Indeed. Regarding the Carter Page warrant they actually forged documents too. The court has already invalidated the last 2 renewals and is reviewing the first two. They withheld exculpatory information and failed to inform the court when they had new information that changed the meaning of the original application.
They definitely denied Flynn his civil rights. They lied to him about being under investigation. They denied him is right to legal representation. Comey even bragged about getting away with denying him his right to counsel. They had the transcript of his conversation but did not reveal that to him; instead they quizzed him to see if he would lie or misstate - but even one of the agents wrote that he was not being deceptive. They just wanted to take him out because he was a threat to their power. There are texts between Strzok/Lisa Page where they talk about using and recruiting WH “informants” to feed them information about Trump’s WH.
The FBI tried to use their “Crossfire Hurricane” information to obtain the warrants but even their own attorneys would not sign off on it as sufficient probable cause. Then conveniently Steele was “let go” to freelance for the DNC dirty tricks outfit and shows up with this Hoax Dossier, which they used internally inside the FBI to get it past their own legal department (without, of course, informing their attorneys that the information was either not verified or known to be false) and then file with the court. Some of the information in that Dossier had already been debunked by the FBI before it was written. And they broke their own rules by not following proper vetting procedures, by accepting the information from a source they terminated (at least officially) for cause, and who was known to have political bias and paid for by a political campaign. There is no question in my mind that someone else wrote the memos and gave them to Steele to pass to the FBI as part of a conspiracy to weaponize the FBI to spy on the political campaign.
There is no question in my mind that the CIA set up the foreign operations in order to trigger the FBI’s operation. They even arranged to give Papadopoulos $10,000 in cash just before he flew into the USA. Fortunately for him he was wise to something and left the cash with his European lawyers - but I am certain they had hoped to catch him at the airport with the cash and bust him for not declaring it, and also to raise suspicion why this guy had $10k in cash on him - “he must be corrupt”. And indeed they nabbed him at the airport the minute he arrived. They knew he had been given that money. And as far as it goes, whatever PapaD may have said to that Aussie Ambassador is double hearsay. They had no reasonable basis to believe PapaD had any first hand knowledge of anything. It was a sting and a set-up.
The whole episode is a disgrace. Even Manafort, while he shouldn’t have cheated on his taxes, they never would have investigated him if they didn’t get the the phony black ledger from Ukraine. And they wouldn’t have had the Mueller special counsel investigation if they didn’t fake all of the evidence. All of the convictions/arrests are fruit of the poisonous tree.
Thanks...that’s a great summation. I’d forgotten about the $10,000 they tried to hoist on Papadopoulos. I hope to see these corrupt agents and lawyers get their just desserts sometime, and hopefully it will be done before I drop dead.