Republican leaders are acknowledging that the FBI disclosed the
political origins of a private dossier the bureau cited in an
application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page,
undermining a controversial GOP memo released Friday and fueling
Democratic demands to declassify more information about the bureau’s
actions. (Source: Politico, here).
Editor: Talk about "misleading," this is a prime example. The above Politico excerpt is designed as a rebuttal to Republican claims that the political ties to the DNC and the Hillary Campaign as set forth in the Nunes Memo (see our Memo reproduction in this blog) were not mentioned by the Dems, when they used the Steele Dossier as part of the evidence, a critical part, to secure a FISA warrent to spy on Carter Page and, eventually, the President.
The fact of the matter is this: all the Dems mentioned was a "political influence" (words to that effect), without any details as to the political origins of the Steele Dossier; nothing about a 12 million dollar investment by the DNC/Hillary Campaign; nothing about Hillary feeding details to be published in the Dossier; nothing about Steele's connections to the Russian, nothing about Fusion GPS . . . . . none of this. Period. End of discussion.
Rules for Radicals: When caught in a lie, keep lying. The public will never know the difference.
ReplyDeleteThe Justice Department presented "ample disclosure of relevant, material facts," to the FISA court, including that "the research was being paid for by a political entity." - WSJ
We now know that this opinion was false. Keep in mind that the WSJ is very supportive of Trump and the Nunes memo.
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