Note Gaetz says "when the dossier was served up to the FISA court..." he is misleading as the whole dossier was not in the warrant application. Only parts were. He also says McCabe testified the warrant on Page would not have been gained without the dossier. Schiff says Gaetz is misleading re McCabe's testimony. See, Q&A on the Nunes Memo By Lori Robertson Posted on February 7, 2018 .. https://www.factcheck.org/2018/02/qa-nunes-memo/
Rep. Hurd on Nunes memo: DOJ authority should be used appropriately every time
Published on Feb 2, 2018 by PBS NewsHour What information in the so-called Nunes memo was so compelling to Republicans it it warranted its release despite calls by the intelligence community to keep it classified? Judy Woodruff speaks with Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, a former undercover officer in the CIA, said it’s a matter of oversight of federal law enforcement, the use of verified sources and the protection of civil liberties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1VDADE6jK8 [comments disabled]
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Rep. Schiff: Nunes memo cherrypicks information to mislead, includes untrue claims
Published on Feb 2, 2018 by PBS NewsHour The Nunes memo is "directly misleading" and selective about the details it uses, says Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee and author of a Democratic memo. Schiff joins Judy Woodruff to combat Republican accusations of intelligence community bias around the Russia investigation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOTxNy-M-9g [comments disabled]
In that one Rep. Paul Gosar says the Page FISA warrant was illegal abuse of FISA, and wants Comey, McCabe, Sally Yates and Rosenstein prosecuted for treason for their involvement in the process. Has he sent that ridiculous letter to Sessions yet? Will House Republicans hold the president accountable according to their constitutional responsibility under the separation of powers enshrined in the constitution. If not, would that be treasonous?
President approves release of GOP memo criticizing FBI surveillance President Trump approved release Friday of a GOP memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI, intensifying a fight between the White House and Republican lawmakers, on one side, and the nation’s top law enforcement agency over whether the origins of a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election were tainted by political bias. The memo was approved for release without redactions, according to two White House officials. The president told reporters in the Oval Office, “I think it’s a disgrace what’s happening in our country. A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that.” The FBI and the Justice Department had lobbied strenuously against the memo’s release. In a statement Wednesday, the FBI had said it was “gravely concerned” that key facts were missing from the memo, which, it said, left an inaccurate impression of how the agency conducted surveillance under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Friday morning, the president tweeted in anticipation of the memo’s release, saying: “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago.’’ He added: “Rank & File are great people!” [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-approves-release-of-gop-memo-criticizing-fbi-surveillance/2018/02/02/699eb988-06cf-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html
Did Trump just reveal the real reason this memo was written? Republican leaders in Congress have one main defense for releasing a controversial memo on the FBI's Russia investigation: It reveals mistakes and even bias at the FBI, not with the separate, independent special counsel investigation set up by the Justice Department. The memo, said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday, isn't “an indictment of the FBI, of the Department of Justice.” Apparently President Trump didn't get that memo. In one tweet Friday morning, Trump publicly undermined Ryan's argument that the memo does not equal an attack on the FBI, Justice Department or the special counsel investigating Trump. This memo will actually prove political bias in all of those places, Trump suggested: The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people! [ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/959389424806191104 ] [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/02/did-trump-just-reveal-the-real-reason-this-memo-was-written/
These Are the Republicans Speaking Out Against Trump's Release of the Nunes Memo Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona Sen. John Thune of South Dakota Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania [that's it - no others] http://time.com/5130286/devin-nunes-memo-republican-party/
All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy. https://twitter.com/Comey/status/959197429156466689
Trump’s on a tweet rampage against FBI/DOJ for being too helpful to Dems. But there’s a problem with that theory: Comey? Republican. Wray? Republican. Mueller? Republican. Sessions? Republican. Rosenstein? Republican. I guess, to him, upholding the Constitution is pro-Democrat. https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/959415325329641473
