They requested the FISA warrant so they could spy on members of the Trump campaign. The FBI signed off on the application affirming that the information in the warrant had been verified. It wasn't. The FISA warrant was based off the allegations from the Steele dossier. The FBI signatory asserted:
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I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing information regarding Carter W. Page is true and correct.”
The FBI committed fraud in obtaining this warrant and should be held accountable. But police-state liberals don't care about any of this.
This statement is completely false. What in the dossier has been demonstrated to be true or is highly probable?
The
Hill reports on 07/16/19:
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But lest anyone be tempted to think Steele’s 2016 dossier is about to be mysteriously revived as credible, consider this: Over months of work, FBI agents painstakingly researched every claim Steele made about Trump’s possible collusion with Russia, and assembled their findings into a spreadsheet-like document.
Multiple sources familiar with the FBI spreadsheet tell me the vast majority of Steele’s claims were deemed to be wrong, or could not be corroborated even with the most awesome tools available to the U.S. intelligence community. One source estimated the spreadsheet found upward of 90 percent of the dossier’s claims to be either wrong, nonverifiable or open-source intelligence found with a Google search. In other words, it was mostly useless."
But fill me in on your findings?
You obviously haven't read the dossier. The Steele dossier states specifically that there was a two-way flow of intelligence between Trump and Putin,
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Speaking in confidence to a compatriot in late July 2016, Source E, an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican US presidential candidate Donald TRUMP, admitted that there was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian leadership. This was managed on the TRUMP side by the Republican candidate's campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT, who was using foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and others as intermediaries..."
Also the dossier never gives the impression that Trump is Putin's puppet, but that they share mutual interests. "Putin's puppet" is just Leftoid propaganda.
Note: The majority of Brits voted for Brexit. The EU is a totalitarian monstrosity. NATO should be abolished as the Cold War has been over for decades.
All of these are policy differences. Ever since Trump began his campaign, the Deep State and the Leftist establishment have attempted to
criminalize policy differences. Trump might have a different perspective on world affairs than the CFR and the Atlantic Council. This is good. But the Deep State manufactured a false narrative that Trump was somehow Putin's puppet.
It is interesting to note that Obama's and Hillary Clinton's overtures to Russia were never called into question in the same way. Secretary Clinton wrote a column for the WSJ in 2012 entitled:
Trade With Russia Is a Win-Win .
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Russia will join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the culmination of a process that began nearly two decades ago. This is good news for American companies and workers...But there is one obstacle standing in the way. American businesses won't be able to take advantage of this new market opening unless Congress terminates the application of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment and extends "permanent normal trading relations" (PNTR) to Russia....Now it's time to set it aside...But it is in our long-term strategic interest to collaborate with Russia in areas where our interests overlap..."
Uh oh, collaborate, that almost sounds like collude. It is a good thing Trump didn't write this. It may have been used to impeach him. But there was also Uranium One, and Bill Clinton receiving $500,000 from a Russian bank for giving a "speech". Remember Obama chastising Romney for saying that Russia is a threat in the 2012 debate?
Obama: "
Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that Al Qaida is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not Al Qaida; you said Russia, in the 1980s, they're now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years. But Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."
This is why in Obama's 2nd term the FBI and Justice Department investigated the Obama administration for being under the thumb of Putin and conspiring with a hostile foreign power.
Oh wait, that didn't happen. Hostility to Russia was just manufactured during Trump's 2016 campaign as a pre-text spy on and then launch a coup to overthrow his Presidency under the guise of a "Russian counter-intelligence probe."
