, ... it actually disproves their whole point."
 "They release this memo to prove that the dossier
started everything. The memo says the dossier didn't
actually start anything."
* * *
What's up, Sean?
 "[W]hen you put all this information together, here's
what it all means. The FBI misled and purposely
deceived a federal court while using an unverified,
completely phony opposition research bought and paid
for by Hillary Clinton."
 "We have never, ever in history seen anything like
this, and it was spearheaded not by rank-and-file
members of the FBI intelligence community and
Department of Justice. No. High-ranking officials:
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein,
Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, likely Loretta Lynch."
 "But here's the bottom line: Crimes have been
committed. There is no way that they did not know that
the FBI was lying to a FISA court in order to spy on an
opposition campaign during an election year. They
have aided and abetted what is a massive
constitutional violation."
 "Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein and others all need to
be investigated and, in many cases, prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law."
 "Now, of course, Comey is running scared. He's out of
his mind right now, now that he is exposed with this
memo."
.
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 "[T]he special counsel must be disbanded
immediately."
 "And, by the way — nobody else will say this — all
charges against Paul Manafort and General Michael
Flynn need to be dropped. It's that simple."
 "This scandal is only in Phase 1. ... Stay tuned! Tick
tock! "
 Liberal Insider 'Newsletter'
Insists Trump Will 'Pay A Price' On Memo
By Tim Graham
February 3, 2018 2:39 PM EST
Political insiders who subscribe to former New York Times
and Politico reporter Mike Allen's morning e-mail
newsletter -- Axios AM -- might realize it's not really a
"newsletter." It's more like a "Talking Points Memo," and
the talking points are reliably Democratic in tone. Allen's
Friday edition previewed the Nunes memo release under
the headline "1 Big Thing: The memo's price."
The team at Axios found anonymous White House aides
who think the president is screwing up, who "recognize
their could be a high cost" to Trump's decision to allow the
memo's release, as they told Allen and Jonathan Swan.
Smell the liberal bias (bolding from the original):
 Swan learned that the White House plans to dress up
the decision by arguing that it's an action of
"transparency."
 But this puts President Trump publicly crossways with
both the intelligence community and the FBI — not a
place you want to be.
 And then there's the lead-balloon factor:
Swan scooped yesterday that many in the White House
think the memo will be a dud — hardly delivering on the
expectations that Fox's Sean Hannity and others on the
right have whipped up with the online
#ReleaseTheMemo frenzy.
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 So with no slam dunk, there could also be a political
cost.
 An administration source said last night: “Some back
and forth on whether to actually do it. If it really is a dud
and the memo really doesn’t say a hell of a lot, why
would you risk pissing off [FBI Director Christopher]
Wray?"
 That West Wing fear syncs with a claim by Rep. Adam
Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence
Committee, who said at an Axios event that the memo
will be a letdown for the right — containing nothing that
obviously invalidates the investigation or would cause
anyone to get fired.
 And the policy price ... The Boston Globe front-
pages: "The hot topic at congressional Republicans’
annual policy retreat ... is not infrastructure,
immigration, or even tax cuts — it’s 'The Memo.'"
White House aides who support the president and think
he's not screwing up didn't get a paragraph. Why confuse
the Axios audience with an opposing view?
Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel
questioned that don't-mess-with-the-FBI spin:
"Having tried--and failed--to stop the memo on
grounds of 'national security,' 'omissions,' and
'versions,' Ds/media are out with new reasons
today. Now we are told
1) memo is a nothingburger that will backfire on
WH, and
2) Trump would be unwise to mess with the
FBI.The latter is particularly curious.
IE, the FBI is not a rogue, unaccountable
agency, but you better watch out or it might
come after you."
 House Intel Chair Nunes On House Democrats:
“These Guys Tell So Many Lies You Can’t
Keep Track Of Them” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 2:44 Pm

“part of the evidence was from a politically

House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes spoke to
Bret Baier on Special Report Friday night
after the FISA memo was released earlier on
Friday.
Nunes compared the Obama-Comey-DOJ-FBI to a banana
republic.
motivated source.”
In fact ALL of the evidence was linked to
FUSION GPS — the original dossier and the
Yahoo report by far left reporter Michael Isikoff.
Bret Baier asked Nunes if this was true.

Rep. Devin Nunes replied: No. As I said

earlier, these people tell so many lies you can’t
keep track of them. No, the court was not made
aware. And I would think that if a judge knew,
‘Hey we have an investigation of the Trump
campaign, we’re going after the Trump
campaign advisor, and hey, by the way, Hillary
Clinton’s campaign paid for all of this
information.’ If that did happen, which it didn’t, if
the court did know that the judge would have to
be considered very suspect.

Devin Nunes BLASTED the criminal Obama

FBI, State Department and Department of
Justice.

During the interview, which was frequently

interrupted by Baier, Nunes accused fired
FBI Chief James Comey of lying to
Congress about the Russia dossier.

Nunes then was about remarks by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-

CA) and his remarks that the FISA court was told the
dossier was created by liberal Hillary Clinton campaign
supporters. Swalwell told Jake Tapper on CNN that the
FISA Court was made aware that
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 Republican Memo: What You Need To Know About
Alleged FBI & DOJ Abuses
Published Time: 2 Feb, 2018 17:38 Edited Time: 3 Feb, 2018 15:44

The four-page memo compiled by the GOP Chair of the were then known to senior DOJ and FBI
House Intelligence Committee accuses the FBI and DOJ officials,” the memo notes.
under the Obama administration of securing a warrant to
spy on the Trump campaign based on the notorious ‘Steele
dossier.’

Declassified by President Donald Trump and published by

the committee Friday over strong objections by
Democrats, the DOJ and the FBI, the memo lays out the
origins of the warrant to spy on Trump adviser, Carter
Page, in the dossier funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The so-called Steele dossier “formed an essential part” of

the FISA probable cause order obtained by the FBI from
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on
October 21, 2016. The warrant was extended three times,
also on the basis of the Steele dossier.

“Then-director James Comey signed three FISA

applications in question on behalf of the FBI,
and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed
one,” the document says.

Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, then-Deputy

AG Dana Boente, and DAG Rod Rosenstein all signed one
or more FISA applications on behalf of the Department of
Justice.
Comey testified in June 2017 that the Steele dossier was
“salacious and unverified.” Yet McCabe himself testified
in December 2017 that no FISA warrant would have been
sought without the dossier, according to the document.
Rosenstein is currently the deputy attorney general, who is
in charge of all aspects of the Russia investigation after
AG Jeff Sessions recused himself due to potential conflicts
of interest. Yates was famously fired by Trump in January
2017, after she defied his executive order of a temporary
travel ban. McCabe abruptly stepped down Monday,
taking all his leave prior to his official retirement in
March.
“Neither the initial application in October 2016
nor any of the renewals disclose or reference
the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any
party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even
though the political origins of the Steele dossier
Steele’s work was paid for by Fusion GPS, an opposition
research firm retained by the Clinton campaign in April
2016 via the Democratic National Committee and the law
firm Perkins Coie.
Notably, the FISA applications does not mention at any
point that Steele was working for Fusion GPS or that the
company and its principal, Glenn Simpson, were on the
payroll of the Democrats, the memo says.
Furthermore, the original FISA application “cited
extensively” a September 23, 2016 Yahoo News article by
Michael Isikoff - which was based on information
provided by Steele himself. While Steele has admitted in
UK court filings that he met with Yahoo and other news
outlets, the FISA application “incorrectly assesses” that
Steele did not provide Yahoo News with the information,
according to the memo.
Before the FBI severed ties with Steele on October 30, due
to his public revelations of his relationship with Mother
Jones magazine, Steele had maintained contact with
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr. In a

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September 2016 meeting, the memo notes, Steele told Ohr
he was
“desperate that Donald Trump not get elected
and was passionate about him not being
president.”
Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS at the time.
Though Ohr provided the FBI with all of his wife’s
research, the memo says, the Ohrs’ relationship with
Fusion GPS and Steele was “inexplicably concealed” from
FISC.
While the FISA application relied on Steele’s
“past record of credible reporting on other
unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his
anti-Trump financial and ideological
motivations,” the memo argues.
The very last point of the memo notes that the FBI
counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign
was initiated by FBI agent Peter Strzok in July 2016,
based on “information regarding… Trump
campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.” Yet
“there is no evidence of any cooperation or
conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos,”
the memo notes.
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Strzok was eventually assigned to special counsel Robert
Mueller’s team, but demoted and reassigned to the human
resources department after the discovery of his texts with
FBI attorney Lisa Page (no relation to Carter), with whom
he was having an extramarital relationship. In the texts,
“they both demonstrated a clear bias against
Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had
also investigated,”
the memo says, adding that the Strzok/Page texts also
reflect “extensive discussions about the investigation,
orchestrating leaks to the media, and include a meeting
with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an ‘insurance
policy’ against President Trump’s election.”
The memorandum is dated January 18, and its classified
version was available to members of the House of
Representatives. On January 29, the committee voted
along party lines to make the memorandum public.
President Trump approved its declassification on Friday.
“I think it's terrible, if you want to know the
truth," Trump said about the contents of the
memo, after approving its publication. “I think
it’s a disgrace."
“A lot of people should be ashamed of
themselves, and much worse than that,” Trump
added. “Let’s see what happens.”
 BOMBSHELL: GOP Investigators Have Evidence
Christopher Steele Approached FBI In July – The SAME
DAY Comey Exonerated Hillary Clinton
By Cristina Laila
February 3, 2018, 3:50 Pm
Media was set ablaze after the House
Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday morning.
The unclassified memo shows former FBI Director James
Comey, Andrew McCabe, Yates and Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA court.
The Democrats are unhinged and desperate to release
their spin junk memo in response to Nunes’ bombshell.
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Adam
Schiff gave us perhaps a sneak peak into what the
Democrats are going to push back with in their memo set
to be released next week.
It looks like the Dems are banking on none other than
Papadopoulos being the nexus of the Russian collusion
investigation rather than Hillary’s phony dossier.
On Saturday morning, Adam Schiff attacked President
Trump on Twitter after the president tweeted, “This memo
totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch
Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there
was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one
year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion
is dead). This is an American disgrace!”
Schiff responded to POTUS, “Quite the opposite, Mr.
President. The most important fact disclosed in this
otherwise shoddy memo was that FBI investigation began
July 2016 with your advisor, Papadopoulos, who was
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secretly discussing stolen Clinton emails with the
Russians.”
Adam Schiff is being very deceptive in his response to the
president. Papadopoulos wasn’t even discussing the
Podesta emails which were blasted out to the public via
WikiLeaks in July of 2016. Papadopoulos was discussing
Hillary’s ‘missing’ emails in April of 2016, A MONTH
before the Podesta emails were given to WikiLeaks. These
‘Hillary emails’ are completely separate from the Podesta
DNC emails.
Furthermore, Republican investigators have
evidence dossier author Christopher Steele
met with the FBI on July 5th 2016 which is
the EXACT SAME DAY former FBI Director
James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton.
John Solomon of The Hill reported this bombshell news:
Republican investigators say they have evidence that
Steele first approached the FBI with his allegations on July
5, 2016, the same day then-FBI Director James
Comey announced he would not pursue criminal charges
against Clinton for passing more than 100 classified
documents through her private email server.
A brief timeline:
June 9th 2016: Trump Jr. met with Russian
lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower.
Veselnitskaya also met with Fusion GPS
founder Glenn Simpson on June 9th before and
after the Trump Tower meeting.
June 20th 2016: Date of the first report
compiled in Christopher Steele’s dossier.
June 27th 2016: Then-Attorney General Loretta
Lynch and former President Bill Clinton met on
the Phoenix Int’l airport tarmac to discuss ‘golf
and grandkids’. The FBI scrambled to cover up
this scandalous meeting.
July 5th 2016: Republican investigators now
have evidence Steele approached the FBI on
this date with concerns then-candidate Donald
Trump was working with the Russians.
Also July 5th 2016: Then-FBI Director James
Comey gives a press conference exonerating
Hillary Clinton of her criminal email
investigation.
Late July: According to Comey’s testimony to
House Intel Committee he opened a probe into
Trump’s connections to Russia in late July.
August 6th 2016: Hillary Clinton sends out her
first of 8 tweets about Trump’s connections to
Russia.
September 23rd: Michael Isikoff of Yahoo
News runs a story about Trump’s campaign
advisor Carter Page and his possible ‘secret
channels’ to Russia. This Yahoo News story
ended up being used on the FISA application.
October 21st 2016: The FBI sought and
received a FISA warrant on Carter Page using
‘intelligence’ in Hillary’s phony Russia dossier.
THREE FISA renewals were subsequently
granted using the same fraudulent dossier.
October 31st 2016: With just days to go until
election day, David Corn of Mother Jones broke
the story of a ‘veteran spy’ who gave the FBI
information on Trump’s alleged connections to
Russia. Christopher Steele, British spy and
author of the garbage dossier was not named in
this Mother Jones report. Only hints of the
dossier were published; the salacious claims
were omitted.
January 10th 2017: Buzzfeed publishes entire
Russia dossier.
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January 24th 2017: Peter Strzok ambushed
General Flynn with the help of McCabe with a
surprise ‘interview’ about his conversations with
Russian Ambassador Kislyak. This led to
Flynn’s firing.
March 2nd 2017: Jeff Sessions recuses himself
from the Russia investigation. Rod Rosenstein
subsequently takes over as Deputy AG.
May 17th 2017: Robert Mueller is appointed
Special Counsel by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
to investigate ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ during
the 2016 election.
Chairman Nunes’ FISA memo says Papadopoulos was
mentioned in Carter Page’s FISA application, however;
there is zero evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy
between Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
Also according to the memo, it was Trump-hating FBI
agent Peter Strzok (he also discussed an “insurance policy”
against a Trump victory) who opened a counter-
intelligence investigation into Trump in late July based on
the Papadopoulos information.
Since there is no way a FISA application would have been
approved based on hearsay from a couple of drunk dudes
in a bar, the FBI had to take information from the dossier
to the FISA court.
Disgraced FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said
under oath in a December 2017 testimony to the House
Intel Committee that a FISA warrant would have never
been sought nor granted but if not for Hillary’s phony
Russia dossier.
The Russia dossier, paid for by Hillary’s
camp and the FBI is what set the entire
Trump-Russia collusion witch hunt into
motion, NOT Papadopoulos’ drunken banter.
Julian Assange killed the Papadopoulos theory in one
tweet:
 Dem Rep Cohen: Nunes Memo
‘Like Al Capone Taking On The IRS’
By Trent Baker
3 Feb 2018

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) weighed in Saturday on the

Nunes memo, comparing it mobster Al Capone “taking on
the IRS” because Republicans “wanted to create a show.”

“Adam Schiff tried to get the intelligence committee to

have a full hearing and questioning of the FBI before the
entire Congress in a classified setting, or before the
intelligence committee, which is always classified, and the
Republicans voted it down. They didn’t want to question
the FBI. They wanted to create a show. This is like Al
Capone taking on the IRS. It’s absurd,” Cohen said on
MSNBC.
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 Hah! Sensitive FBI Agent Resigns Cuz
People Write Mean Things — Buh-Bye Snowflake
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 3:50 Pm

Josh Campbell, a special agent at the FBI,

resigned on Friday and wrote an op-ed in the
New York Times, citing dwindling public support
and partisan attacks. “To be effective, the F.B.I.
must be believed and must maintain the support
of the public it serves. … These political attacks
on the bureau must stop,” he wrote. “If those
critics of the agency persuade the public that
the F.B.I. cannot be trusted, they will also have
succeeded in making our nation less safe.”

We’ll just leave this here–

Josh Campbell quit the FBI this week.

Then he wrote an op-ed for The New York

Times where he complained about people
exposing the corruption and criminal acts
by agency leaders.

Maybe the FBI wasn’t a good fit for Josh?

The New York Times thinks we should all stop picking on

the FBI and let them continue their coup.

The liberal media is especially upset with

President Trump for questioning the agency
and the DOJ over their special counsel witch
hunt.

Try to read this and not laugh out loud.

Axios reported:
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 Pirro: ‘Desperate’ FBI, DoJ
Conspired To Undermine Election To Stop Trump
By Trent Baker
3 Feb 2018
During her Saturday opening statement on Fox News
Channel’s “Justice,” Jeanine Pirro ripped the “desperate”
FBI and Department of Justice for conspiring against
President Donald Trump in the 2016 election because he
would “break the establishment stranglehold on the
American people.”
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“They were so desperate that he not be elected
that they misled the most of secret of the United
States in order to spy on an opposing political
campaign in order to undermine a presidential
election,” Pirro stated. “Members of the highest
echelon in our FBI and Department of Justice
conspired to prevent an outsider from breaking
the establishment stranglehold on the American
people.”
“They needed a reason to spy, so they made
one up. They used the dossier of lies paid for by
a major political party, the Democrat National
Committee, and a presidential candidate, Hillary
Clinton. They swore to facts they knew were
lies to get what they wanted in order to surveil a
candidate they could not imagine being
president,” she added.
 FIGURES. Sensitive Snowflake Who
Resigned From FBI Cuz People Write Mean Things=>
WAS COMEY’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 5:54 Pm
Josh Campbell quit the FBI this week.
Then he wrote an op-ed for The New York
Times where he complained about people
exposing the corruption and criminal acts
by agency leaders.
Maybe the FBI wasn’t a good fit for Josh?
Josh believes the FBI is above the law.
People shouldn’t attack the FBI because it’s
bad for the agency.
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The New York Times thinks we should all stop picking on
the FBI and let them continue their witch hunt against
President Trump.
Political operatives are weaponizing their disagreement
with a particular investigation in a bid to undermine the
credibility of the entire institution. “The system is rigged”
is their slogan, and they are now politicizing the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act process used to collect
critical intelligence about our adversaries.
The assumption among confused and dismayed F.B.I.
employees is that the attacks are meant to soften the blow
should the investigation by Mr. Mueller, the special
counsel, lead to additional charges. However, these kinds
of attacks by powerful people go beyond mere criticism —
they could destroy the institution.
For the record…
At the end of the opinion piece there is a little descriptor in
small print.
Josh Campbell was Comey’s personal assistant.
Josh is a lot like his former boss.
 Bill Maher: Republicans Are
‘Treasonous Rats’ For Releasing Memo
‘The Only Large, Rat-Like Creature I’m Concerned About
Is Devin Nunes,’ He Says
By Josh Delk
02/03/18 10:55 AM

"true patriots" for their attacks against the law enforcement

Bill Maher called Republicans "treasonous rats" on
Friday after the release of a House Intelligence Committee
memo claiming that the FBI and Justice
Department used politically funded evidence to justify
surveillance on the Trump campaign.
"Forget Groundhog Day," the host said in his
opening remarks on HBO's "Real Time with Bill
Maher."
"The only large, rat-like creature I'm concerned
about is Devin Nunes," he said, referring to
the California Republican chairman of the
committee that compiled the memo.
"Of course it's not fair to single him out. All the
Republicans these days are treasonous rats,"
Maher said.
The memo, based on classified materials and made public
this week by President Trump after a push from
congressional Republicans, says that top officials at the
Justice Department and FBI based a Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act warrant for former Trump campaign
adviser Carter Page on evidence partly funded by the
Democratic National Committee.
institutions.
“Yes, because they’re in law enforcement and
the Trump crime family commits crimes, so
that’s what they’re supposed to do. It’s like
saying the exterminator is biased against the
termites," he said.
Maher also knocked the Republicans for treating the memo
like a "smoking gun" casting doubt on the ongoing federal
probe into whether Russia influenced the 2016 election.
“Trump declassified this Nunes memo, which is
supposed to make us think that our own top law
enforcement people are crooked so Trump can
get away with his Russia crimes," Maher added.
"Problem is, Republicans talk about this memo
as if it’s some smoking-gun piece of evidence
they uncovered. No, they wrote it!"

Republicans are saying that the memo shows clear political

bias within the FBI and DOJ.

Maher, known for his barbs against Trump and

Republicans, went on to joke that House Republicans are
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 Rep. Jim Jordan: We Need Second Special
Counsel From ‘Middle Of The Country,
Outside The Swamp’
By Justin Baragona
11:26 Am, February 3rd, 2018
As one would expect, there’s been a huge partisan divide
on the controversial Nunes memo that was publicly
released yesterday. The memo purports to show FISA
abuses in the Russia probe, specifically claiming that the
Steele dossier was an “essential” basis for FISA warrants
on ex-Trump campaign advisor Carter Page and that the
judges approving the warrants weren’t told of the political
motivations behind the dossier.
One of the biggest cheerleaders of #ReleaseTheMemo
appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to hype the
memo’s findings as a reason to discredit the Russia
investigation but to also call on a second special counsel to
investigate the “real” collusion involving Hillary Clinton
and the FBI.
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“I definitely think there are grounds for a second
special counsel,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told
the Fox & Friends hosts. “I’m not a big fan of
special counsels but I see no other remedy.”
Jordan, who has been a US Congressman for more than a
decade and an elected official for over 20 years, then went
on to claim that another special counsel needed to come
from Middle America and not from the swamp of
Washington.
“Don’t have it be someone from Washington —
like [Robert] Mueller and his team, all of
Washington insiders,” Jordan declared. “Have it
be a judge — a retired federal judge from
somewhere in the middle of to country, outside
the swamp. Have them put together a team,
then go do the investigation. Whatever
conclusion they reach, I think there’s a much
better chance the American people will accept
that conclusion.”
While he didn’t call for the end of the Mueller
investigation, Jordan concluded by listing off a number of
FBI officials that are no longer in their jobs and stating that
no bit of coordination has been found between the Trump
campaign and Russia.
 Steve King’s Memo Warning:
‘Watch Closely For Barack Obama’s Fingerprints’
By Robert Kraychik
3 Feb 2018
“Watch closely for Barack Obama’s
fingerprints,” said Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on
Saturday, suggesting the recent alleged
partisan weaponization of state surveillance
powers could be connected to the 44th
president. “[Democrats and their allies] will
defend Barack Obama at all costs, and they’ll
defend Hillary Clinton almost at all costs unless
they have to sacrifice her to protect Barack
Obama,” he added.
King offered his remarks during an interview with
Breitbart News’s Deputy Political Editor Amanda House
on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday.
Against the backdrop of Friday’s released memo from the
House Intelligence Committee (HIC), King called for
further investigation into what role, if any, Obama and his
cabinet officials played in procuring state surveillance of
Carter Page and George Papadopoulos (two peripheral
operatives of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign) via
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications
submitted before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court (FISC).
The HIC memo alleges the commission of abuses of power
by the FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) under the
Obama administration in surveilling Page and
Papadopoulos.
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“Look at all of these investigations now,” said
King. “Look closely for Barack Obama’s
fingerprints. I’ve just identified some that I think
are fingerprints, and I think this trail leads to the
Obama presidency, to Barack Obama himself,
but it’s going to take some time if we get there,
and I’m not certain that the evidence trail
necessarily leads there. There’s an indication
trail that says we need to take a look and find
out. But if it’s not Barack Obama, then who is it?
Well, it’s Loretta Lynch, for example, and James
Comey, and McCabe, and that cast of
characters from Sally Yates on down. I don’t
think we’ve ever seen such a long row of very
high-level executive branch officials wrapped up
in something here that is political partisanship,
weaponizing the FBI and DOJ to do opposition
research that was stimulated by the presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton and [paid for with her]
and the DNC’s checkbooks.”
House recalled Obama’s denial — made during an
interview with Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace on
April 10, 2016 — that partisan and political considerations
would afford Hillary Clinton favorable treatment by the
FBI and DOJ during ostensible federal investigations into
her negligent handling of classified information via email
and other telecommunications during her tenure as
secretary of state.
Partial transcript below:
WALLACE: Mr. President … some people I think are
worried whether or not — the decision whether or not, how
to handle the [Hillary email] case, will be made on political
grounds, not legal grounds. Can you guarantee to the
American people, can you direct the Justice Department to
say, “Hillary Clinton will be treated as the evidence goes —
she will not be, in any way, protected”?
OBAMA: I can guarantee that. And I can guarantee that not
because I give Attorney General Lynch a directive, [but
because] that is institutionally how we have always
operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending
investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending
investigations. We have a strict line and always have
maintained it.
WALLACE: So, just to button this up —
OBAMA: I guarantee it.
WALLACE: You —
OBAMA: I guarantee that there is no political influence
in any investigation conducted by the Justice
Department, or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any
case.
WALLACE: And she will be —
OBAMA: Full stop. Period.
WALLACE: And she will be treated no different —
OBAMA: Guaranteed. Full stop. Nobody gets treated
differently when it comes to the Justice Department,
because nobody is above the law.
WALLACE: Even if she ends up as the Democratic
nominee?
OBAMA: How many times do I have to say it, Chris?
Guaranteed.
During his interview with Wallace, Obama further claimed
that Hillary Clinton “would never intentionally put America in
any kind of jeopardy.” King linked Obama’s description of
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Clinton’s supposedly good intentions to the Obama
administration’s ultimate exoneration — via James Comey’s
statement on July 5, 2016 — of the former first lady on the
grounds of an alleged lack of intent to feloniously mishandle
classified information.
The Obama administration sought to use state surveillance
powers to collect intelligence on then-presidential candidate
Donald Trump and his associates to afford Hillary Clinton’s
political campaign advantages, speculated King.
“[The FBI was doing] opposition research [into the] Trump
campaign,” said King. “To think what that means, it looked to
me like it was a fishing expedition. They had targeted Carter
Page because they saw that he had direct communications
with Trump, and they wanted to pick up anything they could
pick up on him that could be leaked to the press.”
“This is an arrogance of being high-level operatives in the
FBI and DOJ,” said King. “To take your profession that
you’re paid to do and decide that you know best who should
be president of the United States, and that should be Hillary
Clinton.”
Democrats, their consultants, and their news media allies
will “manufacture arguments… without regard to truth [and]
without regard to being objective” on the issue of political
and partisan weaponization of the FBI and DOJ in order to
“move public opinion,” said King.
“[Democrats want] to destroy the credibility of the objective
truth,” added King. “They will defend Barack Obama at all
costs, and they’ll defend Hillary Clinton almost at all costs
unless they have to sacrifice her to protect Barack Obama.”
 Nunes Says Attacks From The
Left Are ‘Quite Enjoyable’ [VIDEO]
Chuck Ross - Reporter
12:45 PM 02/03/2018

California Rep. Devin Nunes said Friday that he relishes
attacks from his Democratic counterparts and the
mainstream media over his push to release a memo laying
out FISA abuses at the FBI and Justice Department.
“It’s actually quite enjoyable because we have
the underlying facts,” Nunes said in an interview
with Fox News’ Bret Baier.
Earlier in the day, his committee released a four-page
document accusing the FBI and Justice Department of
making “material and relevant” omissions in an Oct. 21,
2016 FISA application to spy on former Trump campaign
adviser Carter Page.
The memo says that the FISA application relied heavily on
the infamous Steele dossier. That despite the FBI not
having verified or corroborated its core claims about
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian
government.
The application also “extensively” cited a Yahoo! News
article that was based on the dossier itself. Yet the
application “incorrectly” assessed that the article was not
based on the dossier. (RELATED: FISA Warrant Relied
On Dossier And News Stories Planted By Fusion GPS)
The memo also asserts that former FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe told congressional investigators that the
FISA against Page would not have been sought without the
dossier. Democrats disputed that claim on Friday, but
Nunes stood by it in his interview with Baier.
Drama over the memo has played out since Jan. 18, when
the Intel Committee voted along party lines to make the
document available to all members of Congress. Since
then, Nunes and other Republicans have led a push to
release the memo to the public. The White House
approved its release on Friday, and the committee released
it soon after.
Some Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi and California Rep. Adam Schiff, have called for
Nunes’ removal as chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee. As Baier noted in his interview, others have
accused Nunes of doing Russia’s bidding.
But Nunes said he is not concerned with the attacks
because he believes that President Trump and his
campaign did not collude with the Russian government
during the election. And he said the attacks from the Left
are coming out of desperation.
“They know there was no collusion,” he said of
Democrats.
“We’ve been investigating this for a very long
time. So you know you’re over the target
because you’re being attacked from all sides,”
he told Baier.
WATCH:

“It is definitely what he said,” Nunes said of

McCabe, who left his position earlier this week.
“Not to mention we have other witnesses who
said very similar things.”

“The fact of the matter is that the main things

that were used to go out and get this warrant
was the dossier and the story that corroborated
the dossier.”

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 Nunes: Democrats ‘Not Honest Actors,’
Memo Shows FBI/DOJ ‘Have Work To Do’
Published Time: 3 Feb, 2018 00:40 Edited Time: 3 Feb, 2018 17:33
Senior officials at the Department of Justice and the FBI
need to address abuses listed in the explosive GOP memo,
said House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes. He
dismissed criticism from Democrats as dishonest.
Declassified by President Donald Trump and published by
the committee Friday over strong objections by
Democrats, the DOJ and the FBI, the memo lays out the
origins of the warrant to spy on Trump adviser, Carter
Page, in the dossier funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Nunes (R-California) appeared on Fox News’ ‘Special
Report’ Friday evening and revealed that he commissioned
the report, but that the bulk of the work was done by
several committee staffers and Representative Trey Gowdy
(R-South Carolina). Gowdy, a former prosecutor, was the
one to review the FBI/DOJ applications for a search
warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA).
“They wouldn’t have received a warrant
without the dossier,” Nunes told Fox’s Bret
Baier. “The dossier was presented as if it
was true.”
Authored by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, the dossier
was funded by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm
retained by the Clinton campaign in April 2016 via the
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Democratic National Committee and the law firm Perkins
Coie.
Asked if there was anything in the Steele dossier that was
confirmed as true, Nunes replied,
“Russia is a country and Carter Page is a
person.”
Page, a former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign, was the target of FISA surveillance the FBI and
DOJ applied for in October 2016. Though the FBI severed
ties with Steele by the end of that month due to his leaks to
the media, the warrant was extended several times, also on
the basis of the dossier, according to the memo.
Democrats, who tried all week to block the release of the
memo, quickly accused it of being inaccurate.
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-California) said on CNN
Friday that
“it was disclosed” in the FISA applications
that “part of the evidence was from a
politically motivated source.”
“No,” Nunes replied. “These guys tell so
many lies, it’s hard to keep track of them.”
“These are not honest actors,” Nunes said
of his Democratic colleagues, noting that
the minority members tried to prevent the
committee from obtaining Fusion GPS
documents, among other evidence.
However, he voiced no opposition to the committee
publishing the memo written by the Democrats with the
intent to challenge his conclusions, but said that
“it has to go through the same process.”
Earlier on Friday, the White House said it was open to
approving the eventual publication of the Democratic
memo.
“I personally like Rod Rosenstein,” Nunes
told Baier, but he and Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and FBI Director Christopher
Wray “have work to do” at the DOJ and the
FBI, he added.
 Nate Silver Thinks Buzzfeed’s Publication
Of The Steele Dossier Was A ‘Good Journalistic Choice’
By Brett T.
Posted At 6:17 Pm On February 3, 2018

If you think back to last January, you might remember the

night that BuzzFeed decided to do what no other media
outlet would do despite all the buzz: it published, in its
entirety, the Trump dossier compiled by Christopher Steele
and paid for by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton
campaign.
What you probably don’t remember is the furious hype
surrounding it. Here’s are a few tweets from that day
(before BuzzFeed published the dossier) to give some
context: CNN might have had the story, but BuzzFeed went ahead
and published the “pee pee tape” dossier itself, with editor-
in-chief Ben Smith noting (after publication) that there was
“serious reason to doubt the allegations” contained within
and that none of it had been verified.
Nate Silver, founder and editor of FiveThirtyEight,
somehow thinks BuzzFeed’s decision to print what we now
know to be opposition research by the Democrats and the
Clinton campaign holds up.

What?

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 Well, BuzzFeed had to have made a buck or two off of the
“Failing Pile of Garbage” T-shirts it sold after Trump
weighed in.

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 Mueller’s Office May Withhold
Comey Memos From Public, Judge Rules
By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Memos penned by former FBI Director James Comey
involving his interactions with President Trump while in
office may remain under wraps, a federal judge ruled
Friday.
The subject of several consolidated Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit filed by news outlets and non-
profit organizations in 2017, U.S. District Judge James
Boasberg ruled that releasing the memos written by Mr.
Comey memorializing his conversations with Mr. Trump
would likely interfere with special counsel Robert
Mueller’s ongoing investigation into the 2016 presidential
race.
“As it prevails here, the Comey Memos, at least
for now, will remain in the hands of the Special
Counsel and not the public,” Judge Boasberg
ruled from D.C. District Court.
The Russian government interfered in the 2016 White
House race in hopes of helping elect Mr. Trump, the U.S.
intelligence community previously concluded, and Mr.
Comey was in the midst of probing Moscow’s
involvement in the election when he was abruptly fired by
Mr. Trump last May. The Justice Department subsequently
appointed Mr. Mueller, Mr. Comey’s predecessor, to serve
as special counsel overseeing the FBI’s Russia probe, as
well as “any matters that arose or may arise directly from
the investigation,” and that probe has reportedly expanded
to included Mr. Comey’s firing.
Mr. Comey acknowledged drafting several memos
immediately following his nine conversations in office
with Mr. Trump, though the judge ruled that releasing
them to news organizations and non-profits seeking access
could disrupt Mr. Mueller’s probe.
“The Court asked an attorney from the Office of
Special Counsel to make an on-the-record
proffer about the investigation. Having heard
this, the Court is now fully convinced that
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disclosure ‘could reasonably be expected to
interfere’ with that ongoing investigation,” Judge
Boasberg ruled Friday.
“The Court acknowledges that this situation is
rather unprecedented; it is not every day that an
FBI Director feels the need to memorialize his
conversations with a sitting President and then
publicize that he did so. But the caselaw aligns
with common sense,” the judge added.
Mr. Trump has denied his presidential campaign colluded
with Russia, and he previously said he fired Mr. Comey in
part because of “this Russia thing with Trump.”
The judge’s ruling Friday against releasing the so-called
Comey Memos came the same day the White House
authorized the release of a controversial memorandum
drafted by the staff of House Intelligence Chairman Devin
Nunez, California Republican, alleging the FBI improperly
surveilled a former Trump campaign official.
Democrats including the Senate Intel Committee’s ranking
member, California Rep. Adam Schiff, dismissed the
Nunez memo as “misleading” and “a transparent attempt
to discredit” the DOJ, FBI and Mr. Mueller’s probe.
“This memo totally vindicates ‘Trump‘ in probe.
But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on,”
Mr. Trump tweeted Saturday with respect to Mr.
Nunez’s document.
Russia has denied meddling in Mr. Trump’s election. CIA
Director Mike Pompeo, meanwhile, warned last week that
Russian operatives are likely to target the 2018 midterm
elections.
“The Russians have been at this a long time,
and I fully expect they’ll continue to be at it,” Mr.
Pompeo said this week.
 The FISA Memo, Obama,
And The Election That Almost Wasn't
Authored By Tom Luongo
Sat, 02/03/2018 - 20:40
“Round up the usual suspects,” will be as
far as the Democrats will be willing to go in
the wake of the FISA memo’s release.
There is nothing in that memo that anyone following the
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation doesn’t
already know.
All the memo does is corroborate the bread crumbs left
behind by a drip feed of leaks, counter-leaks and good ol’
fashioned investigative journalism.
Since the memo is based on actual evidence
that the FBI admits is real but will not allow
us to see, the memo itself can be taken as
fact.
The FBI has the evidence. They’ve showed it to the House
Intelligence Committee. Both agree on the facts. So, by
extension, the memo is all the evidence we need.
Put that in your DNC-scripted talking point
pipe and blow it out your ass.
Conclusions Matter
Now that the timeline and paper trail have been determined
the real implications of the memo and its facts can be
discussed. I’m no longer interested in the game of cut and
thrust to stop the truth from coming out.
I’m only interested now in the conclusions we can draw
from the memo itself.
And those conclusions are chilling.
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The out-going Obama administration, at the highest levels
in coordination with the media, conspired to create news
stories that supported a FISA warrant based on politically-
motivated opposition research to undermine the newly-
elected President of the United States.
Moreover, it knowingly omitted material facts to the court
not once, but four times, to keep that surveillance warrant
open in service of this operation. A warrant the FBI
deputy director, Andrew McCabe, testified under oath to
Congress that was key to its issuance.
They knew the dossier on Trump, compiled
by Michael Steele, was unverifiable. They
hid its origin and motivation from the court.
The information from this warrant and the
details of the dossier were used to move
public opinion and Congress into
supporting Robert Mueller’s investigation.
But, to what end?
To disgrace and force from office the President of the
United States. Thus, these people, and the leadership of
the Democratic Party, President Obama himself and
Hillary Clinton’s staff all conspired to criminally
disenfranchise more than 60 million Americans who voted
for Donald Trump.
To say that this is bigger than Watergate is
like calling World War II a minor kerfuffle.
What About the Voters!?
Think about this for one second and you know what I’m
saying.
All of these people are guilty, at a
minimum of corruption, conspiracy and
fraud. I’m no legal scholar, so I’m sure the
list of offenses is longer than one of Hillary
Clinton’s tirades after someone criticized
her latest pantsuit atrocity.
This ultimately opens all of these organizations up to the
biggest civil rights class action lawsuit in the history of
this country. The Obama administration and the
Democratic Party used opposition research to paint a false And the memo is just the beginning of the discovery phase
narrative of corruption in the Oval Office to discredit the of this very public trial.
election.
Government on Trial
How many riots and street demonstrations
did we see in 2017 as outraged and But, I want more than that. I want it all out
triggered liberals ran around smashing in in the open.
windows and beating people up because of
their delusion based on a lie?
And I want those responsible, those for whom the titles,
salaries, benefits and power we bestow on them to do our
How many hours of lost productivity did the country suffer work, to stand up and be accountable.
because of FBI complicity in an operation to overturn a
legal election?
And if they are too venal, feckless and narcissistic to admit
these things, then we’ll drag them through the most
How many millions in property damage? Destroyed embarrassing of show trials.
careers?
And that means stripping them of their wealth, power and
What about the direct victims of this disgusting display of privilege.
government corruption taken to its logical conclusion?
It means turning off their house organs in the media;
Why is Michael Flynn nearly bankrupt after being outing the enablers, leakers, trolls and spooks.
hounded by Mueller for months only to get a nothing
guilty plea on the thinnest of procedural offenses?
It means releasing everything, unredacted, in the name of
national security.
When the corruption is this venal isn’t it our right under
the Constitution to petition our government for a redress of
grievances? Who do we sue? It means reminding them of just how much all of that
depends on our consent, not theirs.
Because there’s material harm here and
someone should be held responsible. This Because if we don’t demand these things,
began under Obama’s watch. He set this then next time there won’t even be the
whole process in motion. High ranking pretense of an election.
members of his cabinet are directly
implicated by the facts in the memo.

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 Donald Trump Jr. On Leaker Adam Schiff:
“He Has Some Serious Soul-Searching To Do” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 7:47 Pm
Donald Trump Jr. went on with Jesse Watters on FOX
News the day after the House Intelligence Committee
released the FISA Memo to the public.
Donald Trump Jr. said there’s “a little bit of sweet revenge
in it for me and certainly the family.”
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Don Jr. then targeted on Rep. Adam Schiff:
I think he has some soul-searching to do. 99%
of intelligent people believe he’s the person
leaking it. When I did my testimony to his
committee. It was supposed to be behind
closed doors. It was supposed to be secret. We
get done at 7 o’clock at night I go and I go and
at 12 o’clock on my twitter feed I’m reading
about verbatim what’s going on in the room. So
as people are taking bathroom breaks this is
being leaked from the House Intelligence
Committee. Think about that? But that’s what’s
going on in our government.
Via Watters World:
 REPORT: Government Shutdown
Severely Hurt Democrats Chances In 2018 Midterms
By Mike Lachance
Posted On February 3, 2018
The Democrats were rightly blamed for the recent
government shutdown and it’s impacting their chances for
success in this year’s midterm elections. Rumors of a blue
wave may have been very premature, it seems.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Rebuke: Democrats blamed for shutdown,
2018 comeback jeopardized
In a harsh slap at Democrats looking to blame
President Trump for the recent — and likely
future — government shutdown, a new poll
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finds that congressional Democrats far more
than the White House or Republicans are
getting stuck with the blame.
A Zogby Analytics survey provided to Secrets
said that while a plurality blames a combination,
Democrats are more damaged.
Some 29 percent blame congressional
Democrats for the three-day shutdown, 20
percent blame Trump, 9 percent Republicans
and 43 percent a combination.
“In a stunning rebuke of congressional
Democrats, who believe they are on the verge
of a ‘blue wave’ during the 2018 midterm
elections, numbers suggest their strategy of
playing hardball with congressional Republicans
could backfire — especially when there may be
a showdown over the budget and DACA in the
coming weeks in order to keep the lights on in
Washington. In fact, voters blame Democrats
three to one in comparison to Republicans,”
said the Zogby Poll analysis.
Democrats will surely have many allies in
the media this fall but it may not be enough.
The people know what’s up.
 President Trump BLASTS Crooked Deep State:
“The FBI Became Tool Of Anti-Trump Political Actors”
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 8:29 Pm

The House Intelligence Committee released

their de-classified FISA memo on Friday
morning.

President Donald Trump:

“The four page memo released Friday reports

This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump.
** Read the entire un-redacted document here.
The FISA memo revealed how the Obama
FBI and DOJ used bogus dossier and lies to
gain approval to spy on the Trump
campaign in 2016.
the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA
appear to have been used to influence the 2016
election and its aftermath….The FBI failed to
inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign
had funded the dossier….the FBI became a tool
of anti-Trump political actors. This is
unacceptable in a democracy and ought to
alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a
nonpartisan enforcer of the law….The FBI
wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of
these facts from investigators.”
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 After Memo's Release, AP, Others
In Media Push 'Free Beacon Initially Funded Steele' Lie
By Tom Blumer
February 3, 2018 8:22 PM EST
Shortly after the Nunes memo's Friday release, five
reporters — three at the Associated Press and one each at
MSNBC and CNN, pushed the long-discredited claim that,
in the AP's words,
"(Christopher) Steele’s opposition research
effort was initially funded by the
conservative Washington Free Beacon."
On October 27, the Free Beacon, which had engaged
Fusion GPS to research several Republican presidential
candidates, made its non-involvement with the Steele
dossier crystal clear:
The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or
connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay
for the dossier, and never had contact with,
knowledge of, or provided payment for any
work performed by Christopher Steele.
Subsequent reporting at several media outlets confirmed
the Free Beacon's contentions.
The same day, the New York Times headlined (italics
mine)
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"Conservative Website First Funded Anti-
Trump Research by Firm That Later
Produced Dossier," and noted in the related
report that "an associate said (Free Beacon
major donor) Mr. (Paul) Singer had not been
aware of the dossier or Mr. Steele’s
involvement in Fusion GPS’s research until
January (2017) ..."
Again on October 27, Fox News reported that Steele
wasn't even hired by Fusion GPS, let alone engaged in
investigating Trump, during the Free Beacon's
involvement:
... Fusion GPS was retained by Mark Elias, an
attorney representing the Democratic National
Committee and the Clinton campaign. Fusion
GPS hired Steele after the Free Beacon left
the project.
This has all been known for over three months. Yet three
Washington-based AP reporters — Eric Tucker (Justice
Department), Mary Clare Jalonick (Congress) and Chad
Day (investigative team) — produced a Friday afternoon
dispatch making the false Free Beacon claim.
It then took the AP an unacceptable 20 hours or more to
issue its correction. The trio's dispatch containing the Free
Beacon lie appeared at this web site at 5:29 p.m. ET
Friday. The AP's correction has a Saturday time stamp
(also seen here) of 1:10 p.m. ET. The uncorrected version
is still present at some AP-subscribing sites.
MSNBC reporter Katy Tur tweeted the lie early Friday
afternoon (since deleted), and later corrected herself
without apologizing:
The underlying Politifact item to which Tur linked
specifically says:
After the Republican primary, Fusion GPS
was hired on behalf of Clinton’s campaign.
That’s when the firm hired Steele.
this dossier of information about President
Trump compiled by a former British agent
initially paid for by Republicans and then by
the Democratic National Committee.
Here's Sciutto's non-apology:

Jim Sciutto, CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent,

also repeated the lie Friday afternoon, and reacted even
more immaturely to getting caught:

Sciutto gave viewers the false impression that the Republican

Party funded Fusion GPS's efforts ("Republicans" plural, even
though it was one man), and failed to mention that it was the DNC
and the Hillary Clinton campaign which then funded Steele's
work.

Transcript:

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN: Now-former Deputy Director of the FBI

Andrew McCabe told the House Intelligence Committee that that
initial warrant would not have been issued without the Steele
dossier,
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 Associated Press Corrects Big Error In
#Memoday Piece Brit Hume Calls ‘Breathtakingly Slanted’
By Brett T.
Posted At 9:32 Pm On February 3, 2018

In the great rush by journalists to counter any momentum
conservatives might have enjoyed from the release of Rep.
Devin Nunes’ memo Friday, an old misconception about
the Trump dossier was resurrected.
MSNBC’s Katy Tur got it wrong, tweeting that the dossier
was first paid for by the Washington Free Beacon. CNN’s
Jim Sciutto also made the false claim on air.
he did not begin work on the project until after
Democratic groups had begun funding it.
Let’s get it right: The DNC and the Clinton campaign
hired Steele to compile the dossier. This was reported last
October by The Washington Post. Why can’t the
mainstream media seem to grasp this?

To its credit, the Associated Press added a correction to its

piece on the dossier after also claiming the Free Beacon
had first paid for it.

The AP’s story, which credits three writers, now adds this
correction:

In a story Feb. 2 about a Republican memo on

the Russia investigation, The Associated Press
erroneously reported that a former British spy’s
work on an opposition research project was
initially funded by the conservative Washington
Free Beacon. Though the former spy,
Christopher Steele, was hired by a firm that was
initially funded by the Washington Free Beacon,

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 Whoopi Goldberg: 'I Don't'
Say 'President' Donald Trump
By Todd Beamon
Saturday, 03 Feb 2018 08:47 PM

"So, yeah, I know people don't like that I don't

do it," she continued. "I'm fine with that.

"There is lots of stuff I do people don't like. I can

live with it."

Goldberg, 62, starred with Trump in the 1994 film "Little

Rascals" and has sparred with him over the years —
including a huge blow-up during a 2011 "View"
interview over the birther controversy and President
Barack Obama.

The Axelrod exchange Saturday came as Goldberg

discussed the #MeToo movement, referencing sexual-
assault allegations lodged by various women against
President Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)(Sipa via
AP Images)
"We still have so much to do right now," she
said. "We still have 16 women who are
Liberal talk-show co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Saturday accusing the man in charge."
that "I don't" say Donald Trump's name "in conjunction
with" his title as president of the United States because "I
In addition, Goldberg likened Trump to a schoolyard bully
can't wrap my mind around" his being the nation's
because of the nearly 700,000 young illegals remaining in
commander-in-chief.
limbo over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program, which expires March 5.
"You never say his name?" CNN's David
Axelrod asked Goldberg, co-host of "The View,"
"You know that this is scary for them," she told
in an interview.
Axelrod. "And scary for little kids who have
heard about it and think, 'Am I going to come
"I don't," she responded. home and find mom or dad gone?'

"Why?" "When you know that this pressure is what you

are putting on children, this anxiousness, and
"I can't." you don't take a minute to say, 'Listen, let's do a
state of the conversation for the children, since
"But you recognize that he is the president?" I'm the reason you are anxious.'
Axelrod later asked.
"But you haven't done that."
"You know, he's there. You know," Goldberg
responded. Goldberg declined to say whether Trump was racist, in
light of DACA and last month's derogatory comments on
"Listen, this is the first time where I can't wrap African nations.
my mind around this — and that people felt the
need to put this in. However, she instead told Axelrod:

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 "In my mind, there is an inherent belief that
there are inferior people to him.
"It would not surprise me, because you listen to
some of the things — talk about his dad [Fred
Trump] and what his dad did and how he
himself has treated people of color.
"You keep saying you are not racist," she said.
"Then, you do racist stuff."
Axelrod then asked Goldberg whether she had a message
for President Trump.
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"I have no message for him," the award-winning
actress responded. "I have messages for the
people around him.
"Change is coming. Change is coming.
"And it's not coming because it's even
ideological," she said. "It's coming because you
are endangering things.
"You are allowing things that endanger our
children, our country, our air.
"That's why the change is coming."
 Former CIA Official Threatens Trump:
“You’ve Been Around For 13 Months –
We’ve Been Around Since 1908. We’re Going To Win”
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 3, 2018, 9:57 Pm

around since 1908. I know how this game is

Former CIA counterterrorism official Phil going to be played. We’re going to win.
Mudd threatened President Trump after the
release of the House Intelligence FISA Via CNN:
memo.

This is the same guy who called him self a “proud It’s not the first time this guy hurled threats
sh*tholer” a couple weeks ago. at the President.

Phil Mudd:

The workforce is going to look and this and say,

this is an attack on our ability to conduct an
investigation with integrity… The FBI people,
I’m going to tell you, “are ticked” and they’re
going to be saying, I guarantee you,

“You think you can push this off this?”… You

better think again, Mr. President. You’ve
been around for 13 months. We’ve been
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 CIA, FBI Agents Respond To Nunes' Memo
By Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/03/2018 - 23:55
We already noted the opposing perspectives of those in the
media with regard the Nunes' memo as being on the one
hand "a nothing-burger" and on the other "we have never
ever in history seen anything like this."
And we have heard from current ("talk is cheap... keep
calm and tackle hard") and former ("dishonest and
misleading") heads of The FBI.
But now we get to hear from the rank-and-file of
America's intelligence agencies and, once again, the
perspectives could not be further apart...
First, as The Hill reports,
a former FBI agent says in a new op-ed
that he has left the nation's top law
enforcement agency due to the
"relentless" attacks on the bureau
from critics such as President
Trump and congressional Republicans.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, former supervisory
special agent Josh Campbell wrote that "political attacks
on the bureau must stop."
"After more than a decade of service,
which included investigating terrorism, working to rescue
kidnapping victims overseas and being special assistant to
the director,
I am reluctantly turning in my badge and
leaving an organization I love." Campbell
wrote.
"Why? So I can join the growing chorus of people who
believe that the relentless attacks on the bureau undermine
not just America’s premier law enforcement agency but
also the nation’s security," he continued.
"My resignation is painful, but the
alternative of remaining quiet while the
bureau is tarnished for political gain is
impossible."
Campbell also defended the agency's
involvement in the events described in
the memo,
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which alleges the FBI and Department of Justice abused
their surveillance powers.
"[E]very statement of fact included in an
affidavit for foreign intelligence collection
must withstand the scrutiny of at least 10
people in the Department of Justice
hierarchy before it is reviewed by an
independent court," he wrote.
Campbell goes on to argue it would be
"disingenuous" for Republicans to
argue that the FBI is "plotting from
within" against Trump or in favor of his
2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, despite
text messages between FBI employees
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page seeming to
confirm Strzok's political bias against
Trump.
"These political attacks on the bureau
must stop. If those critics of the agency
persuade the public that the FBI cannot
be trusted, they will also have
succeeded in making our nation less
safe," he said.
Campbell's op-ed comes after the publication Friday of
Nunes' memo allegedly detailing abuses of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act by the FBI.
However, another former intelligence
agency operative saw things very
differently.
Ray McGovern, 27-year veteran of the CIA
and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity (VIPS),
exclaims the newly released "Nunes
Memo" reveals felony wrongdoing by top
members of the FBI and DOJ for
misrepresenting evidence to obtain a FISA
warrant and may implicate other
intelligence officials.
The long-awaited House Intelligence Committee report
made public today identifies current and former top
officials of the FBI and the Department of Justice as guilty
of the felony of misrepresenting evidence required to
obtain a court warrant before surveilling American
citizens. The target was candidate Donald Trump’s adviser
Carter Page.
The main points of what is widely known as the “Nunes
Memo,” after the House Intelligence Committee Chair
Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), have been nicely summarized by
blogger Publius Tacitus, who noted that the following very
senior officials are now liable for contempt-of-court
charges; namely, the current and former members of the
FBI and the Department of Justice who signed off on
fraudulent applications to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court: James Comey, Andy McCabe, Sally
Yates, Dana Boente and Rob Rosenstein. The following is
Publius Tacitus’s summary of the main points:
 The dubious but celebrated Steele Dossier played a
critical role in obtaining approval from the FISA court to
carry out surveillance of Carter Page according to
former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe.
 Christopher Steele was getting paid by the DNC and
the FBI for the same information.
 No one at the FBI or the DOJ disclosed to the court
that the Steele dossier was paid for by an opposition
political campaign.
 The first FISA warrant was obtained on October 21,
2016 based on a story written by Michael Isikoff for
Yahoo News based on information he received directly
from Christopher Steele — the FBI did not disclose in
the FISA application that Steele was the original source
of the information.
 Christopher Steele was a long-standing FBI “source”
but was terminated as a source after telling Mother
Jones reporter David Corn that he had a relationship
with the FBI.
 The FBI signers of the FISA applications/renewals
were James Comey (three times) and Andrew
McCabe.
 The DOJ signers of the FISA applications/renewals
were Sally Yates, Dana Boente and Rod Rosenstein.
 Even after Steele was terminated by the FBI, he
remained in contact with Deputy Attorney General
Bruce Our, whose wife worked for FUSION GPS, a
contractor that was deeply involved with the Steele
dossier.
From what Michael Isikoff reported in September 2016 it
appears that the CIA and the Director of National
Intelligence (as well as the FBI) are implicated in
spreading the disinformation about Trump and Russia.
Isikoff wrote:
“U.S. intelligence officials are seeking to
determine whether an American
businessman identified by Donald Trump
as one of his foreign policy advisers has
opened up private communications with
senior Russian officials — including talks
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about the possible lifting of economic
sanctions if the Republican nominee
becomes president, according to multiple
sources who have been briefed on the
issue. […]
“But U.S. officials have since received
intelligence reports that during that same
three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a
longtime Putin associate and former
Russian deputy prime minister who is now
the executive chairman of Rosneft,
Russian’s leading oil company, a well-
placed Western intelligence source tells
Yahoo News.”
Who were the “intelligence officials”
briefing the select members of the
House and Senate?
That will be one of the next shoes to drop. We are likely to
learn in the coming days that John Brennan and Jim
Clapper were also trying to help the FBI build a fallacious
case against Trump, adds Tacitus.
Indeed, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Chair
of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee, has already indicated that his
disclosures in the Nunes Memo represent
just “one piece of a probably much
larger mosaic of what went on.”
The Media Will Determine What Comes Next
As for Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), ranking
member of the House Intelligence Committee, it is now
abundantly clear why he went to ridiculous lengths, as did
the entire Democratic congressional leadership, to block or
impugn the House Intelligence Committee report.
Until the mid-December revelations of
the text messages between FBI lovers
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page turned
Russia-gate into FBI/DOJ-gate, Schiff
had been riding high, often hiding
behind what he said “he could not tell”
the rest of us.
With the media, including what used to be the progressive
media, fully supporting the likes of Adam Schiff, and the
FBI/CIA/NSA deep state likely to pull out all the stops, the
die is now cast. We are in for a highly interesting time over
the next months.
* * *
So - which is it? Crime of the century, or political
grandstanding, or both?
 Nunes: FISA Memo Just "Phase One,"
Now Targeting State Department In "Phase Two"
By Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/03/2018 - 18:55
Devin Nunes (R-CA) said that the investigation leading up
to the four-page FISA memo released on Friday was only
"phase one," and that the House Intelligence Committee is
currently in the middle of investigating the State
Department over their involvement in surveillance
abuses.
"We are in the middle of what I call phase
two of our investigation, which involves
other departments, specifically the State
Department and some of the involvement
that they had in this," said Nunes.
"That investigation is ongoing and we
continue work towards finding answers and
asking the right questions to try to get to
the bottom of what exactly the State
Department was up to in terms of this
Russia investigation."
While it is unclear what role the State Department may
have in surveillance abuses, the Washington Examiner's
Byron York noted last month that former MI6 spy,
Christopher Steele, was "well-connected with the Obama
State Department," according to the book Collusion:
Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, And How Russia Helped
Donald Trump Win" written by The Guardian
correspondent Luke Harding and published last November.
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Harding notes that Steele's work during the World Cup
soccer corruption investigation earned the trust of both the
FBI and the State Department:
The [soccer] episode burnished Steele's reputation inside
the U.S. intelligence community and the FBI. Here was a
pro, a well-connected Brit, who understood Russian
espionage and its subterranean tricks. Steele was regarded
as credible.
Between 2014 and 2016, Steele authored
more than a hundred reports on Russia
and Ukraine. These were written for a
private client but shared widely within
the State Department and sent up to
Secretary of State John Kerry and to
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland,
who was in charge of the U.S. response to the Ukraine
crisis. Many of Steele's secret sources were the same
sources who would supply information on Trump. One
former State Department envoy during the Obama
administration said he read dozens of Steele's reports on
Russia.
The envoy said that on Russia, Steele
was "as good as the CIA or anyone."
Steele's professional reputation inside U.S. agencies would
prove important the next time he discovered alarming
material, and lit the fuse again.
Aside from the infamous 35-page "Trump-Russia" dossier
Steele assembled for opposition research firm Fusion GPS
(a report which was funded in part by Hillary Clinton and
the DNC), Congressional investigators have been looking
into whether Steele compiled other reports about Trump -
and in particular, whether those other reports made their
way to the State Department, according to The Examiner.
...they are looking into whether those
reports made their way to the State
Department.
They're also seeking to learn what individual State
Department officials did in relation to Steele,
 and whether there were any contacts Watch the entire Nunes interview here:
between the State Department and the
FBI or Justice Department concerning
the anti-Trump material.

