<font color="red"><b>MEMO RELEASED</b></font>

MEMO RELEASED

Another huge point: The FISA Application cited a Michael Isikoff article as "corroborating information" for the Steele Memo, despite the fact that it was Steele who had leaked that information to Isikoff.

So, Steele "corroborated himself" by leaking to Isikoff and then saying "Look, Isikoff says so too."

More: Steele was fired by the FBI for breaking rules of confidentiality when he went on his Media Tour, trying to interest Mother Jones and other outlets in his claims. The Memo notes he should have been fired for speaking to Yahoo News/Isikoff much earlier, before the first FISA application, because he gave Isikioff his bullshit too.

So yes, the FISA application was fatally defective from the outset. And yet Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, and Sally Yates (!!!) just kept re-signing the renewal applications.

The FBI and DOJ do not seem to have alerted the court to Steele's firing or unreliability (or partisan bias) in any application, even after they themselves fired him.

W/out dossier, there would've been no FISA warrant. Was admitted under oath by McCabe. DOJ/FBI already knew dossier's source was unreliable & shouldn't be used, but filed applic w/it anyways. Waited until after to fire Steele. Then applied for extensions on warrant anyways.
— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) February 2, 2018

When Comey "briefed" Trump about the memo, he also withheld from Trump the dossier's partisan origins as well as the unreliablity (and firability) of its alleged author.

Note I always put "briefed" in quotes when I speak of this "briefing," because this briefing was not for the President's information, but for CNN's: The plan was to make the dossier "reportable" by giving it a newsworthy angle (It's so explosive the president was briefed on it!).

CNN was almost immediately leaked the news of this "briefing." It should be pointed out that one of the four reporters pushing this leak to the public was Evan Perez, who is a best friend of Fusion GPS' Glenn Simpson.

Note those last two paragraphs are not in this memo; that's already known. I'm just re-stating that because it's important.

Unfortunately this is even shorter than I thought - it's three pages and one extra paragraph on the fourth page, not four whole pages.

Some good stuff here, but... just 3.14 pages.

Catherine Herridge's digest, via PJ Media's Deb Heine (at PJ Media's "Hot Mic"):

BREAKING NEWS: House memo states disputed dossier was key to @FBI’s FISA warrant to surveil members of Team Trump https://t.co/5v5qfh17vS pic.twitter.com/g2DXDwtcnZ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 2, 2018

Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM

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1 I knew it! Harkonnen treachery!

Posted by: Paul Atreides, The Swamp Mouse at February 02, 2018 12:19 PM (ve8Cy)

2 Holy wow, ace.

Posted by: Cold Civil War at February 02, 2018 12:19 PM (Z2PYk)

3 It begins.

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at February 02, 2018 12:21 PM (jAZR9)

4 This proves that Trump hates blacks and are Presdebt of Color. We wants Hillary as our Presdent...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at February 02, 2018 12:21 PM (hqQ+Q)

5 So, when does the purge begin? And by purge I mean jail time and hangings.

Posted by: Bosk at February 02, 2018 12:22 PM (fjMEv)

6 So we the FBI had documented evidence that crooked Obama agents knowing used false evidence to obtain a warrant. That is a MAJOR felony. Why is nobody charged yet, much less should already be in jail.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 02, 2018 12:22 PM (mpXpK)

7 Perp walks.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at February 02, 2018 12:22 PM (pWCrC)

8 Another huge point: The FISA Application cited a Michael Isikoff article as "corroborating information" for the Steele Memo, despite the fact that it was Steele who had leaked that information to Isikoff.

Not as bad as it looks. They have corroboration from Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: pep at February 02, 2018 12:22 PM (wW03z)

9 A great day in the glorious history of the FBI.

Dirty bastards.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 02, 2018 12:22 PM (RG/Kz)

10 Most bigly winning and tremendous stuff.

I wanna touch myself.

Posted by: MeMyselfandI at February 02, 2018 12:22 PM (J9wxX)

11 Nothing to see! Nothing to see! Squawk!

Posted by: Chirping Harlot - Parrot at February 02, 2018 12:23 PM (JHwDP)

12 DENNIS NUNEZ HAS PRODUCED A....A...A...A...A...NOTHINGBURGER!!! A NOTHINGBURGER MADE OF...OF...OF...OF...CRUMBS!!!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 02, 2018 12:24 PM (O5Q3r)

13

Yes, this is the circular thing that Catherine Herridge was eluding too.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:24 PM (fceHP)

14 You can see why Democrats fought tooth and nail to prevent this from being released. And you have to know Obama and Scankles were in this up to their eyeballs. That is what they are really scared of. When "real" cops start offering plea-bargains they are scared they will get ratted out.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 02, 2018 12:25 PM (mpXpK)

15 The federal bureaucracy has achieved self-awareness and will do anything necessary to protect itself from threats.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 02, 2018 12:25 PM (RG/Kz)

16 But will any heads roll?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 02, 2018 12:25 PM (O2RFr)

17 Ah, the Friday News Dump. I've missed it so!

Posted by: tu3031 at February 02, 2018 12:25 PM (O5Q3r)

18 Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought

from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.

-------------------------------

Did McCabe know in advance that the dossier was a product of the clinton campagnie? Officially?

Posted by: Javems at February 02, 2018 12:25 PM (gAhYB)

19 hoo boy

In a new exchange released by the Senate Homeland Security committee today, FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok seem to discuss this very issue in private texts.

Page: Have a meeting with turgal about getting iphone in a day or so

Strzok: Oh hot damn. . . We get around our security/monitoring issues?

Page: No, he's proposing that we just stop following them. Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from -Office of Management and Budget-, but we're the only org (I'm told) who is following that rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we. . . I'm told - thought I have seen - that there is an IG report that says everyone is failing. But one has changed anything, so why not just join in the failure.

It's a shockingly cavalier attitude from an attorney and high level FBI official.

the hill piece

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:26 PM (fceHP)

20

"circular reporting"

not considered valid

no joke

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:26 PM (fceHP)

21 The memo relates specifically to Carter Page and the many unethical acts the FBI took in securing the FISA investigation... it is enough to make prosecution against Page impossible and end more than a few careers at the Bureau. But nothing specifically addressing actions against Trump here.

That comes later!

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:26 PM (jRA31)

22 FOXNews would be better served if they would allow Catherine Herridge an hour to read the memo and then discuss it with her background knowledge of it instead of trying to force her to sort of read it and then come up with a comment and then read it a little more and then come up with a comment.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 02, 2018 12:26 PM (vqAGV)

23 This will kill millions.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2018 12:27 PM (oVJmc)

24 Steele "corroborated himself" by leaking to Isikoff and then saying "Look, Isikoff says so too."

That's how it all works today - quote what a second party says about the first, then hey, the whole thing's a quote!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:28 PM (7LY+6)

25 21
The memo relates specifically to Carter Page and the many unethical acts
the FBI took in securing the FISA investigation... it is enough to make
prosecution against Page impossible and end more than a few careers at
the Bureau. But nothing specifically addressing actions against Trump
here.

That comes later!

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:26 PM (jRA31)

These go far past ethical violations. They committed perjury and lied to a federal judge to get a warrant to spy on Trump.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 02, 2018 12:28 PM (mpXpK)

26 Guys, remember when that lady guard took those photos of the prisoners at Gitmo?

Now THAT was government abuse.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 02, 2018 12:28 PM (ks6bw)

27 This butterscotch pudding is cold and deep

Posted by: Chicago Vota at February 02, 2018 12:28 PM (6xLO8)

28 Can anything happen to Steele over this?

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:29 PM (Enq6K)

29 National security has been irreparably damaged and someone took my banana.

Posted by: Nanzi Pelosi at February 02, 2018 12:29 PM (RG/Kz)

30 Steele "corroborated himself" by leaking to Isikoff and then saying "Look, Isikoff says so too."

Well, weren't most of the assertions handed to Steele to hand back to them as 'confirmed by a British Intelligence Agent?'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2018 12:29 PM (oVJmc)

31 Great, we've seen the memo. Now, let's get down to impeaching Trump for not being Hillary.

Posted by: The Media at February 02, 2018 12:29 PM (hSAcc)

32 Top 100! And these days, that's saying something!

Posted by: The Deep Horde at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (2z74n)

33 waiting for Baghdad Bob to come out

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (BtQd4)

34 Is Rod Rosenstein Ron Rosenstein's brother?

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (eOBDQ)

35 I'm just speechless.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (ptqGC)

36 OFFICIAL memo release:

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/memo_and_white_house_letter.pdf

Posted by: jwb7605 at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (DofIg)

37 To be fair to Steve and Cold Bear, hacking into ace's system isn't all that difficult when everyone knows your password is "valu-rite".

Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (ewxPW)

38 These go far past ethical violations. They committed perjury and lied to a federal judge to get a warrant to spy on Trump.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

Sounds an awful lot like 'conspiracy to' as well.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (32tyq)

39 They committed perjury and lied to a federal judge "

Imagine if one of us "little folk" had done so. We'd be introduced to our new bestest friends in 24 hours or less...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (7LY+6)

40 So when is the Mueller investigation forced to close since his entire investigation is now fruit from the poisonous tree?

Posted by: Randy Magnum - Pro Kite Surfer and Cameraman at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (Q5HYm)

41 Herridge on Fox 'splainin' everything.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (ptqGC)

42 Perp walks in mid-air.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (fA1SL)

43 Dow down 350. Damn memo!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (IqV8l)

44 @Javems, I think that's what the $700k payoff to his wife was for? Or was that for covering up the email server crimes?

Posted by: sunny-dee at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (QAOZh)

45 4 out of 5 Paid Journalists Agree

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (eOBDQ)

46 Well,we found a foreign agent colluding with government officials to interfere in an election.His name is Steele,Michael Steele...

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (LiyEm)

47 Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

Hi Eric Holder!

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (Enq6K)

48 So wouldn't this basically end Mueller's investigation? Flynn's conviction? The FBI with the help of the press LIED to the judge to get the FISA warrant. So the entire foundation for this whole thing was illegal!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (+1EJs)

49 There is not a smidgen of corruption in any of this.

I'm also sending you all a check in the mail.

I really do love you all.

I won't come in your mouth.

Posted by: Barak Obama at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (3BFzK)

50 Rush is saying this memo is worse than he anticipated. That is was underplayed.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (mQ0Mc)

51 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 02, 2018 12:28 PM (mpXpK)

They absolutely did, but this memo specifically tells about perjury and omissions in relation to Carter Page. And completely destroys the notion that the FBI verified anything: Isikoff was just a cutout reflecting the lies.

One hell of a warmup act.

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (jRA31)

52 But circular jerking... still ok, right?

Posted by: The MFM at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (2z74n)

53 Willowed.

What did Hillary and/or Obama know, and when did they know it?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (5h81Z)

54 38 Sounds an awful lot like 'conspiracy to' as well.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (32tyq)

It goes past 'conspiracy' since they actually committed the acts.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (mpXpK)

55

Yahoo
Mother Jones

when do we see the NYTIMES, CNN and the WaPo?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (fceHP)

56 I have met the enemy, and the enemy is us!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (+1EJs)

57 Ohr, Yates, Rosenstein, Comey -- they're all dirty in this, and they all should be prosecuted and disbarred, at a minimum.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (fqUgw)

58 circular jerking... still ok, right?
-------

Preferably from the end of a rope.

Posted by: Adam Schiff's Bulging Eyeball Bot at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (SkuXa)

59 Rush is saying this memo is worse than he anticipated. That is was underplayed.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (mQ0Mc)

And according to those who know, it's going to get worse.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (ptqGC)

60 Soon.

Posted by: Leg irons and handcuffs at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (wW03z)

61 Imagine if one of us "little folk" had done so. We'd be introduced to our new bestest friends in 24 hours or less...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (7LY+6)

oh yeah someone needs to get the butt sex every day

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (BtQd4)

62 47 Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

Hi Eric Holder!
Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (Enq6K)
--
Wasn't Lynch AG at the time this started?

Posted by: WisRich at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (G0vdT)

63 No flaming skulls?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (W+vEI)

64 >>> Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

Hi Eric Holder!

From now on, I wish to be called Loretta, I want to have babies.

Posted by: Gossamer at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (TZ6RV)

65 Spineless GOP Congressional weasels renewed the FISA regulations anyway!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (gwPgz)

66 So when is the Mueller investigation forced to close"

Never. Let the bastard swing in the air...

He'll be persona non grata around DC in 3, 2, ....

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (7LY+6)

67 I don't recommend going to MSDNC or CNN, unless your blood pressure is okay.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (ptqGC)

68 Is the MSM trying to just pretend this isn't happening?

Posted by: josephistan at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (7HtZB)

69 Damn. I seem to have a petard wedged in my ass...

Posted by: Mueller at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (2z74n)

70 Past conspiracy.

Sedition.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (rKpIN)

71 This is going to cost McCabe something like $30 a month in lower pension payments.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (7ZVPa)

72 This fake FISA memo is all because of Trump.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (3BFzK)

73 will we see a flaming skull today?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (FZYNt)

74 I want these people in chains. Leg irons. Frog marching.

Posted by: Fritz at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (2Mnv1)

75 So, if the Steele Dossier was a fraud, what could Trump possibly be covering up if those facts didn't exist?

There could be no obstruction of justice when the case was imaginary and illusory?

