Posted on 02/06/2018 4:18:31 PM PST by Rockitz
Rep. Adam Schiff said Tuesday that the FISA court never saw the more salacious aspects of the dossier. “The salacious video and all that stuff that was not part of the FISA applications, only the parts pertained to Carter Page. And there was corroboration of some of those very important elements,” Mr. Schiff, California Democrat, explained on CNN.
Republicans released a memo Friday, drafted by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, California Republican, regarding the use of an unverified dossier to gather surveillance warrants on some members of Mr. Trump’s campaign team, including former adviser Carter Page.
Mr. Schiff, the ranking member on the committee, said the FISA court — which hears cases for those seeking surveillance warrants — was well aware of the political bias of Christoper Steele, the former British spy who composed the dossier.
“I think the FISA court was made well aware of the potential political bias of those supporting Christopher Steele’s work,” he said.
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There's your sign...
The more he talks, the better.
I think the FISA court was made well aware of the potential political bias of those supporting Christopher Steele’s work,” he said.
What anyone else thinks doesn't matter.
The bug-eyed buttboy just keeps on giving, doesn’t he?
“I think”................not they where but I think.
Yep.
a) Schiffhead is lying.
b) The FISA courts are totally corrupt.
If ‘b’ go to Special Counsel.
Schiff sounds like a whiny dem poof.
Are you kidding? Comey and many other top officials in the FBI were all WILLING ACCOMPLICES in the plot to spy on Trump!
So are they blaming the judge for issuing the warrant?
If the FISA court were nonpolitical they would have had a show cause hearing by now as to why the DOJ lawyers who got the Carter Page and other Trump team warrants from the court should not be held in contempt for committing fraud on the court. The longer they refuse to take contempt action against the DOJ lawyers, the more it becomes clear they knew about the phony dossier justification for the warrant and went ahead and ordered it anyway, which makes them complicit along with the DOJ lawyers in violating the FISA.
Only "some" of it?
On its face, that sounds like a clear admission that whoever attested under oath to the veracity of the evidence proffered for the FISC committed a felony.
This guy is Schniffing too much Whiteout. So the FISA court was told that the smears against Carter Page were cherry-picked from a politically biased “dossier” but the judge approved the request anyway? And he thinks that gives us comfort? This is the most pathetic attempt at “plausible reportability” I’ve ever seen. But you can be sure NPR will be crowing that Schiff has refuted the Memo with this inanity.
It's a worse problem than that. The warrant required evidence not some statements pulled from some document. The first question from any judge is where is the document. If you say "you don't need to see it, just these portions" you have not presented evidence.
The document is the evidence and the portions are useless without it. For example if you present portions of a newspaper article you present the publication, date, article, author(s), and anything that can be found out about it so it can be evaluated. You can highlight the relevant parts and say the rest is not relevant but the article is the evidence.
They are pretending the judge was fully informed of the source of the dossier, and that is simply not true.
If it were true, the implication would be that the judge didn’t view the source as “poisoned fruit”.
Now Schiff is pointing out the FISA court is crooked as a way to try to say the warrants were justified - not enough popcorn in the world for where this is going....
So members of the HPSCI can now talk about the classified contents of FISA warrants on TV?
Hmmm... They knew of the political bias, and yet allowed themselves to be part of a partisan investigation into a Presidential candidate anyway?
That would be worse than being mislead, in my opinion.
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