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this is geraldo and capones vault according to steve schmidtComment -
Joe Kennedy's house VSJoe Kennedy's tweet.Fantastic.
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According to left leaning polling Trump hit a 7 month high today on approval polls. Polls are just now taking in the STOU. I would think with the jobs report today that is going to continue for at least a few more days.
I know you dont believe what you type but thought you might want to know the facts. This has been one of Trumps best weeks.Comment -
19th Hole^^ Dems don't care about walls they just really care about blocking Trumps campaign promises.. The American people want secure borders and illegal immigration to stop.. Dems fighting it all..
Politics... Yuck!!!!Comment -
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Wish I had a vape pen...actually have one but the cartridge is spent.
This is the main poll predictit uses to settle bets. I need ole Trump to stay above 39.5 to cash on Wednesday. He's 40.2 now. If he would not tweet ole Bacon is guaranteed a big score.Comment -
You’ll see a dip after this week. The phony memo and the huge market dip will hurt him.
Black unemployment fell backwards so another tweet backfires.....he looks like he’s gonna become unhinged again.....especially since he thought this memo would give him the cover to fire Rod Rosenstein and then get the Mueller investigation stopped.....it’s not gonna have that impact.....even though trump might misread the impact due to his lack of intelligence. Add all this to state of union boring and terrible speech and you have:
Bad bad week.Comment -
I'm just curious if you actually believe what you say?
Did you not see the polls on the speech?
I'm not sure what the exposing of FBI and Dem corruption will do. Might be neutral to positive. Most folks will probably empathize with Trump and be angered the Dems and FBI abused their power. But we will see.Comment -
^hilarious how this idiot justifies corruption from the deep state. Of course, the moron did admit today that obama has grown on him AFTER the illegal ransom payment to Iran.Comment -
I wanna see the entire October 2016 FISA application against Page.
But it's kind of amusing that Page was supposedly a nobody in the campaign nd had already left the campaign by October. So the FBI conspired to spy on the Trump campaign by surveiling a low-level volunteer who was no longer involved with the campaign just 3 weeks before the election? lol that's it? You gotta be kidding me. Doesn't even qualify for a nothingburger.
Must be getting really bad for Trumpy to be so desperate to cling to this as a distraction. Man it's gonna be bad for Trump. Worse than I thought.Comment -
I wonder how outraged the right would be if the FBI was spying on Hillary. Oh, that's right, Benghazi/ emails. Lock her up!Comment -
Corrupt fuking libs...Comment -
NYT "During the Republican primaries, a research firm called Fusion GPS was hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, to unearth potentially damaging information about Mr. Trump. The Free Beacon — which was funded by a major donor supporting Mr. Trump’s rival for the party’s nomination, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — told Fusion GPS to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
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After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates — including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
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I might as well be the first to ask;
What did Obama know about this corruption and when did he know it?Comment -
This memo is a major dud. There was nothing in that document worth releasing. Our allies and enemies are ridiculing us. This could be the biggest gaffe of Trump's short presidency. Mueller is closing in.Comment -
There are now two memos agitating Washington. One from Representative Devin Nunes and one from Representative Adam B. Schiff. Feeling confused? You’re not alone.
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans released a disputed memo on Friday compiled by congressional aides that accused the F.B.I. and Justice Department of abusing their surveillance powers to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.
The memo, which has prompted a political firestorm, also criticizes information used by law enforcement officials in their application for a warrant to wiretap Mr. Page, and names the senior F.B.I. and Justice Department officials who approved the highly classified warrant.
But the memo falls well short of providing the material promised by some Republicans: namely, that the evidence it contained would cast doubt on the origins of the Russia investigation and possibly undermine the inquiry, which has been taken over by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
Instead, the document confirms that actions taken by another former Trump foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, were a factor in the opening of the investigation.
The F.B.I. and House Democrats have both said the memo is misleading because it contains both omissions and inaccuracies. The memo does not provide the full scope of evidence the F.B.I. and Justice Department used to obtain the warrant to surveil Mr. Page.