It will be interesting to see how the State Department - and

in particular Secretary of State Rex Tillerson - responds to
"phase two."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

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 The Nuclear Posture Review
Paul Craig Roberts
February 2, 2018, 22:15
The government of the United States is clearly in demonic
hands. We are overflowing with proof. Take today (2-2-
18) for example. A report from the House Intelligence
Committee was released that is proof that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice (sic),
and the Democratic National Committee are engaged in a
conspiracy against American democracy and the President
of the United States with the full support of the presstitute
media.
As if that is not enough, also released today is the
Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review. A nuclear
posture review specifies a country’s attitude toward
nuclear weapons and their use. In past posture reviews,
nuclear weapons were regarded as unusable except in
retaliation for a nuclear attack. The assumption was that no
one would use them. There was always the possibility that
false warnings of incoming ICBMs would result in the
nuclear button being pushed, thus setting off Armageddon.
There were many false warnings during the Cold War.
President Ronald Reagan was very concerned about a false
warning resulting in mass death and destruction. This is
why his principal goal was to end the Cold War, which he
succeeded in doing. It did not take successor governments
long to resurrect the Cold War.
The new US nuclear posture is a reckless, irresponsible,
and destabilizing departure from the previous attitude
toward nuclear weapons. The use of even a small part of
the existing arsenal of the United States would be
sufficient to destroy life on earth. Yet, the posture review
calls for more weapons, speaks of nuclear weapons as
“usable,” and justifies their use in First Strikes even
against countries that do not have nuclear weapons.
This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that the
US government believes in the first use of nuclear
weapons against any and every country. Nuclear powers
such as Russia and China must see this to be a massive
increase in the threat level from the United States. Those
responsible for this document should be committed to
insane aslyums, not left in policy positions where they can
put it into action.
President Trump is being blamed for the aggressive US
nuclear posture announced today. However, the document
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is a neoconservative product. Trump, perhaps, could have
prevented the document’s release, but under pressure as he
is by the accusation that he conspired with Putin to steal
the US presidential election from Hillary, Trump cannot
afford to antagonize the neoconized Pentagon.
The neoconservatives are a small group of conspirators.
Most of the neoconservatives are Jews allied with Israel.
Some are dual-citizens. They created an ideology of
American world hegemony, specifying that the chief goal
of US foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any other
power that could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism.
As neoconservatives control US foreign policy, this
explains US hostility toward Russia and China and also the
neoconservatives’ use of the US military to remove
governments in the Middle East regarded by Israel as
obstacles to Israeli expansion. For two decades the US has
been fighting wars for Israel in the Middle East. This fact
proves the power and influence of the insane
neoconservatives. It is certain that people as insane as the
neoconservatives would launch a nuclear attack on Russia
and China. The Russian and Chinese governments seem to
be completely unaware of the threat that the
neoconservatives pose to them. I have never experienced
in my interviews with Russians and Chinese any
awareness of the neoconservative ideology. Possibly, it is
too insane for them to grasp.
Ideologues such as the neoconservatives are not fact-
based. They are chasing their dream of world hegemony.
Russia and China are in the way of this hegemony. Having
learned the limits of US conventional military power—
after 16 years the US “superpower” has been unable to
defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in
Afghanistan—the neoconservatives know that
conventional invasions of Russia or China would lead to
the total defeat of US forces. Therefore, the
neoconservatives have elevated nuclear weapons to a First
Strike, usable, arsenal that in the neoconservative dream of
world hegemony can be used to destroy Russia and China.
Ideologues who divorce themselves from the facts create a
virtual world for themselves. Their belief in their ideology
blinds them to the risks for themselves and others that they
impose on the world.
It is clear enough that without the utterly corrupt Obama
Department of Justice (sic) and FBI, the utterly corrupt
Clinton-controlled Democratic National Committee, and
the utterly corrupt American and European presstitute
media working to destroy Trump’s presidency by framing
him up as “a Russian agent,” President Trump,
understanding that the Pentagon’s posture review would
worsen, not normalize, relations with Russia, would have
deep-sixed the demonic document that threatens all life on
earth.
Thanks to the American liberal/progressive/left, the
entirely of the world is faced with a far more likely nuclear
.
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demise than ever threatened us during the Cold War with
the Soviet Union.
By its collaboration with the military/security complex and
the corrupt Hillary DNC, the liberal/progressive/left has
forever discredited itself. It is now seen by every thinking
person worldwide as an insane propaganda ministry for the
neoconservatives’ plan to use nuclear weapons to eliminate
constraints on US unilateralism. The
liberal/progressive/left has endorsed “hegemony or death.”
They will get death. For all of us.
 Exclusive: Dems Are On The ‘Greatest Witch Hunt Since
Salem,’ According To Donald Trump Jr [VIDEO]
Ginni Thomas - Contributor
2:41 AM 02/04/2018
Donald Trump Jr. “can’t help but think” the team of
Democratic donors on special counsel Robert Mueller’s
team are on a “witch hunt,” according to an exclusive
video interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“In fact, it’s the greatest witch hunt since
Salem,” Trump said in the January interview.
He explained that the media has staked its
credibility on the notion that Russian collusion
has to be real. They have pushed this narrative
for so long , they need it to be true, and they will
do whatever it takes to make it so.
After a major investment of time and legal fees, the only
things discovered are “some pretty serious plots … plots
that show they weaponized the FBI and DOJ against the
duly elected President of this country.” He hopes we get to
the bottom of it fast.
President Donald Trump’s son doubts that his father will
get the same privileges from the Mueller team that Hillary
Clinton received when she was interviewed by the FBI. He
discussed the double standard for people outside the
system. Trump, Jr. spent 25 hours giving testimony for a
20-minute meeting he had, while Clinton only gave 11
hours of testimony after she lied about Benghazi where
four people died.
On responding to leftist billionaire George Soros who
condemned President Trump in Davos, Trump said,
“He’s the one trying to undermine the duly
elected president of the United States (with
contributing to so many groups in the
resistance). If George wants to run, he should.
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Maybe he should step in the ring. Don’t just
fund it with billions from the side.”
As for labels the left gives his father, including calling him
a racist, Trump said,
“if it’s your answer to any argument you can’t
win, you actually do a real disservice to those
people actually afflicted by it (racism).” Trump,
Jr. recalled that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton
and other liberal black leaders found that his
father “wasn’t so terrible a couple years ago”
when progressives would hit him up for charity
dollars and sponsorships.
Mentioning the incident in which former CNN
commentator Donna Brazile relayed debate questions to
Hillary Clinton, Trump said the media “bias is so palpable,
it’s disgusting.” The mainstream media never asked a
tough question of former President Barack Obama in eight
years, he said. Despite the consistently unfair treatment of
his father, he actually enjoyed the 90-minute press
conference on Jan. 16 when Dr. Ronny Jackson gave his
father an excellent bill of health for cognitive abilities and
more. He says that as he watched the press ask questions,
he felt like he was watching “Dumb and Dumber.”
He additionally called his dad the “blue collar billionaire”
because, as a builder, his dad would routinely talk with his
workers on the ground and interact with working class
people, something that others in his position don’t do. And
if his dad were a Democratic president, Trump, Jr. believes
that people would be using words like “unprecedented” to
describe his first-year accomplishments.
His dad is the last person in the country who needed this
job, Trump Jr. said. For every cabinet head in the Obama
administration, it was probably “the best job they have
ever had.” Yet, for his father’s cabinet, because of the
threats they are under, these are people are probably in
“the worst job they have ever had” as they have already
had extraordinary professional success and in many cases
stepped away from that to serve their country.
According to Donald Trump, Jr., it’s the
“first time we have had someone in
conservative leadership who will actually call
the other side out and fight back.” “He’s a
counterpuncher.” The “swamp” may bite, he
said, but his father bites back.
 Rep. Steve King On Explosive FISA Memo:
Look For Obama’s Fingerprints (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 4, 2018, 8:45 Am

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) posted video on Friday of an
Obama interview with Chris Wallace from FOX News in
April 2016.
In the video Barack Obama promised there
was “no” corruption in the FBI and DOJ.
The HIC memo alleges the commission of abuses of power
by the FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) under the
Obama administration in surveilling Page and
Papadopoulos.
Rep. King posted this video on Friday.

Obama also guaranteed there was no political targeting by

his Justice Department.

Of course, it now appears that political

targeting was taking place around this time
on the Trump campaign.

Rep. King then says in his Friday video the

corruption goes pretty far up the line.

Breitbart.com reported:

“Watch closely for Barack Obama’s

fingerprints,” said Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on
Saturday, suggesting the recent alleged
partisan weaponization of state surveillance
powers could be connected to the 44th
president. “[Democrats and their allies] will
defend Barack Obama at all costs, and they’ll
defend Hillary Clinton almost at all costs unless
they have to sacrifice her to protect Barack
Obama,” he added. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) also went after
former Attorney General Eric Holder.
King offered his remarks during an interview with
Breitbart News’s Deputy Political Editor Amanda House
on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday.

Against the backdrop of Friday’s released memo from the

House Intelligence Committee (HIC), King called for
further investigation into what role, if any, Obama and his
cabinet officials played in procuring state surveillance of
Carter Page and George Papadopoulos (two peripheral
operatives of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign) via
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications
submitted before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court (FISC).

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 Media Scoundrels Slam
FISA Memo’s Release
By Stephen Lendman
Stephenlendman.Org
2-3-2018
Lots more like it are needed, exposing corrupt practices in
Washington - high-level officials responsible for serious
ethical and legal breaches.
The swamp overflows with wrongdoing. Many officials in
the nation’s capital are responsible for what goes on, few
ever held accountable.
Deplorable practices continue unabated, release of the
FISA memo not likely to change things.
The NYT went all-out to denigrate the Russiagate FISA
memo, wanting its contents suppressed, continuing to
wage editorial war on Trump for the wrong reasons.
Following the memo’s release, the Times continued its
offensive with a barrage of articles and commentaries.
One column headlined “How Trump’s Allies Fanned an
Ember of Controversy Into Flames of Outrage,” saying
the memo’s release
“was broadly greeted with criticism,
including by some Republicans. They said
it cherry-picked information, ma(king) false
assertions…It didn’t live up to the hype.”
Read it and judge for yourself. It’s clear evidence of the
Washington swamp filled to overflowing, unaccountable
extrajudicial practices. The memo covered one issue.
Countless others need exposure to the light of day.
Another Times column headlined
“House Republicans Release Secret
Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of
Bias” - calling it “politically charged,
national security officials and outraged
Democrats…accus(ing) Republicans of
misrepresenting sensitive government
information through omissions and
inaccuracies.”
What else would scoundrels and their supporters caught
red-handed say!
Another headlined “Thank Progressives for the Nunes
Memo,” saying:
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“The move is nakedly partisan, and it
certainly seems as if Republicans are trying
to discredit the investigation into Russia’s
2016 election meddling.”
It should have been discredited months ago. No Russian
meddling occurred. No evidence proves any.
A day earlier Times column before the memo’s release
headlined “The Republican Plot Against the FBI,”
saying:
“In a demonstration of unbridled self-
interest and bottomless bad faith, the
Trump White House and its Republican
minions in Congress are on the cusp of
releasing a ‘memo’ that purports to
document the biggest political scandal
since Watergate.”
“To pull it off, they are undermining the
credibility of the law enforcement
community that Republicans once
defended so ardently, on the noble-
sounding claim that the American public
must know the truth.”
“Don’t fall for it.”
The FBI, DOJ and CIA are enemies of rule of law
principles, democratic values, and freedom-loving people
everywhere.
Times editors headlined “We’ve Got the Memo. Now
What About Trump’s Tax Returns?”
One issue has nothing to do with the other. The Times
wants the subject changed, diverting attention from what’s
most important, supporting what demands condemnation.
The neocon/CIA-connected Washington Post quoted FBI
director Christopher Wray telling bureau employees:
“The American people read the papers,
and they hear lots of talk on cable TV
and social media.”
 “But they see and experience the actual
work you do - keeping communities safe
and our nation secure, often dealing with
sensitive matters and making decisions
under difficult circumstances.”
“And that work will always matter more.
Talk is cheap; the work you do is what will
endure.”
The FBI is America’s Gestapo. We’d all be better off if the
bureau was disbanded, ending its longstanding abuses, its
contempt for rule of law principles.
WaPo editors headlined “The Nunes Memo Is A Giant,
Damaging Distraction,” saying:
“(T)he infamous Nunes memo does nothing
to discredit the Russia investigation, which
was President Trump’s transparent aim in
authorizing its release on Friday.”
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“It also does little to show abuse of
surveillance law, which was the pretext on
which House leaders justified its
disclosure.”
Shameful comments! The memo’s information speaks for
itself. The sham Russiagate investigation is the most
scandalous abuse of power since Joe McCarthy’s
communist witch-hunts.
He hurt many people unjustifiably, ruined careers for
political reasons, accomplishing nothing else, leading to
his fall from grace and Senate censure. He died a broken
man at age-48.
Today’s scandal is worse, aiming to prevent a presidential
candidate from winning the nation’s highest office, then
trying to oust him for the wrong reasons.
Instead of explaining flagrant abuse of power practices in
Washington, media scoundrels want them suppressed.
 SARA CARTER: Deep State Is “Terrified” Of The Second
Anti-Trump Dossier That’s Coming Out (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 4, 2018, 9:13 Am

Investigative journalist Sara Carter went on
FOX and Friends on Sunday morning to
discuss the explosive FISA memo that was
released on Friday.
Here’s what we know. There was a second dossier that was
put together by a person named Cody Shearer. He is a very
controversial activist, a former reporter who worked with
the Clintons in the past. And the FBI was also using this
second dossier as part of what they were doing to back up
the other dossier by Christopher Steele, an unverified
dossier. And we believe Chistopher Steele was also
sending information to the State Department in bits and
snippets. But I think the most important thing here and one
of the things they are going to be looking at very closely
are the leaks. There were a number of leaks out unverified
information by possibly senior members of the Obama
administration.

Via FOX and Friends:

Sara Carter says Deep State is “terrified” of

the second bogus dossier that is coming
out.

Sara Carter: The second memo that the House

Intelligence Committee is putting together. We’re still
waiting for the Inspector General’s report that is going to
be coming out. That’s going to be directed at Andrew
McCabe, now former director Andrew McCabe, and
others. And I think they’re terrified what’s going to come
out here.

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CNN Skips CNN.Com Piece On How '#Metoo Could Knock
The Clintons Off The 2018 Map'
By Tim Graham
February 4, 2018 9:15 AM EST
CNN.com posted an article by its reporters Dan Merica
and Eric Bradner on Wednesday headlined "How #Metoo
Could Knock The Clintons Off The 2018 Map." Their
own history of dealing with allegations of sexual
harassment and assault could haunt Democrats in the
midterms. I tweeted it and said
"Will this make CNN's airwaves?"
Nexis searching for "Clinton" and "campaign," as well as
"Clinton" and "sexual harassment" over the last four days
turned up many mentions of the Russia probe. CNN made
a few mentions of Hillary Clinton's Facebook apology --
posted in the midst of the State of the Union hubbub -- for
tolerating sexual harassment by her faith adviser Burns
Strider. But they couldn't find time on television for any
problems for the Clintons on the campaign trail. Merica
and Bradner reported the Clintons remain popular with the
party base....
But the couple's history with sexual harassment allegations
-- most notably during the former president's affair with
then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and more
recently over Hillary Clinton's decision not to fire a staffer
accused of sexual harassment during her 2008 campaign --
may make it harder for campaigns in swing districts and
states to fully embrace them, strategists involved in key
races said....
"Hillary we could probably use in targeted ways,
and I think you've seen her out there and she
has a dedicated base of support," said one
.
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Democratic strategist involved in a competitive
2018 Senate race who did not want to be
identified for fear of upsetting the Clintons.
"The Bill question gets very tricky," the strategist
said, in a reference to the former president's
sexual misconduct. "We have to mean what
we say: Zero tolerance means zero
tolerance."
CNN loves anonymous sources when they say damaging
thing about Trump, but not as much when they're
damaging the Clintons. You have to shake your head at the
"bravery" of anonymous sources whose primary reason for
anonymity is "fear of upsetting the Clintons." The source
could be a CNN Democrat, like David Axelrod. But then
there's an operative "with deep ties to the Clintons"
forecasting the descent of their popularity:
But a Democratic operative with deep ties to the
Clintons admitted that 2018 could be a year in
which their power in Democratic politics wanes.
"I will be the first to admit that it makes it a little
harder to embrace someone who has either
been fairly or unfairly seen as someone who
has not taken women's claims are seriously as
they should have and that would be Hillary
Clinton," said the operative.
But, the operative added, it will likely impact Bill Clinton
even more.
"It is going to be far more difficult for him. He is
going to be in less demand," the operative said,
adding that any event where a candidate who
has seized on the #MeToo movement held
with the former president "would be seen to
be as hypocritical."
CNN bosses find all this talk depressing. They're much
happier to push their fire-and-brimstone sermons about
"demagogic authoritarians" working for Russia in the
White House.
 Obama Appointed FISA Court Judges Involved In
Numerous Questionable And Controversial Actions
By Jim Hoft
February 4, 2018, 9:21 Am
Obama Appointed FISA Court Judges
Involved in Numerous Questionable and
Controversial Actions
The Obama team’s actions with the FISA
Court were not just corrupt – they were
As reported earlier by TGP, on April 26, 2017, an unsealed
FISA Court Ruling unveiled a number of criminal
activities that Barack Obama’s FBI and DOJ participated
in during his time in office. The FISA Court Ruling shows
widespread abuse of the FISA mandate.
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criminal! Now his appointed judges are in
the news for suspect deep state actions.
The FISA Court was put in place in 1978
when Congress enacted the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
The Court sits in Washington D.C., and is composed of
eleven federal district court judges who are designated by
the Chief Justice of the United States.
Each judge serves for a maximum of seven
years and their terms are staggered to
ensure continuity on the Court.
In addition, the entire FISA court in late 2016 was stacked
with Obama appointees. The entire court as of March 2017
was Obama appointees.
Here’s a current list of FISA Court Judges –
According to the report,
Obama’s FBI and DOJ performed searches
on Americans that were against their 4th
Amendment rights. This went on for years.
One paragraph in the report states that 85%
 of the Section 704 and 705(b) FISA searches
made during this time were non-compliant
with applicable laws and therefore criminal.
In addition, the report cites that at the same time that
Obama’s DOJ and FBI were illegally
searching Americans against their rights
and unbeknownst to them, Obama’s FBI was
providing this information to outside
contractors who had no business or legal
cause or claim to the information. [Some
people suspect that one of these
contractors may have been Fusion GPS.]
Now Obama appointed Judges to the FISA
Court are in the news because of their
suspect actions –
1. On Friday the House Intelligence Committee released its
FISA memo that described the corrupt actions taken by
Obama’s FBI and DOJ to obtain warrants to spy on the
Trump campaign. Obama’s DOJ and FBI used a
document created from information by Hillary Clinton
campaign and DNC funding to obtain multiple FISA Court
warrants. The political anti-Trump sources of the
information were not provided to the court when
requesting the warrant and top DOJ and FBI officials
were the ones partaking in these actions. As a result,
Congressional leaders are calling for prosecution of FBI
and DOJ officials involved in the criminal actions and
FOX News’ Gregg Jarrett stated that the criminal acts by
Obama’s scoundrels involved in the FISA crimes could
qualify for sentences of up to 10 years in prison.
1. It’s time to determine who signed off on the above
warrants. Judges typically sit on the Court for one week at
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a time, on a rotating basis. Which judge signed off on the
warrants with such flimsy information provided?
The judge or judges who signed off on these warrants
need to be investigated. Also, why have none of these
judges announced that they are prosecuting the
individuals who provided the fake information? This is
their duty!
2. One Obama FISA appointee was also involved in General
Flynn’s criminal case. We know this because he recused
himself from the Flynn case.
Obama FISA Court appointee and U.S. District Judge
Rudolph Contreras recused himself from former
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s criminal
case in December.
It’s yet unknown the reason for why Contreras recused
himself. Why did he recuse himself and did he also sign
off on any of the FISA warrants given to Obama cronies?
3. On Friday another Obama appointed FISA Court judge,
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sidedwith the
Department of Justice after multiple news organizations,
including CNN and USA Today, sued for the public
release of Comey’s memos after their Freedom of
Information Act requests were denied. (read more).
The fact that any judge would currently side with this
corrupt Department of Justice is suspect. What is in
the memos and why is this being hidden from the
public?
The current group of FISA Court judges
needs to be investigated and if corrupt or
criminal, removed from the court.
 In The Memo Release Aftermath,
Where Is Barack Hussein Obama?
It Wasn’t The Russians Who Stole The 2016 Election, But Barack Obama
And His Handpicked Replacement Hillary Clinton Who Tried,
But (Thank God) So Abysmally Failed
By Judi Mcleod
February 4, 2018
The big-talking jelly-spined Steele dropped off his three
cats to a neighbor before diving for cover—but incredibly
was rehired by Jim Comey when he chose to come back up
for air!
Barely noticeable down there at the foggy bottom of the
shocking FISA memo, the unabashed admission of British
spy Christopher Steele that he “HATED” Donald Trump and
didn’t want to see him elected as president.
We don’t know why the discredited Steele hates Trump, he
just does.
Trump, after all was running as president of the USA, not
as the prime minister of Britain and would have little
impact on the hate-for-the-sake-of-hate crowd anywhere
offshore.
Why would the FBI hire someone who was coming on as
the 21st Century Resurrection of King George III to do in
Candidate Trump with a dirty dossier?
Immediately after his hiring, hotshot Steele went on to rain
golden showers all over America’s premier intelligence
agency in a tropical rain torrent that continues to the
present day.
Worthy of note is that the first move of ‘The Spy Who
Hated Trump’ was to cut and run after word drifted out
that he had turned over the filthy-claim studded dossier,
too embarrassing to be read in mixed company, to an
eagerly waiting, all-knowing FBI.
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“Too politically biased to succeed at the job
of national security, the FBI has much in
common with Christopher Steele in trying
to pass off as truth bogus information.”
(Canada Free Press, March 7, 2017).
“The (FISA) memo notes that Steele hated
Donald Trump and wanted to make sure he
was not elected President of the United
States. This bias and his ties to the
Democratic Party should have disqualified
his dossier from being used for any FISA
warrants. (Jeff Crouere, Feb. 3, 2018.)
“Incredibly, the FBI did not disclose the
partisan connections to the dossier in the
application to the FISA court. Thus, using a
discredited dossier, the FBI was able to
obtain four FISA warrants to spy on Trump
campaign volunteer Carter Page.
“The FBI also used an article about the
dossier in Yahoo News in their application
to the FISA court; however, the story was
“circular” and only based on briefings given
by Steele to reporter Michael Isikoff. There
was no independent media confirmation of
any of the material in the dossier. In fact,
Steele was later fired as a FBI source for
giving another unauthorized interview to
reporter David Corn of Mother Jones
magazine. The memo notes that “Steele
should have been terminated for his
previous undisclosed contacts with Yahoo
and other news outlets.”
“Amazingly, a tainted document that had
never been verified was used to spy on a
Trump campaign adviser. The Obama
 administration renewed the FISA warrant
after the election and continued to spy on
Page, even though he was no longer
officially involved in the Trump campaign.
“It should take much more than opposition
research to receive approval to spy on a
political opponent. It seems clear that
Special Counsel Mueller is investigating the
wrong administration. There should be a
complete investigation into the activities of
the Obama administration Justice
Department.”
“Where is Obama?”
One day after the release of the Memo, we should all be
asking,
“Where is Obama?”
Why is he so stonily silent in the aftermath of the Memo
release?
The answer is that the scurrilous Obama, just like Steele,
went into hiding. The anti-American digital Spy King
should be dragged out into the sunlight—pronto.
The Memo proves that the FBI is not just part of a USA
intelligence apparatus that systematically spies on its own
American citizenry, it paid—and paid handsomely with
taxpayer dollars—for filth completely made up by a
foreign agent with whom they were in tight ‘Hate Donald
Trump’ league.
“The Bureau has been caught planning to
pay ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele, who
salaciously claimed in a dirty dossier that
Donald Trump hired prostitutes to urinate
on a bed the Obamas slept on at a Moscow
Ritz-Carlton— to do further research for the
Bureau. (Canada Free Press)
.
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It just had to be “a bed the Obamas slept on”, right?
Why was Steele, so “terrified” for his and
his family’s life, that he fled his £1.5 million
Surrey mansion on Jan. 11, 2017 leaving
his three cats with his neighbors, before
suddenly resurfacing when he went back to
work at the Orbis intelligence firm he
founded after leaving MI6, according to the
Daily Mail.
Nobody suddenly flees their own home unless their life is
in imminent danger.
Steele’s life was in danger not because he
wrote the dirty dossier—but because Hillary
Clinton and the Democrat National
Committee paid him to do it and the FBI
played along.
The need to keep Steele silent is critical to their survival.
That the FBI, planned to pay Steele for the same dossier
that caused him to go incognito, and also had plans to
rehire him, is proof positive how corrupt the leadership of
the FBI has become.
The common-sense reasons why Steele returned from
incognito are truly monstrous in concept:
Steele’s sponsors managed to lure him
back with promises that he wouldn’t be
offed—all because they brazenly believed
they’d never be caught.
But the truth is finally out there:
It wasn’t the Russians who stole the
2016 election, but Barack Obama and
his handpicked replacement Hillary
Clinton who tried, but (thank God) so
abysmally failed.
 GOP Rep. Ratcliffe Calls On James Comey To Come Back
Before Congress And Testify After He Is Caught Lying
Under Oath (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 4, 2018, 10:08 Am

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) spoke with Maria

Bartiromo on Sunday Morning
Futuresfollowing the release of the explosive
FISA memo on Friday.

Rep. Ratcliffe called on James Comey to come

back to Congress and testify after lying under
oath at last hearing.

It is now clear that this was a lie and Comey

knew for months that Democrat Hillary
Clinton would face no charges for her
handling of classified information.

On Sunday Rep. John Ratcliffe weighed in

on former FBI Director James Comey’s lies
under oath to Congress.

Rep. Ratcliffe: I want to give him the opportunity to come

On September 28th, 2016, Texas GOP Rep. John
Ratcliffe asked former FBI Director James Comey the
following (simple) question:
“Director, did you make the decision not to
recommend criminal charges relating to
classified information before or after Hillary
Clinton was interviewed by the FBI on July
2nd?”
Comey’s answer under oath:
back and clarify his testimony when he said very clearly,
what I know now, was that he had written an exoneration
memo before he had given that testimony saying he wasn’t
going to charge her. I’ve seen text messages and I’ve seen
emails and I have received testimony from other
witnesses that are all inconsistent with that testimony he
gave to me under oath. So he needs to have the
opportunity to come back and either clarify his testimony
or insert his own Fifth Amendment right.
Via Sunday Morning Futures:

“After”

Here’s the video:

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 Gowdy Attacks Dems For Focusing
On What’s Not The Memo Instead Of What Is
JACK CROWE - Political Reporter
10:14 AM 02/04/2018

“I wish that they were equally concerned about

what’s not in the FISA application, which is a lot
of really important information about the source,
and its sub-sources, and the fact that he was
hired by the DNC and the Clinton campaign,
and the fact that he was biased against
President Trump. That is all information that
the– that the finder of fact is entitled to.”

GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina dismissed

Democrats’ criticisms of the recently released Republican
memo detailing surveillance abuse within the FBI and
Department of Justice, during an interview Sunday on
“Face The Nation.”

“I get that Adam Schiff and others are worried

about what’s not in my memo,” Gowdy said on
“Face The Nation.” “I wish that they were
equally concerned about what’s not in the FISA
application” The FBI released a statement prior to the memo’s Friday
release, which stated the agency had “grave concerns”
about its contents.
Gowdy, who recently announced he will forego another
term in favor of entering the private sector, downplayed
the concerns of the FBI and Democratic lawmakers; Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, led by
namely that the memo – compiled by House Permanent ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff of California, have
Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin drafted their own memo to counter the Republican version,
Nunes – might compromise intelligence methods and which they believe to be incomplete and misleading.
sources. Republicans voted Monday not to release the memo
publicly but did vote to share it with the rest of the House.
Speaker Paul Ryan and many of his fellow Republicans
“But it’s both the Steele dossier, and who paid
have said they support the public release of the Democratic
for it, and whether or not it was vetted, but it’s
memo once it is properly redacted to protect intelligence
also what was not in it. This is an application to
methods and sources.
a court. So, I get that Adam Schiff and others
are worried about what’s not in my memo,”
Gowdy said.

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 President Trump Tells NBC To Go Stick
It On Their Super Bowl Interview Request
By Jim Hoft
February 4, 2018, 10:49 Am
President Trump told the far left Trump-
destroying NBC to go stick it this year with
their Super Bowl interview request.
It was another good choice by the US
president.
We all know they wouldn’t ask about the booming
economy or record unemployment numbers — they’re only
interested in the fake news Russia, Russia, Russia witch
hunt.
CNN reported:
President Trump has decided not to participate
in a Super Bowl Sunday interview this weekend.
.
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“He is not doing a Super Bowl interview,” a
White House official told CNN on condition of
anonymity on Wednesday.
Sources at NBC affirmed that their interview
requests have been turned down. But Trump
still has an open invitation, should he choose to
change his mind, the sources said.
NBC is televising the Super Bowl on Sunday. It
is traditionally the highest-rated event of the
year by far.
A pre-Super Bowl interview with the president
has become an American tradition in the past
decade.
When Fox televised the Super Bowl last year,
Trump sat down with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly at the
White House.
Bill O’Reilly interviewed President Trump
last year before the Super Bowl.
Since
President @realDonaldTrump told @NBC to
go stick it about the Super Bowl interview this
year, this one I did last year is pretty edifying –
https://t.co/1VhKvGcQoD pic.twitter.com/eA
Zp5SIQSu
— Bill O'Reilly (@BillOReilly) February 4, 2018
 Reince Priebus Recounts White House
Conversation With Andrew McCabe
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:23 AM 02/04/2018

Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus gave
new details on Sunday about a conversation that he had
last February with then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe at the White House.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Priebus said
that McCabe walked into his office on Feb. 14, shut the
door, and told him point-blank that a New York Times
report about alleged contacts between Trump campaign
aides and Russian intelligence was “BS.”
That meeting has been the source of allegations that
Priebus pressured McCabe to publicly knock down the
report of repeated contacts with Russians.
On Feb. 24, CNN published a report citing multiple
unnamed sources who said that the FBI rejected the
request from McCabe, who left his job as deputy director
earlier this week. The article, which has been heavily
edited since publication, initially framed the White House
and Priebus in a negative light by suggesting that Priebus
took a proactive step to ask McCabe to rebut the Times
report.
The article reads:
“The direct communications between the White
House and the FBI were unusual because of
decade-old restrictions on such contacts. Such
a request from the White House is a violation of
procedures that limit communications with the
FBI on pending investigations.”
Priebus told NBC’s Chuck Todd that McCabe
“walked into my office, shut my door and
basically told me that The New York Times
story that was in the paper, that first came out in
February that said there are constant contacts
between the Trump campaign and the
Russians, with the door closed, looked at me
and said ‘I want you to know that this story right
here is total BS. It’s overstated and it’s not
true.'”
“This is the deputy director of the FBI. I didn’t
know who he was, it’s the middle of February,”
he added.
Priebus also said in the interview that he never saw any
evidence of collusion and that he never heard President
Trump say that he wanted to fire Special Counsel Robert
Mueller.
“I never felt that I was involved in something
nefarious the whole way through, from the
beginning to the end. So you can understand
the frustration of the President when he’s told
he’s not under investigation,” Priebus said.
WATCH:

The White House responded to that CNN report at the time

by provided additional details about Priebus’ contact with
McCabe. White House officials told reporters that McCabe
informed Priebus that the initial New York Times piece was
“BS.”

(RELATED: White House: FBI Told Trump Chief Of

Staff That Russia Reports Were ‘BS’)

Priebus, who was fired as chief of staff in July, added new

details on Sunday, saying that McCabe initiated the
conversation about the Times article.
.

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 ABC Lashes Out At GOP:
Claim Memo Helping Putin Meddling Pay In ‘Spades’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 4, 2018 11:34 AM EST
The knives came out on ABC during their Sunday morning
programming as they made President Trump and the GOP
the target of their hyperbolic smear campaign following
the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo
detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI and Justice
Department. And at one point during This Week, host
George Stephanopoulos and Chief Foreign Affairs
Correspondent Martha Raddatz suggested that the
“discord” and “mistrust” sowed by Republicans was
ultimately helping Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After reading a statement from Arizona Senator John
McCain (R) asserting something similar, Stephanopoulos
was in awe of how much of a return Putin was getting for
his efforts.
“When you think about the investment that
Vladimir Putin in intervening – interfering in
our election it is paying off every day in
spades,” he chided.
His slip-up with using the term “intervening” may indicate
that he actually believes the Russians changed the outcome
of the election since he’s a Clinton lackey.
Raddatz’s agreed with Stephanopoulos and ridiculously
asserted that, in a way, he had won the Super Bowl
because of Republicans.
“He won the Super Bowl. He really-- Putin
has won the Super Bowl here. Exactly what
he wanted to happen in this country, this
discord, this mistrust of institutions is
exactly why they operate this way,” she spat.
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That moment was really a crescendo in their anti-
Republican screed that had been building for most of the
morning. During the previous hour, on Good Morning
America, correspondent David Wright parroted
Democratic Party talking points and claimed:
“House Republicans who voted along party
lines to release that document of being part
and parcel of an organized event to obstruct
the special counsel investigation.”
After Stephanopoulos began his show by opining about
how “the memo didn’t match the hype” during the
opening tease, he wrote off the memo’s central focus
which was that the FBI failed to tell the FISA court that
the information they were presenting was paid for by
Democrats and was the work of a biased foreign agent.
“Democrats, whose own rebuttal memo has
been blocked by GOP, says that’s simply
not true. They're backed by a host of
independent experts and [a] statement from
the FBI,” he argued.
A short time later, Stephanopoulos turned to Justice
Correspondent Pierre Thomas for his crafted defense of the
FBI.
“This is an extraordinary moment and these
are extraordinary times with the tension
between the White House and FBI seeming
to grow day to day and sometimes minute
by minute,”
Thomas lamented before touting the FBI’s response:
 But many believe the Presidents and his allies
are engaged in an assault on the integrity of
their institution. So, as a result, we're seeing
rare moves if not unprecedented moves by FBI
officials to push back. On Friday, the 13,000
FBI Agent's Association put out a statement
which basically accused House Republicans on
the Intelligence Committee of playing politics in
releasing that controversial memo.
Stephanopoulos would go on to have former Bush-era
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen and ABC
Chief Legal Analysts Dan Abrams on to fling petty smears
at the House Intelligence Committee for writing up the
memo.
“Just on the four corners of the memo, it's
politically motivated, it’s sort of amateurish,
it's very short and it really leads to more
questions than it answers,” Olsen mocked.
And to continue the insults, Abrams claimed the
memo “reads like a defense attorney’s brief
to try to exclude evidence … This is a
relatively weak legal argument, really,
coming from the Nunes memo. Because in
the end, what they're talking about is
motivations. They're not talking about facts
they got wrong or laws that were broken.”
There was no real analysis of the content of the memo, just
blanket dismissals and the lobbing of Democratic insults at
Republicans.
The relevant portions of the Transcript are below:
ABC
Good Morning America
February 4, 2018
8:10:31 AM Eastern
(…)
DAVID WRIGHT: The President does claim that newly
declassified Republican memo vindicates him in the Russia
probe. But the Democrats are blasting back, accusing House
Republicans who voted along party lines to release that
document of being part and parcel of an organized event to
obstruct the special counsel investigation.
(…)
ABC
This Week
February 4, 2018
9:01:45 AM EASTERN
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning. President
Trump ramped up his war on the FBI this week signaling he'll do
whatever it takes to discredit the Russia probe. He’s already fired
one FBI director, forced out a deputy, publicly attacked his
attorney general and threatened other officials behind closed
doors. And it all broke open Friday when the President
declassified that infamous memo from Republicans on the House
Intelligence Committee. The President and his allies claim it
shows the FBI wrongly convinced a judge to approve a wiretap
against former campaign adviser Carter Page by relying on a
dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign, and for failing to
disclose that funding.
Democrats, whose own rebuttal memo has been blocked by
GOP, says that’s simply not true. They're backed by a host of
independent experts and this statement from the FBI.
“We grave concerns about material omissions
of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s
accuracy.”
(…)
PIERRE THOAMS: This is an extraordinary moment and these
are extraordinary times with the tension between the White
House and FBI seeming to grow day to day and sometimes
minute by minute. This is what I'm hearing from inside the FBI.
They're willing to acknowledge that agents and officials
sometimes make mistakes. But many believe the Presidents and
his allies are engaged on an assault on the integrity of their
institution. So, as a result, we're seeing rare moves if not
unprecedented moves by FBI officials to push back. On Friday,
the 13,000 FBI Agent's Association put out a statement which
basically accused House Republicans on the Intelligence
Committee of playing politics in releasing that controversial
memo.
(…)
STEPHANOPOULOS: Matt, I want to begin with you, because
you’re kind of the man of the moment because for three years
under President Bush you oversaw the FISA application process.
So your reaction to the memo?
MATT OLSEN: You know, my reaction… Just on the four corners
of the memo, it's politically motivated, it’s sort of amateurish, it's
very short and it really leads to more questions than it answers.
You know, the central claim in the memo that biased information
wasn’t was presented to the court, we now know that's not true.
And that's actually consistent with my own experience
overseeing the lawyers in the Justice Department.
(…)
DAN ABRAMS: This memo reads like a defense attorney’s brief
to try to exclude evidence. Because in just about every high
profile case I cover, the defense argues that the investigators and
the prosecutors had tunnel vision. They were out to get the
defendant from the beginning, they never looked at any other
possible defendants. They included all sorts of unverified
information in warrant applications. This is a relatively weak legal
argument, really, coming from the Nunes memo. Because in the
.
end, what they're talking about is motivations. They're not talking
about facts they got wrong or laws that were broken.
(…)
STEPHANOPOULOS: When you think about the investment that
Vladimir Putin in intervening – interfering in our election it is
paying off every day in spades.
MARTHA RADDATZ: He won the Super Bowl. He really-- Putin
has won the Super Bowl here. Exactly what he wanted to happen
in this country, this discord, this mistrust of institutions is exactly
why they operate this way.
(…)

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 James Comey Trolled With Hilarious Memes After
Replying “That’s it?” To FISA Memo Revelations
by Joshua Caplan
February 4, 2018, 12:03 pm

The internet is roasting former FBI Director

James Comey for infamously replying
“that’s it?” after the FISA memo was
released.

“That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo

wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed
trust with Intelligence Community, damaged
relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably
exposed classified investigation of an American
citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing
their jobs,” tweeted Comey.

One might be stunned to learn life is actually a

computer simulation. Comey? Not so much.

Pro-Trump ‘memesmiths,’ photoshopped the face of an

unimpressed Comey into some unconventional scenarios.
The result is hilarious.
Here’s Comey pooh-poohing the Sistine Chapel in Vatican
City.
The fired bureau chief is clearly not impressed
with the Great Wall of China.

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The Declaration of Independence? Boring…

By the looks of it, Comey doesn’t think the

Titanic sinking on April 14th, 1912 was *that*
big of a tragedy.

Comey wants two scoops of ice cream like

President Trump.

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Comey in checkmate? No big deal. Comey can get larger inauguration crowds
when he becomes president, right?

Stunts? No problem!

America landing on the moon in 1969? Comey

can do that in his sleep.

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 With Steele 'Dossier,' FBI
Covered For Clinton And The Democrats
By Michael Walsh
February 4, 2018
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trey Gowdy, who was instrumental in the writing of the
Nunes memo, and who will not run for re-election to the
House this fall from South Carolina, has this to add about
apparent FBI malfeasance in the whole "Russian
collusion" mess:
The House’s top investigator on Sunday said
the FBI failed to notify a surveillance court it
was relying on material funded by Democrats
and the Hillary Clinton campaign when it asked
to snoop on an adviser tied to the Trump
campaign.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican and
chairman of the House Oversight Committee, also said
judges wouldn’t have authorized and repeatedly renewed a
warrant to spy on the former Trump aide, Carter Page, if it
hadn’t been for that very material, compiled by
investigator Christopher Steele in a controversial dossier.
“They could have easily said it was the DNC
and Hillary Clinton. That would have been
really easy,” Mr. Gowdy told CBS’s Face the
Nation, referring to footnotes in the agents’
request to the court. “It took longer to explain it
the way they did, than if they just come right out
and said, ‘Hillary Clinton for America and DNC
paid for it.’ But they didn’t do that.”
Mr. Gowdy was involved in drafting a four-page memo by
the House Intelligence Committee that details the FBI’s
decision to rely in part on Clinton-backed material to spy
on Mr. Page in October 2016. It also explores the role of
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top Justice Department officials in renewing those
snooping powers.
The Friday release of the memo has led to much media
masticating over the past two days, very little of it about
the underlying issues of institutional bias and politicization
on the part of the FBI and the Obama Justice Department,
and almost all of devoted to harum-scarum and partisan
poo-flinging.
It’s kicking up a political firestorm, with Democrats
chastising its lead author, Rep. Devin Nunes of California,
for peeling back the curtain on the secretive U.S. Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court and its sensitive
processes. They say the memo amounts to a misleading
“hit job” designed to sow doubt about probes into the
Trump campaign’s alleged interactions with Russian
actors. And they say it doesn’t reflect all of the material
that went into the government snooping application.
That drew a rebuke from Mr. Gowdy.
“I wish that they were equally concerned about
what’s not in the FISA application, which is a lot
of really important information about the source,
and its sub-sources, and the fact that he was
hired by the DNC and the Clinton campaign,
and the fact that he was biased against
President Trump,” said Mr. Gowdy, who last
week said he will return to the legal field instead
of seeking re-election.
“I would argue it’s also somewhat
unprecedented to rely on political opposition
research to instruct and inform an application,
and it’s really bad precedent and
unprecedented to not tell a court that a source
has this level of bias,” he said.
To say the least. But that's the "progressive" Left for you
these days: by any means necessary. As the president
noted on Twitter yesterday:
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 Trey Gowdy: House Intel Committee
Is Investigating Five FBI Officials (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 4, 2018, 12:32 Pm

On Friday the House Intelligence Committee
released their explosive de-classified FISA
memo on DOJ and FBI deceit to the courts.
The Comey FBi used fraudulent documents
produced for the DNC as evidence to spy on
Donald Trump and his campaign.
On Sunday morning Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-
SC), a former prosecutor who viewed the
actual FISA requests, told Face the
Nation the House Intelligence Committee is
only investigating five top FBI officials.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Rep. Trey Gowdy said there might be about five
FBI employees whose actions have been
suspect in the investigation into Russian
meddling in the 2016 election and the whole
bureau should not be attacked.
possible collusion between the Kremlin and the
Trump campaign.
Gowdy said the partisan tone of the
investigation has become a major problem. He
said he hopes the release of a four-page memo
detailing how the FBI used a controversial
dossier compiled on Trump by a political
opposition research firm as evidence for a
warrant to spy on a Trump campaign adviser is
a “one-off.”
“I hope this is a one-off, that Congress takes
this position but also hope it’s a one-off that a
[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]
application contains errors and product that is
funded by a political opponent. I hope that is a
one-off,” he said.

“I have tremendous respect for the bureau,

there are 30,000 employees, let’s assume that
there are five that engaged in conduct that we
have questions about,” Gowdy said on CBS’
“Face The Nation” Sunday.

The FBI has been under siege by President

Trump and Republicans for the investigation
into Russia’s actions in the 2016 election and
.

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 Schiff's Latest Bizarre Claim: Russian Ads
Promote 2nd Amendment "So We All Kill Each Other"
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 02/04/2018 - 12:45
California Congressman Adam Schiff now
says that Russian ads aimed at pushing
Americans to kill each other...
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United
States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep
and bear arms... and, as The Duran's Alex Christoforou
writes,
according to California Congressman
Adam Schiff, those pesky Russians are
using bots to promote the second
amendment with an ultimate goal of
having Americans ‘kill each other.’
Once again, another brilliant plan hatched by Putin... good
thing Schiff caught on to it and can now begin seizing
American’s guns so as to thwart Russia’s evil plan.
On Thursday Democrat Schiff spoke to a crowd at the
University of Pennsylvania, where the TDS –
‘Russia hysteria virus’ infected Schiff
told the crowd Russian ads promoted
the Second Amendment during the 2016
election “so we will kill each other.”
NTK Network reports...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Thursday
that Russia promoted content that
supported the Second Amendment on
social media during the 2016 election
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because they wanted Americans to kill one
another.
“You had the content that was clearly
anti-Hillary, and you had the content
that was very pro-Trump. But even the
bigger quantity of content that was being
pushed through social media was just
content designed to pit us against each
other,” Schiff said while speaking at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Which is false!
Facebook executive Colin Stretch told
the US Senate Judiciary Committee in
November that the total number of those
illegitimate ads are a drop in the ocean
— less than 0.004 percent of all content
— or about 1 in 23,000 news feed items.
Russia didn’t flip the election.
And then Schiff exclaimed:
“They also trumpeted the Second
Amendment. Apparently Russians are
very big fans of our Second
Amendment. They don’t particularly want
a Second Amendment of their own, but
they’re really glad that we have one."
“The Russians would be thrilled if we
were doing nothing but killing each
other every day, and sadly we are.”
Mr. Schiff's constant delusional comments are so irrelevant
to most Americans - and so unbelievable to many - that it
should be no surprise to anyone that The Democrats
favorability is sliding and Trump's is rising. But it certainly
seems to have shocked Brookings' Benjamin Wittes:

"Almost unfathomably, both Trump’s

and the congressional Republicans’
position in polls seems to be
improving."

Will The Democrats never learn?

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 Trump Is Fuming,
But Rosenstein’s Job Looks Safe
Kevin Daley - Supreme Court Reporter
1:54 PM 02/04/2018
President Donald Trump’s clear frustrations
notwithstanding, it does not appear likely he will fire
deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Though the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence’s memo on FISA abuse claims Rosenstein
sanctioned surveillance of a former Trump aide based on
campaign opposition research, the mood among
Republicans in Washington suggests he will not be
dismissed.
Rosenstein’s position seemed precarious Friday, when
reporters asked the president if he had confidence in the
deputy attorney general. “You figure that one out,” Trump
replied. A handful of House Republicans also expressed
support for sacking Rosenstein in the hours before the
memo was released.
Despite the president’s obvious displeasure with the
deputy AG, administration officials walked back his
statements Friday evening to assuage growing concerns
that a dismissal was imminent.
“No changes are going to be made at the DOJ.
We fully expect Rosenstein to continue on,”
deputy press secretary Raj Shah told CNN.
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Rosenstein supervises special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation of Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election, given Attorney General Jeff
Sessions’ recusal from matters relating to the Trump
campaign. As such, a move against him would be
perceived as a bid to undermine Mueller’s ongoing
inquiry.
Prominent Republicans in Congress also counseled against
Rosenstein’s firing. GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South
Carolina told CBS’ “Face the Nation Sunday” that the
deputy AG should keep his job but answer questions about
his role in approving FISA applications that could be
connected to Christopher Steele’s notorious anti-Trump
dossier.
“I think it is fair to ask the deputy attorney
general ‘what did you know at the time you
signed one of the applications?’,” Gowdy said. “I
think it is fair to ask ‘what FISA reforms are you
going to implement to make sure we don’t have
this fact pattern come up again?’ I don’t judge
people based on a single decision that they
make throughout the course of an otherwise
really stellar career.”
“I don’t,” he replied when asked if he believes
Rosenstein should be dismissed.
The GOP FISA abuse memo alleges Rosenstein sought a
warrant authorizing secret surveillance of former Trump
campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page. The
Department of Justice first sought a FISA warrant for Page
in the waning days of the Obama administration. Since
courts must re-approve FISA warrants every 90 days, it
appears Rosenstein sought authorization for Page’s
continued electronic surveillance.
 REPORT: House Intel Committee Could Drop FIVE
MORE MEMOS Exposing ‘Politically Motivated’
Abuses By FBI & DOJ
By Joshua Caplan
February 4, 2018, 2:36 Pm
If you thought Friday’s FISA abuse memo
could be the sole report on FBI and Justice
Department corruption, House Intelligence
chairman Devin Nunes may have a surprise.
According to Axios, the Committee could
publish up to five more reports outlining
“politically motivated “wrongdoing” across
various agencies, including the FBI, the
broader Justice Department, and the State
Department.”
Axios reports:
What we’re hearing: Republicans close to
Nunes say there could be as many as five
additional memos or reports of “wrongdoing.”
But a source on the House Intelligence
Committee tells me there’s no current plan to
use the same extraordinary and highly
controversial process they just went through,
with a vote and ultimately a presidential
approval to declassify sensitive information.
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A Republican member briefed on Nunes’
investigations told me: “There are several areas
of concern where federal agencies used
government resources to try to create a
narrative and influence the election. Some have
suggested coordination with Hillary Clinton
operatives, [Sydney] Blumenthal and [Cody]
Shearer, to back up the false narrative.”
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York concluded his
Friday article summarizing the memo’s key FISA abuses
by warning a new showdown between Republicans and
Democrats could resurface when additional information is
released. Translation: the FISA memo could be the first of
many memos exposing corruption at both the FBI and
Justice Department.
York writes:
Finally, the memo released today does not
represent the sum total of what House
investigators have learned in their review of the
FBI and Justice Department Trump-Russia
investigation. That means the fight over the
memo could be replayed in the future when
the Intelligence Committee decides to
release more information.
It is not clear what information congressional investigators
will release.
The House Intelligence Committee released their
classified FISA memo on Friday morning.
Read the entire un-redacted document here.
 As Polls Shift, Dem Hopes
For Control, Impeachment Fade
By Michael Walsh
February 4, 2018

one,” Stivers noted. GOP lawmakers discussed

the favorable turn in poll numbers during their
retreat.

It seems like just last week that the Democrats, fresh off
their famous victories in Virginia and Alabama, were
confidently predicting a "blue wave" of electoral success
this fall, retaking the House and even the Senate, in order
to get on with their real legislative business: the
impeachment and conviction of President Donald J.
Trump. Hey, wait a minute -- it was just last week!
Well, we'll see. But given the fact that the Senate deck is
really stacked against them, it's very difficult to see how
the Left can win back the upper chamber this cycle.
Meanwhile, in the House, redistricting has worked in the
favor of the Republicans, primarily via their control of the
majority of state houses and state legislatures across the
country. The Democrats, naturally, are already whining
about "gerrymandering," which is otherwise known as
"empowerment" via the creation of "majority-minority"
districts, but somehow evil when the GOP does it.
Here, for example, is the district currently represented by
Luis Gutierrez (D., Puerto Rico), the congressman who left
the State of the Union address last week as the members
were chanting, "USA, USA" --

I threw some cold water on that notion in this piece, and

am happy to do so again today:

Republicans are feeling better about their prospects in the

midterm elections, buoyed by recent polls that show their
numbers improving. An ebullient President Trump touted
the shift in public sentiment reflected in recent polls during
a joint Senate-House Republican retreat in West
Virginia this week.