Your move, Mueller.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (ATVNj)

76 Hi guys.

So, PDJT not so bad after all, huh?

Maybe . . . the right man for the job here?

Missed you.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (rKpIN)

77 Everyone in the DNC, and all of the house democrats knew it as well.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (7ZVPa)

78 The Clintons must have a vid of Isakoff using bottled Caesar salad dressing ?

Posted by: sofa saver at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (4u7kU)

79
I feel giddy

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (lKyWE)

80 paging Mr. Wolfe, is it time yet?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (FZYNt)

81 Then-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Then-DAG Sally Yates, then-Acting DAG Dana Boente, and DAG Rod Rosenstein each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of DOJ.

Is it too early for liquor?

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (Enq6K)

82 Wasn't Lynch AG at the time this started?

Posted by: WisRich at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (G0vdT)

Oh right!

Hi Loooorettta!

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (Enq6K)

83 Hi guys.

So, PDJT not so bad after all, huh?

Maybe . . . the right man for the job here?

Missed you.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (rKpIN)

Never had any doubt.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (ptqGC)

84
The residents of Bizarro world/goatee Spock universe won't see anything wrong.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (IqV8l)

85 I remember Michael Isikoff from the Monica Lewinsky stuff and assumed he leaked to Drudge.

Is that correct?

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (2FqvZ)

86 >>There could be no obstruction of justice when the case was imaginary and illusory?

There never was obstruction. The obstruction charges came from Trump lawfully firing Comey.

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (eOBDQ)

87 It goes past 'conspiracy' since they actually committed the acts.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (mpXpK)

Treason is just such a harsh sounding word!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (gwPgz)

88 Ok Sessions, time to wake up and get in the damn game.

Posted by: WisRich at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (G0vdT)

89 >>>>47 Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be
first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then
required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General
(DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the
National Security Division.

Hi Eric Holder!

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:31 PM (Enq6K)

--

Wasn't Lynch AG at the time this started?
.
.
.Yes.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (+Dllb)

90 This makes Watergate look like a third-rate burglary.

Which it was.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (5h81Z)

91 Everything in that memo is bullshit!!!

Posted by: Adam Schiff at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (3BFzK)

92 Not bad for a bunch of GOPers who never get anything done, huh?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (/tuJf)

93 Initial FISA app on 10/21/16 runs through late Jan + 1 renewal late April + 2nd renewal late July + 3rd renewal late October 2017. The FBI was spying on Page/Trump et al until October of 2017. Who signed on July 2017 renewal? Rosenstein obviously. Who's team are you on indeed.

Posted by: Big E at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (+B4Kf)

94 Still processing. Someone let me know when we can start sucking each other's dicks.

Posted by: Mister Christopher (in Atlanta!) at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (FsN6J)

95 Isn't Comey overdue to tweet out another one of his sanctimonious bible verses? I hope he gets locked up so he can't George McCllelan-up the 2020 election.

Posted by: Randy Magnum - Pro Kite Surfer and Cameraman at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (Q5HYm)

96 No flaming skulls?

--

This really should warrant a multi-skull flame. This is confirmation of...the most incredible corruption at the highest levels of our republic.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (mQ0Mc)

97 73 will we see a flaming skull today?
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (FZYNt)

I want the flaming skull with Trump's hair like Blago.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (Ri/rl)

98 I can't read it. CNN says I shouldn't.

I can only read the comments.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (5OEn4)

99 94 Still processing. Someone let me know when we can start sucking each other's dicks.
Posted by: Mister Christopher (in Atlanta!)

and how!

Posted by: Shep! at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (FZYNt)

100 Ok Sessions, time to wake up and get in the damn game.

Posted by: WisRich at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (G0vdT)

Imagine the memo we would have before us if Sessionzzzz had been awake for the past 12 months!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (gwPgz)

101 First impressions...

MSNBC is totally planted on the left, arguing every point.

CNN is hedging its bets a little, saying "mistakes may have been made" by the FBI.

Posted by: Jwest at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (/roJx)

102 We was bamboozled, I tell ya! By some rogue, lone wolf, disgruntled employee!

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (2z74n)

103 It's everything we thought. WAY worse than Watergate.

My guess is the other shoes to drop are hard evidence (hopefully) of Obama's involvement.

Posted by: Maritime at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (lKmt3)

104 Questions about how the 702 Warrants came to be issued too:
https://twitter.com/Ingenius31/
status/959287259227762690

Scroll up a bit for the initial tweet.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (ewxPW)

105 comey yates mccabe boente and rosenstein ALL SIGNED WARRANTS using the steele BS

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (BtQd4)

106 49 There is not a smidgen of corruption in any of this.

I'm also sending you all a check in the mail.

I really do love you all.

I won't come in your mouth.
Posted by: Barak Obama
_________________________

We still don't know who was pretending to be Samantha "It Wasn't Me!" Power and making the hundreds of "unmasking" requests so that the Obama administration could smear the illegally-spied-upon Trump associates in the media.

There was a lot more illegal activity going on in the "Stop Trump" effort than just what was described in the memo.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (fqUgw)

107 I am waiting to see what Mika tells me to think.

Posted by: Professor Disarray, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (iH4Z+)

108 As I understand it, all the FISA warrant renewals were supposed to include any and all NEW information gathered to support the warrant.

They never gathered any new info

so they just kept using the dossiere

Its all a sham

Posted by: McCool at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (pYESH)

109 Everyone in the DNC, and all of the house democrats knew it as well."

Now all can start to understand why so many around the Beltway are STILL unable to process Hillary not being President. The alternative simply wasn't even recognized...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (7LY+6)

110 My Lawyer, My Lawyer, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Posted by: St. Comey on The Twitter Cross at February 02, 2018 12:36 PM (oVJmc)

111 Ohr, Yates, Rosenstein, Comey -- they're all dirty in this, and they all should be prosecuted and disbarred, at a minimum.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 02, 2018 12:32 PM (fqUgw)

First ... Democrats and Media will insist this memo is a lie. That tactic delays the process, to sap the will of Weak-Kneed Republicans and an Uninterested Public with a Short Attention Span.

Second ... They'll insist Carter Page Was a Bad Man Who Had It Coming", in conjunction with Chris Steele Lied.

Lastly ... If it comes to that, Comey, McCabe and the rest already have their fall-guy - Bruce Ohr.

Nobody any higher than Bruce Ohr gets punished for this. I'll make that wager now. Any takers ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (fiGNd)

112 The people that were all involved must have been frantic when Trump won POTUS.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (PvFoN)

113 Not bad for a bunch of GOPers who never get anything done, huh?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (/tuJf)

Thanks JS for keeping us bucked up these past 12 months.

I have a Arturo Fuente or two in my humidor which you deserve if ever we should meet.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (EoRCO)

114 Steele had better never step foot on American soil again.

Posted by: JAS at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (7JbXq)

115 Flaming Skull time! What a Friday this is.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (tRaq7)

116 This really should warrant a multi-skull flame.

pfffffft. Skull with a fusion reaction inside.

Posted by: pep at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (wW03z)

117
I can't read it. CNN says I shouldn't.

Can we be arrested for reading Ace's summation of it? Oh, I don't want to go to jail. Worse than The Barrel, I hear!

Posted by: The Deep Horde at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (2z74n)

118 So Micheal Flynn lies to the FBI and is indicted for said crime.

The memo clearly states Christopher Steele did the same. Yet Steele has not been indicted for anything. Equal under the law or something.

Posted by: Dead Parrot Society at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (AJeMv)

119
After reading the entire memo twice I don't think I care what the leftists -- who will never read it once -- have to say.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (2FqvZ)

120 any Hawaiian judges weighed in yet?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (FZYNt)

121 Oh.My.God. just read the entire memo and it is scary. They could do this to anyone they don't like who is running for any important public position.

Posted by: IC at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (a0IVu)

122 Obama and every single one of his minions need to have their Passports Revoked and have their Bank Accounts frozen.

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (eOBDQ)

123 1 I knew it! Harkonnen treachery!
Posted by: Paul Atreides, The Swamp Mouse at February 02, 2018 12:19 PM (ve8Cy)

We're currently remaking "Dune" and I'm reprising Baron Vlad. I'm having some boils on my ass moved to my face

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (4u7kU)

124 There is worse to come. Ex-presidents don't have secret meetings with the AG on a tarmac to discuss grandchildren.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (7ZVPa)

125
***psssst****

".... the language you are looking for is "rogue agents acting on their own accord".

I do so love my pension.

Posted by: Lois Lerner at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (8XRCm)

126 Hmm. And so the Special Prosecutor was also appointed as part of this scheme.

The entire premise for that SC appointment and any convictions was just undermined.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (EW73Z)

127 The scariest part of the memo is that the FBI and FISA courts are taking YAHOO seriously as an intelligence source...

Enough to use it to corroborate the information???

So now, Fake News is a valid path to legal spying on a US Citizen???

WTF????

Question not answered... was this all approved by the same FASA Judge?

Who WAS that Judge?

The Judiciary is not clean in this either...

Posted by: Don Q'Bot at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (NgKpN)

128

Memo in pdf

http://bit.ly/2DXQmee

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (IqV8l)

129 Nunes should now require the FBI to substantiate its Chicken Little claims that the memo is a threat to national security.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (398bZ)

130

This doesn't seem real. Just like when Trump won the election.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (fceHP)

131 So... "The Crazy Times" have segued into "The Burning Times?"

I'm hoping.

Posted by: shibumi at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (aT+Bx)

132 Memo is very easy to read and clear. It just begs for release of all the supporting documents. All the FBI criticism is sheer bullshit. In fact, once you read it, they sound terrible.

Posted by: standfast24 at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (2Lxb4)

133 New name for this memo

The Pi Papers

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (jjaLl)

134 BREAKING : The Obama Library to be moved to USP Marion.

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (eOBDQ)

135 The DEA, confidential informants, and the war on drugs hardest hit.

Posted by: Monk at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (g4lFK)

136 Has Sally Kohn weighed in yet? Because I'll bet that'll be priceless.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (O5Q3r)

137 Obama: "I just about it in the paper this Morning. News to me."

Posted by: WisRich at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (G0vdT)

138 The FBI paid Steele as a "source"??? I kinda respect the guy's balls for selling the same info to multiple parties . . .

Posted by: Haley's Butter Biscuit at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (Nw8mx)

139 15
The federal bureaucracy has achieved self-awareness and will do anything necessary to protect itself from threats.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 02, 2018 12:25 PM (RG/Kz)

The federal bureaucracy has become Skynet?

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (DxWUs)

140 Again, thank God for all the deplorables in middle America and Florida who voted for Trump...

Posted by: IC at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (a0IVu)

141 121 Oh.My.God. just read the entire memo and it is scary. They could do this to anyone they don't like who is running for any important public position.
Posted by: IC

you have no idea

Posted by: Judge Roy Moore at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (FZYNt)

142 Ex-presidents don't have secret meetings with the AG on a tarmac to discuss grandchildren.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (7ZVPa)

-----

Especially since Lorretta Lynch doesnt have any.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (8XRCm)

143 Who were these so called reporter fucks?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (+1EJs)

144 Where are the Republican jackasses who stood behind the SC appointment?

Assholes.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (EW73Z)

145 Every single one of the people we thought was involved was involved. All of them.

And we are just seeing the very tip of the iceberg.

This is going to be so awesome.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (/tuJf)

146

Today would be a nice day to SHUT IT DOWN!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (fceHP)

147 Has the Democrat scum memo been released yet? Would like to read that.

Posted by: Country Boy at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (7Py7T)

148
Steele had better never step foot on American soil again.

Posted by: JAS at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM

When he took a powder right after the first allegations came to light he should have kept going and never looked back.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (2FqvZ)

149 CNN is hedging its bets a little, saying "mistakes may have been made" by the FBI.

--

Your honor, I made a mistake when I robbed that bank at gunpoint. Can I go now?

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (mQ0Mc)

150 No Flaming Skulls? No pudding cups???

Posted by: SteveOReno at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (2sCft)

151 37 To be fair to Steve and Cold Bear, hacking into ace's system isn't all that difficult when everyone knows your password is "valu-rite".
Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2018 12:30 PM (ewxPW)

To be even more fair, it's not hacking if you make the URL and content active before "publishing."

Posted by: Not Neo at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (FVLz6)

152 3.14 pages...so we can call it the Pi memo?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (meYBL)

153 Are you guys comprehending this? They got a FISA extension to continue spying on Page in July of last year. They only stopped spying on Trump a little over 3 months ago!

Posted by: Big E at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (+B4Kf)

154 and someone else pointed out obama's end of term rule on letting deep state share this stuff. wow.

plus, all the key players signed on the renewals. wow.

