The Case
Devin Nunes wrote
the memo headed:-
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses At The Department of Justice
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
That seems pretty uncontroversial to most people. Of course it should never have become an issue in the first place - but it has. Mr Nunes tells us that various officials applied to a secret court for surveillance warrants, that they did it four times and suppressed relevant facts in order to get their phone taps etc. The story is true or false.
Page 1 is introductory. The meat of the matter is in pages 3 to 6. Notice, amusingly that it was classified TO SECRET/ NOFORN [ no foreign eyes], another case of over classifying.
The Reaction
Various government officials have tried to get the memo suppressed. The
Main
Stream Media has supported them with howls of protest and fraudulent
allegations. See e.g. Search Results. They
prove that the media know that the case is genuine.
What Are The Consequences
Going To Be?
The fact that Hillary Clinton hired
Christopher Steele to
dig for dirt, to produce the
Dodgy Dossier
means that the trail of
corruption leads right back to her. The media wanted her in the White House
so that she could destroy America. Now she is in
with a chance of doing Life Without Parole in Leavenworth. Lots of people
would be delighted at getting a result.
Other Aspects
The
Main
Stream Media have invested huge efforts in discrediting
Donald Trump.. Now their corruption is
exposed. Two happy exceptions to this result will be
Fox News & Mark Steyn. The truth has its
uses.
Nunes Memo Is Published - Donald Trump Was Right - The Rest Lied In Their
Teeth
NB The
Daily Mail beat the rest to it.
QUOTE
This is the full Devin Nunes memo which was published Friday after President
Donald Trump declassified it.
It makes publish a series of new developments showing how the Federal Bureau of Investigation [ FBI ] under James Comey and the Department of Justice under Loretta Lynch made four applications for surveillance warrants based on the word of spy Christopher Steele - even though a senior official knew he was a fanatical Trump hater determined to keep the then candidate out of office.
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Hillary Clinton is bent as a
nine bob note. So are the rest.
Recall that the FBI perpetrated the Ruby Ridge Massacre then followed up with the Waco Massacre, achieving dozens of murders. They did the investigation then gave themselves a pass. Have they changed? For the worse maybe. This is about the criminals who are the Deep State, the rogues who run America; about Subversion, about Treason, about screwing Democracy & the millions who voted for Don.
Daily Telegraph Hides Truth About Nunes Memo
The
Telegraph is also known as the Quislinggraph
with good reason. Read its article and count key words - allege [ x 2 ] &
claim [ x 4 ]. Does it show us the memo? Lets be grown up about this one. It
is a Propaganda machine in the business of
perverting the truth & misleading people of Right
Wing views. By way of contrast the
Daily Mail put the whole thing on line, pretty much as soon as it left
Washington. Today's entertainment will be looking to see which
Main Stream Media operations saw fit to tell the
truth.
PS The other
Telegraph article with the real content, the memo itself makes it
difficult to read but has plenty of malicious commentary &
Disinformation,
under the heading
The explosive secret FBI memo What you need to know. It is in fact
about what they don't want you to now.
The Guardian Has A Sour View Of The Nunes Memo
But then it is a Left Wing outfit, just as
much a
Propaganda machine as the
Telegraph. It also put the memo in a difficult format to stop people
reading it. Count those propaganda words, allege [ x 2 ], claim [ x 3
], controversial [ x 1 ].
Trump's release of Nunes memo is Nixonian – but today's GOP won't resist US
news
This
Guardian headline is verbatim, malicious and full of hate. When
Richard Nixon was
coming unstuck the media were there like flies on the proverbial. Now it is
Main Stream Media's corruption that is on display.
They chose to protect treasonous criminals of the FBI
and US Department of Justice,
the well paid crooks who concealed the crimes of
Hillary Clinton & tried to destroy
Donald Trump's presidency.
FBI misled court to spy on Trump aide, memo claims World The Times
Claims? Is
The Times being evasive? The dear old Thunderer told the world about the
Charge
of the Light Brigade. It didn't mince words then. It has gone down hill
since 1854. Actually the rot set in under
Murdoch. This article was hidden on page 29 in the hope that people
would not read it.
