It’s going to say that the FBI and Justice Department mislead a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge in seeking an extension of a warrant for a secret eavesdropping operation against Carter Page. It will also show that the dossier used was paid for by liberal schitholes.

This... AND that senior members of the DOJ and FBI were actively trying to thwart Trump's campaign. AND that senior members of the FBI and DOJ were basically covering for Hillary's crimes. Note: It would have been all mute if Hillary would have just won. Everyone in government thought she was going to win.

I firmly believe that many Americans are never going to think of their government the same way again.

We’ll never hear the entire message. I’d bet it’s been changed and edited to make the FBI not look as bad as the first version.

Yep, we'll never know what the message was in it's original content.

It won't be released today

Really, hmmmmm......well then, Trump will have a decision to make today, either expose the SWAMP or become a card carrying member of it.

Most likely, Trump will slow roll this one.

If he has the memo himself sitting on his desk, think of the power it gives him for as long as he keeps it in secret. He holds all the cards and "leaks" them as he sees fit.

I think the American citizens deserve to see the memo. But a power-hungry POTUS probably has different motivations.

He has five days to do so. I'm thinking he wants the news cycle to talk about his speech for a few days more and if he releases it today or tomorrow, the speech gets forgotten.

I'm prepared to be underwhelmed by its contents.

I'm prepared to be underwhelmed by its contents.

It won't be released today

"BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee," Schiff said in a tweet late Wednesday. "White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release."

Schiff also shared a copy of a letter he sent to Nunes on Wednesday claiming that the Democrats on the committee learned that the classified memo shared by the committee majority with the White House did not feature the same content that House members had reviewed before voting to release it to the public earlier this week.

"After reviewing both versions, it is clear that the Majority made material change to the version it sent to the White House, which Committee Members never apprised of, never had the opportunity to review, and never approved," the letter says. "This is deeply troubling because it means that the Committee Majority transmitted to the White House an altered version of its classified document that is materially different than the version on which the Committee voted. The White House has therefore been reviewing a document since Monday night that the Committee never approved for public release."

"While the Majority’s changes do not correct the profound distortions and inaccuracies in your document, they are nonetheless substantive," the letter continues. "The fact that the Majority found it necessary to make these changes without informing the Committee during the vote signifies that the Committee Majority no longer stands by the representation it has made to House Members in its original document and felt it necessary to deceive Committee Members during Monday’s vote, by withholding the fact that it planned to send a different document to the White House."

That could very well be, it's been reported that the memo the WH is reviewing is not the same memo the HIC voted on to release. Whatever happens, it's sure to be a chitshow.

Adam Schiff accuses Devin Nunes of making 'material changes' to memo given to White House

their response is that the changes they made were at the request of the FBI and democrats

Moot

Pencilneck Schiff will be exposed as the lyin' weasel he is.

their response is that the changes they made were at the request of the FBI and democrats

Either the memo is false and the people who crafted it will be discredited or the memo is true and the people directed in it have been insubordination in their actions

If the memo is a lie, then the FBI would not have "grave concerns" about its release.

CORRECT. All the democrats and the FBI Swamp are doing is stalling..

Pencilneck Schiff will be exposed as the lyin' weasel he is.

The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee refused to answer when a colleague asked him if he had coordinated his incendiary surveillance memo with the White House, The Daily Beast has learned.

Memo drop tomorrow. What do you think it's gonna say?

Wray already fired McCabe over it.

It must have some credibility...

We ALREADY know what it says.

The FBI & DOJ tipped the scales for Hillary.

They illegally spied on Trump because they were weaponized by the Obama Administration.

The top FBI & DOJ officials were and are corrupt and shredded the Constitution for their agenda of Big Govt.

Nunes might get exposed as well. This memo might end up the same way Nune's "unmasking" claims went last spring.

The Daily Beast's headline, subheadline, and lede about the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee refusing to answer a question are all false.
JANUARY 31, 2018 By Mollie Hemingway
Once again, reporters got burned by believing anonymous Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Betsy Woodruff and Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast credulously believed their “sources familiar with the exchange,” who said Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, refused to deny he had coordinated with the White House when putting together a memo alleging surveillance and law enforcement abuses at the FBI.

