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Senators raise serious questions that should trouble all Americans
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | February 16, 2018 | Marc A. Theissen, Washington Post Columnist

Posted on 02/16/2018 6:29:07 AM PST by rwa265

After House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sent his memo laying out potential abuses of the FISA process by the FBI to the White House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded that he be removed as chairman. Nunes was “deliberately dishonest” in pushing to release a “bogus memo,” Pelosi declared, and had “disgraced the House Intelligence Committee” with his “partisan effort to distort intelligence.”

But Democrats can’t so easily dismiss the far more detailed declassified criminal referral written by two respected Republican senators — Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C. — which confirms the claims raised in the Nunes memo. The Grassley-Graham memo has been all but ignored since its release, but it deserves attention from everyone — and answers from the Justice Department.

If you’re concerned about Russia meddling in our election, as every American should be, then you should be deeply concerned about unverified allegations by Russian government officials, passed on to the FBI by a paid partisan of one candidate, leading to a warrant to spy on an American citizen associated with the other campaign.

According to Grassley and Graham, that is precisely what happened. The FBI “relied heavily” on the Steele dossier to obtain warrants for surveillance of Carter Page, a marginal former Trump campaign adviser, the senators write. Moreover, they say, the FBI did not have “meaningful corroboration” of Steele’s claims when it submitted its application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. “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. The application appears to contain no additional information corroborating the dossier allegations against Mr. Page” except for “a news article that appears to be sourced to Mr. Steele’s dossier as well.”

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: Iowa; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: california; carterpage; charlesgrassley; criminal; devinnunes; districtofcolumbia; fisa; graham; grassley; iowa; lindseygraham; marcatheissen; marctheissen; mediawingofthednc; nancypelosi; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; referral; rodrosenstein; southcarolina; steeledossier; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Finally getting into the mainstream media
1 posted on 02/16/2018 6:29:07 AM PST by rwa265
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To: rwa265

MSN ran a story on its webpage lauding Steele as a ‘Hero’..


2 posted on 02/16/2018 6:30:37 AM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: rwa265
Nunes was “deliberately dishonest” in pushing to release a “bogus memo,” Pelosi declared

Really, Princess? What part is "bogus"? Care to share???

3 posted on 02/16/2018 6:31:44 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rwa265
You're right - it's good the MSM is picking this up... but the press needs to some responsibility for the problem.

It's time to look at the relationship between the media and the ‘intelligence services’... We need to see what they feed the press, and how they feed the problem.

CIA Argues The Public Can’t See Classified Information It Has Already Given To Favored Reporters

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/15/cia-argues-the-public-cant-see-classified-information-it-has-already-given-to-favored-reporters/


4 posted on 02/16/2018 6:36:46 AM PST by GOPJ (The 'dead vote' is a byproduct of fraud that votes the people who don't show up.)
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To: rjsimmon

Wasn’t there one brave reporter there to ask Nancy that question? Don’t conservative news outlets send reporters to these events? Why not?


5 posted on 02/16/2018 6:39:35 AM PST by Russ
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To: rwa265

is being forced into the mainstream media...


6 posted on 02/16/2018 6:39:39 AM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: rjsimmon
Something needs to be done to punish the pigs like Nancy pelosi and the media for the blatant lies they tell the American people. Scum like pelosi and Adam Shitts are using lies and disinformation to try to bring down our president. They are all criminals.
7 posted on 02/16/2018 6:40:21 AM PST by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: rjsimmon

Can the Botox Bitch be sanctioned by the house for saying another member is dishonest? I thought character assassination (although daily standard fare for democrats) was against house rules. Lock her up!


8 posted on 02/16/2018 6:42:19 AM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: Russ; governsleastgovernsbest

There are NO conservative news outlets.

None.

There are (a few) individual conservatives at individual papers across the land. But NONE of these are in the democrat headquarters (New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta) where the news briefings (er, press conferences) are given, the natinal questions asked, and the AP/UPI/NYTimes/LATimes/WashPo stories are written.


9 posted on 02/16/2018 6:45:36 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks rwa265. Partisan Media Shill from the Washington Compost writes as a concern troll:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded that he be removed as chairman. Nunes was “deliberately dishonest” in pushing to release a “bogus memo,” Pelosi declared, and had “disgraced the House Intelligence Committee” with his “partisan effort to distort intelligence.”
IOW, Pelosi was pushing the phony Steele Dossier, which wasn't based on intel anyway, and Nunes documents specific abuses and crimes related to the dossier's use among other things. It is obvious that Pelosi is one of the many Demagogic Party members pushing a deliberately dishonest bogus "memo". She's a disgrace, has been a disgrace throughout her career, and neither she nor any other member of her party can be trusted with power.


10 posted on 02/16/2018 6:48:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Saying the memo “deserves answers” isn’t going to cut it. Unless someone goes for the demodummies throats, it’s never going to happen.


11 posted on 02/16/2018 6:54:38 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: rwa265

I wonder what it would be like to see Puh-Lousey’s response to the walls on her mansions plastered in copies of it . . . at least the doors and gates thereto.


12 posted on 02/16/2018 7:03:24 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: rwa265

I had a cousin who once worked for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Who knew there were a couple of actual journalists still working there?


13 posted on 02/16/2018 7:05:10 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rwa265
I think it would also be interesting to watch her face if some GOP congress critter were to serve her a plate of crow in the house chamber.

Though, actually, it might be even more fitting for too gentlemanlly-to-do-it Nunes to bw**ch-slap her denture troubled face--at least symbolically.

14 posted on 02/16/2018 7:05:45 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: rwa265

And, it would be OK, with me, if her House offices door were plastered with copies of it.


15 posted on 02/16/2018 7:06:40 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: All

16 posted on 02/16/2018 7:10:56 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Peeps47
Totally agreed.

And, imho, whenever and wherever they appear in public, conservatives would do well to yell out proper labels for the lying evil traitors. Maybe something like:

Treasonous liar!
Traitorous scum!
Globalist stooge!
Idiot deceiver!
Lying bw**ch!
Lying traitor!
Agent of tyranny!
etc.

17 posted on 02/16/2018 7:12:43 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not just a disgrace—a thieving corrupt channeler of public funds to hubby’s companies. Both need to be in prison for that.


18 posted on 02/16/2018 7:14:17 AM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: GOPJ

St Louis Post Dispatch is hardly MSM. Would have been more significant if “Marc A. Theissen, Washington Post Columnist” had actually had this published in the Washington Post.


19 posted on 02/16/2018 7:18:14 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem wiath socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: TruthWillWin

True. Think of it as ‘any port in a storm’... At least it’s a real newspaper.


20 posted on 02/16/2018 8:36:22 AM PST by GOPJ (The 'dead vote' is a byproduct of fraud that votes the people who don't show up.)
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