US Department of Justice
Is saying nothing about our Don on its web site. Some you win, some you
lose. Watch this space.
Dodgy Dossier
ex Wiki
NB The Wiki has chosen to give it a different name because it is a
Propaganda machine that is hiding the truth.
Key propaganda words - allegation [ x 8 ], claim [ x 12 ], controversy [ x 1 ]
The Trump–Russia dossier, also known as the Steele dossier,[1] is a private intelligence dossier of 17 memos that were consecutively written from June to December 2016[2] by former MI6 intelligence officer Christopher Steele. It contains allegations of misconduct and conspiracy between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russian government before and during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, much of it detailing alleged cooperation between the campaign and Russians to interfere in the election to benefit Trump.[3] The contents of the dossier were published in full by BuzzFeed on January 10, 2017.[4] Several mainstream media outlets have criticized BuzzFeed's decision to publish the dossier.[5][6][7]
Some of the dossier's allegations have been confirmed, while others have yet to be proved or disproved.[8][9] Some claims may require access to classified information for verification.[10] The media, intelligence community, as well as most experts have treated the dossier with caution, while Trump himself denounced the report as "fake news". In February 2017, some details related to conversations between foreign nationals were independently verified.[11] As of December 2017, the dossier's allegations of collusion have not been corroborated.[12][13]
The dossier was produced as part of opposition research during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. After Trump emerged as the probable Republican nominee, attorney Marc Elias of the Perkins Coie law firm retained American research firm #Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research about Trump on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton presidential campaign. Fusion GPS later contracted Steele to compile the dossier.[14] Following Trump's election as president, Steele continued working on the report, with funding from Democrats ceasing and financing finally coming directly from Glenn R. Simpson of Fusion GPS.[15] The completed dossier and its information was then passed on to British and American intelligence services.[16]
Dodgy Dossier Allegations ex Wiki
The
Trump–Russia dossier[1]
is a
private intelligence
dossier of 17 memos that were consecutively written from June to
December 2016[2]
by former
MI6 intelligence officer
Christopher Steele. The
memos allege that Russia has been cultivating a relationship with
Donald Trump for decades, that the
Kremlin favored Trump in the U.S. presidential election, and
took various actions during the 2016 election to promote his candidacy
and oppose
Hillary Clinton's. The document claims that several of Trump's
associates, in particular campaign chairman
Paul Manafort, Trump's personal attorney
Michael D. Cohen, and Trump foreign policy advisor
Carter Page, worked with Russian contacts to promote Trump's candidacy.
Alleged activities include planning the
hack of
Democratic National Committee emails and their
subsequent leaking, arranging cover ups and cash payments, and promising
favorable policies toward Russia if Trump was elected. The document also
claims that Russian operators possessed
compromising information about Trump which could make him subject to
blackmail. Trump and Russian President
Vladimir Putin have repeatedly denied the allegations.[3][4]
The dossier contains multiple allegations, some of which have been confirmed, while others have yet to be proved or disproved.[5][6] Some claims may require access to classified information for verification.[7] The media, intelligence community, as well as most experts have treated the dossier with caution, while Trump himself denounced the report as "fake news". In February 2017, some details related to conversations between foreign nationals were independently verified.[8] As of December 2017, the dossier is "uncorroborated but not disproved".[9][10]
Nunes Memo ex Wiki
[ This version of the Wiki's article was downloaded on 2018-02-03. A couple
of small bits are omitted, else it is verbatim - read it to see the bias, the
evasions, the omissions - Editor ]
The Nunes memo is a four-page memo written by Republican staff
members for
U.S. Representative
Devin Nunes and released in February 2018. It alleges that the
Federal Bureau of Investigation "may have relied on politically
motivated or questionable sources" to obtain a
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant in the early phases
of the FBI's investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[2]
Nunes is the chairman of the
#House
Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) and a supporter of FISA
surveillance extension.[3][4][5]
In April 2017 Nunes stepped aside from chairing the HPSCI Russia
investigation while the House Ethics Committee conducted an inquiry into
possible ethics violation involving his secret coordination with the White
House; he then began his own secret parallel investigation. The Ethics
Committee cleared him in December 2017, and Nunes later claimed he had never
recused.