In fact, Nunes explicitly denied the charge before shutting down the line of questioning in order to provide other members who were not trying to hijack the hearing time to get actual committee business done.

According to a transcript of the meeting, the Daily Beast’s headline, subheadline, and lede are all false. The headline was “Devin Nunes Won’t Say If He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo.” The subhead was “The House intel committee GOP leader refused to answer behind closed doors if he coordinated with the president’s team on his report blasting Rosenstein, Comey, and McCabe.” The lede is “The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee refused to answer when a colleague asked him if he had coordinated his incendiary surveillance memo with the White House, The Daily Beast has learned.” But that apparently wasn’t enough, as the Daily Beast even blared “non-denial” above the headline in bright red font.


Contrary to what the Daily Beast claims, which is that Nunes refused to answer, the transcript shows he explicitly denied the charge, saying, “I would just answer, as far as I know, no.”

After repeating the Nunes-specific false claims three times, Woodruff and Ackerman claimed more narrowly:

During Monday’s contentious closed-door committee meeting, Rep. Mike Quigley, a Democrat, asked Nunes point-blank if his staffers had been talking with the White House as they compiled a four-page memo alleging FBI and Justice Department abuses over surveillance of President Trump’s allies in the Russia probe.

According to sources familiar with the exchange, Nunes made a few comments that didn’t answer the question before finally responding, “I’m not answering.”

Additionally, the quote attributed to Nunes by the Daily Beast, “I’m not answering,” appears nowhere in the exchange according to a transcript of the meeting. A review of the transcript makes clear that Nunes answered the question before returning to committee business and allowing other members to speak about the pending business or make additional motions. You can see for yourself here:



When the transcript came to light, Woodruff defended her original reporting by ignoring the many falsehoods prominently featured in her story, conveniently omitting the accusation which she originally reported Nunes refused to deny.

This publication of false information based on anonymous Democratic sources on the Intelligence Committee is reminiscent of CNN’s embarrassing publication of a claim that Donald Trump, Jr., had colluded to publicize a new Wikileaks stash of hacked emails ahead of its public release. In that case, CNN claimed two independent sources. But it turned out that these two supposedly independent sources had provided false information about the email’s date. The correct date, after the public release of those records, completely destroyed the claim. CNN has still not revealed which sources lied to the network and its audience by providing false information, or why the network publicized information without first verifying whether it was even true.

The Daily Beast has also published false information when it accused Chairman Nunes of sneaking to the White House at midnight to secretly review top-secret documents. Rep. Adam Schiff, who is plausibly the source of this false claim, repeated the false claim earlier this week. In fact, Nunes reviewed the documents during daylight hours, as he corrected the record publicly on CNN in April. In that case, it was Tim Mak who credulously accepted false information without verifying it.

The entire transcript of the Monday hearing is available for review here.

Nunes might get exposed as well. This memo might end up the same way Nune's "unmasking" claims went last spring.



At this point my speculation is that the memo will end up being a real party pooper, all salt and no tequila. Which party gets pooped on remains to be seen.

Ha. Not hardly. Most Rs are saying to release it. ALL dumascraps are decrying the proposed leak of the truth. Ask a kid why that would be, since youre obviously to stupid to figure it out by yourself, or are you just that much of a disingenuous liar?

Pencilneck Schiff will be exposed as the lyin' weasel he is.

That somebody misrepresented the Steele memo to the FISA court for one. Probably the significance of other "evidence" as well.

Good to know, because if comes to light that there was coordination with Nunes and the WH in writing the HIC memo, it would certainly be looked at as evidence in an obstruction of justice case.

We’ll never hear the entire message. I’d bet it’s been changed and edited to make the FBI not look as bad as the first version.

Good to know, because if comes to light that there was coordination with Nunes and the WH in writing the HIC memo, it would certainly be looked at as evidence in an obstruction of justice case.

Good to know, because if comes to light that there was coordination with Nunes and the WH in writing the HIC memo, it would certainly be looked at as evidence in an obstruction of justice case.

IF it says anything like I expect it to say (that the FBI's senior staff "was up to their ears in" a conspiracy to injure DT), some people are likely to see the inside of federal prison bars.

We've heard from one of the all knowing leftists here, suppose I'll withhold my thoughts until a couple more of them show up and enlighten us all.
JeffO, Starman......where you at?

