Criminal Referral Confirms Memo’s Claims of FISA Abuse

thefederalist.com/2018/02/07/new-criminal-referral-confirms-nunes-memos-explosive-claims-of-fisa-abuse/

>Details from government documents confirm there was inadequate verification of a partisan dossier used to justify surveillance of a Trump campaign affiliate.

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>A criminal referral from top Senate investigators confirms explosive charges in last week’s House Intelligence Committee memo regarding abuse of surveillance authorities at the FBI and Department of Justice. It also reveals a host of problems arising from the bureau’s cooperation with foreign investigator Christopher Steele, who was working on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The eight-page memo from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) includes underlying evidence to support the claims.

>“It appears the FBI relied on admittedly uncorroborated information, funded by and obtained for Secretary Clinton’s presidential campaign, in order to conduct surveillance of an associate of the opposing presidential candidate. It did so based on Mr. Steele’s personal credibility and presumably having faith in his process of obtaining the information. But there is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility,” Sens. Graham and Grassley wrote.

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>The letter describes a verification effort before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) so inadequate it resembles a concerted effort to conceal information from the court. However, the senators blame Steele’s “apparent deception” for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) failures by FBI and Justice, and refer Steele for investigation of violating federal law regarding making false statements to the U.S. government. The letter also reveals Clinton associates were feeding Steele allegations that he used in his reports.

>Last week’s memo from the House Intelligence Committee reported:

>A salacious and unverified dossier formed an essential part of the application to secure a warrant against a Trump campaign affiliate named Carter Page. This application failed to reveal that the dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
>The application presented a Yahoo News article as corroboration for the dossier, when in fact it was sourced to the dossier’s author Christopher Steele.
>The wife of a high-ranking Justice Department official also worked on behalf of the Clinton campaign effort, and her husband Bruce Ohr funneled her research into the Department of Justice. Although he admitted that Steele “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president,” this and the Ohrs’ relationship with the Clinton campaign was concealed from the secret court that grants surveillance warrants.
>The dossier was “only minimally corroborated” and unverified, according to FBI officials.

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>Evidence supporting all of these claims is included in a less redacted version of the senators’ January 4, 2018, referral made publicly available late Tuesday evening. A highly redacted version of the referral was made publicly available the previous day, causing Grassley to ask the FBI to aim for more transparency. The FBI had previously attempted to keep the public from learning details of its relationship with Steele, leading Grassley to publicly decry a “bureaucratic game of hide the ball” by the FBI and DOJ.

>Reporter Michael Isikoff recently confirmed that Steele was obviously his source for the article, and that Clinton’s Russia dossier project head Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS was a longtime friend. The FBI stated to the court that Steele had nothing to do with the article. Shopping his unverified allegations to the media was contrary to Steele’s agreement with the FBI. Even after Steele publicly testified about his many media contacts, the FBI hid that part of his dossier operation from the court and continued to rely on his credibility for surveillance reauthorization.

>The senators’ criminal referral confirms the details in the House Intelligence Committee memo, adding quotes and details from testimony by top officials at the FBI and source documents, including two FISA warrant applications provided to the committee. Here are some key excerpts from the criminal referral.

>Comey On Dossier’s Lack Of Meaningful Corroboration
When asked at the March 2017 briefing why the FBI relied on the dossier in the FISA applications absent meaningful corroboration–and in light of the highly political motives surrounding its creation–then-Director Comey stated that the FBI included the dossier allegations about Carter Page in the FISA applications because Mr. Steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work with the Bureau.


>According to the senators, the FBI relied on dossier author Steele’s alleged credibility

Forbes time line posted to their website and deleted just 2 hours later. They are trying to memory hole this.

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Sorry, for clarification it was on Wednesday, Feb 7 it was posted and taken down.

>for surveillance reauthorization.

>The senators’ criminal referral confirms the details in the House Intelligence Committee memo, adding quotes and details from testimony by top officials at the FBI and source documents, including two FISA warrant applications provided to the committee. Here are some key excerpts from the criminal referral.

