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Washington, D.C. -- TPC Current News Bureau

The contents of the Democrat memo of rebuttal to the House Intelligence Committee Report On FISA Abuses have been leaked by a senior trusted source.

Our source confirms that the Democrat rebuttal memo states there is very little to be gained from "the Republican deliberately misleading memo" and reveals that "Trump and all Republicans are working with Russia to sap the precious bodily fluids of our children and every red-blooded American."

"We can no longer sit back and allow this Republican secret plan of Russian infiltration, Russian indoctrination, Russian subversion, and the international Russian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

It is reported that the conclusion calls for a three-part plan of action. President Trump and all Republicans must be immediately incarcerated; the immediate cessation of the fluoridation of water; and all true red-blooded Americans who love their country, love freedom, and love their precious bodily fluids, must donate one dollar or more to the Democratic National Reelection Campaign Fund so as to be placed on a list of Very Important People and possibly win a free lunch TBA.

And then, Next Tuesday™, there will be peace on earth.

Democrat rebuttal memo: We didn't do nothin'!

#ReleaseTheDemMemo


Lying To The FBI 101
"We are sorry but even though you have not violated any laws . . . we remember that you lied to us about not violating any laws."

More memos out today....

On October 21, 2016, DOJ and FBI sought and received a FISA probable cause order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC. Page is a U.S. citizen who served as a volunteer advisor to the Trump presidential campaign. Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant targeting Carter Page and three FISA renewals from the FISC. As required by statute (50 U.S.C. §1805(d)(1)), a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed by the FISC every 90 days and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. Then-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Then-DAG Sally Yates, then-Acting DAG Dana Boente, and DAG Rod Rosenstein each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of DOJ.

Our findings indicate that, as described below, material and relevant information was omitted.

The "dossier"compiled by Christopher Steele (Steele dossier) on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was a longtime FBI source who was paid over $160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and research firm Fusion GPS, to obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

a) Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossierwere then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.

b) The initial FISA applicationnotes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier). The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of—and paid by—the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.

The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page's July 2016 trip to Moscow. This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News.The Page FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not directly provide information to Yahoo News. Steele has admitted in British court filings that he met with Yahoo News—and several other outlets—in September 2016 at the direction of Fusion GPS. Perkins Coie was aware of Steele's initial media contacts because they hosted at least one meeting in Washington D.C. in 2016 with Steele and Fusion GPS where this matter was discussed.

Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations—an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, 2016, Mother Jones article by David Corn.Steele's numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling—maintaining confidentiality—and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source for the FBI.3) Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein.

Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president." This clear evidence of Steele's biaswas recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files—but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications.

During this same time period, Ohr's wifewas employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC.

After Steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within FBI assessed Steele's reporting as only minimally corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even though it was - according to his June 2017 testimony - "salacious and unverified." While the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations.Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.The Page FISA application also mentions information regarding fellow Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, but there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos.

The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel's Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had also investigated. The Strzok/Lisa Page texts also reflect extensive discussions about the investigation, orchestrating leaks to the media, andinclude a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an "insurance" policy against President Trump's election.

Fellow Democrats, here are the key points of the memo:

• The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the intial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.
  
• Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrantwould have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.
  
• The politicalorigins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excludedfrom the FISA applications.
  
• DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 andrelayed to DOJ information about Steele's bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get electedpresidentand was passionate about him not becomingpresident.

Dr. Strangelove remake with an ending that finally makes sense. The working title is, "How I stopped worrying and learned to love the FISA court."

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Comey: Big Deal!

This isn't the first time the FISA courts in association with the Obama administration were in the news.

2013, Remember when:


FISA Court Rubber Stamps Statement It Is Not A Rubber Stamp

This is when the FISA court first became public knowledge and we learned that only .03 percent of FISA applications were turned down by the court.

From just one article on this at the time:

FISA Court Has Rejected .03 Percent Of All Government Surveillance Requests

After last week's revelations extensive National Security Agency surveillance of phone and internet communications, President Barack Obama made it a point to assure Americans that, not to worry, there is plenty of oversight of his administration's snooping programs. “We've got congressional oversight and judicial oversight,” he said Friday, referring in part to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which was created in 1979 to oversee Department of Justice requests for surveillance warrants against foreign agents suspected of espionage or terrorism in the United States. But the FISC has declined just 11 of the more than 33,900 surveillance requests made by the government in 33 years, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. That's a rate of .03 percent, which raises questions about just how much judicial oversight is actually being provided.

2017, when Democrats learned to start worrying and hate Russia. An love the FBI, of course.