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.
Many thanks for your insight!
Thanks for your kind words.
I doubt that a random email from a nobody is going to get Hannity’s attention, but if anyone wants to try, be my guest.
OTOH, various on air personalities are known to read FR now and then, so if any of them have read this, feel free to use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not about who gets credit. It’s about getting the job done and draining the swamp. Every little bit helps. Maybe some of these questions, if they are raised on tv/radio, might be interesting enough to make people curious and start uncovering the answers.
Fiat justitia ruat cælum
It has been my hope ever since last year (March?) when Nunes first made the existence of this known, that it would ultimately lead to prosecution of many crimes. F&F and Mandalay Bay were two that I specifically had in mind.
I also think there needs to be a lot of investigation and swamp draining around Uranium One, Clinton Foundation, a lot of suspicious deaths (Seth Rich in particular), Pizzagate, and 0vomit’s BC/citizenship.
I find it hard to believe that the dossier/FISA warrant is the only bad thing at the DOJ/FBI/Clinton campaign.
I did not know that.
Very interesting and important point.
Agree. I was picturing the emergency meeting that must have been going on after the election. On election night I was also picturing it, but now my picture is much different. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in that room.
And I’m afraid that Mr. Recusal left the scene of the crime and never looked back.
Papadopoulos is also mentioned
At this point, now that I’ve read your comment, it makes me wonder if the judge would not have approved a tap on Trump because there was no reason, or because his hands would be dirty and he wouldn’t have any cover. It is entirely possible that the judge only required something to give himself “plausible deniability”. I.e., so he can point to the application and say it looked legit to him, that he was a victim of the lying application, not complicit in the wiretapping.
It would be interesting to know the real story there.
My understanding (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) is that the warrant is just for John Doe, but if John Doe is on the phone with Trump all day, that call is monitored and they know what Trump said, too. That’s what all the talk about “unmasking” is.
In the records of the wiretap, Trump’s name (since he is a US citizen and presumed innocent) is known, but redacted. But it looks like the 0vomit WH went nuts with unmasking. I assume that they were trying to find any conversations that Trump or other significant people close to him were involved in, in hopes of gathering some dirt they would be able to use against him.
Exactly right. The Carter page warrant allowed wiretapping the entire Trump Tower and Trump campaign. Just like Trump claimed they did.
Now take it one step further, and realize that every US citizen, except Carter Page caught on an intercept, was supposed to be "masked", i.e. their identity was to be hidden.
Next think back to the big "unmasking" issue. In the final months of the Odunghole administration, there were way too many requests, always fulfilled, for "unmasking" of US citizens. This was how the RATs were watching Trump. And, even without the unmasking, they knew exactly what was said, even if they had to wait to find out who said it.
The memo is about 10-15 percent of what’s coming out. Perhaps later revelations will answer your questions.
The large visible problems at the top have to be fought.
They are a contagion.
IMHO, there has been a degeneration in the Masonic community. They’ve driven out all Christianity.
Today the lessor incumbents have been promoted and advanced without goodwill towards their fellow man, but only amongst themselves. They have gotten away with so much over the past 12 years that they believe their past methods of worldly approbation are acceptable. They are now insatiable. They want more from sources which aren’t sustainable, now they are arrogantly spoiled. It isn’t simply in the socialist and liberal power structures. It’s throughout the military industrial complex. They now talk about how they don’t need Constitutional authority. They are degenerating in middle management.
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I recall hearing that some of the unmasking seemed curious or unnecessary because, from context, anyone would be able to tell that American 1 was Trump. So why unmask if the consumer of the info could easily tell who American 1 is.
But it seems plausible, even likely, that unmasking was taking place so that a nice, searchable database could be made of Trump conversations by date, subject matter, etc.
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?
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My bet is that there was a concerted effort to spread the responsibility/blame a bit so that more people would be in the position they are now — having to defend vigorously their witch hunt.
As one might ask... is this just the tip of the Obama corruption iceberg?
What is sickening is reading this memo about our FBI knowing that immediately after Ferguson riots the DOJ went out to investigate select local police in an attempt to “ correct” their failings. This is not America.
The FBI was corrupt and answerable to no one, long before Obama came around.
See the "premier security professionals" in the TSA. FBI chooses who works for it.
I remember those days well.
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Too involved for here right now, but I would raise the argument that they went after Page solely because they KNEW no judge would approve one on Trump or anyone else higher than Page on Team Trump
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