Republican legislators favoring public release of the memo on transparency grounds argued that the memo contains evidence that the FISA warrant process was misused by FBI employees to sabotage the Trump presidency.[6] They alleged there was excessive dependence on allegations in the Trump-Russia dossier in obtaining a warrant from the FISA court.[7] Political allies of Donald Trump have attempted to use the memo to pivot attention away from the Special Counsel investigation of the Trump presidential campaign's role in Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[6] Prior to the release of the memo, sources reported that Trump told his associates that release of the memo would discredit the investigation.[8][9][10]
Anticipation of the release of the memo sparked controversy, mainly along political lines. In a rare break from the Trump administration, the FBI expressed "grave concerns" about the accuracy of the memo.[11][12] House Republicans released the memo on the morning of February 2, 2018.
A social media campaign, under the hashtag ReleaseTheMemo, emerged in mid-January 2018 to publicly release the memo despite some of its classified contents. Russian-linked bots on Twitter helped spread the controversial hashtag.[13][14][15]
Background
The memo was produced by a small group of House Republicans and
staff, led by Devin Nunes, as part of a secret partisan investigation into
how the FBI used the
Trump–Russia dossier.[17]
Democratic committee members were not informed about the investigation into
the FBI or the preparation of the memo, although under committee rules the
minority is supposed to be consulted when an investigation is launched.[18]
Adam Schiff, the Ranking Member of the
#House
Intelligence Committee, commented that Nunes hadn't read all of the relevant source material, though
Nunes had argued for months that the FBI and DOJ had taken part in a
conspiracy.[19]
Nunes had previously recused himself from the committee's investigation into
Russia's interference in U.S. elections[19]
due to a House ethics investigation into Nunes' secret coordination with the
White House. The House Ethics Committee stated that "Nunes may have made
unauthorized disclosures of classified information, in violation of House
Rules, law, regulations, or other standards of conduct" (the ethics
investigation ended when the committee was unable to obtain the relevant
classified information).[20][21]
However, after offering to step aside from the investigation into Russian
interference, Nunes began his own "parallel" investigation, whose purpose
appeared to be to undermine the original ongoing investigation.[22]
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The memo states that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved a FISA application to extend the surveillance of Carter Page into the spring of 2017. The memo accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of failing to provide enough information about Christopher Steele, author of the Trump-Russia dossier, to a FISA court judge.[23][24] The memo "suggests that the FBI may have relied on politically motivated or questionable sources to justify its request for a secret surveillance warrant" in the early phases of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[2] Page himself, however had been under FISA surveillance for awhile and the successful renewal of the application documented by the memo means that the surveillance was producing "pertinent to intelligence-related collection" in regard the issue of Trump campaign's potential collusion with Russia.[25]
Adam Schiff and Democrats on the committee said Nunes' memo is inaccurate and that it omits key information on evidence other than Steele's dossier which was used in the application for the FISA warrant.[26]
The memo also inadvertently revealed that the spark for the FBI investigation into potential collusion between Trump's campaign and the Russians was not the Steele dossier, but rather the comments made by Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, who told an Australian diplomat in May 2016 that the Russians possessed "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in the form of hacked emails.[25]
January 19 eventsThe extension of the mass surveillance programs under the same FISA methods allegedly found problematic by the memo was signed into law on January 19, 2018.[27][28][4][29] A social media campaign emerged in January 19, 2018[30] to publicly release the memo despite some of its classified contents. Russian-linked bots on Twitter helped spread the controversial hashtag ReleaseTheMemo.[13][14][15] The memo, and its release, have been part of an effort by Trump's political allies to shift focus away from the ongoing Special Counsel investigation and to portray the investigators' conduct as the real scandal.[6]
Shortly after becoming a trending topic, the memo drew polarizing reactions from government officials and the media, generally along party lines.[31][32] The Justice Department (DOJ) released a letter to Congress calling a release of the memo without review "reckless" because it could expose intelligence sources and methods, while President Donald Trump called for its public release.[33] FBI Director Christopher Wray was allowed to read the memo and did so on January 28. On January 29, the majority of the House Intelligence Committee disregarded the DOJ's warnings and voted to approve its release.[34] In response to the memo, Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee drafted a ten-page rebuttal memo on January 24. Both memos were released to the full house.[35] The Republicans also voted against making public the competing memo Democrats had crafted, and rejected a proposal to give the Justice Department and FBI more time to vet the document. The President then had up to five days to review it before it could be released.[36]