The top leadership of the FBI and Justice Department (current and former, including Wray, Mueller and James Comey) are Republicans. The Justice Department and FBI are led by Republicans appointed by Donald Trump. Are they politicized against themselves? https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/959412111452590082
Read the Nunes Memo - plain text, not pdf or scribd-style House Republicans on Friday released a previously secret memo that was written by Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee and declassified by President Trump. The memo claims that F.B.I. officials abused their authority and favored Democrats in the early stages of the Russia investigation. Our reporters are reading the memo and will add their analysis soon. For more coverage, read here ["House Republicans Release Secret Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of Bias", https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/us/politics/trump-fbi-memo.html ]. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/02/us/politics/nunes-memo-gop-fbi-annotated.html
Why Did Trump Let the Russians Off the Hook? - Russia Matters This week’s highly anticipated news on additional Russia sanctions landed with a thud. For weeks, both Moscow and Washington had been astir about the impending steps the Trump administration would take against Russia based on legislation reluctantly signed by the president nearly six months ago and overwhelmingly supported by Congress. The law, called the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, or CAATSA, called for three analytical reports and the imposition of no less than five punitive measures, out of a possible 12, against Russia for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The administration instead chose to impose zero new sanctions, saying the current ones were working and the “mere threat” of additional steps had had enough impact. [...] http://www.newsweek.com/why-did-trump-let-russians-hook-798251 original https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/why-did-trump-administration-pass-buck-sanctioning-russia
Nunes memo: Key extracts and what they mean After days - weeks - of breathless anticipation, the secret memo is a secret no more. Was it a bomb or a dud? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42827167
Trump says 'people should be ashamed' after memo is declassified - included near the end in the official White House YouTube "President Trump Meets with North Korean Defectors" included in sequence in the body of this post above (there followed immediately by Trump's "You figure that one out." reply to "Does [the memo] make you more likely to fire Rosenstein? Do you still have confidence in him after reading the memo?")
Rick Gates is reportedly close to becoming Mueller’s third cooperating ex-Trump aide
"Part 141, some of..."
CNN reports Gates is finalizing a plea deal with Robert Mueller.
By Andrew Prokopandrew@vox.com Feb 15, 2018, 6:54pm EST
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Special counsel Robert Mueller may be close to flipping another former Trump staffer.
Rick Gates — Paul Manafort’s longtime junior business partner, and a 2016 Trump campaign staffer — is “finalizing” a plea deal in which he’d cooperate with the Mueller investigation, CNN’s Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray report. Gates has been in negotiations with Mueller’s team about cooperating for over a month, their report says, citing sources familiar with the case.
Back in October, Mueller’s team indicted Gates and Manafort on a combined 12 counts that mostly focused on alleged money laundering, failure to disclose financial assets, and false statements regarding their work for the government of Ukraine and a Russia-affiliated Ukrainian political party — matters that didn’t have anything specific to do with Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. (Both pleaded not guilty.)
But apparently, Mueller didn’t intend to stop there. The special counsel’s team had prepared superseding indictments that would add to or replace the original charges against both Manafort and Gates, per an earlier CNN report. Facing an expensive legal defense with no end in sight, Gates signed a new lawyer who has been working on cutting him a plea deal.
The biggest question, though, is whether Gates’s possible flip is mainly bad news for Paul Manafort concerning those lobbying and money laundering charges ... or whether it would have even bigger implications for the investigation into Russian interference as a whole, and into President Trump specifically.
Because if Manafort were to know of anything that could implicate Trump in connection with Russia, it seems quite plausible Gates would know it, too.
See also a good little summary of much to date here
This not my post but I completely agree: It came from Yahoo news =================================================== My Point Of View. 3 hours ago I really want to address Trump/GOP supporters here and ask them this question: Just how suspicious are Trump’s connections to Russia. After all, we have never ever had a POTUS before with any connections to Russia. Consider this: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=138458256
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