“I just looked at some numbers, you’ve even

done better than you thought,” Trump told
lawmakers, citing poll numbers he
discussed Thursday with National Republican
Congressional Committee (NRCC)
Chairman Steve Stivers (R-Ohio). “The Why the shift? For one thing, the effects of the GOP tax
numbers are pretty good and that’s one plan are starting to kick in, and while the stock market
example of how things are getting better,” (which roots against America as often as it roots for it) had
Stivers told reporters after discussing polling a huge course correction on profit-taking last week, the
numbers with Trump. other economic indices are soaring, including employment,
bonuses, repatriation of capital, and infrastructure
Stivers said the bump in Trump’s approval rating is a good investment. The Democrats may sneer at the story of a
sign for Republicans running for reelection. worker who's only seen a buck and a half increase in his
paycheck so far, but I got one of those class-action checks
“No president in their second year has seen in the mail last week, for the princely sum of $1, and I plan
their approval rating go up except now this to cash it. The plutocratic Democrats, whose numbers

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include San Franciscans Dianne Feinstein and Nancy
Pelosi, sniff at such lowly sums, but it never seems to
occur to them that it's not so much the amount that counts
as the fact of the increase itself.
The polling shift is reflected in the generic ballot question
-- would you vote for anonymous Democrat X or
anonymous Republican Y? But nobody votes for
Anonymous, and while a number of prominent GOP
congressmen have announced their retirements, the fact
remains that we still have 435 separate House elections
every two years, and those races are largely decided by
local issues, not by whether the candidate will vote to
impeach a sitting president. As the GOP learned during the
Clinton impeachment, Americans don't much like their
choice at the ballot box overturned by Congress or the
courts, no matter which candidate they voted for.
The generic ballot question, which asks respondents if they
would be more likely to vote for a Democratic or
Republican candidate in their own district, is considered an
indicator of future wave elections. A Reuters/Ipsos poll
released Wednesday showed that Trump’s approval rating
has ticked up in the past week. Another Reuters/Ipsos poll
shows voters think Republicans have a better plan for jobs
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and employment than Democrats, by a margin of 37.6
percent to 27.8 percent.
A Democratic wave looked all but inevitable two months
ago. Some in the party were talking in mid-
December about a 40-seat pickup, but a tsunami of that
magnitude now looks much less likely. Rep. Greg
Walden (R-Ore.), a former NRCC chairman, said the
environment is looking “much better” for his party
compared to two months ago. “I think you’re seeing all the
data improve,” Walden said.
Yes, everything can, and most likely will, change. But the
Democrats' geriatric leadership and their Baby Boomer
allies in the media have thrown everything they have
against Trump, and so far have only succeeded in
embarrassing themselves and corrupting mainstream
journalism beyond repair. They've never grasped that
Americans didn't vote for Trump the man as much as for
Trump the outsider and disrupter: they want Washington
brought to heel, and there is almost nothing Trump could
say or do -- except not deliver -- that will turn them against
him. It's not the man, it's the movement.
After eight years in the Obama Slough of Despond, that's
the message the GOP needs to keep delivering.
 Nunes Memo Details Weaponization
Of FISA Court For Political Advantage
Kenneth Whittle
February 4, 2018
On Friday, the much anticipated “Nunes Memo” was
finally released to the general public. Disobedient Media
previously reported on the push to prevent the memo from
being released. While there is much contained in the four
pages, the most glaring issue contained in the memo is the
FBI’s willful concealment of pertinent details of which
they were required by law to turn over to the FISA court
when seeking the initial surveillance warrant on Carter
Page, a former volunteer foreign policy adviser for the
Trump campaign.
According to the memo, former director James Comey
signed three FISA applications on behalf of the FBI.
Additionally, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former Deputy
Attorney General Dana Boente, and acting Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, each signed one or
more applications on behalf of the DOJ.
Under 50 U.S.C. § 1805(d)(1), a FISA order on an
American citizen must be renewed by the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) every 90 days. In
order to protect the rights of Americans, each subsequent
renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. This
means that the in order to be granted a renewal, the
government is required to produce all material and relevant
facts to the court, including any information which may be
potentially favorable to the target of the FISA application.
On four separate occasions the Obama administration
essentially claimed before the FISA court that Page had
betrayed his country by working for a hostile foreign
nation, and therefore it was necessary that the government
violate his Fourth Amendment rights. However, in this
case, the government purposely withheld relevant
information from the government not once, but four
separate times.
According to the memo, at no time during the initial
application process for the warrant to surveil Page, or in
any of the three renewals of that application, did the
government disclose to the FISA Court the nature of their
relationship with Christopher Steele, his relationship with
the Democratic National Committee (DNC), or his
relationship with the Clinton campaign. Instead, the memo
simply, yet vaguely states that, “Steele was working for a
named U.S. person.”
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Instead, the government purposefully withheld information
from the court that the “dossier” compiled by Steele was
done so on behalf of the DNC and the Hillary Clinton
campaign. It was further withheld from the court that the
DNC had paid Steele over $160,000 for his work in
compiling this “dossier”, and that the money was funneled
to Steele through the law firm Perkins Coie, which
represents both the Hillary Clinton campaign as well as the
DNC in legal matters. According to the National Review,
the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid at least $9.1
million to Perkins Coie from mid-2015 to late 2016.
The government further held from the court the fact that
the FBI had authorized payments to Steele. According to
the New York Post, in October 2016 the FBI contracted to
pay Steele $50,000 to “help corroborate the dirt on
Trump.”
In March of 2017, CNN also reported that the FBI had
entered into an arrangement with Steele, whereby they
agreed to cover all of his expenses.
While it is extremely disconcerting that the government
willfully concealed the existence of their financial
relationship with Steele, a foreign national, what is more
troubling is the fact that the government used tax payer
dollars to do so. In other words, every single American
who did not vote for Hillary Clinton, whether they voted
for Trump or a third party candidate or did not vote at all –
were forced to finance the Clinton campaign-funded
opposition research.
In other words, the public’s tax dollars were spent on
creating fake “evidence” to tie Trump with Russia, a false
narrative that put the planet at heightened risk for nuclear
war, for the sake of the Clinton’s hurt feelings.
Why the media refuses to mention or cover this fact, this
author does not know. But this is an extremely important
fact that every American, whether left, right, up, down,
should remember, as it is the perfect example of the
corruption which exists within our tax payer-funded
institutions, which we are told to have nothing but the
utmost respect for.
According to the memo, in an effort to corroborate Steele’s
dossier, the FBI extensively cited a September 23, 2016,
Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, titled “U.S. intel
officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin”,
which focuses on Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow.
However, when presenting this article to the court the FBI
falsely assessed that Steele did not provide this
information directly to Isikoff. Meaning that the FBI was
aware that the article they presented to the court was not
corroborating evidence from a separate source, because the
information in the article was provided to Isikoff by Steele
himself. In fact, as the memo points out, Steele himself
has stated in British court filings that in September 2016
he met with Yahoo News, as well as several other outlets
including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and
the New Yorker.
What’s more, in an article published on January 12, 2017,
Isikoff reports on a story by the Wall Street Journal in
which Christopher Steele is identified as the author of the
infamous dossier, and even notes that Steele was an “FBI
asset”. However, what is most striking about this article is
the fact that despite receiving the information which
served as the basis for his own article in September, Isikoff
pretends to have not known that Steele was the source of
the dossier.
Even more interesting is the close relationship Isikoff had
with the DNC during the 2016 Presidential election.
According to an email from the DNC released by
Wikileaks, Isikoff attended the “Open World Society’s
forum” as the guest of DNC official Ali Chalupa. In the
email, Chalupa states that she was invited to the forum to
speak specifically about Paul Manafort, the former
campaign manager for Donald Trump. Chalupa goes on to
state that she has been working with Isikoff for the past
few weeks and that at the event, she was able to get him
“connected him to the Ukrainians.” She adds:
“I invited Michael Isikoff whom I’ve been working with
for the past few weeks and connected him to the
Ukrainians. More offline tomorrow since there is a big
Trump component you and Lauren need to be aware of
that will hit in next few weeks and something I’m working
on you should be aware of.”
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According to the memo, Steele’s relationship with the FBI
as a source continued until late October 2016, when he was
terminated for what the FBI defines as the most serious
violations, “an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his
relationship with the FBI”. This unauthorized disclosure
occurred in an October 30, 2016, Mother Jones article by
David Corn, the reporter who broke the infamous Mitt
Romney “47 Percent” story.
Again, the FBI did not notify the court that Steele was
leaking information to media outlets, or that he was
terminated by the FBI after doing so for the second time.
Before and after his termination, Steele maintained contact
with then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr,
whose wife, Nellie Ohr, was employed by Fusion GPS.
Ohr would later tell the FBI in an interview in September
2016, that Steele had stated that he, “was desperate that
Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about
him not being president.”
Lastly, the memo also reveals that the Steele dossier was
so crucial to the investigation, that Deputy Director
McCabe testified in December 2017 that no surveillance
warrant would have been sought from the FISC without
the Steele dossier information. This admission by the
former Deputy Director is damning, as it proves that, if it
were not for the Clinton campaign and DNC funded
dossier created by a foreign national, there would have
been no surveillance of Page, and ultimately there would
have never been a special counsel appointed.
At the end of the day, every American, regardless of their
position on the political spectrum, should be worried about
the fact that the FBI and DOJ sought and were granted a
warrant to spy on an opposing political campaign based on
a document that the FBI itself had neither verified or
corroborated. If the FISA court does in fact employ strict
“safeguards” and procedures in order to ensure that the
rights of American citizens are not being systematically
violated, how is it that the FBI and DOJ were able to
obtain a surveillance warrant based on unverified
allegations? And why did Congress overwhelmingly vote
to reauthorize Section 702?
 Adam Schiff Makes His Craziest Claim Yet=>
FISA Memo May Lead To Oklahoma City Style Bombing
(VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 4, 2018, 2:45 Pm

Ranking member of the House Intel Committee
and suspected leaker Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
perhaps made his craziest claim yet about the
FISA memo.
Old Schiffty implied that an Oklahoma City Style bombing may
occur due to Americans’ distrust of the FBI after the FISA memo
was released.
At this point Schiff implied an Oklahoma City Style bombing
may occur because of the release of the FISA memo:
“But it is impeaching the FBI, and the problem with
this, and this is I think at the heart of the
department’s concern is if you have a neighbor who’s
buying fertilizer, lots of fertilizer, but has no yard and
you have concerns about it and you want to call the
FBI, you’re now going to wonder ‘Is that FBI going to
hold my name in confidence or this information in
confidence, what if this becomes politicized?’
Sources are going to dry up because of what the
Republicans on this committee are doing now.”

Schiff concluded that our country is now less safe because the
FISA memo was released.

Americans think rank and file FBI agents are doing a great job
for the most part. The fish rots from the head down.

Americans have lost trust in the FBI because the Obama

administration weaponized top FBI brass in order to target a
Schiff appeared on ABC Sunday morning to speak with George political operative.
Stephanopoulos about the FISA memo.
Video via The Daily Caller:
Stephanopoulos brought up Schiff’s claims that the Trump admin
is working to discredit Mueller.

“You know, you talked about this strategy to discredit

the Mueller investigation. Is it working?”
Stephanopoulos asked.

“Well, I don’t think it’s working in the sense that

people have a lot of confidence in Bob Mueller,”
Schiff responded.

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 NBC’s Todd Invites Memo Smears,
Fights Considering Its Contents as Truthful
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 4, 2018 2:48 PM EST

that they are doing things better than ever

happened previously,” Brennan spat. This
coming from the guy whose CIA hacked into
Congressional computers to thwart the
release of a torture report.

During a panel discussion, later in the show, Todd went

around the table to hear everyone dismiss the memo and its
findings.

Since the release of the bombshell House Intelligence

Committee memo detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI
and the DOJ to obtain warrants through a FISA court, the
liberal media have been focused on combating President
Trump and the GOP for releasing the memo instead of the
contents within it. A clear demonstration of this occurred
during NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday where moderator
Chuck Todd was receptive to attacks against the memo but
aggressively pushed back against supporters.

Former Obama-era CIA Director turned NBC analyst,
John Brennan was on the program and was repeatedly teed
up by Todd to take shots at the memo and the Republican-
led House Intelligence Committee.
“Has [Congressman Devin Nunes (R-C.A.)]
brought up any legitimate issue, in your
mind, in that memo,” Todd wondered at one
point while sounding fed-up with the issue.
“If he had concerns about that, he could
have hearings. He could bring in the
members of the FBI and others and to really
seek what is needed to be done differently,
but he didn't do that. He just put out publicly
one side and a very selective cherry picked
memo,” Brennan complained.
Todd then invited Brennan to smear his replacement, Mike
Pompeo, for touting his reforms to the spy agency.
“I think there are a number of senior
members of this administration who follow
Donald Trump's way of trying to denigrate
and condemn everything that happened
before them as a way to make them appear
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“I feel as confused as I think most
Americans do right now. I think it feels a
little bit like, you know when you're in the
supermarket and there is music in the
background, it's there, it's a constant noise
but you can't quite make out the song
exactly,” quipped Amy Walters from the Cook
Political Report.
“What has mattered more with this memo,
what was in it for the President or the
buildup,” Todd ridiculously asked PBS White
House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor.
“#ReleaseTheMemo was way more
important than the actual memo,” she
claimed while suggesting she didn’t understand
why it was a big deal. “When I was reading
that memo I thought, ‘Okay, what was the
big news here? What exactly am I reading?’”
“The President saw this memo as kind of
murkying the waters, and his tweets saying
that this vindicates him when anybody who
reads that memo realizes that that's not
what's happening tells me that this memo
 was all about just getting the base to start
talking about it,” Alcindor continued.
Then can Republican radio host Hugh Hewitt who dared to
give the memo some credibility.
“The memo proves -- I reviewed hundreds and
hundreds of FISA applications for two attorneys
general. I did that job for two years. The
omission of a material fact is a big deal and
that--” he began before Todd jumped down his
throat.
“You don't know there's an omission of that
material fact though, Hugh! We actually
don't know that it’s true,”
Todd asserted forcefully and in an elevated voice.
“I believe it is fairly -- I will rely on the fact they
did not say DNC/HRC, they said political,”
Hewitt tried to continue before Todd jumped on
him again to correct “political” to “political
opponent.”
TODD: I want to get your reaction to something your successor
said about his decision-making process as head of the CIA. Here
it is.
MIKE POMPEO: Government's worse than the private sector
because the incentive systems are misaligned. And so, I led by
example. 40 percent of the decisions that were previously made
by the director of the CIA no longer are made by me. You might
say, wow, that's reckless. I would tell you it was reckless to do it
the other way.
BRENNAN: I think there are a number of senior members of this
administration who follow Donald Trump's way of trying to
denigrate and condemn everything that happened before them
as a way to make them appear that they are doing things better
than ever happened previously. And so I don't want to address
what my successor says. I don't agree with some of the things
that he has said, but I think it reflects a general insecurity that
only if you criticize your predecessors, whether it be President
Obama, or the former director of the CIA, are you able to make
points to try to Trump up your credentials.

Hewitt, citing his past experience with the process,

proceeded to explain the importance of the FISA court
having access to the full details of the origin of the
information being brought before them and how it could
make or break a warrant being granted, much to Todd’s
visual displeasure. Even Hewitt criticizing the GOP and
the White House for overplaying the memo didn’t seem to
cheer him up.

The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click
expand to read:
NBC
Meet the Press
February 4, 2018
10:59:33 AM Eastern
(…)
CHUCK TODD: Has he [Devin Nunes] brought up any legitimate
issue, in your mind, in that memo?
JOHN BRENNAN: If there are issues related to the process
involving FISA and if there are concerns about how forthcoming
the bureau is, and I think the bureau from what I've been able to
tell was very forthcoming. This was a renewal of FISA. But if he
had concerns about that, he could have hearings. He could bring
in the members of the FBI and others and to really seek what is
needed to be done differently, but he didn't do that. He just put
out publicly one side and a very selective cherry picked memo.
(…)
11:05:32 AM Eastern
TODD: Amy Walter, all right, do you feel like you know more or
less about the safety of Robert Mueller's job?
AMY WALTER: I feel as confused as I think most Americans do
right now. I think it feels a little bit like, you know, when you're in
the supermarket and there is music in the background, it's there,
it's a constant noise but you can't quite make out the song
exactly. But I just want to go back to something else and do a
30,000-foot view about where we are and how we got here. None
of this what we're talking about right now would have been
possible but for two things. One, the gradual disillusion of faith
and trust in institutions that's been happening over the last 10, 15
years.
(…)
Some of it is that people as part of the institutions, even
politicians, things are rigged, things are corrupt, right? People
start to believe that. And then so Donald Trump didn't invent this.

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This has been part of it. And then the tribalism that we only will TODD: You don't know there's an omission of that material fact
trust what comes out of the mouths and the opinions of people though, Hugh! We actually don't know that it’s true!
that we already identify with. So this is the culture that we live in.
Donald Trump didn't invent it. He certainly is helping to stoke it HEWITT: I believe it is fairly -- I will rely on the fact they did not
and not heal it. But this is -- we are here at this point and it didn't say DNC/HRC, they said political.
come -- it's not accidental how we got here.
TODD: Political opponent.
TODD: Yamiche, what has mattered more with this memo, what
was in it for the president or the buildup?
HEWITT: Political opponent. If I'm reviewing that and tell the
attorney general, “by the way, this came from the DNC and the
YAMICHE ALCINDOR: #ReleaseTheMemo was way more Hillary Clinton campaign” and that's not in the memo, we go back
important than the actual memo. When I was reading that memo to the FBI -- there was no division of national security at that time
I thought, “Okay, what was the big news here? What exactly am I -- and we send it back and put it in.
reading?” But then when I read the cover page, it was all about
public interest, it was all about this idea that they were trying to
If you were a corporate executive in America and you did a
explain to the public that they needed to know this, that this was
quarterly earnings report that showed income from a source and
in the best -- their best interests, when in reality it was in the best
you did not describe that source as sketchy, shady, or suddenly
interests of the President. The President saw this memo as kind
compromised, you would go to jail. And people ought to think
of murkying the waters, and his tweets saying that this vindicates
about a FISA warrant as a quarterly report and hold it to the
him, when anybody who reads that memo realizes that that's not
same standard.
what's happening tells me that this memo was all about just
getting the base to start talking about it.
All that said, you and I talked on the radio. They oversold it. They
should have put it out there without saying anything about it and
(…)
they have hurt themselves as a result. Rod Rosenstein is not
going to get fired, the special counsel is not going to get fired but
HUGH HEWITT: The memo proves -- I reviewed hundreds and this does hurt the FBI with the FISA courts.
hundreds of FISA applications for two attorneys general. I did
that job for two years. The omission of a material fact is a big
(…)
deal and that –

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 Is Congress Finally Pushing Back
Against Security Agencies' Over-Reach?
Charles Hugh Smith
Sunday, February 04, 2018, 2:51 PM
The last time the U.S. Congress pushed
back against the Imperial Presidency and
the over-reach of the nation's Security
Agencies was 43 years ago, in 1975.
The last time the U.S. Congress pushed
back against the Imperial Presidency
and the over-reach of the nation's
Security Agencies was 43 years ago, in
1975.
In response to the criminal over-reach of the Imperial
Presidency (Watergate) and to the criminal over-reach of
the security agencies (FBI, CIA, et al.), the Church
Committee finally resusitated the constitutional powers of
the Congress to serve the interests of the citizenry rather
than the interests of political elites and the rogue agencies
of the federal government.
The erosion of congressional power (or
more correctly, the surrender of power
by Congress) long pre-dates 9/11.
The rise of the Imperial Presidency and the Shadow State
of "national security" agencies dates back to World War II.
Those interested in tracing this long-term and troubling
decline of the constitutional powers of the elected
representatives may find value in these two books: The
Imperial Presidency(Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
and Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and
the Subversion of American Democracy
The constitution grants the greatest
powers to the elected representatives of
the citizenry.
The power to declare war, for example, has been eroded to
the point that the Imperial Executive can wage essentially
unlimited wars with little actual oversight by Congress.
There is a bitter irony in the Democrats'
rush to "defend" the indefensible over-
reach of the FBI and CIA to those whose
rights were abused by the FBI and the
CIA in the blatantly illegal COINTELPRO
programs aimed at destroying the anti-war/
anti-civil rights movements in the 1960s
and early 1970s.
(It has been estimated that up to 80% of the FBI's
resources were devoted to targeting a handful of draft
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resisters and civil rights groups in this era. While TV
programs presented a propaganda facade of incorruptible
crime fighters, in the real world FBI and CIA agents broke
into private offices, hired thugs to beat up anti-war leaders,
conducted illegal surveillance, and so on.)
The irony is that the agencies the Democrats are now
rushing to defend were targeting the "progressives" who
dared to resist the foreign policies and domestic oppression
of the federal government.
(So much for the bona-fides of the current
crop of self-proclaimed "progressives."
Those of us hauled in for interrogation by
the FBI for resisting state policies have a
different definition of "progressive;" note to
Democrats: rushing to defend the
politicized American Stasi is the opposite of
"progressive.")
We know from the Church Committee reports that the FBI
and CIA broke numerous federal laws and violated every
constitutional limit on their powers as a matter of daily
policy. The abuses of power were not the work of rogue
agents; they were the work of rogue agencies, from the top
down.
For more on COINTELPRO, please read War at Home:
Covert action against U.S. activists and what we can do
about it and/or Cointelpro: The FBI's Secret War on
Political Freedom.
And here we are again, with rogue
security agencies abusing their powers.
All that's changed is the political parties have switched
places; where the Republicans were defending the status
quo abuse of power then and the Democrats were pushing
for a transparent investigation of the agencies' abuses of
power, now it's the Democrats who are defending the
agencies' abuses of power while the Republicans are
pushing for a transparent investigation of the agencies'
abuses of power.
I don't care which party is pushing for the unmasking of
these undemocratic Shadow State agencies; I only care that
Congress awakens from its decades of surrendering power
to the out-of-control "security agencies" and the Imperial
Presidency, which characterizes both Democrat and
Republican presidents.
 The task of uncovering security
agencies' abuses of power is made
more difficult by the rise of political
polarization.

Unmasking abuses of power shouldn't be a partisan issue,

and the nation's best hope is the rise of independents who
view both parties with revulsion born of the status quo's
profound failures to defend the rights and livelihoods of
the bottom 95%.

I've written extensively about state over-

reach and illegal suppression of
dissent:

remember, the state exists to enforce the dominance of

Elites: everything else is propaganda, misdirection and
obfuscation. We're in a Boiling-Point Crisis of Exploitive
Elites (June 19, 2017)

Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 3: We

had to Destroy Democracy in Order to Save It (March
28, 2012)

State Over-Reach: Stripmining the Citizenry for Fun

and Profit (November 13, 2009)

When It Becomes Serious, First They Lie--When That

Fails, They Arrest You (March 16, 2015)
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 The NYT Blames Trump For FBI/DOJ
Wrongdoing Against Him
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
2-4-2018
The Times long ago destroyed its credibility - suppressing
hard truths on vital issues, substituting willful
disinformation.
The self-styled newspaper of record is part of a cabal
trying to oust Trump from office for the wrong reasons - a
coup d’etat plot to remove a sitting president for defeating
Hillary, a media darling, guilty of wrongdoing throughout
her public life.
The Times went all-out to denigrate the Russiagate FISA
memo, exposing high-level FBI and DOJ wrongdoing,
wanting its contents suppressed.
A previous article explained that the FBI and DOJ sought
multiple FISA warrants based on unverified information
from former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier
on Trump - his work funded by Hillary and the DNC to
denigrate him during the 2016 presidential campaign,
continuing once in office.
It attempted to smear him with specious, unproven
allegations of improper or illegal connections to Russia -
including phony accusations of Russian US election
meddling.
Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe admitted in
testimony that without the Steele dossier, he couldn’t have
gotten FISA court warrants.
America’s DOJ, FBI and intelligence community have a
well-documented history of abuse of power - notably
against Jack and Bobby Kennedy, along with Martin
Luther King, eliminated to silence them and end their
influence over US policymaking.
Russiagate investigations are a scam. House and Senate
investigations are vitally needed to expose abusive
practices by the above agencies.
The NYT lobbied against release of the FISA memo.
Following its release, it continued its campaign against
important information it revealed, publishing multiple
articles and commentaries.
A Sunday one headlined “Trump’s Unparalleled War on
a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement,” saying:
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“Under attack by the president, the deputy
FBI director, Andrew G. McCabe, was
pushed out in recent days. Mr. Trump has
hinted that he may fire the deputy attorney
general, Rod J. Rosenstein.”
“And his aides fear that Christopher A.
Wray, his FBI director, may resign over the
dispute with the bureau, although
associates doubt it.”
“The war between the president and the
nation’s law enforcement apparatus is
unlike anything America has seen in
modern times.”
Fact:
McCabe, Comey, and Rosenstein sought
FISA warrants to investigate Trump’s team
based on fabricated allegations.
Fact:
Trump sacked Comey earlier. McCabe
resigned to avoid sacking for wrongdoing.
Rosenstein should be sacked.
Fact:
All three and others involved at the FBI and
DOJ should be prosecuted for wrongdoing,
establishing a precedent to hold high-level
US officials accountable for their crimes.
A Times commentary headlined “The Memo Doesn’t
Vindicate Trump. It’s More Proof of Obstruction,”
saying:
Trump
“said…the memo’s release…’vindicates’
him in the probe,” including for “obstruction.
(I)t does no such thing.”
Fact:
Trump is guilty of serious wrongdoing,
major war crimes especially. No evidence
 suggests he obstructed justice. Claims
otherwise by the Times, other media
scoundrels and undemocratic Dems are
phony.
Another Times commentary headlined “The Nunes Memo
Is All Smoke, No Fire,” saying the memo
“does not establish an ‘abuse of the foreign
intelligence laws.”
Probable cause is required to get FISA warrants,
wrongdoing committed if the DOJ and FBI
“intentionally or willfully omit(ted) important
information that could defeat the probable
cause finding.”
“(T)he memo doesn’t make its case. It
should prompt more confusion than
outrage,” the Times falsely claimed.
Fact:
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s dodgy
dossier was funded by Hillary and the DNC
to denigrate Trump and help defeat him in
the 2016 election.
Fact:
As explained above, McCabe admitted that without
Steele’s dossier, he couldn’t have gotten FISA warrants -
several because they expire in 90 days.
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Fact:
Steele failed trying to get his dossier
published, getting no takers. Media he
approached turned him down because his
information was unverified.
Fact:
DOJ and FBI applications to the FISA
court failed to mention Steele’s dossier was
funded by Hillary and the DNC - even
though high-level officials in both agencies
knew it.
Fact:
Privately, Steele told later demoted FBI
agent Bruce Ohr he wanted Trump
prevented from becoming president.
The FBI, DOJ and intelligence community have well-
documented histories of abuse of power, including by
targeting political leaders.
Based on unverified information in Steele’s dodgy dossier,
no probable cause existed to justify issuance of FISA
warrants.
Times reports failed to explain this and other vital
information. It remains furious over Trump’s electoral
triumph, defeating its campaign to get war criminal,
racketeer, perjurer Hillary elected president - still smarting
from her defeat..
 TRUMP WAS RIGHT! FISA Warrant Allowed FBI To
Spy On Carter Page And ALL OF TRUMP CAMPAIGN
By Jim Hoft
February 4, 2018, 3:07 Pm

Obama officials later moved the unmasking documents to

the Obama library.

The Deep State was spying on the Trump campaign and

leaking documents to the liberal media for over a year
now.

On Friday The House Intelligence Committee released

their explosive FISA memo to the public.

The document proves that the FBI lied to the FISA Court
in order to spy on Trump Campaign volunteer Carter Page
during the 2016 election.

The crooked FBI then went back to the FISA Court several
times — and once after the election — to extend their
FISA Court warrant to spy on Carter Page.
Back in March 2017 President Trump
tweeted about Barack Obama’s illegal And now we know why they continued to lie
spying on the Trump campaign in 2016. to the FISA Court…

Because the warrant ALSO allowed the

POTUS Trump tweeted this in March. Obama FBI and DOJ to spy on Carter Page
— but ANYONE in his circle.

So they kept lying to the court so that they

could continue spying on Donald Trump, his
campaign members and his family.

This is 1000 times bigger than Watergate.

John Fund reported on this Sunday morning on FOX

News:
Today we know that the FBI was investigating the Trump
Tower servers during the election.

We also know Susan Rice lied at first but then admitted

when she got caught that she was unmasking her political
opponents’ phone calls. Rice blamed racism after she got
caught.

Ex-officials said what Susan Rice’s unmasking requests

were not routine and “never done.” And… she was not
alone in her unmasking requests.
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 Michelle Malkin Roasts 'Stonewall Media'
Over Transparency Double Standard
By Tom Blumer
February 4, 2018 3:25 PM EST
On Saturday's Fox & Friends, syndicated columnist and
investigative reporter Michelle Malkin sharply criticized
the establishment press's sharp U-turn on law-enforcement
transparency from George W. Bush's presidency. She in
effect observed that one of the key reasons for the current
"stonewall media" environment is self-protection.
In the video segment which follows, Malkin recalls how
the press selective loved transparency during the Bush 43
years, and then observed that there has now been a
complete about-face:
Transcript (bolds are mine):
ED HENRY, FOX NEWS: A lot of people on the
mainstream media (are) just almost like
laughing this story off, saying, "It was a dud."
MICHELLE MALKIN: Yeah, I’m old enough to
remember during the Bush years, when there
wasn’t a leak that the newspapers wouldn’t
run to and embrace. And then also, of course,
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those leaks always somehow happened to
redound to the detriment of the Bush
administration.
And, you know, here we have all of the open
watchdog groups and all of these journalists
who are supposed to, you know, shed sunlight,
and sunlight is supposed to be the best
disinfectant.
HENRY: Safeguards of democracy. Watchdogs.
MALKIN: And in fact, instead what we have
is a stonewall media to match the stoned-
faced Democrats this past week.
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY: Yeah, and would
never see — you guys are journalists. Have
you ever seen a time where journalists are
saying, "We want less information, we want
less transparency, trust the government on
this"?
MALKIN: Right. Well, and obviously the
contents of the memo show exactly why.
Because it is confirmatory, not revelatory, that
you had these liberal media journalists who
were in cahoots. All the collusion
accusations that we heard over the past
year were just really severe psychological
projection.
In essence, journalists are stonewalling because if the Deep
State's collusion is exposed, their collusion's exposure will
accompany it.
The press's current collusive posture goes back almost
three years, when 65 mainstream media journalists were
invited to attend secret pre-announcement planning
meetings with Hillary Clinton campaign officials.
One of the meetings had specific, documented goals of
"setting expectations for the announcement
and launch period" and "framing the HRC
message and framing the race."
In other words, the campaign wanted the press to operate
under those expectations and that framing, i.e., the
campaign was actively seeking collusion.
Establishment press reporters' conduct during the 2016
presidential campaign confirms that the Clinton campaign
received the collusion it sought.
The scandals associated with Mrs. Clinton and her
campaign, followed by dozens of post-election revelations
of unauthorized behavior by Obama administration or
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Barack Obama-appointed officials and their apparatchiks
in the White House and federal law enforcement, have
given journalists ample opportunity to regain their bearings
and stop colluding. With only very rare exceptions, it
hasn't happened.
Malkin's "stonewall media" tag perfectly describes
establishment press journalists' stubborn, collusive posture.
It has long since gone past the point of no return. It
threatens to, and really should, wipe out all remnants of the
colluders' credibility.
 Trump Soars To 49% Approval Rating,
Best Number Since Last June
By Ivan Pentchoukov
February 3, 2018 12:19 Pm Last Updated: February 4, 2018 4:21 Pm

Trump’s maiden State of the Union speech was widely

received as a success, with 75 percent of the viewers
approving of the content.

President Donald Trump arrives at Greenbrier Valley Airport in

Lewisburg for the 2018 Annual House and Senate Republican
Conference, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., on Feb. 1, 2018.
(Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

On the heels of a well-received State of the Union address,

President Donald Trump’s approval rating popped to 49
percent on Friday, Feb. 2, according to a survey of likely
voters by Rasmussen.
Trump has not received a higher approval rating since mid-
June last year. In predicting Trump’s 2016 victory, According to Daily Mail, Rasmussen’s polls are different
Rasmussen came in second in a list of 11 polls monitored from most others because respondents are prompted to
by Real Clear Politics. The IBD/TIPP Tracking poll was push a button to register their responses. As a result,
the only major poll to accurately predict Trump’s victory. people who don’t feel comfortable saying that they support
Trump responded to the poll results in an early morning Trump out loud are likely to feel safe doing so via a push-
tweet on Saturday while taking a swipe at the media which button response.
ignored new rating.
“Rasmussen just announced that my
approval rating jumped to 49%, a far better
number than I had in winning the Election,
and higher than certain ‘sacred cows.’
Other Trump polls are way up also,” the
president wrote. “So why does the media
refuse to write this? Oh well, someday!”
Trump also shared a tweet by his son Eric Trump, which
shows that the approval rating for the president’s
legislative agenda is up to 55 percent. That’s 13 percent
higher than the results of the same Fox News poll in
December.
The Rasmussen poll results may notch up again on
Monday since the organization takes a three-day average Trump is within 1 percent of President Barack Obama’s
of the results to compile the rating. Only two days of first-year approval rating compared to the same time
polling took place after the State of the Union speech. during Obama’s first term. Obama had a 50 percent
approval rating on Feb. 2, 2010. Obama rating then took a
slide, dropping to 44 percent on Feb. 6.
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Compared to Trump, Obama enjoyed overwhelmingly
positive media coverage. Trump, meanwhile, earned his
approval rating despite mainstream media waging war on
him with an onslaught of negative reports.
The Pew Research Center found that only
5 percent of reports in major media outlets
.
were positive toward the president. A
separate study by the Media Research
Center found that ABC, CBS, and NBC
covered Trump negatively 90 percent of the
time.

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 Nothing To See Here: Trump Says
No Russia Collusion, Talks Economy Instead
© AP Photo/ J. Scott Applewhite - US
05:15 04.02.2018

On Saturday, the US president called an investigation

US President Donald Trump said it would be better to pay
more attention to increasing wages and number of jobs in
the United States instead of the alleged "collusion with
Russia," which had not been proved.
into his campaign's alleged ties with Russia "an American
disgrace."
The US Congress is currently investigating Russia's
alleged meddling in the 2016 US election and collusion
between Trump's campaign team and the Kremlin.

"Great jobs numbers and finally, after many years, rising Another investigation into the purported interference is
wages —and nobody even talks about them. Only Russia, being conducted by the FBI and the Department of Justice
Russia, Russia, despite the fact that, after a year under Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
of looking, there is No Collusion!" Trump wrote
on Twitter.
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 The FISA Memo Is Just The
Beginning Of Fighting The Swamp
Authored By Tom Luongo
February 4, 2018
The FISA memo was released by the White House Friday.
Completely unredacted. The fight to keep this memo out
of the public eye has been intense.
And since it’s existence was made known it
has clarified our domestic politics in a way
that few objects ever have.
With Russia-gate failing, Special Counsel Robert
Mueller’s investigation stalling, this memo will make it
clear that the only thing that matters in Washington D.C. is
winning.
Political victories, not serving the people
who elected you, are more important than
any other consideration.
From Rep. Adam Schiff’s increasingly desperate attempts
to stonewall the truth to the FBI’s predictable appeals to
secrecy from law enforcement to cover corruption, this
memo is lifting the scales from the eyes of voters all over
the country.
It’s telling them the cockroaches have run
out of corners to hide in.
Time to put on our pointy shoes and start
kickin’.
The reaction to this memo puts paid the classic libertarian
critique that an organization’s highest priority is self-
preservation. Doing what you formed the organization to
do comes a distant second.
Government creates organizations that are not directly
accountable to the people who fund them and therefore can
dig moats around themselves to ensure their survival no
matter what.
This is the essence of corruption. It is the
essence of why the Swamp needs to be
drained.
The FBI is a corrupt and venal organization of power-
hungry, self-righteous arbiters of arbitrary justice. Even
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the good agents are tainted by the organizational rot. The
same is true in every government department.
No one sees corruption like a government
employee with half a conscience.
The pressure to not release this memo comes from
formerly very powerful people – Obama and his staff, the
Clintons, the DNC, etc. The fallout will be an overhaul
from the ground up of multiple powerful agencies within
the Federal Government.
This is what Donald Trump was elected to do.
It will destroy the credibility of the Democratic Party. It
will further weaken the credibility of their enablers at the
top of the Republican Party. Make no mistake, no one
important in Washington wants this memo released.
They know it will destroy careers and
upset the normal way of doing things.
Good.
The normal way of doing things is awful. It leads to
abuse, waste, fraud and enables the worst kind of criminal
behavior. But, it also allows a system of corruption to
throw dirt on everyone; making all involved, including the
good people, choose between staying and fighting within
that system or walking away knowing someone worse will
come behind them.
That is the means by which these organizations preserve
their survival.
And this memo is a direct threat to that. We may watch
shows like House of Cards or even Game of Thrones and
see the corruption play out in front of us.
But by dramatizing it we lose our fear of it.
Now we’ll get to see first-hand just how bad the corruption
is and for those that still believe Trump is the anti-Christ or
at least a repulsive boor, they will have to admit that the
campaign against him was wrong.
 That winning at all costs is not winning. It’s That mobilizing the resources of multiple intelligence
just another day at the Swamp. agencies to stop his election, or overturn it, is anathema to
what our government exists for in the first place.

The memo shows that this is true. It’s time

to end the childish tantrums, ask for some
hip waders and get busy cleaning things up.

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 NYT's New Duplicitious Attack On
Trump's 'Unparalled War On Law Enforcement'
By Clay Waters
February 4, 2018 5:55 Pm Est
The media meltdown continues, in the wake of the release
of the House Intelligence Committee memo detailing
alleged misconduct by the FBI and the DOJ. In “Trump’s
Unparalleled War,” a "news analysis" on the front of
Sunday’s New York Times, reporters Sharon LaFraniere,
Katie Benner, and Peter Baker fancy they’ve uncovered a
conspiracist in the White House who has launched “an
unparalleled war on law enforcement," while condoning
the acts of their new favorite domestic surveillance
organization, the FBI.
In the days before the 2016 election, Donald J. Trump
expressed “great respect” for the “courage” of the F.B.I.
and Justice Department for reopening the investigation into
Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Sixteen months
later, he has changed his mind.
....
The war between the president and the
nation’s law enforcement apparatus is
unlike anything America has seen in modern
times. With a special counsel investigating
whether his campaign collaborated with Russia
in 2016 and whether Mr. Trump obstructed
justice in 2017, the president has engaged in
a scorched-earth assault on the pillars of the
criminal justice system in a way that no
other occupant of the White House has
done.
The president’s focus on a memo drafted by
Republicans on the House Intelligence
Committee and released on Friday reflected
years of conspiracy-minded thinking by Mr.
Trump....
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....
In his telling, that bureaucracy, now run by his
own appointees, is a nest of political saboteurs
out to undermine him -- an accusation that
raised fears that he was tearing at the
credibility of some of the most important
institutions in American life to save himself.
It’s quite odd and hypocritical for the liberal New York
Times, which giddily leaks sensitive information to wreck
terror-fighting programs, and published the name of a
covert CIA official, to suddenly hallow the nation’s
domestic surveillance organization as a vital and sacred
institution.
The attacks are having an impact....In interviews, more
than a dozen officials who work at or recently left the
Justice Department and the F.B.I. said they feared that the
president was mortgaging the credibility of those agencies
for his own short-term political gain as he seeks to
undercut the Russia inquiry led by the special counsel,
Robert S. Mueller III.
The reporters gave short shrift to Trump’s defenders.
Mr. Trump’s critics, his advisers argue, are turning a blind
eye to government misconduct out of their own partisan
animus toward the president. Neither the F.B.I. nor the
Justice Department should be above questioning, they say,
and Mr. Trump’s willingness to do so should not be taken
as a slight against the vast majority of people who work
there.
No more balanced was Mark Mazzetti’s Saturday front-
page “news analysis” on the memo, “A Battle by Proxy in
a Wider War.” Text box:
“A push to discredit the law enforcement
community.” The online headline: “How Trump’s
Allies Fanned an Ember of Controversy Into
Flames of Outrage.” His take was summed up
in the dismissive line: “It didn’t live up to the
hype.”
 FISA Warrants And Team Trump Spying:
What Did OBAMA Know And When Did He Know It?
By JD Heyes
Sunday, February 04, 2018
More information continues to be revealed and released
following Friday’s publication of the scandal-filled FISA
memo.
It has now become clear that there is very likely a direct
link from the FISA warrant approval process to the former
president of the United States, Barack Obama.
Here’s an analysis not only of how the FISA warrant
process works and who is involved, but how the
information regarding current counterintelligence
investigations, FISA warrant applications, and approval
processes are relayed daily to the sitting president.
Let’s begin here. As ABC News reports:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court, commonly referred to as the “FISA
Court,” is a secret tribunal with legal
authority to grant (or deny) warrants for
electronic surveillance against would-be
spies or terrorists.
The court — made up of 11 federal judges,
serving 7-year terms and selected by the
chief justice of the Supreme Court —
meets in private, sometimes in the middle
of the night. FISA targets are highly
classified.
More than a thousand applications for
electronic surveillance, all signed by the
attorney general, are submitted each
year, and the vast majority are approved.
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The Obama administration issued a blanket denial after
President Donald J. Trump claimed he was “wiretapped”
by his predecessor March 2017:
“A cardinal rule of the Obama
administration was that no White House
official ever interfered with any independent
investigation led by the Department of
Justice. As part of that practice, neither
President Obama nor any White House
official ever ordered surveillance on any
U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is
simply false.”
But changes made to the original Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 — via the FISA Amendments
Act of 2008 (and renewed in December 2012) give
presidents and the intelligence community much more
latitude when it comes to surveillance of “foreign”
persons.
As explained by Yale Law professor Jack Balkin in 2009:
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008,
effectively gives the President – now
President Obama – the authority to run
surveillance programs similar in effect
to the warrantless surveillance program
[secretly implemented by George Bush in
late 2001]. That is because New FISA no
longer requires individualized targets in all
surveillance programs. Some programs
may be ‘vacuum cleaner’ programs that
listen to a great many different calls (and
read a great many e-mails) without any
requirement of a warrant directed at a
particular person as long as no US person
is directly targeted as the object of the
program.
As the Brookings Institute noted in a policy
paper arguing for the Trump administration
to renew legislation reauthorizing Section
702 of the FISA Act, which clarifies warrant
requirements of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, information gathered via
FISA warrants “sometimes known as
 PRISM, comprises a large part of the
President’s Daily Brief.“
If you can believe that Obama’s attorney general — the
one who spoke with the former president-husband of a
suspect currently under investigation for Espionage Act
violations (Hillary Clinton) — would not have informed
the head of the Executive Branch that his intelligence
community was spying on a rival presidential campaign,
well, okay.
But then, that information very probably
was included in the President’s Daily
Intelligence Brief.
We now know, thanks to the release of the FISA memo on
Friday, that James Comey was involved in approving the
FISA warrants used to spy on Trump campaign foreign
policy advisor Carter Page over his alleged “ties” to Russia
(foreign intelligence targets).
Putting all of this circumstantial and direct evidence
together begs the question: How likely is it that Obama —
who received many of his daily briefings electronically —
didn’t know that Trump’s campaign was under
surveillance?
.

There’s more; Brookings’ policy paper arguing on behalf

of maintaining Sect. 702 also noted this important
distinction:

We often think about 702 as an NSA

authority, but it is also to a significant
degree an FBI authority. Thus, the
person and the integrity of the FBI
director is critically important to the
integrity of the program.
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Something So Huge Is Coming It Will Bring Deep State To
Their Knees And They Are 'Terrified' As Their Conspiracy
To Overthrow President Trump Is Exposed
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 5, 2018

approve the Uranium One deal. That report also uncovered

significant amounts of money was given to the Clinton
Foundation by Russian entities.

On February 5, 2018, President Trump offered another

tidbit of information, which taken in conjunction with
newly revealed information by investigative journalist Sara
Carter, explains why she says high level Obama
administration intelligence members are "terrified."

When President Trump tweets liberals melt down, they

scream "bully" when he goes after someone or names
wrongdoing by someone, they mock him relentlessly when
he makes a claim that the media either knows nothing
about or has actively tried to hide the information from the
public, such as when President Trump informed the
country his communications were "wire-tapped" by the
Obama administration, which the world finally found out
was one hundred percent true, after they criticized him for
months over his claim.

The reason we watch the president's Twitter feed is that we

have noted, time and time again, to note the names he
names, the claims he makes and understand that he is
informing the public of what is coming at a later date.
One such example was President Trump's March 2017
tweets about Uranium One which stated "Why isn't the
House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill &
Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia,
Russian speech....", then he continued on to say "...money
to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by
Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story
is a hoax. #MAGA!"
President Trump was informing people what was coming
at a later date and sure enough, in October 2017, The Hill's
John Solomon busted open a story regarding Uranium
One, showing that the Obama administration while Hillary
Clinton was Secretary of State knew of an ongoing bribery
investigation implicating Russian nuclear officials, which
they kept from the public and from Congress, as they
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It is noteworthy that for months, from the information
about Obama administration officials "unmasking"
Americans, specifically Trump campaign team members,
for political purposes, all the way until the most recent
FISA abuse memo, Carter has been in front of it all, with
her sources offering her enough to be able to inform the
public, without revealing classified information, of what
was coming and to date, her predictions by citing her high
level sources, have been spot on.
Trump tweeted on February 5, 2018:
"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for
higher office, is one of the biggest liars and
leakers in Washington, right up there with
Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam
leaves closed committee hearings to illegally
leak confidential information. Must be stopped!"
As you can hear by Carter above, the OIG report has
former Obama officials terrified, but she also highlights,
just as the president did, that there will be details about
leaks, in some cases including classified information
leaked to the press, contained with the OIG report, which
also matches the OIG's mandate in the press release
announcing his investigation which began in January 2017.
Via that press release:
"Department of Justice Inspector General
Michael E. Horowitz announced today that, in
response to requests from numerous Chairmen
and Ranking Members of Congressional
oversight committees, various organizations,
and members of the public, the Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) will initiate a review of
allegations regarding certain actions by the
Department of Justice (Department) and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in
advance of the 2016 election. Cognizant of the
scope of the OIG’s jurisdiction under Section 8E
of the Inspector General Act, the review will
examine the following issues: "
 Allegations that Department or FBI policies or
procedures were not followed in connection with, or in
actions leading up to or related to, the FBI Director’s
public announcement on July 5, 2016, and the
The president specifically highlighted leaks in his tweet,
but he also named two very high level former Obama
officials, namely, former Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January
2017, John Brennan, and former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, who resigned in November
2016.
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Director’s letters to Congress on October 28 and
November 6, 2016, and that certain underlying
investigative decisions were based on improper
considerations;
 Allegations that the FBI Deputy Director should have
been recused from participating in certain investigative
matters;
 Allegations that the Department’s Assistant Attorney
General for Legislative Affairs improperly disclosed
non-public information to the Clinton campaign and/or
should have been recused from participating in certain
matters;
 Allegations that Department and FBI employees
improperly disclosed non-public information; and
 Allegations that decisions regarding the timing of the
FBI’s release of certain Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) documents on October 30 and November 1,
2016, and the use of a Twitter account to publicize
same, were influenced by improper considerations.
"Finally, if circumstances warrant, the OIG will
consider including other issues that may arise
during the course of the review."
A look back through older news, we see that Brennan was
accused of leaking information back in December 2016,
after Donald Trump had won the presidential election, in
the very midst of the ongoing communications between
high level FBI employees discussing an "insurance policy"
against Donald Trump should he become the president,
which was later revealed to be the whole "Russia
collusion" narrative we have heard ad nuaseam for the last
year.
Interestingly, the information Brennan was accused of
leaking to the press, was in relation to "Russian hacking"
of the DNC servers, in what Representaive Peter King
called "a hit job" against the then president-elect Donald
Trump.
At the time King told ABC's This Week show
"“That's what infuriates me about this, Martha,
is that we have John Brennan, supposedly John
Brennan, leaking to The Washington Post, to a
biased newspaper like The New York Times,
findings and conclusion that is he's not telling
the intelligence committee."
Related: Trump Claims CIA Director Brennan Leaked
Unsubstantiated Report
Flashback from Circa News, May 22, 2017:
Former CIA director John Brennan confirmed
he unmasked the identities of Americans in his
testimony to the House Intelligence Committee.
Upon questioning from Rep. Trey Gowdy, (R-
SC) Brennan acknowledged he requested for
U.S. citizen's name to be unmasked and said
that he did not unmask anyone on his last day
at work, January 20.
When asked if ambassadors requested names
to be unmasked Brennan said that it may have
"rang a vague bell," but that he "could not
answer with any confidence."
Brennan said the CIA respected American
citizens right to privacy.
"[There is] a right of all Americans to privacy,
and that sometimes information is collected
about U.S. persons who may or may not be
involved in any matter of criminal activity. And
therefore, respecting that privacy of U.S.
citizens, the intelligence community goes to
great lengths to cover the identity of U.S.
persons if they may be uncovered, but happen
to be included in U.S. intelligence collection,"
Brennan said.
There is growing evidence the agency he
oversaw has become one of the largest
consumers of unmasked intelligence about
Americans even though its charter prohibits
it from spying on U.S. citizens.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is also seeking
communications regarding Brennan, along with 39 others,
from a variety of entities, including The Democratic
National Committee (DNC), Hillary for America (HFA),
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Former DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, HFA Chair John
Podesta, and HFA Chief Strategist Joel Benenson.
As to James Clapper, who President Trump also mentions
in his tweet, back in May 2017, both he and former deputy
AG Sally Yates were questioned by Senator Chuck
Grassley about "unmasking Trump communications," and
sharing it will others.
In January 2017, before President Trump was inaugurated,
he accused the Intelligence Community of leaking the
Kremlin sourced, Steele dossier that was funded in part by
the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and it was
Clapper quoted by multiple sources in denying that claim.
This was the same Steele dossier that the recent FISA
abuse memo highlighted as being unverified, yet used by
the intelligence community to obtain a FISA warrant to
surveil Trump campaign members.
Perhaps the most damning thing against Clapper was his
assertion before it was verified that the Trump campaign
did in fact have their communications surveilled, and that
the Steele dossier was used to obtain a FISA warrant, was
Clapper's outright denial of knowledge about any FISA
warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
Via The Hill in March 2017, before the public learned that
Trump and his campaign was surveilled and about the
FISA warrant against Carter Page, that allowed Obama
intelligence officials to collect "incidental"
communications of other Americans that communicated
with Carter Page, specifically, other Trump campaign
members, that were then "unmasked."
Former Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper on Sunday denied President Trump's
allegations that former President Barack
Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the
election.
During an interview on NBC's "Meet The
Press," Clapper was asked if he would be
aware if something like that had happened.
 "I would certainly hope so. ... Obviously I can't
speak officially anymore," Clapper said on
NBC's "Meet The Press."
"But I will say that for the part of the national
security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there
was no such wiretap activity mounted against
the president-elect at the time, as a candidate,
or against his campaign."
Clapper also said he would know if a court
order through the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) existed for "something
like this." "And at this point you can't confirm or
deny whether that exists?" host Chuck Todd
asked.
"I can deny it," Clapper said in response.
"There is no FISA court order?" Todd asked.
"Not to my knowledge," Clapper responded.
With the information now available, we now know James
Clapper was lying back in that March 2017 interview. Not
only was the Trump campaign survielled, but the FISA
warrant was granted, and extended multiple times using
the same Steele dossier that Clapper denied leaking
knowledge of to the press.
MORE MEMOS EXPECTED AS EVERYONE
WAITS FOR OIG REPORT
The DOJ's Office of Inspector General has already
released 1.2 million documents to the House Intelligence
Committee, where the most recent FISA abuse memo was
released from, and reports indicate that memo, which
Democrats, the DOJ and FBI, attempted to prevent the
public from seeing, is just the beginning, as there are
approximately five more memos, dealing with different
agencies, expected to come out of that committee.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes, R-Calif., suggested that more memos,
in addition to the one released Friday that
outlines alleged surveillance violations by the
U.S. government, may soon be released, with
the next one targeting the State Department.
“Yes, this completes just the FISA abuse
portion of our investigation,” Nunes told Fox
News host Bret Baier on Friday, referencing
abuses related to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
“We are in the middle of what I call ‘phase two’
of our investigation, which involved other
departments,” Nunes said. “Specifically the
State Department and some of the involvement
they had in this.”
The first memo detailed FISA abuses, it is believed the
subsequent House Intelligence memos will be revealing
illegal actions taken from high level members from
individual agencies, building the bigger picture of a group
of "deep state" intelligence community members plotting
to arrange the overthrow of a sitting president.
THE "CONSPIRACY" TO OVERTHROW
PRESIDENT TRUMP WENT STRAIGHT TO THE
TOP
What is critical to remember as all this information is
being thrown at us, with new revelations coming each
week, while Democrats, liberals and the MSM continue to
try to downplay it all, is that
1) Trump offered warnings and hints, sometimes months in
advance of what was going to be revealed, and;
2) More importantly, the leaks to the press have been
coming from a variety of high level sources. (Former FBI
director James Comey admitted to "leaking" his memos to
a friend with the sole purpose of having him leak it to the
press in order to prompt a special counsel into the Russia
collusion probe, and FBI Agent Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page recently exposed as leakers to another journalist)
because;
 3) These leaks were made possible because Barack
Obama, right before leaving office in January 2017,
issued new rules under Executive Order 12333 that
allowed
"the NSA—which collects information under that
authority with little oversight, transparency, or
concern for privacy—share the raw streams of
communications it intercepts directly with
agencies including the FBI, the DEA, and the
Department of Homeland Security."
Many believe, and the recent revelations seem to offer the
theory some credence, that high level members of multiple
intelligence agencies manufactured a hoax regarding
"Russia collusion with the Trump campaign," then
proceeded to use unverified documents to obtain FISA
warrants on Trump campaign member(s), then "unmask"
other names that communicated with the person listed in
the warrant, then Barack Obama, who was the president at
that time, initiated new rules to allow those same agencies
to share raw data (meaning American names were not
masked) with each other, so that it would take hundreds of
investigative hours to unravel exactly who leaked what and
when and to who.
Director of the CIA, and the DNI, be exposed publicly, as
not only leakers, but as liars whose lies were captured and
preserved on video, all engaged in a huge conspiracy to
overthrow the President of the United States, Donald J.
Trump.
This is all so incredibly huge it will bring the deep state to
its knees. No wonder Democrats, the MSM who helped
them all, and former Obama administration members are
all "terrified."
Stepping back and looking at the past lies, the recent news,
the FISA abuse memo, the OIG investigation, it is a lot
easier to see why Congress members have been comparing
the actions of Obama intelligence members to the KGB,
calling this huge conspiracy to take down a sitting
president "explosive," and "jaw-dropping," and what Judge
Jeanine Pirro calls the actions seen in "third world
countries."

Related: Clinton associates fed information to Trump

dossier author Steele, memo says

BOTTOM LINE

Between the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House

Intelligence Committee, millions of documents, and a
year-long OIG oversight investigation, we are finally
starting to see some top members of the FBI, along with
other top members of the DOJ, along with the former
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 CNN’s Stelter Asserts Memo
Just A Fox News Created ‘Alternate Reality’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 4, 2018 6:55 PM EST

“Hannity gave a megaphone to the GOP

congressman who said they had a smoking
gun memo, proving a deep state conspiracy
against Trump,” Stelter whined. “Hannity
hyped it night after night after night in
January, like a human countdown clock.”

“Now the current in vogue talking point is

CNN media reporter Brian Stelter was up in arms during
Sunday’s Reliable Sources as he ranted about how the
release of Nunes memo was a win for Fox News, more
specifically Sean Hannity, and all the people in
conservative media trying to create what he called an
“alternative reality.”
there is an important investigation going on,
but it's not the investigation into Russian
interference and election, it's the
investigation into the FBI. That's that
alternative reality,”
Stelter continued to ramble. But he was on his own
campaign of confusion by failing to mention that the FBI
was actually under investigation for misconduct by their
Inspector General’s office.

Stelter began the show with a twist on his usual lead-in

loaded with hollow catchphrases:

"This is Reliable Sources, our weekly look at the

story behind the story, of how the media really
works, how the news gets made. And this week,
how misinformation gets made. The right
unleashed its version of Fire and Fury this
week."

