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Originally posted by sjtill:
From John Solomon writing for The Hill:

Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election
Note: this document classified as secret by FBI on April 25, 2019

Thanks sjtill ! I am afraid this is leading me

An excerpt:

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Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election
If ever there were an admission that taints the FBI’s secret warrant to surveil Donald Trump’s campaign, it sat buried for more than 2 1/2 years in the files of a high-ranking State Department official.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline.

And that confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s now-discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s ties to Russia.

Steele’s client “is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8,” the date of the 2016 election, Kavalec wrote in a typed summary of her meeting with Steele and Tatyana Duran, a colleague from Steele’s Orbis Security firm. The memos were unearthed a few days ago through open-records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United.

Kavalec’s notes do not appear to have been provided to the House Intelligence Committee during its Russia probe, according to former Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). "They tried to hide a lot of documents from us during our investigation, and it usually turns out there’s a reason for it," Nunes told me. Senate and House Judiciary investigators told me they did not know about them, even though they investigated Steele’s behavior in 2017-18.

One member of Congress transmitted the memos this week to the Department of Justice’s inspector general, fearing its investigation of FISA abuses may not have had access to them.

Nonetheless, the FBI is doing its best to keep much of Kavalec’s information secret by retroactively claiming it is classified, even though it was originally marked unclassified in 2016.

The apparent effort to hide Kavalec's notes from her contact with Steele has persisted for some time.

State officials acknowledged a year ago they received a copy of the Steele dossier in July 2016, and got a more detailed briefing in October 2016 and referred the information to the FBI.

But what was discussed was not revealed. Sources told me more than a year ago that Kavalec had the most important (and memorialized) interaction with Steele before the FISA warrant was issued, but FBI and State officials refused to discuss it, or even confirm it.

The encounter, and Kavalec’s memos, were forced into public view through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by Citizens United. Yet, all but a few lines have been redacted after the fact. Officials are citing as the reason national security, in the name of the FBI and a half-century-old intelligence law.

David Bossie, head of Citizens United and an informal Trump adviser, said the documents suggest there was an illegal effort to “frame” the future president with bogus Russia collusion allegations. “This new information proves why the attorney general must conduct a thorough investigation of the investigators,” he said.

Sources tell me there also are handwritten notes from the meeting, with information about Steele’s political ties, that have not been given to Congress. “There’s a connection to Hillary Clinton in the notes,” said one source who has seen them.

Perhaps those will come to light soon.

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“Orbis undertook the investigation into the Russia/Trump connection at the behest of an institution he declined to identify that had been hacked,” Kavalec wrote.

At the time, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was the highest-profile victim of election-year hacking.

“The institution approached them based on the recommendation of Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch (specialists in economic crime, formerly of the WSJ) and is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8,” Kavalec wrote. “Orbis undertook the investigation in June of 2016.” Steele's firm Orbis was a subcontractor to Fusion GPS, and WSJ refers to The Wall Street Journal.

Everything else in the memo was redacted. The FOIA notes contain this explanation for the redactions: “Classified by FBI on 4/25/2019 — Class: SECRET.” In other words, the FBI under Director Christopher Wray classified the document as “secret” just a few days ago. To add injury to insult, the FBI added this hopeful note: “Declassify on 12/31/2041.” That would be 25 years after the 2016 election.

More at the Link

^^^^ let this sink in: The FOIA notes contain this explanation for the redactions: “Classified by FBI on 4/25/2019 — Class: SECRET.” In other words, the FBI under Director Christopher Wray classified the document as “secret” just a few days ago.

Thanks sjtill

Here is the rest of the OP ED by John Solomon writing for THE HILL:

Despite the heavy redactions, Kavalec’s notes have momentous consequence.

For the first time, we have written proof the U.S. government knew well before the FBI secured the FISA warrant that Steele had a political motive and Election Day deadline to make his dossier public.

And we know that information was transmitted before the Carter Page FISA warrant to one or more people whose job is so sensitive that their identity had to be protected. That means there is little chance the FBI didn’t know about Steele’s political client, or the Election Day deadline, before requesting the FISA warrant.

