Posted on 02/10/2018 8:08:41 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the criminal referral is "not based on any allegation" that Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, lied to FBI investigators about former Trump aide Carter Page, or what was included in the dossier.
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., slammed the criminal referral of Christopher Steele by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., saying it has numerous “flaws” and “omits key facts.”
In a five-page analysis released Friday, Feinstein says the criminal referral is “not based on any allegation” that Steele, the author of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, lied to FBI investigators about former Trump aide Carter Page, or what was included in the dossier.
“[N]either provide any evidence that any of the information in Steele’s dossier is wrong. Instead, the referral is limited to a single baseless allegation: that Steele lied about his contacts with the press,” the analysis says.
This week Grassley made public more details from the Jan. 4 unclassified criminal referral of Steele. The referral asks the Department of Justice to investigate whether Steele lied to FBI investigators about his communications with the press.
The referral, which was first released in heavily redacted form on Monday, appears to confirm some level of coordination between the extended Clinton circle and the Obama administration in the effort to seek damaging information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The less-redacted referral fails to provide further illumination on the memo mentioned in the dossier obtained by BuzzFeed, which laid out how Steele allegedly received information from "a foreign sub-source who is in touch with [redacted], a contact of [redacted], a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to [redacted]" — redactions that appeared in the first issuance of the referral.
The unredacted referral does discuss the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court applications seeking permission for the government to spy on Page.
Feinstein’s analysis claims the Grassley-Graham referral omits “key facts,” because they failed to modify the referral “before and after” the Justice Department provided the committee with documents about its interactions with Steele. This includes an Oct. 19, 2016, report that Steele received information from a “friend of the Clintons.” According to Feinstein, 14 of the 17 memos within the Steele dossier were created by him before the Oct. 19. report.
Feinstein’s analysis concludes that the criminal referral “fails to make a case” that Steele actually lied o the FBI.
“The criminal referral contains no new information. All the information in the criminal referral was already available to the FBI and the Department of Justice,” the analysis concludes. “In fact, the referral relies on publicly available information and information that was provided to Congress from DOJ and the FBI.”
In a statement accompanying the analysis, Feinstein said the Grassley-Graham referral has goals that include “undermining the FBI and Special Counsel [Robert] Mueller’s investigation, attacking Christopher Steele and deflecting attention from collusion and obstruction of justice investigations.
“Not a single revelation in the Steele dossier has been refuted. Unfortunately, the claims in the criminal referral rely on classified information, so it’s difficult to fully repudiate them here. However, as much as possible using unclassified information, the following points lay out the flaws in the criminal referral,” she said.
The Justice Department has not yet publicly commented on the Grassley-Graham referral.
Hag, that smut is not “revelations”.
Feinstein’s analysis concludes that the criminal referral “fails to make a case” that Steele actually lied o the FBI.
That’s not the standard. No one has refuted that Hillary killed Vince Foster, either.
Her comments on the matter that make her sound like a somewhat sensible adult in the past are causing her problems with her re-election campaign, so she’s realized she needs to abandon it.
Nothing refuted, eh? Like someone being alleged to be holding meetings in a foreign country when it has been proven they were in fact not there? Absurd.
Someone needs to write up a crazy dossier on frau feinstein.
If she can’t prove its not true.. than it must be true.
Dingbat.
Not a single allegation in the dossier has been PROVEN. There’s no need to refute blatant lies.
Nor has any revelation in the Nunez memo, Dianne. So where does that get us?
Or the common knowledge that Feinstein accepts bribes, and sleeps with her driver.
... and you haven’t yet proved there are no unicorns.
More importantly, nothing has been confirmed.
Fist off, what she said isn’t true. Second, “hasn’t been refuted” isn’t the standard by which the veracity of any assertion or allegation is measured. The onus is always on the one making the assertion to provide proof (or even credible evidence) backing the claim.
Feinstein and her STASI/KGB, ‘ You are guilty ! Now try prove you are innocent !’
Wasn’t the Trump romp with Prostitutes and the golden shower pretty well debunked?
Dianne Feinstein enjoys having her nipples pinched by African dwarves. I have never read a single statement that will refute this.
She’s been swimming in shxx for so long she can’t smell the stink.
Uh, both Glenn Simpson and Steele themselves have testified to the fact that they did not verify or corroborate the information contained in the dossier.
And as John Solomon stated last night on Laura Ingraham’s program last night it will be proven very shortly that all the information that the FBI relied on in their FIA applications originated from Hillary Clinton.
- Steele Dossier paid by Clinton
- State Dept. (2nd dossier) info from Cody Shearer and Sid Blumenthal (Clinton associates)
- Yahoo news article info originated from Steele
- Australian ambassador who had drunken conversation with George Pappadopoulis has ties to the Clintons
Meaning no information presented to the FISA court was independently verified or corroborated by the FBI/DOJ before applying for the FISA application
They don’t call her “FineSwine” for nothin’.
Check her bank account and lets see if she was paid for saying this...and who paid her? Always follow the money trail when it comes to the FineSwine.
Actually Dianne: ‘Not a single revelation in the Steele dossier has been proved to be TRUE’
Two words - Tutor Perini
two more words - Richard Blum
three words - conflicts of interest
three more words - hi-speed choochoo contract
Corruption is nothing new in the DiChiFi ‘blockchain’
nor is collusion to win massive contracts
that fatten her family larder
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