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (V3U1L)

155 as an aside.. The gals on Fox are all in red today!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (so+oy)

156 >>I can't read it. CNN says I shouldn't.

It's Illegal to read it!

Posted by: Chris Cuomo at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (eOBDQ)

157 124 There is worse to come. Ex-presidents don't have secret meetings with the AG on a tarmac to discuss grandchildren.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (7ZVPa)

I'm convinced that was Bill telling the AG...

You do know we have copies of Obama's emails to US... using non secure systems... so if we go down for email.... so will he...

Posted by: Don Q'Bot at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (NgKpN)

158 So tell me again, please: Would Heinrich Himmler be a hero in today's Democrat party? Because this sure sounds like the Gestapo kind of thing.

Doesn't it?

Posted by: Vanceone at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (zzW7w)

159 28 Can anything happen to Steele over this?
Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:29 PM (Enq6K

As someone on Fox just said, 18USC1001.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (brIR5)

160 Watergate - even if Nixon had instigated it, which I don't think he did - was intended to find out who was leaking secret defense documents to the NYT and WaPo; it wasn't an attempt to spy on McGovern, who was hapless and obviously about to get buried in the election.

THIS, on the other hand, was clearly directed to undermine the democratic process by using US intelligence sources to spy on a political opponent in an effort to manipulate the election.

That's WAY worse. There is NO justification for that at all.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (5h81Z)

161

love this guy!

Tom Fitton

Memo: No FISA warrant without Dossier. Which means no Russia collusion story without Dossier. Which means no Mueller special counsel without Dossier paid for by Clinton/DNC. Shut it down.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (fceHP)

162 Oh.My.God. just read the entire memo and it is scary. They could do this to anyone they don't like who is running for any important public position.
Posted by: IC at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (a0IVu)

Any American Citizen.

I feel like I'm about to vomit.

Posted by: Monk at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (g4lFK)

163
And yet Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, and Sally Yates (!!!) just kept re-signing the renewal applications.

Hey, watch it there. I owe my job to that man.

Posted by: Bobbie Mueller, straight arrow at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (EzdLW)

164 >>Steele had better never step foot on American soil again.

I believe we have an extradition treaty with the UK.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (/tuJf)

165 I am sad, a little sad, to see such concrete proof that the FBI was trying to play kingmaker in the last election.

Luckily they're as bad at it as the CIA is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (meYBL)

166 Oh.My.God. just read the entire memo and it is scary. They could do this to anyone they don't like who is running for any important public position.
Posted by: IC at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (a0IVu)

Yet ... go try and muster enough support to shut the FISA system down.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (fiGNd)

167 I'm thirsty.

Posted by: The Tree of Liberty at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (4nvi/)

168 'Sup?

Posted by: Weasel at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (8aWIY)

169 I think it's going to be awkward in the FBI breakroom today.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Cure Your Constitutional Constipation with Memo-Lax! 50% Off at The Outrage Outlet! at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (hLRSq)

170 oh by the way, that potus approval thing? yeah, democrats, you're fucked. as Michael Clayton wold say you're SO fucked.

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (V3U1L)

171 Verizon owns Yahoo. Yahoo was one of the four principles to "leak" the dossier.

Verizon customers might be able to make your feelings known here:

https://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/executive-bios

There are "contact" buttons for most of the executives.

Just sayin.

Posted by: johnd01 at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (nVmgE)

172 I need to see people go to jail.
jeez, MSNBC is on for two seconds and my blood pressure is soaring.
"It's almost like an indictment of Comey..." well DUH.

Posted by: vivi at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (11H2y)

173 To be even more fair, it's not hacking if you make the URL and content active before "publishing."

Hey, don't knock my advanced security system until you've tried it!

Posted by: Hillary's Bathtub Server at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (2z74n)

174 This is confirmation of...the most incredible corruption at the highest levels of our republic.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (mQ0Mc)

But not the highest level of corruption, that comes later

Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (czkHE)

175 The DOJ and FBIO have only gone wrong because of heavy cuts in staff and budget which have stretched supervisory resources beyond the limits.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (3BFzK)

176 and someone else pointed out obama's end of term rule on letting deep state share this stuff. wow.

plus, all the key players signed on the renewals. wow.
Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (V3U1L)

All of this and Trump won!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (fceHP)

177 The people that were all involved must have been frantic when Trump won POTUS.
Posted by: redridinghood

___________

That really is the only thing that can explain the hubris of doing this. Way too risky unless you felt 99% sure your "gal" was going to win.

They probably shouldn't have taken all of those HuffPo and Nate Silver election analysis to heart about it being a lock for Hillary,

Posted by: Maritime at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (lKmt3)

178 You're so fucked *clooney head bobble*

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (V3U1L)

179 Apparently it was McCabe - in a closed session - that told the committee that "no warrant would have been sought without the dossier "was the !

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (so+oy)

180 Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (EoRCO)

fist bump

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (/tuJf)

181 Nobody any higher than Bruce Ohr gets punished for this. I'll make that wager now. Any takers ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (fiGNd)

I'll take that action. The President isn't going to all this trouble to be satisfied with less than Big Game. This memo is itself grounds to jail Ohr, obviously, but it should not be hard to slap Rosenstein, McCabe, or Comey in handcuffs. The FISA renewals indicate a level of negligence that rises to criminal.

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (jRA31)

182 Shorter is better!

Posted by: Danny Devito at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (QE8X6)

183 Nobody any higher than Bruce Ohr gets punished for this. I'll make that wager now."

I'll go further - "punishment" won't even make it that far.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (7LY+6)

184 This doesn't seem real. Just like when Trump won the election.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:38 PM (fceHP)

And without him, this stuff would never have seen the light of day.

Posted by: Country Boy at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (7Py7T)

185 I have officially decided that "the memo" was NOT overhyped.

Posted by: jwb7605 at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (DofIg)

186 I have to believe Obama knew, but in a "we never had this conversation" and "I don't want to know the details" way. Because that is how it is done.

Posted by: Professor Disarray, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (iH4Z+)

187 139
15

The federal bureaucracy has achieved self-awareness and will do anything necessary to protect itself from threats.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 02, 2018 12:25 PM (RG/Kz)

The federal bureaucracy has become Skynet?

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (DxWUs)

Mind taking a tiny step to the left? The sniper bot can't get a clear shot.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - an American Dreamer at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (jxbfJ)

188 Some good stuff here, but... just 3.14 pages.
Posted by: Ace

133 New name for this memo

The Pi Papers

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G)

Beat me to it! Pi Memo?

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (42M22)

189 We've gone full USSR if this shit doesn't get cleaned up and shut down in every fucking state and DC and people go to prison and GITMO.

Posted by: Monk at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (g4lFK)

190 Given CNN's prominent role in this disgraceful conspiracy to violate the civil rights of American citizens, I think they should turn over all of their files and telephone records to each of these individuals named in the memo.

They have forfeited their protection under the shield laws.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (ATVNj)

191 I would like you all to also imagine the gif of Tilda Swinton swabbing her sweaty disgusting pits.

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (V3U1L)

192 I have a feeling today will be one of those "erections lasting longer than 4 hours" day

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (FZYNt)

193 That's WAY worse. There is NO justification for that at all.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (5h81Z)

No justification? Have you seen how Trump eats? What he eats?

That is plenty of justification in Wacko-Partisan Land.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Cure Your Constitutional Constipation with Memo-Lax! 50% Off at The Outrage Outlet! at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (hLRSq)

194 Remember, Barack Obama got a daily intelligence brief every single day on all of this.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (/tuJf)

195 So McCabe admitted under oath that there would have been no FISA warrant without the bullshit "dossier" (stop calling that it was a pack of bullshit) So not only did they use extremely questionable intelligence. They doubled down on it and kept resubmitting it while Ohr fed them even more bullshit that he knew was bullshit!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (+1EJs)

196 We have SKULL!!!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (7LY+6)

197
Memo: No FISA warrant without Dossier. Which means no Russia collusion story without Dossier. Which means no Mueller special counsel without Dossier paid for by Clinton/DNC. Shut it down.

And no 'Obstruction' without Dossier.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (oVJmc)

198 And yet Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, and Sally Yates (!!!) just kept re-signing the renewal applications.

Hey, watch it there. I owe my job to that man.
Posted by: Bobbie Mueller, straight arrow at February 02, 2018 12:40 PM (EzdLW)

All of them, and Comey, too, deserve the old Vlad the Impaler treatment. Sharpened posts, rectums, some assembly required.

Posted by: SteveOReno at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (2sCft)

199 This makes Watergate look like a game of Clue.

The Dem/Progs have finally done it to themselves. May they enjoy their decades in the political wilderness. They can try to blame everyone else (and they'll certainly do that) but it won't work, especially after their disastrous display of anti-Americanism at the SOTU.

We are truly Blessed on this day to finally hear the truth. Thank you.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 02, 2018 12:42 PM (tRaq7)

200 177
The people that were all involved must have been frantic when Trump won POTUS.

Posted by: redridinghood

___________

That really is the only thing that can explain the hubris of doing
this. Way too risky unless you felt 99% sure your "gal" was going to
win.

They probably shouldn't have taken all of those HuffPo and Nate
Silver election analysis to heart about it being a lock for Hillary,

Posted by: Maritime at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (lKmt3)

Or believe the polls.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - an American Dreamer at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (jxbfJ)

201 Not bad for a bunch of GOPers who never get anything done, huh?
---
I will continue to wait to give them credit for the hangings of the guilty until they happen.

This really cannot be just another thing the gop investigated so it would have something to run on.

Posted by: Methos at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (XQvuQ)

202 This just proves, now more than ever, that we must always obey Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, Bill Kristol, Steve Hayes, David French, and assorted other wife-sharers.

Posted by: ace at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (8rNrN)

203 >>>CNN is hedging its bets a little, saying "mistakes may have been made" by the FBI.

Like Sandy Berger stealing the docs in his pants..
he just got 'sloppy'

Posted by: McCool at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (RT05e)

204 Oh, and one more thing...if they were spying on Trump, then the colluding with Russia narrative should have been easy to prove. They had the wiretaps.

Posted by: Professor Disarray, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (iH4Z+)

205 92
Not bad for a bunch of GOPers who never get anything done, huh?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (/tuJf)

---

Hopefully there will be some points scored and not just a couple of first downs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump es usando patriotismo para dividir America at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (ks6bw)

206 >>Remember, Barack Obama got a daily intelligence brief every single day on all of this.

I don't know what you are talking about, I just read about this in the Papers this morning!

Posted by: Barackhenaten I at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (eOBDQ)

207

connect the dots

Tom Fitton

Memo: FBI authorized payment to Clinton campaign operative Steele. Obama DOJ funneled anti-@RealDondaldTrump info from Clinton campaign operatives to FBI through Bruce Ohr.

ding ding ding

the Obama and Clinton cabals are ALWAYS money laundering

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (fceHP)

208 I can see why the left was so flabbergasted when Trump won.

There was no way they could lose, after corrupting all of the levers of federal power.

I think they held back some vote fraud, because they thought a 49 state win would look suspicious.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (7ZVPa)

209 Bigger question. How was this linked to the unmasking requests and what did people like Susan Rice know?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (EW73Z)

210 Nobody any higher than Bruce Ohr gets punished for this. I'll make that wager now. Any takers ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (fiGNd)

I'll take that action.
Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:41 PM (jRA31)

You're on. Twenty Dollar bar tab ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (fiGNd)

211 We Has Skull.

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (eOBDQ)

212
Your honor, I made a mistake when I robbed that bank at gunpoint. Can I go now?
---

"Your honor, I made a mistake when I did all that illegal stuff regarding the FISA warrants and all. But if you put me in jail, you'll break up my family, and we all know that's immoral. Can I go now?"

Posted by: shibumi at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (aT+Bx)

213 not a smidgen of corruption

Posted by: Barack Obama at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (FZYNt)

214 catherine herridge's report added. she just digests what's in there.

Posted by: ace at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (8rNrN)

215

Yah, FLAMING SKULL, Finally!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (fceHP)

216 97 73 will we see a flaming skull today?
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:33 PM (FZYNt)

I want the flaming skull with Trump's hair like Blago.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 02, 2018 12:35 PM (Ri/rl)

Flaming Golden Scalp Weasel

Posted by: josephistan at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (7HtZB)

217 SKULL!! SKULL!! SKULL!!

Burning Brightly, gonna be a good day!!!!

Posted by: SteveOReno at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (2sCft)

218 Yet ... go try and muster enough support to shut the FISA system down."

Now we're talking.

If that happened, I'd be very, very, very.... shadenbonerish...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (7LY+6)

219 This was an unfortunate lapse by an individual, which has now been dealt with under internal disciplinary procedures.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (3BFzK)

220

We don't really realize how horrible this thing is because we all suspected all of this for months now.