>Comey On Dossier’s Lack Of Meaningful Corroboration
When asked at the March 2017 briefing why the FBI relied on the dossier in the FISA applications absent meaningful corroboration–and in light of the highly political motives surrounding its creation–then-Director Comey stated that the FBI included the dossier allegations about Carter Page in the FISA applications because Mr. Steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work with the Bureau.
Dossier Formed ‘Bulk’ Of FISA Application
>Indeed, the documents we have reviewed show that the FBI took important investigative steps largely based on Mr. Steele’s information–and relying heavily on his credibility. Specifically, on October 21, 2016, the FBI filed its first warrant application under FISA for Carter Page. [REDACTED] The bulk of the application consists of allegations against Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Mr. Steele and are also outlined in the Steele dossier.

>Isikoff’s Yahoo Article Cited In Place Of Corroboration
The application appears to contain no additional information corroborating the dossier allegations against Mr. Page, although it does cite to a news article that appears to be sourced to Mr. Steele’s dossier as well.
>Political Basis Mentioned Only ‘To A Vaguely Limited Extent’
[T]he FBI noted to a vaguely limited extent the political origins of the dossier. In footnote 8 the FBI stated that the dossier information was compiled pursuant to the direction of a law firm who had hired an “identified U.S. person”–now known as Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS–[REDACTED] The application failed to disclose that the identities of Mr. Simpson’s ultimate clients were the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
Application Claimed Steele Had Nothing To Do With Yahoo Article
[REDACTED], the application attempts to explain away the inconsistency between Mr. Steele’s assertion to the FBI and the existence of the article, apparently to shield Mr. Steele’s credibility on which it still relied for the renewal request. The application to the FISC said: “Given that the information contained in the September 23rd news article generally matches the information about Page that [Steele] discovered doing his/her research, [REDACTED] The FBI does not believe that [Steele] directly provided this information to the press” (emphasis added).
Even After Terminating Steele For Unauthorized Contacts With Media, FBI Claimed He Hadn’t Talked To Yahoo
>In footnote 9 of its January 2017 application to renew the FISA warrant for Mr. Page, the FBI again addressed Mr. Steele’s credibility. At that time, the FBI noted that it had suspended its relationship with Mr. Steele in October 2016 because of Steele’s “unauthorized disclosure of information to the press.”

>In defending Mr. Steele’s credibility to the FISC, the FBI had posited an innocuous explanation for the September 23 article, based on the assumption that Mr. Steele had told the FBI the truth about his press contacts. The FBI then vouched for him twice more, using the same rationale, in subsequent renewal applications filed with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April and June 2017.
Steele Was So Political He Flagrantly Violated His FBI Agreement Over Reopening Of Clinton Investigation
The FBI relayed that Steele had been bothered by the FBI’s notification to Congress in October 2016 and the reopening of the Clinton investigation, and as a result “[Steele] independently and against the prior admonishment from the FBI to speak only with the FBI on this matter, released the reporting discussed herein [dossier allegations against Page] to an identified news organization.” However the FBI continued to cite Mr. Steele’s past work as evidence of his reliability, and stated that “the incident that led to the FBI suspending its relationship with [Mr. Steele] occurred after [Mr. Steele] provided” the FBI with the dossier information described in the application. The FBI further asserted in footnote 19 that it did not believe that Steele directly gave information to Yahoo News that “published the September 23 News Article.”

Even After Steele Publicly Admitted In Court To His Media Operation, The FBI Hid It
In Steele’s sworn court filings in litigation in London, he admitted that he “gave off the record briefings to a small number of journalists about the pre-election memoranda [i.e., the dossier] in late summer/autumn 2016.” In another sworn filing in that case, Mr. Steele further stated that journalists from “the New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, the New Yorker, and CNN” were “briefed at the end of September 2016 by [Steele] and Fusion at Fusion’s instruction.”The filing further states that Mr. Steele “subsequently participated in further meetings at Fusion’s instruction with Fusion and the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Yahoo News, which took place mid-October 2016.”…
The first of these filings was publicly reported in the U.S. media in April of 2017, yet the FBI did not subsequently disclose to the ISC this evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele had lied to the FBI. Instead the application still relied primarily on his credibility prior to the October media incident.
Court Wasn’t Told Steele Was ‘Desperate’ To Keep Trump From Being Elected
The FBI received similar information from a Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, who maintained contacts with Mr. Simpson and Mr. Steele about their dossier work, and whose wife also worked for Fusion GPS on the Russia project. REDACTED He also noted in the same interview that Mr. Steele was “desperate” to see that Mr. Trump was not elected president. None of the information provided by Mr. Ohr in his interviews with the FBI was included in the FISA renewal applications, despite its relevance to whether Mr. Steele had lied to the FBI about his contacts with the media as well as its broader relevance to his credibility and his stated political motive.
Why Steele’s Alleged Lies Matter
Whether Mr. Steele lied to the FBI about his media contacts is relevant for at least two reasons.