It was rather odd that he would try to discredit the

bombshell memo with Michael Wolff’s book since his
network welcomed it with great fanfare and glorification
for days on end.
“Let's be honest. This week, Sean Hannity
won. And the rest of America lost,” Stelter
ridiculously declared as he suggested that
Hannity was in charge of all of conservative
media. “They've distracted people about the
truth involving Trump's Russia ties and
they've done everything possible to destroy
faith in Robert Mueller's probe.”
The CNN mouthpiece congratulated Hannity for his hard
work in deceiving the American people.
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And it wasn’t just Stelter trying to discredit the Nunes
memo as a right-wing fabrication. Baltimore Sun media
critic David Zurawik lamented to his host about how he
was
“shocked at the traction this Hannity
narrative has gotten. And here's what's
shocking to me this week,”
and tried to write off other serious concerns:
When you see Ron Johnson, the [Republican]
senator from Wisconsin, out there talking about,
“We have an informant, there's a secret meeting
being held off-site.”
 That's a loop. It goes from Hannity to someone
like Johnson and the President and that is
gaining real traction in this country.
So according to Zurawik, Senator Johnson invented a non-
existent informant on Fox News Chanel’s Special Report
because Hannity had talked about the memo on his own
show. Now, who’s creating an alternate reality?
The panel’s ire, led by CNN Business reporter Hadas
Gold, then turned to Trump’s voters as they chastised them
for wanting to create a constitutional crisis while stripping
people of their rights:
GOLD: They voted to get these people out of
office. So to some people, this might seem
horrible–
STELTER: You mean the concerns about a
constitutional crisis, the concerns about our
institutions eroding, it's actually a good thing to
his voters?
GOLD: To some voters, they wanted him to
literally drain the swamp.
Later on in the show, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy
slammed Stelter and CNN for acting like a Trump
indictment was imminent for over a year without
“one piece of evidence of collusion or a crime
involving the President or his associates
involving their campaign.”
“I think you're painting with a really broad
brush when you say all of CNN has been
doing something,” Stelter said, effectively
generating his own alternate reality.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click
expand to read:
CNN
Reliable Sources
February 4, 2018
11:00:08 AM Eastern
BRIAN STELTER: This is Reliable Sources, our weekly look at
the story behind the story, of how the media really works, how
the news gets made. And this week, how misinformation gets
made. The right unleashed its version of Fire and Fury this week.
The GOP memo.
(…)
Let's be honest. This week, Sean Hannity won. And the rest of
America lost. The pro-Trump media led by Hannity has circled
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the wagons around President Trump. They've distracted people
about the truth involving Trump's Russia ties and they've done
everything possible to destroy faith in Robert Mueller's probe.
And look, Hannity won, it worked. You've got to give him credit
where it's due. Hannity gave a megaphone to the GOP
congressman who said they had a smoking gun memo, proving a
deep state conspiracy against Trump. Hannity hyped it night after
night after night in January, like a human countdown clock.
(…)
And on Friday, we all saw the coverage. It was never going to
live up to the hype when you've got Hannity talking about this
being Watergate times a thousand. But the noise around the
memo doesn't make much sense anyway. Devin Nunes alleges
surveillance abuses have been though he recently voted to grant
greater surveillance powers. And the timeline doesn't make much
sense, either. But come on, when you're trying to confuse
people, that doesn't matter. All the questions, all the headlines,
all the doubt, all the curiosity, all the concern that was the point.
To get I auto on the front page, to sow doubt and division, that
was the point. And look at cable news. The nation's deep divide
was visible in prime-time.
(…)
But, you know, the memo, this entire memo thing, I know it's
confusing, but it gives the Hannities of the world an alternative
reality to live in. It gives Trump a way to say he's vindicated, even
though he's not. It lets Trump allies say Mueller's probe is tainted
and needs to be shut down. It allows them to turn every claim
around on its head. Collusion? Yeah, there was collusion by the
Democrats. Obstruction? Yeah, the Dems obstructed. It's like
that old childhood schoolyard taunt. I'm rubber, you're glue.
Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.
Now the current in vogue talking point is there is an important
investigation going on, but it's not the investigation into Russian
interference and election, it's the investigation into the FBI. That's
that alternative reality.
(…)
David, what happened this week? Do you look at what happened
here and agree with me that Hannity won or am I giving him too
much credit?

DAVID ZURAWIK: You know Brian, I don't know about Hannity
won sounds strong. But I agree with the premise, totally. I am
shocked at the traction this Hannity narrative has gotten. And
here's what's shocking to me this week. When I saw -- when you
see Ron Johnson, the senator from Wisconsin, out there talking
about, “we have an informant, there's a secret meetings being
held off-site.” That's a loop. It goes from Hannity to someone like
Johnson and the President and that is gaining real traction in this
country.
(…)
HADAS GOLD: This whole memo, though, has reminded me of
sometimes when you go to museums and other countries and
they portray a war that we've learned about from the other side
and you just see these two alternate realities. And you have to
remember in all of this, that for the people who support Trump,
who voted for him, they voted him into office to drain the swamp.
.
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To get rid of what they like to call the “deep state.” So for them,
this memo is a great thing. Because if it leads to this house
cleansing of the FBI, that is what they voted for. They voted to
get these people out of office. So to some people this might
seem horrible–
STELTER: You mean the concerns about a constitutional crisis,
the concerns about our institutions eroding, it's actually a good
thing to his voters?
GOLD: To some voters, they wanted him to literally drain the
swamp. And if that means getting rid of these people who
politicians might praise as being long-serving members of the
intelligence community who have dedicated their lives to this, to
some Trump voters, that's the “deep state” and that's who we
need to be getting rid of.
(…)
CHRISTOPHER RUDDY: Brian, you at CNN and CNN and all
the other networks have been covering this for 18 months. Give
me one piece of evidence of collusion or a crime involving the
President or his associates involving their campaign.
STELTER: It hasn't been 18 months and I think you're painting
with a really broad brush when you say all of CNN has been
doing something.
(…)
 Fusion GPS Could Have Been Trying To Buy Access To
DOJ With Payments To Official’s Wife
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
8:31 PM 02/04/2018
Fusion GPS, a firm paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign,
was paying the wife of a senior Department of Justice
official as part of its efforts to gather opposition research
on Trump, and the official then brought that research to the
FBI — raising the question of to what extent the firm may
have been attempting to pay for heightened access to the
criminal justice system, and whether they would have
hired her absent her spousal connection.
A declassified memo said Bruce
“Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to
assist in the cultivation of opposition research
on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of
his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the
DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS.
The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion
GPS was inexplicably concealed from the” court
when it was used to obtain a surveillance
warrant.
Bruce Ohr was deputy associate attorney general until
December. House investigators determined that he met
personally with Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS’ founder.
The FBI has limited resources to deal with a firehouse of
information, so people seeking the FBI’s attention could
potentially benefit from greasing the wheels in order to get
info to the front of the queue and to a high level.
“The money sweetened the pot for the Ohrs,
and it certainly made it easier for Fusion to get
the dossier to be used before the court if they
made that payment to Bruce Ohr’s wife,” former
judge and Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert told
The Daily Caller News Foundation,
“Fusion had to have known that because of the
relationship between Bruce Ohr and his wife,
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they were bringing Fusion, the DOJ and the
DNC together under one roof to work for the
same goal, which was to stop Donald Trump
from becoming president,” he said.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie, is a Russia expert, but it is not known
what her specific contribution to the dossier was.
“The financial arrangement between Mrs. Ohr
and Fusion GPS gives the appearance of
government-for-hire,” said Tom Anderson, an
ethics expert at the conservative-leaning
watchdog group the National Legal and Policy
Center. It “appears to be a sophisticated
scheme to get access to the highest levels of
our government … ensuring the use of
government resources in an attempt to
influence an election.”
Parties seeking to hide ethically questionable payments
often write the checks to a family member. Since spouses
generally share assets, payments to one benefit the other,
and paying the spouse can make the payments less obvious
or harder to trace.
Nellie did not return a message left on a number listed as
her home phone number asking what contribution she
made to the dossier.
Getting information into the hands of law enforcement
through the family member of an official could have
potentially also limited the paper trail showing how it
wound up in FBI hands, and fingerprints tying it back to
Fusion GPS, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic
National Committee.
Gohmert, who is a member of the House Committee on the
Judiciary, said he believes that Ohr and other officials
already harbored anti-Trump inclinations, but the money
could have helped push him over the edge to take a leading
role.
“It was a way to reward people that thought like
them. They enriched themselves and their
friends.”
Voter registration data shows Nellie has been a registered
Democrat in the past.
 Ex-CIA Chief Lashes Out At Nunes:
"He Abused His Office"
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 02/04/2018 - 20:45

Former CIA Director John Brennan had harsh words for
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes on Sunday
morning, calling the controversial four-page "FISA memo"
created by Nunes' staffers "exceptionally partisan" and
that Nunes has "abused the office" by refusing to allow
Democrats on his committee to make their own rebuttal
document public.
Steele which the FBI used to secure a FISA warrant to
surveil one-time Trump advisor Carter Page - saying that
the dossier did "not play any role whatsoever in the
intelligence community assessment" presented to President
Obama and President-elect Trump.
The Steele-authored dossier created by opposition research
firm Fusion GPS (and which relies on senior Russian
officials) was funded in part by Hillary Clinton and the
DNC. While Nunes and the House Intel GOP claim in their
memo that the dossier was used to obtain the FISA warrant
on Carter Page, other Congressional Republicans have
suggested that the Steele document was used to justify the
FBI's larger counterintelligence operation against Trump
and his associates.

Watch the full interview here:

"That Devin Nunes and Republicans denied the

ability of the minority, the Democratic members
of that committee, to put out its report is just
appalling. I think it, it really underscores just
how partisan Mr. Nunes has been. He has
abused the office of the chairmanship of
HPSCI. And I don't say that lightly," said
Brennan on NBC's Meet the Press.

The ex-CIA chief, who last June called for a coup if

Trump fires Mueller, defended the controversial "Trump-
Russia" dossier assembled by former UK spy Christopher
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 The Nunes' Memo Is Released
And DOJ Corruption Exposed !!
By: Diane Rufino
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 8:46 pm
Today, [ February 2nd] President Trump declassified the
Nunes' Memo, exposing to the American people the
corruption in the Obama Justice Department, especially
relating to the 2016 election.
Credit: The photo is the property of the Daily Beast
Today, President Trump declassified the Nunes' Memo,
exposing to the American people the corruption in the
Obama Justice Department, especially relating to the 2016
election.
The Memorandum released today, drafted by US House
Intelligence Committee head Devin Nunes, outlines the
surveillance abuses of the FBI, and the Justice Department
in general. The memo specifically names FBI Director
James Comey, the Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and
the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Republicans, and even President Trump himself, have
spent months criticizing James Comey and Andrew
McCabe for their seeming bias and political motivations in
their investigations, and particularly, for their use of a
politically-manufactured dossier in order to obtain FISA
surveillance warrants to spy on candidate Trump and
members of his campaign, yet all the while refusing to put
the same effort into the crimes of Hillary Clinton or the
abuses of Loretta Lynch. The FBI and DOJ have been
obstructing the investigations by the House Intelligence
Committee and other oversight groups into these questions
while special counsel Bob Mueller has been conducting an
independent investigation into Team Trump's possible
.
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connections to the Kremlin. It was Rod Rosenstein who
put that probe in place.
The memo, which is a summary conclusion of the
alleged abuses of surveillance power by the FBI and DOJ,
is based on official testimony and a review of first-hand
documents. It concludes that the FISA warrant would not
have been issued but for the dossier and that those who
presented the dossier to the FISA court did so by "omitting
material and relevant information" (ie, the origin of the
dossier, who funded it, and that it was a political initiative)
In other words, FBI committed fraud on the court.
Trey Gowdy tweeted: "It is important for the American
public to know that the dossier was paid for by a political
candidate, was used by the government (working in
collusion with that candidate's campaign) in court
pleadings to a FISA judge and signed off by Attorney
General Loretta Lynch, was knowingly and intentionally
NOT vetted before it was used, was not vetted after it was
used, and that 'material and relevant facts' were not shared
(were omitted from) the tribunal approving the FISA
application." FBI officials, working on the "Insurance
Plan" to prevent Trump from being elected, did not
disclose all material and relevant facts because doing so
would have been sure to have the warrant denied.
Judge Andrew Napolitano, FOX News Senior Legal
Analyst and my Con Law professor back at Seton Hall
Law, said today on TV that the revelations prove collusion
between the government (and it's most secret and effective
spying tools) and the Democrat Party for the direct goal of
harming the other party. The Democrat Party co-oped the
government, allowed by the president himself, in order to
avail itself of the government's full resources in order to
effect the election outcome it desired.
The only real option We the People have available to us
to have a say in government is at the ballot box. At the
ballot box, we exercise our right to elect the
representatives we feel will best represent our concerns
and interests, and the Obama Justice Department tried to
take that away from us.
 WSJ: McCain, Coons to Introduce
Bipartisan Measure to Grant Dreamers Path to Citizenship
By Solange Reyner
Sunday, 04 Feb 2018 09:04 PM
Sen. John McCain. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Chris Coons, D-Del., will
introduce a bipartisan citizenship plan on Monday for
young immigrants known as Dreamers in order to reach a
budget deal before funding for the federal government runs
out this Friday, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The proposal, though, doesn’t include funding for a wall
along the U.S.-Mexico border like President Donald
Trump has asked for.
"It's time we end the gridlock so we can
quickly move on to completing a long-term
budget agreement that provides our men
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and women in uniform the support they
deserve," McCain said in a statement
Sunday.
"While reaching a deal cannot come soon
enough for America's service members, the
current political reality demands bipartisan
cooperation to address the impending
expiration of the DACA program and
secure the southern border," he said.
DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program, allowed people who illegally came to the United
States as children with their parents to stay if they met
certain criteria. Trump ended DACA in September with a
six-month delay and said Congress needed to come up
with a solution for the affected Dreamers.
The bill would give Dreamers who have lived in the U.S.
since Dec. 31, 2013, legal status and a path to citizenship.
The measure is similar to legislation in the House from
Reps. Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.
The proposal would also order a study to figure out what
border security measures are needed, provide a $110
million annual grant to Homeland Security for five years to
"improve coordination between border-patrol agents and
state and local law-enforcement officials," according to the
WSJ, and clear the buildup in the immigration-court
system.
 Korybko: The US Deep State And The Democrats
Are The Problem, Not The Solution
Authored By Andrew Korybko Via Oriental Review,
Sun, 02/04/2018 - 22:15
The latest policy recommendations by the
influential Director General of the Russian
International Affairs Council (RIAC), one of
the most well-respected and listened-to
experts in Russia – to say nothing of the
entire former Soviet space – is causing quite
a stir by waxing nostalgically about the
Obama years and even suggesting that
Moscow should embrace the American
“deep state”.
Mr. Kortunov’s Case For Russia’s “Deep
State”-Democrat Partnership
Mr. Andrey Kortunov is one of the most brilliant minds in
Russia and earned his place as the Director General of the
Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and his
words accordingly carry much weight for the fact that they
set the tone for countless other analysts in the country and
even an untold number of policymakers who look to him
for guidance.
That’s why it caused quite a stir when he published his
latest recommendation earlier this week at the famous
Valdai Club titled “Russian Approaches to the United
States: Algorithm Change Is Overdue”, in which he waxed
nostalgically about the Obama years and even suggested
that Moscow should embrace the American “deep state”.
Director of the Russian International Affairs Council Andrey Kortunov
So as not to put words in his mouth, the relevant passages
are republished in their entirety below:
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“First, it is better to avoid demonizing the Deep
State, which is perceived by many in Moscow
as the center of world evil and the stronghold of
the pathological haters of Russia. Of course,
most of the State Department or the CIA
officials, the Congress staff, experts from the
main think tanks are not Vladimir Putin’s fans.
But these people, at least, have considerable
experience of interaction with Moscow and can
hardly be considered stubborn paranoids,
exalted conspiracy theorists or genetic
Russophobes. Deep State consists of rationally
thinking professionals, who are always easier to
deal with than romantic amateurs are. With all
its shortcomings, it is the Deep State that limits
Donald Trump’s most exotic and potentially
most dangerous foreign policy oddities.
Second, it’s time to change the attitude toward
the Democratic Party leadership. For some
reason (probably because of inertia) the Barack
Obama administration is constantly
remembered in Russia in the worst possible
way, with the two latest presidents constantly
juxtaposed. How is Obama bad, and Trump is
good? The stubborn facts show otherwise. For
example, Obama pursued a consistent policy of
rapprochement with Iran, and Trump returned to
the most severe pressure on Tehran. Obama
followed the international consensus on the
status of Jerusalem, and Trump destroyed this
consensus. Obama did not resort to direct
military action against Bashar Assad, and
Trump did not hesitate to give an order to
launch missiles against the Syrian Al- Shayrat
airbase. Well, who after all created more
problems for Russia — Democrats or
Republicans?”
Mr. Kortunov did indeed talk about other aspects of US-
Russian relations, including the need for a bottom-up
approach to improving his country’s soft power in
America, but none of those proposals are controversial, at
least not when compared to what he wrote about above.
A diversity of respectful views in any discourse is
symptomatic of a healthy democracy, and Russian society
is no different in this respect, which is why the dialogue on
this topic would be greatly enriched by presenting some
counterpoints to Mr. Kortunov’s article.
Deciphering The “Deep State”
The first is that the US’ military, intelligence, and
diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) are experienced
and rational like Mr. Kortunov describes them as, but that
they nevertheless bear primary responsibility for the
deterioration in US-Russian relations under both the
Obama and Trump Presidencies because the bulk of these
professional bureaucrats always retain their jobs between
leadership transitions in the country.
The President is supposed to determine the broad
trajectory of their work in consultation with his closest
advisors, some of whom are handpicked by him and
approved by Congress to lead the relevant institutions of
the “deep state” while others are more informal, but the
rank-and-file members of the “deep state” are still largely
more responsible for the execution of policy in practice
than anyone else.
Unprecedentedly, many of them oppose President Trump’s
stated desire to improve relations with Russia and have
worked to unconstitutionally offset his plans, and the
pressure that they’ve put on him to this end explains why
he’s undertaken decisively anti-Russian policies during his
first year in office despite his campaign pledge to do the
opposite.
Seeing as how most of these “deep state” individuals
naturally remained in the same positions that they had
during the Obama Administration and would have
probably still retained their jobs under Hillary’s
Presidency, it’s inaccurate to attribute the deterioration of
Russian-American ties to President Trump personally
while overlooking the actions of the “deep state” that he’s
still trying to reform to the best of his ability.
The “deep state” is rational – too rational, it can be argued
– because it embraces a Neo-Realist paradigm of
International Relations that sometimes correlates with
Trump’s own views on certain topics but other times
contradicts them like in the case of Russia, and the internal
power struggle between Trump and the “deep state” is
what’s really to blame for the worsening of bilateral
relations, not the “amateur” President’s “romanticism” like
Mr. Kortunov insists.
For these reasons, it can be argued that Mr. Kortunov’s
belief that the “deep state” “can hardly be considered
stubborn paranoids, exalted conspiracy theorists or genetic
Russophobes” isn’t exactly accurate, since it’s indeed full
of “stubborn paranoids” under the dual influence of the
neoconservatives’ Neo-Realism and the Obama-Clinton
worldview of “militant liberalism”.
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That said, the “conspiracy theories” that he references are
just a “deep state” infowar distraction to deceive the voting
masses while the assertion that such a thing as a “genetic
Russophobe” exists wrongly implies that an individual’s
political views are irreversibly predetermined by their
DNA.
To flip around Mr. Kortunov’s last comment on the matter,
it’s more realistic to assert that
“with all his shortcomings, it is Donald Trump
that limits the Deep State’s most exotic and
potentially most dangerous foreign policy
oddities.”
Debunking The Dreams Of Democrat Rule
Relatedly, Mr. Kortunov’s views on the “deep state”
clearly influence his attitude towards the Democrats and
specifically the Obama Administration, which he thinks is
unfairly “remembered in Russia in the worst possible way”
because “the stubborn facts show otherwise” and
apparently disprove the prevailing notion that “Obama (is)
bad, and Trump is good.”
Mr. Kortunov thinks that Obama had pure intentions in
signing the nuclear agreement with Iran, though it can
cynically be argued that his “deep state” was in fact trying
to co-opt the Islamic Republic’s “moderate/reformist”
ruling elite in a bid to tip the scales to their favor in the
country’s own “deep state” competition for influence with
the “conservative/principalist” military-security faction,
the failure of which would explain why Trump was tasked
with “returning to the most severe pressure on Tehran.”
The enduring presence of most of the “deep state’s”
personnel between presidential administrations doesn’t
preclude the US from pivoting between policies but
actually allows such moves to be more smoothly executed,
as can be seen from the example of Nixon’s
rapprochement with China in spite of Johnson’s
antagonism towards it; Bush Sr. “betraying” Iraq even
though Reagan aligned with it; Obama signing the nuclear
deal against the former Bush Jr. Administration’s wishes;
and Trump dismantling his predecessor’s plans.
Although the President might set the tone for the overall
direction that each respective policy should go in and this
sometimes reverses what the previous administration did,
it’s ultimately the “deep state” that puts these ideas into
practice and is able to maintain a degree of strategic
continuity that advances America’s national interests
regardless, though the case of Trump’s vision for US-
Russia relations also shows that this same “deep state” can
also conspire to obstruct the President’s will.
Another “stubborn fact” at variance with Mr. Kortunov’s
nostalgia for Democrat rule is the practical significance of
Obama “following the international consensus on the
status of Jerusalem” and Trump “destroying” it since it
inaccurately hints that the former was somehow ‘pro-
Palestinian’ and that the latter’s announcement tangibly
changed something on the ground, neither of which are
true because Obama was actually very pro-Israel and
Trump’s decision only stands to affect foreign aid
recipients who voted against the US and the UN.
Looking beyond Obama’s highly publicized personal
rivalry with Netanyahu and his populist rhetoric on the
Palestinian issue, nothing that he did during his two terms
had any influence on Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem
and unilateral claim to the entirety of the city being its
capital; likewise, Trump’s words didn’t change any of this
reality either and only resulted in word games being played
at the UN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation,
neither of which did anything other than attempt to
comfort the Palestinians.
As for Mr. Kortunov’s juxtaposition of Obama’s refusal to
“resort to direct military action against Bashar Assad” with
Trump “not hesitating to give an order to launch missiles
against the Syrian Al- Shayrat airbase”, he’s totally
overlooking the 44th President’s responsibility for the
theater-wide “Arab Spring” Color Revolutions and the
resultant Hybrid War of Terror on Syria which dealt
incomparably more damage to Syria and its democratically
elected President’s standing that Trump’s handful of one-
off missiles.
In addition, Trump only ordered the attack because he was
under intense “deep state” pressure to do so after having
been caught in a Catch-22 trap where he was forced to “put
his money where his mouth is” and respond to the false-
flag chemical weapons attack that violated his “red line”,
but truthfully speaking, what Mr. Kortunov might really
resent is that it only took a few million dollars’ worth of
missiles to call President Putin’s bluff in hinting at a
military response to the exact same scenario in 2013 that
got Obama to back down at the time.
To respond to Mr.Kortunov’s rhetorical question of “who
after all created more problems for Russia — Democrats or
Republicans?”, the reader should be reminded that the
Obama Administration presided over or was outright
responsible for the “Arab Spring” and its attendant regime
changes, the War on Syria, the 2011-12 anti-government
unrest in Moscow, EuroMaidan and the Ukrainian Civil
War, the anti-Russian sanctions, and the fake news scheme
of “Kremlin interference” in order to suppress Russia’s
publicly funded international media outlets and harass their
employees, among many other examples.
In comparison, Trump merely continued most of the policy
trajectories that Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton first initiated, and even then he’s tried to resist
some of the “deep state’s” pressure when it comes to
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Russia, so as bad as he’s been for Moscow’s interests, one
should wonder how much worse Hillary would have been
she entered into the Presidency and allowed the “deep
state” to do as it pleases.
Concluding Thoughts
Mr. Kortunov seems to have wanted to spark a serious
conversation about how Russia’s “deep state” should
respond to the disappointment that it experienced
throughout Trump’s first year in office, and if that was his
intention, then he remarkably succeeded by controversially
reinterpreting the Obama years as something to apparently
be nostalgic about and boldly suggesting that his
government reconsider its negative attitude to Trump’s
“deep state” foes.
In the spirit of dialogue that Mr. Kortunov implicitly
encouraged by publishing such a provocative piece, it’s
only fitting that a rebuttal be presented to challenge his
premise that the Democrats and their “deep state” handlers
are supposedly more preferable to Russia than Trump is,
especially seeing as how he selectively pointed to a few
decontextualized examples that were presumably cherry-
picked in order to promote his argument.
With all due respect to this prestigious gentleman, his
entire notion is flat-out wrong and shows that he doesn’t at
all understand Trump’s “Kraken”-like leadership and his
never-ending struggle to survive the “deep state’s”
permanent Clintonian Counter-Revolution that’s being
waged in trying to undermine the Second American
Revolution that the President is trying to carry out in
America’s domestic and foreign affairs.
Instead of ignoring the plethora of evidence proving the
Obama Administration’s hostility to Russia and its
international interests, Mr. Kortunov should have at least
made a superficial reference to it because this glaring
omission implies a deliberate partiality towards that
political faction and the “deep state” in general, which is
fine to have in principle but nevertheless casts doubt on
how effective his proposals would be in the overall sense
of things if they were ever put into practice.
Mr. Kortunov is evidently unaware that the same “deep
state” that he finds attractive in contrast to Trump had a
controlling influence in determining the Obama
Administration’s anti-Russian policies that the 44th
President’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended up
implementing with ruinous consequences for Moscow’s
grand strategic interests, and that she would have given the
“deep state” free rein to do whatever it wanted had she
won unlike Trump’s willingness to challenge its most
extreme tendencies (though with mixed results).
Having said that, pragmatic working relations
between Russia and the US’ “deep states”
 are inevitable because there isn’t any
alternative to interacting with any national
counterpart’s collection of military,
intelligence, and diplomatic figures no
matter how much one may disagree with
their policies unless ties between the two
sides are formally suspended, which isn’t
foreseeable but would in any case still allow for
the existence of communication backchannels.
What Mr. Kortunov is lobbying for is something altogether
different because he wants Russian decision makers to
reconceptualize the American “deep state” as a ‘positive’,
‘moderating’, and ‘responsible’ force against what he
characterizes as Trump’s ”romantic”, “amateurish”, “most
exotic and potentially most dangerous foreign policy
.
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oddities”, which is ironically a very “romantic” and
“exotic” view to have of the US’ most dangerous anti-
Russian institutional forces.
In all actuality, however, the “deep state”
and its Democrat allies are the real reason
why Trump hasn’t been able to succeed in
his pledge to improve Russian-American
relations, and these two problems shouldn’t
ever be confused as part of the solution
that’s needed to reverse this downward
spiral, nor should a tactical partnership with
these two actors ever be considered if
Moscow hopes to maintain the upper hand
in the New Cold War.
 GOP Lawmaker Pushing To Subpoena
Transcripts From FISA Court Hearings (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 4, 2018, 9:52 Pm

FISA judges rotate and a FISA warrant must be renewed

Media was set ablaze after the House every 90 days. The fact that 4 different FISA warrants
Intelligence Committee released their were issued using the dossier shows how corrupt the FBI,
classified FISA memo on Friday morning. DOJ and FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court)
were under the Obama administration.
The FISA abuses are shocking. We found out disgraced VIDEO:
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in a hearing in
December 2017 but if not for Hillary’s dossier, the FBI
would have never sought a FISA warrant on Trump
campaign advisor Carter Page.

Rep. Louie Gohmer (R-TX) said he’s preparing a letter to

send to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) requesting the
House Judiciary Committee subpoena transcripts from the
FISA court hearings.

Rep Gohmert previously blasted the FISA judge and said

that he, as a former judge would have put former FBI
Director James Comey, outgoing Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe and Justice Department official Bruce Ohr in
prison for committing fraud against the court.
On Friday, conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch
announced it filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for all
underlying FISA documents.
Rep DeSantis also called for the declassification of all
Rep Gohmert appeared on Fox News Sunday to talk about FISA applications related to the dossier.
the FISA abuse memo which was released Friday. Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) nuked liberals screeching about
Gohmert also revealed he is requesting the House the memo’s claim McCabe said the dossier played a
Judiciary Committee subpoena the FISA court hearing central role to seeking and obtaining a FISA warrant.
transcripts.
Rep. Zeldin:
“I have prepared a letter that I plan to submit to
and hopefully have other people sign on with “McCabe did in fact testify under oath that there
me tomorrow on our Judiciary Committee we would not have been a FISA warrant if not for
have a great Chairman [Bob Goodlatte] on our the dossier. It was recorded.”
Judiciary Committee. He wants to get to the
facts and what I’m asking him for is that we as
the Judiciary Committee subpoena the
transcripts from the FISA court hearings, the
four different ones at least regarding the
dossier…I want to hear everything that was
said,” Gohmert said.
Gohmert wants to know why the FISA judge hasn’t put
anyone in jail for committing a fraud against the court.
Hint: The FISA judge was appointed by Obama.
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 Steele Wrote Memo Based On Information Fed Through
Clinton Campaign — Released Documents
Published Time: 5 Feb, 2018 16:16 Edited Time: 6 Feb, 2018 10:58
Screenshot from judiciary.senate.gov
People close to Hillary Clinton were feeding information
to Christopher Steele who compiled the Trump dossier on
Trump's alleged connections with Russia, according to a
criminal referral filed by Republican senators.
A newly-released document from the Senate Judiciary
Committee says Steele wrote an additional memo, besides
the controversial dossier, using information that came from
the Clinton campaign.
The newly-released memorandum is an unclassified and
heavily-redacted version of the criminal referral targeting
Steele, filed on January 4 by Republican Senators Chuck
Grassley and Lindsey Graham. It is addressed to Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Director of the FBI
Christopher Wray who Grassley and Graham are asking to
investigate Steele.
The report reveals coordination between the extended
Clinton circle and the Obama administration in an attempt
to source damaging information about then-candidate
Trump.
Steele was hired by private firm Fusion GPS in June 2016
to gather information on alleged links between Trump and
Russia. His dossier, parts of which were leaked to the
media before the elections, was the basis for the warrant to
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spy on Trump adviser, Carter Page, according to the memo
released on Friday.
The report alleges that there was a circular flow of
information between Clinton associates and Steele. A
memorandum dated October 19, 2016 says that foreign
sources provided the information to an unnamed associate
of Hillary and Bill Clinton, who then gave the information
to an unnamed official in the Obama State Department,
who would then pass the information to Steele.
“It is troubling enough that the Clinton
Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but
that these Clinton associates were
contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele
allegations raises additional concerns
about his credibility,” the report states.
“It appears that either Steele lied to the FBI
and the British court, or that the classified
documents reviewed by the Committee
contain materially false statements,” the
report states.
On January 4, Senators Grassley and Graham referred
Steele to the FBI for further investigation after reviewing
Justice Department documents that conflicted with Steele’s
sworn court statements about the distribution of his
research.
“Seeking transparency and cooperation
should not be this challenging. The
government should not be blotting out
information that it admits isn’t secret, and it
should not take dramatic steps by
Congress and the White House to get
answers that the American people are
demanding. There are still many questions
that can only be answered by complete
transparency. That means declassifying as
much of the underlying documents as
possible,” Grassley said in the release
accompanying the document.
.
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Leaked to Buzzfeed in January 2017, Steele’s dossier
contains unverified allegations that Russia holds
information on Trump which it's using to blackmail the US
president. It further alleges sustained and close working
contacts between Trump aides and Kremlin
representatives, with Russia “feeding Trump and his team
valuable intelligence on his opponents” for years prior to
2016. The allegations have not been proven.
As alleged in the 'Nunes memo', this dossier “formed an
essential part” of the FISA probable cause order obtained
by the FBI from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court (FISC) in 2016 to spy on Trump adviser Carter
Page. The warrant was extended three times, also on the
basis of the Steele dossier.
 GOP Rep Peter King: More Evidence
Of Russia Collusion With Hillary Than With Trump
By Trent Baker
4 Feb 2018
Sunday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) argued that there is more
evidence of Russian collusion in the 2016 election with the
Hillary Clinton campaign than with the President Donald
Trump campaign.
“I’ve been involved with this now for the last
18 months. I have not seen one bit of
evidence of any collusion at all between the
Trump campaign and Russia,” King told
New York AM 970 “The Cats Roundtable”
host John Catsimatidis. “[T]here was more
possibility of the Russians being involved in
the Hillary Clinton campaign. So many
Russians had paid money to Bill Clinton
.
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and also the Clinton Foundation, but I
wouldn’t be in support of that either. That is
not a basis to be investigating [with] a
warrant to wiretap in a presidential
campaign.”
He continued,
“The FBI went through [the Nunes memo]
line by line. They did not find one factual
error. Nor did they find any threat to
national security. They said they disagreed
with the conclusion. Well, the conclusion is
critical of high-ranking people in the FBI.”
 ‘We Are Going To Win’: Trump Can't Do Anything About
FBI Despite GOP Memo – Former CIA Official
Published Time: 4 Feb, 2018 04:10 Edited Time: 4 Feb, 2018 11:44
FILE PHOTO © Alvin Baez
The FBI need not worry despite the release of the GOP
memo alleging the FBI's surveillance abuse against Donald
Trump, because the Bureau has been in the game much
longer than the current president, says an ex-CIA analyst.
“I know how this game is going to be
played. We are going to win,” Philip Mudd,
a former CIA analyst told CNN, referring to a brewing
conflict between Trump and America's security services
following the recent release of the GOP document.
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Mudd, who also served as a deputy national intelligence
officer for the Near East and South Asia on the US
National Intelligence Council, added that despite the
declassification of the document which outlines abuses by
the FBI and the US Justice Department, Trump can't do
anything about the "hundreds of agents" working on the
case of his alleged collusion with Russia. Apparently,
Trump's just not powerful enough.
“They [the FBI] are going to be saying (I
guarantee it): You [Trump] think you can
push us off this [investigation] because you
can try to intimidate the [FBI] director? You
better think again, Mr. President. You have
been around for 13 months. We have been
around since 1908,” Mudd said.
He also noted the security services' reaction to the memo,
saying:
“FBI people are ticked.” He also described
accusations of corruption issued against
the FBI by no less than the US head of
state himself, as “an attack on [its] ability to
conduct an investigation with integrity.”
The four-page GOP file that has caused a stir within the
US political establishment was initially commissioned by
the House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-
California) in mid-January. Trump authorized its release
on Friday.
The document chronicles how the FBI and the DOJ
obtained a warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser
Carter Page entirely on the basis of the so-called “Steele
dossier” paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign through
the Democratic National Committee.
Democrats, many mainstream media outlets, and a number
of former and current FBI and DOJ officials fiercely
resisted its publication. It also triggered a social media
storm and sent Trump critics into meltdown. And of
course, some even ‘found’ a Russian trail in these
developments.
 Obama Appointee Rudolph Contreras
Was Removed From Flynn Criminal Case – But Why?
By Jim Hoft
February 5, 2018, 6:35 Am

Judge Contreras was appointed by Barack Obama in in

2012 as United States District Judge for the District of
Columbia.

Judge Rudolph Contreras was also appointed to the

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) court in
2016. We asked the question in December whether Judge
Contreras was also the FISA Judge who signed off on the
application[s] to spy on the Donald Trump campaign —
including General Flynn?

Some information came out over the weekend that Judge

Contreras was the judge who signed off on the FISA
warrants for the Obama Administration in 2016 and 2017,
but this is yet to be confirmed.
Two Months Ago FISA Court Judge and
Obama Appointee Rudolph Contreras The other big question related to
was removed from General Flynn’s
criminal case. Today it is still unknown Contreras was whether he recused
why Contreras was removed. himself from the Flynn case or
whether he was recused for reasons
TGP reported on December 8th that U.S. District Judge not yet known.
Rudolph Contreras recused himself from former National
Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s criminal case. Emmet Hopefully we will soon find out the truth
G. Sullivan will now oversee over the trial.
about this matter.

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 Former Obama CIA Director Brennan Trashes House
FISA Memo – Self-Proclaimed Nonpartisan
Suspected Of Leaking In 2016
By Jim Hoft
February 5, 2018, 6:50 Am

This hit job, according to King, has taken the form of

Former Obama CIA Director John
Brennan was on Sunday’s Meet the
Press and stated that he believes
that House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Nunes abused his office by
releasing the FISA memo on Friday.
Brennan is famous for suspected
leaking in late 2016 but he is not biased
– he says so on his Twitter profile.
Brennan allegedly leaking intelligence assessments to the
press and circumventing Congress, in order to take shots at
Trump.
“That’s what infuriates me about this,
Martha, is that we have John Brennan,
supposedly John Brennan, leaking to The
Washington Post, to a biased newspaper
like The New York Times, findings and
conclusion that is he’s not telling the
intelligence committee,”King said.
But not to worry. By his own admission, Brennan is
nonpartisan –

Former Obama CIA Director was on Sunday’s Meet the

Press and stated that he believes that House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Nunes abused his office by releasing
the FISA memo on Friday. He also said that the famous
Clinton dossier did not play any role whatsoever in early
intelligence assessments.
Brennan is suspected of being very dishonest and biased
throughout his career. In late 2016, shortly after
the election, Brennan was suspected of leaking documents
to the Washington Post and New York Times by
Republican Congressman Peter King from New York –
In an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” King, a
member of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, said while he agrees there should be an To think that this clown was once the
investigation into Russian involvement in the Head of the CIA under Obama!
election,there should also be an investigation into
Brennanfor the “hit job he seems to be orchestrating
against the president-elect,” Politico reports.
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 President Trump BLASTS ‘Little’ Adam Schiff For
‘Illegally Leaking Confidential Information’
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 7:06 Am

President Trump blasted “little” Rep. sent to Congressman Michael Conaway (R-TX),
Adam Schiff (C-DA) Monday morning, Futerfas, called for an investigation into leaks from
branding the House Intelligence the House Intelligence Committee, suggesting the
Committee member one of individual who leaked the false WikiLeaks story did so
Washington’s “biggest liars.” The knowingly.
President also called out Schiff for
illegally leaking confidential “Republicans suspect that the staff of Rep.
information. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, leaked
the erroneous “scoop” to CNN. They say
his staff regularly leaks, with CNN being a
favorite, with a spin that is not
accurate,” wrote Rowan Scarborough of
The Washington Times.

Not only is Schiff accused of leaking confidential

information to the media, but legal experts believe he may
have recently published classified intelligence about the
FISA memo last week.

As the Washington Examiner’s Steven Nelson noted, the

California Democrat “cited two specific examples of
“Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run alleged inaccuracies,” in the memo.
for higher office, is one of the biggest liars
and leakers in Washington, right up there
with Comey, Warner, Brennan and
Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee
hearings to illegally leak confidential
information. Must be stopped!” tweeted the
President.

Schiff has long been suspected of leaking key details of

Donald Trump Jr.’s hearing before congressional
investigators last year.
“The Majority suggests that the FBI failed
Trump Jr.’s attorney, Alan S. Futerfas, has called on to alert the court as to Mr. Steele’s potential
Congress to crack down on suspected leakers. In a letter political motivations or the political
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 motivations of those who hired him, but this
is not accurate,” Schiff said in a statement.
“The GOP memo also claims that a Yahoo
News article was used to corroborate
Steele, but this is not at all why the article
was referenced,” added the California
Democrat.
Where these two revelations classified?
Washington Examiner reports:
Steven Aftergood, director of the
government secrecy project at the
Federation of American Scientists, said it’s
possible those refutations reveal classified
information.
“In the abstract they could be problematic
since they go beyond the official public
record” in describing classified documents,
he said. “But under current circumstances,
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it is hard for me to imagine anyone
objecting.” […]
Mark Zaid, an attorney who has worked many national
defense cases dealing with the handling of classified
information, also said it’s possible the Schiff release
reveals classified information.
“At first blush I would have some concerns
about the details in this statement as to
whether it crosses a classification line, but
it is possible Rep. Schiff, having had
access to the underlying classified
information, knows these points are in
unclassified paragraphs,” Zaid said. “So
much of these back and forths about the
memo are in a gray area on classification.”
Democrats have fought hard to paint the memo as a hyper-
partisan piece of propaganda aimed at discrediting the
‘Trump-Russia’ collusion investigation. Nobody worked
harder to keep the memo classified than Schiff.
 Rep. Devin Nunes Reveals House Intel Dems Have Been
Caught Leaking Nearly 100 TIMES! (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 8:18 Am
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined “Fox &
Friends,” Monday morning, revealing
Republicans have caught House
Intelligence Democrats leaking nearly
100 times.
“There has been almost 100 leaks that we
believe have come from the Democrats on
the House Intelligence Committee,” Nunes
told the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” later
adding, “What we’re looking at now is the
State Department and some of the
irregularities there.”
It is unclear what time frame Nunes based his assessment
on.
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On Monday morning, President Trump accused “little”
Rep. Adam Schiff (C-DA) of illegally leaking confidential
information.
“Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run
for higher office, is one of the biggest liars
and leakers in Washington, right up there
with Comey, Warner, Brennan and
Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee
hearings to illegally leak confidential
information. Must be stopped!” tweeted the
President.
Schiff has long been suspected of leaking key details of
Donald Trump Jr.’s hearing before congressional
investigators last year.
Trump Jr.’s attorney, Alan S. Futerfas, has called on
Congress to crack down on suspected leakers. In a letter
sent to Congressman Michael Conaway (R-TX),
Futerfas, called for an investigation into leaks from
the House Intelligence Committee, suggesting the
individual who leaked the false WikiLeaks story did so
knowingly.
“Republicans suspect that the staff of Rep.
Adam Schiff, California Democrat, leaked
the erroneous “scoop” to CNN. They say
his staff regularly leaks, with CNN being a
favorite, with a spin that is not
accurate,” wrote Rowan Scarborough of
The Washington Times.
 CNN's Phil Mudd: FBI Eager
To Take Down Trump, 'We're Going To Win'
By Ryan Foley
February 5, 2018 10:23 AM EST
The media went into full meltdown mode on Friday when
the memo alleging surveillance abuse by the FBI was
released. While many downplayed the contents of the
memo as a “nothing burger," others continued to harp on
the narrative that President Trump is at war with the FBI.
During an appearance on CNN’s The Situation Room, just
hours after the release of the memo, counterterrorism
analyst Phil Mudd suggested that the FBI would have the
upper hand in a war with the Trump Administration as he
attempted to serve as a mind-reader for rank-and-file FBI
agents. According to Mudd, the FBI agents were saying,
“I guarantee it, you think you could push us
off this because you can try to intimidate
the director, you’d better think again, Mr.
President. You’ve been around for 13
months; we’ve been around since 1908. I
know how this game is going to be played
and we’re going to win.”
Perhaps Mudd did not realize that his comments
unwittingly gave credence to the theory that the FBI is
committed to undermining the Trump Administration. In
their never-ending quest to expose corruption in the Trump
Administration, the media have chosen to ignore the
credible claims of corruption at the FBI; which poses an
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equally serious threat to our democracy. Notice how very
little of the media’s coverage of the memo actually
discussed its contents.
As demonstrated by the release of the movie The Post, the
American press has always generally supported the idea of
transparency; that the more the American people know, the
better. That is, unless, transparency has the potential to
vindicate a President that they hate. Then, they have no
problems with keeping the American people in the dark.
Here is a transcript of the February 2 commentary from
Mudd:
5:39 PM ET
PHIL MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST: Boy, you
would think on the surface, Wolf, looking at this from the outside,
that this would be demoralizing. I'm going to judge that it is not.
You've got a group of people who don't join a company. What
they join is -- and you sense this when you walked the halls of
the Hoover building as I did. They joined a mission that says, I'm
here to protect the American people, from everything, from gangs
and organized crime to intelligence threats from Russia and
China. The president and the White House think that by saying
we support the mass at the FBI, but we oppose in its strong
language, the president is talking about basically corruption at
the FBI today, but we oppose the leadership.
The workforce is going to look at this and say, this is an attack on
our ability to conduct an investigation with integrity. There are
hundreds of agents and analysts working on this investigation.
It's not just Christopher Wray, the FBI Director. So, the FBI
people -- I'm going to tell you are ticked, and they're going to be
saying, I guarantee it, you think you could push us off this
because you can try to intimidate the director, you'd better think
again, Mr. President. You've been around for 13 months; we've
been around since 1908. I know how this game is going to be
played, and we're going to win.
 Gowdy: House Intel Committee ONLY Looking At ‘Maybe
Five’ FBI Officials, NOT Entire Bureau (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 5, 2018
“I have tremendous respect for the bureau”
(National Sentinel) Political Motivations: Retiring South
Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Sunday that the House
Intelligence Committee, which he sits on, is not looking at
the entire FBI for political abuses of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Two days after the panel released the scandalous FISA
memo detailing serial abuses of the court in politicized
pursuit of a surveillance warrant to spy on a Trump
campaign official, Gowdy hinted that the House committee
may only be investigating as many as five FBI officials.
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“I have tremendous respect for the bureau,
there are 30,000 employees, let’s assume
that there are five that engaged in conduct
that we have questions about,” Gowdy said
on CBS’ “Face The Nation” Sunday.
He also said that the partisan tone of the investigation has
become a big problem, adding that he hopes the release of
the four-page FISA memo is just a “one-off.”
“I hope this is a one-off, that Congress
takes this position but also hope it’s a one-
off that a [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act] application contains errors and product
that is funded by a political opponent. I
hope that is a one-off,” he said.
That doesn’t appear to be the case, however. Multiple
reports over the weekend suggest that more memos
showing more politicized abuse by various government
agencies under the Obama administration are forthcoming.
 White House: "We Are
Concerned About The Market Selloff"
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 10:08

Having proudly owned every uptick in the stock market

since his election, Donald Trump has been rather silent for "We're always concerned when the market loses any value,
the past week when it comes to commenting on the S&P's but we're also confident in the economy's fundamentals,"
recent reversal. an official told CNBC.

Commenting on just that, moments ago CNBC's Eamon So far on Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average
Jeavers reported that the White House said Monday it is briefly dropped as much as 300 before rebounding off the
worried about the U.S. stock market sell-off. lows and trading -200; the S&P 500 traded about 0.6%
lower, extending last week's plunge.

As CNBC notes, President Trump has touted the strong

stock market performance since his election win and has
yet to deal with a significant market pullback. The Dow is
up more than 30 percent since the election.

It is unclear if Trump will - and what S&P level - Trump

instruct Jay Powell to start jawboning "QE4 or more".

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WOW! Christopher Steele Wrote Anti-Trump Memo With
Information From Mystery Obama State Dept. Official
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 10:11 Am

Former British intelligence agent and
author of the Fusion GPS dossier,
Christopher Steele, penned a separate
memo on then-candidate Donald Trump,
based on information given to him by a
Hillary Clinton contact and unnamed
Obama State Department official.
gave the information to an unnamed official in the Obama
State Department, who then gave the information to Steele.
Steele wrote a report based on the information, but the
redacted version of the referral does not say what Steele
did with the report after that.
Congressional investigators probing the origins of the
Steele dossier have set their sights on a brand new target
— The Obama State Department.

Were Obama State Department officials responsible for

spreading discredited tidbits compiled in the dossier
through the media? Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes
may soon find out.

Byron York of the Washington Examiner reports:

A newly released document from the

Senate Judiciary Committee says
Christopher Steele, the former British spy
who compiled the Trump dossier, wrote an
additional memo on the subject of Donald
Trump and Russia that was not among
those published by BuzzFeed in January
2017.
The newly-released document is an
unclassified and heavily redacted version
of the criminal referral targeting Steele filed
on Jan. 4 by Republican Sens. Chuck
Grassley, of Iowa, and Lindsey Graham, of
South Carolina. It appears to confirm some
level of coordination between the extended
Clinton circle and the Obama “We are in the middle of what I call Phase
administration in the effort to seek Two of our investigation which involves
damaging information about then-candidate other departments, specifically the State
Trump. Department,” Nunes told Fox News host
Bret Baier last week.
According to the referral, Steele wrote the additional
memo based on anti-Trump information that originated The Washington Examiner previously reported the Obama
with a foreign source. In a convoluted scheme outlined in State Department was being probed as to whether or not
the referral, the foreign source gave the information to an they had a hand in the dossier. York notes Steele was
unnamed associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton, who then viewed inside the Obama State Department as a valuable
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source for intelligence on all things Russia. Obama State of State John Kerry and to Assistant
officials made a habit of disseminating reports the former Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who
British spy authored for private clients around the was in charge of the U.S. response to the
Department: Ukraine crisis. Many of Steele’s secret
sources were the same sources who would
A book published in November by a supply information on Trump. One former
correspondent at the Guardian, State Department envoy during the Obama
“Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty administration said he read dozens of
Money, And How Russia Helped Donald Steele’s reports on Russia. The envoy said
Trump Win,” noted that Steele’s 2010 work that on Russia, Steele was “as good as the
on the World Cup soccer corruption CIA or anyone.” Steele’s professional
investigation won him the trust not only of reputation inside U.S. agencies would
the FBI, but the State Department as well. prove important the next time he
From author Luke Harding: discovered alarming material, and lit the
fuse again.
The [soccer] episode burnished Steele’s
reputation inside the U.S. intelligence
Former British spy Christopher Steele, who was tasked
community and the FBI. Here was a pro, a
with compiling the ‘Trump dossier’ for opposition research
well-connected Brit, who understood
firm Fusion GPS, recently admitted in court that the
Russian espionage and its subterranean
discredited document contains “limited intelligence.”
tricks. Steele was regarded as credible.
Between 2014 and 2016, Steele authored
more than a hundred reports on Russia Steele also admitted part of “his final
and Ukraine. These were written for a December memo,” was unvetted.
private client but shared widely within the “Such intelligence was not actively sought;
State Department and sent up to Secretary it was merely received,” Steele added.
.

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 MSNBC Montage Compares
Memo To Capone’s Vault Debacle
By Bill D'Agostino
February 5, 2018 10:24 AM EST
On Monday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe opened with a video
montage that interspersed clips from conservative media
talking about the release of the FISA memo with footage
of Geraldo Rivera at the opening of Al Capone’s vault.
In 1986, millions of viewers watched reporter Geraldo
Rivera’s coverage of law enforcement opening the vault of
the late mob boss, Al Capone. Rivera pontificated about
the contents of the vault for some time, speculating that it
could contain anything from riches to murder weapons.
Yet when all was said and done, nothing of note was
found, and Rivera embarrassed himself on live television.
The message conveyed by the montage, of course, is that
the FISA memo is a ‘nothingburger.’ Hosts Joe
Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski gleefully read aloud an
article from the New Republic which said as much:
“It would be easy to compare
Congressman Devin Nunes’s release of
a declassified memo on purported
surveillance abuses to Geraldo Rivera
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opening Al Capone’s vault. But this
would be extremely unfair to Geraldo,
who didn’t know ahead of time that it
would be empty.”
The claim that the memo contains no relevant information
whatsoever has become the media-wide talking point on
the issue. In the days leading up to the memo’s release,
however, the story was very different. Shows like Morning
Joe and others were insistent that whatever the memo
contained, its release would devastate American national
security assets.
Interestingly, the media appear to have suffered amnesia
with regards to their own narrative from before the memo
was made public. The charge that the memo is a non-story
discredits all of their own reporting leading up to its
release.
The day before the memo’s release,
Scarborough accused congressional
Republicans of playing “crude political
games with highly secret intelligence.”
He and his cohorts repeatedly cited the
FBI’s claim that releasing the memo would
be “extraordinarily reckless,” displaying
the utmost concern for the handling of
classified information.
But if the FBI believed the memo to have serious political
implications, evidently the hosts of Morning Joe no longer
agree with that assessment. It remains to be seen whether
any coverage will be given to asking why the FBI might
have characterized the memo’s release as dangerous to
begin with – but don’t count on it.
 Was Fusion GPS Caught In ‘Sophisticated Scheme’
Buying Access To ‘Highest Levels’ Of The DOJ?
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 10:27 Am

Fusion GPS’s relationship with Nellie
Ohr, the wife of demoted Justice
Department official Bruce Ohr hired to
dig up dirt on then-candidate Trump,
may have leveraged to influence top
government officials.
“Payments from Fusion GPS to Bruce
Ohr’s family, funded by the DNC, have
the appearance of a ‘government for
hire,’ i.e. bribing a DOJ official to push
the case,” says the Daily Caller’s Luke
Rosiak.
Parties seeking to hide ethically questionable payments
often write the checks to a family member. Since spouses
generally share assets, payments to one benefit the other,
and paying the spouse can make the payments less obvious
or harder to trace.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said more attention
should be paid to Bruce Ohr in relation to the dossier
drama.
“The fact that the Senate Intelligence
Committee is brining in Bruce Ohr, this
Justice Department official involved with
Fusion GPS and the Clinton dossier, shows
you where the collusion scandal is,” Fitton
told OANN‘s John Hines last December.
“It’s with the Clinton campaign, the DNC,
the FBI, the Justice Department,” listed
Fitton before asking, “how did they use this
dossier?”

Daily Caller reports: “How did they use this dossier? Was
Mueller using this dossier? Was it used to
“The money sweetened the pot for the justify to a court to get warrants to spy on
Ohrs, and it certainly made it easier for Trump and his team?”
Fusion to get the dossier to be used before
the court if they made that payment to “That’s the collusion,” added Fitton.
Bruce Ohr’s wife,” former judge and Texas “Bruce Ohr is the first indication that we
GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert told The Daily have that the Justice Department was
Caller News Foundation, involved in this dossier that’s been so
“Fusion had to have known that because of controversial.”
the relationship between Bruce Ohr and his Video credit: Judicial Watch
wife, they were bringing Fusion, the DOJ
and the DNC together under one roof to
work for the same goal, which was to stop
Donald Trump from becoming president,”
he said.
“The financial arrangement between Mrs.
Ohr and Fusion GPS gives the appearance
of government-for-hire,” said Tom
Anderson, an ethics expert at the
conservative-leaning watchdog group the
National Legal and Policy Center. It
“appears to be a sophisticated scheme to
get access to the highest levels of our Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson recently
government … ensuring the use of admitted in a court document that his firm hired Nellie
government resources in an attempt to Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr to investigate then-candidate
influence an election.” Donald Trump.

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 Former Trump Chief Of Staff Priebus Adds NEW Details
From McCabe Meeting; Says Former Deputy Director
Assured Him Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’
Narrative ‘TOTAL BS’ (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 5, 2018

“I never felt that I was involved in
something nefarious the whole way
through”
(National Sentinel) Fake News: President Donald J.
Trump’s former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, gave new
details on Sunday about a February 2017 conversation he
had with former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
regarding the so-called “collusion” between the Trump
campaign and Russia.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Priebus said
that McCabe walked into his office on Feb. 14, closed the
door, and told him in no uncertain terms that a New York
Times report about alleged contacts between Trump
campaign aides and Russian intelligence was “BS.”
That meeting wound up being controversial because
subsequent leaks to the media claimed that Priebus
pressured McCabe for the FBI to publicly admit that the
Trump campaign and Russia were not colluding.
As The Daily Caller reported:
On Feb. 24, CNN published a report citing
multiple unnamed sources who said that
the FBI rejected the request from McCabe,
who left his job as deputy director earlier
this week. The article, which has been
heavily edited since publication, initially
framed the White House and Priebus in a
negative light by suggesting that Priebus
took a proactive step to ask McCabe to
rebut the Times report.
“The direct communications between the
White House and the FBI were unusual
because of decade-old restrictions on such
contacts. Such a request from the White
House is a violation of procedures that limit
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communications with the FBI on pending
investigations,” the article noted.
Following the CNN report the White House clarified that
McCabe had informed Priebus that the Times report was
not accurate.
On Sunday, Priebus told “Meet the Press” that McCabe
“walked into my office, shut my door and
basically told me that The New York Times
story that was in the paper, that first came
out in February that said there are constant
contacts between the Trump campaign and
the Russians, with the door closed, looked
at me and said ‘I want you to know that this
story right here is total BS. It’s overstated
and it’s not true.’”
“This is the deputy director of the FBI. I
didn’t know who he was, it’s the middle of
February,” Priebus added.
The former chief of staff and head of the Republican
National Committee also said he never saw any collusion
and that Trump never once said he wanted to fire special
counsel Robert Mueller.
“I never felt that I was involved in
something nefarious the whole way
through, from the beginning to the end. So
you can understand the frustration of the
President when he’s told he’s not under
investigation,” Priebus said.
Watch:
 Trump Slams "Biggest Liar" Schiff,
Praises "Great American Hero" Nunes
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 10:49

Update 1045ET: Trump ignored Schiff's response but

continued the memo rhetoric escalation by praising Devin
Nunes as "a man of tremendous courage and grit, may
someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for
what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!"

“Adam (Schiff) leaves closed committee hearings to

illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!”
Trump wrote in a post on Twitter.
Update 0910ET: Rep. Schiff was quick to respond to the
president with his own tweet:
But that was not all, Trump accused the Congressman of
being "one of the biggest liars and leakers in
"Mr. President, I see you’ve had a busy Washington," which is a major achievement amid that
morning of “Executive Time.” Instead of swamp.
tweeting false smears, the American
people would appreciate it if you turned
off the TV and helped solve the funding
crisis, protected Dreamers or...really
anything else."

