House Intelligence memo released: What it says

They just have to be appalled, as is Justice Roberts, who selects FISA judges, as does the entire Judiciary.This breach of trust is monumental.

Good piece by Kim Strassel.

The WSJ attacks the FBI and its insistence that it remain unaccountable to anyone.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is making a last-ditch effort to block the release of a House Intelligence Committee memo detailing the bureau’s behavior during the 2016 election. This is all the more reason to let Americans see it.

In an unusual public statement Wednesday, the bureau objected that it had only “a limited opportunity to review” the memo the day before the House voted Monday to release it. The statement added that the FBI had “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

This is really something. The FBI knows what’s in the memo because it has long known what the House committee was seeking to examine. For months it refused to provide access to those documents until director Christopher Wray and the Justice Department faced a contempt of Congress vote. If they now object to the way the House construes the facts, they should have been more cooperative from the start.

Note the FBI’s language about “material omissions” rather than errors of fact. Until this statement the FBI was pleading damage to “national security.” Now that rationale has given way to the claim that the House is omitting key details to reach judgments that the FBI apparently disagrees with. If Mr. Wray wants to fill in those omissions, he can always ask President Trump to declassify more documents to provide a more complete record. We’d love to see them, and Mr. Trump should give that transparency a boost even if Mr. Wray doesn’t request it.

Actually, the FBI is free to release their own memo, and even redacted copies of underlying documents, which Committee Republicans have urged them to do.

 

So you DO want them to release the fisa application?

 

Could be. There is no such thing as the Democrat Party.

 

It must be a shi* fest at the DNC right now.

 

Did you miss the fact their would be no warrant without the dossier?

 

That's what I call them, as there's clearly nothing "democratic" about their ideology.

 

Release it all. Put them all in a televised hearing. Get it all out.

You know, the stuff Democrats are fighting against.

 

Oh, no! That's the last thing they want!

They are pretending that this idiotic hit piece is being done in the name of trasparancy.

But when its credibility is a bogus as this obviously is, they will hide behind the "if-I-tell-you-I-have-to-kill-you" excuse!

 

I read that to say the dossier was the last piece of a mostly finished puzzle... And nobody has debunked the Page part of the dossier either... Other stuff in the dossier might be incorrect, but if it's not used in the warrant, it doesn't matter...

Again, what pct of the warrant was based on the dossier... what other Page evidence was there...

 

Yes.

What they were really trying to do is have the names of those responsible removed so that just the act was released, but not who did it.

 

The House Intelligence Committee has not held a public hearing on the Russia probe in eight months.

 

And that they used MEDIA REPORTS to bolster there FISA application when that reporting was only based on what Fusion told the media. And the only thing that was factual in the dossier was the act that Page took a trip to Russia long before he even knew Trump and for perfectly legal purposes.

 

It is now obvious that the omission of material facts that concerned the FBI is the justification of the FISA warrant.

 

From the few exerpts already in the public domain, it appears McCabe & Bruce Ohr have already told investigators quite enough. Both already testified behind closed doors .. McCabe confessed how heavily the dossier was relied upon to obtain FISA warrants, despite it's dubious origin. Ohr revealed Steeles nefarious motives. Might demotions, and vacations indicate cooperation on their part?

 

Holy sh*t. The contents of that memo are way worse than what I was expecting.

 

Yes the FBI and DOJ have refused to cooperate.

 

Of course it does, it was deliberately targeted to folk like you, and as you can clearly see, it hit it's mark perfectly!

 

Anyone at this point defending this incredible crime is merely painting themselves as corrupt morons.

Defending a corrupt government has to be the stupidest thing you can do.

 

What was the probable cause of a crime?

 

You ask a question for which you know the answer is impossible to identify without having access to and then releasing classified information.

 

After this I'm betting they'll get on board.

 

What part of there wouldn't have been a warrant without the bogus dossier don't you understand?

And crimes were committed by rogue FBI agents in the process, regardless of what other information they may have had.

 

Thank you for the link. Wonder when Schiff is going to point out the nefarious changes to the memo that Nunes supposedly made.

 

That was never the intention of the release THIS WAS