Remember Roberts?

Self | LS

[LS]

I am buried in the Reagan Papers @ Reagan Library, so this is brief.

1) this FISA stuff is described ad a "threat to our democracy"

2) if the dossier was a blackmail doc on Trump, assigned & assembled BEFORE Trump was even the front runner

3) THEREFORE we can conclude such packages were already fully prepared for ALL candidates, especially those thought to be real contenders.

4) wait for it: "a threat to our democracy":

5) I will leave you with one name: John Roberts

[Lurkinanloomin]

4) how can this ever be prosecuted and cleaned up? Who can do it?
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Personally I don’t think it can be cleaned up as EVERYONE in the District of Corruption (Trump excepted) was complicit in the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
They all KNEW he was not a natural born citizen.
They voted for and passed a resolution declaring McCain a natural born citizen by virtue of his TWO citizen parents.
Obama told us he was born a British subject as a result of his foreign national father.
Children of foreign nationals are exactly who the founders were excluding with the phrase natural born citizen.
One cannot NATURALLY be an American if one is also something else.

[Falcon4.0]

I think they have something on everyone in the swamp, which is why Jeff Sessions is is hiding under his desk.

[Steven W.]

FBI files in 90’s was precursor to this - they had the blackmail on the folks you need to blackmail those needed to set up this monstrosity FISA blackmail database Obama assembled. There were rumors at the time Trump brought Mueller in to meet with Rosenstein, the day before Mueller was appointed SC, that he may been given or promised immunity for himself and/or others that were themselves prior victims.

[fatima]

I thought the memo only was about Trump?

[mlo]

Silly. There’s no reason to believe Roberts was influenced by anything except his own ideas.

[LostInBayport]

John Roberts first wrote the opinion against Obamacare, then switched his vote. It was then considered and now more believed that he was blackmailed, presumably something to do with the adoption of his kids, but it could be worse.

[OKSooner]

Hmmm, Scalia...

I wonder what he’d say now if he were still with us...

[philman_36]

this FISA stuff is described ad a "threat to our democracy"

Ah, parsing language and reading between the lines.
Since America isn't a democracy, it's a Constitutional Republic, this can only be read as this FISA stuff is a threat to Democrats, not the nation.

[Red Badger]

Some where there is a ‘dossier’ on everybody, for use at the right time for any reason.................1984...........

[red-dawg]

We are living in a Vince Flynn novel.

[Batman11]

“I thought the memo only was about Trump?”

My understanding is that it is about FISA abuse. At the moment, we can only speculate about what that covers.

[LostInBayport]

I have always thought Roberts was blackmailed. His appearance the day they announced the Obamacare decision confirmed my suspicions for me.

Bleary-eyed and tired. And if I remember the reports right, the change was so last minute that there was no time to change the now-dissenting opinions (which referred to "the minority"). I also believe Scalia expressed his bewilderment at the eleventh hour change by Roberts.

[Steven W.]

That photo was always curiously concerning in light of considerations at the time as to why, half way through the SCOTUS deliberations, Roberts switched his vote.

[Steven W.]

Presumably it also includes the logs that Rogers assembled showing that, according to the FISC filing from April 2017, that the audit by NSA showed that a whopping 85% of Obama era “about” queries to the FISA database in 2015-2016 were not legal.

[Saltmeat]

This is the same tactic that Obama used to get rid of Gen. David Petraeus. How dare he defeat terrorist in Iraq. Obama used the NSA to snoop on the general and his honey-on-the-side. The end always justifies the means with the leftist—be they politicians or media.

[Slyfox]

2) if the dossier was a blackmail doc on Trump, assigned & assembled BEFORE Trump was even the front runner

That is interesting, because HRC wanted Trump as the candidate that she would face.

Had it shored up with stealing primary votes from Bernie.

Planned for her own to vote to cross the line and vote for Trump in the primaries.

She got her man. She knew she would be a shoe-in with a stacked deck like that.

What Republican would actually vote for a twice-divorced womanizer?

So she decided an "insurance policy" was in order, just in case.

"Jump on the Russian Collusion, my pretties, jump on it!"

[EVO X]

3) THEREFORE we can conclude such packages were already fully prepared for ALL candidates, especially those thought to be real contenders.

What we don't know yet is how extensive is federal employee involvement and how far back it goes in the creation of the opposition research dossiers. Back in 2012 the detestable Senator Harry Reid was screaming about Romney's taxes. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if he had Romney's tax returns or was able to look at them.

It also makes me wonder if this sort of thing was going on during Mueller's watch at FBI. According to the redacted FISA court letter released last spring, FISA query abuses had been a problem for quite some time.

[reformedliberal]

“...Note there are failures in the “dossier” that are like marked bills.”
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Great analysis!! Thanx!

[OftheOhio]

One also has to wonder what happened to the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). They seem to have disappeared off the map after the election. They went after the last project of my aerospace career with some help from Nancy Pelosi. Were they just another leftist tool to investigate republicans.

[hsmomx3]

Add the USSC to that list as well.