Purpose
Carter Page has been the subject of FISA warrants by the FBI going back
to 2014 when he was alleged to have been colluding with the Russian
government or having knowingly worked as an agent on its behalf.[37]
He originally came to the attention of the FBI counterintelligence unit
prior to his becoming a Trump campaign adviser, when the unit learned that
Russian spies were trying to use him as a source of information and tried to
recruit him as an agent.[38][39]
Subsequently Page claimed that the information he provided to the Russians
was "innocuous".[38]
The FISA warrants on Page have since been renewed more than once.[23]
Republicans posit that politically-motivated FBI employees have attempted to undermine the Trump presidency, citing the Trump–Russia dossier which was reportedly used as evidence for obtaining a FISA warrant to wiretap Page.[6] According to this argument, the FBI did not disclose to the FISA court that their request for a warrant was dependent on evidence in the Trump-Russia dossier, a document funded in part by the Hillary Clinton Presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).[7]
Trump's political allies have attempted for weeks to move attention away from the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[6] In the hours before the expected release of the memo, sources reported that Trump told his associates that release of the memo would discredit the investigation.[8]
Social media influenceAccording to the Hamilton 68 project run by the bipartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy which tracks Russian propaganda efforts on Twitter, ReleaseTheMemo was promoted by Russian twitter bot accounts, with a 230,000 percent spike in the promotion of the hashtag by these accounts.[40][14][13][15] However, Twitter stated that a "preliminary analysis of available geographical data for tweets with the hashtag ReleaseTheMemo ... has not identified any significant activity connected to Russia with respect to tweets posting original content to this hashtag."[41] According to an analysis by CNN the hashtag was pushed by over a thousand newly created accounts, of which 460 were without a profile picture. CNN also noted that the hashtag was promoted by prominent American conservatives and Republicans, including Donald Trump Jr. and Mark Meadows.[42] WikiLeaks offered a reward to anyone submitting the document to them using the hashtag with a link to their upload site.[13]
Responses
On January 19, 2018, a growing number of Republicans began calling for
the release of the memo.[43][44]
In response to news surrounding the memo,
Fox News
host
Sean Hannity directed a message at former FBI Director
Robert Mueller, saying, "Your
witch hunt is now over. Time to close the doors."[44]
Donald Trump, Jr. has also been a major proponent of its release.
Democrats have pushed back on the memo, with Adam Schiff, Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, releasing a statement saying it is "[r]ife with factual inaccuracies" and is "meant only to give Republican House members a distorted view of the FBI."[45] In response to the memo, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee drafted a ten-page rebuttal memo on January 24.[46][47] However, when the committee voted on partisan lines to release the Nunes memo, it also voted not to release the Democratic memo.[34]
Republicans sought a committee vote that would request the release through the President, which would keep the memo confined to committee members until the President responded.[48] The memo could be made public by a vote in the House of Representatives if the President does not act or denies the request, but no vote is scheduled for the full House. Glenn Greenwald called the campaign "a bizarre spectacle" since the Republicans are "holding a document that only they can release, while pretending to be advocating for its release."[49] Nunes and the #House Intelligence Committee have denied access to the memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee and to the FBI, who stated a desire to investigate any alleged wrongdoing.[48] The Justice Department sent a letter to Nunes and called the release of the memo reckless.[1] Nunes' panel also refused to allow the FBI and the Department of Justice to view the memo, despite their requests.[50]
Adam Schiff released a statement and a letter to Devin Nunes at 19:00 on January 31, 2018, stating: "BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release."[51][52] In response Peter King, who also sits on the Intelligence Committee, stated, "My understanding is this was agreed on beforehand among Republicans. There's one small part in the memo which in no way affects the substance in the memo." He said it involved removing only "three or four words" and came at the request of the FBI.[53]
Revelations about the Nunes memo and its surrounding controversy gave rise to comparisons to the Saturday night massacre, alluding to the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox by President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.[54][55][56][57]
On February 2, 2018, the disputed memo was published on the HPSCI website. In authorizing the release of the memo, the White House, in a statement from the counsel to the President, stressed that "the memorandum reflects the judgments of its congressional authors" and that the reason for its release was "significant public interest in the memorandum".[58]
Later that day
John
McCain rebuked his fellow Republicans with the statement, "The latest
attacks against the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American
interests ― no party's, no president's, only Putin's. ... If we continue to
undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin's job for him."[59]
NB The key propaganda words, claim [ x 2 ], allege [ x 5 ], controversial
[ x 5 ] - word endings vary.
