This **** still. Even Hannity has moved on from this stupidity.
Ya we can let that go. what we cannot let go is what the DNC and Obama folks tried to pull off with FISA warrants to spy, and the collusion bs
“FBI director admits: Yes, surveillance of Carter Page was illegal”
FBI director admits: Yes, surveillance of Carter Page was illegal
“FISA court review order leaves out key FBI players implicated in Horowitz report”
“FBI director admits: Yes, surveillance of Carter Page was illegal”
FBI director admits: Yes, surveillance of Carter Page was illegal
“The Damning Inspector General’s Report”
Michael Horowitz Inspector General Report Exposes Justice Department Misdeeds and Deception | National Review
“FBI deliberately hid Carter Page's patriotic role as CIA asset, IG report shows”
“During the drafting of FISA warrants in 2016 and 2017, the CIA confirmed to the FBI that Mr. Page, a Naval Academy graduate and energy investor who joined the Trump campaign as an adviser, served as an informant from 2008 to 2013.
That biographical fact never made it into any affidavit. In 2017, the CIA sent an email to the FBI restating that Mr. Page had been an asset. Mr. Clinesmith, who is not named in the inspector general’s report, altered the email to say Mr. Page was not an asset.”
Kevin Clinesmith, FBI attorney, hid Carter Page CIA informant role, IG report shows - Washington Times
“‘Corroboration Zero’: An Inspector General’s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke”
Horowitz Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke - Rolling Stone
“Horowitz describes at great length an FBI whose “serious” procedural problems and omissions of “significant information” in pursuit of surveillance authority all fell in the direction of expanding the unprecedented investigation of a presidential candidate (later, a president).
Officials on the “Crossfire Hurricane” Trump-Russia investigators went to extraordinary, almost comical lengths to seek surveillance authority of figures like Trump aide Carter Page. In one episode, an FBI attorney inserted the words “not a source” in an email he’d received from another government agency. This disguised the fact that Page had been an informant for that agency and had dutifully told the government in real time about being approached by Russian intelligence. The attorney then passed on the email to an FBI supervisory special agent, who signed a FISA warrant application on Page that held those Russian contacts against Page, without disclosing his informant role.”
The so-called “Steele dossier” was, actually, crucial to the FBI’s decision to seek secret surveillance of Page.
“Press figures have derided the idea that Steele was crucial to the FISA application, with some insisting it was only a “small part” of the application. Horowitz is clear:
We determined that the Crossfire Hurricane team’s receipt of Steele’s election reporting on September 19, 2016 played a central and essential role in the FBI’s and Department’s decision to seek the FISA order. “
“Horowitz ratifies the oft-denounced “Nunes memo.”
“As noted, Horowitz establishes that the Steele report was crucial to the FISA process, even using the same language Nunes used (“essential”). He also confirms the Nunes assertion that the FBI double-dipped in citing both Steele and a September 23, 2016 Yahoo! news story using Steele as an unnamed source. Horowitz listed the idea that Steele did not directly provide information to the press as one of seven significant “inaccuracies or omissions” in the first FISA application.”
“The “Steele dossier” was “Internet rumor,” and corroboration for the pee tape story was “zero.””
“The Steele report reads like a pile of rumors surrounded by public information pulled off the Internet, and the Horowitz report does nothing to dispel this notion.
“At the time the FBI submitted its first FISA application, Horowitz writes, it had “corroborated limited information in Steele’s election reporting, and most of that was publicly available information.” Horowitz says of Steele’s reports: “The CIA viewed it as ‘internet rumor.’”
Worse (and this part of the story should be tattooed on the heads of Russia truthers), the FBI’s interviews of Steele’s sources revealed Steele embellished the most explosive parts of his report.”
Horowitz Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke - Rolling Stone
