(12-11-2019 01:25 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(12-11-2019 07:06 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Ham, read the executive summary of the document. You seem to misunderstand some things regarding the opening of the investigation - it clearly says that the FBI has sufficient evidence to open the investigation into the Trump campaign, and into the four individuals - Papadopolous, Page, Flynn, and Manafort. Page iii is where a lot of that information is located.

The IG found significant issues into the FISA application submitted to further surveil one of those individuals (Page).

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document....ion-Report

Actually it doesn't say they had sufficient evidence. It says there is a very low threshold for any investigation.... sort of the 'indict a ham sandwhich' comment. All that is required (page 4 top right) is a first hand account from someone that they consider credible.

The allegation is that Papadopolous apparently said to a foreign government that there had been 'some kind of suggestion' made to the Trump campaign that Russia could release some damaging information. (Page 3)

That's all it takes to investigate anyone. That doesn't remotely mean there is ANY evidence whatsoever.

RiceLad told me that NPR had information damaging to Trump. If they find me credible, they can investigate you based solely on that comment.

Did you actually try to argue that the report doesn’t say it has sufficient evidence by saying that the report says that the FBI met the threshold required to open an investigation, which is low?

That means that if it was proper to open an investigation, there was sufficient evidence, regardless of how you personally feel about the threshold for the investigation.