This whole thing is bar none the worst, most dangerous scandal in US history.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (mbhDw)

221 Pissy Matthews is claiming that PDT or his staff were directly involved in the drafting of the memo.

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (rdl6o)

222 Smart money says you're right. But I'll put something against the line to make the table interesting.

Two beers says someone higher eats a bullet or does time, Scogg.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (meYBL)

223 The federal bureaucracy has become Skynet?
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at February 02, 2018 12:39 PM (DxWUs

M-5.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (brIR5)

224 Rick Wilson on Twitter

Wow. This Nune memo is even less impressive than I thought. All these mouth-breathing idiots who called this worse than Watergate just got clowned.

Posted by: McCool at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (5Upc3)

225
Oh.My.God. just read the entire memo and it is scary. They could do this
to anyone they don't like who is running for any important public
position.
---
I know, right?

Posted by: Roy Moore at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (XQvuQ)

226 85 I remember Michael Isikoff from the Monica Lewinsky stuff and assumed he leaked to Drudge.

Is that correct?
Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 02, 2018 12:34 PM (2FqvZ)

Only if Drudge was living in Isikoff's bathroom, where Mike spent most of his time SITTING ON HIS ASS. Possible

Posted by: sofa saver at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (4u7kU)

227 This is a fake memo.

The margins are off.

The inter-character spacing is not credible.

The font used was not in existence when it was purportedly written.

I swear. You guys are so gullible.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (ATVNj)

228 Nobody any higher than Bruce Ohr gets punished for this. I'll make that wager now. Any takers ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (fiGNd)

Dayum, I'm agreeing with the Dog again. The wording I heard that mentioned Ohr seemed nuanced nicely to support plausible deniability to all the other guilty as hell participants in FBI/DoJ!

"He seemed nice!"

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (gwPgz)

229 >>172 I need to see people go to jail.

Now that would be awesome.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (r9UYA)

230 WE HAVE FLAMING SKULL, REPEAT WE HAVE FLAMING SKULL.

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (LDV7V)

231 And there's Mr. Flaming Skull.

Has anyone named him yet? We had a name for Johnny Coldcuts and he was just a sandwich.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (tRaq7)

232 Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (3BFzK)

In which case we don't let me. We e-mail, we call and we march on Washington.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (8+Ozj)

233 I have to believe Obama knew, but in a "we never had this conversation" and "I don't want to know the details" way. Because that is how it is done.

--

Yup. He is, after all, from Chicago.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (mQ0Mc)

234 skull fucked

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (FZYNt)

235 The flaming skull has made an appearance!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (ElCV1)

236 Aren't most of the important players in the FBI republicans?

Posted by: You at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (hujHF)

237 James "Ron Burgandy" Comey: "Boy, that FISA conspiracy escalated quickly. That got out of hand fast!"

Posted by: WisRich at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (G0vdT)

238 Make it fifty, Scoggers. If I win I want the good stuff. If I lose, money will be no big loss.

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (jRA31)

239 Harris Faulkner just said twice that this wasn't partisan. She was one of my favorites on Fox but on this she is obviously wrong.

Posted by: Bill R. at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (IuYIh)

240 Wonder what Rick "Gollum" Wilson has to say about this.....wasn't he shopping this garbage around also?

Posted by: FITP at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (Cndvn)

241 232-Meant "we don't let up"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (8+Ozj)

242 220

We don't really realize how horrible this thing is because we all suspected all of this for months now.

This whole thing is bar none the worst, most dangerous scandal in US history.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (mbhDw)

The scary thing is this is just one document. Who knows what is behind doors #2 and #3.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - an American Dreamer at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (jxbfJ)

243 All of this and Trump won!

They are so fucked if we start having fair elections.

Posted by: The Deep Horde at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (2z74n)

244 Louise Mensch:

"IS THAT IT?

Seriously?
Is that all you got, Treasonweasels?"

Posted by: McCool at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (RT05e)

245 Is it a Flaming Skull Pudding Fountain? One that revolves?

Because that would be awesome.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Cure Your Constitutional Constipation with Memo-Lax! 50% Off at The Outrage Outlet! at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (hLRSq)

246 202 This just proves, now more than ever, that we must always obey Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, Bill Kristol, Steve Hayes, David French, and assorted other wife-sharers.

Posted by: ace at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (8rNrN)

I think some of them married dudes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (meYBL)

247 Where did I put those pudding cups??

Posted by: SteveOReno at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (2sCft)

248 >>Harris Faulkner just said twice that this wasn't partisan.

She's not paid for her cognitive skillz.

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (eOBDQ)

249 220. Yep.
Treason never doth prosper,
And what's the reason?
When treason doth prosper
None dare call it treason.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (fA1SL)

250 221 Pissy Matthews is claiming that PDT or his staff were directly involved in the drafting of the memo.
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (rdl6o)

Even if he and they did, it does not negate the veracity of its content.

Sorry, Matthews. This is murder.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (mbhDw)

251 There better be alpha level casualties coming out of this.

It makes Watergate look like a night out at Chuckie Cheese.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (EW73Z)

252 BREAKING NEWS: House memo states disputed dossier was key to @FBI's FISA warrant to surveil members of Team Trump

Ah-hah. It was a 'disputed' dossier.

Posted by: The Deep Horde at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (2z74n)

253
I wish PDT would summon the British Ambassador to the White House and read him the riot act about a British subject and former MI5 official colluding to throw the U.S. election. Just for the effect.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (lKyWE)

254 Why aren't these people on a one-way trip to Gitmo, yet?

Posted by: Fritz at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (2Mnv1)

255 if it hadn't been mentioned before, the NeverTrumpers can go FOAD

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (FZYNt)

256 Also, this is suppose to be a small percentage of what is coming down the pike?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (PvFoN)

257 Did anyone else read "Lee Zeldin" as 'Led Zeppelin'?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (meYBL)

258 They really thought that the Mueller investigation was going to get Trump - like no doubt! Continuing at least through last July they thought this, apparently only gave up in October (hence no renewal).

Rosenstein fired on Monday (if not today).

Posted by: Gossamer at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (TZ6RV)

259 Nothing we didn't already know. I hope there is more somewhere

Posted by: Millard Filmore at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (iQeNg)

260 the Obama and Clinton cabals are ALWAYS money laundering

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (fceHP)

If only someone had told them this was wrong!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (gwPgz)

261 That really is the only thing that can explain the hubris of doing this. Way too risky unless you felt 99% sure your "gal" was going to win.

This.

They must have messed themselves when Hillary lost.

But the funny part is that, despite all their efforts, and those of the MSM, academia, and Hollywood ... she successfully lost anyway.

You've got to laugh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (5h81Z)

262
Nothing will happen to any of these people.

Posted by: YIKES! at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (t6XCL)

263 American people: Who are these people? Never heard those names. Do they know the Kardashians?

Celebrities: These guys are heroes. They tried to protect us from literal Hitler.

Fore Fathers: *facepalm*

Posted by: Professor Disarray, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (iH4Z+)

264 I'm glad there's a Representative named Led Zeppelin.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (IqV8l)

265 There needs to be severe consequences for this.

Maybe force McCabe to retire a couple of weeks early, and force Strozk to transfer to Personnel, and maybe a note in his file for Rosenstein.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (7ZVPa)

266 And yet Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, and Sally Yates (!!!) just kept re-signing the renewal applications.

And all of them should go to fucking prison!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (+1EJs)

267 Two beers says someone higher eats a bullet or does time, Scogg.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (meYBL)

I'll cover that action, and lay you Three to One odds ... mostly because I'd love to send you some kind of Craft Beer Six Pack Gift Box Thingy to celebrate one of those fuckers eating a bullet.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (fiGNd)

268 Would Heinrich Himmler be a hero in today's Democrat party?
He was a fag so the answer is 'yes'.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (ewxPW)

269 >>228 Nobody any higher than Bruce Ohr gets punished for this. I'll make that wager now. Any takers ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (fiGNd)

'punished' = re-assigned again

Posted by: Under Fire at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (r9UYA)

270 Do you think any MSM flunkie will ever have the cajones to ask Obama what he knew and when he knew it?

Posted by: Maritime at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (lKmt3)

271 257 Did anyone else read "Lee Zeldin" as 'Led Zeppelin'?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (meYBL)

"When the memo breaks..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (mbhDw)

272 So they added Papadapolous to one of the applications with no evidence. Just his name.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (BtQd4)

273 Pappadopulous should be able to use this shit to get his charges dropped.. Strzok entrapped him.. and the basis for all of this investigating was bogus from the beginning.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (so+oy)

274 Aren't most of the important players in the FBI republicans?

--

Like Bill Kristol, Rick Wilson, etc...?

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (mQ0Mc)

275 >>Louise Mensch:

"IS THAT IT?

There are Strzok text where he references leaking stuff to her - "the limey." So, she's part of the team.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (W+vEI)

276 I actually feel quite sick about all this. I grew up in a country where the government did and still does, this kind of shit all the time. Spying on its citizens, using false narratives to get rid of the opposition, murder, etc. I just can't believe its happening here as well. I want to cry.

Posted by: IC at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (a0IVu)

277 268 Would Heinrich Himmler be a hero in today's Democrat party?
He was a fag so the answer is 'yes'.
Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (ewxPW)

And a big chicken-fucker.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (mbhDw)

278 Time for another poetic tweet from Comey!

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (HgMAr)

279 Louise Mensch has admitted she thinks hard drug use in her youth permanently damaged her brain so I'm not sure why anyone listens to anything she says.

Posted by: Adam Schiff's Bulging Eyeball Bot at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (SkuXa)

280 He fights!

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (wGbBR)

281 Am I happy to read this or is that a canoe in my pocket

Posted by: Lord Flasheart at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (6xLO8)

282
So pretty much what we knew... Obama and Clinton used federal agencies to spy on the campaign of Trump.

The memo has the details, but this is the big news. Memoquiddick should be the biggest political scandal evah! However, I remain a pessimist.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (r+sAi)

283 a) Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations - an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, 2016, Mother Jones article by David Corn.

Remind me again what Comey did with his 'notes'? What was it? On the tip of my tongue....

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (Enq6K)

284 Memo to Bob Mueller: see, this is what gathering evidence against an ACTUAL conspiracy looks like. Tick tock.

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (jRA31)

285 As somebody who had their house torn upside down while I was out of town over a decade ago over a misdemeanor pot charge and plea. I know exactly how this FISA abuse works. Confidential Informant had an axe to grind on me and claimed I was a major drug dealer of all kinds of shit. Literally recreational smoked pot for pain and had a few grams in my house.

Yeah we all knew Team Trump.

But what about Team American Citizens!!!

Posted by: Monk at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (g4lFK)

286 Ah-hah. It was a 'disputed' dossier.

Posted by: The Deep Horde at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (2z74n)

Mini-True will be working overtime to "correct" the record!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (gwPgz)

287 The next time I hear some leftist mouth breather say Russia!!! I am actually punching them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (+1EJs)

288
Verizon owns Yahoo. Yahoo was one of the four principles to "leak" the dossier.

And Verizon is a supporter of Net Neutrality.

*this is my shocked face*

Posted by: Bobbie Mueller, straight arrow at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (EzdLW)

289 We don't really realize how horrible this thing is because we all suspected all of this for months now.

This whole thing is bar none the worst, most dangerous scandal in US history.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (mbhDw)

even after the release of more information, imagine what we will NEVER know

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (fceHP)

290 On a serious note, the only thing missing from this memo is the actual source materials being referenced by date time group or other message identifier. The source material absolutely needs to be released at this point also.

Oh, and President Trump is fully validated in his assertion that he was "wiretapped". His building was indeed targeted for electronic surveillance, and since it was his building, and it was his campaign staff, official and unofficial, that was illegally spied on, President Trump was correct.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (DxWUs)

291 227
This is a fake memo.

The margins are off.

The inter-character spacing is not credible.

The font used was not in existence when it was purportedly written.

I swear. You guys are so gullible.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (ATVNj)

Sure, now you pay attention to the typefacing. Where was this stroke of genius on your GWB National Guard reporting?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - an American Dreamer at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (jxbfJ)

292

But, what does Cher think?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (fceHP)

293 Pissy Matthews : Sexual Harrassment Matthews?

Posted by: Professor Disarray, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (iH4Z+)

294

Is Ruffalo ruffled?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (fceHP)

295 "IS THAT IT?

Seriously?
Is that all you got, Treasonweasels?"
_____________________________________

That's like Hiroshima asking the U.S. Army Air Corps: "Is that all you got?"

Posted by: Curtis Lemay at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (ATVNj)

296 Refresh your pages.

Flaming skull!

Posted by: Hands at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (EzdLW)

297 Make it fifty, Scoggers. If I win I want the good stuff. If I lose, money will be no big loss.
Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:45 PM (jRA31)

For fifty we gotta' define terms. Resignations or firings don't count. Somebody higher than Ohr has to go to jail.

Agree ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (fiGNd)

298 It makes Watergate look like a night out at Chuckie Cheese.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (EW73Z)

You never been there during a birthday party I take it?