Most likely, Trump will slow roll this one.

If he has the memo himself sitting on his desk, think of the power it gives him for as long as he keeps it in secret. He holds all the cards and "leaks" them as he sees fit.

I think the American citizens deserve to see the memo. But a power-hungry POTUS probably has different motivations.

There are many reasons FISA experts don’t expect the allegations to stand up to the hype, which has involved a Twitter campaign to #ReleaseTheMemo and included GOP claims that what it shows is worse than Watergate.

For Republicans claims of an abuse to be true, one would have to assume that the dossier was the sole basis of the warrant application, that it was a “fabrication” and that the DOJ knew that it was a fabrication when it applied for the FISA warrant, Vladeck said.

“All three things would have to be true for this to actually be an abuse of FISA,” Vladeck said, adding that he wouldn’t take the claims seriously unless the White House declassifies the underlying warrant.

“The major problem here is that this is only arguably scandalous in any way if [the DOJ] just essentially repacked the dossier as a warrant package without any work of their own,” Sanchez said, adding that it would be “inconceivable to me that would be the only source.”

“I doubt they based it on a single source of information,” said a former Republican chair of the House Intel Committee, Mike Rogers, on CNN.

“I can’t imagine that the dossier was the centerpiece of a FISA application,” said Robert Litt, a former general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence who also worked for the Justice Department.

“Number one, I don’t think the Department of Justice would have allowed that to go forward as the sole basis. Number two, I don’t think a judge would have approved probable cause on that basis alone,” Litt said. “And number three, everything I read has suggested that there was considerable other information about Page before this dossier came in.”

The FISA warrant applications presented to the judge end up being dozens of pages long, according to former officials. A four-page memo that sought to summarize it would be a “carefully picked bowl of cherries,” John McLaughlin, who served as acting CIA director under George W. Bush, said on Twitter.

“Given a lot of stuff that’s already public about Page and about past known attempts to recruit him, it certainly seems like they could well have plenty to go on without the dossier,” Sanchez said.

Court documents filed in 2015 show that the government had intercepted two Russian figures discussing the prospect of recruiting Page, and the FBI interviewed Page in 2013 about his Russian contacts. The Washington Post reported the FISA application cited those communications and others not publicly disclosed. In the spring of 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly approved an application to extend the FISA surveillance on Page.

“There would have been probably months, if not years of investigative activity on Carter Page prior to going to the court to begin with,” Rangappa said.

Before a FISA application makes it to the judge, it travels through many layers of review at the FBI that also includes career DOJ lawyers, who verify the source of every fact laid out in the application’s affidavit, according to Rangappa. A warrant for Page would have been treated with extra scrutiny, given the political sensitivities of him having been affiliated with Trump’s campaign, Rangappa said, adding that former FBI Director James Comey would have also likely signed off on it.

“I think a judge would have gone through that with a fine tooth comb and asked many questions,” she said.

So there are two more aspects to the Nunes memo and the #ReleasetheMemo movement.

First, it is now clear beyond dispute that the #ReleasetheMemo activity has been taken over by Russian bots. That fact needs to be in every discussion of this issue.

Second, though, while the article quotes several intelligence experts about the kind of information needed for the original FISA warrant, the warrant that is the subject of the Nunes memo is the renewal application signed off on by Rod Rosenstein. According to Ron Klain on MSNBC, in order to renew a FISA warrant, the supporting affidavit needs to document that material information has been obtained from the original warrant. If the original warrant came up empty, the warrant will not be renewed. Accordingly, whatever Rosenstein signed had to include an itemization of the conversations between Page and the Russians that had already yielded usable intelligence.

This is a fact worth keeping mind.

Jeffo, NeBassman, and Rollin Turd are one and the same.

That's a nice "balanced" source.........

Makes me think there is something irrefutable coming.

Of course there is. If the inside scoop was that no crime has been committed, republicans would be building up Mueller to be the consummate impartial pro so that when he announced he found nothing it wouldn't be questioned.

What we're seeing is the opposite, and that tells us all we need to know.

I'm glad to see you stating that so bluntly. I've been thinking the same thing.

Republicans are the real way we take the temperature on this crisis. Mueller ain't leaking [bleep], Dems don't know what's happening, so we have to watch what Republicans do.