Documents and testimony from Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, whose wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS, show he told the FBI in August 2016 that Steele was “desperate” to defeat Trump and his work had something to do with Clinton’s campaign.

Kavalec’s notes make clear the DNC was a likely client and the election was Steele’s deadline to smear Trump.

Likewise, there is little chance the FBI didn’t know that Steele, then a bureau informant, had broken protocol and gone to the State Department in an effort to make the Trump dirt public.

That makes the FBI’s failure to disclose to the FISA judges the information about Steele’s political bias and motive all the more stunning. And it makes the agents’ use of his unverified dossier to support the warrant all the more shameful.

Kavalec’s notes shed light on another mystery from the text messages between the FBI’s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which first revealed the politically-biased nature of the Trump collusion probe.

Strzok, the lead FBI agent on the case, and Page, a lawyer working for the FBI deputy director, repeatedly messaged each other in October 2016 about efforts to pressure and speed the review of the FISA warrant.

For instance, on Oct. 11, 2016, Strzok texted Page that he was “fighting with Stu for this FISA,” an apparent reference to then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stu Evans in DOJ’s national security division.

A few days later, on Oct. 14, Strzok emailed Page he needed some “hurry the F up pressure” to get the FISA approved.

If the evidence is good and the FISA request solid, why did the FBI need to apply pressure?

The real reason may be the FBI was trying to keep a lid on the political origins, motives and Election Day deadline of its star informant Steele.

And that would be the ultimate abuse of the FBI’s FISA powers.


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CNN Poll: 69% of Americans want Obama's DOJ investigated for the Russian collusion hoax spying.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...QbUC4dKHUxgse4y6-8yQ


More than two-thirds of Americans want an investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the Russia Collusion Hoax.

This is very bad news for Barack Obama, the corrupt Deep State, their minions in the establishment media, and Democrats.



According to a April 25-28 poll of 1,007 random adults taken for CNN (a far-left fake news outlet), a full 69 percent “think Congress ought to investigate the origins of the Justice Department’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including 76% of Democrats, 69% of independents and 62% of Republicans.”

And the “origins” of that inquiry means the Obama Justice Department.

Naturally, CNN buried this inconvenient bombshell in its own report on its own poll.

What’s more, public opposition to the non-stop, Democrat-led investigations into President Trump is growing.

In the middle of March, only 38 percent of adults polled believed “Democrats in Congress are doing too much… to investigate Donald Trump.”

Six weeks later, that number jumped to 44 percent.

Only 25 percent believe Democrats are doing too little, while 28 percent say the “right amount,” a drop of six points from last month.

The poll also shows that a mere 37 percent want to see Trump impeached while a clear majority, 59 percent, do not. Last September, that number was nearly tied with 47 percent wanting Trump removed from office while 48 percent did not.



The president’s overall job approval rating sits at 43 percent, up from 37 percent in January. This includes 46 percent of Independents approving of the president and a robust 86 percent of Republicans.

What’s important to keep in mind about this poll is that it is a random sample of adults (with a sampling error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points) is a polling method that almost always skews against Republicans, which is why a left-wing outlet like CNN would utilize it.

A more accurate poll screens for “likely” or “registered” voters.



A poll of random adults is really only useful in looking at trends, and this poll shows that the trends are almost all moving in Trump’s direction. Exceptions are that 48 percent believe Trump obstructed justice, while 45 percent disagree. Fifty percent believe “things Trump has said publicly about the investigation have been mostly false.”

That 69 percent number, though, that is the real news here. What we have, even during these polarized times, is the unified belief the Department of Justice needs to be investigated, which is exactly what Attorney general Bill Barr and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have promised to do, which is why the media are already working overtime to smear Bill Barr.

That 69 percent number is also a massive media fail. For two years the media have been lying to the public hoping to convince us Obama’s Department of Justice did nothing wrong (they did), did not act improperly (they did), did not spy on the other party’s presidential campaign (they did), did not wiretap the other party’s campaign (they did).. But as you can see here, even Democrats haven’t been convinced by that fake news.



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quote:

Originally posted by sjtill:
From John Solomon writing for The Hill:

Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election
Note: this document classified as secret by FBI on April 25, 2019

An excerpt:

quote:

Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election....

