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.
Waco - whitewashed by SC Danforth.
I would guess that the fraction of FBI that is dirty is much greater than the fraction of dirty cops in the dirtiest cop city in the US. The more power they have, the more dirt they can tolerate. "Dirt" and "power" run hand in hand. Increase power, increse dirt. That principle is a cousin to "follow the money."
I'd guess thousands of serious abuses a year at the hands of the FBI. They are experts at framing innocent people in order to justify glowing press releases about their successes.
“Indeed, and by design, we find ourselves at the crime scene in downtown Skatesville, capitol city of the Deep State, at the intersection of No Controlling Legal Authority and Plausible Deniabilty, with the only on-scene eyewitness, Standing, having been distracted by the short, slit skirt of Intent as she sashayed by so he saw nothing.”
Ha! That’s very good. I may have to steal that ;)
Ummmm. Live just outside the beltway and that's pretty much how many Fed employees work.
First noticed how Fed employees worked (or didn't) when I worked at a VA hospital 30 years ago. When you can't be fired, you can do what damn well please. Thank God at the VA about 20% of the staff worked their fannies off to get the job done.
Nothing there. They have to be appointed by somebody.
Please please send all this to Hannity. It would give him a whole show’s worth of material. b est questions I’ve seen yet.
Fraud on the Court is even worse. Judge, before whom and to whom the fraud was committed is judge and jury on deciding punishment.
“1. Why did the DOJ and FBI want to wiretap Carter Page? “
It’s my understanding that Carter Page was known to have had some history with the Russians. Counter spy maybe? Not sure I understood how, but he had contact with Russians and then he signed on with Trump’s campaign free gratis.
Exactly. They knew FISA judge would never approve tap on Trump, but they hoped to catch Trump or Team Trump in something when they listened to whom Page was talking to.
Like Lincoln said, this shit’s too thick for a docket, any docket. Maybe that’s why CINC flew all the top legal brass down to Gitmo.
Seriously, the Postal Inspectors would be called in.
They are much more than just Mail Cops. They are the most skilled and uncorruptible federal LEOs, but few people know about them.
Through a Special Appointment, they could be brought in.
He was also in early on the Monica story, but his work was spiked.
Say “Hi” to Top Hat.
An intercepted conversation always involves two people; Page and ?????
Conversation with someone in Team Trump.
“I’d guess thousands of serious abuses a year at the hands of the FBI. They are experts at framing innocent people in order to justify glowing press releases about their successes.”
Don’t know if you every read Tony Hillerman (Jim Chee Navajo police murder mysteries), but he was not very complementary of the FBI. Or let’s say the ‘image’ the FBI liked to cultivate.
There's more in Point 5, but it deals with the affair between Strzok and Lisa Page, and Strzok's being reassigned from the Mueller investigation.
That too. And good eye ;-)
Great info. Thanks.
I thought a warrant for surveillance was John Doe could only be used against John Doe. The argument to the judge was Carter Page was acting as an Agent for Russia.
Was the warrant expanded to include other US Citizens? If so, upon what basis was it expanded? And against whom?
Great questions.
I hope someone in the government is asking these same questions. It would be really nice if the media were curious enough to do some of this digging. Ha!
Not only that, but Page is known to have talked to Russians a few times!!!
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