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The outlines of the memo were widely detailed in news reports in recent days. Several details from the complete memo show that it reflects a line of attack circulating for weeks in conservative media outlets, which have been amplifying a narrative that the Russia investigation is the illegitimate handiwork of a cabal of senior Justice Department and F.B.I. officials who were biased against President Trump and set out to sabotage him.
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One of its chief accusations centers on investigators’ inclusion in the FISA warrant application of material from a former British spy, Christopher Steele. Mr. Steele was researching possible ties between Russia’s election interference and Trump associates, but the application did not explain that he was financed by the Democratic National Committee and lawyers for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
But a Democratic memo written to rebut the Republican document says that the F.B.I. was more forthcoming with the surveillance court than the Republicans say. The F.B.I. told the court that the information it received from Mr. Steele was politically motivated, although the agency did not specifically identify the information as financed by Democrats, according to two people familiar with the Democratic memo.
It is not clear to what extent the FISA application hinges on the material provided by Mr. Steele. In December 2017, the Republican memo said, Andrew G. McCabe, then the deputy director of the F.B.I., told the House Intelligence Committee that no surveillance would have been sought without Mr. Steele’s information.
But the people familiar with the Democratic memo said that Republicans had distorted what Mr. McCabe told the intelligence committee about the importance of the information from Mr. Steele. Mr. McCabe presented the material as part of a constellation of compelling evidence that raised serious suspicions about Mr. Page, the two people said. The evidence included contacts Mr. Page had in 2013 with a Russian intelligence operative.
Mr. Page’s contacts with the Russian operative led to an investigation of Mr. Page that year, including a wiretap on him, another person familiar with the matter said.
Mr. McCabe told the committee that the decision to seek a FISA warrant was also prompted by Russian attempts to target Mr. Papadopoulos, a trip Mr. Page took to Moscow in July 2016 and the Russian hacking of Democratic emails that appeared to be aimed at harming the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the two people familiar with the Democratic memo said
The Democratic memo also says that when the F.B.I. returned to court to renew the wiretap on Mr. Page, bureau officials told the judge that the agency had cut ties with Mr. Steele because he was talking to reporters about the investigation. The judge extended the warrant anyway.
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The Republicans’ assertion that investigators were not forthcoming about Mr. Steele is “potentially problematic,” said David Kris, a FISA expert and former head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division in the first term of the Obama administration.
If the warrant applications did disclose that Mr. Steele’s research was funded by people who were opposed to Mr. Trump’s campaign, even if it did not name the D.N.C. or the Clinton campaign, then the applications “would be fine,” he said, and the author of the memo and those who backed its release are trying to mislead the American people.
“To me, that appears to be the lens through which we should evaluate the honesty, decency, and integrity of the two sides here,” Mr. Kris said. “Not having seen the FISA applications, my money is on D.O.J. and the F.B.I., but presumably time will tell.”
Among the handful of details revealed by the publication of the memo was that the application also cited a September 2016 article published by Yahoo News. Written by the veteran investigative reporter Michael Isikoff, it cited unnamed sources saying that government investigators were scrutinizing Mr. Page’s ties to Russia.
Mr. Steele was later revealed to be a source for the article, and the memo suggests that law enforcement officials’ inclusion of it in their warrant application means they were using the same source twice but presenting it as separate sources.
“This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News,” the memo said, underlining the assertion.
But it is unlikely that such an article would have been submitted to the court for the purpose of corroborating that a suspect was an agent of a foreign power, said Mr. Kris.
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“The idea that they would cite a newspaper article as affirmative evidence of information contained in the article strikes me as very far-fetched,” he said. “It is much more likely that they would include an article to show that the investigation had become public, and that the target therefore might take steps to destroy evidence or cover his tracks.”