Posted by: auscolpyr at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (suO/a)

299 connect the dots

Tom Fitton

Memo: FBI authorized payment to Clinton campaign operative Steele.
Obama DOJ funneled anti-@RealDondaldTrump info from Clinton campaign
operatives to FBI through Bruce Ohr.

ding ding ding

the Obama and Clinton cabals are ALWAYS money laundering

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (fceHP)

================================
Some DoJ junior prosecutors will be in the history books before this matter is resolved.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (Pqytn)

300 But was there really any "intent". That makes all the difference in the world.

Posted by: Pete Seria at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (2WfB0)

301 Russia wrote this memo.

Posted by: Professor Disarray, Gumdrop Gorilla Channel at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (iH4Z+)

302 So when is a special prosecutor assigned to an ACXTUAL crime? Or do they get prosecuted in federal court?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (+1EJs)

303

Trump just played Chicken and won.

Yet there are so many who still think he will be impeached.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (fceHP)

304 "... just 3.14 pages."

First thing that came to mu mind was pi. Don't know why...

Posted by: brasspair at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (MCEGQ)

305 I actually feel quite sick about all this. I grew up in a country where
the government did and still does, this kind of shit all the time.
Spying on its citizens, using false narratives to get rid of the
opposition, murder, etc. I just can't believe its happening here as
well. I want to cry.

Our mission has been accomplished.

Posted by: The Democrat Party at February 02, 2018 12:49 PM (vtcmf)

306 Ace, if you're here:

What this memo reveals is that

The dossier is the MacGuffin.

The REAL goal, and the real story here, is the illegal spying on Trump by Obama and his leftist minions.

The dossier itself is completely irrelevant, and random fake made-up bunch of garbage created merely to get a FISA warrant.

Everyone for a year has been obsessively focused on the dossier, but it was simply a trivial tool, created offhandedly and then quickly discarded, to obtain the true goal -- permission to spy on Trump, and (hopefully) then with that spying to get actual dirt on Trump, with which they could then rig the election.

Problem is, the spying produced exactly ZERO dirt on Trump. And all that was left was the original trivial dossier, which was never meant to be the focus of attention.

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (42M22)

307 Tom Perez and the DNC have just released a statement.

Summary: Trump!!!! Russia!!!!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (ptqGC)

308 Let's not lose sight of the fact that Clinton/DNC & Fusion GPS & Obama Administration colluded with Russia to affect he 2016 Presidential Election.

Posted by: WisRich at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (G0vdT)

309 has anybody been frogmarched yet? didn't think so. d.c. never eats its' own.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (KP5rU)

310 271 257 Did anyone else read "Lee Zeldin" as 'Led Zeppelin'?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (meYBL)

"When the memo breaks..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (mbhDw)

Heh

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (meYBL)

311 So the entire "resistance," the entire "russian collusion," was a bought and paid for, dnc/Clinton/fbi/msm conspiracy to defeat/delegitimize a duly elected American president. Was that wrong? Because no one informed this office that was wrong.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (UJJCx)

312 >>Nothing we didn't already know. I hope there is more somewhere

Really? You had evidence of all this in your back pocket and didn't share?

This is one memo about one incident. The OIG has over 1.2 million documents on a number of other issues including the Hillary email investigation whitewash and leaking of confidential information.

This is just the start. Buckle up for a long ride.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (/tuJf)

313 I have to believe Obama knew, but in a "we never had this conversation" and "I don't want to know the details" way. Because that is how it is done.

But this makes him look like the puppet that he was. "We don't need to bother the Magic Negro, since there's nothing we want him to read off a teleprompter, and he's happily watching ESPN. We'll take care of this ourselves."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (5h81Z)

314 220

We don't really realize how horrible this thing is because we all suspected all of this for months now.

This whole thing is bar none the worst, most dangerous scandal in US history.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (mbhDw)

Every governmmet institution doing back decades.

Posted by: Monk at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (g4lFK)

315 "When the memo breaks..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (mbhDw)

mean old memo taught me to weep and moan

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (HgMAr)

316 Any chance Rosenstein will be out by the end of the day?

Posted by: JAS at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (7JbXq)

317 Did anyone else read "Lee Zeldin" as 'Led Zeppelin'?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:46 PM (meYBL)

"When the memo breaks..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (mbhDw)

------

"..... and ..... sheeeee's ...... buying....a..... stairway..... to Devin."

Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (8XRCm)

318 So, how about that awesome dossier?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (ptqGC)

319 Make it "higher than Ohr is jailed or dies violently" and you have a deal. Don't worry, political betting clause 6 (do not arrange it yourself) is still in play. Not making that mistake again.

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (jRA31)

320 think how grotesque this all is. and to win an election for Hillary.. Because certainly we needed more classified docs streaming out to every hostile country, and need Her 'lists' of folks she wanted to destroy.

so i guess they really are birds of a feather.

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (Z8j2x)

321 For flaming skull names, I vote "Iggy". He sorta looks like Iggy Pop, only a little heavier and more attractive.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (meYBL)

322 Don't make a Teapot Dome out of a Teapot Mole Hill.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (eOBDQ)

323 This was an unfortunate lapse by an individual, which has now been dealt with under internal disciplinary procedures."

Ding Ding Ding!!!

We have a winner!

The standard DC answer...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (7LY+6)

324 I'm beginning to understand why citizens - the normal middle class ones - in Latin American countries go out into the streets banging pots and pans.

The FBI is a bunch of partisan assholes and people need to go to jail.

Posted by: vivi at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (11H2y)

325 276 I actually feel quite sick about all this. I grew up in a country where the government did and still does, this kind of shit all the time. Spying on its citizens, using false narratives to get rid of the opposition, murder, etc. I just can't believe its happening here as well. I want to cry.
Posted by: IC at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (a0IVu)

-----------------------------

Yep. Only, from my point of view, this country is turning into something I've only read about.

Posted by: Blake at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (WEBkv)

326 Lots of so called "experts" hanging their reputations on the hope that there was a lot more information in the FISA application that backed up the dossier.

Do they think that the original FISA application can't be released?

And what happened to ex-congressman Mike Rogers, who now works for CNN? They must be paying the bastard millions to sell out like this.

Posted by: Jwest at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (/roJx)

327 >>Aren't most of the important players in the FBI republicans?
Posted by: You

Huh, talking point much? Chuck Todd tweeted the same thing

Also, who cares? They broke the law.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (W+vEI)

328 I'm getting drunk tonight!

Posted by: Bored383 at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (70HTk)

329 So just for the sake of argument, what in here actually compromises national security?

I mean, I could maybe understand if agents in the field were compromised or certain technology was revealed in this memo that foreign powers didn't know about, but the only thing revealed was the corruption of individuals.

That's what Democrats wanted to hide.

Posted by: Maritime at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (lKmt3)

330 317

"..... and ..... sheeeee's ...... buying....a..... stairway..... to Devin."
Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (8XRCm)

"The Schlong Remains Enflamed..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (mbhDw)

331 Start up the rotors
Pack the leftist scum

Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (NWiLs)

332 cannot even imagine the horror of the OIG report.

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (Z8j2x)

333 I see there's a flaming skull now.

Does that mean we have an indictment, or at the VERY least a firing?

Posted by: Hikaru at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (XMDuf)

334 Ha,stupid troll thinks we give a fuck about Republicans.

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (LiyEm)

335 The next time I hear some leftist mouth breather say Russia!!! I am actually punching them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (+1EJs)
***************************

They are still pushing it... Tom Perez has issued a statement.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (PvFoN)

336 Ahhh, Flaming Skull.

I had such Flaming Skull Blue Gonads, after such a long period of enforced celibacy.

Now I need to smoke a cigarette.

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (42M22)

337 Dont forget that omission is a crime when applying for a warrant.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (EW73Z)

338
Some good stuff here, but... just 3.14 pages.
Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM

We have determined that the document is pi. If we now determine the radius of knowledge it is simple to determine the size of the circle of conspiracy.

Math is power!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (e1mEI)

339 >>No just for the sake of argument, what in here actually compromises national security?

The Truth.

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (eOBDQ)

340 Burning Skeleton Head!!!

Posted by: Weasel at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (8aWIY)

341 I'd love to see Isikoff brought in to have a chat with the senate committee on intellilgence. and Comey, that posturing asshole, can FOADIAF.

Posted by: vivi at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (11H2y)

342 I'd really like to hear Alan Dershowitz's take on this.

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (LiyEm)

343 We don't need no stinkin' rule of law.

Posted by: The Democrat Party at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (vtcmf)

344 Insurance. Never go without.

Posted by: Peter Sztruk at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (ylUqT)

345 Russia wrote the memo and secured the FISA warrants.

We are not crooks.

Posted by: Robert Mueller, looking for his passport at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (aT+Bx)

346 Also what Zombie said.

The dossier was just an excuse to go fishing to try to rig the election.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (meYBL)

347 so, the left, by infiltrating institutions, tried to burn the country down.

Instead, it appears they may have burned themselves down.

Hopefully, any way.

Posted by: Blake at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (WEBkv)

348 thread operating at a pace of over 700 comments/hr

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (h/uSM)

349 I don't see how Trump can do anything BUT fire Rod Rosenstien at this point. Would Sessions really quit? If so, he's far more useless than previously credited.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (Ax5Cx)

350 Shut yer pie hole, Jessica Tarlow, and make PDT a sammich.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (ptqGC)

351 328 I'm getting drunk tonight!
Posted by: Bored383

????

Why are you waiting so long?

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (42M22)

352 Maritime, well Hillary's computer, i think they'd want to Hide their knowledge of where it was and ..they might have helped her recieve the info she wanted on any particular day..

and i wonder how Mills (lawyer is right now)

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (Z8j2x)

353 >Steele had better never step foot on American soil again.

He currently resides in HI, so he's SAFE

Posted by: sofa saver at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (4u7kU)

354 The dossier was just an excuse to go fishing to try to rig the election.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (meYBL)

That's it, in a nutshell.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (5h81Z)

355 This is one hell of a sinkhole that has opened. The FBI had better clean house fast and if they ever hope to have any semblance of credit.

Just updating my tournament sheets. Trump beat all Republican challenges, Trump beat Hillary, Trump beat media, Trump beat FBI

Who's going to step into the ring for the next round?

Posted by: Chicago Vota at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (6xLO8)

356
PmIta memo

PI for length. PMITA for the type of prison to which the perps should be sentenced for a good long time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (pNxlR)

357 I recall reading during the reign of the JEF that he preferred his daily briefings be given to him for private consumption using his iPad, rather than face to face.

As in "I just read it in the news."

So we can never get the answer to "what did he know and when did he know it."

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (5OEn4)

358 >>I have to believe Obama knew, but in a "we never had this conversation" and "I don't want to know the details" way. Because that is how it is done.

He has a paper trail of sorts, too - just look at his EOs making it easier to share unmasked intel.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (W+vEI)

359 "..... and ..... sheeeee's ...... buying....a..... stairway..... to Devin."
Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (8XRCm)

"The Schlong Remains Enflamed..."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (mbhDw)

-----

"Over for Hilz and Bar Away".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (8XRCm)

360 334 Ha,stupid troll thinks we give a fuck about Republicans.
Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (LiyEm)

They can't comprehend people thinking in non-tribal terms.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (NWiLs)

361 170 oh by the way, that potus approval thing? yeah, democrats, you're fucked. as Michael Clayton wold say you're SO fucked.

Just saw that movie for the first time recently. So good.

Posted by: Mister Christopher (in Atlanta!) at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (FsN6J)

362 330 317

"..... and ..... sheeeee's ...... buying....a..... stairway..... to Devin."
Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (8XRCm)

"The Schlong Remains Enflamed..."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (mbhDw)

"Ramble on..."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (meYBL)

363 Refresh my memory, but this was the same dossier that also claimed Trump participated in golden showers with hookers, correct?

Posted by: A Woke Shitholer at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (+dsLj)

364 This should easily be enough to remove Rosenstein from anything to do with investigating Trump and his associates.

It should really be enough to remove him from the DOJ entirely, but Sessionzzz.

I heard conservative and Trump-friendly Howie Carr interview Sessionzzz a few weeks back. This was as friendly an interview as he could have hoped for and it was still unbelievably embarrassing for him. I was left with no alternative but to conclude that Sessionzzz is well advanced into dementia. The interview must be archived somewhere on the net - listen for yourself.

Posted by: cool breeze at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (2cg7P)

365 Where have you gone
Augusto Pinochet?
An angry nation turns
Its eyes to you.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (fA1SL)

366 national security .. the fact is the Bad guys have infiltrated it.

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (Z8j2x)

367 So just for the sake of argument, what in here actually compromises national security?

Well, let's see...where do you want us to start?

Posted by: The Democrat Party at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (vtcmf)

368 Makes me think the FISA judge is either a dope or waist it too.

Posted by: golfman at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (48QDY)

369 I wonder if Franks v Delaware applies to FISA?

Anybody?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (EW73Z)

370 "Over for Hilz and Bar Away".

Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (8XRCm)

Think I'm in love. If only you were a girl.

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (jRA31)

371 But Trump brought this on himself. These were good Americans who were trying to stop a racist/sexist/capitalist from becoming president.

