Sen. Dianne Feinstein releases Fusion/Trump Dossier over objection of Republicans (Page 2): They said it was unclassified at the beginning of the transcript...

PeterS

mactheknife wrote:

Unless the release was signed off by the Committee Chair, Senator Feinstein is guilty of leaking sensitive information. I wonder if any of it was classified?

They said it was unclassified at the beginning of the transcript...

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

all ugly the pictures that is

Raylan Wolfe wrote:

Loki Loc: Georgia

PeterS wrote:

Then your fellow conservatives are slipping as the only thing they can find wrong with the dossier was the name of a bank and the location of a meeting and they've had a full year to look at it.

Mueller has had HOW LONG to prove any "collusion?"

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Was the Steele Dossier the FBI’s ‘Insurance Policy’?

by Andrew C. McCarthy

Clinton campaign propaganda appears to have triggered Obama administration spying on Trump’s campaign.

The FBI’s deputy director Andrew McCabe testified Tuesday at a marathon seven-hour closed-door hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. According to the now-infamous text message sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, it was in McCabe’s office that top FBI counterintelligence officials discussed what they saw as the frightening possibility of a Trump presidency.

That was during the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, no more than a couple of weeks after they started receiving the Steele dossier — the Clinton campaign’s opposition-research reports, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, about Trump’s purportedly conspiratorial relationship with Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia.

Was it the Steele dossier that so frightened the FBI? I think so.

There is a great deal of information to follow. But let’s cut to the chase: The Obama-era FBI and Justice Department had great faith in Steele because he had previously collaborated with the bureau on a big case. Plus, Steele was working on the Trump-Russia project with the wife of a top Obama Justice Department official, who was personally briefed by Steele. The upper ranks of the FBI and DOJ strongly preferred Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, to the point of overlooking significant evidence of her felony misconduct, even as they turned up the heat on Trump. In sum, the FBI and DOJ were predisposed to believe the allegations in Steele’s dossier. Because of their confidence in Steele, because they were predisposed to believe his scandalous claims about Donald Trump, they made grossly inadequate efforts to verify his claims. Contrary to what I hoped would be the case, I’ve come to believe Steele’s claims were used to obtain FISA surveillance authority for an investigation of Trump.

<SNIP> If you want to know the truth about the Steele dossier and the Democrat's corruption of Justice, read the entire piece, it is quite long and detailed.

Andrew McCarthy Andrew C. McCarthy III is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning a series of attacks against New York City landmarks. He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He resigned from the Justice Department in 2003. He is a contributing editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

mactheknife

OK, but it still should have been signed off by Chairman, Nunes. Was it?

Kevyn

Loki wrote:

Mueller has had HOW LONG to prove any "collusion?"

Much less than half of the two year Nixon investigation or the two and a half year Benghazi investigation by Gowdy. Be patient, Mueller is a consummate professional, his case will be air tight.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Kevyn wrote:

Much less than half of the two year Nixon investigation or the two and a half year Benghazi investigation by Gowdy. Be patient, Mueller is a consummate professional, his case will be air tight.

PeterS

Loki wrote:

Mueller has had HOW LONG to prove any "collusion?"

So how long is it suppose to take?

PeterS

Blade_Runner wrote:

Was the Steele Dossier the FBI’s ‘Insurance Policy’?

by Andrew C. McCarthy

Clinton campaign propaganda appears to have triggered Obama administration spying on Trump’s campaign.

The FBI’s deputy director Andrew McCabe testified Tuesday at a marathon seven-hour closed-door hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. According to the now-infamous text message sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, it was in McCabe’s office that top FBI counterintelligence officials discussed what they saw as the frightening possibility of a Trump presidency.

That was during the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, no more than a couple of weeks after they started receiving the Steele dossier — the Clinton campaign’s opposition-research reports, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, about Trump’s purportedly conspiratorial relationship with Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia.

Was it the Steele dossier that so frightened the FBI? I think so.

There is a great deal of information to follow. But let’s cut to the chase: The Obama-era FBI and Justice Department had great faith in Steele because he had previously collaborated with the bureau on a big case. Plus, Steele was working on the Trump-Russia project with the wife of a top Obama Justice Department official, who was personally briefed by Steele. The upper ranks of the FBI and DOJ strongly preferred Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, to the point of overlooking significant evidence of her felony misconduct, even as they turned up the heat on Trump. In sum, the FBI and DOJ were predisposed to believe the allegations in Steele’s dossier. Because of their confidence in Steele, because they were predisposed to believe his scandalous claims about Donald Trump, they made grossly inadequate efforts to verify his claims. Contrary to what I hoped would be the case, I’ve come to believe Steele’s claims were used to obtain FISA surveillance authority for an investigation of Trump.

<SNIP> If you want to know the truth about the Steele dossier and the Democrat's corruption of Justice, read the entire piece, it is quite long and detailed.

Andrew McCarthy Andrew C. McCarthy III is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning a series of attacks against New York City landmarks. He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He resigned from the Justice Department in 2003. He is a contributing editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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So tell me Blade, what part(s) of the dossier have you cons managed to prove false? Any? This is the reason for all the smoke and the need to paint the FBI as tainted. Typical ad hominem approach--if you can't attack the text then you attack who wrote it, and in this case who reviewed it...

Loki Loc: Georgia

Kevyn wrote:

Much less than half of the two year Nixon investigation or the two and a half year Benghazi investigation by Gowdy. Be patient, Mueller is a consummate professional, his case will be air tight.

I kind of doubt that Cotton Mather, Oops, I mean Mueller is quite as professional and non-partisan as you believe. If he was he might have at least had ONE Republican on his investigative team, instead of a bunch of rabid Hillary campaign contributors.

Loki Loc: Georgia

PeterS wrote:

So tell me Blade, what part(s) of the dossier have you cons managed to prove false? Any? This is the reason for all the smoke and the need to paint the FBI as tainted. Typical ad hominem approach--if you can't attack the text then you attack who wrote it, and in this case who reviewed it...

What part have you Libs managed to prove true?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/01/13/t

Crayons Loc: St Jo, Texas

Feinsteins copy has a lot of redactions,
but we already know the RINO's and Dems as well
as the DNC, FBI<>NSA<>CIA were all in on this
Dossier of disinfo/fiction as well as illegal wiretapping.

I believe Admiral Rodgers is supposed to testify on the 15th;
He's the patriot who uncovered all of this and was fired by
Clapper because Rodgers became a huge risk to the anti trump
insurance policy and everyone involved. Thank Goodness he's still alive.

JIM BETHEA

"CONFIRMED FACTS"....kinda sorta like "FACTUAL ERRORS"?? .....One can write a 700+ page book filled with lies from Pg #1 to Pg 700...and by including the author's correct name or correct date would allow people to alleged "Confirmed Facts"...Need to watch drinking too many of those Liberal Socialist cocktails...

phenry

Kevyn wrote:

Much less than half of the two year Nixon investigation or the two and a half year Benghazi investigation by Gowdy. Be patient, Mueller is a consummate professional, his case will be air tight.

Hope when he exposes The Hilderbeast he does have an air tight case.

arapaho Loc: America

phenry wrote:

Hope when he exposes The Hilderbeast he does have an air tight case.

Republicans have spent years investigating Hillary Clinton without finding anything she could be charged with.

Republicans are currently a few months, but much less than the two years we can expect, into investigating the Trump campaign.

Given what has already been turned up with indictments and convictions it appears that it will be Trump that falls, and probably hard too.

Given Trump's current dramatics it seems he is well aware of the eventual outcome.