Dodgy Dossier In Full ex Buzzfeed
QUOTE
These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia
January 11, 2017, at 1:20 a.m.
By
Ken Bensinger (BuzzFeed News
Reporter)
Miriam Elder (BuzzFeed News
World Editor)
Mark Schoofs (BuzzFeed News
Investigations Editor)
A dossier making explosive — but unverified — allegations that
the Russian government has been “cultivating, supporting and
assisting” President-elect Donald Trump for years and gained
compromising information about him has been circulating among
elected officials, intelligence agents, and journalists for weeks.
The dossier, which is a collection of memos written over a period of months, includes specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians. BuzzFeed News reporters in the US and Europe have been investigating various alleged facts in the dossier but have not verified or falsified them. CNN reported Tuesday that a two-page synopsis of the report was given to President Obama and Trump.
Now BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.
The document was prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent. It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors. The report misspells the name of one company, "Alpha Group," throughout. It is Alfa Group. The report says the settlement of Barvikha, outside Moscow, is "reserved for the residences of the top leadership and their close associates." It is not reserved for anyone, and it is also populated by the very wealthy.
The Trump administration's transition team did not immediately
respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment. However, the
president-elect's attorney, Michael Cohen,
told Mic that the allegations were absolutely false.
"It's so ridiculous on so many levels," he said. "Clearly, the
person who created this did so from their imagination or did so
hoping that the liberal media would run with this fake story for
whatever rationale they might have."
And Trump shot back against the reports a short time later on Twitter................
His former campaign manager and current senior White House adviser, Kellyanne Conway, also denied the claims during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, adding that "nothing has been confirmed." She also said Trump was "not aware" of any briefing on the matter.
The documents have circulated for months and acquired a kind of legendary status among journalists, lawmakers, and intelligence officials who have seen them. Mother Jones writer David Corn referred to the documents in a late October column.
Harry Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson tweeted Tuesday that the former Senate Democratic leader had seen the documents before writing a public letter to FBI Director James Comey about Trump's ties to Russia. And CNN reported Tuesday that Arizona Republican John McCain gave a "full copy" of the memos to Comey on Dec. 9, but that the FBI already had copies of many of the memos.
Read the report here:-
Formatting is cleverly arranged to make it difficult to
read.............
Ken Bensinger is an investigative
reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles. His secure
PGP fingerprint is 97CC 6E32 10A2 23FE 4E84 98B4 9CFF 4214 9D26 8AA7 Contact Ken Bensinger at
ken.bensinger@buzzfeed.com.
Miriam Elder is the world editor for
BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Her secure PGP fingerprint
is 5B5F EC17 C20B C11F 226D 3EBE 6205 F92F AC14 DCB1 Contact Miriam Elder at
miriam.elder@buzzfeed.com.
Pulitzer-prize winner Mark Schoofs is
the investigations and projects editor for BuzzFeed News. While
working at The Village Voice, Schoofs won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize
for International Reporting for his series on AIDS in Africa. Contact Mark Schoofs at
mark.schoofs@buzzfeed.com.
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Even if Steele is full of hate, he should use facts not lies. Heigh ho.