If the FBI didn't try to stop Trump, they would have violated their oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Trump is responsible for all of this. He brought this on himself. Blame him.

Posted by: Hillary's Stormtroopers at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (ATVNj)

372 Willowed on a thread pile-up/pile on day:

The Founding Fathers were rather prescient to worry about dual loyalties. I just don't think they thought 'dual loyalties' would be to a political party and Kenya.

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2018 12:48 PM (c0rCy)

Posted by: RickZ at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (c0rCy)

373 312 This is one memo about one incident. The OIG has over 1.2 million documents on a number of other issues including the Hillary email investigation whitewash and leaking of confidential information.

This is just the start. Buckle up for a long ride.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (/tuJf)

I just hope, at the end of this long ride, the guilty are punished and the integrity of the federal government is somehow restored and its power diminished.

Posted by: SteveOReno at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (2sCft)

374 the average voting american will never here about this, much less grasp what it means. even my local news is on high speed spin cycle. i remain skeptical.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (KP5rU)

375 at the bottom of the screen CNN:

GOP Memo blames Steele Dossier for Surveillance;
Intelligence community disputes this central claim.

(what do you mean by 'intelligence community"..?)

and now Blitzer calls it a partisan memo.

they are trying very hard to spin this away

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (ILitO)

376 So... who signed the docs to get this renewed last July?

Rosenstein?

If so? he needs to be gone... now...

Posted by: Don Q'Bot at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (NgKpN)

377 Can't see any reason to fire McCabe though . . .

Posted by: Haley's Butter Biscuit at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (Nw8mx)

378 Only weasels would deny the importance of FBI judgement of who should be President! The people need to be led, and Our Leaders in the FBI fill this critical need.

Trust Our Leaders! Anything else is McCarthy-ite and we all know how many parks and roads are named after Joe McCarthy!

Posted by: Rev. Jim Comey at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (ylUqT)

379 so where is the "national security" angle and the "sources and methods"?

some lying liars who were lying yesterday need to be made to eat shit.

Posted by: x at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (nFwvY)

380 The MSM is charging that this memo is designed to "end the Mueller investigation" as though they truly believe the Mueller investigation has NO CONNECTION to the information contained in the memo.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (7uYFy)

381 Would Sessions really quit? If so, he's far more useless than previously credited.
--

We're assuming that Sessions was not told by Trump to sit on his hands this entire time. Maybe he was.

Posted by: shibumi at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (aT+Bx)

382 Communication Shakedown.

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (42M22)

383 365 Where have you gone
Augusto Pinochet?
An angry nation turns
Its eyes to you.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (fA1SL)

At this rate we need one for every state and one for DC.

Posted by: Monk at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (g4lFK)

384

Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (8XRCm)

385 346 Also what Zombie said.

The dossier was just an excuse to go fishing to try to rig the election.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (meYBL)

I don't think they ever believed their fishing would actually turn up anything, as indicated by Strzok's texts. However they did want to use it to harass the President, his staff, and create perjury and obstruction traps, as well as create bad press.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (NWiLs)

386 Watched MSNBC's spin. All about the process, how Trump didn't have approval from everyone at FBI to release!
Funny, that would usually not matter, but it was Obama's FBI, HRH Obama I must be protected always.

Posted by: joe mack at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (0d6wl)

387 >>I recall reading during the reign of the JEF that he preferred his daily briefings be given to him for private consumption using his iPad, rather than face to face.

There's a long post at Conservative Treehouse from a few weeks ago that details Obama and his daily briefings.

Apparently TFG was not like most presidents, who had it given just to himself or maybe 1-2 National Security advisors. No, TFG had a distro list of over 30 people - and they were including this domestic national security intel (Trump) in the daily briefing.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (W+vEI)

388 The Stairway to Leavenworth.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (DxWUs)

389 377 Can't see any reason to fire McCabe though . . .
Posted by: Haley's Butter Biscuit at February 02, 2018 12:55 PM (Nw8mx)

Mrs. Miller now...that whore has got to go!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (meYBL)

390 And a big chicken-fucker.
Great, J.J., now I'm gonna have the Chicken Dance playing in my head all day.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (ewxPW)

391 Can we hear from the FISA judges to get their opinion on the matter?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (h/uSM)

392 Make it "higher than Ohr is jailed or dies violently" and you have a deal. Don't worry, political betting clause 6 (do not arrange it yourself) is still in play. Not making that mistake again.
Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (jRA31)

Can't cover "dies violently" for fifty ... because "dies violently" is EXACTLY what the DC Establishment should be doing right now - to everyone that ever signed those FISA applications.

Or to Bruce Ohr. Bruce Ohr is the key here.

But I can lay you Three to One, two beers from you against a Finely Crafted Six Pack from me, on "higher than Ohr goes to jail or dies violently".

Final offer ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (fiGNd)

393 Chick on the radio quoted McCain saying "Now congress needs to get out of the way and let the Russian probe proceed unimpeded.

Posted by: Derptastic at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (DB16e)

394 This whole thing is bar none the worst, most dangerous scandal in US history.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:44 PM (mbhDw)

Right you are JJ. The Republic is being directly threatened by "enemies domestic."

There needs to me an America's March on DC.
Soon!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (0tfLf)

395 Jeff Sessions, white courtesy phone.
Jeff Sessions to the white courtesy phone please.

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (HgMAr)

396
Mr. Fever Head.

Guy Fiero (I think that may already be taken)

Mr. Flame Head (meh, sounds like a pyro)

Hot headed in Spanish is "hot headed" per Bingle.

Ace's head after a night of Valu-Rite debauchery and LauraW hump mischief in the kiddie pool filled with pudding. (that's way too long)

OK, I give up on a name for now.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (tRaq7)

397 Hikaru, maybe someones pension might be derferred?

ha, ok. well i can dream.

how about this, some go to jail, and Anyone involved littler loses pension and any possibility of holding any position of power/govt forevermore,,, and maybe reparations returning the funds they spent to SCREW the american process in elections.

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (Z8j2x)

398 He currently resides in HI, so he's SAFE
____________________________________

Heh.

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (ATVNj)

399 Aren't most of the important players in the FBI republicans?

This tired old stereotype needs to be put to bed. Just like the "all country club members are Republicans" and "all rich people are Republicans" stereotypes.

No, you nit. A MASSIVE number of Feebs are Democrats.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (iv0p7)

400 385 346 Also what Zombie said.

The dossier was just an excuse to go fishing to try to rig the election.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (meYBL)

I don't think they ever believed their fishing would actually turn up anything, as indicated by Strzok's texts. However they did want to use it to harass the President, his staff, and create perjury and obstruction traps, as well as create bad press.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (NWiLs)

As it turns out, yeah.

Still enemy action though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (meYBL)

401 Nail them to the Tree of Woe.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (NWiLs)

402 "Friends did you get some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me my dear friends
To keep me from the gallows pole?"

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (eOBDQ)

403 329
So just for the sake of argument, what in here actually compromises national security?

I mean, I could maybe understand if agents in the field were
compromised or certain technology was revealed in this memo that foreign
powers didn't know about, but the only thing revealed was the
corruption of individuals.

That's what Democrats wanted to hide.

Posted by: Maritime at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (lKmt3)

Because this is just the beginning. There are several more to come and once you wet the appetite (or allowed to dip your beak) then the chorus grows.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (bB4HN)

404 I wonder what Andrew McCarthy will have to say about all of this. Comey was his hero.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (Pqytn)

405 President Barack H. Obama, (R)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump es usando patriotismo para dividir America at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (ks6bw)

406 No, the white phone.

Posted by: Burger Chef at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (RuIsu)

407 McCain has a tumor the size of a golfball in his ead.And he wasn't too bright before that either....

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (LiyEm)

408 Hey, ya think Spielberg will do a movie like "The Post" about all of this?

And bring it out in the fall of 2020?

They don't even need an actor to do Obama. All the scenes with him can be done with closeups of those faces in the room with him, just Obama's voice in the track.

Maybe Eastwood can do it, because we know Spielberg never will.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (5OEn4)

409 The big factor that ties everything together is that none of these people ever expected Trump could win.

Sure, they wanted to destroy Trump, but they never thought for a second that Hillary and her cronies wouldn't be in charge after the election. What gets looked at and what is buried all depends who ends up in charge.

Posted by: Jwest at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (/roJx)

410 Anybody hear from Sara Carter this morning?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (bB4HN)

411 I don't see how this clouds the path for Hillary to assume the Presidency.

Posted by: Lawrence Lessig at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (6xLO8)

412 CNN in meltdown mode. Chalian thanks McCain for "bringing this back to what this is actually about, an attack on our democracy."

DIAF.

https://tinyurl.com/y8qgdkdn

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (ptqGC)

413 Huh? What? What time is it? It's FISA time?

Posted by: Jeff SezZzions at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (vtcmf)

414 >>Watched MSNBC's spin. All about the process, how Trump didn't have approval from everyone at FBI to release!

*ahem*
They report to Trump, they are not his superiors, FFS.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (W+vEI)

415 Aren't most of the important players in the FBI republicans?"

If by that you mean Senior staff, then according to the interwebz...

No. Not even close.

Next question?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (7LY+6)

416 397 Hikaru, maybe someones pension might be derferred?

ha, ok. well i can dream.

how about this, some go to jail, and Anyone involved littler loses pension and any possibility of holding any position of power/govt forevermore,,, and maybe reparations returning the funds they spent to SCREW the american process in elections.
Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (Z8j2x)

Good start, Willow. I like where your head is at.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (meYBL)

417 354 The dossier was just an excuse to go fishing to try to rig the election.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (meYBL)

That's it, in a nutshell.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (5h81Z)

---

given it happened in October, isn't this the 'insurance policy'?

If Trump gets elected, we already have intel on the campaign on which to build the impeachment case...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (h/uSM)

418 Here's the best part of all of this. None of what's in the memo is innuendo. McCabe admitted under oath that there'd have been no FISA warrant w/o the flaming pile of shit "dossier". Fact. They never disclosed their sources for the flaming pile of shit to the judge. Fact. They KEPT renewing the FISA without telling the judge any new info AFTER they fired him. Fact. The whole dossier was bullshit and Steele was fired over it. Fact. They ran with it anyway. FACT. Here's another FACT lefties. You treasonous leaches can all go fuck yourselves.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (+1EJs)

419 Jessica Tarlov is angry. And frustrated. And spinning like a top.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (7uYFy)

420 If this is just the tip of the iceberg, what the hell else is there?

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (72PAC)

421 To keep me from the gallows pole?"
Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (eOBDQ)

How does that story play out?

Posted by: golfman at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (48QDY)

422 Final offer ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (fiGNd)

Sounds good, signed!

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (jRA31)

423
Why haven't I been sent up the river for 50 years by now you might ask..Hic

Posted by: Skankles at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (lKyWE)

424 Well yeah,it is an attack on democracy.Just not by who they claim.

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (LiyEm)

425 404 I wonder what Andrew McCarthy will have to say about all of this. Comey was his hero.
Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (Pqytn)

He's a very sharp and generally sensible guy. If he is to be both intellectually honest and maintain any semblance of public respect, he has to make a statement admitting he was dead wrong about Comey.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (mbhDw)

426 Roll out ze guillotines de justice!!!

*goes back to listening to The Count of Monte Cristo on LibriVox*

Posted by: Sharkman at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (RIKJa)

427 The flaming skull is like 1940's porn Needs updating

Doesn't quite cut it !!

Posted by: John McIntyre at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (4u7kU)

428 I have the pdf. I OCR'd it, and spellchecked the OCR text. I would send it to Ace or COB if someone wants it.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (Dp6qK)

429 No, you nit. A MASSIVE number of Feebs are Democrats.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2018 12:57 PM (iv0p7)

-----------------------------------

The difference between Democrats and us: We believe if our guys did it too, they need to go to jail, whereas leftists try to excuse their actions because of the other guy.

Posted by: Blake at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (WEBkv)

430 312 This is one memo about one incident. The OIG has over 1.2 million documents on a number of other issues including the Hillary email investigation whitewash and leaking of confidential information.

This is just the start. Buckle up for a long ride.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 12:50 PM (/tuJf)

this is what worries me.. midterms if they (left)succeed in a deluge of positions..

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (Z8j2x)

431 Was it wrong to use a paid for political story from a political opponent to spy on her enemy? Someone should have told me. because if I would known I would have never used a paid for political story from a political opponent to spy on her enemy.

Posted by: Jimmy Comey at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (3BFzK)

432 Sounds good, signed!
Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (jRA31)

If you're right ... I'll be delighted.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (fiGNd)

433 359 "..... and ..... sheeeee's ...... buying....a..... stairway..... to Devin."
Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (8XRCm)

"The Schlong Remains Enflamed..."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (mbhDw)

-----

"Over for Hilz and Bar Away".
Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (8XRCm)

---

What is and What Should Never Be

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (h/uSM)

434 I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

I'll take five and 10 in Woolworth.

Posted by: Captain Spaulding at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (ATVNj)

435 >>We're assuming that Sessions was not told by Trump to sit on his hands this entire time. Maybe he was

The single dumbest theme that has gone on throughout this last year was Sleepy Sessions.