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for his claims, at least at the time they were included in the FISA applicdations. [sic] Second, it is relevant to the reliability of his information-gathering efforts.
The More Steele Blabbed, The More The Kremlin And Others Could Manipulate Him
Mr. Steele conducted his work for Fusion GPS compiling the “pre-election memoranda” “[b]etween June and early November 2016.” In the British litigation, Mr. Steele acknowledged briefing journalists about the dossier memoranda “in late summer/autumn 2016.” Unsurprisingly, during the summer of 2016, reports of at least some of the dossier allegations began circulating among reporters and people involved in Russian issues. Mr. Steele also admitted in the British litigation to briefing journalists from the Washington Post, Yahoo News, the New Yorker, and CNN in September of 2016. Simply put, the more people who contemporaneously knew that Mr. Steele was compiling his dossier, the more likely it was vulnerable to manipulation. In fact, in the British litigation, which involves a post-election dossier memorandum, Mr. Steele admitted that he received and included in it unsolicited–and unverified–allegations. That filing implies that he similarly received unsolicited intelligence on these matters prior to the election as well, stating that Mr. Steele “continued to receive unsolicited intelligence on the matters covered by the pre-election memoranda after the US Presidential election.”

Steele Took Info From Clinton Pals (Reported Elsewhere To Be Close To Sidney Blumenthal)
One memorandum by Mr. Steele that was not published by Buzzfeed is dated October 19, 2016. The report alleges REDACTED as well as REDACTED Mr. Steele’s memorandum states that his company “received this report from REDACTED US State Department,” that the report was the second in a series, and that the report was information that came from a foreign sub-source who “is in touch with REDACTED, a contact of REDACTED, a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to REDACTED.” It is troubling enough that the Clinton campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility.
Steele’s Known Behavior Contradicts The FBI’s Assertions To The Court
These facts appear to directly contradict the FBI’s assertions in its initial application for the Page FISA warrant, as well as subsequent renewal applications. The FBI repeatedly represented to the court that Mr. Steele told the FBI he did not have unauthorized contacts with the press about the dossier prior to October 2016. The FISA applications make these claims specifically in the context of the September 2016 Yahoo News article. But Mr. Steele has admitted — publicly before a court of law — that he did have such contacts with the press at this time, and his former business partner Mr. Simpson has confirmed it to the Committee. Thus, the FISA applications are either materially false in claiming that Mr. Steele said he did not provide dossier information to the press prior to October 2016, or Mr. Steele made materially false statements to the FBI when he claimed he only provided the dossier information to his business partner and the FBI.

FISA Application Relied More On Steele’s Supposed Credibility Than Independent Verification Or Corroboration
In this case, Mr. Steele’s apparent deception seems to have posed significant material consequences on the FBI’s investigative decisions and representations to the court. Mr. Steele’s information formed a significant portion of the FBI’s warrant application, and the FISA application relied more heavily on Steele’s credibility than on any independent verification or corroboration for his claims. Thus the basis for the warrant authorizing surveilance on a U.S. citizen rests largely on Mr. Steele’s credibility. The Department of Justice has a responsibility to determine whether Mr. Steele provided false information to the FBI and whether the FBI’s representations to the court were in error.
When Grassley announced the criminal referral in early January, he said, “Maybe there is some innocent explanation for the inconsistencies we have seen [from Steele], but it seems unlikely.” He told NBC News, “In any event, it’s up to the Justice Department to figure that out.”


>judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-02-06 CEG LG to DOJ FBI (Unclassified Steele Referral).pdf

Senate Criminal Referral

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This is an important thread and this may be the most important topic for Sup Forums right now.

The deep state has finally been exposed with it's tentacles wrapped around the civil liberties of an American citizen. The media has told most people it's nothing to maintain calmness, we know this is bullshit. If there isn't justice for these violations the identity of our country and what we stand for could be lost forever.

It’s just exposing it to normies. I hate the media.

someone give me the quick rundown so i can tell normies in 2-4 rememberable sentences

Your id says you are gey.
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>4 prominent members of the Obama administration are going to be arrested in the coming weeks
Comey
McCabe
Clapper
Brennan

lol thefederalist.com?
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Senate found reason to bring memo on criminal charges.
Memo based on lies, Christopher Steele was biased against Trump.
Dossier was reason to surveil Trump team

Why? It’s writing articles based on FACTS

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I think it’s Assange that wrote that. Look at the flag, the KEEP FIGHTING, he always writes that.

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The FBI has been caught using questionable and uncorroborated documents to secure surveillance authorization by a secret court to further the political motivations of people well established and tenured in our government. The media has largely failed to report on this and, at least in terms of the memo, has been formulating opinions to disseminate while omitting important details that may make people think otherwise. At the very least, read the memos and the texts yourselves. Never give someone else the opportunity to make an opinion for you in any situation.

This is what I would say to normies. The fact that this Orwellian shit happened and people don't give a fuck about it at all is a serious red flag to any sane person who loves the values and ideals that this country was founded on. What is the difference (ideology aside) in the FBI using the dossier (written by the democrats and Sidney Blumenthal) to help the democrats and the KGB using espionage techniques to build support for the CPSU? This is a tactic taken straight from the totalitarians handbook on turning a democracy into a dictatorship.

Fucking check. Truth

it's a self appointed far wingnut group. they have as much authority to speak on a subject as occupy wall street

why else would there be 100 slide threads on the catalog?

So do you agree on the FACTS, just not the delivery system? Is it the FACTS you dispute?

Same thing happened last night with my important thread

no. it's stupid and you can't even tell why.

It’s not stupid it’s FACTS. You’re so retarded you can’t answer my fucking questions

> my important thread
All threads matter republican

Dbl check, even the BBC threads?

A prominent politician is going to be executed for treason soon. Remember this.

There are no facts to back any of this up. You are relying on the memos which are OPINIONS written by Republicans.

Hope it’s Kerry

I’m relying on my own eyes RETARD

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Ignore the retards lurkers

Talk about Remote Neural Monitoring huh? Q why are you trying to descent this too?

>ignore the retards
like you? fucking faggot been larping as Q for a week or more and still think people give a fuck what you have to say. you're a dumb nigger and should literally kys

I’m the OP... Felt like trip fagging lol

The memo contents are derived from facts gathered during an official, bipartisan investigation, kid.

>It's afraid

Too bad I literally just became Q faggot. You’ve got the wrong retard asshole

Timeline archive.fo/oQWh0

it is stupid. it so stupid I can't even be bothered to watch. it shows the sloppy reasoning of the righteous. it mostly red herrings for the morons to chase. 2 of trumps advisers are under indictment but nothing to see here and I don't know what to make of nenas but we'll see

oh look i can do it too! wow you're a faggot

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The only opinion talked about is the unverified opinion by Christopher Steele about how the fantasy of trump peeing on a bed in russia hurt his fee-fees enough to write about it and pander it to hillary clinton & cronies.

2 out of 5 trumps advisers are under indictment but nothing to see here

You do realize their indictments are pre-Trump day’s right fuck face? Read a GD book

>Trump day's
>read a GD book
pathetic

>did you think he would be able to be elected
go to the whitehouse and just be like
>"yah fiyad" like on the apprentice?

Don't feed shill

For what? When?

How sad that you got a witch hunt fueled by illegal spying and all you can possibly get are unrelated process crimes.

congrats you just did

>$9000/month for shilling
>not $0.02 per post and $0.05 per (you)

Classic Alinskyite bullshit. Attack the messenger.