What they're doing looks exactly like a panic to deflect blame. Blame for what? That suggests they know the hammer's coming down.

This... AND that senior members of the DOJ and FBI were actively trying to thwart Trump's campaign. AND that senior members of the FBI and DOJ were basically covering for Hillary's crimes. Note: It would have been all mute if Hillary would have just won. Everyone in government thought she was going to win.

I firmly believe that many Americans are never going to think of their government the same way again.

As balanced as the Fire?

Stolen from elsewhere, literally outside the right wing bubble of reality, the question, "is there any merit to this?"

It doesn't really matter what the memo says - the Dimmocrats are already saying that it has so many redactions that the "real" story isn't being told and, therefore, the memo shouldn't mean anything. Continuing to deny, deny, deny.....

I'm just waiting (well, hoping) for the day they find Hillary on a walking trail somewhere with her brains blown out from the back by Soros or Zero with her own gun and its called suicide.

This... AND that senior members of the DOJ and FBI were actively trying to thwart Trump's campaign. AND that senior members of the FBI and DOJ were basically covering for Hillary's crimes. Note: It would have been all mute if Hillary would have just won. Everyone in government thought she was going to win.

I firmly believe that many Americans are never going to think of their government the same way again.

There is some bad schitsky in this memo. Thats why Wray, hired by Trump, and Schifturd are so against its release.

Good to know, because if comes to light that there was coordination with Nunes and the WH in writing the HIC memo, it would certainly be looked at as evidence in an obstruction of justice case.

Jaguartx, NeBassman proves you wrong today big buddy.. LOL

Laughing, his lying ass made my ignore list long ago, I don't read his posts. A dishonest man can always be trusted to be dishonest.

Here is what FISA experts are saying.

‘Inconceivable’: Why Experts Don’t Believe The Nunes Memo Is What GOPers Claim

nevermind this investigation, does anyone think the FBI and DOJ is above board ....period?

so why do they think they suddenly became the bastions of integrity in dealing with Trump and Hillary?

Its healthier when a person applies distrust of government across the board and not on events that adversely affect their ideology.

I'm closer to believing they attempted a coup against the President of the United States than I am they operated in within the rules.

That's a nice "balanced" source.........

I checked out his source

What a joke . Cant believe idiots would view and believe the crap on TPM

Most dems are underwhelmed.

The stupid just oozes...

A liberal coming HERE to try and convince us that liberals are right and conservatives and Trump are wrong.


Has anyone changed their minds yet?

Laughing, his lying ass made my ignore list long ago, I don't read his posts. A dishonest man can always be trusted to be dishonest.

The FBI had Carter Page in their sights since 2014 at least. One of these days he will cross
the line and he will get to see the inside of a prison.

NeBassman has facts correct as we know right now. FISA Judges will no allow surveillance to continue unless more damaging information
has continued to be found on the investigation up to that point. No matter what new 90day file says. Don,t forget all FISA judges are
Republicans.

NeBassman has facts correct as we know right now. FISA Judges will no allow surveillance to continue unless more damaging information
has continued to be found on the investigation up to that point. No matter what new 90day file says. Don,t forget all FISA judges are
Republicans.

NeBassman has facts correct as we know right now. FISA Judges will no allow surveillance to continue unless more damaging information
has continued to be found on the investigation up to that point. No matter what new 90day file says. Don,t forget all FISA judges are
Republicans.

Good to know, because if comes to light that there was coordination with Nunes and the WH in writing the HIC memo, it would certainly be looked at as evidence in an obstruction of justice case.

We will see who is right in next few months. Trumps White House is worried that head of FBI Wray, may Quit over Memo. One
of Trumps Appointments, Shows how strange Trump and Nunes are. Who will take a job from Trump?

All the FISA court judges are Republican? really? do you have a source to back that up? or are you making chit up again? maybe listening to CNN?

Even if you are correct and they all are Republican , do you realize the swamp is full of Republicans also?

You libtards are a special kind of LOW LIFE COMMIE SCUMBAG POS LYING TRAITOROUS CREEPS.

We will see who is right in next few months. Trumps White House is worried that head of FBI Wray, may Quit over Memo. One
of Trumps Appointments, Shows how strange Trump and Nunes are. Who will take a job from Trump?

