The president spoke of the rough time our country had been through regarding the 2016 election, and could they do *us* a favor by looking into Ukraine interference and the Burisma/Biden matter. Politico had released a story over a week just before his inauguration about Ukraine officials trying to sabotage his candidacy. Some of them were convicted of those charges just last December.
Yet, you reduce it to an *allegation*, an *opinion*, that it's simply because he wanted to smear a political opponent. That's FBI-applying-for-FISA worthy.
Do you understand how limited IG reviews are? That they've no criminal powers, can't talk to people outside their departmental silos or former employees, and have no power to compel testimony/cooperation? Then you begin to understand that as damning as the report was, it's superficial. Horowitz stated he can not rule out bias given the recurring inability of those interviewed to provide satisfactory explanations. He agreed people, at minimum, should be fired. Acknowledging the FISA request falsification by FBI counsel, he concurred with Graham that the renewal of the warrant was under false pretense and therefore constituted *illegal surveillance*.
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Cruz: “A lawyer at the FBI creates fraudulent evidence, alters an email that is in turn used as the basis for a sworn statement to the court that the court relies on. Am I stating that accurately?"
Horowitz: "That's correct. That's what occurred"
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Graham: Let’s play this out. They never told Trump about the concerns, is it fair to say there came a point to where surveilling Carter Page became unlawful?
Horowitz: I will let the court decide that. The court has this report and will make that decision.
Graham: Let’s put it this way, if you don’t have a legal foundation to surveil somebody and you keep doing it, is that bad?
Horowitz: Absolutely.
Graham: Is that spying?
Horowitz: ‘It’s illegal surveillance, it’s not court authorized surveillance.
Graham: What ever illegal surveillance means, they did it. … They had no legal basis after the January 2017 data dump by the Russian guy to believe that the dossier was reliable. They alter exculpatory information in June of 2017 that would have further proven that Carter Page is not a Russian agent and he was actually working with the CIA.
This information verifying Page as a CIA asset was furnished to FBI OGC Attorney in August 2016
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Attorney General William Barr told NBC News that “in January, after the election, the entire case collapsed when the principal source says ‘I never told — I never told Steele this stuff and this was also speculation and I have zero information to support this stuff.’ At that point, when their entire case collapsed, what do they do? They kept on investigating the president well into his administration, after the case collapsed.”
Barr continued, “But here to me is the damning thing: They not only didn’t tell the court that what they had been relying on was completely, you know, rubbish, they actually started putting in things to bolster this Steele report by saying, ‘we talked to the sources and they appeared to be truthful,’ but they don’t inform the court that what they’re truthful about is that the dossier is false.”
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You have no defense for this. If you value your own liberty more than you hate/dislike Trump, you need to wake the hell up.
If this can be done to a presidential candidate and sitting president - and they walk away from it - what can they NOT do to BowlBrother85? Your family, your children??
There are no limits.
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