Ffs I want in on that action

Right. That nigga gotta go back.

who do you think is worthy to investigate trump?
everyone that runs for prez is investigated by the other party. this isn't new.
it's a little much to think your guy can't be investigated because you know he's wonderful. get off your high horse.

and this from the ppl that would trust and let the local dog catcher investigate obama

you literally are already being paid

nothing to see here

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all out of rope

Interesting

>everyone that runs for prez is investigated by the other party. this isn't new.
Not by abusing federal spying programs intended for foreign adversaries, dumbass leaf, and then doubling down after he's rightfully elected in attempts to depose him. That's called "treason".

>and this from the ppl that would trust and let the local dog catcher investigate obama
muh strawman

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well who the fuck do you think the judge thought would ask for this, trumps advisers?

there's really something wrong with wingnut logic

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>well who the fuck do you think the judge thought would ask for this, trumps advisers?
In the days before obama reformed the FISA court to be a political weapon, they'd expect the FBI to bring persons of interest and apply for warrants based on corroborated information from reliable sources.

>there's really something wrong with wingnut logic
Yeah just look at the teenage girl you have for a prime minister.

Can confirm. Top Google result is a link to the article but it is indeed missing.

Just search "Thomas Del Beccaro biased FBI and doj" and you'll see for yourselves.

you're telling me i can shitpost and make +100,000k a year? it's almost too good to be true.

The fact is if they didn't need to dossier to secure the surveillance authorization from the FISA court they wouldn't have used it as evidence. The fact that there is growing evidence that the dossier was politically motivated could have ramifications in any evidence being used to bring up charges in any ongoing investigations. The fact the administration at the time knew this and didn't put a halt to it is a gross abuse of power.

The only thing wrong with anyone's logic here is yours

>You’ve got the wrong retard asshole
That's Mr. Asshole to you Q = queer

>The fact the administration at the time knew this and didn't put a halt to it is a gross abuse of power.
They created the environment where it could happen purposefully. Obama's legacy.

>politically motivated
OMG OMG OMG!!
what's the crime?

Falsifying warrants to spy on citizens? Are you a literal retard or is it some kind of idiotic larp?

bump this shit, guys. shills are out in full force trying to bury any discussion about this. they are literally crashing the economy to keep the country from focusing on this. we can't let them get away with it.

Our justice system is IMPARTIAL you fucking retard. Using spy agencies and law enforcement agencies to further your political agenda is ethically wrong and illegal no matter what you think about it.

Was able to find it using the way back web archive:

web.archive.org/web/20180205180459/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2018/02/05/biased-fbi-and-doj-officials-broke-the-law-and-tried-to-decide-the-election-an-annotated-timeline/amp/

Hi Han. I’m waiting for Navy user. I think he dumped me lol

you're unironically talking to obamaleaf

>In the days before obama reformed the FISA court to be a political weapon,

The FISA court has always been a political weapon. It came into existence because of the Pentagon papers. The public found out the military was doing all this crazy shit in secret, and since the government didn'ty want them to stop doing it, they created the FISA court so that military and intelligence could have their projects approved in secret.

The public was sold on the idea that this meant oversight so that those horrible things couldn't occur again but the government motivation was to provide a legal shield to agencies when they did do those things.

The difference is that the bad acts at the time the FISA court was created were aimed at the public, now since Bush, it's selectively targeted political opposition as well.

it's not illegal to be wrong and if they could prove all the evidence there wouldn't be any need for the warrant.

theres something wrong with wingnut logic

>The fact that this Orwellian shit happened and people don't give a fuck about it at all

Checked. This is 100% because of the propaganda media. They manipulate the public through omission. We live in a system where the media decides what's important and what should be ignored. It's quite literally an information war and we are the foot soldiers fighting against the establishment media and our weapon is the truth.

Guys, don’t argue with a fucken retarded syrup nigger

>you're telling me i can shitpost and make +100,000k a year? it's almost too good to be true.

they get paid 14.50 an hour. And you have to be really stupid to be qualified for the job. If you're intelligent, you'll get red-pilled here and they don't want that.

So you get 14.50 per hour and all of your supervisors will be literally retarded and if you ever show signs of non-retardation, you're fired.

if you can't prove all the evidence don't investigate.
I bet the local drug dealer would love that