Posted on 10/03/2018 7:56:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Congressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before the bureau secured a search warrant targeting Trump’s campaign.
Former FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee’s private law firm.
That’s the firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to secretly pay research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative, to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential election.
The dossier, though mostly unverified, was then used by the FBI as the main evidence seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant targeting the Trump campaign in the final days of the campaign.
The revelation was confirmed both in contemporaneous evidence and testimony secured by a joint investigation by Republicans on the House Judiciary and Government Oversight committees, my source tells me.
It means the FBI had good reason to suspect the dossier was connected to the DNC’s main law firm and was the product of a Democratic opposition-research effort to defeat Trump — yet failed to disclose that information to the FISA court in October 2016, when the bureau applied for a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“This is a bombshell that unequivocally shows the real collusion was between the FBI and Donald Trump’s opposition — the DNC, Hillary and a Trump-hating British intel officer — to hijack the election, rather than some conspiracy between Putin and Trump,” a knowledgeable source told me.
Baker was interviewed by lawmakers behind closed doors on Wednesday. Sources declined to divulge his testimony, other than to say it confirmed other evidence about the contact between the Perkins Coie law firm and the FBI.
The sources also said Baker’s interview broke new ground both about the FBI’s use of news media in 2016 and 2017 to further the Trump case and about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s conversations in spring 2017 regarding possible use of a body wire to record Trump.
“The interview was one of the most productive we had and it opened up many new investigative leads,” one source said.
Another said Baker could not answer some questions about FBI media contacts, citing an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department inspector general into alleged illegal leaks, during and after the election, about the Trump collusion probe and other matters.
These revelations illustrate anew how much the FBI and Justice Department have withheld from the public about their collaboration and collusion with clearly partisan elements of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, Fusion and Steele, that were trying to defeat Trump.
The growing body of evidence that the FBI used mostly politically-motivated, unverified intelligence from an opponent to justify spying on the GOP nominee’s campaign — just weeks before Election Day — has prompted a growing number of Republicans to ask President Trump to declassify the rest of the FBI’s main documents in the Russia collusion case.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), veteran investigator Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and many others have urged the president to act on declassification even as FBI and Justice Department have tried to persuade the president to keep documents secret.
Ryan has said he believes the declassification will uncover potential FBI abuses of the FISA process. Jordan said he believes there is strong evidence the bureau misled the FISA court. Nunes has said the FBI intentionally hid exculpatory evidence from the judges.
And Meadows told The Hill’s new morning television show, Rising, on Wednesday that there is evidence the FBI had sources secretly record members of the Trump campaign.
“There’s a strong suggestion that confidential human sources actually taped members within the Trump campaign,” Meadows told Hill.TV hosts Krystal Ball and Ned Ryun.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He is The Hill’s executive vice president for video.
““This is a bombshell that unequivocally shows the real collusion was between the FBI and Donald Trump’s opposition — the DNC, Hillary and a Trump-hating British intel officer — to hijack the election, rather than some conspiracy between Putin and Trump,” a knowledgeable source told me.”
Remember, collusion is not a crime. That’s what the Mediacrats will say if this became the new special counsel investigation.
Find out when the next meeting of all of Soros’ organization leaders are meeting and then J-DAM the heck out of it. Personally I would nuke the site from outer space just to be certain.
“Expose em All. No matter who is hurt. Including Obozo.”
If Republicans hold both houses after the election, this will be number 1 on Trump’s list of things to do. Over the next two years there will be a lot of “Trump’s enemy list” talk from the mediacrats, further comparing him to Nixon.
“We’ll need more anti bias training.”
No, we need polygraphs for every FBI employee as well as every DoJ employee. I believe as part of their employment agreement, a polygraph can be administered at the whim of the FBI Chief.
Again, it all comes down to holding both houses in November.
There have been reports of extensive renovation and new construction at the Guantanamo prison. This is the first one I found
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/guantanamo-prison-plenty-room-detainees-161215080645922.html/
So, it’s already done and ready for all the democraat traitors
Trump is NOT Nixon.
The ComDems will not bulldoze him.
The criminal vermin doing all this insanity deserve harsh punishment. The public is sick of their antics.
I despise the lying media pukes as much as the criminal ComDems.
“Remember, collusion is not a crime.”
Bring false charges based on engineered evidence IS.
Fake special council IS.
Lying under oath to the elected government IS.
Just...WOW!!!
Seems pretty clear now Perkins Coie lawyers were conspiring with DNC/Hillary campaign to subvert election laws. They certainly deserve knock raids at their homes. How does 0 dark 30 sound?
My point is that the relevations of this blockbuster scandal - the biggest election scandal in American history - have been so poorly handled by the WH and Congress that at this point normie’s eyes will just glaze over no matter how it’s revealed.
Everything about this is about to go directly down the memory hole, with the MSM shepherding the way, even if it’s all revealed tomorrow.
Awakening? Ha ha
Nonsense. The GOPe has aided and abetted this coup against a duly elected POTUS. Every time we get some breaking news GOPe stooges like Marco Amnestio and/or Hair Pie Gowdy run to the nearest camera to down play it. This is 1000% intentional. They want POTUS hamstring so they can dictate the beltway agenda. Spending, judge confirmations, etc.
Had the GOP been covering Trump’s flanks he would have had vastly more power to engage the treasonous Democrats and their allies in the media. It’s that simple.
Lock them up.
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THIS!!
They were 1000% convince HRC would win!!
When she didn’t, they had to MANUFACTURE a scandal on DJT!!
THERE BETTER BE JAIL TIME MINIMUN!!! Traitorous penalties should be meeted out. The Rosenstien’s were executed! Just sayin”
It didn't happen.
And there most likely aren't currently 50K unsealed indictments.
Yep, then all this winning would have bee for naught.
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