More evidence that FBI lied to FISA court to spy on Trump campaign
John Solomon:
The FBI should have been able to debunk the same claim with a phone call. Of course, there were other false statements on the "dossier" which was made up of thirdhand hearsay and dressed up to look like an intelligence report. Why was it that the top echelons of the FBI could not see the fraudulent nature of the dossier. I suspect it is because they wanted to believe it because of their animus toward Trump.
Meanwhile, while the Democrats are trying to manufacture a "constitutional crisis" to cover for their treasonous behavior and their story continues to crumble.
The FBI’s sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir T-shirt bought at a tourist trap.There is more.
Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media.
The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016.
Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s contacts with Russia in search of a now debunked collusion theory.
It is important to note that the FBI swore on Oct. 21, 2016, to the FISA judges that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings” and the FBI has determined him to be “reliable” and was “unaware of any derogatory information pertaining” to their informant, who simultaneously worked for Fusion GPS, the firm paid by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign to find Russian dirt on Trump.
That’s a pretty remarkable declaration in Footnote 5 on Page 15 of the FISA application, since Kavalec apparently needed just a single encounter with Steele at State to find one of his key claims about Trump-Russia collusion was blatantly false.
In her typed summary, Kavalec wrote that Steele told her the Russians had constructed a “technical/human operation run out of Moscow targeting the election” that recruited emigres in the United States to “do hacking and recruiting.”
She quoted Steele as saying, “Payments to those recruited are made out of the Russian Consulate in Miami,” according to a copy of her summary memo obtained under open records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United. Kavalec bluntly debunked that assertion in a bracketed comment: “It is important to note that there is no Russian consulate in Miami.”
Kavalec, two days later and well before the FISA warrant was issued, forwarded her typed summary to other government officials. The State Department has redacted the names and agencies of everyone she alerted.
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The FBI should have been able to debunk the same claim with a phone call. Of course, there were other false statements on the "dossier" which was made up of thirdhand hearsay and dressed up to look like an intelligence report. Why was it that the top echelons of the FBI could not see the fraudulent nature of the dossier. I suspect it is because they wanted to believe it because of their animus toward Trump.
Meanwhile, while the Democrats are trying to manufacture a "constitutional crisis" to cover for their treasonous behavior and their story continues to crumble.
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