[Sacajaweau]

Would we know any of this if Hillary won the election?

[Cowboy Bob]

If you’re keeping score, that means a warrant based on claims that Trump was corruptly aligned with the Kremlin was renewed twice after Donald Trump became president.

According to the law, with each renewal, you have to establish probably cause. I would like to know what the probably cause was for the renewals.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Why wasn’t the Clinton campaign being investigated for collusion with the British? Wasn’t Ohr in effect acting as an agent of the British?

[Sacajaweau]

They used the memo. The charge was that Carter was a spy for Russia.

Tells me they want to keep the phony "Spy" charge quiet....and so they went on and on until they caught him in a lie. Probably how many times did you pee on August 25th?

So clever they are.

[snarkytart]

Also they withheld the source to the FISA court. They were very vague and lied by commission.
Also, they used media articles to support the dossier’s “truth”, media articles WHICH were written after STEEL gave these so-called journalist the information. That’s right STEEL, the same one who was paid for the dossier. And the media still spins this is just okey dokey fine. Nothing here to see folks.
You can’t make up this shit if you tried.

[PMAS]

*

[Meet the New Boss]

As for Special Counsel Mueller, his principal mission from Day One has been to conduct a counterintelligence investigation aimed at learning exactly what Russia did to meddle in our election so that we can respond and blunt future threats. That mission is not in any way discredited by the committee’s memo.

Spin by McCarthy.

Mueller's charge was to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump."

Mueller is not a spook. He is a prosecutor. He did not hire a staff of spooks. He hired a staff of prosecutors. If he is supposedly running a counterintelligence operation as McCarthy claims, he certainly picked the wrong people for it.

Mueller's assignment is to find crimes involving the Trump campaign and to prosecute them. In reality, since there was no legitimate predicate for a criminal investigation of the Trump campaign, his assignment is to conduct a fishing expedition to see if he can turn up something to prosecute and to try to punish those who dared to work for Donald Trump, if necessary by trapping them in process crimes if he can.

Mueller's mission is indeed discredited, and not only because the justification for spying on the Trump campaign by the Obama Administration has proven to be contrived.

The appointment of the Special Counsel was prompted by illegal leaks by a fired James Comey. Mueller has obvious conflicts of interest that he has refused to acknowledge. His supervisor Rosenstein has obvious conflicts of interest that he has refused to acknowledge.

And all they have are charges of old criminal conduct by Manafort having nothing to do with the election, process crimes against Flynn and Papadopoulos created by the investigation itself, and specious claims of obstruction of justice against Trump.

This is a disgrace and a stain upon the Justice Department, the FBI and those defending this disgrace.

[butlerweave]

When Obama used the IRS to destroy the Tea Party everyone should have seen this coming

[shotgun]

As an article from Conservative Treehouse pointed out yesterday, there needs to be more focus on the type of FISA warrant that was sought and issued. The Feds got the Type 1 warrant which enabled them to tap the phones of all of Page’s contacts and known associates and not just a lond tap on his phone.

[samtheman]

The Clinton campaign paid the Russians to concoct fake evidence that Trump colluded with Russians.

[KeyLargo]

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/10/disgusting-embrace-witch-hunting-mccarthyism-liberals.html

[CitizenUSA]

My takeaway from all of this? The FISA process needs careful scrutiny and significant reform to prevent future abuse. Whether Comey and others honestly believed there was sufficient probable cause that Trump administration officials were colluding with Russia—or not—the burden of proof and steps taken to authorize surveillance of American citizens MUST be formidable. There must be a gauntlet of checks and balances to prevent abuse should a future administration want to spy on their political opponents.

[mosesdapoet]

This so called dossier sounds to me like originally it was a satirical piece submitted and rejected by some publication. Suggesting Trump was so petty that he would “get even” with the facility in Moscow where he and his wife were staying when given the same suite which Obama used. An incredulous composition .

I won’t repeat what was stated in that opus. But frankly Trump doesn’t strike me as that sort of guy and that would consider such action is retaliation by having two hookers urinate on a bed Obama/Clinton slept in where Trump probably would consider that as a total waste of money.

As a piece of so called “intelligence” was there any verification ? That means complaints by the facilities housekeeping staff and statements by the two alleged hookers. Yet this is what the swamp creatures are claiming is intelligence which publicized will endanger America.