That's where you are wrong FISA court use stacks of information. It is
never based on one item. That one item would carry very little weight unless confirmed by other
sources, which FBI had on Carter Page.

Most dems are underwhelmed.

Considering how media savvy and how strong his irritation of the kneeling NFL is...

It would be grand for Trump to #ReleaseTheMemo soon after kick-off on Sunday.


That news scroll would see half of America turning off the game to get details.

All dems are idiots, traitors, vile sub-humans. Other than that, they might make some OK fertilizer where primarily sand is grown.

Now, they haven't always been that way, at least not to the degree of vileness they exemplify now, but since they have started this wretched campaign to turn the greatest country in the world to a total chithole of filth, I, and many others, take extreme umbrage.

So if you see, or know, of any of these foolish filthy vermin, let them know it's back off time, seek help if necessary, and deconstruct the insanity, or the pleasantries and cheerful natures may come to an end.

Considering how media savvy and how strong his irritation of the kneeling NFL is...

It would be grand for Trump to #ReleaseTheMemo soon after kick-off on Sunday.


That news scroll would see half of America turning off the game to get details.

I look at this fiasco as a constitutional crisis. If what we think is in the "memo" then the FBI and the
DNC are in a heap of trouble. If it shows Obama had a hand in this hang onto your hats because it's going to be a bumpy ride.

So it appears Trump was right when he said he was being wiretapped and spied on.

He was also right when he fired Comey for being a crooked, law breaking chithead.

Weezy and Obama need to be in jail over this too.

We will see who is right in next few months. Trumps White House is worried that head of FBI Wray, may Quit over Memo. One
of Trumps Appointments, Shows how strange Trump and Nunes are. Who will take a job from Trump?

Is our side paying people to derail leftist forums too? Looks like Garbage truck has a nice gig here, maybe a couple of us could make some gun project money by derailing sites like Duckocratic Underbound.

No derailing necessary. The leftists have no problem going off the rails on their own.

If Trump's smart, he won't release anything for a while. They're lining up to snitch now.

Dems are beyond squirming, they are in a full nervous breakdown. This document may hang all of them. I think they know if the public reads this, it will knock the party back so far it will take a generation to get the power back.

So we can assume that you feel that EVERYTHING the FBI & DOJ did concerning the 2016 Presidential election from summer 2016-summer 2017 was completely above board[no laws broken] and was completely within the bounds of the law as written.

In early December 2017, Judge Rudolph Contreras was recused from the criminal case involving Gen. Michael Flynn who had pleaded guilty in an arrangement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The statement from the US District Court was direct and did not offer any explanation:

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday.

According to a court filing, U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, who presided over a Dec. 1 hearing where Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about his contacts with Russia, will no longer handle the case.

Court spokeswoman Lisa Klem did not say why Contreras was recused, and added that the case was randomly reassigned.

The use of the term “was recused” is noteworthy as the court spokesperson purposely did not use the terminology “recused himself” with regard to Contreras removal from the case. The terms are not necessarily interchangeable and the “was recused” phrasing suggests that Contreras was told to recuse himself rather than the judge voluntarily stepping away from the case based on his own concern for a conflict of interest.

According to Joe DiGenova, a former US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Contreras was, in fact, removed from the case. DiGenova revealed the claim during an interview earlier this month on WMAL radio in Washington DC:

“I learned over the weekend that he (Contreras) did not recuse himself. He was removed from the case. Now the question for any good reporter at the Washington Post - the alternative universe in DC - is ‘why was Judge Contreras removed from the case by either the Chief Judge or the DC Circuit?’ Have you seen a story written about that? Isn’t it interesting how people in the press are not interested why the one judge who has taken a guilty plea in this case was removed from the case?”

The timing of the recusal is curious, to say the least, especially in light of some of the tidbits that have slipped out recently over the contents of the FISA memo compiled by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee.

Contreras sits on the FISA court. He was assigned to that court in May 2016, months before the FISA warrant was granted to the FBI to spy on members of the Trump campaign and the Trump transition.

It is believed that this surveillance contributed to the evidence that compelled Flynn to enter a plea for making misleading statements to federal investigators. Contreras accepted that plea as the presiding judge of the Mueller/Flynn case on December 2nd. Five days later, Contreras was recused from the case in which he had just accepted a plea.