* * *

Having spent the weekend accusing Russians of pushing

the 2nd Amendment so that Americans kill each other,
expressing his disgusts at the release of the GOP's memo
(and its potential to do real harm and expose 'methods')
while also pushing for the release of the Democrats' memo,
and potentially leaking "confidential" information,
We suspect Maxine Waters will turn up the madness to 11
California Congressman Adam Schiff has finally made it
now.
to the top of President Trump's shit-list.

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 Sen. Grassley BUSTS The FBI Trying
To Suppress Release Of New Steele Dossier Revelations
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 10:47 Am

In a letter released Monday, Senators Chuck FBI for attempting to suppress the release of new
Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) outed the revelations about the Steele dossier.

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 Pile Of STUPID Rob Reiner Calls For ‘ALL HANDS ON
DECK’ To Defeat Trump, Gets Laughed Off Twitter
By Sam J.
Posted At 10:39 Am On February 5, 2018

Oh sad, sad Rob Reiner. We’re starting to wonder if he has

any idea how absolutely ridiculous he looks tweeting this
nonsense on Twitter.
ALL HANDS ON DECK!
To do what? Throw glitter at us and make up stupid chants
about unicorns and 57 genders?
*so skeery*

We’re not a Democracy, Rob.

Have a Snickers, HA!

And don’t worry about the country surviving, we dodged
that bullet when we didn’t elect Hillary in 2016.

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 Torch and pitchfork time … HA HA HA.
Adorable.

Democrats love to project.

Yeah, go play in the street.

Seems even his own base isn’t taking him seriously about
this ‘all hands on deck’ silliness:

Stop paying attention to Rob, there’s an idea for ya’.

RESIST, DUH.

Resist, man, we crack ourselves up.

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 Donald Trump On North Korea:
‘We Ran Out Of Road…The Road Really Ended’
Mac Slavo
February 5th, 2018
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence
have both recently made comments regarding North
Korea’s refusal to abandon their nuclear weapons program.
On Friday, Trump met with North Korean defectors and to
told them the ‘road has really ended.”
Pence is scheduled to head to the 2018 Winter Olympic
Games and to reassure Seoul and Tokyo that there is no
daylight between the allies in confronting the North over
its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. “I’ll
cheer on our athletes, but I’ll also be there to deliver a
simple message:
That the era of strategic patience is
over,” Pence said Friday at an event in
Pittsburgh. “We’ll make it clear that all
options are on the table. And you can be
confident we will continue to bring all
economic and diplomatic pressure to bear
until North Korea permanently abandons its
nuclear and ballistic missile programs once
and for all.”
According to the Washington Examiner, the president
himself has also spoken about the options available to the
United States. Trump met with North Korean defectors and
said despite the first talks between North and South Korea
in two years, time is running out.
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“You know, we ran out of road. You
know the expression? The road really
ended,” Trump said, as he once again
blamed previous administrations for failing
to stop North Korea’s nuclear program
before it could threaten the U.S. “They
could’ve done it 12 years ago. They
could’ve done it 20 years ago. They
could’ve done it four years ago, and two
years ago. We have no road left.”
These statements come on the heels of North Korea’s
response to Trump’s State of the Union address last week.
After Trump said no other regime more harshly oppresses
its own people than North Korea, the president took a shot
a Kim Jong-Un, likely angering the dictatorship. “We need
only look at the depraved character of the North Korean
regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it
could pose to America and to our allies,” the US President
added.
A North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson fired back
at the President, claiming the speech was “sinister” while
talking up Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. “Trump also
insisted upon the ‘maximum pressure’ against our
country,” the spokesman said. “However, it is no less than
the screams of Trump terrified at the power the DPRK has
achieved. Trump even reveals his sinister intention to do
something against us by relying on strength while talking
about ‘American resolve’. Our self-reliant defense
capability with the nuclear force as its backbone will,
however, completely deter Trump and his lackeys from
showing off on the Korean peninsula.
If Trump does not get rid of his
anachronistic and dogmatic way of
thinking, it will only bring about the
consequence of further endangering
security and future of the United
States,” the spokesman threatened.
 FLASHBACK: Adam Schiff Appears On Russian TV,
Calls For More FISA Transparency
This Video Didn’t Age Well
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
February 5, 2018

“more informed debate about the balance

between privacy and security,”

while also calling for more opinions from FISA judges to

be declassified so Americans could see how the law was
being interpreted.

This is a far cry from Schiff’s current attitude to FISA

transparency.

Before the release of Congressman Devin Nunes’ FISA

During a 2013 appearance on Kremlin- memo, Schiff repeatedly asserted that making it public
owned Russian TV network RT, would go against the national interest, potentially
Congressman Adam Schiff robustly
argued for more FISA transparency and “revealing intelligence sources and
for more decisions of FISA judges to be methods”.
declassified.
Following the release of the Nunes memo on Friday, the
Schiff appeared on RT to discuss the scope of the NSA’s Congressman warned that revealing how the FISA process
surveillance program of American citizens following has become corrupt and potentially politicized could lead
Edward Snowden’s revelations. to domestic terror attacks.

The California lawmaker said he was working on reforms During an appearance on MSNBC, Schiff suggested that
to we could see a repeat of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
due to names of targets of FISA surveillance being
“make the FISA court more transparent so revealed.
the American people can understand
what’s being done in their name, in the
name of national security.”

This clear distinction in Schiff’s view on FISA

transparency between 2013 and 2018 clearly illustrates
how his stance is completely partisan and has nothing to
He added that FISA transparency was vital to produce a do with underlying principles.

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The fact that he supported FISA transparency on a
Kremlin-owned TV platform is also particularly ironic
given Schiff’s hysteria about Russian collusion and
supporters of President Trump doing the bidding of
Vladimir Putin.
It also emphasizes how all the fearmongering about the
release of Nunes’ memo harming national security was
concocted as part of a failed effort to block its release,
since the memo did not reveal any sources or methods or
put anyone at risk.
.
Respondents to Schiff’s 2013 RT appearance pointed out
his rampant hypocrisy.
“Hey Schiff what changed? I thought
Russia was our mortal enemy and FISA
transparency means destroying national
security?” asked one.
“So Schiff wanted more transparency with
FISA warrants?” joked another.

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 Democratic Senators Say Trump Lacks Authority For
Military Strike Against North Korea
By AYANNA ALEXANDER
02/05/2018 11:10 AM EST
The 18 senators, led by Martin Heinrich, stressed the risk of
retaliation if the White House continued to pursue a strike. | Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images
Nearly 20 Democratic senators, led by Sen. Martin
Heinrich of New Mexico, warned President Donald Trump
in a letter Monday that he lacks “congressional” authority
to launch a preemptive military strike against North Korea.
“Like many, we are deeply concerned
about the potential consequences of a
preemptive military strike on North Korea
and the risks of miscalculation and
retaliation,” the senators said. “Moreover,
without congressional authorization, a
preventative or preemptive U.S. military
strike would lack either a Constitutional
basis or legal authority.”
The 18 senators stressed the risk of retaliation if the White
House continues to pursue a strike. “Ultimately, it is an
enormous gamble to believe that a particular type of
limited, preemptive strike will not be met with an
escalatory response from Kim Jong Un and neither the
United States nor our allies should take that step lightly.”
The senators also expressed concern over the vacancy in
the position of U.S. ambassador to South Korea, noting the
importance of diplomatic leadership in that role. They
questioned why Victor Cha had been dropped from
consideration, despite his qualifications for the position.
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“We write to express our serious concerns
regarding the continued absence of a U.S.
Ambassador to South Korea and the
reported removal from consideration of a
highly qualified candidate, Dr. Victor Cha,
for that position,” they said in the letter.
“We ask that you provide clear reasoning
and justification for his removal from
consideration.”
Cha served as director for Asian affairs on the National
Security Council during President George W. Bush’s
administration.
The letter comes after a Jan. 30 Senate Armed Services
Committee hearing, at which various experts argued
against the White House’s reported consideration of a
“bloody nose” strategy against North Korea. Cha
reportedly disapproved of the idea.
For that reason, the senators alleged that the Trump
administration removed Cha from consideration.
“According to some media reports, the real
reason for Dr. Cha’s removal was his
disagreement with a ‘bloody nose’ strategy
under consideration by the White House,”
they wrote.
The letter called a potential preemptive strike irresponsible
and urged the president to fill the ambassador position as
soon as possible.
“While we must always be ready to
respond with decisive action to a North
Korean provocation, it would be extremely
irresponsible to instigate military conflict
prior to exhausting every diplomatic
option,” they wrote.
 ROGER STONE: Gen. Michael Flynn To File Motion For
Dismissal Of ALL CHARGES Against Him (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 11:33 Am

According to legendary political sentencing hearing at this time,” the special

operative and InfoWars correspondent, counsel asked the court last week.
Roger Stone, lawyers for Gen. Michael
Flynn are preparing legal action to have
all charges against him dropped.
Credit: The Alex Jones Channel

STONE: “Lawyers for General Mike Flynn

will shortly file a motion to dismiss all the
charges filed against him, based on reports
now confirmed by The Hill, Circa News and
Infowars, that Assistant FBI Director
Andrew McCabe told a teleconference of
law enforcement officials, “first we f*ck
Flynn, then we f*ck Trump.”

Independent journalist and author Jack Posobiec helped

spread the news for Stone on Twitter, who was banned
from platform last year.

Stone’s report comes amid news that Special counsel The court filing states a date to sentence Flynn could not
Robert Mueller has requested the postponement of Flynn’s be determined by the special counsel at this time and that
sentencing. 90-day extension is be required.

“Due to the status of the Special Counsel’s Last year, The Gateway Pundit asked: Was President
investigation, the parties do not believe that Trump’s National Security Advisor tricked into meeting
this matter is ready to be scheduled for a with the FBI without a lawyer?

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Fox News host Sean Hannity and reporter Sara Carter Michael Flynn, former National Security Adviser to
have suggested Flynn may have been tricked into having President Trump, pleaded guilty last year for making false
the interview with disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok statements to the FBI about contacting Russian
without a lawyer. Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition.

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 Ron Paul: What The FBI/FISA
Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government
Be Skeptical Of Both Parties; With Few Exceptions They Are Not
Protecting Liberty But Promoting Its Opposite
By Ron Paul
February 5, 2018
The release of the House Intelligence
Committee’s memo on the FBI’s abuse
of the FISA process set off a partisan
firestorm. The Democrats warned us
beforehand that declassifying the memo
would be the end the world as we know
it. It was reckless to allow Americans to
see this classified material, they said.
Agents in the field could be harmed,
sources and methods would be
compromised, they claimed.
Republicans who had seen the memo claimed that it was
far worse than Watergate. They said that mass firings
would begin immediately after it became public. They said
that the criminality of US government agencies exposed by
the memo would shock Americans.
Then it was released and the world did not end. FBI agents
have thus far not been fired. Seeing “classified” material
did not terrify us, but rather it demonstrated clearly that
information is kept from us by claiming it is “classified.”
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In the end, both sides got it wrong. Here’s what the memo
really shows us:
First, the memo demonstrates that there is
a “deep state” that does not want things
like elections to threaten its existence.
Candidate Trump’s repeated promises to
get along with Russia and to re-assess
NATO so many years after the end of the
Cold War were threatening to a
Washington that depends on creating
enemies to sustain the fear needed to
justify a trillion dollar yearly military budget.
Imagine if candidate Trump had kept his campaign
promises when he became President. Without the “Russia
threat” and without the “China threat” and without the
need to dump billions into NATO, we might actually have
reaped a “peace dividend” more than a quarter century
after the end of the Cold War. That would have starved the
war-promoting military-industrial complex and its network
of pro-war “think tanks” that populate the Washington
Beltway area.
Second, the memo shows us that neither
Republicans nor Democrats really care that
much about surveillance abuse when
average Americans are the victims. It is
clear that the FISA abuse detailed in the
memo was well known to Republicans like
House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes before the memo was actually
released. It was likely also well known by
Democrats in the House. But both parties
suppressed this evidence of FBI abuse of
the FISA process until after the FISA
Amendments Act could be re-authorized.
They didn’t want Americans to know how
corrupt the surveillance system really is
and how the US has become far too much
like East Germany. That might cause more
Americans to call up their Representatives
and demand that the FISA mass
 surveillance amendment be allowed to
sunset.
Ironically, Chairman Nunes was the biggest cheerleader
for the extension of the FISA Amendments even as he
knew how terribly the FISA process had been abused!
Finally, hawks on both sides of the aisle in
Congress used “Russia-gate” as an excuse
to build animosity toward Russia among
average Americans. They knew from the
classified information that there was no
basis for their claims that the Trump
Administration was put into office with
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Moscow’s assistance, but they played
along because it served their real goal of
keeping the US on war footing and keeping
the gravy train rolling.
But don’t worry: the neocons in both parties will soon find
another excuse to keep us terrified and ready to flush away
a trillion dollars a year on military spending and continue
our arguments and new “Cold War” with Russia.
In the meantime, be skeptical of both parties. With few
exceptions they are not protecting liberty but promoting its
opposite.
 Hillary Clinton Breaks Her Silence Amid FISA Memo
Firestorm – Implies Trump Using FISA Memo As
Scapegoat (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 12:37 Pm

Not only did Crooked Hillary blame sexism and misogyny

On Monday, twice failed Presidential
candidate and election rigger, Hillary
Clinton spoke for the first time since the
damning FISA memo was released
Friday.
for her 2016 election loss, she subtly implied Trump is
using the FISA memo as a scapegoat.
“So any of you who’ve read my book about
what happened know that I think misogyny
and sexism was part of that campaign. It
was one of the contributing factors. Some
of it was old fashioned sexism and a
refusal to accept the equality of women and
certainly the equality of women’s
leadership and some of it as an outgrowth
of all of this anxiety and insecurity that is
playing on some people and leading them
on a hunt for scapegoats,” Hillary said.

This woman’s arrogance is stunning.

VIDEO:
Hillary Clinton presented the Human
Rights Award to Yazidi activist Nadia
Murad on Monday at Georgetown
University.

When asked about women in global politics, women’s

rights and the role of female leadership in the world,
Hillary Clinton implied sexism and misogyny played a role
for her crushing loss of the 2016 presidential election.

We now know Hillary Clinton attempted to rig the 2016

presidential election with the help of the FBI and DOJ yet
she has the nerve to complain about sexism and misogyny.

“Secretary Clinton, you talked about a

backlash. How do you see this backlash
against women’s rights and what can be
done about it?” BBC correspondent Lyse
Doucet asked Hillary.

Hillary Clinton then brought the conversation back to her

experience as a presidential candidate in the 2016 election.

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 CNN Hires Former FBI Agent
Days After Writing Anti-Trump Op-Ed
By Ryan Foley
February 5, 2018 12:55 PM EST
Just three days after he published an op-ed in The New
York Times explaining his decision to leave the FBI over
the “relentless attacks on the bureau”, New Day co-host
Alisyn Camerota announced that Former FBI Special
Agent Josh Campbell has accepted a position as CNN’s
new law enforcement analyst.
The New York Times published the op-ed on Friday,
following the release of the classified memo that “accuses
the F.B.I. and the Justice Department of abusing their
surveillance powers to spy on a former Trump campaign
adviser.” Campbell argued that he had to resign because
he felt that “remaining quiet while the bureau is tarnished
for political gain is impossible.”
While his piece does not directly mention President Trump
by name, it criticizes “scorched-earth attacks from
politicians with partisan goals” and accuses politicians of
“weaponizing their disagreement with a particular
investigation in a bid to undermine the credibility of the
entire institution.” The op-ed actually quotes Former FBI
Director James Comey, whom people on both sides of the
aisle have few kind things to say about.
To many political observers, CNN’s decision hardly seems
like a coincidence, especially after reading the op-ed. It did
not take long for Donald Trump Jr. to weigh in on CNN’s
desire to hire Campbell on Twitter, saying “You would
think their stable is full in the hate on Trump department.
Ahh, who am I kidding? It’s CNN of course there’s more
room.” Camerota brought up the tweet while interviewing
Campbell Monday morning, arguing that he was
“denigrating” Campbell’s decision.
Camerota asked Campbell for a response, probably hoping
that he would use the opportunity to attack the President’s
son. For his part, Campbell did not take the bait, indicating
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his desire to stay out of “the politics of it” and also
mentioning that “you have to respect that the President is a
Commander-in-Chief.” Do not expect the folks in the
liberal media and the #Resist movement to start respecting
the fact that Donald Trump is the Commander-in-Chief
anytime soon.
Here is a transcript of the February 5 exchange:
7:52 AM ET
ALISYN CAMEROTA: An FBI Agent leaving his job
because of the “relentless” political attacks on the bureau
from the President and Congressional Republicans. He
wrote about it in a New York Times op-ed piece over the
weekend and that former FBI Special Agent Josh
Campbell joins us now. He is also CNN’s new law
enforcement analyst. Welcome, Josh.
(...)
7:59 AM ET
CAMEROTA: Well, that day is not today because Don Jr.
tweeted about you leaving your job. He tweeted this, “You
would think their stable is full in the hate on Trump
department. Ahh, who am I kidding? It’s CNN of course
there’s more room.” He’s, you know, obviously
denigrating your choice to leave the FBI and then to come
here as an analyst? What’s your response?
JOSH CAMPBELL: Well first, let me say that I’m not
going to begrudge a son for protecting his father. I can
only imagine what that situation is like and I’ll also say
that whether you’re a citizen or whether you’re in
government, you have to respect that the President is a
Commander-in-Chief. We have to respect that office. Full
stop. So I don’t want to get into the politics of it. I’ll just
say that from a practitioner standpoint throughout the
organization, FBI agents and professional staff, as I
mentioned, we just want the temperature to come down. If
we need to have an important national discussion on
certain actions that took place in the FBI, it’s something
that we’ll certainly welcome and we can do. We just want
the temperature to come down so we can have an effective
dialogue.
 Will Trump Wage War On North Korea?
By Stephen Lendman Stephenlendman.Org
2-5-2018
His rage for wars makes the unthinkable possible.
Washington never before attacked a nuclear powered
nation.
Pyongyang will surely respond forcefully if targeted, using
all weapons in its arsenal deemed necessary to defend the
country - the same thing all countries would do in self-
defense.
Attacking the DPRK would be madness, yet possible -
given hostile rhetoric by Trump, National Security Advisor
HR McMaster and CIA director Pompeo.
On Monday, Pompeo lied saying
“(w)e are mindful that Kim Jong-un
continues to present a risk not only to the
United States but to the world,”
adding:
“Collectively, the United States and our
intelligence partners around the world have
developed a pretty clear understanding of
Kim Jong-un’s capability.”
“We talk about him having the ability to
deliver a nuclear weapon to the United
States in a matter of a handful of months.”
Unprovoked, the chance of that happening is nil. Pompeo
knows it. So do other Trump administration officials. Yet
reckless rage against North Korea persists, manufacturing
nonexistent threats.
Defense Secretary Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman
Dunford are reluctant to wage war on nuclear powered
North Korea, knowing the likely catastrophic regional
consequences.
It’s hard separating Trump’s bluster from his policy
intentions. In his State of the Union address, he said
“North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could
very soon threaten our homeland,” adding:
“We are waging a campaign of maximum
pressure to prevent that from happening.
Past experience has taught us that
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complacency and concessions only invite
aggression and provocation.”
“I will not repeat the mistakes of past
administrations that got us into this
dangerous position.”
Does he have nuclear war in mind to counter a nonexistent
North Korean threat?
Earlier he said US
“military solutions are now fully in place,
locked and loaded” calling Kim “a madman
who doesn’t mind starving or killing his
people.”
How many previous times have we heard this type reckless
talk ahead of planned US aggression?
Is Trump willing to risk what no responsible leader would
contemplate? Earlier he considered delivering a “bloody
nose” strike against North Korea’s nuclear sites.
When asked about the possibility at the time, Rex Tillerson
said
“we have to recognize that the threat is
growing, and that if North Korea does not
choose the pathway of engagement,
discussion, and negotiation, then they
themselves will trigger an option.”
Separately, the UN claimed Pyongyang earned around
$200 million from banned exports of coal and other
commodities, blaming China, Russia and other countries
for letting the DPRK skirt sanctions.
Beijing and Moscow deny the charges. Sanctions never
should have been imposed on North Korea in the first
place, harming its ordinary people most, failing to stop its
nuclear and ballistic missile programs - pursued solely for
self-defense.
It’s entitled to do whatever it takes to defend the country
and its people. The problem on the peninsula lies in
Washington, not Pyongyang..
 ABC On Memo: ‘Just Because It’s Biased,
Doesn’t Mean It’s Not True’
By Scott Whitlock
February 5, 2018 1:36 PM EST

"Just because it’s biased, doesn’t mean it’s

not true.” That was the assessment from
Good Morning America journalists and
analysts on Saturday while discussing the
intelligence memo released on Friday.
Guest Matt Dowd touted the already-tired
“Al Capone vault” comparison.
But first, ABC contributor and ex-FBI agent
Brad Garrett shrugged at the information in
the memo: “Most of the time it is biased.
But the point being, can you corroborate it?
Just because it's biased, doesn't mean
it's not true.”
Analyst Matt Dowd apparently thought he was being
original when he sneered of the memo:

“The last time we saw something like this

was when Geraldo Rivera revealed Al
Capone's vault.”

(This was a reference to when journalist Rivera opened the

gangster’s alleged vault live on television in 1986. Nothing
of interest was in there.)

On Monday, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski quoted from the

New Republic:
Yet, according to the memo itself, the Steele Dossier
WASN’T just biased, the FBI saw it as untrue:
It would be easy to compare Congressman
Devin Nunes’s release of a declassified
According to the head of the FBI’s
memo on purported surveillance abuses to
counterintelligence division, Assistant
Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s vault.
Director Bill Priestap, corroboration of the
But this would be extremely unfair to
Steele dossier was in its “infancy” at the
Geraldo, who didn’t know ahead of time
time of the initial Page FISA application.
that it would be empty.”
After Steele was terminated, a source
validation report conducted by an
independent unit within FBI assessed It’s almost as though talking points are going around.
Steele’s reporting as only minimally
corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, A partial transcript is below. Click on “expand” to read:
Director Comey briefed President-elect
Trump on a summary of the Steele GMA
dossier, even though it was—according 2/2/18
to his June 2017 testimony—“salacious
and unverified.” 7:05

PAULA FARIS: Let’s get right to the core of the allegation of the
memo that in the thick of the campaign: The Justice Department,
the FBI used action that was in part bought and paid for by the
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Clinton campaign to spy on someone, Carter Page of Team
Trump. If true, isn't that a problem, Brad? Let's begin with you.
BRAD GARRETT (ABC contributor, former FBI special agent): Of
course it's a problem if that were true but let me explain
something, you don't have the luxury of picking where your
sourcing information comes from. Most of the time it is biased.
But the point being, can you corroborate it? Just because it's
biased, doesn't mean it's not true. I will tell you based on
experience that getting wiretaps approved, you have to have
layers and layers of corroboration to get both the FBI, the
Department of Justice and the judge to sign a wiretap order. So
the idea that it was just based on a dossier is just silly.
FARIS: All right, Matt.
DOWD: Well, to me this thing — obviously we should raise
questions about how FISA applications are done. But like in life
or politics or in marketing, the best thing you can do is under-sell
and over-deliver. What the Republicans have done and
Chairman Nunes have done is over-sell and under-deliver. The
last time we saw something like this was when Geraldo Rivera
revealed Al Capone's vault. And what we have is very little
evidence of a problem. And in the end, this doesn't raise any
questions about the Mueller probe.
DAN HARRIS: So, let me pick up on that, Matt, because critics
say this may be used as a pretext for the President to fire Rod
Rosenstein. He is the deputy Attorney General in charge of the
Russia probe. He is the only who can fire the Special Counsel
Robert Mueller. The White House says there are no plans to fire
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Rosen tine but if the president would do that what do you think
the consequences would be politically?
DOWD: Well, that's what I think this memo is all about. There
really is no legal questions that this memo is somehow really
substantively argued for. It's really a political memo and the
political memo is in the short term it can muddy the wears. But
also it can provide Donald Trump, the President, with some
evidence in his mind of how he can circumvent the Mueller
investigation. As I said earlier, this memo raises no questions
about the credibility of Bob Mueller investigating the Russian
collusion or other issues related to that. But it can muddy the
wears and put Donald Trump in the position of being able for him
to politically try to short-circuit the investigation.
HARRIS: You're talking about this already, but I want to drill
down on it a little bit. This story is so complicated, it involves
names that are not household names, Rod Rosenstein, Carter
Page. It's confusing even for me and I get paid to follow this stuff.
Do you think in the end, the Republicans have succeeded in
creating generalized doubt and suspicion that serves to under
mine the entire Russia probe?
DOWD: Well, the unfortunate thing is I think the Republicans
have succeeded in undermining a -- two branches of government
that were the less vestiges of credibility in the American public,
which is the FBI, which the country desperately needs to
investigate all kinds of crimes and the Department of Justice for
the exact same reason. So, yes, they have achieved a short-term
benefit of muddying waters but the long-term detriment it does to
these institutions we desperately need is something that the
country is going to have to deal with.
FARIS: Brad, as a former FBI agent you just heard Matt say this
really muddies the waters but what is the long-term damage if
any to the FBI as well as the Department of Justice?
GARRETT: Well, the long-term damage is credibility, because
you're only as good as people talking to you and your
relationships both with allies in the country as well as overseas. If
you took this at face value, certainly comes across as really
sloppy work which I guarantee you is not the case. So the FBI
will continue on. They're probably angry, discouraged but
determined.
 MSNBC Freak-Out: Democracy ‘Crumbling’ As Trump
Follows ‘Dictator’s Playbook’
By Kyle Drennen
February 5, 2018 1:53 PM EST
Even as MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday tried to
dismiss the FISA memo alleging political bias at the FBI
as an “empty vault,” during the 11:00 a.m. ET hour, co-
anchors Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle portrayed the
release of the document as a threat to democracy and
fretted with their guests that President Trump was
employing the “dictator’s playbook” by criticizing the
Russia investigation.
After fretting over how the President “mocked”
Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff in an early
morning tweet, Ruhle feared:
“But what if the President refuses to
release the Democrat memo, now that he’s
thrown that out there about Adam Schiff?”
Former Assistant Watergate Prosecutor Jill
Wine-Banks warned: “It means nothing,
because to me, it is obvious that if they do
not release the Democratic memo, it
only confirms that this is a partisan
horrible memo...”
Paraphrasing The Washington Post’s tag line, Wine-Banks
implored:
“The truth has to come out in some
form....In darkness is where democracy
dies, and we need the full truth. The
omissions from the document that has
been released so far are very blatant and it
has to be corrected.”
Ruhle worried:
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“But isn’t that the risk? If darkness is
where democracy dies, and that’s where
we are, are we not on the brink of our
democracy possibly crumbling?”
Minutes later, the host mourned how “crushing” it was for
the administration to criticize the FBI. Velshi chimed in:
“It’s creepy, it’s terrible.” Ruhle added:
“Vladimir Putin is riding a horse topless in
Russia laughing right now.”
Velshi then made the leap to arguing Trump was on the
verge of becoming an authoritarian leader:
“There’s a history to this kind of
behavior by leaders who just
systematically go after institutions, the
judiciary, the bureaucracy, and things
like that. It doesn’t – it doesn’t end
well.” Ruhle urged: “We’ve gotta stand
up.”
In a later segment, Velshi kept up his argument:
And recently I have been re-reading a lot
of history from sort of the 1920s
through to the 1950s....just to remind
myself of the scourge on the Earth and
danger of dictatorial regimes who often
get there initially by undermining the press,
undermining the judiciary, and undermining
the apparatus of government....This is a
tried and true way of, you know, making
people really doubt their institutions and
their government and their courts.
Terrorism Analyst Malcolm Nance was eager to join in the
fearmongering, as he launched into a tirade:
I find this absolutely fascinating because
the things that Donald Trump does, the
way that he acts, and his attacks on the
institutions of the United States
government, these are not new. They are
new for the United States, but for those of
us who are skilled in this area, especially in
 intelligence, we recognize this. This 11:14 AM ET
comes from the dictator’s playbook. And
the dictator’s playbook is just nothing but a RUHLE: It’s not kind of crazy, it’s kind of crushing.
series of activities that people around the
world, despots use, in order to get the heat
VELSHI: It’s creepy, it’s terrible.
off of themselves.
RUHLE: Vladimir Putin is riding a horse topless in Russia
Wrapping up the discussion, he later declared that freedom
laughing right now.
of all Americans was at risk of being “snuffed out” by
Trump.
VELSHI: There’s a history to this kind of behavior by leaders who
just systematically go after institutions, the judiciary, the
It should be noted that, in 2017, Nance “nominated” a
bureaucracy, and things like that. It doesn’t – it doesn’t end well.
Trump property in Turkey for an “ISIS suicide bombing.”
RUHLE: We’ve gotta stand up.
The media can’t seem to decide if the release of FISA
Memo was a “nothing burger” or the greatest threat to (...)
democracy in U.S. history.
11:23 AM ET
Here are excerpts of the February 5 coverage from Velshi
and Ruhle:

(...)

11:10 AM ET

RUHLE: A few hours ago, President Trump, before 8:00 a.m.,

mocked the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee,
Adam Schiff, calling him, quote, “little Adam Schiff,” which is
typical Trump, but he accused him of being “one of the biggest
liars and leakers in Washington and saying Schiff “must be
stopped.” And the President didn’t elaborate. But what if the
President refuses to release the Democrat memo, now that he’s
thrown that out there about Adam Schiff? And again, that’s red
meat for President Trump’s base. But what does it mean?
JILL WINE-BANKS [FMR. ASSISTANT WATERGATE
PROSECUTOR]: It means nothing, because to me, it is obvious
that if they do not release the Democratic memo, it only confirms
that this is a partisan horrible memo that is intended not to create
oversight of the FBI, not intended to inform the American public,
but simply to serve the needs of Donald Trump to protect him
from the truth.
The truth has to come out in some form. It is a dilemma for the
Democrats, but it should be a dilemma for the Republicans, who
should stop toadying up to the President and supporting him.
They need to be strong enough to let this memo out. In darkness
is where democracy dies, and we need the full truth. The
omissions from the document that has been released so far are
very blatant and it has to be corrected.
RUHLE: But isn’t that the risk? If darkness is where democracy
dies, and that’s where we are, are we not on the brink of our
democracy possibly crumbling?
(...)
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VELSHI: And recently I have been re-reading a lot of history from
sort of the 1920s through to the 1950s.
RUHLE: Are you reading documents again? Documents.
VELSHI: Well, just to remind myself of the scourge on the Earth
and danger of dictatorial regimes who often get there initially by
undermining the press, undermining the judiciary, and
undermining the apparatus of government. Malcolm, this is more
than just a current thing. This is a tried and true way of, you
know, making people really doubt their institutions and their
government and their courts.
MALCOLM NANCE [MSNBC TERRORISM ANALYST]: I find this
absolutely fascinating because the things that Donald Trump
does, the way that he acts, and his attacks on the institutions of
the United States government, these are not new. They are new
for the United States, but for those of us who are skilled in this
area, especially in intelligence, we recognize this. This comes
from the dictator’s playbook. And the dictator’s playbook is just
nothing but a series of activities that people around the world,
despots use, in order to get the heat off of themselves.
The Russians were the masters of this. Vladimir Putin – I’ve
joked from time to time that it appears that the White House has
a Pentagon – I’m sorry, a Kremlin political warfare assistance
team working in there to show him point by point how Vladimir
Putin did this. First you attack the media, you disassemble it.
Then you attack all – anyone who can investigate corruption, you
blackmail them and you get them out of office. And then you’re in
charge of the government.
(...)
11:27 AM ET
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NANCE: One last point. Behind me in this building, there is,
across the street, a cemetery. And there is a statue of George
Washington that reads above it, “Freedom is a light for which
many men have died in darkness.” That is the sacrifice that these
people have made, whether it’s at the CIA or the officers of the
Bureau, they are not giving their lives in order to allow
Americans’ freedom to be snuffed out, no matter who is in office.
(...)
 White House Spox: Trump’s Lawyers In Favor Of Second
Special Counsel To Investigate FBI, DOJ Corruption
During 2016 Election
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 2:16 Pm
On Monday, Deputy Press Secretary Raj
Shah told reporters on Air Force One
that President Trump’s lawyers have
already approved of the idea of
appointing a second special counsel to
investigate the FBI and DOJ’s actions
during the 2016 Presidential election,
Axios reports.
Axios reports:
Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told
reporters on Air Force One Monday that
President Trump’s attorneys have already
approved the idea of appointing a second
special counsel to investigate the FBI and
Justice Department’s actions during the
2016 presidential campaign, according to
White House pool reports.
Shah also said that the White House will
approach further memos, including the
one created by Democrats, in the same
way they handled the memo authored by
Devin Nunes: “Which is to allow for a legal
review, national security review led by the
White House Counsel’s Office, and then
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within five days the president will make a
decision about declassifying it,” said Shah.
We need a Special Counsel from outside of the swamp
appointed to do a REAL investigation into the
weaponization of Obama’s FBI and DOJ and their quest to
help elect Hillary Clinton as the 45th president.
The Special Counsel should also investigate dirty cop
Robert Mueller. He must have known the entire time
Hillary’s phony dossier was central to the ‘Russia
collusion’ narrative. Mueller had to have known Hillary’s
dirty dossier was used to obtain four FISA warrants to spy
on American citizens, more notably a presidential
campaign.
The unclassified FISA memo shows former FBI Director
James Comey, disgraced FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein misled the FISA
court.
The FISA memo also revealed top DOJ official Bruce Ohr
met with dossier author Christopher Steele in the summer
of 2016 and relayed information to the Justice Department.
Bruce Ohr was also receiving ‘opposition research’ from
his wife Nellie Ohr who was employed by Fusion GPS.
Bruce Ohr later provided Nellie Ohr’s oppo research to the
FBI.
According to the FISA memo,
“The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and
Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed
from the FISC (Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court)”.
 MRC’s Noyes Exposes Liberal Media’s
Double Standard On Trump Stock Market Coverage
By NB Staff
February 5, 2018 3:23 PM EST
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average taking another
nosedive on Monday, the MRC’s Rich Noyes joined Neil
Cavuto’s eponymous Fox Business Network program to
discuss the findings of a study by MRC Business’s Julia
Seymour that found a massive double standard from the
major broadcast networks on stock market increases vs.
tumbles.
Cavuto set up Noyes by observing that they’re suddenly
“very interested in the stock market” now that it’s doing
down but “weren’t that big into it when stocks were
going up.”
Noyes elaborated on that point, stating that
“the rise in the Dow, the rise in stocks the
past 13 months is one of the undercovered
stories of the last — of the Trump
presidency” with 81 records that Seymour
tracked.
“My colleague Julia Seymour has been
keeping track of this. 61 of those times your
ABC, CBS, NBC evening newscasts did not
find them worth covering. They gave a
couple of mines to Dow 25,000, just a few
seconds the Dow 26,000, but they all had big
reports Friday night for this two percent
correction on Friday....[T]hey’re sort of
missing the ride up, but making sure people
pay attention to the ride down,” he added.
Cavuto replied that President Trump has been unique
compared to previous presidents by focusing more on the
stock market as proof of a strong economy, so Noyes
opined that
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“the media sort of ridiculed President Trump
for pointing to the stock market every day,
saying, well, he didn’t have anything to do
with it” but Barack Obama did.
“Now all of a sudden that it's down a couple
of a percent and you pointed out the reason
why: It’s rising interest rates. Interest rates
based on stronger economic growth.
Suddenly, it seems like it's a bad thing and
they want to, you know, point out this is
biggest correction since he took office. I've
heard that phrase over and over again in the
last 72 hours,” he continued.
Going forward, Noyes predicted that network financial
analysts
“will warn people not to overreact, which
they should not do, but I think they will try to
sort of put a dampen on the general
economic good feeling that you've had with
President Trump over the last couple of
months.”
To see the relevant transcript from FBN’s Cavuto: Coast
to Coast on February 5, click “expand”:
FBN’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast
February 5, 2018
1:28 p.m. Eastern
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking News; Down at Session
Lows]
NEIL CAVUTO: But I do notice this since I try to keep an eye on
all the news and business channels because that's the kind of
guy I am, America. You’re welcome. Anyway, I've noticed all of a
sudden, they are very interested in the stock market, which I like
because it's my little nerdy world, so I like when people pay
attention to what I pay attention to. But you know, they weren’t
that big into it when stocks were going up. So, we were following
it when it’s going. We follow it when it’s going down. We don't
ignore one way or the other year, but I do find it interesting that
now it's a big deal, so I'm happy to have them come along for the
ride into my nerdy little world, but it seems they’re predisposed
when it's negative and not when it’s positive. But again, that
could be me. But people actually watch this stuff all the time to
crunch the numbers and actually see if I'm right that this is
unusual. Media Research Center Research Director Rich Noyes
on this. Rich, it’s uncanny. All of a sudden, I see these big old
bugs, that’s what we call them there. They were slashing the
Dow as they should. But I don’t remember any of that when we
were going up, up. What’s going on?
RICH NOYES: No. This is, I mean, a little bit as the news
business. A plane crash is
CAVUTO: Absolutely.
NOYES: — more newsworthy than planes landing safely time
after time. However, the rise in the Dow, the rise in stocks the
past 13 months is one of the undercovered stories of the last —
of the Trump presidency. There have been 81 records. My
colleague Julia Seymour has been keeping track of this. 81
records in the Dow since last year. 61 of those times your ABC,
CBS, NBC evening newscasts did not find them worth covering.
They gave a couple of mines to Dow 25,000, just a few seconds
the Dow 26,000, but they all had big reports Friday night for this
two percent correction on Friday. My guess is if they are down
like we are now they will do big stories again tonight. But, you
know, they’re sort of missing the ride up, but making sure people
pay attention to the ride down.
CAVUTO: Well, you know, here is where the President may have
dug himself a bit of a pit here and that is the predisposition to
quote the markets all the time. And I understand that he says the
media doesn't give enough credit for that.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Stocks Extend Selloff]
That is fine, but other White House arguments have enormous
run ups under their watch, Ronald Reagan, you know, Bill Clinton
.
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for a while, George Bush junior, they avoided that and focus
instead on things like how many more people were getting jobs,
whether tax rates had benefited their take-home pay, et cetera.
This President wetted himself to the markets and so you own it
on the way up. You potentially on it on the way down. A White
House spokesman on Air Force One traveling with the president
to Ohio said that the markets fluctuate but that the fundamentals
of the economy are very strong. Now, obviously, if I had a dime
every time I heard the administration argue that, they’re
technically right and technically right in this case. But you live by
the sword, you die by the sword, right?
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking News; Stocks at Session
Lows; Trump Arrives in Ohio to Tout Tax Cuts]
NOYES: Well, yes, but I mean, the media sort of ridiculed
President Trump for pointing to the stock market every day,
saying, well, he didn’t have anything to do with it. He inherited it
from President Obama. Now all of a sudden that it's down a
couple of a percent and you pointed out the reason why: It’s
rising interest rates.
CAVUTO: Right.
NOYES: Interest rates based on stronger economic growth.
Suddenly, it seems like it's a bad thing and they want to, you
know, point out this is biggest correction since he took office. I've
heard that phrase over and over again in the last 72 hours.
CAVUTO: Oh, you’re in the right. I was switching into the exact
same thing and ignoring the fact is enormously unprecedented.
But you’re right. I understand that if it bleeds, it leads and that
their red arrows is it’s better and gets more coverage. But I am
just wondering how you suspect the media were cover all of this
tonight if it finishes kind of as we're looking at it now.
NOYES: Oh, I think they will give it another round of coverage.
They’ll — you know, I think some of the personal finance people
will warn people not to overreact, which they should not do. But I
think they will try to sort of put a dampen on the general
economic good feeling that you've had with President Trump
over the last couple of months.
CAVUTO: Alright, always good seeing you, Rich Noyes. Thank
you very much. I apologize, it reminds me, this market leaving
me speechless.
 FIGURES. Comey’s Former Special Assistant Lands Gig
At CNN After Resigning From FBI And Trashing Trump
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 3:26pm
Josh Campbell quit the FBI last week.

Then he wrote an op-ed for The New York Times where he

complained about people exposing the corruption and
criminal acts by agency leaders.

“I am reluctantly turning in my badge and

leaving an organization I love,” Campbell wrote
in the NY Times op-ed.

It turns out this precious snowflake was crooked Cop

Comey’s special assistant.

Now this…

Josh Campbell has just landed a gig with CNN as a law

enforcement analyst. Figures.

Comey even gave his little snowflake assistant a shoutout TV Newser reports:
on Twitter.
CNN has signed another critic of the Trump
On Friday, Comey tweeted, administration.

“Special Agent Josh Campbell will be missed at The network has named Josh Campbell CNN
the FBI, but his voice is an important addition to law enforcement analyst.
the national conversation.” @joshscampbell
[…]

In his new role at CNN, Campbell will provide

insight and analysis on crime, justice, breaking
news and national security issues. During his
tenure at the bureau, Campbell conducted
numerous high-profile terrorism and kidnapping
investigations and managed the FBI’s inter
agency communication response strategy
following crisis incidents.

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According to the report, Campbell will begin his new gig
immediately.

Fox News pointed out Campbell appeared on

CNN on Friday to explain why he was leaving
the FBI — but failed to mention he would soon
be an employee of the network.

The Daily Caller reported that an official goodbye party

flyer for Josh Campbell invited attendees to “celebrate
Josh’s new endeavor defending the Bureau as a CNN law
enforcement analyst:

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 MSNBC: Trump Base 'Don't
Need Rationality,' Just 'Russian Bots'
By Bill D'Agostino
February 5, 2018 3:34 PM EST
On Monday, hosts of MSNBC’s morning lineup scoffed at
the notion that some Americans still have faith in
Congressman Nunes’s FISA memo, and even in the
President himself. Some attributed the phenomenon to
ignorance or foolishness, while others suggested that
Trump supporters had been deceived by Russian bots on
Twitter.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of Morning Joe
flirted with both explanations, derisively characterizing
Trump supporters as a combination of basement-dwellers
and purveyors of Russian bot accounts:
[Trump] will throw anybody or anything
under the bus, including the best interest of
this nation...
And if there's anybody throughout that
questions that, I can't wait for you to grab
your Cheetos, and put on your tighty
whiteys, and go down to your mom's
basement and start typing that blog away.
“Join the bots,” Brzezinski added.
Meanwhile, the hosts of MSNBC’s Live With Velshi and
Ruhle reasoned that those who still put stock in the memo
were stubbornly ignoring reality. In a discussion about
supposed far right echo chambers, Stephanie Ruhle said
the following:
We’ve seen this FISA, Nunes, Fusion GPS
noise coming out of the far right for the last
year. All they need is Trump’s base to
believe this and it works. So you and I could
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walk through this all day long and shine
light and rationality; they don’t need
rationality.
Ali Velshi agreed, “There’s some people who
aren’t listening.”
The consensus on the set of Andrea Mitchell Reports was
that Russian bots were to blame, with Democrat political
consultant Stephanie Cutter even theorizing that the Trump
administration had been actively colluding with Russians
to push Nunes’s memo.
“He had an unwitting ally, the Russian bots,
pushing the ‘release the memo’ meme,”
Andrea Mitchell exclaimed. “So the Russians
are still at it.”
Cutter questioned Mitchell’s premise,
“Unwitting? It might not be so unwitting.”
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele agreed:
And that’s the irony of it, to have Republican
members on the Intel Committee go out and
push this thing, knowing that it’s the
Russians behind it, the ones actually
pushing this out into the public’s
bloodstream.
The narrative about Russian bots pushing fake news had
been around since the 2016 election. Now, however, the
charge appears to be that the Russians aided not just the
Trump campaign, but Republicans in general. Democratic
Senators Feinstein and Schiff have even solicited user
information from Twitter and Facebook in the hopes of
learning who was behind the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag.
Senator Feinstien’s website cites as evidence
for her concerns a study done by the German
Marshall Fund. The study described just 600
Twitter accounts with a “clear connection to
Russian influence,” only one subsection of
which had engaged in “automated behavior.”
The sample also included accounts whose
users “may or may not understand
themselves to be part of a pro-Russian
social network.” Additionally, Twitter’s internal
analysis found that Americans were the
progenitors and primary disseminators of the
hashtag.
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Yet despite these findings, MSNBC’s coverage suggests
that the buzz on social media generated by the memo was
largely a psy-op orchestrated by Russian hackers and bots.
This dishonest narrative paints President Trump’s base as
gullible simpletons who have fallen for Russian
propaganda.
 Laughable Charles Blow: Trump
Already Has America In A ‘Constitutional Crisis’
By Curtis Houck
February 5, 2018 4:16 PM EST
Far-left New York Times columnist Charles Blow has a
penchant for delusional columns and CNN appearances, so
it was no surprise when his column for Monday’s paper
warned that
“Donald Trump will destroy this entire
country...to protect his own skin” and that
we’re already in a “constitutional crisis.”
Blow’s title choice of “Constitutional Crisis in Slow
Motion” set the tone for the lunacy, which gave way to
these two opening sentences:
Donald Trump will destroy this entire country — its
institutions and its safeguards, the rule of law and the
customs of civility, the concept of truth and the inviolable
nature of valor — to protect his own skin.
We are not dealing with a normal person here, let alone a
normal president.
Blow provided a less-than-original analysis,
screeching that President Trump “has always
lived in his own reality and played by his
own rules” or that originally running for
president was “just another show.” When
something doesn’t go Trump’s way, Blow
argued that he “invented an alternate reality”
“with devilish ease.” Yawn. Somehow, this
guy is a columnist for one of the most famous
newspaper’s of all time.
Rehashing the presidential campaign and that he
assembled a shoestring political team, Blow showcased
what many liberal journalists probably think deep down,
which is that Trump
“won the election, with Russian assistance
and against all odds” and thus stole it from
Hillary Clinton.
“He was working-class white America’s
rebuff to an erudite black man and a
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supremely experienced woman. Trump’s
defects had been validated. He was loved
among those who hate,” he added.
Concerning the Mueller investigation, Blow surmised that
Trump views the Trump-Russia probe as
“the ultimate game of Machismo Monopoly:
The properties are at stake and there’s a ‘Go
To Jail’ square in Robert Mueller’s corner.”
Again, that’s an actual phrase used in a Times
column.
Blow later resorted to more name-calling blasting the
Republican House Intelligence Committee memo as a
“dud....by the near-treasonous water boy
Devin Nunes” that “was mostly about FISA
repeatedly granting the F.B.I. permission to
monitor Page’s contacts with Russians.”
As a sidenote, the liberal media often decry the President’s
insults and nicknames for his opponents as juvenile and
immature. But here’s the thing: many of these same people
test the President so much that they hurl verbal grenades
back across the political divide. What an example these
people set.
He closed with his fear about the firing of Mueller as
Special Counsel:
People say that would create a constitutional
crisis, but I say we are already trapped in a
slow-motion constitutional crisis, or
constitutional train wreck.
Trump will never put the country above himself.
And his Republican assistants in the legislature
have so bought into Trumpism that they now
know that they will share his fate.
Buckle up, folks: This ride will get much rougher before it
finally comes to an end.
 Schumer Delivers Most Unhinged Rant Yet=>
Trump ‘Most Dangerous and Worst Man’
Ever To Be POTUS (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 4:28 pm

In a speech at a Human Rights Campaign
event Saturday, Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed Donald
Trump is the “most dangerous and worst
man” ever to be President of the United
States.
“We are dealing with probably the most
dangerous and worst man in the presidency we
have ever had in the history of this nation, but
we are going to win the fight,” Schumer told the
crowd.
“If we can take back the Senate, that means
that I will have the sole power to determine
what goes on the floor of the Senate,” he
added. “It means we’ll be able stop Donald
Trump from putting all his junk on the floor and
stop the anti-LGBT cascade of things that come
into the United States Senate,” the Senate
Minority Leader continued.

Schumer then talked up his party’s prospects in 2018,

chanting,

“We will take this country back! … We’re going

to win! We’re going to win! We’re going to win!”

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 Schumer Urges Trump To Allow Dems'
'FISA Memo' To Also Be Released
By Joseph Weber | Fox News
February 5, 2018
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (left) and California Rep.
Adam Schiff. (Reuters)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow
congressional Democrats are ratcheting up the pressure on
President Trump to release to Democrats’ version of
Republicans’ so-called FISA memo, in the interest of
“full transparency.”
The New York senator and others made their plea Sunday,
two days after Republican leaders of the House
Intelligence committee released their memo, which alleges
“abuses” by the FBI and Justice Department when
requesting a surveillance warrant from the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA court, on then-
Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“I believe it is a matter of fundamental
fairness that the American people be
allowed to see both sides of the argument
and make their own judgements,” Schumer
said.
The GOP memo alleges the warrant was requested by the
two federal agencies based, at least in part, on a largely
unsubstantiated anti-Trump dossier financed by
Democrats.
California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the
Intelligence Committee, has suggested that Republicans
used information out of context to draft their memo and as
a result is trying to release Democrats’ version.
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Schiff is expected on Monday to officially request that the
committee, led by California Republican Devin Nunes,
release Democratic members’ 10-page memo, with the
promise to send it to the Justice Department for redactions.
The president would have five days to decide whether the
memorandum can be made public, as he did with the GOP
memo.
“I again urge you to support the release of
ranking member Schiff’s memo so that the
American people can make their own
judgement on the facts of the case,”
Schumer also said.
Schumer also argued the release of the GOP memo, after
Trump declassified its content, was “only intended to
undermine” the Justice Department collusion investigation,
now being led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Congressional Republicans have rejected that argument.
“The memo has nothing to do at all with the
special counsel,” Utah Rep. Chris Stewart,
a Republican member of the Intelligence
committee, told “Fox News Sunday.” “I
hope the special counsel completes his
work and reports it to the people.”
Later on the show, Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat on the
committee, argued the memo indeed “appears” intended to
undermine Mueller and his investigation.
And he urged Stewart to return to Capitol Hill this week to “that puts into context, point by point, the
support legislation that would protect Mueller and Deputy seriousness of this investigation as well as
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and support the release new, unseen evidence that bolsters the
of the Democrats’ memo FBI's credibility.”

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 Trump Attorneys Approve Second
Special Counsel To Probe FBI And DOJ
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 14:58
The war between the White House and the FBI/DOJ
complex may be turning nuclear.
While speaking to reported aboard Air Force 1,
Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said that
President Trump's attorneys have already
approved the idea of appointing a second
special counsel to investigate the FBI and
Justice Department's actions during the
2016 presidential campaign, according to
White House pool reports.
Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah. Photo: Chip Somodevilla
The excerpt from the pool in question:
*FISA warrant should it be released? and what
about a second special counsel?*
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**
Presidents attorneys have addressed this
and said yes to a second special counsel.
FISA: That document along with any other that the House
Intelligence Committee chooses to vote out of its
committee through its process and all the House
procedures, we would entertain like anything else.
As Axios adds, Shah also said that the White House will
approach further memos, including the one created by
Democrats, in the same way they handled the memo
authored by Devin Nunes:
"Which is to allow for a legal review, national
security review led by the White House
Counsel’s Office, and then within five days the
president will make a decision about
declassifying it," said Shah.
And another highlight from the gaggle summarized by
Axios:
Trump's tweet calling Rep. Adam Schiff a
leaker: "We don’t really see any reason why
anybody else would leak his information other
than partisan political stunts by Adam Schiff and
other members of the minority."
 SARA CARTER: Sen. Grassley Hinted Clinton
Contacts Fed Info To Dossier Author Christopher Steele
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 5:00 Pm
In a letter released Monday, Senators Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
suggested Clinton contacts fed information
to former British spy and dossier author
Christopher Steele.
A new and highly redacted document released Monday by
the Senate Judiciary Committee reveals that former British
spy Christopher Steele, the man behind the unverified and
controversial dossier, wrote an additional memo regarding
alleged Russian collusion with President Donald Trump
but that the information was largely based on information
provided by allies of former presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton.
According to several U.S. Officials who spoke to this
reporter, Cody Shearer, a former journalist and close ally
of Hillary and Bill Clinton, was closely connected to
Steele and shared information with the former spy. Shearer
worked in the 90s for President Bill Clinton.
Steele, whose prior work with British intelligence gave
him access to U.S. intelligence and State Department
officials, also appeared to be in contact with Jonathan
Winer, a current State Department official who also
worked under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Winer is the “State Department’s Special Envoy for Libya
and Senior Advisor for MEK resettlement,” according to
the State Department website.
Another connection to the second dossier, according to
several sources who spoke to this reporter, is close friend
and advisor to Hillary Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal.
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Carter previously reported Blumenthal was grilled by the
FBI in 2016 in connection to the Steele dossier.
Carter previously reported on the current state of
Blumenthal’s ties to the Clintons:
Blumenthal worked as a White House aide for
Bill Clinton, and later worked with the Clinton
Foundation after being denied a role by Obama
Administration officials with then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, according to reports.
According to Politico he was being paid
$10,000 a month by the Clinton Foundation.
Commenting on Carter’s story, Judicial Watch’s Tom
Fitton called Blumenthal a Clinton Foundation “hatchet
man.”
Last November, Hillary Clinton infamously
admitted on “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah that her
campaign paid for the discredited document.
Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the
discredited Steele dossier, is still investigating alleged ties
between President Trump and Russia, Carter reported last
month.
Steele, who was tasked with compiling the ‘Trump
dossier’ for opposition research firm Fusion GPS,
has admitted in court that the discredited document
contains “limited intelligence.”
Steele also admitted part of “his final December
memo,” was unvetted.
“Such intelligence was not actively sought; it
was merely received,” Steele added.
 Angela Rye: 'There is Something
Dangerously Wrong With this President'
By Ryan Foley
February 5, 2018 5:20 PM EST
CNN took a break Monday from covering the drop in the
Dow to blast President Trump for his use of the word
“treasonous” to describe Democrats at a rally in
Cincinnati.
Former NY GOP Gubernatorial candidateRob
Astorino pointed out that the Democrats have an intense
hatred for President Trump as evidenced by the refusal of
many elected Democrats to attend his inauguration. Angela
Rye, Astorino’s liberal counterpart on the panel, said that
“there is something dangerously wrong with this
President” and argued that it was “high time and overtime
that he gets a psychological evaluation.”
When Astorino dared to suggest that Democratic
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (Calif.) might benefit
from a psychological evaluation herself, Rye chastised
Astorino:
“That is my mentor and you will not disrespect
her that way ever.” With divisive figures like
Maxine Waters amassing such a large
following, it’s no wonder we live in such a
polarized country.
Throughout the entirety of the heated exchange, Rye
repeated the talking points of her mentor, painting the
President as a racist and a bigot in addition to stressing the
importance of bringing impeachment proceedings against
him. Rye's juvenile behavior included dismissing any
criticism of Maxine Waters and President Obama as “false
equivalencies.”
Later, Astorino said that there were
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“a lot of things Obama said in the campaign that
he regrets and did in office.”
Rye pressed Astorino to come up with one thing President
Obama said that sounded that racist and toxic. Astorino did
not say this but candidate Obama’s “guns and religion”
comment that he used to refer to small-town Americans
during the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary might
fall into the “toxic” category.
Rye concluded the interview by saying that
“Donald Trump is dangerous and toxic for this
country” and dubbed him “mentally unstable."
Rye’s statements prove beyond a reasonable doubt that
#TheResistance will not sail off quietly into the sunset
anytime soon, even if the Trump Presidency becomes a
smashing success.
ROB ASTORINO: I do, yes. I think it’s – I mean it is so toxic right
now on both sides of the aisle. And for the Democrats, a lot of it
is, you know, a specific hate towards Donald Trump, the person.
And sometimes you also have to say the Presidency or the office
of the President. When they were at the inauguration saying
we’re not even going to go. He didn’t even get started yet and
they were boycotting his inauguration. Let’s remember that.
ANGELA RYE: Do you remember why?
ASTORINO: So this is a continuation of what’s been going on.
RYE: Do you remember why?
ASTORINO: Does it matter?
RYE: Yeah, it absolutely matters and I’ll tell you why it matters. It
matters for all of those people who are brown who were called
drug dealers and rapists. It matters for all of those people–
ASTORINO: He didn’t say all.
RYE: It doesn’t matter if you say all when you say Mexicans are
drug dealers and rapists, you have a problem. That’s how he
started his campaign. That was the day of his campaign
announcement. This is a man that started talking about building a
great, beautiful wall to keep people out of the country. So when
you build a campaign built on hate-filled rhetoric, built on bigotry,
discrimination and racism, I’m not going to applaud you and
people who look like me aren’t going to applaud you and people
who have heart all across this country who don’t look like me
aren’t going to applaud you. Now, going back to your remarks
about Congresswoman Maxine Waters, she did issue a State of
the Union rebuttal. Unfortunately for you and what you might
believe, there are several people all over this country who believe
just like Congresswoman Waters believes, that there is
something dangerously wrong with this President. That it’s high
time and overtime that he gets a psychological evaluation. That
it’s high time and overtime...
ASTORINO: I would say the same thing about Maxine Waters.
ASTORINO: So is nuts about impeachment right now.
COOPER: Let Rob finish.
RYE: He was the spokesperson for it.
ASTORINO: Angela, so is nuts about impeachment right now.
Remember the moment the President was inaugurated, a lot of
Democrats were saying we’re going to impeach him. We’ll figure
out what, we’ll get to that, somewhere somehow but we’re going
to talk about impeachment. And I think when you start out in a
defensive mode there and everyone is attacking you, the
campaign is one thing. There were a lot of things Hillary Clinton
said that she regrets. There were a lot of things Obama said in
the campaign that he regrets and did in office.