Everything else in the memo was redacted. The FOIA notes contain this explanation for the redactions: “Classified by FBI on 4/25/2019 — Class: SECRET.” In other words, the FBI under Director Christopher Wray classified the document as “secret” just a few days ago. To add injury to insult, the FBI added this hopeful note: “Declassify on 12/31/2041.” Tha

More at the Link

Say it ain’t so.
Thought the FBI was the good guys.
They keep telling me the rank and file are good.

Where is this so called good rank and file?

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Originally posted by kimber1911:

quote:

Originally posted by sjtill:
From John Solomon writing for The Hill:

Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election
Note: this document classified as secret by FBI on April 25, 2019

An excerpt:

quote:

Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession: Informant needed to air Trump dirt before election....

Everything else in the memo was redacted. The FOIA notes contain this explanation for the redactions: “Classified by FBI on 4/25/2019 — Class: SECRET.” In other words, the FBI under Director Christopher Wray classified the document as “secret” just a few days ago. To add injury to insult, the FBI added this hopeful note: “Declassify on 12/31/2041.” Tha

More at the Link

Say it ain’t so.
Thought the FBI was the good guys.
They keep telling me the rank and file are good.

Where is this so called good rank and file?

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Excellent OP ED! Solomon has real breaking news.
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Note to self: Go to >> https://thehill.com/opinion >> THE HILL and Read John Solomon's OP ED daily.
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the libtard dems are holding Barr in contempt

that's fine because I have nothing but contempt for the libtard dems

This is a link to an episode of Mark Levin's "Life, Liberty and Levin" with an interview with John Solomon and Sara Carter, the two journalists who have done the most to uncover the scandal of the coup attempt against the President.

Solomon and Carter interview

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Originally posted by sjtill:
This is a link to an episode of Mark Levin's "Life, Liberty and Levin" with an interview with John Solomon and Sara Carter, the two journalists who have done the most to uncover the scandal of the coup attempt against the President.

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^^ sjtill, I had difficulty making that link work (operator error as I don't have experience with the Fox News "thingie" )

Solomon and Carter interview

But I think I found the interview on You Tube here .. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPftOrA7314&t=548s

For some reason, when you click on the link it starts the interview in the middle. Just back it up to the start.


Thanks for the information.
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- I suggest ya'll in the forum who haven't seen it take a look.

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so glad we have President Trump....

here is a bit of a history lesson on who we were dealing with (borrowed from another site)

How quickly we forget! If you’re over 35, take a walk with me down memory lane—you won’t believe what you have forgotten. If you’re under 35, read on—I promise you that you will be amazed at what you missed! (By the way, sadly, this isn’t a joke. I wish it was.)

REMEMBER WHEN BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT?
(January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001—two terms)

When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over an attempt to reform health care.

Her proposed plan was so bad that many Democrats came up with competing plans of their own in protest, and in spite of threats and intimidation, on September 26, 1994, the “Hillarycare” bill was declared dead.

This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million for studies, promotion, and other efforts.

Then, President Clinton gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general. Her first two selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood—both were forced to withdraw their names from consideration.

Next, she chose Janet Reno, which husband Bill described as "my worst mistake."

(Some may not remember that Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas resulting in dozens of deaths of women and children.)

Husband Bill also allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission—Lani Guanier was her selection.

After considerable backlash from prominent Democratic senators concerning Ms. Guanier's radical views, Bill Clinton withdrew her name from nomination, stating that she did not represents the civil rights views that he had championed during his campaign.

However, apparently a slow learner, husband Bill continued to allow Hillary to make more recommendations.

She chose former law partners, Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department.

Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

(Is anyone wondering yet what her Supreme Court Justice appointments would be like?)

Many younger voters will have no knowledge of "Travelgate," the first major ethics controversy during Bill’s presidency.

Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend, Harry Thompson—but the White House Travel Office refused to comply.

She trumped up allegations of financial mismanagement and reported seven long-time White House employees to the FBI. This ruined their reputations, got them fired, and caused a thirty-six month investigation.