What changed between December 2nd and December 7th? How could a conflict arise in those five days that had not existed prior to the plea deal?

Was Contreras the presiding judge who granted the FISA warrant that led to the Flynn plea? Was he the judge who accepted the Russian dossier (created by Christopher Steele while in the employ of the Clinton campaign) as objective and credible evidence justifying a FISA surveillance against Flynn and others in Trumpland during a hotly contested presidential campaign?

If so, does this taint the evidence and the circumstances that led Flynn to accept a guilty plea while being squeezed by Special Counsel Mueller’s team?

The court isn’t saying. They announced the recusal with no further statement or explanation. But now that we know what we know regarding the dossier and the FISA warrant, these questions deserve an answer.

You’d think some journalists in this town might want the answer too.

Rick Gates has fired his last attorney and hired Thomas Green. Thomas Green is noted for
negotiating plea deals. He has been seen several times at Muellers office the last few days.
Like I said before Carter Page has been under FBI observation since at least 2014. Harry Reid warned
all congressman not to get involved with Carter Page. Trump made him Senior Foreign Advisor during
campaign. That's why the FBI was doing its job intercepting his Russian contacts. This FISA thing is exactly what the FISA board was
supposed to do. Protect us from foreign spies and US citizens who are aiding them, like Carter Page. All this
other stuff is a smoke screen from Trump.

Rick Gates has fired his last attorney and hired Thomas Green. Thomas Green is noted for
negotiating plea deals. He has been seen several times at Muellers office the last few days.
Like I said before Carter Page has been under FBI observation since at least 2014. Harry Reid warned
all congressman not to get involved with Carter Page. Trump made him Senior Foreign Advisor during
campaign. That's why the FBI was doing its job intercepting his Russian contacts. This FISA thing is exactly what the FISA board was
supposed to do. Protect us from foreign spies and US citizens who are aiding them, like Carter Page. All this
other stuff is a smoke screen from Trump.

Don,t forget all FISA judges are Republicans.

MSM is going ape schitt over this memo. CNN about to explode.

It doesn't really matter what the memo says - the Dimmocrats are already saying that it has so many redactions that the "real" story isn't being told and, therefore, the memo shouldn't mean anything. Continuing to deny, deny, deny.....

I'm just waiting (well, hoping) for the day they find Hillary on a walking trail somewhere with her brains blown out by her own doing.

Rick Gates has fired his last attorney and hired Thomas Green. Thomas Green is noted for
negotiating plea deals. He has been seen several times at Muellers office the last few days.
Like I said before Carter Page has been under FBI observation since at least 2014. Harry Reid warned
all congressman not to get involved with Carter Page. Trump made him Senior Foreign Advisor during
campaign. That's why the FBI was doing its job intercepting his Russian contacts. This FISA thing is exactly what the FISA board was
supposed to do. Protect us from foreign spies and US citizens who are aiding them, like Carter Page. All this
other stuff is a smoke screen from Trump.

Rick Gates has fired his last attorney and hired Thomas Green. Thomas Green is noted for
negotiating plea deals. He has been seen several times at Muellers office the last few days.
Like I said before Carter Page has been under FBI observation since at least 2014. Harry Reid warned
all congressman not to get involved with Carter Page. Trump made him Senior Foreign Advisor during
campaign. That's why the FBI was doing its job intercepting his Russian contacts. This FISA thing is exactly what the FISA board was
supposed to do. Protect us from foreign spies and US citizens who are aiding them, like Carter Page. All this
other stuff is a smoke screen from Trump.

Mark Corallo to meet with Mueller to Discuss his version of conversation he overheard between Trump and Hope Hicks.
He says, she stated to Trump that E-mails about Trump Tower/ Russian meeting would never see light of day. Could be
obstruction of Justice. Corallo made notes of conversation and told Bannon and others about it, then quit working for Trumps Whitehouse.
Did not want to be involved in obstruction of Justice.

I am going to make a bold prediction. Republicans will celebrate the revelation as proof positive that the FBI/DOJ went to great lengths to derail candidate and then president Trump. Democrats will try to deny and minimize the revelations as inconsequential and say that they are a Trump diversionary tactic designed to steer public attention away from the Mueller investigation as Mueller now has Trump squarely in his crosshairs.