RYE: And I wish you would. That is my mentor and you will not
RYE: Name one thing. Name one thing that sounded that racist
disrespect her in that way ever. But let me just go back to this
and that toxic. Name one thing from Barack Obama that sounded
point. It is so very important that a Commander-in-Chief behave
like that, please.
as such, it is so very important that we can rely on the words that
come out of his mouth and we cannot. It is so very important that
when he talks about black unemployment that since it’s ASTORINO: First of all, well, race relations were at the worst
plummeted it is also now increased. So I wonder if he’s going to under President Obama according to polls all across...
take credit for that as well. It’s time for this President to be
honest. RYE: Because he was black.

ANDERSON COOPER: But Angela, I mean Rob, what Rob was
saying, was that it wasn’t, it wasn’t helpful for the President to call
Democrats treasonous just as, you know rhetoric on the other
side, talking about impeachment is not necessarily helpful and
certainly, Angela, there are a lot of Democrats who feel like the
talk of impeachment is not necessarily helpful.
ASTORINO: No, that’s ridic...
RYE: That is absolutely the case.
ASTORINO: That’s the only argument Democrats are using now,
they can’t go on facts so it’s just let’s fall back on race.

RYE: It may not be helpful Anderson but the reality of it is, there RYE: No because it’s the truth. You don’t like it but it hurts.
are a number of people who have called into looking into
impeachment. That is a talking point on the left, certainly, that
COOPER: Let’s not relitigate that...
works very, very well because people have a number of
questions and every time Twitter thumbs picks his account back
up and opens it up and says something else, he is the one that ASTORINO: It’s absolutely true.
proves the reason why folks are looking into this. That’s not on
Congresswoman Waters. I think it’s also time for us to stop with COOPER: Let’s not relitigate it.
the false equivalency.
RYE: I don’t want to relitigate it either, Anderson, but what
COOPER: Rob, I want you to go ahead and respond. happens is people continue to try to draw, to try to draw these
parallels that don’t exist. The bottom line is Donald Trump is
ASTORINO: Angela, I would say that’s as crazy and over the dangerous and toxic for this country. He’s dangerous and toxic
top– every time he tweets about his nuclear button being bigger. I
mean come on. This is someone who is not stable and I’ve been
saying it from the beginning and I will continue to say it until
RYE: I’m sure you would.
somebody looks into his mental stability. It is a problem and that
is where we are.
ASTORINO: –the impeachment now, as Obama not being born
in the United States. You and Democrats and most people said,
COOPER: Okay Rob...I hear you. Just quickly Rob, I want you to
you know, that’s a little out of the mainstream and we don’t
respond and then I want to get back to the Dow.
believe that.

ASTORINO: Well, using words like dangerous...

RYE: No, it’s not a little out of the mainstream, it was nuts. And
he was the chief-the reason why...
RYE: He is dangerous.
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ASTORINO: And mentally unstable. when you start using words like that. If we had used, and I never,
I didn’t agree with Obama but if I said he was dangerous and
RYE: He is. mentally unstable.

ASTORINO: Those are words that are reserved under unique RYE: He wasn’t.
times. Now I say he should lay off his...
ASTORINO: If I had said that, what would your response have
RYE: It’s a unique time. been?

ASTORINO: ...give his thumb a break and not go on Twitter as RYE: My response would be that that’s another false equivalency
much. I agree with that. But you know, you’ve got to be careful and it’s not true.

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 NBC: ‘President Possibly Learning’
To Stop Taking Credit For Stock Market
By Scott Whitlock
February 5, 2018 5:39 PM EST
All three networks on Monday broke in with special
reports that the stock market plummeted over 1000 points.
Yet, it was ABC that spun the bad news as time for Donald
Trump to take ownership of the stock market. NBC, which
hasn’t exactly promoted the idea that Trump had anything
to do with last year’s gains, chided:
“In the past, presidents have tried to shy away
for taking too much credit for stock market
games because on the flip side there's the
possibility you own the losses too.”
She chided, “And that seems to be the lesson
this President is possibly learning today.”
Jackson reminded:
On the one hand, you had the president in Cincinnati, he's
on the road today talking up his tax law and talking about
what it has been to the economy and at the same time you
had the Dow plunging almost minute for minute as the
President was speaking. It is not the optics that the White
House necessarily wants to see.
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As the Media Research Center’s Julia A. Seymour noted,
on Friday the stock market’s 666 point drop got 33 percent
more network coverage than the Dow hitting 25,000 and
26,000. In January, CBS noticed the 25,000 mark, but
credited the tax cuts delivered by “Congress.”
On Monday, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos provided a
surprisingly more sober analysis of the market:
But, of course, [Monday’s stock market fall] comes on top
of a healthy gain over the last year. If you look back to
when President Trump was inaugurated, back in January of
2017, the Dow was below 20,000. Now, about 24,000. So,
close to a 25 percent rise since 2017. But it has been a
tough day on Wall Street right now.
On CBS’s special report, Bianna Golodryga reminded, “To
put this into perspective since the president has been in
office the market has been up some 30 percent.”
A transcript of NBC’s special report can be read by
clicking on “expand” below:
NBC News special report
2/5/18
4:02
HALLIE JACKSON: White House officials saying “Listen, they
understand that the stock market will fluctuate in the short term,
but they believe, in their words, that the fundamentals of
economy are strong. You're right that just a week ago the
President was down Pennsylvania Avenue touting the state of
the economy in his State of the Union speech. It is one of his
favorite and most frequent talking points, but it set up a really
interesting split screen today.
On the one hand, you had the president in Cincinnati, he's on the
road today talking up his tax law and talking about what it has
been to the economy and at the same time you had the Dow
plunging almost minute for minute as the President was
speaking. It is not the optics that the White House necessarily
wants to see. Remember, this is a president who just a couple
weeks ago talked about possibly hitting 30,000. In the past,
.
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presidents have tried to shy away for taking too much credit for
stock market games because on the flip side there's the
possibility you own the losses too. And that seems to be the
lesson this President is possibly learning today. He's due back at
the White House a little later on this afternoon, Lester. We'll see if
he answers any questions from reporters on this then.
BREAKING: House Intel Committee Votes Unanimously To Release Dem
Spin Memo – Schiff Spreads More Lies (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 5:42 Pm

On Monday, suspected leaker Rep. Adam
Schiff (D-CA) announced the House Intel
Committee voted unanimously to release the
Democrat spin memo.
Schiff said his junk Dem memo will help inform the public
of the “distortions and inaccuracies” in Nunes’ memo.
VIDEO:

The Democrats penned a 10-page memo in

response to Nunes’ damning 4-page FISA
memo which was released Friday.

Suspected leaker Adam Schiff was happy to announce the

House Intel Committee voted unanimously to release the
Dem junk memo.

Schiff once again lied and said Republicans were trying to

hide the Dem spin memo even though it was simply going
through the same process as Nunes’ memo.
“The vote to release this was unanimous to
release this. I think the Republican members
understood that after calling for full
transparency they were getting hammered over
the course of the week for trying to hide the
minority response,” Adam Schiff said lying once
again about the process.
Nobody was trying to hide the Dem response. No wonder
why President Trump called Schiff one of the biggest liars
and leakers in Washington D.C.
VIDEO:
Leaker Adam Schiff gave us a sneak peek of what the
Dems will probably push in their junk memo-
PAPADOPOULOS.
After the FISA memo was released on Friday Trump said
there was no Russian collusion and the FISA memo
vindicated him.
Schiff responded,
“Quite the opposite, Mr. President. The most
important fact disclosed in this otherwise
shoddy memo was that FBI investigation began
July 2016 with your advisor, Papadopoulos,
who was secretly discussing stolen Clinton
emails with the Russians.”

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Michael Savage Rings The Alarm After Stock Market
Tanks: ‘Deep State’ Trying To DESTROY TRUMP!
(AUDIO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 6:25 Pm

enemies of the average American. Make no

On his nationally-syndicated radio
program Monday, talk show legend and
New York Times best-selling author, Dr.
Michael Savage, accused the ‘Deep
State,’ of tanking the stock market in an
effort to ‘destroy’ President Trump.
mistake about it, they are going for you! These
people are so evil and so power-drunk that
they’d burn the nation to the ground rather than
let Donald Trump live another day in office.”
After the Dow Jones dropped 1175 points today, the White
House issued the following statement:

Credit: Maverick1001BG

“The President’s focus is on our long-term

SAVAGE: “Trump’s stirring SOTU speech last
week was so great that even CBS admitted 75
percent of the people who watched it approved
of it and loved it. So what happened right
afterwards? The Establishment, meaning the
‘Deep State,’ call it whatever you want, went
into overdrive to destroy Trump, or try to
destroy him, where he is strongest, because
they couldn’t get him where they thought he
was weakest. So they are taking the market
down. They are trying to hurt you. They are the
economic fundamentals, which remain
exceptionally strong, with strengthening U.S.
economic growth, historically low
unemployment, and increasing wages for
American workers. The President’s tax cuts and
regulatory reforms will further enhance the U.S.
economy and continue to increase prosperity
for the American people.”
Hedge Fund guru Ray Dalio believes the market is
dropping due to “minor corrections.”

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 Dr. Savage’s most recent book “God, Faith,
and Reason,” is available on Amazon and
good book stores everywhere.

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 New Hillary Emails Reveal Clinton’s
Aide Told Her ‘All Of Your Info
Is Saved On The Server’
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 7:46 Pm
The State Department quietly released more
Hillary Clinton documents last week as
everyone was waiting in anticipation for the
FISA abuse memo to be released.
Hillary Clinton’s emails were saved on her private home
brewed server and she was fully aware of it according to
new emails released.
A 2012 email exchange with Huma Abedin, Monica
Hanley, Hillary Clinton and her aide Justin Cooper with
the subject line “My berry died again tonight.” reveals she
was well aware all of her emails were saved on her private
server.
“It comes back to life once I plug in the charger.
Should I try a new battery or get a new one?
And, have we figured out to save all my info?”
Hillary Clinton asked her aides regarding her
Blackberry device using her
HDR22@clintonemail.com account.
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Justin Cooper replied immediately to Hillary letting her
know all of her information is on her server:
Monica has a new berry for you We just have to swap
them All of your info is on the sever [server] which you
can access on any web enabled The berries have a capacity
— which may be part of why yours isn’t working
Hillary then replied, “Thanks for your help.”
This is just more evidence that Hillary Clinton was well
aware that important information was saved on her server.
Hillary continues to claim she used a private server for
convenience. She knew she had to hide her wheeling and
dealing and pay-to-play from the IT team at the State
Department which is why she used a private server.
As previously reported, Hillary’s aide Justin Cooper
admitted to destroying Hillary’s Blackberry devices with a
hammer.
It was also reported Hillary Clinton used 13 different
Blackberries and 5 iPads all using her private email
accounts.
Within weeks of the news breaking Hillary Clinton was
using a private server while she was the head of the State
Department, the server was wiped clean. Hillary tried to
play dumb claiming she didn’t know “C” in the emails
stood for “classified”.
Screenshot below:
This is the woman who thought she was qualified to be the President of the United States of America.

Thank God she lost the 2016 election. It’s time to lock her up!

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 HAH-HAH! GOP Rep. Owns Adam Schiff Over FISA
Memo Freakout: He’s “FULL OF SCHIFF”
Sometimes (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 8:05 Pm

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) joined CNN’s
Anderson Cooper Monday evening and
accused his House Intelligence Committee
colleague, Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA), of being
“full of schiff,” at times.
Rep. Nunes reportedly denying to comment on potential
coordination between himself and the White House
pertaining to the memo’s release.
Raw Story reports:
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin
Nunes (R-CA) on Tuesday declined to say
whether he worked with the White House on the
anti-FBI memo written by members of his
staff, the Daily Beast reports.
His refusal came during a closed-door
committee meeting, during which Rep. Mike
Quigley (D-IL) asked Nunes if his staffers
engaged with the White House as they wrote
the memo alleging improper surveillance by the
FBI during the 2016 presidential election. […]
As the Beast reports, Nunes told Quigley,
“I’m not answering” when asked point-blank
about possible communications with the White
House.
As The Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross noted, Nunes did reply
to the question. His answer?
“I would just answer, as far as I know, no.”

When asked why House Intelligence chairman Devin

Nunes won’t publicly rebuke Schiff’s claim about the
White House and Committee members coordinating the
FISA abuse memo’s release, Zeldin replied, “Listen, I
wasn’t in the meeting tonight that took place, but,
Congressman Schiff, you could say, has been full of schiff
at some times.”
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), or likely one of his colleagues,
was caught leaking fake news to the Daily Beast about

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 “Another false leak from House Intelligence
Committee Democrats,” added Ross.
Schiff’s position on the memo has been nothing short of
“Schiffty,” having first branded the memo nothing more
than Republican propaganda, then claiming the document
shouldn’t be made public because Americans wouldn’t
understand it, to announcing House Intelligence Democrats
would be releasing a “counter-memo.”

What’s particularly humiliating about the Daily Beast’s

report is that the release of the meeting’s transcript was
inevitable. Once it was released, anyone could see the
report was false.

On Monday evening, Schiff announced the Committee

voted unanimously to release their 10-page “counter-
memo.”

The California lawmaker believes the counter-memo will

correct the Nunes memo’s “distortions and inaccuracies.”

Democrats have fought hard to paint the memo as a hyper-

partisan piece of propaganda aimed at discrediting the
‘Trump-Russia’ collusion investigation. Nobody worked
harder to keep the memo classified than Schiff. The document will now head to the White House for
approval.
.

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 Grassley: "2nd Dossier" Fed To Christopher Steele
By Obama State Dept, Routed
Through Clinton Crony
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 20:07
A heavily redacted document just released by the Senate
Judiciary Committee confirms the existence of a second
anti-Trump dossier which - much like the first dossier
published by Buzzfeed - relied on information from
Russia's FSB, the state security service. Said otherwise,
actual Russian collusion in an attempt to sway the 2016
election.
Shockingly, this second dossier went from Clinton
"hatchet man" Cody Shearer, who gave it to an unnamed
official in the Obama State Department, before it was
routed it to former British Spy Christopher Steele. It is
unknown what happened to the document after that.
Cody Shearer (Youtube screen grab)
According to the referral, Steele wrote the additional
memo based on anti-Trump information that originated
with a foreign source.
In a convoluted scheme outlined in the
referral, the foreign source gave the
information to an unnamed associate of
Hillary and Bill Clinton, who then gave
the information to an unnamed official
in the Obama State Department, who
then gave the information to Steele.
Steele wrote a report based on the information, but the
redacted version of the referral does not say what Steele
did with the report after that.
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Published accounts in the Guardian and the Washington
Post have indicated that Clinton associate Cody Shearer
was in contact with Steele about anti-Trump research, and
Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer was a
connection between Steele and the State Department
during the 2016 campaign. -Washington Examiner
Of note, Shearer's brother served as an ambassador during
the Clinton administration, and his late sister was married
to Strobe Talbott, the chief authority on Russia in
President Bill Clinton’s State Department, according to
ProPublica.
The newly released Senate Intel Committee document,
authored by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) is an unclassified version of a Jan 4
criminal referral to the Justice Department targeting
Christopher Steele - the former British spy who assembled
the Trump-Russia dossier used to obtain a FISA
surveillance warrant on one-time Trump advisor Carter
Page.
Christopher Steele
Grassley and Graham also claim to have
"substantial evidence" that Steele misled
the FBI about his contacts with
journalists regarding the dossier.
In British court filings, Steele disclosed that he held off-
the-record meetings with reporters at various news outlets
prior to 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.

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Grassley and Graham's letter also blasts the FBI for blocking key details of their memo calling for Steele's investigation, and
gives them until tomorrow to provide an unredacted copy.

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 Will The Conspiracy Against Trump
And American Democracy Go Unpunished?
Paul Craig Roberts
February 5, 2018
Dear Readers: This is one of the most important articles I
have written, along with this one:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/02/nuclear-
posture-review/.
If the Russiagate conspiracy against Trump and American
democracy goes unpunished, accountable government in
the United States will cease to exist. US security agencies
have long been involved in coups against foreign
governments. Now they are involved in one against
America. There is great danger that Republicans are so
worshipful of “national security” and so determined to
protect the reputation of the US government that they will
give a pass to the high officials who participated in a
conspiracy against the United States. As for President
Trump, he lacks a government that he can count on and is
threatened by the military/security complex. The conspiracy
could easily be whitewashed as merely a case of the FBI
and DOJ not following proper procedures, with the media’s
participation in the conspiracy being dismissed with mea
culpas of “sloppy reporting.”
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so
deep within us that no sign of it appears on
the surface, we are implanting it, and it will
rise up a thousand fold in the future. When
we neither punish nor reproach evildoers,
we are not simply protecting their trivial old
age, we are thereby ripping the foundations
of justice from beneath new generations.”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The American people do not realize the seriousness of the
Russiagate conspiracy against them and President Trump.
Polls indicate that a large majority of the public do not
believe that Trump conspired with Putin to steal the
presidential election, and are tired of hearing the media
prostitutes repeat the absurd story day after day. On its
face the story makes no sense whatsoever. Moreover, the
leaked emails are real, not fabricated. The emails show
exactly what Hillary and the DNC did. The public knows
that these transgressions were pushed out of news sight by
the false story of a Trump/Putin conspiracy. The fact that
the entirety of the US print and TV media served in a
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highly partisan political way to bury a true and disturbing
story with a fake news story—Russiagate—is one reason
some polls show that only 6% of Americans trust the
mainstream media. All polls show that large majorities of
independents, Republicans, and youth distrust the
mainstream media. In some polls about half of Democrats
trust the media, and that is because the media is servant to
Democratic Party interests.
Russiagate is a dagger aimed at the heart of American
governmental institutions. A conspiracy involving top
officials of the Obama Department of Justice, FBI, and
other “security” agencies was formed together with Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, the
purpose of which was to defeat Trump in the presidential
election and, failing that, to remove Trump from office or
to discredit him to the point that he would be reduced to a
mere figurehead. This conspiracy has the full backing of
the entirely of the mainstream media.
In other words, it was a coup not only against Donald
Trump but also against American democracy and the
outcome of a presidential election.
There is no doubt whatsoever about this. The facts are
publicly available in the declassified Top Secret
Memorandum Opinion and Order of the FISA Court—
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Ce
rt_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf
and in the declassified report from the House Intelligence
Committee—given by the presstitutes the misleading name
of the “Nunes Memo,” as if it is Nunes’ personal opinion
and not the findings of months of work by an oversight
committee of Congress—
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4365354-
370598711-House-Intelligence-Committee-Report-
on.html?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false
All of this information has been posted on my website for
some time. If you have difficulty following my
explanation, former US Attorney Joe DiGenova explains
the felony actions by the FBI and Obama Justice (sic)
Department here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-21/brazen-plot-
exonerate-hillary-clinton-and-frame-trump-unraveling-
says-former-fed
Briefly, the National Security Agency discovered that the
FBI and DOJ were abusing the surveillance system. As a
favor of one security agency to another, NSA Director
Adm. Rogers permitted the FBI and DOJ to rush to the
FISA Court and confess their transgressions before the
NSA informed the Court. The FBI and DOJ pretended that
their deception of the Court in order to obtain surveillance
warrants for highly partisan political purposes was not due
to their intent but to procedural mistakes. The FBI and
DOJ told the Court that they were tightening up procedures
so that this would not happen again. The FISA Court
Memorandum and Order clearly states:
“On October 24, 2016, the government
orally apprised the Court of significant non-
compliance with the NSA’s minimization
procedures involving queries of data
acquired under Section 702 using U.S.
person identifiers. The full scope of non-
compliant querying practices had not been
previously disclosed to the Court.”
What this legalese jargon is saying is the the FBI and DOJ
confessed to obtaining warrants under false pretexts. These
are felonies:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nunes-memo-reports-
crimes-at-top-of-the-fbi-and-the-department-of-
justice/5628246
The FISA Court Memorandum and Order is about
resolving these deficiencies and returning the FBI and DOJ
to legal practices. For example, the Court Memorandum
and Order says:
“On January 3, 2017, the government
made a further submission describing its
efforts to ascertain the scope and causes
of those compliance problems and
discussing potential solutions to them. See
January 3, 2017, Supplemental Notice of
Compliance Incidents Regarding the
Querying of Section 701-Acquired Data
(“January 3, 2017 Notice”). The Court was
not satisfied that the government had
sufficiently ascertained the scope of the
compliance problems or developed and
implemented adequate solutions for them
and communicated a number of questions
and concerns to the government.”
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In other words, the FBI and DOJ were attempting to make
corrections to their “compliance problems” in ways that
would allow them to continue to mislead the FISA Court,
and the Court wasn’t letting them.
The FISA Court Memorandum and Order was released
prior to the House Intelligence Committee report and has
been completely ignored by the utterly corrupt press
prostitutes. The FISA Court Memorandum and Order,
relying on the confessions of the FBI and DOJ, verifies the
House Intelligence Committee report that the FBI and DOJ
illegally obtained spy warrants for partisan political
purposes.
Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat who is a disgrace to the
voters of his California district, to the Democratic Party,
and to the House of Representatives, knows full well that
the FBI and DOJ deceived the FISA Court. Schiff is so
partisan that he lies to the hilt in the face of hard
documented evidence from both the FISA Court and his
own House committee. Schiff is so totally devoid of all
honesty and integrity that he is the perfect leader for a
shithole country, something that he and his ilk are turning
the United States into.
The honest left—not the Identity Politics left, which is a
collection of deranged idiots—does not believe a word of
the concocted Russiagate conspiracy against Trump. They
object to the Russiagate conspiracy not because they like
Trump, which they most certainly do not, but because they
understand that it is a lie directed against truth. They
understand that the American mainstream media has
deserted factual, truthful reporting and serves as a
propaganda ministry for the war/police state that American
is becoming.
For example, Eric Zuesse holds The Atlantic and its
presstitute writer, David A. Graham, to account for lying
about the House Intelligence Report:
http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/democratic-partys-hack-
atlantic-tries-dismiss-nunes-memo/
Andre Damon writes on the World Socialist Web Site:
“The Democratic Party was thrown into
disarray Friday after the publication of a
classified memo exposing as a factionally-
motivated witch hunt the investigation by
leading intelligence agencies into the
Trump administration’s alleged collusion
with Russia. . . . The release of the memo
once again underscores the fact that the
US intelligence agencies have massively
intervened in US politics.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/03/nune-
f03.html
The real left, as opposed to the fake left, understands that
the people have no chance when the highest officials of the
Department of Justice and the security agencies join in a
conspiracy against a democratic outcome. When the justice
and police authorities have no respect for the truth, as the
Russiagate conspiracy proves, the people are doomed.
If the FBI-DOJ-DNC-presstitute conspiracy
goes unpunished, The Lie will have
prevailed over The Truth and all of us will
be endangered.
The important question before us is: will the treasonous
criminals in the FBI, DOJ, and DNC be indicted and held
responsible? Or do high government officials get a pass as
do the police who rob and murder citizens and never face
justice for their crimes?
From the sound of things, it looks like they will get a pass.
Rep. Nunes felt compelled to say on TV how much he
likes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is a
party to the deception of the FISA Court. President Trump
says he will not fire the conspirator against him, Robert
.
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Mueller, even though both Trump and Mueller know that
the Russiagate investigation headed by Mueller is a
concocted conspiracy against American democracy and the
President of the United States. It seems that high
government officials, like state and local police and
executives of “banks too big to fail,” are above the law.
What about the FISA Court, readers ask, why did the FISA
Court let the FBI and DOJ get away with their illegal
acquisition of spy warrants? Once the Court knew about it,
the Court did not let them get away with it, as the
Memorandum and Order makes clear. The FISA Court
does not have prosecutorial power to indict and bring a
case against the FBI and DOJ criminals. That has to be
done by the DOJ, and the DOJ is not going to indict itself.
Former US Attorney Joe DiGenova believes that
continuing investigations will result in high officials being
indicted, convicted, and sent to prison. If the US is to have
any future as a country in which government is
accountable to law, it is essential that DiGenova be correct.
However, I will believe it when I see it.
 What The FBI/FISA Memo
Really Tells Us About Our Government
Written By Ron Paul
Monday February 5, 2018
The release of the House Intelligence Committee’s memo
on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA process set off a partisan
firestorm. The Democrats warned us beforehand that
declassifying the memo would be the end the world as we
know it. It was reckless to allow Americans to see this
classified material, they said. Agents in the field could be
harmed, sources and methods would be compromised, they
claimed.
Republicans who had seen the memo claimed that it was
far worse than Watergate. They said that mass firings
would begin immediately after it became public. They said
that the criminality of US government agencies exposed by
the memo would shock Americans.
Then it was released and the world did not end. FBI agents
have thus far not been fired. Seeing “classified” material
did not terrify us, but rather it demonstrated clearly that
information is kept from us by claiming it is “classified.”
In the end, both sides got it wrong. Here’s what the memo
really shows us:
First, the memo demonstrates that there is a “deep state”
that does not want things like elections to threaten its
existence. Candidate Trump’s repeated promises to get
along with Russia and to re-assess NATO so many years
after the end of the Cold War were threatening to a
Washington that depends on creating enemies to sustain
the fear needed to justify a trillion dollar yearly military
budget.
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Imagine if candidate Trump had kept his campaign
promises when he became President. Without the “Russia
threat” and without the “China threat” and without the
need to dump billions into NATO, we might actually have
reaped a “peace dividend” more than a quarter century
after the end of the Cold War. That would have starved the
war-promoting military-industrial complex and its network
of pro-war “think tanks” that populate the Washington
Beltway area.
Second, the memo shows us that neither Republicans nor
Democrats really care that much about surveillance abuse
when average Americans are the victims. It is clear that the
FISA abuse detailed in the memo was well known to
Republicans like House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunes before the memo was actually released. It
was likely also well known by Democrats in the House.
But both parties suppressed this evidence of FBI abuse of
the FISA process until after the FISA Amendments Act
could be re-authorized. They didn’t want Americans to
know how corrupt the surveillance system really is and
how the US has become far too much like East Germany.
That might cause more Americans to call up their
Representatives and demand that the FISA mass
surveillance amendment be allowed to sunset.
Ironically, Chairman Nunes was the biggest cheerleader
for the extension of the FISA Amendments even as he
knew how terribly the FISA process had been abused!
Finally, hawks on both sides of the aisle in Congress used
“Russia-gate” as an excuse to build animosity toward
Russia among average Americans. They knew from the
classified information that there was no basis for their
claims that the Trump Administration was put into office
with Moscow’s assistance, but they played along because
it served their real goal of keeping the US on war footing
and keeping the gravy train rolling.
But don’t worry: the neocons in both parties will soon find
another excuse to keep us terrified and ready to flush away
a trillion dollars a year on military spending and continue
our arguments and new “Cold War” with Russia.
In the meantime, be skeptical of both parties. With few
exceptions they are not protecting liberty but promoting its
opposite.
 Hillary Clinton Desperately Tries To Distract From FISA
Memo Media Firestorm – Fails Miserably
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 8:57 Pm

all raise our voices. Watch live and #RaiseYourVoice

The FISA abuse memo has dominated the Weds 2/7 at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT. Learn more here:”
media since it was released last Friday.

It took the DOW plunging Monday to briefly

take attention away from the FISA abuse
memo and the scandal surrounding Hillary’s
dossier which branches out to Obama’s FBI
and DOJ.

Hillary has not said a word about the memo; she subtly
hinted Monday the document was merely a scapegoat for
Trump’s camp.

Hillary then tweeted about her serial sexual harasser

Hillary is desperate to distract from one of the biggest
scandals to ever rock D.C.
Hillary’s phony Russia dossier is her dirtiest political trick
to date. A fraudulent dossier she paid millions of dollars
for was used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on her
political opponent during a presidential campaign.
husband signing the Family and Medical Leave Act 25
years ago.
25 years ago, @billclinton signed the Family and Medical
Leave Act, which remains a success all these years later.
Now we need paid leave to finish the job and create more
equitable & family friendly workplaces. #FMLA25

Hillary took to her Twitter account Monday and tweeted a

link to ‘Makers Conference 2018‘ a conference where
different women will come forward to shed light on sexual
harassment.

Will Bill Clinton’s victims be speaking?

Hillary tweeted, “Looking forward to being a part of

#MAKERSConference2018 and talking about how we can
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 Secret House Memo Released:
The Fallout, The Lies, And The Bigger Picture
By Jon Rappoport
February 5, 2018
The House Intelligence Committee’s 4-page memo has
been released.
The hullabaloo about the memo unfairly “damaging the
reputation” of the FBI and the Dept. of Justice is a joke.
The same types of Democrat ideologues who are spouting
that line, now, were screaming at the FBI, decades ago,
when COINTELPRO, the Bureau’s op to place spies inside
dissident Left groups across the US, was exposed. But
suddenly, now, the FBI is pure as the driven snow, and its
reputation must not be besmirched; otherwise, Democracy
itself could collapse.
And in more recent times, the mainstream Left press,
without an ounce of regret or remorse, exposed
monumental fraud and incompetence at the FBI’s vaunted
forensic lab and stuck a dagger in its heart:
Washington Post, April 18, 2015:
“The Justice Department and FBI have
formally acknowledged that nearly every
examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave
flawed testimony in almost all trials in which
they offered evidence against criminal
defendants over more than a two-decade
period before 2000…the cases include
those of 32 defendants sentenced to
death…Of those, 14 have been executed
or died in prison…”
So forget the idea that the Left is valiantly trying to protect
the FBI’s reputation. The Left is trying to say Trump is a
crook and a traitor; and whatever works toward that end—
including spreading praise on the FBI as a holy church—is
in the game plan.
At the heart of the House Committee memo is the charge,
boldly expressed, that FBI/DOJ spying on the Trump team
was launched or expanded after obtaining a FISA court
warrant.
And that warrant, opening the door to spy on Trump team
member, Carter Page, was granted based on the notorious
Trump dossier, compiled by ex-MI-6 agent, Christopher
Steele.
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But wait. The dossier was bought and paid for by the
Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton
camp. And therefore, in effect, a political op, launched to
win the election for Hillary, helped start the ball rolling
against Trump and his supposed Russian connections.
That’s bad enough, but that’s not all.
The focus comes back to the Trump dossier. Was it fake or
real? Was it accurate or cooked up? If it was fake, a whole
pillar of the FBI/DOJ investigation of Trump—including
the Mueller probe—collapses.
Many observers have thrown dirt on the dossier, but they
are missing one point that stands out like a mountain on a
clear day. I’ll explain.
The Trump dossier: what no one is
talking about
A British spy’s fantastical story.
First, a bit of background.
The dirty Trump dossier made several claims:
One: Russia had strong blackmail material
on Trump and COULD THUS CONTROL A
SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES;
Two: Most damning in that material, Trump
used prostitutes while he was in Russia,
and paid several of them to urinate on a
hotel bed Obama had once slept in;
Three: Russia hacked DNC (Democratic
National Committee) emails and passed
them on to WikiLeaks, who published them.
The emails were damaging to Hillary and
helped Trump win the election;
Four: Russia obviously wanted Trump to
win the election.
British ex-spy, Christopher Steele, who put together the
dossier, once worked in Russia and allegedly had many
connections there.
Steele assembled the Trump dossier after consulting with a
number of Russians and spreading some money around.
Steele claims, in the dossier, that he was
talking with well-placed Russian officials.
That’s where he obtained his information.
What??
Why would these Russians speak with him? Why would
these Russians expose a purported plot to hand the election
to Trump?
If such a Russian plot existed, it would be a
tightly held secret. VERY TIGHTLY HELD.
BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE NUMBER-
ONE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OP.
AN OP FOR THE AGES.
THE HOLY GRAIL.
BLACKMAIL CONTROL OVER A SITTING
US PRESIDENT.
Yet, here are Russian intelligence people spilling the beans
to Steele, a former British spy.
And by spilling the beans, they’re pretty much committing
suicide, because their Russian colleagues and superiors
will be able to track them down and identify them, since
they’ve had connections to Steele in the past.
Steele goes to Russia, sits down with a number of Russian
intel people, asks them questions, and they tell him all
about a top-secret plot to sway a US election and
CONTROL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES. No problem.
OR…Steele never accumulated all the information in the
Trump dossier. He made unwarranted leaps of inference.
He invented key facts. He wanted to satisfy his employers,
Hillary Clinton, and the DNC. They wanted dirt on Trump,
and he gave them dirt.
Daniel Craig could play the Steele role in a Netflix series.
I’m working on a script. Here are the first few lines:
Steele: Hi, Ivan, remember me?
Ivan: Why, it’s Chris Steele! Haven’t seen you in years.
Let’s see, you were working for MI-6 in the old days here
in Moscow, right? Pretending you were a diplomat. Yes,
we had a few lunches back then.
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Steele: Right. Look, I was wondering whether you can tell
me about a super-secret file you guys are building on
Donald Trump. This is the off the record, of course.
Ivan: Sure. We’re blackmailing him. If we can help him
win the election, he’ll be under our thumb, completely.
This is a Putin operation. It’s a little noisy here in the
restaurant. Why don’t we go over to my office and I’ll
show you all the data.
Steele: That’d be great.
Ivan: Putin wants Trump to win. I don’t like Trump. I
prefer Hillary. I assume you do, too.
Steele: Well, sure. I’m working for her. That’s why I’m
here.
Ivan: Wonderful…
It’s a sure-fire hit.
It’s so believable.
Now to the bigger picture: to what degree is the secret
House memo, just released, a limited hangout?
If the FBI/DOJ offered up a fake dossier to the FISA, in
order to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump team, what
else did they do?
The FBI, CIA, and NSA form a blanket of surveillance
across America, collecting billions of messages. Are we
supposed to believe the FISA warrant was the only effort
to gain permission to spy on Trump? Or that legal
permission was an issue in the first place?
Of course it wasn’t. The House memo focuses on the legal
side of things as a smokescreen.
A politicized group of spying agencies would go a lot
further in spying on Trump—but beyond that, we’re
talking about spying on all citizens, including
Congressional and other government officials, regardless
of party affiliation.
There is only one barrier the NSA, CIA, FBI, and other
intelligence agencies face: when they use surveillance-
material in criminal ways, how can the material be
released and falsely attributed to other sources?
This is analogous to “parallel construction.” If a law-
enforcement agency tries to use illegally obtained evidence
as a basis for prosecution, a court will disallow the
evidence. Therefore, the agency must concoct a “parallel”
investigation that arrives at the desired goal through
another route.
In the case of spying on government officials, this
“parallel” is rather easy to pull off. It’s accomplished, for
example, by anonymous leaks to the press.
You could call this meta-government. Officials are
threatened, blackmailed, smeared, and controlled by
intelligence agencies.
It works. There is no need for a Steele dossier that blames
Russia and Putin or any foreign actor. Actually, placing
blame on the Russians—with enough press support—
deflects attention from ongoing home-grown operations.
The Trump-FISA-dossier scandal is just the tip of an
exceedingly large surveillance iceberg.
An American iceberg.
William Binney, cryptanalyst-mathematician, served 30
years at the NSA:
“The FBI has access to the data collected,
which is basically the emails of virtually
everybody in the country. And the FBI has
access to it. All the congressional members
are on the surveillance too, no one is
excluded. They are all included. So, yes,
this can happen to anyone. If they become
a target for whatever reason – they are
targeted by the government, the
government can go in, or the FBI, or other
agencies of the government, they can go
into their database, pull all that data
collected on them over the years, and we
analyze it all. So, we have to actively
.
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analyze everything they’ve done for the last
10 years at least.”
That’s a lot more spying than three warrants granted by a
FISA court to surveil the Trump team. But you’re
supposed to look at the warrants and how they were
obtained, and not look at the wall-to-wall spying on every
American.
You’re supposed to get embroiled in the Republican
members of the House Intelligence Committee vs. the
Democrat members, as they fling accusations at each
other.
You’re not supposed to realize the NSA already has
thousands of Trump-related documents, illegally obtained
over a long period of time, as well as Obama-related
documents, and documents on anybody and everybody
who communicates electronically.
The endless spying is not for the purpose of catching
terrorists. Ultimately, it’s not even for blackmail. It’s for
implementing a long-range plan to profile and track and
control every person— the Technocrats’ wet dream—and
the real-time ongoing energy consumption of each human
will be radically diminished, with quotas numerically
assigned From Above, and regulated, at automated choke-
points, in the Brave New World of promoted and
fabricated Scarcity.
“We’re saving the planet. Thank you for
your (enforced) participation. Be happy.
Feel inspired.”
You’re definitely not supposed to look at that and resist it.
 Suddenly Bails On ‘Long-Requested
Deposition’ Amid FISA Memo Firestorm
By Joshua Caplan
February 5, 2018, 9:27 Pm
Former British intelligence agent and author
of the Fusion GPS dossier, Christopher
Steele, was a no sh0w at a London court
Monday amid fallout stemming from the
FISA abuse memo released last Friday.
Fox News reports:
On both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, former British MI-6
Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele is going to
extremes to avoiding answering questions from the United
States Congress, while at the same time avoiding being
videotaped and deposed in a multi-million dollar libel
case brought against Buzzfeed.
The media outlet published the unverified Trump dossier
just over a year ago, setting off an international firestorm.
Steele was a no-show Monday for a long-requested
deposition in London, Fox News has learned. The news
comes as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have
announced a criminal referral on Steele.
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When Fox News reach out for comment, Steele associate
Chris Burrows, replied
“I regret that for a number of reasons, Chris
Steele is not available to speak on or off the
record about this subject.”
In a letter released Monday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-
IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC ) accused Steele of
penning a separate memo about then-candidate Donald
Trump, based on information given to him by both a
Hillary Clinton contact and unnamed Obama State
Department official.
Steele, who was tasked with compiling the ‘Trump
dossier’ for opposition research firm Fusion GPS,
has admitted in court that the discredited document
contains “limited intelligence.”
Steele also admitted part of “his final December
memo,” was unvetted.
“Such intelligence was not actively sought; it
was merely received,” Steele added.
According to a recent WSJ report, the Obama Justice
Department relied on information obtained by Steele, to
spy on Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, during the final
days of the 2016 presidential election.
Steele infamously compiled the discredited dossier
detailing alleged sex acts performed by then-businessman
Donald Trump inside a swanky Moscow hotel suite in
2013.
 Chairman Nunes Seeks All Four
FISA Court Hearing Transcripts (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 9:45 Pm

exactly what was presented verbally to the

On Monday, Chairman of the House Intel court, & to see if that was transcribed.”
Committee Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Fox
News’ Sean Hannity the Intel members VIDEO:
are going to ask the court for transcripts
on all four FISA court hearings.

According to the FISA memo, McCabe testified under oath

during a FISA court testimony to the House Intel
Committee that the FBI would have never sought the FISA
warrant if if weren’t for Hillary’s Russia dossier.

On Sunday evening, Rep. Louie Gohmer (R-TX) said he’s

preparing a letter to send to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-
VA) requesting the House Judiciary Committee subpoena
transcripts from the FISA court hearings.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) blasted Dems over McCabe’s

testimony to the House Intel Committee.
Chairman Nunes told Hannity,
“McCabe did in fact testify under oath that
“We’re going to try to ask the court whether there would not have been a FISA warrant
or not they will provide the transcripts of the if not for the dossier. It was recorded,”
4 proceedings. It would be very interesting Zeldin tweeted.
if we could get those transcripts to know
.

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 Breaking: Carter Page – The Lynchpin To Deep State
Spying On Trump – Was ‘Undercover Informant’ For FBI
By Jim Hoft
February 5, 2018, 10:41 Pm
There has been much speculation on
Carter Page the so-called Russian
expert and volunteer on the Trump
campaign.
Carter Page sat on a campaign
committee that met only once during the
campaign.
The FBI sought FISA warrants FOUR TIMES to spy on
Carter Page.
The warrants on Page then gave the Deep State access to
spy on all of the Trump campaign officials.
Now this…
According to reports from 2016 Carter
Page was previously working as an
undercover informant for the FBI.
Via Conservative Treehouse:
In 2013 Carter Page was working as an
under-cover employee (UCE) of the FBI,
helping them to build a case against
“Evgeny Buryakov”. In March 2016 Carter
Page remained their informant pre-trial.
[Note – Pay attention to the names in the
following citations]
Sources:
♦ In 2013,
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the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New
York, announced an indictment against a Russian
Operative Evgeny Buryakov. In March of
2016 Buryakov pleaded GUILTY.
…
♦ In 2016
Reuters published an article, based on the ongoing court
case, going into detail about court records.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The FBI eavesdropped on
meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New
York City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade
representative, by hiding recorders in binders containing
supposedly confidential information about the energy
sector, U.S. prosecutors said.
The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed
in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in
the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who U.S.
prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a
Cold War-style spy ring.
[…] According to prosecutors, in April
2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI
employee posing as an analyst at a New
York energy firm at an oil and gas industry
conference.
…
♦ In April 2017,
writing a story about Carter Page, and
trying to enhance/affirm the Russian
narrative, they outlined Page’s connections
to the Trump campaign, the New York
Times referenced Page’s prior connection
to the operation. [Notice how the story is
shaped]
Russian intelligence operatives tried in 2013 to recruit
an American businessman and eventual foreign policy
adviser to the Trump campaign who is now part of the
F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s interference into the It is transparently clear that Carter Page was the Under-
American election, according to federal court documents Cover Employee (UCE) of the FBI in the 2013 case.
and a statement issued by the businessman. Carter Page was working for the FBI.

The businessman, Carter Page, met with one of three The question is: Was Carter Page
Russians who were eventually charged with being planted inside the Trump campaign to
undeclared officers with Russia’s foreign intelligence allow the FBI to spy on Trump?
service, known as the S.V.R. The F.B.I. interviewed Mr.
Page in 2013 as part of an investigation into the spy ring,
but decided that he had not known the man was a spy, and
the bureau never accused Mr. Page of wrongdoing.
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 REPORT: FBI Paid Steele’s Travel Expenses To Make
Him Look Like An “Informant” Rather Than DNC Hack
By Cristina Laila
February 5, 2018, 11:22 Pm

The memo also confirms the FBI authorized payment to

Congressional investigators are looking
into whether the FBI paid dossier author
Christopher Steele’s travel expenses to
D.C and Rome in order to make him look
like an official “informant” rather than a
DNC-paid oppo research operative
before the FISA court.
Christopher Steele. Christopher Steele was later terminated
by the FBI after they found out he lied about leaking to
media outlets.
Steele traveled to Washington D.C. in September of 2016
and met with reporters. One of the meetings was held in
the office of the DNC’s general counsel.

Christopher Steele also traveled to Rome in September of

2016 to meet with FBI officials.

Now Congressional investigators are looking into why the

FBI agreed to pay Steele in the first place.

Paul Sperry of the New York Post tweeted,

“DEVELOPING: Congressional
investigators pursuing new line of inquiry
into whether the FBI paid Steele’s travel
expenses to DC & Rome legat office in
order to put him on the books as an official
“informant” & dress him up as reliable
internal (vs paid DNC) source before FISA
court”
Dossier author Christopher Steele is under siege right now
after an 8-page criminal referral was filed with the DOJ by
the Senate Judiciary Committee against him.

Christopher Steele and the dossier are central to the

Russian collusion investigation. Disgraced FBI Deputy
Director said under oath if it weren’t for the dossier, the
FBI would have never sought the FISA warrant to spy on
Trump’s camp.

According to the memo, Christopher Steele was paid over

$160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign; this
information was hidden from the FISC even though the
DOJ and FBI both knew.

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 Trump Calls Out 5 Officials As ‘Liars And Leakers’
By Ivan Pentchoukov
February 5, 2018 2:18 Pm Last Updated: February 6, 2018 1:31 Am

and what he has had to endure!” Trump

wrote.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting

with congressional leadership in the Roosevelt Room at the White Former CIA Director John Brennan (Alex Wong/Getty Images),
House on November 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former
Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) FBI Director James Comey. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump slammed five high-level
government officials as “liars and leakers” on Monday
morning as part of a Twitter message aimed at House
Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
“Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run
for higher office, is one of the biggest liars
and leakers in Washington, right up there
with Comey, Warner, Brennan and
Clapper!” the president wrote. “Adam
leaves closed committee hearings to
illegally leak confidential information. Must
be stopped!”
Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., has accused members of
the House Intelligence Committee of selectively leaking
information from his confidential interview. Trump Jr.’s
lawyer demanded that the leaks be investigated in a letter
to the committee’s chairman.
Comey admitted that he leaked his memos, at least one of
which was classified, to a friend with the intention of them
reaching the news media. Comey was also the FBI director
when the abuses of the FISA system detailed in Nunes’
memo occurred. Trump fired Comey in May last year.

Schiff was one of the leading figures opposing the last

week’s release of a secret memo which detailed abuses of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by high-
level officials in the FBI and the Justice Department during
the Obama administration.

The four other officials in Trump’s message include three

top-ranking Obama-era intelligence executives, including
former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director
John Brennan, and former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper. The fifth official is Sen. Mark
Warner (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Intelligence
Committee.
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) and Mark
In a follow-up tweet, Trump praised the author of the Warner (D-Va.) (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
declassified FISA-abuse memo, Devin Nunes.
Trump’s administration was inundated with selective leaks
“Representative Devin Nunes, a man of during the first six months of his presidency. According to
tremendous courage and grit, may a report by the Senate Homeland Security committee, an
someday be recognized as a Great average of one leak per day occurred between the
American Hero for what he has exposed president’s inauguration and July 6 last year.

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The 125 leaks reviewed by the committee included
disclosures of information “potentially damaging to
national security” and sensitive intelligence on U.S.
adversaries or possible military plans against them, the
committee reported.

Russia-related leaks made up more than half of the total

and included “closely-held information such as
intelligence community intercepts, FBI interviews and
intelligence, grand jury subpoenas, and even the workings
of a secret surveillance court,” according to the report.

President Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of

Recommended Video: President Trump’s First State of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in
the Union Address Washington, DC, on Feb. 28, 2017. (JIM LO SCALZO/AFP/Getty
Images)
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Is The Market Crash More Related To Inflation Fears, Fed
Sabotage Or Deep State Players Caught And
Not Brought To Justice?
By Jim Hoft
February 6, 2018, 6:26 Am
Market Crashes as Memo Released
Showing Crimes and Corruption in
Obama’s FBI and DOJ – Maybe AG
Sessions Should Do Something?!
The markets on January 26th reached another all-time high
of 26,616. This was the 99th all-time high since President
Trump was elected President. The markets increased by
more than 45% in this time period. But then the FISA
memo came on Friday and the markets are now down
2,270 and 12% since January’s high.
Some in the media are suggesting that Trump’s successful
markets and economy are causing inflation concerns –
US stocks took a further steep plunge on Monday, with the
Dow Jones industrial average dropping 1,175 points, the
largest one-day points fall on record and erasing all the
gains made so far this year. The drop came after another
bad day on global markets as investors reacted to global
equity losses overnight and concern that central banks will
increase interest rates in response to inflationary pressures
from surging global economies.
All the economic indicators are solid. Jobs are at all-time
highs. Unemployment is at historical lows. The GDP is
rising and many companies are reporting historical
earnings and massive lump sum gains due to the Trump
tax cuts, and the tax cuts have not even taken effect!
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Other experts are suggesting that the Fed is sabotaging the
markets by threatening to increase interest rates hastily.
Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, told TheStreet –
Despite its independence, the Federal Reserve may quietly
want a bear market that takes down a president that loves
tweeting about the stock market.
Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, told TheStreet
the “[Janet] Yellen put” in the markets could expire under
President Trump.
“I don’t know if the Fed has much love for
Trump,” he said, adding that the Fed had
the markets’ back during the Obama
Administration.
“Maybe the Fed would be happy to see a
bear market that could be blamed on
Trump.” Schiff thinks the markets could
easily correct 20%.”
It’s not unlikely that the Fed is trying to kill the Trump
rally. This may even be true. Obama benefitted from the
most generous Fed policy ever. During his time in office
the Fed only raised rates one time before the 2016 election
and that was a paltry quarter percent in 2015. Since
President Trump was elected the Fed has increased rates
four times for a total of a percent. If they continue to raise
rates they surely will kill off the Trump rally as we
reported last year–
The only Fed Funds Rate increases since 2015 were after
President Trump was elected President. The Fed increased
the Fed Funds Rate on December 14, 2016, on March 15th,
2017, on June 14, 2017 and again yesterday on December
13, 2017.
Four times the Fed has increased rates
on President Trump after doing so only
once on President Obama.
The Fed’s actions may have everything to do with the
market down turn.
 However, the one material item that has being done to protect America from the
not been presented that explains the illegal activities that the Obama and
market down turn these past few days is Hillary team took to remain in power.
that the market may be responding to
The current AG, Jeff Sessions, appears
the corruption in the government
to be neutered when it comes to the
embedded during the prior Obama
Obama corruption.
administration and outed in Friday’s
FISA memo.
He recused himself from anything Russia which he now
apparently justifies for not doing anything to bring the
What the memo clearly describes is the corruption and
Obama and Clinton players to justice. In Friday’s memo,
criminal activities within Obama’s FBI and DOJ as related
the AG’s assistant AG, Rod Rosenstein, is identified as
to the FISA warrant process. Numerous FBI and DOJ
one of four former government employees who signed off
individuals were implicated. It is now more than clear that
on bogus applications to the FISA court. In spite of lying
the Obama administration was corrupt and holdovers from
to the court, Rosenstein still holds his job. Numerous
that group did all they could to overthrow the Trump
other Obama players at the FBI and DOJ, many also
administration based on lies made to obtain warrants to spy
involved in the Mueller Russia investigation which is now
on the Trump team illegally.
acknowledged as a farce, are not being held accountable.

The fact that the Obama Administration is corrupt is not

The markets may be down due to the
really news. This was known since the beginning of his
clear double standard of law taking
time in office. (See Michelle Malkin’s Culture of
place in Sessions’ AG office. They may
Corruption)
also be down mainly due to concerns
with the Fed, but the AG’s lack of action
What is disturbing to the markets and cannot help.
the American people is that little is
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 Right Launches Ad War
Against Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan
By Anita Kumar
February 06, 2018 04:00 AM
Updated February 06, 2018 08:36 AM
WASHINGTON - A group that once backed Donald
Trump’s immigration policies will take the unusual step
Wednesday of launching television ads accusing the
president of breaking his campaign promise to crack down
on immigration.
Other groups are sending email alerts to their supporters,
some nearly daily, asking them to contact members of
Congress to kill what they call Trump’s “amnesty” plan.
And still others are blasting his proposal on Facebook and
Twitter.
The common denominator, however, is a sense of betrayal
by Trump’s compromise on immigration.
The president unveiled a plan that offers 1.8 million young
immigrants a chance at citizenship, allow millions of
immigrants to legally reside in the country through family
reunification programs and fails to implement some
popular secure enforcement measures.
That led activists that once supported his contentious
immigration ideas began doing something they never
imagined they would do: waging a campaign against him
on his signature issue.
“What happened to the president that
promised to put Americans first?” asks the
narrator in the TV ad paid for by
Californians for Population Stabilization
and obtained by McClatchy. “Tweet Donald
Trump and ask him.”
Together, these groups are reaching millions of like-
minded Americans who oppose legal status for so-called
Dreamers and back dramatic and immediate cuts to the
number of legal immigrants allowed in the United States.
They want supporters to call or write lawmakers to urge
them to oppose Trump’s proposal as Congress debates an
immigration overhaul that would include providing legal
status for at least the 690,000 young immigrants currently
protected under an expiring Obama-era program.
Federation for American Immigration Reform already had
agreed to sponsor FOX News’s online live stream of the
State of the Union address when Trump unveiled an
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immigration plan it didn’t support. FAIR went ahead with
its sponsorship plan but spread its own message on
immigration through a call with several hundred activists,
emails and social media. This week, the group is
shepherding crime victims and sheriffs around the Capitol.
“We are utilizing all our assets —
grassroots mobilization, digital platforms,
paid radio and TV advertising, Hill outreach
and ongoing education — to ensure the
historic opportunity to enact true reforms is
not squandered and that promises
President Trump made are delivered,” said
RJ Hauman, FAIR’s government relations
director.
In addition to a path to citizenship, Trump’s proposal
leaves in place the backlog of people who have been
sponsored for residency by family and excludes
enforcement measures to crack down on sanctuary cities
and mandate E-verify, an online system that allows
businesses to check work authorization.
In the Senate, the 10 Democrats who face tough re-election
bids in states Trump won and moderate Republicans are
being urged by these groups not to endorse the president’s
plan. In the House, Republicans are being lobbied by them
to sign onto House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s
immigration bill, which includes the additional
enforcement measures that the White House plan does not.
Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action
Committee is trying to find primary challengers for nearly
100 House Republicans who it claims support protections
for Dreamers. “We’re trying to keep the focus on the GOP
primary season,” said the group’s president, William
Gheen. “Republican voters want what Trump promised.”
Trump won the GOP nomination and the presidency in
2016 largely on a campaign focused on cracking down on
illegal immigration and ending Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals that offered Dreamers temporary,
renewable work permits.
But after wavering for months, he announced in September
he will completely shut down the DACA program March
5, a move designed to give Congress time to pass a
legislative fix. But lawmakers haven’t been able to find a
compromise. Instead, they agreed to fund the federal
government until Thursday if Republican leaders
committed to take up immigration, including the fate of
Dreamers, this week.
After months of complaints by lawmakers, the White
House released its own immigration proposal that was
immediately criticized by the right and the left.
Former Rep. Brian Bilbray, a California Republican who
served as chairman of the House Immigration Reform
Caucus, said the proposal reminds some of the sweeping
immigration law signed by President Ronald Reagan in
1986 that offered a pathway to citizenship to nearly 3
million immigrants.
“The White House is leading off with the
wrong message across the border and that
is what happened in back in the 80s,” he
said. “We will give amnesty first and we
promise enforcement. We want to do the
easy, fun stuff first and we don’t want to do
the heavy lifting first. We don’t want to earn
the right to even talk about another
amnesty.”
Trump proposed offering legal status immediately and
citizenship in 12 to 12 years to 1.8 million young
immigrants brought into the country illegally as children
by their parents who would have been eligible under the
original DACA program. In exchange, he would secure
enforcement measures that conservatives have long wanted
— $25 billion for border security, drastic reductions to the
number of immigrants who could be sponsored by family
and an end to the diversity lottery program that awards
green cards to immigrants.
“Time to start burning your #MAGA hats,”
tweeted Mark Krikorian, executive director
of the Center for Immigration Studies,
referring to Trump’s campaign slogan
“Make America Great Again.”
ALIPAC — which last year dropped its endorsement of
Trump because he did not end DACA — posted a photo of
a hat with the words “DACA will not MAGA,” sent two
emails to its 50,000 supporters and posted messages to
600,000 Facebook fans and 27,000 Twitters followers.
The Remembrance Project, which bills
itself as “a voice for victims killed by illegal
aliens,” started a petition to Trump. “You
often spoke of our angel families, our loved
ones, real Americans, who have suffered
the most, who never receive the same
sympathy as illegals,” Maria Espinoza, co-
founder and national director wrote in an
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open letter. “It appears to the “Stolen Lives”
families and everyone who voted for a
Trump presidency, that, sadly, these
families indeed have been forgotten, and
again silenced.”
Californians for Population Stabilization will launch a six-
figure TV buy Wednesday in Washington and South
Carolina, the home of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who
has been negotiating a deal that would include a path to
citizenship for Dreamers and a down payment on a $1.6
billion request Trump made this year for border security.
The ad will run for at least two weeks.
“Trump campaigned on making America
great again, including creating more jobs
for working class Americans. And he's
done a good job until now,” said Toby
Nicole White, chief operating officer of the
group, known as CAPS. “But his latest
immigration plan sells this generation of
working class Americans out....CAPS is
calling on the president to stick to his
campaign promises. Put Americans first.”
CAPS also sent out a pair of alerts to its 200,000 members
and posted messages on Facebook, where it has 60,000
fans, urging supporters to contact the White House and
Congress.
But some advocacy groups say it’s been tough to lobby
against Trump’s proposal because it’s only a framework,
not legislation. Others don’t want to publicly criticize the
president.
NumbersUSA, which has been vocal about its opposition
to Trump’s plan on Twitter, isn’t targeting him in its
television ads. Instead, the group is focused on pushing for
the end of what it calls chain migration, immigrants who
have been sponsored for residency by a family member. It
launched a six-figure nationwide ad campaign in
December and later expanded it to a seven-figure buy in
Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Chris Chmielenski, NumbersUSA’s director of content and
activism, said the initial message was about the White
House proposal but it has shifted back to proposals it
supports.
The group also sent email alerts to 1 million supporters six
times after White House proposal was unveiled, the first
one at 11 p.m. Jan. 25, the day of the announcement. It has
delivered its message through its 7.2 million Facebook
fans and 30,000 Twitter followers.
Several other groups, including Heritage Action and
Americans for Limited Government, have sent out
statements opposing the plan. They did not respond to McClatchy correspondents Lesley Clark and Franco
multiple requests for comment. Ordonez contributed.