Eventually, most of the employees were reinstated and Clinton associates were forced out of the travel office. Only one White House employee, Billy Dale, was charged with a crime—the enormous crime of mixing personal and White House funds; a jury acquitted him in less than two hours.

Still not convinced of her ineptness, Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House Security.

When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the President denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House.

Following this debacle, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office after more than thirty years of service to seven presidents.

Next, when women started coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and rape by Bill Clinton, Hillary was put in charge of the "bimbo eruption" and scandal defense.

Let’s look at some of her more notable decisions in this regard . . .

She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. After the Starr investigation, they settled with Ms. Jones.

She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor.

After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

Hillary's devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury, followed by his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives.

Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, "I do not recall," "I have no recollection," and "I don't know" a total of 56 times while under oath. (Sound familiar?)

After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had "mistakenly thought was hers."

So you see, the email scandal and all of her malfeasance regarding the handling of Top Secret information, not to mention the "pay to play" schemes of the Clinton Foundation, are nothing new.

Hillary’s entire political career has been nothing but a web of lies, corruption and destruction in her quest for power.

Is anyone else ready to say, “Enough is enough!”?

But unfortunately, I’m sure her loyal fans will say, "What difference does it make?"

Well done Reps Jordan & Gaetz!





Link to original video: https://youtu.be/wIEHe0fckwA

Chaos Is The Order Of The Day

"The Democrats sole intention over the next year and a half is to create such a chaotic national political landscape that the 2020 electoral pitch to the American people will be that the only way to end the chaos is to vote President Trump out of office. "


I think this is exactly what the Dems are doing, well this and also trying to provide cover for some of their people. Basically, the Dems are trying to make Trump unpalatable to people.

Trump, Barr and everyone they can put to task better get ahead of this and soon or it could very well work for the Dems. The only way at this point is to bring indictments and perp walks and begin to show the people the level of criminality and lies that has happened by the dems and begin controlling the narrative.

Here's to wishing.

^^^^ that ( nhtagmember's post) is SO STOLEN !

Nice comprehensive review for any millennial.

Louie Gohmert from yesterday's hearing is good too -

YouTube Link

"You are on the wrong side of history."

Fox News Story

James Comey, a media star after Trump fired him 2 years ago, now dogged by 'spying' accusations against FBI

>>>> https://www.foxnews.com/politi...er-fire-amid-spygate

The Mueller Investigation explained:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Well done Reps Jordan & Gaetz!





Link to original video: https://youtu.be/wIEHe0fckwA

That was very good Jesse. A little fire in the belly shown and its about damn time.

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Originally posted by tiwimon:
Chaos Is The Order Of The Day

"The Democrats sole intention over the next year and a half is to create such a chaotic national political landscape that the 2020 electoral pitch to the American people will be that the only way to end the chaos is to vote President Trump out of office. "


I think this is exactly what the Dems are doing, well this and also trying to provide cover for some of their people. Basically, the Dems are trying to make Trump unpalatable to people.

Trump, Barr and everyone they can put to task better get ahead of this and soon or it could very well work for the Dems. The only way at this point is to bring indictments and perp walks and begin to show the people the level of criminality and lies that has happened by the dems and begin controlling the narrative.

Here's to wishing.

And some people being takin away in cuffs. Its time for some law breakers to pay up. Screw the narrative, its time for justice.

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Originally posted by David Lee:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Well done Reps Jordan & Gaetz!





Link to original video: https://youtu.be/wIEHe0fckwA

That was very good Jesse. A little fire in the belly shown and its about damn time.

Thanks for posting this - had time before a meeting and decided I really should see this one you posted and all I can say is wow - we need more of this. Outstanding job, definitely A game here by these two and gives me hope that there are those who are trying to fight the good fight.

Shame MSM won't run any of these as sound bytes - too much truth in this for them and does not support their narrative

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That was very good Jesse. A little fire in the belly shown and its about damn time.

Amen brother!

thats nice and all, good speech

but will heads roll, will anyone be held accountable

this is a coup by the democrats and socialists to overthrow the duly elected government of President Trump

these are the domestic enemies

Trump Surprise News Conference Today

You Tube Video >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ju7_HxtTJs