What exactly do people think the job of the Attorney General is? To strap on a Sherlock Holmes hat and get a bloodhound?

He is the chief executive of a 100,000 person government agency and he has plenty of investigators and people doing stuff in lots of different areas. The OIG with his team of over 500 investigators and lawyers is the person who was doing the major investigation and obviously he has found a lot.

Sessions had no role to play in this investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (/tuJf)

436 >>CNN in meltdown mode. Chalian thanks McCain for "bringing this back to what this is actually about, an attack on our democracy."

McCain is not an objective bystander - he sent his staffer to get the dossier and then he delivered it to the FBI.

I suppose he hasn't yet realized he's the dupe in this yet?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (W+vEI)

437 391
Can we hear from the FISA judges to get their opinion on the matter?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (h/uSM)

--

Just as soon as they get back from their theftless robberies in the park. Walks. WALKS in the park.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump es usando patriotismo para dividir America at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (ks6bw)

438 >> Jessica Tarlov is angry

She also has a hard time eating soup and runny eggs.

...and, I bet she gives a sloppy blowjob.

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (eOBDQ)

439 STFU Chris Wallace.

Go eat some soup.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

440 Love goes out the door when memo comes innuendo.

Posted by: Burger Chef at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (RuIsu)

441 What was John McCain's role?

Posted by: Seems legit at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (ZJKkO)

442 I don't know. The memo is kind of letdown for me. It confirms what we already knew for the most part. I guess it serves as a formal document to support firings and prosecutions. The fact that the original AND all subsequent FISA authorizations were crooked is new. And that the turd Yates signed off on one.

I was hoping that it would have pictures or McCabe and Comey spooning in drag.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (fCsNX)

443 Nail them to the Tree of Woe"

Whoaaaaaa

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (7LY+6)

444 420 If this is just the tip of the iceberg, what the hell else is there?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (72PAC)

Obama and Hillary directly named and implicated in detail..

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (mbhDw)

445 351
328 I'm getting drunk tonight!

Posted by: Bored383

????

Why are you waiting so long?

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (42M22)

Because like most Americans I have a job and responsibilities

Posted by: Bored383 at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (70HTk)

446 I think it's time someone did a sequel to "Southside With You".

"GITMO With You", coming 2020.

Posted by: Hikaru at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (XMDuf)

447 The dossier was just an excuse to go fishing to try to rig the election.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (meYBL)

That's it, in a nutshell.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (5h81Z)

---

given it happened in October, isn't this the 'insurance policy'?

If Trump gets elected, we already have intel on the campaign on which to build the impeachment case...
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM

Pretty much.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (+1EJs)

448 The difference between Democrats and us: We believe if our guys did it too, they need to go to jail, whereas leftists try to excuse their actions because of the other guy.
Posted by: Blake at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (WEBkv)

We actually believe in moral principles and the rule of law. They believe in will to power and tribalism.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (NWiLs)

449 Come and see.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (fftfA)

450 367 So just for the sake of argument, what in here actually compromises national security?

---

not national security, job security

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (h/uSM)

451 Hope Steve in cold bear gets a pardon. I swear he's not a Russian Botz!

Posted by: Max Power at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (QCc6B)

452 Pretty damning for Wray.

WTF were his "grave concerns" based on here?

Absurd.

BUT - I believe he was completely sincere.

It's just that, like so so many people in senior govt. positions for so long (esp. during the Obama nightmare, obviously), he's totally unfit for his effing job.

Of course it won't happen - like 90% of the other obvious, sometimes decisive questions - this issue will not be pressed.

"Director Wray, what were your concerns based on? A fair reading of this document reveals nothing that any reasonable person could worry about. Please explain."

Posted by: Very Unstable Semi-Genius, AKA rhomboid at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (vP09u)

453 I've met the Russians and the Russians are us!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (+1EJs)

454 I'm investing heavily in rope and pitchforks and fire.

Posted by: Dang at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (8b+oT)

455 Good Times Bad Times

Posted by: James Comey at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (HgMAr)

456 I wonder what the FISA judge thinks about fake documents being put in front of him.

Posted by: dartist at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (nisXv)

457 Nood.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (Dp6qK)

458 359 "..... and ..... sheeeee's ...... buying....a..... stairway..... to Devin."
Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (8XRCm)

"The Schlong Remains Enflamed..."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:52 PM (mbhDw)

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"Over for Hilz and Bar Away".
Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 12:54 PM (8XRCm)

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What is and What Should Never Be
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (h/uSM)

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The Battle of MemoWar

Posted by: fixerupper at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (8XRCm)

459 427 The flaming skull is like 1940's porn Needs updating
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I see you're familiar with my work.

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (ATVNj)

460 McCain is not an objective bystander - he sent his staffer to get the dossier and then he delivered it to the FBI.

I suppose he hasn't yet realized he's the dupe in this yet?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (W+vEI)

His tumor hasn't told him yet.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (ptqGC)

461 349 I don't see how Trump can do anything BUT fire Rod Rosenstien at this point.
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Rosenstein, Ohr, Yates, etc. All these corrupt a-holes need to be fired, pronto. Then criminally prosecuted and disbarred. And if Sessions has a problem with that, then fire him too. This kind of behavior is blatantly unethical and illegal and should never, ever be tolerated. And Trump needs to get rid of Wray and hire somebody to clean out that nest of vipers in the FBI.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (fqUgw)

462 What up guys!? Anything good goin on!?

Ya'll ready for the "BIG GAME"

Go PATS!

Posted by: dananjcon at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (xqfqx)

463 someone else has pointed out that FISA warrant is even better than a rubber stamp, like one in a thousand is denied. And yet this was denied the first time ...

then they went back (after already spying without said warrant?) and used their own faked 'dossier' to fool the judge, withholding the obvious duplicity ... (that it was their own people, being linked with DNC at that point, Ohrs and others)

Oh look judge (different judge, also not informed request had been denied once?) we found some pure document that gravely concerns us. Lie of omission, that it was funded by "them", them being deepstate/dnc, coordinating with leaks/payments to MFM.

paints a pretty clear picture. they should hang, one and all. evil empire operating as a shadow "government", and they still demand their pensions after fleecing us.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (bT8Z4)

464 Donald Trump seems to be having a rather good week.

Posted by: jwb7605 at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (DofIg)

465 438 >> Jessica Tarlov is angry

She also has a hard time eating soup and runny eggs.

...and, I bet she gives a sloppy blowjob.
Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (eOBDQ)

...go on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (meYBL)

466 this is what worries me.. midterms if they (left)succeed in a deluge of positions..

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (Z8j2x)

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A roaring national economy with full employment raises a lot of boats.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (Pqytn)

467 Please someone other than Chris Wallace.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (PvFoN)

468 Lee Zelden plays Black Dog

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (r9UYA)

469 393
Chick on the radio quoted McCain saying "Now congress needs to get out of the way and let the Russian probe proceed unimpeded.

Posted by: Derptastic at February 02, 2018 12:56 PM (DB16e)

If only I could continue unimpeded!!! Then this whole thing would be over with.

Posted by: Tumor in McCain's head at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (jxbfJ)

470 I was about to say isn't it telling that the Washington Free Beacon seems to be ignoring this story? But then I checked their main page and noticed that they aren't ignoring it completely. They're just repeating the democrat/media talking points.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/nunes-memo-nothing-burger-will-destroy-national-security/

Posted by: buzzion at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (lKs2v)

471 425 404 I wonder what Andrew McCarthy will have to say about all of this. Comey was his hero.
Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2018 12:58 PM (Pqytn)

Soy Boys came into my antique shop with black eyes all the time, so no biggy

Posted by: John McIntyre at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (4u7kU)

472 Tom Hanks is celebrating the memo's release, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump es usando patriotismo para dividir America at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (ks6bw)

473 Good Times Bad Times, you know I've had my share.

Posted by: L Zeppelin at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (df+Zi)

474 Ah, corgis....

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (7LY+6)

475 STFU Chris Wallace.

Go eat some soup.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

Jane ... that's going to be part of the FBI "out". Get used to it.

FBI - "We weren't spying on Trump. We were spying on Carter Page."

Why do you think I'm giving Three to One odds for small stakes ? Because I like buying other people beer ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (fiGNd)

476 466
this is what worries me.. midterms if they (left)succeed in a deluge of positions..

Posted by: willow at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (Z8j2x)

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A roaring national economy with full employment raises a lot of boats.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (Pqytn)

And if we had an opposition party who had a lick of sense, there are TONS of sound bites about this whole fiasco that can now be used against the Dems.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - an American Dreamer at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (jxbfJ)

477 445 351
328 I'm getting drunk tonight!

Posted by: Bored383

????

Why are you waiting so long?

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 12:53 PM (42M22)

Because like most Americans I have a job and responsibilities
Posted by: Bored383

You mean like most non-leftist Americans. Half the Democratic voters are on welfare, and the other half have massive trust funds and loll around all day being professional whiners.

Posted by: zombie at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (42M22)

478 Nobody any higher than Bruce Ohr gets punished for this. I'll make that wager now. Any takers ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:37 PM (fiGNd)

I will. There are already a half dozen figures implicated in material crimes. You don't get to lie and deceive when signing a FISA warrant request. It doesn't matter if you were deceived when you signed. These are straight up felonies with no wiggle room.

Posted by: Abiss at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (L6Zpd)

479 Nobody's Fault But Mine

Posted by: James Comey at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (HgMAr)

480 Is Yahoo working with Russia?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (PvFoN)

481 I love the smell of burning skull on a Friday morning.

Posted by: Texican(ette) at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (CjE8v)

482 472
Tom Hanks is celebrating the memo's release, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump es usando patriotismo para dividir America at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (ks6bw)

Probably wishing he was back on an island with Wilson.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - an American Dreamer at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (jxbfJ)

483 Beyond that, Ohr will roll. He has everything to gain and nothing to lose by doing so.

Posted by: Abiss at February 02, 2018 01:04 PM (L6Zpd)

484 If only I could continue unimpeded!!! Then this whole thing would be over with.
Posted by: Tumor in McCain's head at February 02, 2018 01:02 PM (jxbfJ)

You're kinda farming in the Sahara, arentja ??

Posted by: sofa saver at February 02, 2018 01:04 PM (4u7kU)

485 Former House Intel Chair Mike "Deep State" Rodgers on CNN.

"This is nothing....nothing here to see." (paraphrased)

Posted by: aquaviva at February 02, 2018 01:04 PM (o0dph)

486 Chris Wallace is trying to spin that it wasn't the dossier that "spurred the Russia investigation, but by George Papadopolous....

This is BS, right?

Posted by: JoeF. at February 02, 2018 01:04 PM (7uYFy)

487 There are a lot of people in the DOJ, FBI and the DNC who might want to hire someone to start their cars for them.

Posted by: Old Nam Vet at February 02, 2018 01:04 PM (FqZOm)

488 I don't care if any of the DOJ/FBI creeps do time. Losing jobs, losing pensions, losing reputations, losing power, yes, love to see that, because that's what really would punish them.

But they're just hench men. I want bigger powers to fall due to this.

I want to know which Democrats in Congress knew about this and when did they know it? Adam Schiff comes to mind immediately. Should be the campaign theme of next fall. I want the entire Democrat Party tarred and feathered with this scandal. I would gladly let Ohr, Lynch, et al, not go to prison if only this would happen.

Secondly, it's not necessarily the journalists involved with this who should go to jail -- it's their publications / employers who should be punished. CNN, WaPO, NYT, NBC -- their credibility as "news" organizations shot to hell forever and even LIVs and libs not trusting them any more. I would rather see CNN and the WaPo go out of business over this than to see an individual jerk journalist go to jail. I'm thinking long game here - the political and media power structure that led to this is what needs to suffer.

The persons named in the memo are just the hit men. I want to see their mob bosses brought down.

/ rant

Posted by: Hands at February 02, 2018 01:04 PM (EzdLW)

489 Comey, McCabe, Yates and Rosenstein all signed affidavits to the court swearing to the authenticity of a document Comey later called "salacious and unverified." This is news.

Let the disbarment proceedings begin.

Posted by: Haley's Butter Biscuit at February 02, 2018 01:05 PM (Nw8mx)

490 Trump as victim of Obama/Comey FBI dirty tricks. This is going to seriously trigger the snowflakes - they are going to have a meltdown.

Posted by: w at February 02, 2018 01:05 PM (vhrlk)

491 I'm beginning to understand why citizens - the normal middle class ones - in Latin American countries go out into the streets banging pots and pans.

That's because they are not armed

Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 02, 2018 01:05 PM (czkHE)

492 STFU Chris Wallace.

Go eat some soup.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

NYC gloryhole plunker

Posted by: sofa saver at February 02, 2018 01:05 PM (4u7kU)

493 Then they were leaking what they had gotten through FISA to the press.

Posted by: dagny at February 02, 2018 01:05 PM (16bxt)

494
Its good to see the Leftists are now saying it is ok for the party in power to use govt agencies to spy on the opposition party candidates to influence elections. Because if its what they want, ok then.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 02, 2018 01:05 PM (r+sAi)

495 486 Ys,and it was begun months ago whe the dossier started really falling apart.It's utter bullsgit.Papadoulos was a minor nothing nobody who the Trump team barely knew existed making drunken claims about Russian sources.