Tom Davis, a former longtime Republican congressman

from Virginia, said the group’s lobbying is understandable
— as is the president’s attempt to bargain.

“They have a strong belief and certainly

Trump was on their side on most of this
stuff, that doesn't mean he can't
compromise,” he said. “They have their
bent and he has his. They don’t want a
deal, they don't want any deal.”

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a

joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday,
Jan. 30, 2018. Susan Walsh AP

The advertisement by Californians for Population Stabilization targets President Donald Trump for supporting
immigration proposals by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that offer a path to citizenship for Dreamers without
significantly cutting legal immigration. Californians for Population Stabilization

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 Republicans May Release ‘Counter-Counter Memo’
To Rebuke Democrat FISA Spin (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 8:35 Am

Yes, you read the headline correctly. On Monday evening, Schiff announced the Committee
House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to release their 10-page “counter-
Republicans may release a memo memo.”
rebuking the Democrats’ memo
countering the original FISA abuse The California lawmaker believes the counter-memo will
memo. It’s a memo-off, folks. correct the Nunes memo’s “distortions and inaccuracies.”
Photo Credit: InfoWars

“My guess is that after the Democratic

rebuttal is released, and I’m confident it will
be, you’ll probably see a Republican
rebuttal to the rebuttal,” Rep. Chris Collins
(R-NY) told CNN Tuesday morning.

Democrats have fought hard to paint the memo as a hyper-

partisan piece of propaganda aimed at discrediting the
‘Trump-Russia’ collusion investigation. Nobody worked
harder to keep the memo classified than Schiff.

Schiff’s position on the memo has been nothing short of

“Schiffty,” having first branded the memo nothing more
than Republican propaganda, then claiming the document
shouldn’t be made public because Americans wouldn’t
understand it, to announcing House Intelligence Democrats
would be releasing a “counter-memo.”

The document will now head to the White House for

approval.

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MARK LEVIN: Obama Likely Knew Hillary Clinton
PAID FOR FISA Warrant To Surveil Trump
Campaign (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 8:58 Am
On Monday, nationally-syndicated radio
host Mark Levin said he believes former
President Obama knew about Hillary
Clinton’s role in the FISA warrant used
to surveil the Trump campaign.
LEVIN: “Now we know why Schiff and the
rest of them are fighting so hard. Now we
know why the left-wing pretorian guard
Democrat media are fighting so hard —
trashing Nunes, me, you, and others. Who
are they trying to protect? Hillary Clinton,
Barack Obama, his name never comes up.
Let me help everybody with this. Loretta
Lynch knew about these FISA warrants,
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Yates, the Deputy Attorney General, the
extensions, Rod Rosenstein – now the
Deputy Attorney General — he knew. FBI
Director Comey, Deputy Director McCabe,
Strzok, the head of counterintelligence,
Page his girlfriend. Who else would have
known about these FISA applications and
warrants? We are looking at the FBI, We
are looking at the Department of Justice,
and we’re not looking at all, at all, at the
White House.”
Up to now, we know the Clinton campaign was involved
in obtaining the dossier, as Hillary Clinton herself
admitted to paying for the opposition research on “The
Daily Show” with Trevor Noah.
The New York Post‘s Paul Sperry recently reported Clinton
had “contractual control,” over how the dossier was
disseminated.
“DNC & Hillary Clinton campaign had
contractual control over how the product
they paid for was used & disseminated.
That means Simpson & Steele had to first
consult with Clinton campaign lawyers
before taking the dossier to the FBI & to the
media. Ergo, Hillary coordinated FBI hit,”
tweeted Sperry.
In a letter released Monday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-
IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested Clinton
contacts fed information to former British spy and dossier
author Christopher Steele.
Carter reports:
A new and highly redacted document
released Monday by the Senate Judiciary
Committee reveals that former British spy
Christopher Steele, the man behind the
unverified and controversial dossier, wrote
an additional memo regarding alleged
Russian collusion with President Donald
Trump but that the information was largely
based on information provided by allies of
former presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton.
According to several U.S. Officials who spoke to this
reporter, Cody Shearer, a former journalist and close ally
of Hillary and Bill Clinton, was closely connected to
Steele and shared information with the former spy. Shearer
worked in the 90s for President Bill Clinton.
.
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Steele, whose prior work with British intelligence gave
him access to U.S. intelligence and State Department
officials, also appeared to be in contact with Jonathan
Winer, a current State Department official who also
worked under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Winer is the “State Department’s Special Envoy for Libya
and Senior Advisor for MEK resettlement,” according to
the State Department website.
Another connection to the second dossier, according to
several sources who spoke to this reporter, is close friend
and advisor to Hillary Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal.
As Byron York of the Washington Examiner reported last
Friday,
“The political origins of the Steele dossier
were known to senior DOJ and FBI
officials, but excluded from the FISA
applications.”
 Stephanopoulos Defends Democrats,
Desperately Tries To Connect Trump To Page
By Kristine Marsh
February 6, 2018 10:12 AM EST
Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos
tried desperately to connect President Trump to former
campaign adviser Carter Page, presenting him as a Russian
agent working with the Kremlin during an interview on the
ABC morning show. However, no matter how hard the
former Clinton staffer pressed Page, he didn’t gain any
ground in proving his Democrat-agenda-driven talking
points.
The ABC anchor started off the interview by graciously
letting Page argue his defense first, before trying to tear it
apart.
“You say this Republican memo that was
released shows the abuse of your civil
rights was even worse than you imagined.
Why?” Stephanopoulos posed.
After Page replied that there was no basis for the
wiretapping warrant, Stephanopoulos touted the FBI,
saying they had to have “probable cause” to spy on him.
He then cited a case in 2013 which first put Page on the
FBI’s radar, saying he was “the target of a Russian
recruitment effort” where he was charged with “giving
documents” to someone accused of espionage.
Page pushed back on that claim, saying that entire story
was being blown out of proportion by the media. “This is
sort of spin,” he argued before explaining that he was a
teacher at NYU at the time, and had handed out course
documents and notes to his class of students.
“[S]o in terms of -- it sounds when you say
giving documents to a quote/unquote
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spy...It sounds a lot worse than reality
but that's reality,” he added.
Stephanopoulos tried again, confronting Page about his
quote in 2013 picked up by TIME Magazine, where he
called himself an advisor to the Kremlin.
“These are your words. I served as an
informal adviser to the staff of the Kremlin.
You're advising the Kremlin!... At one
point, you say you're an adviser to the
Kremlin, then you’re an adviser to Donald
Trump!” Stephanopoulos pressed.
Page defended himself, saying that this was during the
G20 Summit where there were “a lot of people” advising,
besides him, from all parts of the world. He added that
Democrats were the ones who set this whole thing into
motion, providing the FBI with information based on an
unsubstantiated dossier:
“Look, the probable cause based on all the
evidence that keeps dripping out and now
has been further substantiated with the
Friday first memo is it was based on that
dodgy dossier which was, you know, a
political stunt,” he argued.
Stephanopoulos defended the Democrats, saying they had
other reasons to doubt Page’s story.
“The Democrats have said it was not
based just on that dossier but said there
were other reasons,” he explained,
adding that Trump appointees renewed the
FISA warrant afterwards.
Clearly seeing he was not going to get any admissions
from Page, he tried one last time to connect Page to Trump
and the Russia investigation.
“You've been under surveillance from the
court since October 2016. Since that time
have you ever spoken to Donald Trump?”
he asked.
Page not only denied having ever spoken to Trump since
the campaign, but denied speaking to him in any form in
his entire lifetime. This genuinely surprised
Stephanopoulos who repeated the question again.
“You have never spoken to Donald
Trump in your life? No e-mail, no text,
nothing like that?” he asked,
flabbergasted.
“Never,” Page adamantly denied, as
Stephanopoulos ended the interview.
GMA
2/6/18
7:06:42-7:10:26
STEPHANOPOULOS: We're joined by the man at the
center of this memo controversy Carter Page. Thanks for
joining us this morning. You say this Republican memo
that was released shows the abuse of your civil rights was
even worse than you imagined. Why?
CARTER PAGE: It just -- there is no basis for it. If you
think about our Constitution, you know, due process rights,
freedom of, you know, First Amendment rights, it was just
shredded, the Constitution.
STEPHANOPOULOS: As you know you can't get a
warrant like this, a wiretapping warrant like this, unless
they can demonstrate probable cause you were working as
a foreign agent and you actually had been on the FBI's
radar for working for Russia for several years, you were
the target of a Russian recruitment effort back in 2013, the
FBI interviewed you about that, correct?
PAGE: I was a witness to a case that they were doing, so I
was supporting the FBI.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Right, you gave documents to
someone they believed-- charged with espionage.
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PAGE: This is sort of spin because I
gave them-- I was teaching a course
down Broadway here at NYU and I told
them a couple of things about what I
was talking about in my course and I
gave them a couple of my notes from or
the documents that I gave my students,
so in terms of -- it sounds when you say
giving documents to a quote/unquote
spy --
STEPHANOPOULOS: It does sound --
PAGE: It sounds a lot worse than reality
but that's reality.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You also wrote just a couple
months after that in September 2013 to an academic press -
- this was reported by Time magazine-- “Over the past half
year, I've had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser
to the staff of the Kremlin.”
You were recruited at one point by a
Russian agent then you wrote yourself
that you were informal adviser to the
Kremlin so that does lead people to
believe, is this guy working with
Russia?
PAGE: Well, you know, first of all it's the G20 summit
was in St. Petersburg that year and they were bringing
people from around the world so a lot of people were --
from literally Australia, UK, here --
STEPHANOPOULOS: These are your words. I served as
an informal adviser to the staff of the Kremlin.
You're advising the Kremlin!
PAGE: There was a lot of people advising -- we were part
of an informal group, you know, and meeting in Geneva,
Paris and the New York stock exchange. The first meeting
was in the New York stock exchange. The center of
capitalism, right?
STEPHANOPOULOS: You can understand how that
would raise questions and could lead to probable cause on
the one hand. You say you're an adviser on the one hand to
the Kremlin then you’re an adviser to Donald Trump.
PAGE: Look, the probable cause based on
all the evidence that keeps dripping out and
now has been further substantiated with
the Friday first memo is it was based on
that dodgy dossier which was, you
know, a political stunt which is
unfortunate, which is false evidence, so if
you talk about obstruction of justice, that's
real --
 STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democrats The fact that the dossier and news reports, when a lot of
have said it was not based just on that same newspapers, The New York Times, pitched this
dossier but said there were other information by Mr. Steele and they said, you know, no
reasons and this was an application that way.
was renewed at least three times by people
who worked for President Trump as well by STEPHANOPOULOS: But you've been under surveillance
judges appointed by Republican from the court since October 2016. Since that time have
presidents. you ever spoken to Donald Trump?

PAGE: Well, it'll be interesting. I appreciate The New York PAGE: I never spoke with him since -- I never spoke with
Times putting in their request for the FISA document-- him any time in my life.

STEPHANOPOULOS: They want all the underlying STEPHANOPOULOS: You have never
documents. spoken to Donald Trump in your life.
PAGE: No.
PAGE: I hope they get it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: No e-mail, no text,
STEPHANOPOULOS: What do you think that’s going to nothing like that.
show? PAGE: Never.

PAGE: I have no idea. What I have seen STEPHANOPOULOS: Carter Page, thanks very much.
thus far is complete ridiculousness.
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 Rep. Devin Nunes Had The Perfect Response To CNN
Reporter’s Question About WH Role In FISA Memo
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 10:14 Am
House Intelligence Committee chairman
Devin Nunes had the perfect response
to CNN reporter Manu Raju’s question
about Republicans and the White House
allegedly coordinating the FISA memo’s
release.
“Nunes declines to comment after GOP
Conference meeting. I asked him if the WH
had any role in his memo,” tweeted Raju.
“Democracy dies in darkness, my friend.
Get to work,” replied Nunes.
The response was a play on the Washington Post’s slogan,
“Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
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As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, Nunes has
already denied any coordination took place.
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), or likely one of his colleagues,
was caught leaking fake news to the Daily Beast about
Nunes reportedly denying to comment on potential
coordination between himself and the White House
pertaining to the memo’s release.
Raw Story reports:
House Intelligence Committee chairman
Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Tuesday declined
to say whether he worked with the White
House on the anti-FBI memo written by
members of his staff, the Daily Beast
reports.
His refusal came during a closed-door
committee meeting, during which Rep.
Mike Quigley (D-IL) asked Nunes if his
staffers engaged with the White House as
they wrote the memo alleging improper
surveillance by the FBI during the 2016
presidential election. […]
As the Beast reports, Nunes told Quigley,
“I’m not answering” when asked point-blank
about possible communications with the
White House.
As The Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross noted, Nunes did reply
to the question. His answer?
“I would just answer, as far as I know, no.”
“It was reported the other day that Nunes
refused to tell Democrats on House Intel
whether he had coordinated w/ White
House on FISA memo release. Transcript
of Intel meeting shows he did provide an
answer,” Ross pointed out.
 “Another false leak from House Intelligence
Committee Democrats,” added Ross.

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 Donald Trump In Twitter Row With
Corbyn & Hunt As He Attacks Britain’s ‘Broke’ NHS
Published Time: 5 Feb, 2018 14:23 Edited Time: 6 Feb, 2018 10:55
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Donald
Trump’s “wrong” criticism of Britain’s National Health
Service (NHS) after the president claimed that thousands
of people were protesting because “the system is going
broke."
Corbyn replied to Trump on Twitter, saying:
“People were marching because we love
our NHS and hate what the Tories are
doing to it. Healthcare is a human right.”
Hunt - the Tory health secretary accused of ordering the
cuts that have angered protesters - also took issue with
Trump’s claim. He said on Twitter:
“I may disagree with claims made on that
march but not ONE of them wants to live in
a system where 28m people have no
cover.
“NHS may have challenges but I’m proud
to be from the country that invented
universal coverage – where all get care no
matter the size of their bank balance.”
Trump tweeted on Monday:
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“The Democrats are pushing for Universal
HealthCare while thousands of people are
marching in the UK because their U system
is going broke and not working. Dems want
to greatly raise taxes for really bad and
non-personal medical care. No thanks!”
Trump’s tweet refers to the mass ‘Save our NHS’ protest
on Saturday, which saw tens of thousands of people
walking to Downing Street in London to demand that PM
Theresa May injects more funds into the crisis-stricken
NHS.
His comments on the NHS are meant as an attack on the
opposition Democrats, who want the government to play a
bigger role in providing healthcare for Americans.
Currently only elderly and poor people can get free care in
the US, with everyone else buying health insurance. Some
Democrats - including potential challengers to Trump in
the 2020 election - are calling for the US to move towards
a system more similar to the NHS.
It is not clear on what information Trump was basing his
assessment of the NHS. He thanked the hosts of Fox
News's morning ‘Fox and Friends’ show immediately after
the first tweet.
The show had run a segment on the NHS that morning,
featuring an interview with former UKIP leader Nigel
Farage, who campaigned for Trump during the 2016
election campaign.
 CNN Panelists: Trump Is
'Unpresidential', 'Whiny And Weak'
By Ryan Foley
February 6, 2018 10:58 AM EST
No edition of CNN’s New Day would be complete without
at least one instance of Trump-bashing. Pundits on
Tuesday morning’s show referred to the President as
"pathetic," “unpresidential,” “whiny," and "weak.”
New Day brought on John Avlon and David Gregory to
discuss the reasons why President Trump might not want
to participate in an interview with Special Counsel Robert
Mueller. Avlon believed that the President’s lawyers
feared that he might perjure himself while testifying under
oath, saying “that itself is both pathetic and
unpresidential.”
Later, the discussion turned to comments President Trump
made in Ohio Monday, where he called the Democrats
“treasonous” and “un-American” for refusing to applaud
when he pointed out some of his accomplishments during
his State of the Union address. David Gregory chimed in
and referred to the President as “so whiny and so weak.”
Fill-in anchor John Berman then told Gregory to keep an
eye on his Twitter feed, as the President’s supporters will
certainly have something to say about Gregory’s choice of
words.
Avlon also weighed in on the President’s criticism of
Democrats, saying “the only thing that’s un-American to
me is people who call other Americans un-American.” One
can’t help but wonder if Avlon would consider Democratic
Congressman Eric Swalwell’s accusation of anyone who
wanted to release the classified memo raising questions
about surveillance abuse by the FBI of “peddling the Putin
narrative” would fall into the category of “un-American.”
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If the media and the left really hated name-calling so
much, they could lead by example and resist the urge to
call the President names.
JOHN AVLON: Let’s just reality check on two things.
This is a President, who, when asked earlier, said 100
percent he wanted to do it; utterly confident. We’re now
acknowledging, the President’s lawyers are acknowledging
that that was pure bluster designed to create a sense of
confidence where there was none. Second, the President’s
lawyers are saying he should not testify, not because he’s,
this is all blown out of proportion but because they’re
afraid he will lie under oath. They don’t trust him to be
interviewed with lawyers without creating more problems
for himself. That itself is both pathetic and unpresidential.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: And so listen, CNN had this
reporting that they also are arguing that it didn’t, it doesn’t
meet the threshold. I’ll just read what CNN’s reporting
was from January 31. Trump’s attorneys are arguing that
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has not met the
high threshold they believe is needed to interview a
President in person, according to sources familiar with the
ongoing deliberations. So, David, as we all remember, Bill
Clinton didn’t at first agree to an interview with the
Special Counsel and then he was subpoenaed. And so, that
could play out here, but then that opens up a whole another
can of worms.
DAVID GREGORY: Sure.
CAMEROTA: And then it could be the Supreme Court
deciding things. But you know, listen, I mean you’d think,
normally, okay if, when the normal laws of gravity apply
politically that would be unwise. What is the President
hiding? But, you know, as you know, President Trump has
been sort of teflon to his base that he’ll spin it in a way that
it doesn’t mean he’s hiding something, he’s unfair.
GREGORY: Right. And I think, you know, that, the legal
part will play itself out. This President is using the Clinton
playbook in terms of going after the special prosecutor and
whether this has gone too far afield as an investigation, but
let’s just remember whatever this President has tried to do
on this Nunes memo, to argue that this was kind of – the
investigation where there was garbage in and you got
garbage out. There are Republicans, even those who were
involved in drafting this partisan memo, that indicate this
is not really a statement about the Mueller investigation,
this is about this particular process before the FISA Court
with regard to Carter Page. It’s much larger than that. And
the second point is– let’s also remember and this is
probably what his lawyers are worried about and boy they
should be – just look at President Trump as a private
citizen and his record in being deposed. I mean, I just can’t
imagine any lawyer would want him to sit and answer
questions under oath or in any way that could be –
JOHN BERMAN: Hang on one second. Hang on one
second, John because David brought up the memo here
and I want to move on to that subject because we’re in an
interesting place right now, which is that the House
Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to open up this
memo, send it to the President for him to declassify. It’s
now on the President’s desk, John. He’s got to decide
whether or not he is going to release this Democratic
memo which provides a very different argument than he
wants the people to see.
AVLON: But let’s take everyone at their word about
wanting more transparency. Look, there’s no reason to
believe the President is going to go out of his way to sign
this. He doesn’t want transparency; he wants that other
narrative out there. But there’s sort of a, there’s a catch
here, where he can’t just indefinitely refuse it. Again, the
House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to
release it. It would be better for the country to release it but
there’s no reason to believe that the President will do that.
CAMEROTA: He doesn’t seem inclined to do what Adam
Schiff is requesting at the moment, David. He, I mean,
he’s picked this fight with Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff has
returned fire. So, if the President does not release it, then it
goes to the full House and then it could be released if they
choose to do it?
GREGORY: Right. Well, and again, I don’t have
confidence in anybody doing that. What they’ve done and
what the House Speaker has done, is open the door to such
partisanship on this investigation, which has been there all
along, which is why there’s value in a special prosecutor as
opposed to a political process in this investigation. But the
whole thing is absurd and the President talking about
Democrats being treasonous because they didn’t applaud
for him during the State of the Union. You know, at some
point, even the President’s core supporters have got to
make an assessment about a President of the United States
who is so whiny and so weak. Instead of, I thought he was
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strong, I thought he attacked other people who had low
energy. What is the insecurity all about? It’s one thing to
be on the offense and that is his right and he’s certainly
done that. But this incredible insecurity, I just don’t think
is good for the office.
BERMAN: Whiny and weak from David Gregory, watch
your Twitter feed for the next few hours, David. Hang on
one second...
GREGORY: I’m not doing that.
BERMAN: ...Because you brought up, you brought up
something the President said yesterday right now, which is
the type of thing I don’t think we can grade on the curve.
Let’s listen to what the President said yesterday when he
was in Ohio.
RESIDENT TRUMP: You’re up there, you’ve got half the
room going totally crazy, wild. They loved everything.
They want to do something great for our country. And you
have the other side, even on positive news, really positive
news, like that, they were like death and un-American. Un-
American. Somebody said treasonous. I mean, yeah, I
guess, why not. Can we call that treason? Why not. I mean,
they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.
BERMAN: You know, John Avlon, as I said, there are
going to be people who say oh it’s just the President and
he’s joking.
AVLON: Yeah.
BERMAN: You can’t be graded on a curve here. When a
President calls something treason, it’s outrageous?
AVLON: It is outrageous and we shouldn’t get numb to it
by saying “That’s just Trump being Trump.” Words have
meanings. Treason is the most serious civic sin there is. It
is a crime. And to say all of a sudden that Democrats, the
political opposition, is treasonous for the crime of not
applauding you during a State of the Union, is just nuts.
And un-American itself is also something we shouldn’t
gloss over. You know, the only thing that’s un-American
to me is people who call other Americans un-American.
And the President using these phrases so casually in rallies
is a total departure from our best traditions and we cannot
get numbed into forgetting that.
 BANK ROBBERY: FBI’s McCabe Lawyers
Up To Protect $2 Million Retirement Package
By Admin
Posted On February 5, 2018
Andrew McCabe is no dummy. And the embattled former
FBI Deputy Director is working feverishly behind the
scene to run out the clock on his current ‘terminal leave’
status to cash in full FBI retirement benefits, several
sources confirm.
How much will McCabe rake in if he can retire before
getting dismissed, fired from the FBI? Over $2 million in
taxpayer-funded payouts.
And the race is on.
Via the Free Beacon:
FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is set
to receive a nearly $2 million pension,
according to a Washington Free Beacon
analysis.
The top law enforcement official, who has
come under scrutiny for overseeing the
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private
email server, stepped aside on Monday.
McCabe took early retirement, which he
was eligible for after serving at the bureau
for over 20 years.
McCabe joined the FBI in 1996 and worked
his way up to high paying executive service
positions. He was serving as the assistant
director in charge of the Washington, D.C.,
field office until July 2015, when he was
named the FBI’s associate deputy director,
carrying an ES Level 4 pay scale.
The Federal Employees Retirement
System (FERS) calls for law enforcement
officers to receive 1.7 percent of the
officer’s average highest salary over a
period of three consecutive years per year
for the agent’s first 20 years of service.
Additionally, they receive 1 percent of the
highest average salary for each year
exceeding 20 years of service. McCabe
served 21 years.
We are getting word that defrocked FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe has lawyered up and could be assembling
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or consulting with more than one attorney, according to
FBI sources.
According to well-placed FBI sources, McCabe has also
inquired about the possibility of suing media organizations
for their coverage of his tenure at the FBI. But the
embattled FBI chief — who is on paid leave — has since
backed off that plan somewhat, sources said.
A lawyer himself who graduated from Duke, McCabe has
surrendered his FBI phones and communication devices as
well as his shield and credentials, sources said.
McCabe is focused on trying to reach his retirement date
without getting fired, sources said.
The road to retirement just got longer for former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
McCabe, who is now on ‘leave’ from his FBI career, could
face termination if FBI Director Christopher Wray’s newly
minted and hush internal task force determines McCabe
played a role in tampering with federal evidence, sources
said.
For nearly a year reports in True Pundit painted a picture
of a cartel of high-ranking FBI agents gone rogue that
helped rig the email investigation into Hillary Clinton to
ensure she walked away unscathed.
Few paid attention.
But now Wray is facing similar troubling revelations. And
the understanding that he may not be able to stop a U.S.
Special Counsel probe of his FBI.
According to sources and a growing chorus of reports,
McCabe may have cut deal with his FBI Sanhedrin to alter
302 Reports — the official statements of witness and
suspect interviews conducted by the FBI.
If true, that is illegal on many fronts.
And this could also throw many cases into a legal limbo,
prompting defense attorneys to appeal convictions and plea
deals.
Legal chaos.
The FBI DO NOT tape record interviews with suspects
and witnesses. Federal judges and prosecutors, as well as
juries, largely believe every word FBI agents write down
in their 302s as a matter of fact. In reality, FBI agents can
state in a 302 report that you confessed to robbing a bank,
whether you actually said it or not. The court would side
with the FBI agents in such a case. It happens all the time
as agents use the loose and flawed interview protocols to
fix cases.
It is a virtual candy store for a rogue agent. The suspect is
rendered hostage to the claims of the FBI agent, whether
true or not.
McCabe may have had certain 302 reports changed in the
same manner, FBI sources said.
And since all FBI interviews are conducted by two FBI
agents — sometimes more like in the case of Hillary —
altering such reports would likely ensnare a number of
other guilty agents who tampered with evidence or played
a role.
Enter blackmail. Do agents tamper with evidence because
their supervisors know something about their personal or
professional life? Peter Strzok is having an extramarital
affair with Lisa Page, so both agents are potentially
compromised to do the illegal bidding of a superior.
Or perhaps say an FBI agent who might be part of
McCabe’s inner circle is married but sleeping with FBI
support personnel or analysts at FBI HQ. That high-
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ranking agent would be more than susceptible to
blackmail.
It is, after all, employed as a political or nefarious tool by
FBI brass. What better leverage would a superior use to get
an unwilling agent to do dirty work – even break the law
— than to threaten that agent to expose his infidelity with a
FBI colleague – or multiple colleagues — to his wife?
“This is happening more than anyone
would ever know,” said one FBI agent who
has served under multiple directors. “You
realize the people you’re working for are
worse than the criminals. This is old-
fashioned extortion and it’s out of control.”
According to long-time FBI veterans who began their
careers in the 1990s, then-FBI Director Louis Freeh
instituted a sweeping disciplinary policy for FBI
supervisors soliciting sex with subordinates or any FBI
agents engaging in extramarital sexual affairs.
“Freeh would just pull your security
clearance because he feared you might be
blackmailed,” one FBI veteran said. “And
they would make you tell your spouse so
there wasn’t any leverage. They don’t do
that anymore. Now it’s chaos.”
Again, Strzok was exposed for engaging in a relationship
with FBI lawyer Page who is married and worked for
McCabe. Strzok and Page worked for Mueller’s special
counsel team investigating President Donald Trump at the
time of the intra-office affair but have since been removed
from the Trump Russia probe and reassigned.
 Biased FBI And DOJ Officials Broke The Law And Tried
To Decide The Election – An Annotated Timeline
Tom Del Beccaro
02/05/2018

Hillary’s ambitions to be president started long ago. She

ran for President in the 2008 cycle. In 2009, after losing to
Obama, Hillary became Obama’s Secretary of State. She
stayed in that post until 2013.

~~~

March 2015

The Hillary email scandal breaks. Hillary

was using an unapproved/unsecured
server and devices to communicate. She
was using a private email account.
Classified information was being sent
through that email, server and devices –
including when Hillary was abroad.

THE TIMELINE OF TRUTH! ~~ PLS SHARE!! Over 200,000 All of that is illegal. As 2015 unfolds, it becomes clear to
views! the FBI and the DOJ that President Barack Obama was
communicating with Hillary using her non-state
UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY – Last Update 2.11.18/3 pm PST department email.

Next Update: The Brennan Role & Perjury 3:00 PM PST
In this Update: The irony of of starting an intelligence operation
(Late July of 2016) to get dirt on Trump based on someone’s
statement the Russian have dirt on Hillary.
Obama was using an email and a name
that masked who he was.
That had to be known to authorities long before March of
2015 given that it occurred prior to 2013.

~ ~~ As Andrew McCarthy points out in his

recent article,
There can be no question, at this point, that certain higher
ups in the FBI and the DOJ did not want Hillary to be there was no chance that the DOJ was going to indict
indicted and did not want Donald Trump to become Hillary because that would have required implicating
President. Those efforts were not entirely independent of President Obama. That was never going to happen. From
each other. thereafter, DOJ officials acted with that understanding,
however illegal, in mind.
Below is a timeline of events that makes it rather plain
that the FBI and DOJ were not investigating potential ~~~
crimes objectively.
June 2015
Indeed, they were committing crimes during the process in
aid of their preferred outcomes. Donald Trump announces his
Presidential run.
2007. Hillary Clinton wanted to be President.

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March 2016
Trump has enough delegates to claim
the nomination.
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April 2016
April 10 – Obama makes clear he does
not want Hillary indicted/Says No
Political Influence on the Hillary
Investigation/Says he doesn’t talk to
FBI/DOJ during investigation. Obama,
on Fox TV,
indicates Hillary did not intend to harm national security.
However, intent is not an element of the crime she
committed. At the time of that statement – made by a
sitting President and in plain view of the Nation and more
importantly his FBI/DOJ appointments – many witnesses
had yet to be interviewed, including Hillary.
Also, Obama, during the interview, states that there would
be no political influence on the investigation and that he
doesn’t talk to FBI/DOJ heads during an investigation.
“Chris Wallace: Can you guarantee to
the American people, can you direct the
Justice Department to say, “Hillary
Clinton will be treated — as the
evidence goes, she will not be in any
way protected.
Obama: I can guarantee that.”
Obama also stated:
“I do not talk to the Attorney General about
pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI
directors about pending investigations.”
Keep the word “investigations” in mind for later.
April 2016.
Hillary campaign and DNC begin
funding infamous Trump dossier. To
conceal payments for the dossier, Hillary’s
campaign and the DNC give money to
attorneys who then pay for the dossier –
a clear campaign law violation. If that
campaign payment had been properly
disclosed, the payment for the dossier,
and likely the dossier, would have been
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exposed in the summer of 2016. That
disclosure likely would have hurt
Hillary’s campaign (exposes her dirty
trick play) and LIKELY PREVENT THE
USE OF THE DOSSIER to get
FISA warrant on Carter Page, which led
to other spying and ultimately the
Mueller investigation.
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May 2016
May 2
– Ted Cruz drops out of Presidential
race. Cruz’ departure confirms Trump will
be the Republican nominee.
May 9 –
Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton. The
question arises: Why Obama would take
the risk of endorsing Clinton who is in the
midst of “honest” criminal investigation.
It is actually rare for a sitting President
to be aggressive on the campaign trail
for his replacement.
Wouldn’t that be really embarrassing for the President if
she had been charged with a crime?
**The answer could be that Obama
already knew she was not going to
charged.
May 19 –
DOJ Official Gives Hillary Campaign A
Heads Up. Assistant Attorney General for
Legislative Affairs Peter Kadzik sends an
email to campaign head John Podesta
about FOIA requests and Congressional
hearings.
May 2016 –
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page make it clear
they need to end the Hillary
Investigation.
Peter Strzok is the FBI agent in charge of the Hillary
investigation, which is dubbed Mid-Year Exam. He is
having an affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page. In a text
exchange, Page informs Strzok that Cruz dropped out.
Strzok responds:
 “What?!?!?!?!” Strzok later states: “Now
the pressure really starts to finish the
MYE.”
That is evidence of and the motive for much to come.
May 2016 – FBI draft memo about Hillary started.
Long before Hillary and other key
witnesses are interviewed, James Comey
starts drafting a memo with respect to the
proposed conclusion of the Hillary
investigation.
The original memo stated:
“There is evidence to support a conclusion
that Secretary Clinton, and others, used the
email server in a manner that was grossly
negligent with respect to the handling of
classified information.”
The grossly negligent language is sufficient to charge
Hillary with a crime.
May 2016. –
Hillary staffers Cheryl Mills and Huma
Abedin mislead the FBI on what they
know about Hillary’s email practices. In
fact, they knew of the use long before the
timeframe they gave the FBI. They are
never charged with lying to the FBI.
Eventually, five Clinton associates,
including Mills, are granted immunity
and, incredibly, evidence is destroyed by
the FBI as part of the immunity deals.
There is never a good reason for a law enforcement agency
to destroy evidence during an investigation.
~~~
June 2016
June, 2016. Comey changes a report
disclosing emails that could have been
compromised between Hillary and then
President Obama to email between Hillary
and “a senior government official.”
June 20, 2016. Peter Strzok, who was opposed to Trump
becoming president, as his texts reveal,
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changes the “grossly negligent”
language in the Comey memo to
“extremely careless.”
That change all but ensures Hillary will not be charged
with a crime.
June 27, 2016.
Bill Clinton meets Loretta Lynch on the
tarmac.
They claim they were talking about grandchildren. When
information related to the meeting is leaked, the FBI goes
on a desperate search to determine who leaked the
information. There is no corresponding urgent effort to
expose the content of the very inappropriate meeting
between the former president/husband of a target who just
happened to appoint Lynch to office years ago.
Lynch uses an alias email address to
communicate with staff to “help craft
responses to media requests about the
meeting.”
~~~
July 2016
July 1, 2016. It is announced that
Attorney General Loretta Lynch will
accept FBI “determination and
findings” as to the Hillary investigation –
an abrogation of her duties not authorized
by law.
Strzok paramour Lisa Page then sarcastically texts to
Strzok that:
“It’s a real profile in courage, since she
knows no charges will be brought.” Lynch
would also tell Comey to call the Hillary
email investigation a “matter” not an
“investigation”
– language consistent with how the Hillary campaign
referred to the investigation. Comey complies with
Lynch’s request.
Obviously, the determination to not
charge Hillary had already been made,
even though . . .
July 2, 2016.
Hillary interviewed by the FBI. Hillary is
finally interviewed by the FBI but she is
 not put under oath and there is no
transcript (thereby making it all but
impossible to charge her with lying to the
FBI). She is interviewed for just over 3
hours – that is an hour less than Angelina
Jolie was interviewed about Brad Pitt’s
treatment of her children on a plane.
Hillary is allowed to have Cheryl Mills (a witness to the
email crimes) in the room during the interview to act as
Clinton’s attorney. Mills, of course, had been granted
immunity by then.
July 5, 2016.
a) Comey goes on TV, lays out case
against Hillary, claims no intent
therefore no prosecution.
Comey’s presentation makes clear Hillary skirted the law
but Comey applies Obama’s nationally announced, non-
existent, “intent” standard and states no prosecutor
would indict her. Of course, it is legally not the job of the
FBI director to decide who gets prosecuted. To the
contrary, their job is fact finding and to report to the DOJ.
Comey never should have gone on TV to announce
anything.
b) Obama Campaigns For Hillary in
North Carolina.
Is that just a coincidence that the two (Comey exoneration
and Obama campaigning) happened on the same day? It
takes an enormous amount of maneuvering to get a
president from Washington DC to a another state. It has to
be planned before that day. Again, why would Obama
take such a risk unless he knew she was being exonerated
by Comey that day?
Note that a prior appearance was set for June 12, it was
cancelled. The question, however, remains.
July 2016. Carter Page goes to Moscow.
Carter Page is a tangential, volunteer Trump campaign
advisor with long-time ties to Russia.
Carter Page had been under
surveillance in 2013 (not clear for how
long ) by the FBI.
Such surveillance must be based on a claim that Carter
could be an agent for a foreign government. Carter Page
clearly is a Russian sympathizer with a desire to continue
doing business in Russia. The Trump campaign is aware
of his Russian trip but not that he had been under
surveillance.
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Now, as the campaigns head to the Fall,
the focus changes away from the
exonerated Hillary to Donald Trump’s
campaign.
Summer of 2016. Comey’s first attempt
to get FISA Warrant against Trump
campaign official is denied.
Comey sought a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page (and
others) – again, under the theory that he could be an agent
of a foreign government.
Late July 2016. US government starts a
“counter intelligence” operation based on
statement by George Papdopoulos after
a lot of drinking that Russia has dirt on
Hillary Clinton. Papdopoulos is another
tangential, volunteer, Trump campaign
advisor.
Given Hillary’s unprotected use of email servers and
blackberrys, including on foreign soil, it can be no surprise
Russia could have such information. There is no factual
connection between Carter Page and George
Papadopoulos.
* Of course, the real irony/joke is that
the FBI starts surveilling people related
to Trump, which ends up with false
claims/dirt against Trump, because the
Russians had dirt on Hillary.
**Note that they started a “counter
intelligence” operation – not a criminal
investigation.
Each morning the president is presented with an
intelligence report from all of the intelligence data
collected by the FBI, NSA, etc. In other words, Obama
likely was presented each day with the info gathered while
the gov’t spied on Carter Page/George Papadopoulos, if
not others.
So – was Obama leaving himself an
opening back in April when he said he
doesn’t talk about “investigations” ??
~~~
August 2016
August 15, 2016. Strzok sends Page the
“Insurance Policy” text.
On that date, Strzok sends his paramour Lisa Page a text
that implies they have an insurance policy against Trump
getting elected.
 “I want to believe the path you threw out for
consideration in Andy’s [Andrew
McCabe/FNI Dep. Director] office that
there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m
afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an
insurance policy in the unlikely event you
die before you’re 40….”
~~~
September 2016
Summer/September 2016. FBI official
Andrew McCabe is aware of more
Clinton emails/Delays review of them.
Hillary Clinton emails are recovered from Anthony
Weiner’s laptop. Weiner is the husband of close Clinton
staffer Huma Abedin.
To have the emails residing on Weiner’s
laptop is a clear violation of law. Huma
Abedin is never prosecuted for the
violation – nor is Weiner – let alone
Hillary.
FBI official Andrew McCabe, whose wife benefitted from
campaign help
(some say the arrangement netted over
$700,000 for her campaign) from Clinton
Ally Terry McAuliffe, delays review of the
new discovered emails for at least
several weeks.
September of 2016.
Carter Page leaves Trump campaign.
Press stories allege contacts between Page and Russian
officials resulting in pressure for Page to leave the
campaign – so he leaves.
Peter Strzok/Lisa Page Text States that
President Obama wants to “know
everything” the FBI was “doing.”
Again, is that because it was an “intelligence operation”
not a “criminal investigation” ??
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Jonathan Winer “says Steele and
Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal
approached him with separate dossiers
claiming malfeasance between Trump
and Russia.”
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“Winer distilled the dossier into a two-page
summary that he shared with former
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland, who notified then-Secretary of
State John Kerry.”
9.28.16. McCabe notifies Strzok of
additional Hillary emails needing to be
reviewed.
September/October 2016. DOJ Official
Bruce Ohr’s wife goes to work
for Fusion GPS (the firm that was the
conduit between the Hillary Campaign and
dossier author ex-British spy Christopher
Steele). Ohr later funnels information
from his wife to the FBI.
~~~
October 2016
October of 2016. Second Comey FISA
request relying on the Steele Dossier –
FISA Warrant Issued to spy on Carter
Page. Andrew McCabe, in time, makes it
clear that without the dossier, there
would have been no FISA warrant. The
dossier made up the “bulk” of the
application according to recent Senate
report.
The dossier has never been verified – to
this day. Comey told Trump in January
of 2017 that the dossier was
“unverified.”
Yet, Comey represented to the FISA Court that the dossier
was credible –
in part, by citing a Yahoo news story on
the matter.
However, Comey knew that that story was planted by the
dossier author Christopher Steele. In other words, it was
not an independent verification of the dossier.
“As Isikoff explains, his story was
almost entirely based on information
from the Steele dossier, which was
passed to him by an intermediary.
Therefore, citing it would be redundant.
The revelation, which was made in a memo
released by the House Intelligence
Committee on Friday, “stuns me,” Isikoff
said in an episode of his podcast,
“Skullduggery.”
All in all, Comey swore under oath that the Court should
consider the dossier credible evidence so that the FBI
could spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page – even Yet, the FBI counter intelligence effort was being run on
though Page had already left the campaign. Given that it the Trump campaign not the Clinton campaign.
was known that Page already left the campaign, it could
well be that Carter Page was the fall guy excuse to begin October 2016.
domestic spying on others.
Comey announces the reopening of
Without question, Comey misled the FISA Court by email review and then, before the election,
submitting and vouching for the unverified dossier and clears Hillary again.
pushing the Yahoo News story. Those were not the only
questionable acts, misrepresentations nor omissions of ~~~
Comey.
November 2016
The FBI and DOJ, at the time they made the original FISA
application, also were aware of the following – ALL OF
WHICH WAS HIDDEN FROM THE FISA COURT: November 2016. Trump wins the
Presidency.
a) Hillary’s campaign and the DNC paid for the November 2016, Hillary campaign
dossier – a fact which, if known, would give rise to immediately blames Russian
judicial questions of potential evidentiary bias. Instead, interference and that narrative is
they made a vague reference to it having a political maintained for months.
origin. **Why didn’t the FISA Judge ask for more
details about that? ~~~
b) Christopher Steele tells a DOJ official Bruce Ohr
that Steele was “desperate that Donald Trump not December 2016
get elected and was passionate about him not being
president.” Another fact that, if known, would give rise
December of 2016. Obama
to judicial questions of potential evidentiary bias.
Administration begins process to relax
rules on sharing intelligence about
c) The FBI was willing to pay Christopher Steele
Americans.
for more research but rescinded its offer when the
FBI found out Steele had briefed reporters on the
content of his dossier – a violation of FBI The rules previously provided that if an American was
rules. Thereafter, the FBI ended its relationship with speaking to a foreigner who was being surveilled, the
Steele. Any Judge or jury would want to know if American’s name would be masked in the intelligence
someone offering evidence otherwise was breaking documents. Obama made it easier to share the actual
rules. It bears on whether the witness can be trusted. names – which so happened to be Trump transition
c) Carter Page was not considered by the Russians as officials trying to do their job
a credible businessmen and/or figure. Many believe
Carter Page was an insignificant player. Wiretapped ~~~
Russian called him an idiot. Again, this raises the
question of whether surveillance of him was really an 90 days renewals. Three times
attempt to get at others. thereafter, the FBI and the DOJ
d) A DOJ official’s wife was working for the outfit reapplied for a FISA warrant and never
commissioning the dossier. Another potentially apprised the Court of their prior
biased individual. misrepresentations and/or omissions.

