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GOP memo on surveillance ‘abuse’ seeks to discredit the Trump-Russia dossier
WAPO ^ | 1/20/2018 | By Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett

Posted on 01/20/2018 2:10:44 PM PST by bitt

A document described by House Republicans as a top-secret memo about surveillance “abuse” contains talking points focused on discrediting Fusion GPS, the firm that hired a British ex-spy to compile intelligence reports about alleged connections between President Trump’s associates and the Kremlin, according to people who have read it.

It suggests that the former spy, Christopher Steele, lied to FBI agents who interviewed him during their probe of the 2016 election and that this purported lie was included in a successful application for a federal court order to conduct electronic surveillance on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, said these individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the material’s sensitivity.

The document was produced by the House Intelligence Committee’s GOP majority, which voted Thursday to make it available to the entire House membership, though not to the public. The panel’s Democrats all opposed the move.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coup; deepstatespin; dossier; fakenews; fisa; fisamemo; fusiongps; releasethememo; schifftheleaker; steele; trumpdossier; wapo
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1 posted on 01/20/2018 2:10:44 PM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; Art in Idaho; ...

setting up the ‘anti-memo’ meme...


2 posted on 01/20/2018 2:12:20 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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Mockingbird going to fly! ;-)


3 posted on 01/20/2018 2:13:41 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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Yep, it’s nothing but “talking points.” Nothing at all about destroying the underpinnings of the Republic.


4 posted on 01/20/2018 2:13:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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“contains talking points” !!!!!

how DARE they!

I hope there’s lots and lots of specifics to slap the journolists in the face and shut them up for good...or at least until they’re led off to jail for conspiracy...


5 posted on 01/20/2018 2:14:37 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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Washington Compost is WORRIED..if they are SO convicted this memo is nonsense than RELEASE IT let’s see!


6 posted on 01/20/2018 2:15:05 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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LOL. . .”trying to discredit” a lie is telling the truth, the ultimate anathema to liberals and Democrats.


7 posted on 01/20/2018 2:15:38 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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***WARNING***

WaPo (A Whale of Poo) - Dishonored in the 2017 Top Ten First Annual Fake News Winners AKA Among the Top Ten Biggest Liars of the Lying Leftist Media

Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.

Why don’t we follow Trump’s lead here on FR? Let’s limit posting headlines from these wretched Lying Leftist outlets. If this story is true and has some redeeming value, at least get the story from a reasonably reliable source, not from a known Lying Leftist operative posing as a “news” organization.

If we’re told a lie, don’t repeat it. Neutralize the lie by speaking the truth. Lies aren’t defeated by repeating the lie. Lies are defeated by repeating the truth. We should have our eyes on the prize - in this case, politically, what it takes to recover our Free Constitutional Republic. That should be what we major on and focus on.

8 posted on 01/20/2018 2:15:58 PM PST by Jim W N
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Wapo can’t ignore so Wapo minimizes. Can’t you just see them holding their noses with one hand while typing this with the other?


9 posted on 01/20/2018 2:16:44 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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Obviously it is OK to release selected passages from this “sensitive” document to the Washington Post.


10 posted on 01/20/2018 2:16:45 PM PST by madprof98
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CIA dis-info right on time.


11 posted on 01/20/2018 2:16:47 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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...seeks to discredit the Trump-Russia dossier.

So who in the heck besides delusional Democrats believe that the Russian dossier has credibility?

12 posted on 01/20/2018 2:17:03 PM PST by Lysandru
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another MSM pointing out that Russian bots are promoting it...like CNNs article....

so Russian bots are promoting it on stupid twitter and that somehow must mean this memo is false......I guess is their point


13 posted on 01/20/2018 2:17:29 PM PST by janetjanet998
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How much is Fusion GPS paying WaPo?


14 posted on 01/20/2018 2:17:48 PM PST by Flick Lives (https://goo.gl/GxGKQh)
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Does the memo contain talking points? Or simply evidence?


15 posted on 01/20/2018 2:18:36 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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"...memo on surveillance ‘abuse’ seeks to DEEP SIX the already lame, discredited the Trump-Russia dossier..."
16 posted on 01/20/2018 2:20:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That line ‘talking points’ is proof the WAPO source is a democrat or demoncrats, since the democrat elected reps never open their mouth without approved talking points in hand.


17 posted on 01/20/2018 2:21:25 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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Uh huh. If the memo is nothing but "talking points" then why did all the Dems vote to keep it from the public? What happened to "Democracy Dies In Darkness"? Isn't that the new masthead slogan of...let me see, what paper is that? Why, it's the Washington Post!

So what happened to that, Ellen and Devlin? What happened to all that self-righteous blather? What happened to "Democracy Dies In Darkness"?

18 posted on 01/20/2018 2:22:35 PM PST by Billthedrill
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The compost is still trying to pretend it doesn’t know the dossier is total fiction. We know it, they know it, the whole world knows it.


19 posted on 01/20/2018 2:24:16 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: reasonisfaith

Criminal referrals and indictments ought to clear that up.


20 posted on 01/20/2018 2:26:42 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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