DC: Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress Friday that the FBI had not verified the Steele dossier prior to relying on the salacious document to obtain spy warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
According to a transcript of Comey’s testimony released on Saturday, the former FBI chief also asserted that it was “not necessary” for the FBI to assess the sources that dossier author Christopher Steele used to compile his report, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign.
“I think I’ve dealt with warrants where you just identify that your primary [confidential informant], or primary source, has subsources, and so long as the court is aware of that phenomenon and that you’re speaking to the reliability of the primary source, to my mind, that’s a totally legit warrant application,” he said.
Comey told lawmakers that “work was ongoing” by the time he was fired on May 9, 2017, to “to replicate, either rule in or rule out” as much of the dossier as possible.
He said that by the time he was fired on May 9, 2017, he “still didn’t know whether there was anything to it,” referring to the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Kremlin.
The dossier alleged a massive conspiracy between Trump associates and Russian government officials. more here
OK President Trump, how much more of an opening do you need before you release the FISA documents? I’m sure there is a super secret strategy for this but I’m questioning it. Maybe it was going to be after the 5th, when Huber was to present his report to Congress. We all know that was postponed till the 13th. Will it be on the 14th? I sure hope the plan isn’t to release after January 3rd. The MSM will not be giving Trump a paragraph of coverage once the libs are sworn in to the House.
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DJT is either the ultimate poker player, or we’re fucked.
“how much more of an opening do you need before you release the FISA documents?”
Only the noose will follow. Another what?, 16 months to follow?
Agree enough is enough, but these kiddies have been in delusion for decades. I never played cards but rather play Poker with a business man than a Politician. I would fold to the Business man every time.
I believe that Trump will release the FISA info if and when it is necessary to the survival of his Presidency.
“I think I’ve dealt with …”
“I think?” Are you fucking shitting me?
These people (FBI) are destroying lives and they don’t have the integrity to look into the sources of their warrants?
And the worthless fucking Judges are issuing warrants KNOWING that the FBI’s sources are (in all probability) false?
I’ll bet a dollar to a donut-hole that this juridical enormity is not the first instance – just the most public. There certainly seems to be a … casualness(?) … a flippancy … to such a grotesque abuse of the public trust.
izlamo delenda est …
Muller and his support team are the supreme example of just how far down the toilet Washington justice now crawls around in. If there’s a lower rating than “third world” the US Government is now below the bottom.
You have a dossier asserting crimes by a man with the potential to be (and who ended up being) the President of the United States and you don’t bother verifying because your “source” seems credible to you? FFS, what level would it take before you would deign to consider it worth your time to verify the material?
Detest that refrain “unverified”.
Any thinking person reading the thing should have been able to realize immediately that it was (bad) fiction.
Or… are there so many Dem lefties and Deep Staters who are so immersed in demented and perverted lifestyles that — projection? — they truly could not see that?