In an extraordinary move, the president declassified the identities of the people who had authorized the warrant. Republican committee staff members said the initial FISA warrant for surveillance of Mr. Page was approved by James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Sally Q. Yates, then the deputy attorney general. The date of the original application was Oct. 21, 2016.
The warrant was renewed three times, meaning Mr. Page was under surveillance for about a year. At various points in renewals of the warrant, required every 90 days, other law enforcement officials who signed off included Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general; Dana J. Boente, now the general counsel of the F.B.I.; and Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director who resigned under pressure this week.
Mr. McCabe has been a frequent target of Republicans and of the president. Mr. Trump is also said to be unhappy with Mr. Rosenstein, who appointed Mr. Mueller as special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.
Asked at the White House on Friday whether he would fire Mr. Rosenstein, the president cocked his head suggestively and said: “You figure that one out.”
Pressed on whether he had confidence in Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. Trump would not answer. Also on Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement that he would evaluate the Republican’s criticism.
“I am determined that we will fully and fairly ascertain the truth,” he said.
The F.B.I., which had publicly clashed with the president over the memo’s release, had so far held its fire.
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The memo has set off partisan fury in Congress and protests within the executive branch. Law enforcement officials have warned that they have concerns that it jeopardizes sensitive national security information.
Led by Representative Devin Nunes of California, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Republicans have portrayed the memo as revealing a scandalous abuse of surveillance powers by the executive branch as it launched the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and ties to the Trump campaign.
“The committee has discovered serious violations of the public trust, and the American people have a right to know when officials in crucial institutions are abusing their authority for political purposes,” Mr. Nunes said in a statement, portraying the memo as recounting an “alarming series of events” in which intelligence and law enforcement agencies were “exploited to target one group on behalf of another.”
The memo also highlights Bruce Ohr, then an associate deputy attorney general, whose wife worked as a contractor with FusionGPS, the opposition research firm that hired Mr. Steele.
Mr. Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked on contract for Fusion in 2016 doing translations of Russian media reports and other open-source research. Her role was relatively minor, a person familiar with her effort said. Ms. Ohr was not fully briefed on the work that Fusion was doing with Mr. Steele’s research, the person said.
Ms. Ohr’s background was in open-source intelligence — information that is publicly available — and she worked previously at the Open Source Center at the Central Intelligence Agency. The center does not handle classified information, and Ms. Ohr would not have had access to highly classified secrets or programs during her time there.
The memo also notes that the FISA application mentions Mr. Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty last year to lying to the F.B.I. about his contacts with people connected to the Russian government. The memo said there is no evidence Mr. Papadopoulos conspired with Mr. Page.
Top officials and investigators at the F.B.I. and Justice Department have “politicized the sacred investigative process,” Mr. Trump said earlier on Friday.
Mr. Page was on the radar of intelligence agencies for years when Mr. Trump named him to be one of his foreign policy advisers in 2016. He had visited Moscow in July 2016 and was preparing to return there that December when investigators obtained the warrant. White House officials have described Mr. Page as a gadfly who had been “put on notice” by the campaign and whom Mr. Trump did not know.Comment -
Trump just left for Florida. Again. The stock market is crashing, the government is set to shut down next week, there’s no deal for DREAMers yet, the SOTU bombed & the Nunes memo is a nothingburger dud. And Trump’s headed to Florida for another taxpayer funded vacation. Pathetic.Comment -
the warrant was in oct 2016. trump fired him in june 2016. How does thi guy have anything to do with trump after he was fired. But the guy was living in russia for 3 years. The reason he was living in russia is because a guy that was trying to turn him was convicted of spying for the russian govt. and served his time in chillicothe ohio prison before being deported. But please don't let the facts get in your way.Comment -
meet your FBI & DOJ:
James Comey = Republican
Robert Mueller = Republican
Rod Rosenstein = Republican
Andrew McCabe = Republican
Christopher Wray = Republican
Tell us again how they’re biased in favor of Democrats?Comment -
Per pool, Trump has arrived at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. This is Trump's 122nd day at a Trump property as president.Comment
