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 Trumps campaign.
Former FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committees private law firm.
Thats the firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clintons 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 DNCs 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 Trumps 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 Bakers interview broke new ground both about the FBIs use of news media in 2016 and 2017 to further the Trump case and about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosensteins 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 nominees campaign just weeks before Election Day has prompted a growing number of Republicans to ask President Trump to declassify the rest of the FBIs 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 Hills new morning television show, Rising, on Wednesday that there is evidence the FBI had sources secretly record members of the Trump campaign.
Theres 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 Hills executive vice president for video.
When 50K indictments aren't unsealed tomorrow morning, I will ping you.
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That ball is rolling now!
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Ping for later viewing.
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.
Monica McLean was the FBI spokesperson in NY district where much of this took place. Perhaps she was one of the FBI leaks to the media.
I know a near brain dead liberal who buys most everything the media (and hence the DNC) tells her. But as time goes along she is realizing that the DNC is composed of a criminal element that needs to be dealt with.
But it's going to take more for her to finally get that the DNC must be totally destroyed, the arrests number must be massive and the punishments must be severe. These people who vote for RATS are brainwashed fools who need to have their noses rubbed in the truth for a while longer. The numbers of Americans who get it is increasing daily but there needs to be more.
The public (sizeable majority) needs to see the press as worse than Pravda was in the old Soviet Union. The presstitutes need to see themselves as a disgraced profession that has been totally discredited by President Trump and the Republicans.
It will take more time and more facts but the RATS are doing all they can to destroy the US government to save themselves. All the RATS are doing is making it worse. Give the RATS as much rope as they need to hang themselves.
#LOCKTHEMALLUP
#73. Let’s call it “Beach Party Sushi” .
Burn the FBI down. And the DOJ for that matter...
Working in the government IT sector, I’ve seen some of the eye watering scale of Russian and Chinese cyber attacks. Both are just smashing every system in every western country (government and private) they can. What is going on in the cyber world is the equivalent of a 1980’s Soviet invasion of West Germany or China getting directly involved during the Korean War.
So the current Australian government calling them out on this shouldn’t be unexpected.
That said, if Australia was deliberately involved in spying on Trump, I and other Aussie conservatives want the details so we know whose balls to cut off.
What part of it HAS been verified?
Is there a press conference tomorrow?
Perkins Coie had security clearance?
I agree whole heartedly. Laws are for us little people. Jeffy isnt going to do anything to his friends.
The Brits and Aussies are good people but you have been laboring under the same globalist minded/funded politicians as we have in America. You have willingly given up far too many personal freedoms IMO but at the core you are fine freedom loving folks.
I honestly believe Trump should accelerate the declassification process, not slow it down. When foreign pols are whining you know you are on to something important or at the very least politically embarrassing for them. No more "state secrets" will be revealed than have already been shared months or years ago with out foreign adversaries.
....among many conspiracies directed by Hillary.......
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