Posted on 02/02/2018 5:44:10 PM PST by generally
Questions the memo raises or leaves unanswered.
We need answers now.
1. Why did the DOJ and FBI want to wiretap Carter Page?
2. The Memo says it obtained one initial warrant targeting Page and three renewals. Presumably those were each for 90 days (but I could be wrong and they could have been shorter). That's a full year of snooping. What was the probable cause for the initial warrant and for each subsequent warrant.
3. For the FBI, Comey signed 3 applications, McCabe signed one. For the DOJ Yates, Boente, and Rosenstein each signed one or more. Why were different people the signers? Is that typical?
4. The dossier was compiled on behalf of the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Those are organizations, not individuals. Exactly which person or persons in each organization were involved? Just Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, or others?
5. The dossier was paid for by Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS. Exactly which person or persons in each organization were involved?
6. Is Yahoo News considered to be a credible source by the FISA court? If so, why? What makes it credible in the eyes of the court? What other online sources are considered credible?
7. Steele was an FBI source. Who in the FBI hired him? On what basis did the FBI regard him as credible?
8. There was a lot of evidence concealed from the FISC. Whose decision was that?
9. What was Comey's game in briefing President-elect Trump about the dossier in January 2017? I assume there was some sort of motivation. Was he trying to plant false information? Implicate someone else? Give himself an alibi? Make Trump uncomfortable?
10. Why were US taxpayers paying Page and Strzok, who seemed to be spending all day every day texting each other and, aside from plotting against Trump, doing no actual work?
11. How many text messages per day does the average FBI employee send? If it's as many as Page and Strzok, how do they get any actual work done?
12. What, specifically was meant by the "insurance policy" against President Trump discussed among Page, Strzok, and McCabe? Did this involve more than the dossier? Did it involve some other type of subversion or perhaps even an assassination attempt?
13. How many legitimate investigations that protect national security (terrorists, major crime) were neglected because of the huge amount of time spent trying to subvert the election, and subsequently the President.
14. The memo only tells us about the one specific issue of the dossier/FISA warrants. What other subversive actions were going on at the FBI/DOJ? It is impossible to believe that the FISA warrants were the beginning and the end of it?
15. How was John McCain involved? Specifically. He is not mentioned at all in the memo, yet we all know that he was instrumental in pushing the dossier forward. It is laughable to think that those who were shopping around the dossier just randomly picked McCain. It is also laughable to think that anyone can get a meeting with a Senator. It is also laughable to suggest that a Senator would act as McCain did with just any random dossier that is handed to him.
16. When are we going to see arrests?
17. Who is going to be charged?
18. What are they each going to be charged with?
19. Are we going to have one justice system for the little people and one for the "elites"? Or are these people going to face actual prison time, just like you and I would?
20. What is going to be done to clean house?
21. Is someone working to identify everyone involved in these crimes? Not just those named in the memo, but all those who participated? And secondarily, all those who knew what was going on, but said nothing?
22. Is the FISA court compromised? Who were the judges who signed off on these warrants? Did they actually find probable cause or are they participants in these crimes?
p.s. Stefanik is another unsung hero in all of this, that many of us have forgotten about. Her pointed questions pinned down these criminals and forced them to help build the case against themselves.
Didn’t have to be expanded.
If warrant to tap A leads to recorded conversation wherein B tells A about a crime B has committed, it can be used against B.
But under the FISA rules, B cannot be “known”, unless they are unmasked through 702 requests through the NSA.
FISA gives them great power, but also is supposed to have restrictions.
Did Carter Page discuss a crime with everyone who was unmasked?
3b: Why didn’t Loretta Lynch sign any of the FISA warrants herself?
Rules?
Rules?
Who was following the rules.... and when they didn’t, who was watching them?
Answer: Nobody
#1 Why did the DOJ and FBI want to wiretap Carter Page?
According to the analysis at The Conservative Treehouse here:
the FBI requested FISA approval under Title I, which allowed them to surveil anyone Page came into contact with or was associated with, including everyone in the Trump campaign.
There is also the old LEO game where when information is illegally obtained, they find another way to claim they knew it, including the infamous anonymous phone call tip.
Also realize that Page was not a very well known entity in DC, and Judge may not have know he was minor player on Team Trump, and although Trump was real target, FBI never raised Trump issue with FISA judge.
The key concept is that the FBI used the FISA request on Page to be able to surveil anyone on the Trump campaign, including, it can be assumed, Candidate/Nominee/President Trump.
But unless such extra surveillance revealed crimes committed, the FBI has never revealed who else was surveilled other than Page.
That brings us to the next obvious question for appropriate FBIers to be asked: Who else, other than Carter Page, was surveilled under the FISA Court approval obtained for Carter Page?
Exactly, and since the actual listening to the (recorded) conversations is a rather lower level SA job or even a non-agent ‘civilian’ job, accomplished by people with no probable malintent, they will probably tell all they know... or at least one will.... and that’s all you need!
Hadn’t thought of that possibility. I would have thought that any recordings resulting from a FISA warrant would be considered to be classified material.
Absolutely, but there are many FBI employees who are not traditional SAs.
If you have a military background, think of them as sort of like Warrant Officers in the Army.
For example, they have surveillance specialists who are incredibly good at foot and car tracking POI. Some are old people or have other characteristics that would lead a POI to dismiss them as tailers. They are also usually very mobile, often single, so if suddenly 10 new tailers were needed in NYC for a case, they could easily be flown in from LA or Boston. Most are also pretty good actors, accents, etc, and good high speed drivers.
Then there is the JTTF, 13,000 agents at last count. Lot of Feds, but also a lot of current or retired, highly experienced street cops, especially plainclothes types and experienced detectives. They “Know the turf.”
Thank you. Very interesting info.
You must have misunderstood my post re the word salad you resently send my way. It wasn’t meant as a putdown in any sense. It was my honest and sincere assessment. While I wish you all the best, I can’t continue an exchange that alternates between gratuitously nasty insults and simple irrationality.
And post #113 is in pictures and everything too, so you’d be better able to follow it...
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