NEW: Criminal Referral Confirms Nunes Memo’s Explosive Claims Of FISA Abuse

The Federalist ^ | 2/7/18 | Mollie Hemingway

[Alberta's Child]

This is a great summary of where things stand, but it is (understandably) focused on laying it out from a domestic perspective here in the U.S.

I've hardly heard any discussion of the diplomatic and foreign policy disaster that is unfolding as it becomes more and more clear that a British intelligence agent was using Russian assets to help rig a presidential election in the United States.

[Billyv]

The exact reason that the left always Judge shop for Activist Judges. No other judge would allow these shenanigans and might in fact find them in contempt and have them taken into custody on the spot.

[Avalon Memories]

Re the Judiciary Committee looking at the FISA judge, I listened to the execrable Hugh Hewitt’s show this morning because he had Devin Nunes on. They talked about this very thing. Hewitt suggested going to Supreme Court because they have oversight of FISA court. Nunes said his committee is discussing ways to handle this without violating separation of powers. But Nunes also said he has confidence in Mueller. How can anyone have such confidence in light of all we now know? I think the fix to get Trump is still in place as long as Mueller stays.

[Fightin Whitey]

Yes, Mollie Hemingway doesn't mince words about anything or anybody.

Glad she's out there.

[Billyv]

Anytime I have been ‘deliberately misled’ I was merely going where I wanted to go anyway. B.S. on giving any of these judges the benefit of the doubt.

None of these misled judges has brought charges and had the perps taken into custody.

[bitt]

ping!

[hoagy62]

Okay...so, now that this is known, there should only be four things done:
Arrest.
Trial.
Conviction.
Punishment.

THOSE should be our mantra until it happens. No more yakety-yak, no more obfuscation. Just get the guilty parties into custody, try them, convict them, and punish them to the MAXIMUM penalty allowed, even if that means death.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Any HONEST judge - no, don’t laugh
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I won’t laugh if you can tell me where we find one.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Before that they installed an ineligible usurper as President.

[AndyJackson]

relied on admittedly uncorroborated information

The proper phrasing of this is "perpetrated falsehoods"

[bitt]

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/content/steele-goes-dark-ditches-london-court-appearance-following-criminal-referral-us-senate#axzz56RYCo62B

[M Kehoe]

Paging Jeff Sessions. Mr. Sessions please pick up the red telephone in the lobby.

5.56mm

[Stirner]

What I don’t get is how authorization to surveille Page would be expected to yield anything. It was improper. Misdeeds should be punished and procedures tightened. But Whatever might have been going on with Trump and his chief associates, it would not come up in communications involving Page. He was a transient minor figure in the campaign. The underlying premise is that permission to watch this small fish opened the floodgates to directly gathering Trump’s communications, but I don’t see it.

[matthew fuller]

"How can anyone have such confidence in light of all we now know?"

Significant that you should mention that - you have, I am sure, considered the possibility that all we now know just might be incomplete or even incorrect (or a combination).

[blackdog]

Lie small in this case to make the request seem like it had no consequences. Get the rubber stamp, then grow it.

[Grampa Dave]

Dossier Formed ‘Bulk’ Of FISA Application!

Indeed, the documents we have reviewed show that the FBI took important investigative steps largely based on Mr. Steele’s information–and relying heavily on his credibility. Specifically, on October 21, 2016, the FBI filed its first warrant application under FISA for Carter Page. [REDACTED] The bulk of the application consists of allegations against Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Mr. Steele and are also outlined in the Steele dossier.

So, we recognize a few names of FISA signers on Carter Page: Comey, McCabe, Yates, Boente and the slimey Rod Rosenstein.

Looks like they set Page up as a Mole in the Trump Camp to enable surveillance on Candidate Trump and his people in the fall of 2016?

[ManHunter]

I don’t know this for a fact, but I’m pretty sure there was only one FISA judge. There were only nine FISA judges until 2002 or 2003, but I think that number has increased to 13 or more. For a judge to be an unwitting participant, he or she would have to “suspend disbelief...” Kinda fitting that Hillary used that line, isn’t it?

[Grampa Dave]

[Rumierules]

I think that some Republicans saying that they have confidence in Mueller is only somewhat genuine. In reality, this look inside the sausage factory is meant to pressure Mueller to do the right thing (in case he was inclined to take after his DOJ/FBI buddies and go hard after Trump despite how unfair it looks to how Clinton was treated).

[Candor7]

It also reveals a host of problems arising from the bureau’s cooperation with foreign investigator Christopher Steele, who was working on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Steele apparently has disappeared.He was a no show at a civil deposition in London yesterday.

Has anyone bothered to consider whether Steele may have been a Russian Agent who the Clinton campaign , and the FBI conspired with to use our intelligence agencies to illegally spy on the Trump campaign, and also to attempt to usurp the duly elected president of the United States?

Steele allegedly worked at the Russian desk at MI-6. Steele may have bolted out to Russia, having done Putin’s bidding, to now retire in a dacha on the Danube?