[Signalman]

The Deep State criminals fast tracked it, went around channels because they were out to get Trump and that’s all that mattered to them.

They should all rot in prison.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Stunning and damning. Hang 'em high.

 

[DoughtyOne]

They had to have the warrants before the election.

Every day counted.

Plus, she may have put an end to the whole thing.

[Ann Archy]

Carter Page was/is an FBI INFORMANT that was put in the campaign to SPY!! That’s the reason NO charges were ever considered for him!

[Innovative]

This should be investigated.

[Major Matt Mason]

Anderson said that FISA approvals are typically “tracked in a linear fashion” and that someone in the Senior Executive Service “is the final approver on hard copy before a FISA goes to the director or deputy director for signature.”

Why is the SES even involved in anything like this? This is a law-related action, not personnel-related.

What an absolute tire fire this government is right now (not blaming Trump, BTW).

[terart]

who was the deputy attorney general at the time?

[FtrPilot]

FTA: Anderson stressed that McCabe, Yates, and Baker all played key roles in reviewing the Page FISA. “My approval at that point was really purely administrative in nature. In other words, the substantive issues — the FISA had already substantively been approved by people much higher than me in the chain of command," Anderson said.

This shows that McCabe, Yates, and Baker conducted their own review of the material prior to sign off. They cannot blame "poor staff work" for their signatures.

Over the past few weeks, McCabe has been silent. I think he has cut a deal. This article confirms he is exposed to criminal prosecution.

[Sacajaweau]

Sign it....She obeyed.....The end....

She could give a damn....

[Oscar in Batangas]

I just looked up the word ‘fraudulent’ in my dictionary.

“Unusual” was NOT listed as a synonym.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Carter Page is a douche bag puppet of the Deep State wing of the FBI who is STILL PRETENDING he was set up. Carter is a LIAR who sold his soul to the Deep State so he could feel important as a secret agent man. Camera whore Carter is a sell-out and a loser who belongs in prison.

[enumerated]

What a crock!

She is attempting to justify rubber stamping the warrant by arguing that it had already received enough scrutiny from higher-ups!

But that is like saying a lead detective shouldn’t bother investigating or studying the forensic evidence in a murder, if the Mayor and District Attorney have already decided who’s guilty.

I sure hope the Republicans on the committee didn’t let her get away with this bald-faced lie.

[piasa]

Anderson said it “typically would not have been the case” that people such as McCabe and Yates would sign off on a FISA application before she did. "That part of it was unusual, and so I didn't consider my review at that point in the process to be substantive in nature," Anderson said. "In other words, there were smart lawyers, high-level people on both sides of the street who had reviewed and signed off on the application, the details of the application. And so I was simply signaling, yes, this package is ready to go forward." Anderson said the seal of approval from such high-ranking FBI and DOJ officials meant that her signature on the FISA application was mostly perfunctory.

If I were just perfunctory, you'd only be required to stamp it or check a box. Sigs are required where accountability is critical, such as where the rights of others are at stake. If your superiors' signatures aren't enough to make it legal by themselves, then their sigs should not be enough to persuade you to blindly sign off.

If this were truly unusual, who among us would not be more curious than "usual"- and given the sensitivity and timing, who among us would not be more acutely aware of the need to be very careful about covering all the bases before signing anything "unusual?"

Either it wasn't unusual due to poor management and she did it out of habit ... Or it was unusual, and she decided her allegiance was to her superiors instead of doing her job as a public servant with an eye out for the rights of the citizen ... either way she should expect to be held accountable.

[piasa]

Some “top lawyer.”

[trebb]

But Anderson stressed “in this particular case, I'm drawing a distinction because my boss and my boss’ boss had already reviewed and approved this application.” She emphasized “this one was handled a little bit differently in that sense, in that it received very high-level review and approvals — informal, oral approvals — before it ever came to me for signature.”

IOW - they told her to sign the damn thing but don't bother varifying the legality....

[Svartalfiar]

Even in normal circumstances, Anderson said she likely would not read the full FISA application before signing off on it “unless there were an issue that was identified by the cover note," due to time constraints.

Hmm.. What I'm reading here is that the leadership isn't taking the time to properly vet all of these major potential Constitutional breaches?

[qaz123]

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates signing off on the application before she did. Because of that unusual high-level involvement, she didn’t see the need to “second guess” the FISA application.

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I think it was either:

“Hey, what are you two up to?” “We’re trying to frame the President.” “Really? Awesome. Do you want some help?”

OR

“Hey, what are you two up to?” “Mind your business”. “Ok”

I think it’s the former.

[bitt]

p

[bboop]

Twelve a day? every day all day? I call that ‘spying on the citizens’ myself, in true KGB fashion.