(07-22-2018 12:16 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  FYI the Carter Page FISA warrant was released in a heavily redacted form tonite.

Carter Page FISA Warrant

Have to say, an amazing amount of allegations in there that are culled from news organizations; really comforting to know that the news orgs were at the spearhead and vanguard of this.

But not so amazing when you realize Brennan and troupe were passing the Steele dossier around *to* the news orgs like passing out those crappy chalk candies on Halloween. So, the FISA warrant apparently relies on the dossier, and uses news stories as buttressing confirmation, when Brennan was passing out tidbits on the dossier to the newsies *to* get it printed. What a circular cluster ****.

Also, the dossier states quite unequivocally that that Page was an agent of the Russian government, and engaged in criminal activity. And yet there is no indictment of Page.

The provenance of the dossier is at minimum misleading in the FISA warrant; at worst dishonest since the references to “speculation” about “likely” motives are pretty much entirely dishonest.

So considering that Sally Yates actually was one of the executors of this, and Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Susan Page, and Brennan are listed as signatories, Lad this question is directed at you: You earlier stated that it was 'hypocritical' that the Republicans are now in an antagonistic stance with intelligence community. Taking the items in this document, the signatories to this document, in the 'penumbra' of the Strzok testimony, and further that the Special Agent detailing this is redacted, and in light of Strzok testifying that he was the chief of counter-intelligence and most likely the identity of the redacted agent, do you still find it 'hypocritical' that Republicans would be in the stance that they have to the intelligence community?

This document on its own seems to be a fairly decent justification for that feeling, to be honest. Do you still stand on your comment that it is hypocritical? Is there enough 'smoke' at this point?

Color me shocked that Obama officials signed off on a warrant while Obama was still in office. Who did you expect to sign off on it, Sessions??? What a weird strike against the FISA application that still needed to be approved, and was reapprived multiple times...

I’ve read through a bit of the application and it seems like they used Steele’s info, which they disclosed and called a credible source due to his previous work with the FBI, and other lines of evidence. The FBI appears to have been certain that Putin and Russia were trying to stir up trouble and Page looked like a conduit they were trying to use. Why is it surprising that a warrant was then granted? I’m with Rubio who says that it doesn’t seem like the FBI did anything wrong in requesting this warrant.

Also, there is still no hard evidence the Strozk let his feelings for Trump influence his work, so I don’t find that a compelling issue. People all over the world, every day, work in areas where they have personal biases and don’t let those biases influence their work.