Also, in March of 2017, Comey would tell a Congressional
Committee that he relied on Steele’s credibility with
respect to vouching for the dossier. Really?
** Keep in mind, by this time, the FBI is
aware that the Hillary campaign paid
lawyers, to give money to Fusion GPS,
who gave money to a foreign agent
(Christopher Steele), who got
information from Russian informants.
The existing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,
who currently oversees the Mueller investigation, was one
of the officials who made a FISA warrant reapplication. It
has also been said that Rosenstein, on January 10,
threatened House Members with legal proceedings if they
continue to push oversight of this matter.
~~~
Conclusions

So what conclusions are to be drawn in all of this?

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1. Obviously, the Obama Administration DOJ officials
were never going to charge Hillary Clinton with a crime
related to the emails. To make that come true, their
officials went easy on Hillary (as the Strzok/Page texts
expressly suggest should be done). They altered
procedure, they granted multiple immunity deals, they
allowed for the destruction of evidence, they gave her
an easy interview, they delayed the review of
documents, they altered the characterization of Hillary’s
offense from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless”
to exonerate her from liability, and more. Their conduct
amounts to obstruction of justice – a crime.
2. The race between Hillary and Trump pushed the
FBI/DOJ to alter the Hillary email investigation timeline
for election purposes. They weren’t following the
evidence, they were keeping to a deadline. They
pushed to end the investigation and to exonerate her so
that she would not be burdened with the investigation
as the race moved into the Fall.
Yes, it is true that Comey made a terrible (likely
unprecedented) decision to publicly announce
reopening the email investigation days before the
election. In truth, however, because it would implicate
Obama, no charges were ever going to be brought.
3. It is obvious that the FBI/DOJ officials hastened the
end of the Hillary email investigation and then
immediately began an investigation of Donald Trump.
The timing of the July 5, 2016 Comey exoneration
speech and the late July counter intelligence
investigation related to a tangential Trump advisor
should not be viewed as just a coincidence. It was, as
Strzok said, an “insurance policy” against the election
of Trump.
4. Do Comey’s original draft and his announcements
related to Hillary not demonstrate he was not biased
against her? Maybe. The fact that Comey made
inconsistent and stupid decisions does not mean the
FBI and the DOJ weren’t giving Hillary a free pass.
Also, there is no doubt, that Comey stole documents
from the FBI and illegally leaked such documents.
Those are crimes. Beyond that . . .
5. FBI/DOJ officials knowingly concealed evidence and
misled the FISA Court. They, including Comey, knew
the law. They are senior law enforcement officials.
They knew they had been turned down before and
therefore had to bring more to the table.
So what did they bring? The dossier. The unverified
dossier. They asserted to the Court, however, that it
was credible. The way the legal system works is that, in
order for the evidence to be considered, someone has
to submit a declaration under penalty of perjury
vouching for the credibility of the evidence.
They also omitted information that likely would have
resulted in the Court denying the application. It was
October of 2016, however, and they wanted information
right then and there. After all, it was less than a month
before the election.
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6. Based on those lies in the FISA applications, all the
evidence that was gathered as the fruit of that warrant,
unless it can be shown the evidence was clearly not
gathered from that warrant, could be ruled inadmissible
in any criminal case. Look for Paul Manafort to make
that argument.
7. Without the FISA warrant, would there have been an
Independent Counsel? We shall never know – but it
appears rather unlikely.
8. Mueller. He had to know of the facts above. Why
hasn’t he blown the whistle on the bad cops?
9. It is right to say that this episode is the worst abuse
of political power in American history related to
elections. Watergate is nothing by comparison. That
involved people not employed by the government.
Later it involved a cover-up in which Nixon and other
WH staff participated.
Watergate did not involve the DOJ and the FBI – two
institutions which must be non-partisans for this Republic
of ours.
This case does involve the FBI and DOJ. It also is foolish
not to assume that Loretta Lynch and President Obama
were ignorant of the goings on – if not involved in them.
Finally, the dishonest investigation of Hillary who
committed actual crimes should not be acceptable. Nor
should FBI or DOJ officials be allowed to alter events and
Court proceedings for political purposes.
If we let this go, and people are not brought to justice, we
will have forever damaged our Republic and the World’s
view of us as a nation of laws.
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competition for their spoils–therefore our divisions.
”There simply is so much at stake today. As a result, our
governments that benefit so many, employ so many, and
tax so widely–in short our governments that pick so many
winners and losers–are understandably subject to an
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Thomas Del Beccaro in this fascinating study of the
history of political unity and division in the US, from the
Revolution to the adoption of the Constitution, the Civil
War through Reconstruction, The Gilded Age to our
present Divided Era.

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 ‘News Directly From The CIA’:
Ex-Director Brennan Hired By NBC
Published time: 5 Feb, 2018 19:00 Edited time: 6 Feb, 2018 10:59

The ex-CIA chief made his first appearance in his new role
as a senior national security and intelligence analyst on
‘Meet the Press’ Sunday, and promptly took the
opportunity to accuse Nunes of being “exceptionally
partisan” and abusing his role to protect Trump.

© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

Former CIA Director John Brennan has been hired as a

paid contributor by NBC and MSNBC, the media company
announced. He led the agency from 2013 to early 2017,
under President Barack Obama.

Brennan’s appointment comes amid the outcry over the

memorandum released by House Intelligence Committee
Chair Devin Nunes (R-California) alleging impropriety by
the FBI and DOJ while investigating claims of Russian
interference in the 2016 election.

That Brennan previously lied to an NBC journalist about

the CIA’s attempts to thwart a Senate Intelligence
Committee investigation into the agency’s use of torture
was apparently no deterrent to his appointment.

Brennan was nominated CIA director by Obama in 2013

and served until Trump took office in January 2017. In
testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, he has
maintained that Russia “brazenly interfered” in the 2016
elections, offering no evidence to support his allegations.

The irony of Brennan’s new post was not lost on journalist

and The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald, who
pointed out that it was a “little strange” for the network to
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constantly denounce RT and Fox as “state TV” and then Internal Pentagon documents referred to them as “message
hire CIA Directors & Generals as your "news analysts"? force multipliers” or “surrogates” who could be counted
on to deliver administration “themes and messages” to
millions of Americans “in the form of their own opinions.”

The largest contingent of analysts were affiliated with Fox

News, followed by NBC and CNN, the investigation
found.

The presence of former military and intelligence officials

in newsrooms was once thought controversial. In 2008, the
New York Times wrote an investigative analysis outlining
the George W. Bush administration’s use of military
analysts to shape terrorism coverage.
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 Ex-FBI Special Agent Takes Blowtorch To Comey:
He Made Up Own Rules, “Predetermined”
Clinton Probe (Video)
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 11:01 Am
Ex-FBI special agent Chris Swecker
took a blowtorch to former bureau
Director James Comey Sunday,
accusing the fired law enforcement
executive of having an oversized ego
that led to a “predetermined” Hillary
Clinton-email probe.
Transcript provided by Ian Schwartz of Real Clear
Politics:
ED HENRY, FOX NEWS: Republicans on
the House Intel panel released that
controversial FISA memo on Friday
bringing to light what they say are some
pretty shocking revelations.
TODD PIRO, FOX NEWS: Joining us now
to react is Chris Swecker who served 24
years as an FBI special agent. Sir, with all
due respect, to our other guests today this
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interview is arguably the most important
because of your background as an FBI
agent. So I’ll ask you right off the bat,
you’ve heard other individuals saying the
FBI is going to go after the president, the
FBI hates the president, this was bad, this
is now FBI versus president. How do you
react to that?
CHRIS SWECKER, FMR. FBI AGENT:
Well, I’d say, look, Chris Wray the new
deputy director David Bowdich are going to
do no such thing. What we’re talking about
here is a breakdown in the senior
leadership of the FBI under Jim Comey and
Andy McCabe as deputy director. I would
hate for the public to think that the FBI as
an institution is flawed or biased.
What this is is a very small inner circle of
senior leadership under Jim Comey at a
very critical time period, and I just don’t
want this to reflect on the 35,000 very —
you know, the excellent men and women of
the FBI who are doing a great job every
day.
ED HENRY: So Chris, let’s get specific.
And we’ve heard the partisan attacks on all
sides, people who don’t like the president,
people who like the president and people
who like James Comey and don’t like
James Comey. So I think as Todd said, it’s
very important to get your perspective as
somebody who was inside the FBI so
James Comey holds himself out there even
today on Twitter and Instagram as this
paragon of virtue, above the fray. You were
there for 24 years. How do you think he’s
behaved over the last couple of years, you
know, his public performance as FBI
director, both in the Clinton probe and then
how he handled President Trump?
CHRIS SWECKER: I had the perspective
of serving directly under Director Mueller. I
bet I sat in on 500-plus meetings with him
and Director [Louis] Freeh, and these were
two great leaders. They stayed in the
 background. I never saw a hint of bias.
Unfortunately, under Jim Comey, that
hubris that you just mentioned caused him
to make up his own rules — leaks,
permissive leak environment,
predetermining investigations, a non-
investigation of the Clinton email
investigation, thumb on the scale on the
Russian investigation in the beginning here
with the FISA applications, and just
generally making up their own rules and
letting their own political opinions infect
their investigation. That is something you
learn at the FBI academy. You can’t let
your personal bias — you’ve got to leave
those at home. If, not you need to be in
another line of business.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Comey
downplayed the FISA abuse memo, tweeting,
“That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo
wrecked the House intel committee,
destroyed trust with Intelligence
Community, damaged relationship with
FISA court, and inexcusably exposed
classified investigation of an American
citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep
doing their jobs.”
.
Documents released in August of last year show
Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton before the investigation
into her email conduct had concluded. Even more
concerning is
“Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft
statement to select members of senior FBI
leadership,” reported Townhall.
“According to the unredacted portions of
the transcripts, it appears that in April or
early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already
decided he would issue a statement
exonerating Secretary Clinton. That was
long before FBI agents finished their work.
Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft
statement to select members of senior FBI
leadership. The outcome of an
investigation should not be prejudged while
FBI agents are still hard at work trying to
gather the facts,” wrote Senators Charles
Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-
SC).

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 Crooked Cop Comey Gets Blasted After Bragging About
His New Book And ‘Joining The Discussion
About Ethical Leadership’
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 11:36 Am

Crooked cop Comey should have taken
Sean Hannity’s advice last week when
he told the fired FBI Director, “You have
the right to remain silent”.
Comey keeps arrogantly tweeting which isn’t helping his
case.
After the FISA memo was released Comey
tweeted “that’s it?” while simultaneously
attacking the memo as dishonest and
destructive.
Comey tweeted Tuesday morning about putting the
finishing touches on his new book titled, ‘A Higher
Loyalty – Truth, Lies and Leadership’. (It must be
fiction).
Comey:
“I’ve heard people have missed my photo
tweets. � I took this yesterday during a long,
peaceful walk by the Potomac on a break
from putting finishing touches on my book.
I’m looking forward to its release and
joining the discussion about ethical
leadership.”

On Tuesday, Comey tweeted about looking forward to

joining the discussion about ethical leadership.
Comey is the last person to know about ethical leadership.
Crooked Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton before
interviewing her and 17 witnesses in her criminal email
investigation, handed immunity out like candy, gave
classified memos to a friend to leak to the press and misled
the FISA court.
LOCK HIM UP.

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 Morning Joe Hosts Abruptly
Change Their Minds on Dem Memo
By Bill D'Agostino
February 6, 2018 12:07 PM EST
The narrative surrounding House Intel Democrats’ memo,
which was unanimously approved for release yesterday,
took a bizarre turn Tuesday on the set of MSNBC’s
Morning Joe. During an interview with Democrat Intel
Committee member Eric Swalwell, Joe Scarborough and
fellow panel members abruptly began to question whether
the new memo, authored by Committee Minority Leader
Adam Schiff, ought to see the light of day.
In the days leading up to the release of Intel Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes’s memo, there was a virtually
media-wide consensus that not only should the Democrats’
rebuttal be made public as well, but the release of Nunes’s
document ought to be delayed so that the two could be
released simultaneously. Even after the Nunes memo was
declassified and subsequently dubbed a nothing burger by
members of the press, the notion that the House
Democrats’ side of the story ought to be released to the
public was practically a foregone conclusion.
Scarborough challenged this consensus opinion
Tuesday with a series of adversarial questions for
Congressman Swalwell:
Congressman, I don’t understand. Most
of us around the table thought it was a
terrible idea to release the Nunes memo,
and after it was released it was – in
modern parlance – a nothing burger...
Why reveal more sources if the Nunes
memo was much ado about nothing?
Swalwell explained that the Democrat memo’s release was
motivated by a concern for the FBI’s credibility, which he
477
seemed to suggest was a goal worth compromising sources
for.
“I saw numbers this morning that the
public’s view of the FBI, particularly
among Republicans, has been
tainted,” he explained. “Our memo
bolsters their credibility for this
investigation only. But I agree with you,
this is a dangerous road."
Scarborough appeared unsatisfied with the Congressman’s
response and pushed the issue further.
“You’re going to expose sources and
processes based on a snap poll
released after Nunes’s bizarre memo?”
he bawked.
After the interview, Scarborough continued to harp on the
issue:
I don’t understand, I really don’t. You
can’t say we have to do this to defend
the FBI and the Justice Department on
the one hand, and on the other hand
say, “Well, that Nunes memo was a
bomb.” It was a bomb! The Nunes
memo sets up a timeline that hurts
Donald Trump, so why should the
Democrats continue down this flawed
path? This dangerous path?
Washington Post editor Eugene Robinson suggested that
House Democrats were acting on an
“impulse to correct the record,” but he
agreed that releasing a second memo
would “create an occasion to talk about
this nothing burger.”
Scarborough’s pugnacious questioning of Congressman
Swalwell uncovered – perhaps inadvertently – a series of
glaring contradictions in the narrative about the Nunes
memo. The rationale for opposing the memo’s release
given by the media, the Democrats, and indeed the FBI,
was that it would have drastic implications for national
security and compromise sources and methods. Upon the
memo’s release, the narrative rapidly shifted to the current
media characterization: that it was a ‘nothing burger.’
Even former FBI director James Comey parroted this
sentiment in a tweet on the day the Nunes memo went
public.
Now, however, these parties must reconcile their stated
concern for national security and their belief that the
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Nunes memo was wholly ineffectual with their support for
the release of a second, more detailed memo – one which,
by Congressman Swalwell’s own admission, reveals
sources and methods. Scarborough’s line of questioning
for the Congressman reflected this reconciliation, and
evidently, it has caused him to withdraw his support for
declassifying the Schiff memo. It remains to be seen
whether this new shift in support will play out elsewhere
within the greater media sphere.
 Networks Censored 75 Percent Of Dow
Record Highs Since Start Of 2017
By Julia A. Seymour
February 6, 2018 12:22 PM EST

Seventy-one of those closing records took place in 2017,

according to Marketwatch.com. The Dow notched 11 more
in 2018, before the recent pullbacks.

Standalone on screen graphics without any spoken words

from an anchor or reporter were not counted because they
were so easily missed and lacked context.

Journalism instruction and resource group The Poynter

While the early February 2018 market pullback has
spooked some investors and already gained plenty of
media attention, it illustrated all too well the broadcast
networks’ tendency to cover bad economic news more
than good. The networks skipped the vast majority of
records as the market climbed throughout 2017 and the
beginning of 2018.
Institute provided journalists with some sage advice on
Feb. 6, 2018, when it warned them “Don’t feed the stock
market panic.” Poynter advised remembering context when
discussing the stock market, using percentages and
remembering to take a longer view because “stock prices
have rocketed upward in the past year, actually in the last
few years.”
Even Record Closes Above Milestones
Didn’t Guarantee Network Coverage

The single-day drop of about 666 points (or 2.5 percent) on

Feb. 2, got more time from the broadcast network evening
news programs than their combined coverage of the Dow
25K and Dow 26K milestones right before it. A bigger
decline on Feb. 5, left NBC Nightly News freaking out,
although CBS Evening News tried to quell panic.

Ahead of the recent selloffs, the stock market had been on

a tear, especially since the election of Donald Trump.
MarketWatch reported that the 1-year Dow gain from
Election Day was more than 28 percent, and the biggest
gain in more than 70 years for that time period. From
Election Day to the record close above 26,000 on Jan. 17,
2018, the Dow had increased in value by almost 42
percent.
But big gains didn’t always mean big coverage from ABC,
CBS and NBC. Perhaps afraid the rising markets would
make Trump look good, those evening newscasts
downplayed the Dow’s meteoric rise — failing to air a
story or news brief about them 75 percent of the time (62
out of 82 records) between Jan. 1, 2017 and the most
recent record high on Jan. 26, 2018. Those records
included the 21K, 22K, 23K, 24K, 25K and 26K
“milestones.”
Early in the stock market rally, it quickly became
nicknamed a “Trump rally.” Even liberal media like Vox
admitted the rise was connected to hope regarding
potential Trump economic policies like corporate tax cuts.
Later on, other factors including corporate earnings,
stronger global economic growth rates and the promise
(and passage) of tax reform continued pushing the Dow
upward.
Viewers couldn’t even count on all three networks
covering “milestone” record highs (the first time a close
was above 23K, 24K, etc). Often only only one or two of
the three news programs would cover those records.

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For example, the very first time the Dow closed above
23,000 was Oct. 28, 2017, and only one of the three
evening newscasts covered it. Nightly News gave a sparse
11 seconds to “another record day on Wall Street.” World
News Tonight with David Muir and Evening News didn’t
say a word about it that night.
The first close above 24K — 24,272 — got a bit of
coverage from World News and Nightly News on Nov. 30,
2017. Together those shows spent 25 seconds on that
record high close and ABC noted it was driven by
“optimism” about the tax bill. Evening News said nothing
again that night, only showing a graphic.
Following that record, USA Today quoted Kate Warne,
investment strategist at St. Louis-based Edward Jones. She
said,
“Stocks have soared this year, lifted by the
strong winds of improving global growth,
optimism about pro-growth U.S. policies
and still-low interest rates."
Evening News did cover the two non-milestone records
that immediately followed the 24K close (24,290.05 on
Dec. 4, 2017 and 24,329.16 on Dec. 8, 2017) when “Wall
Street” was celebrating tax cuts, and when a good jobs
report gave stocks a “boost.” But the other programs
skipped those.
In 2018, the Dow closed above 25,000 on Jan. 4, and
finally all three programs covered the story at least a little.
World News gave it 11 seconds, Evening News 84 seconds
and Nightly News 67 seconds. But the Jan. 17, 2018, close
above 26,000 got no mention on Nightly News and just 13
seconds on the other two broadcasts. Nightly News did find
time to cover a new dieting trend that night.
Evening Programs Skip Long Stretches
of Dow Records
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Often the records were piled high before a broadcast would
report on it again. World News ignored 30 record highs in
a row, from Aug. 3, 2017, through Jan. 3, 2018. The Dow
records on those dates started with 22,092.81 and ended at
24,922.68 — more than an 12.8 percent gain.
It wasn’t until Jan. 4, 2018, World News finally reported
another record, after the Dow closed above 25K for the
first time.
Evening News was silent about many of those same
records, failing to talk about 23 closing records in a row
from Sept. 20, 2017, through Nov. 30, 2017. The Dow
climbed 1,859 points during that period. The program
often showed an onscreen graphic of the Dow closing
number, sometimes with a small “record high” written next
to it — but those were not counted as stories or news
briefs.
Nightly News also ignored records for a long stretch,
censoring 17 in a row from Aug. 3, 2017, through Oct. 16,
2017.
Methodology:
MRC Business utilized Nexis and MRC
archives to see if there were stories or
news briefs about the stock market on ABC
World News Tonight with David Muir, CBS
Evening News and NBC Nightly News on
the 82 nights of Dow Jones Industrial
Average closing record highs between Jan.
1, 2017, and Jan. 26, 2018.
Onscreen graphics of the closing Dow number with or
without “record close” written beside the number were not
counted because they were easily missed without a
reporter or anchor saying anything about them. They also
often flashed on screen right before or after a commercial
break.
 HANNITY WARNS: Senate Has Released Memo 2.0
“Exposing Deep State Corruption” —
“You Should Be Scared”
by Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 1:12 pm
In a Fox News op-ed Tuesday, media
icon Sean Hannity expanded on his
explosive Monday night monologue,
warning the Senate Judiciary
Committee’s ‘second memo exposing
Deep State corruption,’ should ‘scare,’
the American people.
Credit: Fox News
Hannity writes:
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
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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.
[…]
The Grassley-Graham memo goes on to say
“it’s troubling enough that the Clinton
campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but
[worse] that these Clinton associates were
contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele’s
allegations. It raises huge additional
concerns about his credibility.” […]
The incestuous ties between Fusion, Steele, the Clinton
campaign and the Obama Justice Department are alarming.
Clinton hired Fusion, which hired Steele. Steele was
working with the FBI at the same time. The wife of a top
Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, was hired by
Fusion to work with Steele. […]
You should be scared. And disgusted.
In a letter released Monday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-
IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) outed the FBI for
attempting to suppress the release of new revelations about
the Steele dossier.
In the same letter, Grassley and Graham say that Steele,
penned a separate memo on then-candidate Donald Trump,
based on information given to him by a Hillary Clinton
contact and unnamed Obama State Department official.
According to the New York Post’s Paul Sperry, the Senate
Judiciary Committee is working to declassify intel on
Steele.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee also has
a memo on Steele, the dossier and the FBI,
and is working to get it declassified,”
tweeted Sperry last week.
 As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Steele was a
no sh0w at a London court Monday amid fallout stemming
from the FISA abuse memo released last Friday.

When Fox News reached out for comment, Steele associate

Chris Burrows, replied

“I regret that for a number of reasons, Chris

Steele is not available to speak on or off
the record about this subject.”
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 IT’S A SET UP=> Report: Adam Schiff Purposely Put
“Sources And Methods” In Dem Spin Memo To Force
POTUS Trump To Make Redactions
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 1:58 Pm

changes – setting up a contrast with GOP

The Democrats have been in spin mode memo”
since the House Intel Committee
released the damning FISA memo last
Friday.
The House Minority penned a 10-page
‘counter-memo’ in order to ‘refute’ the
House Majority FISA memo.
On Monday, suspected leaker Rep.
Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced the
House Intel Committee voted
unanimously to release the Democrat
spin memo.
Investigative reporter Sara Carter said,
Fox News reporter John Roberts reports sources are telling
him Schiff’s spin memo purposely contains information
pertaining to “sources and methods” which will force “Just look at what’s been happening from
POTUS Trump to make redactions. This was done the beginning- my sources say yes. But
tactically to make Trump look like he’s censoring the really it’s up to @RepAdamSchiff to answer
Dems since he made no changes to Nunes’ memo. that question.”

Schiff and the Dems are snakes.

The Democrat spin memo reached the White House

Tuesday morning. It is being reported President Trump
will be briefed on the 10-page document Tuesday
afternoon.

Fox News’ John Robert reported,
“Sources tell @foxnews that the
@AdamSchiffCA memo contains
information pertaining to “sources and
methods” that will likely require redaction.
One source says this was done tactically to
force the @realDonaldTrump into making
White House reporter for Bloomberg News, Jennifer
Jacobs tweeted,
“NEW: Trump has NOT read the Dem
memo yet but he has it, General Kelly tells
me. Kelly says Trump will be briefed on it
later today.”

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Adam Schiff Duped By Russian Pranksters Claiming Putin
Has NAKED Blackmail Pics Of POTUS Trump – Tells His
Staff To Collect ‘Classified Materials For FBI’ (AUDIO)
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 2:59 Pm
Ranking member of the House
Intelligence Committee and resident
clown Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is
obsessed with the Trump-Russia
collusion hoax.
Schiff is so obsessed that he is desperate for there to be
any connection involving Trump and Russia that he fell for
Russian pranksters claiming to have naked pictures of
Donald Trump.
Old Schiffty then told his staff to collect classified
materials for the FBI.
This is more humiliating than Twitter smacking down his
claims Russian bots were pushing the #ReleaseTheMemo
campaign online.
The Daily Mail reported:
The ranking Democrat on the House
Intelligence Committee was the victim of a
prank phone call by Russian comedians
who offered to give him ‘compromising’ dirt
on Donald Trump – including nude photos
of the president and a Russian reality show
star.
DailyMail.com can disclose that after the
prank, his staff engaged in correspondence
with what they thought was a Ukrainian
politician to try to obtain the ‘classified’
material promised on the call.
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On an audio recording of the prank call posted online,
Adam Schiff can be heard discussing the
committee’s Russia investigation and increasingly bizarre
allegations about Trump with a man who claimed to be
Andriy Parubiy, the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament.
The call, made a year ago, was actually from two Russian
comedians nicknamed ‘Vovan’ and ‘Lexus’ who have
become notorious for their phony calls to high-ranking
American officials and celebrities, including UN
Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John.
Its existence was first reported by The Atlantic but not how
a staff member working for the minority on the House
Intelligence Committee pursued the information after the
call.
Schiff’s office said the congressman suspected the call was
‘bogus’ from the beginning and reported it to authorities
afterward.
But in a recording of the eight minute conversation, Schiff
appeared to take the call seriously – or at least played
along convincingly – and emails from the Democrat’s staff
to the fake politician afterwards said he had found it
‘productive’.
Hillary’s phony Russia dossier has similar salacious,
unverified claims that President Trump was gallivanting
with Russian hookers in Moscow.
According to the “intelligence” documents: Trump
disliked Obama so much that he hired two Russian hookers
to piss on a bed that Obama slept on in Russia.
Trump partook in “golden showers” in Russia with
prostitutes on a bed Obama once slept on… Russia then
blackmailed Trump, not by asking for money or influence
in his business deals, but by forcing him to run for
president against all odds and win? Stupid liberals will
believe anything.
Audio of Schiffty on the call with the
Russian pranksters via The Daily Mail:
 ‘I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this. And
we’ll make arrangements with your staff. I
think it probably would be best to provide
these materials both to our committee and
to the FBI,’ said Schiff during the
conversation, which lasted around eight
minutes according to the recording posted
to YouTube.

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 POTUS Trump Meets With Rod
Rosenstein Amid FISA Memo Fury
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 3:14 Pm

White House press secretary Sarah

Huckabee Sanders announced Tuesday
that President Trump met with Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to
discuss the Democrat’s counter-memo.

Democrats have fought hard to paint the memo as a hyper-

partisan piece of propaganda aimed at discrediting the
‘Trump-Russia’ collusion investigation. Nobody worked
harder to keep the memo classified than Schiff.

Schiff’s position on the memo has been nothing short of

“Schiffty,” having first branded the memo nothing more
than Republican propaganda, then claiming the document
On Monday evening, Schiff announced the Committee
shouldn’t be made public because Americans wouldn’t
voted unanimously to release their 10-page “counter-
understand it, to announcing House Intelligence Democrats
memo.”
would be releasing a “counter-memo.”

The California lawmaker believes the counter-memo will

The document will now head to the White House for
correct the Nunes memo’s “distortions and inaccuracies.”
approval.

The meeting comes on the heels of the FISA abuse memo

revealing Rosenstein extended the warrant to surveil
Trump campaign “advisor,” Carter Page.

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 Undemocratic Dems’ Assault On FISA Memo
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
2-6-2018
The state of the nation keeps sinking to lower depths - on
track toward destroying the republic entirely, replacing it
with full-blown tyranny.
What’s going on is shocking, an unacknowledged
constitutional crisis, most Americans mindless about
what’s evident in plain sight.
Undemocratic Dems with media support launched an
assault on the Russiagate FISA memo. It contains clear
evidence of Washington’s debauched system.
Unjustifiable FISA warrants were gotten to spy on
Trump’s team during the 2016 presidential campaign -
based on Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier, information
lacking credibility, his work funded by Hillary and the
DNC.
Heads should roll for what happened, individuals
responsible held accountable for wrongdoing - including
Hillary, high-level FBI and DOJ officials, along with
undemocratic Dems involved.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton called the FISA
memo a “devastating blow” to special counsel Mueller’s
investigation, saying
“(t)he whole thing (should) be called off
now by the Justice Department if (it’s)
brave enough, based on the disclosures.”
They’d be no Mueller investigation without Steele’s dodgy
dossier, he maintained, calling for greater disclosure by
releasing the FISA memo’s underlying documents to learn
more about abuses committed.
Led by undemocratic Dem Rep. Adam Schiff, current and
former party officials (including Obama attorney general
Eric Holder) launched a media-supported campaign to
discredit the important Rep. Devin Nunes FISA memo.
They failed trying to get its contents suppressed. Now
revealed for everyone to read, they’re disgracefully
attacking its credibility - calling it a war on the FBI and
Justice Department to discredit Mueller’s investigation - a
witch hunt, not a legitimate one.
The memo focuses entirely on FISA abuses, not Mueller,
as critics falsely claim. Dems want their own memo
released. They unjustifiably questioned the reliability of
what Nunes disclosed.
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A former unnamed US intelligence official/whistleblower
said
“(f)irst, it’s fear tactics. Our national security
is at risk.”
“When that no longer works, they attempt
to discredit the memo and Nunes, instead
of doing their due diligence and ensuring
that (intelligence community) assets are not
weaponized during an election.”
The Nunes memo justifiably expresses concern
“with the legitimacy and legality of certain
DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC)…represent(ing) a troubling
breakdown of legal processes established
to protect the American people from
abuses related to the FISA process.”
Current and former undemocratic Dem officials, along
with media scoundrels, went all-out to suppress vital FISA
memo information everyone has a right to know.
Now they’re waging war to discredit its revelations.
During his tenure, Obama waged war on press freedom.
Campaigning, he promised transparency, oversight,
accountability and reform. He said whistleblowing reflects
“acts of courage and patriotism.”
He pledged to
“strengthen whistleblower laws to protect
federal workers who expose waste, fraud,
and abuse of authority in government.”
He promised one thing and did another, targeting more
whistleblowers than all his predecessors combined,
prioritizing surveillance powers on his watch, wanting
truth and full disclosure suppressed.
Journalists and press freedom advocates said he concealed
information everyone has a right to know.
He evaded press scrutiny, aggressively targeting leakers - FISA memo revelations are important. Key is what follows
maybe now directly involved in the campaign to denigrate from their release. Without accountability for wrongdoing,
Trump and remove him from office. nothing will change.

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 Washington’s ‘Crackpot’ Nuclear
Posture Endangers The World To An Alarming Degree
By Finian Cunningham
Published Time: 6 Feb, 2018 15:18

In regard to Russia and China, the NPR asserts (on page

6):

“Since 2010 we have seen the return of

Great Power competition. To varying
degrees, Russia and China have made
clear they seek to substantially revise the
post-Cold War international order and
norms of behavior.”

However, the Pentagon doesn’t provide substantive detail

© Bettmann / Getty Images on what this “revision of the international order” by
Russia and China entails and why it should be considered
Washington’s latest Nuclear Posture Review imperils by the US a grave security threat.
global security in three ways: it inflates perceived threats
to the US, it conflates conventional & nuclear war and it
On Russia, the Pentagon claims:
pushes for the development of low-yield nuclear weapons.

“Russia has demonstrated its willingness to

These three new moments in US policy increase the risk of
use force to alter the map of Europe and
nuclear war rather than lowering it, as American Defense
impose its will on its neighbors, backed by
Secretary James Mattis claimed in signing off on the
implicit and explicit nuclear first-use
Nuclear Posture Review published last week.
threats… Its occupation of Crimea and
direct support for Russia-led forces in
Mattis states that the long-term goal of the US is the eastern Ukraine violate its commitment to
elimination of all nuclear weapons from the world — but respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.”
Washington has no intention of ever doing this. That’s
because US leaders never cease to view the world as a
Regarding China, Mattis states in the preface of the NPR
relentlessly threatening place, justifying a $1 trillion
that Beijing is
upgrade of the nation’s nuclear arsenal.
“challenging traditional US military
The NPR states:
superiority in the western Pacific.”
“This review comes at a critical moment in
Here, the Pentagon is referring to China’s territorial claims
our nation’s history, for America confronts
to islands in the South China Sea.
an international security situation that is
more complex and demanding than any
since the end of the Cold War.” These alleged transgressions by Russia and China are
repeated throughout the Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture
Review, as well as assertions that both countries have
Four specific threats are outlined: Russia, China, North
moved to
Korea and Iran.
“greater salience of deployment of nuclear
But what’s perplexing is that so little credible detail is
forces.”
presented by the Pentagon to justify why it considers these
four entities to be such dire threats, requiring greater US
nuclear posturing. What is disturbing is how the Pentagon has inflated
specific local territorial disputes — Ukraine and South
China Sea — to constitute somehow a
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 “worsening global threat environment.”
In the executive summary, the NPR states
“global threat conditions have worsened
markedly since the most recent 2010 NPR,
including increasingly explicit nuclear
threats from potential adversaries. The
United States now faces a more diverse
and advanced nuclear-threat environment
than ever before.”
At a couple of brief points, the US NPR states that it does
not want to have an adversarial relationship with either
Russia or China, yet it repeatedly depicts both as a threat.
This is consistent with two other documents recently
published by the Trump administration — the National
Security Strategy, in December, and the National Defense
Strategy (NDS), in January — which again called out
Russia and China as priority “rivals.” The NDS indeed
said Russia and China were now a bigger national security
threat than non-state terrorism.
In the latest NPR one quote (page 30) stands out:
“Russia is not the Soviet Union and the
Cold War is long over. However, despite
our best efforts to sustain a positive
relationship, Russia now perceives the
United States and NATO as its principal
opponent and impediment to realizing its
destabilizing geopolitical goals in Eurasia.”
Aside from the flagrant deceit over US and NATO
encirclement of Russia, again it is noteworthy how vague
accusations are somehow made into a sinister threat. The
NPR surely ought to say what Russia’s supposedly
“destabilizing geopolitical goals in Eurasia”
are, but doesn’t.
So are we to believe that Russia’s economic integration
with China and other Eurasian neighbors is an illegitimate
ambition? Is Russia’s move towards replacing the
American dollar in bilateral trade with China immoral?
Arguably, such moves are threatening to US hegemony.
But they are not acts of war in any reasonable definition.
That’s the thing. It is obvious that Washington is
construing political and economic changes in the world —
the tendency toward a multipolar order — as a mortal
threat to its unipolar ambitions. For Washington, this threat
is being transposed into military terms. The problem is not
foreign “enemies;” the problem is Washington’s
warmongering.
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The second perplexing theme in the US NPR is how it
conflates conventional and nuclear war. Repeatedly
throughout the document, it states that American nuclear
forces are to be
“tailored and more flexible” as “deterrents”
(one could argue “offensives”) “against
conventional and nuclear threats.”
With regard to Russia, the Pentagon reiterates the litany of
allegations against Moscow that it is acting aggressively in
Ukraine and against American allies in Europe, including
with
“new forms of aggression from
cyberattacks.”
Provocatively, the Pentagon declares that
“Russian aggression” will “trigger
incalculable and intolerable costs for
Moscow.”
This is disturbing, to say the least, because the military
chiefs in Washington are accusing Russia of what it
perceives as “aggression,” while at the same time
Washington is saying that it is moving toward “nuclear
deterrence” to confront it.
A third area of concern is the explicit go-ahead by
Washington for the development of so-called “low-yield
nuclear warheads.” The concept of “mini-nukes” has been
around for several years, but now the Pentagon is declaring
it will pursue development of these weapons. The NPR
specified submarine-launched missiles as the sector where
the mini-nukes will be deployed.
The dangerous consequence is the notion that a limited
nuclear war may be feasible. Thus, a greater risk of “low-
yield” nuclear weapons being deployed in action. But the
real danger is that the threshold will then be lowered for
escalation to strategic weapons of mass destruction.
Taken together, the latest US Nuclear Posture Review
presents an alarming deterioration in global security. In
stark contrast to the Pentagon’s claims of “raising the
threshold” for nuclear war, the latest policy formulation
entails a reckless lowering of that threshold.
During the height of the Cold War, the renowned
American sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the phrase
“Crackpot Realists” to refer to Pentagon war planners and
their relentless depiction of world threats as justification
for stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
It is evident from the latest NPR that the Cold War is still Think about that. The risk of world annihilation and the
being waged, and Crackpot Realists are ever-present in the grotesque waste of human resources could easily be
Pentagon. solved, if only Washington would engage in peaceful
diplomacy with the rest of the world.
As Mills wrote back in 1958:
The underlying reason for why this does not happen —
“The absence of an American program for American-desired hegemony — is why Washington stands
peace is a major cause of the thrust and condemned.
drift toward World War III.”
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 Sarah Sanders Drops Truth Bomb About Jeff Flake
Over Remarks Bashing Trump ‘Treason’ Joke (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 3:55 Pm
White House press secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders dropped a truth bomb
about Senator Jeff Flake after the Arizona
Senator bashed President Trump’s ‘treason,’
joke.
Credit: Amicus Humani Generis
When asked by CBS White House correspondent
Major Garrett to respond to Flake’s remarks, Sanders had
this to say…
SANDERS:
“Look, honestly, I’m not going to respond
directly to Senator Flake’s comments. I don’t
really care what Senator Flake has to say. I
don’t think his constituents do either and that’s
why his numbers are on the take. The president
was clearly joking with his comments. But what
isn’t a joke is that Democrats refuse to
celebrate the accomplishments of last year that
has helped all Americans. What I don’t
understand, what I don’t think the country
understands is why Democrats are so upset
about lower taxes and higher wages. That’s
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something that every American should be
celebrating, not crying about, not sitting on their
hands for. Democrats are going to have to
make a decision at some point really soon, do
they hate this president more than they love this
country. And I hope the answer to that is no.”
Flake, a frequent critic of Trump, took to the Senate floor
Tuesday to criticize the President’s joke.
“I have seen the president’s most ardent
defenders use the now-weary argument that the
president’s comments were meant as a joke,
just sarcasm, only tongue in cheek. But treason
is not a punchline, Mr. President,” Flake said in
his remarks.
President Trump made the joke on Monday during a
speech in Cincinnati.
“Can we call that treason? Why not?” Trump
asked, talking about Democrats who refused to
clap during his address.
“They certainly don’t seem to love our country
very much.”
 FBI And DOJ Corruption Beget Justice Denied
By SARTRE
February 6, 2018
The facts about the collusion among the Deep State
operatives regarding their plan to eliminate the Donald
Trump Presidency have been covered in detail. Connecting
the linkage among career supporters of the establishment
empire within the FBI, DOJ and the Intelligence
Community confirms our Founding Father's most profound
fears. Reject the specious diversion that party politics
determines the correct version of the narrative and adopt
the reality that the actual truth has been demonstrated by
the actions of the systemic criminals that hold senior
positions within these agency bureaucracies.
By now sincere Americans know that the endless
onslaught from the mass media for well over a year has
been contrived and orchestrated to remove President
Trump from office. As a disruptor of the Federal
government swamp, Trump presents a serious threat to the
political globalist culture. One need not be in agreement
with the Trump agenda, style of governing or his policies
to conclude that a duly elected President is the target for
removal simply because he is not playing ball by the usual
rules.
This scenario claims to be undertaken under the
appearance of the law but is actually a facade of the rules
of evidence. The most notable dimension of this perversion
of justice is performed by the legal community of self-
proclaimed arbitrators of final determination. Any honest
observer of jurisprudence must acknowledge that the rule
of law in the United States is a mere shadow of what once
existed.
Attorneys, especially political lawyers practice the
expedient preservation of power and forsake the
application of integrity in the search for the truth.
Benjamin Franklin warned that the general public must
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accept their own responsibility and demand accountability.
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected
are as outraged as those who are."
The endless assertions that the rank and file level of
employees at the FBI and DOJ are good and honorable
public servants is naive and shortsighted. The working
cogs that keep the spying machinery sucking up
surveillance at the Intelligence Agencies share the same
responsibility as the general populace and their lack of
outrage. Relying on the 113,000 plus staff at DOJ or the
35,000 at the FBI to police their own agency is naive. The
consequence of Congress ignoring the imperial
unaccountably has led to a Constitutional crisis that few
are willing to acknowledge.
Both the FBI and DOJ are under the direct authority of the
President. Yet their senior staff operates as if they are
omnipotent unto themselves. The Office of Attorney
General, Jeff Sessions has been AWOL from the beginning
of his tenure. FBI Director Christopher Wray acts as if he
wants to exemplify J. Edgar Hoover. Sally Yates, Dana
Boente and add in the conduct of Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page are all cursed for their involvement in
misrepresentations and false claims. Robert Mueller,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein and
Bruce Ohr deserve criminal prosecution for their statute
transgressions or falsehoods made to the FISA court.
Who are better at violating the law than government
attorneys? Scheming to politicize the justice system is
treachery of the highest echelon. Such "Never Trumpers"
place the protection of the dominion regime over the
disruptor in chief. They act as a Praetorian Guard not for a
trumped up fantasy of a would be Caesar but for the DC,
District of Criminals.
The House Intelligence Committee Report On FISA
Abuses four page summary and the ninety-nine page FISC
Memo Opinion Order Apr 2017 source provides the
documentation that the entire ruling cabal wants to
discredit. However, the wheels of injustice turn at hyper
speed to manufacture a fictitious account that shields the
systemic crooks, while blaming President Trump for the
tired old phony Russian complicity. All the time the
ongoing conspiracy is among the traitors who pervert the
law with their treasonous deceit.
Appointing a second special counsel to look into the con
game the cartel runs with such dedication would just be
another delaying tactic. The Department of Justice should
convey a grand jury and indict James Clapper the Director
of National Intelligence, those violators within NSA, FBI
and especially DOJ culprits for their crimes against the
U.S. Constitution and the American public.
The obvious dysfunctional society that allows a deeply
embedded ruling elite to run rough shot over the reins of
government is doomed. President Trump's message to the
heartland stresses a leadership model and civic motivation
to empty the cesspool quagmire which is entrenched
within agencies and filled with the ranks of careerist
employees.
President Trump poses an existential danger for the swamp
rats. His mistake from the beginning was that he attempted
to work with the establishment. He must learn from this
error and start draining the muck.
Justice requires that a wholesale expulsion of the top ranks
among the hostile opponents of his administration
directives and agenda is of utmost importance. Analysis
the nature of the Trump opposition and the most striking
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example that drives the resistance is that Trump should not
be President. Absent from this tortured assessment are
rational arguments. Those who want to impeach President
Trump have no grounds for such an indictment.
However, the overriding theme for the next election cycle
is to stack Congress with Trump haters. The corruption of
the FBI and DOJ along with Mueller's Gang of Legal
Quislings are the material RICO racketeers. If Mueller
attempts to charge President Trump with Obstruction of
Justice he would be initiating a soft coup. The
establishment elite are plotting to start a civil war against
the American people.
The FBI and the DOJ are entirely corrupt institutions. Just
examine the record of felony behavior from the likes of the
last three Directors of the FBI - Andrew McCabe, James
Comey and Robert Mueller. Further analyze DOJ heads
and the culpability of Loretta E. Lynch, the Fast and
Furious gun runner Eric H. Holder Jr. and the WACO
killer Janet Reno.
Champions of civil libertarians need to ban together and
demand legal responsibility for these betrayers of the
Republic.
 POTUS Trump Threatens Govt Shutdown Over
Immigration “Let’s Have A Shutdown”
**Updated** (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 4:41 Pm

On Tuesday, President Trump expressed his “Any deal on DACA that does not include
frustration with Senate Democrats as the STRONG border security and the desperately
Thursday deadline approaches for needed WALL is a total waste of time. March
lawmakers to agree on a robust immigration 5th is rapidly approaching and the Dems seem
plan. not to care about DACA. Make a deal!”

**Updated at 7:00 PM EST** Associated Press reports

the House passed a stopgap funding bill to prevent govt
shutdown Thursday night; faces changes in the Senate.

Senate Dems and RINO hacks are digging in their heels.

They want to give DACA recipients and family members
[chain migration] citizenship without funding for the
border wall.

“If we don’t change the legislation, if we don’t

get rid of these loopholes where killers are On Tuesday the President tweeted about illegal
allowed to come into our country and continue immigration and our need for stronger border security and
to kill–gang members… brought up Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson who was killed
by an illegal alien drunk driver on Sunday.
“If we don’t change it let’s see a shutdown. We’ll
do a shutdown. And it’s worth it for our country.
I’d love to have a shutdown if we don’t get this
stuff taken care of,” President Trump said.

VIDEO:

On Monday, President Trump unleashed on his Twitter

account

POTUS Trump:
POTUS Trump then hammered chain migration.
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 “We need a 21st century MERIT-BASED The Associated Press is reporting the House passed a
immigration system. Chain migration and the stopgap funding bill to prevent government shutdown
visa lottery are outdated programs that hurt our Thursday night; faces changes in the Senate.
economic and national security.”

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 MSNBC: ‘Dangerous’ For Trump
To Tout Stock Rise, Must ‘Own The Fall’
By Kyle Drennen
February 6, 2018 4:48 PM EST
Throughout the day on Tuesday, MSNBC’s anchors and
correspondents lectured President Trump on the perils of
touting a surging stock market, in the wake of Monday’s
losses. However, all of the journalists at the liberal cable
channel seemed to forget how often Barack Obama
similarly took credit for stocks being on the rise during his
administration.
During her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show, host Stephanie Ruhle
warned:
“The sell-off on Wall Street is posing a real
issue for Donald Trump. Remember, this
guy and his entire administration has spent
the last year cheerleading the markets,
cheerleading. That is dangerous behavior.”
Moments later, she added:
“President Trump and his daughter and Steve
Mnuchin have taken – have hung their hat on
these markets every day possible.... How can
they possibly walk away from this?”
Correspondent Peter Alexander piled on:
“Yeah, Stephanie, I think you’re exactly
right....This, though, is teaching this White
House a very tough lesson that what goes
up can come back down....he’s repeatedly
claimed the rise, but so far, he is not owning
the fall.”
In the next hour, anchor Hallie Jackson declared:
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“You know the President loves talking
stocks....Of course, the risk? If you take credit
for the wins, you might politically own the
losses.”
White House Correspondent Geoff Bennett doubled down:
So of course, the political challenge for the White House
of course is trying to distance the President from the
decline in the market, because as that montage you just
played showed,
the President has been quick to claim credit
for the stock market on its good days. And
as you point out, if you claim the rise, you
own the fall.
Back to discuss the topic in the 11:00 a.m. ET hour with
her co-host Ali Velshi, Ruhle condescendingly scolded:
This could be a really good learning moment for
this administration....Unlike previous
administrations, the President and his
Treasury Secretary and his administration
have been touting this market right, left and
center, saying, “You’re welcome for your
401(k).” And that’s dangerous to do....the
White House needs to take stock and realize,
“We cannot hang our hat and tout and sell this
market every day because there are factors that
are simply beyond our control.”
Weeks before Ruhle was admonishing Trump for taking
credit for stock market gains, she was giving the President
credit for stock market gains. On the December 1 Today
show, co-host Hoda Kotb asked Ruhle:
“The Dow has been up 6,000 points, I think,
since the Trump took office. So is what we’re
seeing, the Trump effect, watching the stock
market go up?”
Ruhle replied:

You can’t deny it. The market has gone up significantly.
30% since Trump won. That’s not a Trump bump, it’s a
Trump mountain. But the market has been consecutively
going up for the last nine years. Since Obama took office,
it’s been a slow and steady climb.
But Trump won, he said, “I’m deregulating, I’m
cutting taxes.”
And you can see it in the market. The market loves it.
In the noon ET hour on Tuesday, host Andrea Mitchell
joined in the hand-wringing over Trump touting the stock
market:
“President Trump has broken an unwritten
rule of past presidents who don’t brag about
the stock market, knowing what goes up can
come down.”
Turning to Financial Times U.S. Managing Editor Gillian
Tett, Mitchell fretted:
“...this is such a risky business for the
President to define the economy by, you
know, the stock market.” Tett proclaimed:
“Oh, it’s completely nuts what he’s done in
terms of talking about the stock market as a
barometer of his success.”
Apparently Mitchell, Tett, Ruhle, and the rest of the
MSNBC crew didn’t remember how frequently former
President Obama seized on rising stocks in order to boost
his administration’s handling of the economy.
As MarketWatch reporter Jeffry Bartash recalled in a
March 2, 2017 article:
Obama touted stock market improvements in
State of the Union speeches in 2011, 2013,
2014 and 2015.
“Two years after the worst recession most of us
have ever known, the stock market has come
roaring back, corporate profits are up, the
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economy is growing again,” Obama said in his
2011 address.
And in 2014 Obama told Congress:
“Today, after four years of economic growth,
corporate profits and stock prices have rarely
been higher, and those at the top have never
done better.”
During a 2014 interview with The Economist, Obama
patted himself on back:
Since I have come into office, there’s almost no
economic metric by which you couldn’t say that
the US economy is better and that corporate
bottom lines are better. None.
So if, in fact, our policies have produced a record stock
market, record corporate profits, 52 months of consecutive
job growth, 10m new jobs...
On Monday, Townhall’s Cortney O’Brien reminded
readers of a 2011 interview Obama gave to ABC’s David
Muir, in which the President hyped:
“Well, first of all, if you’re talking about the
movements of the U.S. stock market, the stock
market was down when I first took office and
the first few months I was in office about 3,000
points lower than it is now.”
Where was the coverage on MSNBC fearing that Obama
was engaging in “dangerous behavior” for taking credit for
such investment gains?
Here are excerpts of the February 6 coverage going after
Trump on the issue:
9:05 AM ET
STEPHANIE RUHLE: The sell-off on Wall Street is posing a real
issue for Donald Trump. Remember, this guy and his entire
administration has spent the last year cheerleading the markets,
cheerleading. That is dangerous behavior. Particularly in recent
weeks. Take a look at this.
DONALD TRUMP: Have you heard the latest? The market’s up
about 150 points and we broke a very, very big barrier,
25,000....Just hitting a new high on the stock market again, and
that means jobs....The stock market has smashed one record
after another, gaining $8 trillion and more in value in just this
short period of time.
RUHLE: Well, there you have it. NBC’s Peter Alexander is at the
white house. Peter, I've watched in the last day the White House
dial it back and say we look at long-term trends. Baloney. If they
looked at long-term trends, they would be looking at a market
that has been on the rise since President Obama took office.
President Trump and his daughter and Steve Mnuchin have
taken – have hung their hat on these markets every day possible.
Two weeks ago, in Davos, Steve Mnuchin, going against policy
and talking down the weaker dollar. How can they possibly walk
away from this? The President over and over got on that podium
and said, “You can thank me for your 401k.”
PETER ALEXANDER: Yeah, Stephanie, I think you’re exactly
right. When this White House talks about trends, certainly when
the President talks about trends, the trend can only begin on
January 20 of 2017, that’s the trend that he focuses on. This,
though, is teaching this White House a very tough lesson that
what goes up can come back down. President trump now
presiding, as you noted, over the biggest stock market drop in
U.S. history, when you measure it by points. He has been
noticeably silent on the market slide. As you just showed, he’s
repeatedly claimed the rise, but so far, he is not owning the fall.
(...)
10:03 AM ET
HALLIE JACKSON: You know the President loves talking stocks.
This has been one of his favorite, frequent lines during speeches,
during pool sprays. Check this out.
DONALD TRUMP: The stock market has gained almost $3 trillion
in value since the election on November 8 – a record....We’ve
added $3.3 trillion....$3.4 trillion....Almost $4 trillion....We've
created more than $5 trillion....Since Election Day, $5.2 trillion in
value....More that $7 trillion....We’ve created now almost $8
trillion worth of value.
JACKSON: Of course, the risk? If you take credit for the wins,
you might politically own the losses. So Geoff Bennett is over at
the White House. Jeff, the White House so far have a pretty
muted response, I would say, to these – to what we’re seeing in
the markets happening.
(...)
.
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GEOFF BENNETT: So of course, the political challenge for the
White House of course is trying to distance the President from
the decline in the market, because as that montage you just
played showed, the President has been quick to claim credit for
the stock market on its good days. And as you point out, if you
claim the rise, you own the fall.
(...)
11:34 AM ET
RUHLE: This could be a really good learning moment for this
administration. We’ve talked about this before. Unlike previous
administrations, the President and his Treasury Secretary and his
administration have been touting this market right, left and
center, saying, “You’re welcome for your 401(k).” And that’s
dangerous to do. The market is irrational. Think about yesterday
– and I’m not going to dig into the weeds of it – the fact that the
market could get driven so far down by a technical, by hedge
funds going short volatility. And I know people are going cross-
eyed right now, but that’s important. When you’ve got hedge
funds who are going short and vol, obscure a derivative on a top
of a derivative, when that affects every stock in the market, then
the White House needs to take stock and realize, “We cannot
hang our hat and tout and sell this market every day because
there are factors that are simply beyond our control.”
ALI VELSHIS: That’s right. That’s exactly right.
(...)
12:31 PM ET
ANDREA MITCHELL: President Trump has broken an unwritten
rule of past presidents who don’t brag about the stock market,
knowing what goes up can come down. For Mr. Trump, it's been
a form of reality TV, market watch, if you will. Joining me is
Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor for The Financial Times, and
Catherine Rampell, Washington Post opinion writer. Welcome
both.
Gillian, there’s a lot of volatility, the market’s – let’s see, it’s back
up considerably. So it’s been on a roller-coaster ride all day
today. We don’t know how it’s going to close, but this is such a
risky business for the President to define the economy by, you
know, the stock market.
GILLIAN TETT [FINANCIAL TIMES U.S. MANAGING EDITOR]:
Oh, it’s completely nuts what he’s done in terms of talking about
the stock market as a barometer of his success. Because, you
know, every president, every Treasury Secretary knows that you
can't control the stock market. And there’s all kinds of factors
feeding into it. And he’s certainly gone very quiet about the stock
market over the last day.
(...)
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Believes ‘Every Immigrant In This Country’ Is ‘A Killer’
By Curtis Houck
February 6, 2018 5:06 PM EST
CNN political analyst, Playboy correspondent, and
Sentinel Newspapers editor Brian Karem experienced
another delusional meltdown on CNN Tuesday afternoon,
falsely claiming that President Trump has used MS-13 to
label
“every immigrant in this country” as “killer
and thug and a thief.”
Karem was speaking to sympathetic CNN Newsroom
afternoon host Brooke Baldwin, telling her that the Trump
administration has wrecked American discourse with their
“disrespect to those coming here seeking a
better life.”
Trump never said such a thing, but sure.
Karem spoke in two parts in the 2:00 p.m. Eastern hour
with the first part lashing out at Trump:
“Every immigrant in this country isn't a killer
and thug and a thief and he’s kind of
equated all immigrants, put them in that
status when, actually, the crime rates in the
immigrant communities are much smaller
than in the general communities.”
He later reiterated his hope that Trump doesn’t
“want to shutdown the government” and
“not every immigrant is a killer” because
“[t]he idea of even saying that is so
offensive on so many levels that, you know,
it just — it prompts a wow.”
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Right on cue, Baldwin went along, fretting that the
President tweeted about an Indianapolis Colt player being
killed in a car accident allegedly by an illegal immigrant.
Out of the blue, she felt the need to not talk
about this being a scourge that must be
addressed, but proclaim that “people” (read:
illegal immigrants) “are here for all kinds of
incredibly valid and patriotic reasons.”
Once again, this is the left, ladies and gentlemen as they’re
more concerned about defending illegal immigrants writ
large than focusing on how such deadly events could have
been avoided.
Karem returned a few minutes later and came out swinging
by giving his best Jim Acosta impression in condemning
Chief of Staff John Kelly’s comments caught by The
Washington Post:
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free. Oh, hell with it. They're too lazy
to get off — arses. What? Where does the level of political
discourse gone in this country? There is such a disrespect
to those coming here seeking a better life which is pretty
much everyone who’s been here.
Referring to the dark blue D.C. suburbs in
Maryland, Karem bemoaned how he’s “dealt
with stories in Montgomery County, Prince
Georges County, Maryland, where people
are afraid they're going to be shipped out at
any day and they've been here for, you
know, what, 20, 30, 40 years” because of evil,
old Trump.
Karem has gained a reputation as anything but a non-
partisan journalist with his charades both on-air and in
White House press briefing. Therefore, it’s no surprise that
he’s paid to appear on CNN’s airwaves.
To see the relevant transcript from February 6's CNN
Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, click “expand”:
CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin
February 6, 2018
2:51 p.m. Eastern

BRIAN KAREM: First of all, every immigrant in this country isn't a
killer and thug and a thief and he’s kind of equated all
immigrants, put them in that status when, actually, the crime
rates in the immigrant communities are much smaller than in the
general communities. So, that’s a disingenuous statement and
let’s have a shutdown. I guess he’s got to play that card because
after you’ve accused all the Democrats of being treasonous,
you're going to find it hard to reach a bipartisan agreement on
anything on the Hill these days. So, maybe he's preemptively
saying that because of what he said during a speech yesterday. I
mean, with this President, you're never really sure. There's
always something that is behind something that's behind
something that's behind something and the problem is with that
statement, not only is it a wow that you want to have a shutdown,
who wants to shut down the government? Seriously.
BROOKE BALDWIN: Right. No.
KAREM: You don't want to shut down the government. The other
part of that wow, like I said, is that not every immigrant is a killer.
The idea of even saying that is so offensive on so many levels
that, you know, it just — it prompts a wow.
BALDWIN: Right. Listen, I don't know what the President is
thinking. But I do know that, you know, he keeps tweeting about
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— we were just telling this story about Indianapolis Colt player
and maybe in that case, you know — but certainly, you're right,
people are here for all kinds of incredibly valid and patriotic
reasons.
(....)
KAREM: Wow.
BALDWIN: Some saying — some too lazy to get off their asses.
I've now said this out loud three or four times throughout the
show and discussing this and I still can't quite wrap my head
around the language. And he's making this overarching point
which is, hey, the president did something a lot of folks in our
base didn't do, added all those hundreds of thousands of folks in
this country who didn't give the government their information,
making it that 1.8 million number. But still. What?
KAREM: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free. Oh, hell with it. They're too lazy to get
off — arses. What? Where does the level of political discourse
gone in this country? There is such a disrespect to those coming
here seeking a better life which is pretty much everyone who’s
been here. Their forefathers came here for that reason. I'm only
second generation here, Brooke. I mean, for the love of heavens,
to sit there and say they're too lazy to — maybe they're too afraid
of what's happening in this country. Maybe they're scared. I have
dealt with stories in Montgomery County, Prince Georges
County, Maryland, where people are afraid they're going to be
shipped out at any day and they've been here for, you know,
what, 20, 30, 40 years. That’s — there's a palpable, real fear
brought about by this administration and this administration has a
disconnect between the things that they do and say and what
happens when they do and say them and they haven't come to
grips with that yet.
 Don Jr. Trolls Adam Schiff For Getting
Duped By Russian Pranksters Claiming Putin Has Naked
Blackmail Photos Of POTUS Trump
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 5:32 Pm

with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy,

Ranking member of the House Intelligence the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament.”
Committee and resident clown Rep. Adam Schiff has some explaining to do.”
Schiff (D-CA) is obsessed with the Trump-
Russia collusion hoax.

Schiff is so obsessed that he is desperate

for there to be any connection involving
Trump and Russia that he fell for Russian
pranksters claiming to have naked pictures
of Donald Trump.

Old Schiffty then told his staff to collect classified

materials for the FBI.

Donald Trump Jr. piled on as trolls heckled Adam Schiff

for the irony of Schiff happily accepting blackmail on
President Trump from Russians pretending to be
Ukrainians.

Donald Trump Jr. reacted to Nick Short’s tweet trolling

Schiff using the hashtag #FullOfSchiff,

“The irony and hypocrisy of this can’t be

understated. #FullOfShiff

Reporter, Nick Short tweeted a link to the Daily Mail

article about the Russian pranksters duping Schiff stating,

“Adam Schiff can be heard discussing the

committee’s Russia investigation and
increasingly bizarre allegations about Trump

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 MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace:
Trump Is A 'Hamburger-Eating,
Zamboni-Riding Loon'
By Bill D'Agostino
February 6, 2018 6:14 PM EST
On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace launched into a
disjointed rant about President Trump and congressional
Republicans in which she alternated between scolding
Speaker Paul Ryan and insulting the President.
Wallace’s outburst occurred while she and the rest of the
Deadline: White House panel discussed the ultimate
strategic implications of the Nunes memo’s release for
President Trump and the Republican Party.
The segment began with Wallace reading a line from a
Washington Post editorial excoriating Ryan for allowing
the Nunes memo to be released by the House Intelligence
Committee. To her surprise, panelist Sara Fagen contested
the editorial’s characterization of Speaker Ryan, which
visibly upset Wallace.
“You have political opponents now putting
out information that allows others in the
opposite party to be surveilled,” Fagen
reasoned. “I think that’s why the Speaker’s
concerned."
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Wallace was frustrated by Fagen’s willingness to throw the
Speaker a bone and began listing her reasons for trusting
the notorious Steele dossier.
She asserted that Steele was “credible all
over the world,” and dubbed him “an expert
in Russia.”
“The dossier has not been proven false; a
third of it has been proven true,” she
continued enthusiastically.
“Donald Trump, I truly believe, doesn’t know
any better. I believe he’s the hamburger-
eating, zamboni-riding loon that we see on
TV and on Twitter. But Paul Ryan? Paul
Ryan knows better,” she added.
Fagen once again attempted to explain the Republicans’
mindset, noting that
“they didn’t look at all the underlying
evidence,”
and had instead focused specifically on the dossier. She
attempted to list the parties who had funded the dossier,
but Wallace quickly interrupted to claim that it had first
been funded by Paul Singer, a Republican.
An exasperated Fagen attempted to make her point five
more times, and five more times either Wallace or her
fellow panelist John Heilemann interrupted her before she
could finish a sentence. She was finally permitted to make
a point when the topic of discussion changed to the
potential upcoming release of the Democratic memo.
 Rep. Jim Jordan: Shadowy Clinton Figure Involved In
Benghazi Now Part Of Steele Dossier Drama (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 7:03 Pm
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined “Fox &
Friends,” Tuesday morning, revealing
shadowy Clinton figure, Sidney Blumenthal,
who was involved in Benghazi, now appears
to have been a key source for dossier author
Christopher Steele.
Credit: Maureen Dowling
Partial transcript via The Daily Caller:
The names we keep hearing are
Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer — people
who have been around the Clintons as being a
part of this. But I also think it’s kind of
interesting because what it looks like is, they
paid Steele to put together the dossier and told
him what to put in,” Jordan said.
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“Talk about rigging the game and putting
together a document that will serve your
purposes as an opposition research document.”
“That is what the Clinton team did and then
when you see names like Sidney Blumenthal
coming up. We deposed this guy during the
Benghazi hearings,” Jordan continued. “
He has been with the Clintons forever. He was
knee deep in the whole Libya, Benghazi story,
particularly the story where they weren’t square
with the American people about what was the
actual catalyst of the attack, and they tried to
blame it on video.”
In a letter released Monday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-
IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested Clinton
contacts fed information to former British spy and dossier
author Christopher Steele.
“Another connection to the second dossier,
according to several sources who spoke to this
reporter, is close friend and advisor to Hillary
Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal,” reported Sara
Carter.
Carter previously reported Blumenthal was grilled by the
FBI in 2016 in connection to the Steele dossier.
Commenting on Carter’s story, Judicial Watch’s Tom
Fitton called Blumenthal a Clinton Foundation “hatchet
man.”
Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the
discredited Steele dossier, is still investigating alleged ties
between President Trump and Russia, Carter reported last
month.
 Media War On
Damning FISA Memo Continues
By Stephen Lendman Stephenlendman.Org
2-6-2018
In cahoots with undemocratic Dems, media scoundrels
continue going all-out to discredit important FISA memo
revelations - waging war on truth and full disclosure,
instead of responsibly embracing it.
On Tuesday, the neocon/CIA-connected Washington Post
was especially offensive - multiple commentaries devoted
to bashing Trump and discrediting the FISA memo.
A piece headlined
“The cowardice among Republicans is
staggering” ludicrously claimed “(r)eleasing
the (FISA) memo…clearly intended to
demonstrate that the FBI is a wholly owned
subsidiary of the” Dems.
It called the document “amateurish.” Damning best
describes it. Blasting Nunes, it said he “deserves his own
exhibit in the hackery hall of fame” - shocking stuff, and it
keeps coming.
Another same-day commentary headlined “Trump is a
modern-day McCarthy” - blaming him for a disgraceful
media-supported campaign to oust him from office for the
wrong reasons.
“The Nunes memo vindicates our worst
fears about the GOP” headlined another
piece, accusing “the GOP (of) plung(ing)
into cynicism and madness,” calling party
members “(a) bunch of…lock-‘em up
Republicans…”
Ugly stuff, more evidence of the major media’s deplorable
state!
Here’s another headlined
“Reality is catching up with Trump -
everywhere” - among other issues cited,
criticizing him for saying “the infamous
Devin Nunes memo vindicated him in the
Russia probe.”
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The witch-hunt investigation never should have been
initiated. It should be ended straightaway with bipartisan
support not forthcoming.
Still another same-day commentary
headlined “Congress should censure
Nunes. Just like McCarthy.”
For doing his job? For revealing dirty linen? For exposing
FBI and DOJ wrongdoing? Can any news consumer take
WaPo reports seriously?
One more commentary headlined
“Nunes paves Trump’s road to autocracy,”
claiming he “cherry-pick(ed) from troves of
information to feed a dangerous narrative.”
Disturbing truths don’t go down well at Langley or its
WaPo house organ.
The road to hell was paved long before Trump entered
office, notably post-9/11, multiple laws enacted, turning
America into a fascist police state, discussed in detail in
one of my earlier articles.
The state of the nation is deplorable, inherited by Trump,
making things worse, not better - yet unfairly targeted for
removal from office for the wrong reasons.
America operates like a banana republic. A small percent
of the population enjoys a disproportionate share of wealth
and power.
Ordinary people are exploited, abused, and threatened for
challenging a ruthlessly corrupt system.
America is a plutocracy, not a democracy, waging endless
wars worldwide, at home and abroad.
Inside the bubble is paradise, outside dystopian hell. FISA
memo revelations shed light on some of what’s wrong in
Washington.
Lots more memos like it are needed to make a dent in a
debauched system. Nunes barely scratched the surface.
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