Just went to CNN's website and don't see them about to explode. All I see if them saying how it is a diversionary tactic and there's nothing to see. "Confuse and distract... second rate hit job... undermine Russia probe... forget what they're saying in Washington..." and so on. It is amazing how anti Trump they are, it's actually incredible. Won't report the news, will simply be an enemy of Trump.

The White House looks set to release the House Intelligence Committee memo on 2016 government surveillance abuses, which means the attacks on the document by Democrats, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the media are going to get wilder. To help navigate through the spin, here’s a handy guide for what to look for, and what to ignore:

• Rationale. Did the FBI have cause to open a full-blown counterintelligence probe into an active presidential campaign? That’s a breathtakingly consequential and unprecedented action and surely could not be justified without much more than an overheard drunken conversation or an unsourced dossier. What hard evidence did the FBI have?

• Tools and evidence. Government possesses few counterintelligence tools more powerful or frightening than the ability to spy on American citizens. If the FBI obtained permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor Trump aide Carter Page based on information from the Christopher Steele dossier, that in itself is a monumental scandal. It means the FBI used a document commissioned by one presidential campaign as a justification to spy on another. Ignore any arguments that the dossier was not a “basis” for the warrant or only used “in part.” If the FBI had to use it in its application, it means it didn’t have enough other evidence to justify surveillance.

Look to see what else the FBI presented to the court as a justification for monitoring, and whether it was manufactured. Mr. Steele and his client, Fusion GPS, ginned up breathless news stories about the dossier’s unverified accusations in September 2016 in order to influence the election. The FBI sometimes presents news articles to the court, but primarily for corroboration of other facts. If the FBI used the conspiracy stories Mr. Steele was spinning as actual justification—evidence—to the court, that’s out of bounds.

• Omissions and misdirection. What else did the FBI tell the court? One would presume the bureau did its due diligence and knew Mr. Steele ultimately worked for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The FISA court puts considerable emphasis on the credibility of sources. Did the FBI inform the court of the Clinton connection? Or did it lean on the claim that the Fusion project was originally funded by Republicans? Such a claim might diminish the partisan stench. But it would also be a falsehood, since the dossier portion of the project was purely funded by Clinton allies. And if the FBI didn’t bother to ask who hired Mr. Steele or Fusion, that’s a scandal all its own.

Also, look to see whether the FBI informed the court that Mr. Steele was blabbing to the press. When he first approached the bureau in July, he hadn’t yet briefed the media. But by September he and Fusion were publicly spinning the dossier for their Democratic client, and the FBI would have known who was generating the stories. Did the FBI continue to attest something that clearly was no longer true?

• Duration of surveillance. The FBI may argue it had good cause to look into Mr. Page. But if months of wiretaps didn’t turn up anything (and surely we’d have heard if they did), the FBI also had a duty to cease such a liberty-busting intrusion. Ask how long this probe went on and whether it was justified, or if the FBI was simply giving itself an open-ended license to spy on a campaign.

Expect Trump critics to renew their effort to turn Mr. Page into a Manchurian aide, seizing on his every action or word while ignoring the small role he played in the campaign, not to mention his obvious oddness. This will be designed to make people forget that for all the focus on Mr. Page, he was and remains a private citizen, who apparently was subject to months of government monitoring based on what may prove nothing more than the gossip of a rival campaign.

• Team Obama. Somewhat lost in this narrative is what role if any the broader Obama administration might have played with regard to the dossier. What actions were taken by former CIA Director John Brennan, or former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper ? Also don’t forget Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, and who himself met with Fusion cofounder Glenn Simpson. Or the Justice Department officials who approved court filings. If there was surveillance abuse, accountability shouldn’t stop with the FBI.

Mostly, ignore what is certain to be a nonstop shriek that this memo is out of context, that it omits facts or cherry-picks data or makes unfair allegations. You know, sort of like what Democrats and the media did this past year in their “Russia investigation.” The difference here is that the memo only needs to provide a few facts for the country to understand if there was FISA abuse.

The rest is noise.

They also immediately ban anyone who appears the least bit conservative. Lieberals melt like the wicked witch when the truth counters their lies.

I wish we extended them the same courtesy here.

The liberals are really stinking up the place.

I wish we extended them the same courtesy here.

The liberals are really stinking up the place.