Posted on 01/17/2019 6:40:12 PM PST by jazusamo
Prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating alleged “collusion” between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia knew all along that the anti-Trump “dossier” compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele that fueled their probe was biased and likely phony.
Yet instead of investigating those individuals at the FBI and Justice Department who actively participated in the dossier fraud – as he should have done – Mueller hired several of them to investigate Trump.
Newly confirmed congressional testimony of former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr shows that he warned both the FBI and the Justice Department that Steele was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected.”
This conspicuous bias should have been enough to deposit the dossier – a series of memos from Steele – into the nearest trash can. But top FBI and Justice Department officials were determined to damage or destroy President Trump. So they ignored Steele’s patent prejudice and sought to exploit his dubious document – despite Ohr saying of the dossier: “I don’t know how reliable it is.”
These same FBI and Justice Department officials also deliberately disregarded the source of Steele’s funding –Trump’s political opponent, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
And incredibly, the officials concealed all of this vital information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court in obtaining a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate. But that’s not all. They used the Steele report to launch the original Trump-Russia “collusion” investigation.
The sordid scheme began on July 5, 2016 – the very day Clinton was cleared of mishandling classified documents by FBI Director James Comey.
As Comey was twisting the facts and contorting the law to absolve Clinton, an FBI agent was meeting secretly in London with Steele, who had composed the first of his memos.
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ALL of thee people MUST GO TO PRISON!
DEmocrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!
If all of this had been known from the beginning, we would have made the mistake of “getting the people” who were involved at that time.
It seems to me that in letting Mueller go ahead and do his pseudo investigating, he inadvertently revealed that:
THERE WAS A HELLUVA LOT MORE PEOPLE AND STORY TO THIS THING.
If that was the play...it was brilliant. If it wasn’t, we have a real problem with a totally corrupt government that will take years to correct. I choose to believe the former rather than the latter.
From the article;
Beyond the regulations, it can be a felony to conceal relevant information and deceive the FISA Court. A half dozen statutes make it a crime to perpetrate a fraud on a court, including Deprivation of Rights (18 USC 242), Perjury (18 USC 1621 and 1623), and False Statements (18 USC 1001). Several obstruction of justice and fraud statutes would be applicable, as well.
These people had absolutely no fear of the FISA court because the FISA court was not being deceived, they were in on the whole thing.
With the “truth” surprisingly coming from Ohr, it gives me hope that there will be other surprises surfacing.
It’s not OVER, by a long shot. The FISA system being used for evil is one of the things that will take time. My biggest concern is the sacred attorney/client privilege that has been shattered and affects all of us.
I feel ALL of things will not happen quickly because the law (see Bleak House) needs time and, indeed, takes it.
At least, facts emerging give me hope.
No, they did not know it was biased and defective. They knew it was a complete fake they commissioned to discredit Trump. A fiction they authored.
It was straight out of a CIA coup like in the 1950s and 60s.
Didn’t everyone?
Didn’t we already know they knew?!
No probable cause for warrants. Everything coming from the defective warrants is fruit of the poisonous tree & must be excluded from every criminal prosecution arising from it.
Imagine if they had investigated Obama at all
Imagine if they had investigated Hillary's scrubbed e-mails
. It's mind boggling
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