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 01:05 PM (LiyEm)

496 Jessica Tarlov is angry

She also has a hard time eating soup and runny eggs.

...and, I bet she gives a sloppy blowjob.
Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2018 01:00 PM (eOBDQ)

Is that a problem?

Posted by: Country Boy at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (7Py7T)

497 McCain is not an objective bystander : Posted by Lizzy

Yeah...fuck John McCain ALL day long.

Posted by: FITP at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (Cndvn)

498 AWWWWWWW Chrissy Wallace Looks like he was told he was told he has Cancer & told he had 6 months to live

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (y3aQB)

499 I will. There are already a half dozen figures implicated in material crimes. You don't get to lie and deceive when signing a FISA warrant request. It doesn't matter if you were deceived when you signed. These are straight up felonies with no wiggle room.
Posted by: Abiss at February 02, 2018 01:03 PM (L6Zpd)

You know the drill ... Three to One odds ... Two Beers is your price against my Six ... I'll pay on Jail or Violent Death above Bruce Ohr.

Still in ? Since I'm the House, I reserve the right to refuse service. Current recognized players are trev006 and Mark Andrew Edwards.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (fiGNd)

500 zombie . . . I grew up in Baltimore. I know how corrupt it all is

Posted by: Bored383 at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (70HTk)

501 Local news story take is that the memo was released "despite" the FBI warnings. No mention of the contents. Just Trump against the FBI and DOJ.

Posted by: Javems at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (gAhYB)

502 If he is to be both intellectually honest and maintain any semblance of public respect, he has to make a statement admitting he was dead wrong about Comey.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (mbhDw)

Wasn't Joe DiGenova on the St Comey bandwagon as well?

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (gwPgz)

503 Nixon did no time, others did. Send the underlings to prison, it will stop the next underlings

Posted by: CN at February 02, 2018 01:07 PM (W4xXw)

504 And beyond THAT - if it isn't prosecuted, do these fools want to give precedent to those tables being turned on them and the same tools being put into the hands of Donald J. Trump? When they come out of panic mode, they should really stop and consider that question. Because their people are about to be out, and his people are about to move in...bigly.

Posted by: Abiss at February 02, 2018 01:07 PM (L6Zpd)

505 has the fat drunk deplored this yet?

Posted by: x at February 02, 2018 01:07 PM (nFwvY)

506 Local news story take is that the memo was released "despite" the FBI warnings. No mention of the contents. Just Trump against the FBI and DOJ.

Posted by: Javems at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (gAhYB)

But really, isn't that all you really need to know?

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 01:07 PM (gwPgz)

507 The memo writers have a bunch of trial stuff on Steele's libel trial in London. He says one thing in court records (much of it sealed but the US Congress was given it) and the FBI cretins say something else. So who is lying? If Steele was really so very, very anti-Trump being elected that means MI6 was too which of course is Teresa May et al. If the UK is conspiring to disrupt a US election there needs to be a few heads rolled in jolly old UK as Steele is their creature. It also reads like the FBI is trying to hang a lot of this on Steele and Ohr who is his bosom buddy. And Rosenstein is/was Ohr's boss, and his wife's employment at Fusion GPS didn't come out until their bank records were turned over to Nunes by the bank. The DOJ never fessed up about old Nellie Ohr. Rosenstein needs to be $(*#-canned this afternoon. He either knew or is too stupid/lazy to be Asst Attorney General. Or go to the basement.

Posted by: Lester at February 02, 2018 01:07 PM (LfJIn)

508 This was more than enough for Trump to fire Comey.

Posted by: w at February 02, 2018 01:07 PM (vhrlk)

509 "And Trump needs to get rid of Wray and hire somebody to clean out that nest of vipers in the FBI.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer

one old grizzled, retired FBI guy on Hannity was scolding Wray for trying to gain standing with some of the political side of the FBI by publicly disagreeing with Trump releasing this. He said he should resign ... that is outrageous.

another Judicial Watch guy was creaming at how Kelly even took the meeting with those five "gravely concerned" FBI guys. they should not be trying to go around the president like that, should not be releasing political statements.

Fire them all ... but I guess it's a process. They have a plan, even if it does not all go perfectly. Lots of rot to pull out while keeping the house from collapsing.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 02, 2018 01:07 PM (bT8Z4)

510 I hear that FNC is doing their good cop bad cop routine again. People should really cut their cords.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 02, 2018 01:08 PM (r9UYA)

511 Blood pressure going up. Have to back out for the rest of the day.

Posted by: Javems at February 02, 2018 01:08 PM (gAhYB)

512 Posted by: JoeF. at February 02, 2018 01:04 PM <<<<<

Chris Wallace can't read.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 02, 2018 01:08 PM (r+sAi)

513 And now what needs to be released is who was under surveillance using this "Carter Page FISC" order, what names were unmasked, who did the unmasking, and what documents contained the unmasked conversations of "US persons."

My guess is that this will get into the Obama WH senior staff and the Presidential Daily Brief which was disseminated widely in that administration in ways that would allow it to be sent to/viewed by people who were not authorized to see it.

Posted by: geoffb at February 02, 2018 01:08 PM (zOpu5)

514 Nood

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2018 01:08 PM (LiyEm)

515 I'm reading through the memo and thinking "How did Trump manage to get elected?" Good grief, he wasn't paranoid, they really WERE out to get him -- and he won anyway. No wonder everyone on Hillary's team was so stunned.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at February 02, 2018 01:09 PM (6k9X+)

516 Do we have an extradiction treaty with GB? Maybe they will had over Steele to be prosecuted.

Posted by: JAS at February 02, 2018 01:09 PM (7JbXq)

517 Still in ? Since I'm the House, I reserve the right to refuse service. Current recognized players are trev006 and Mark Andrew Edwards.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (fiGNd)

I want in.

Posted by: Country Boy at February 02, 2018 01:09 PM (7Py7T)

518 I mean, McCabe, Yates, and Rosenstien seemingly broke the law. They intentionally misrepresented things to the FISA court - pretty sure you get a swift kick in the nut sack for that.

If I were the FISA judge I'd haul all their asses in front of me NOW and question them under oath, get the truth ("were you aware when you made this request...did you knowingly violate...) and toss them in jail for a week for contempt of court for good measure. Assuming they don't admit to crimes on the spot.

This is not partisan attack, it is a wake up call to these yo-yos - you had better be VERY sure of your information before launching something like this going forward. You could make an argument that these guys just pencil whipped it through without much thought. THAT is why they will not do a long stint in prison.

Once they were out of court for contempt charges, If I were Trump, I'd immediately fire all three. It doesn't have to be partisanship - just simple and utter incompetence. You cannot launch a FISA investigation on the sole say so of an opposition campaign paid informant. Ever.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 02, 2018 01:09 PM (fftfA)

519 502 If he is to be both intellectually honest and maintain any semblance of public respect, he has to make a statement admitting he was dead wrong about Comey.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 12:59 PM (mbhDw)

Wasn't Joe DiGenova on the St Comey bandwagon as well?
Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (gwPgz)

Yes, and I believe he is no longer on that. Please advise if I am incorrect.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 02, 2018 01:09 PM (mbhDw)

520 508 This was more than enough for Trump to fire Comey.
Posted by: w

out of a cannon

Posted by: x at February 02, 2018 01:10 PM (nFwvY)

521 The FBI played the FISA Court for a fool - used them like a tool.

Posted by: w at February 02, 2018 01:10 PM (vhrlk)

522 Unfucking real. The Star Trib (The Red Star as we call it) has the headline. House Republicans release partisan memo on Russia probe. Sub headline. Republicans released a partisan and bitterly disputed memo.. blah blah blah. Fuck you. Of course they can't point to anything to refute it so there's your meme as we all knew was going to happen.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2018 01:10 PM (+1EJs)

523 Still in ? Since I'm the House, I reserve the right to refuse service. Current recognized players are trev006 and Mark Andrew Edwards.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (fiGNd)

I want in.
Posted by: Country Boy at February 02, 2018 01:09 PM (7Py7T)

I got you Country Boy. Still waiting on Abiss.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:11 PM (fiGNd)

524 @WiredSources 4 minutes ago

BREAKING: Asked if he has confidence in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Trump says: "You figure that one out" - AP

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 01:11 PM (Enq6K)

525
@LarrySchweikart
"Political origins of the Steele dossier (fraudulent, created by Fusion GPS) were KNOWN to SENIOR DPT of JUSTICE AND FBI OFFICIALS" but "excluded that info when they sought the FISA warrant."

Translation: senior FBI/DOJ peeps were TRYING TO GET TRUM

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:11 PM (y3aQB)

526 So, Carter Page? After a year of watching him, they got nothing?

Nothing but their asses on a shield.

Posted by: JAS at February 02, 2018 01:11 PM (7JbXq)

527 Donald Trump seems to be having a rather good week.

Posted by: jwb7605 at February 02, 2018 01:01 PM (DofIg)

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When Trump has a good week America has a good week!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 02, 2018 01:11 PM (3BFzK)

528 Drudge, if you ain't spinning sirens you have forgotten the definition of news.

Posted by: trev006 at February 02, 2018 01:12 PM (jRA31)

529 I seem to recall that one of the very few, if not the only person that Comey's once-secret Twitter account followed was, of all people, Michael Isikoff. What a coincidence, huh?!

Posted by: Dan at February 02, 2018 01:12 PM (hW3KZ)

530 Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 01:11 PM (Enq6K)
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I posted that ! but with everybody posting like crazy it was lost

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:12 PM (y3aQB)

531 This was an unfortunate lapse by an individual, which has now been dealt with under internal disciplinary procedures."

Ding Ding Ding!!!

We have a winner!

The standard DC answer...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 02, 2018 12:51 PM (7LY+6)

That is not going to even come close to working this time around.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at February 02, 2018 01:12 PM (jjaLl)

532 524 @WiredSources 4 minutes ago

BREAKING: Asked if he has confidence in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Trump says: "You figure that one out" - AP

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2018 01:11 PM

Now that is funny.
Imagine his call home at lunch..."Honey, how does Florida sound?"

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2018 01:13 PM (0tfLf)

533 I wonder if this has changed any minds among the RINOs in Congress? Will any of them put away the "collegiality" and begin treating Democrats as the domestic enemies they are?

Posted by: rickl at February 02, 2018 01:14 PM (xjiRE)

534 Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2018 01:13 PM (0tfLf)
--- More How does me being in a PMITA Fed Prison sound to you

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:14 PM (y3aQB)

535 Rush just now: "This is entirely a Democrat run operation."

Posted by: Hands at February 02, 2018 01:14 PM (EzdLW)

536 Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 02, 2018 01:09 PM (fftfA)

Problem is, that recused judge (Cantarras?) from Flynn's deal was most likely the FISA judge on this- meaning he very well may have been in on it.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at February 02, 2018 01:15 PM (jjaLl)

537 534 Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2018 01:13 PM (0tfLf)
--- More How does me being in a PMITA Fed Prison sound to you

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:14 PM

Even better.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2018 01:15 PM (0tfLf)

538 Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at February 02, 2018 01:15 PM (jjaLl)
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& that is why CJ Roberts forced him to rcuse

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:16 PM (y3aQB)

539 Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 12:43 PM (fiGNd)

Still taking bets?

Posted by: clutch at February 02, 2018 01:18 PM (UeOm/)

540 that is why CJ Roberts forced him to rcuse

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:16 PM (y3aQB)

Right on! So that judge needs to be dragged out into the sunlight, too....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at February 02, 2018 01:18 PM (jjaLl)

541 I suspect that special counsels (plural) can now be authorized. If Mueller knew the tainted dossier was the basis for his investigation, then he is chargeable if he used that information to secure search warrants etc. and all convictions and or pleas are open for revision. His conflict of interest statement will come to be revealed and may further undermine him. Furthermore, having tainted members such as the FBI-DOJ lovers on his staff talking about misconduct in office, makes further prosecutions difficult unless Mueller resigns along with the whole existing team and a new one starts from scratch.

All of those DOJ officials named in the report may also be subject to bar disciplinary actions per a complaint as well as subject to criminal prosecution if they knowingly used false representation before a court to seek a continuation of the warrants.

Folks, this is the tip of the iceberg as people note. Most of your media is compromised, I suspect that Fusion GPS will indicate widespread pay to play among reporters. I also suspect that the whole Hillary Email scandal will spread to envelop BO and fmr Atty Gen Lynch. Comey and McCabe along with others will be lucky to avoid obstruction of justice among other charges. Ohr, violated DOJ conflict of interest guidelines but haven't done the research to determine if those have criminal penalties.

AND, we have not come to the unmasking and GPS usage (along with other contractors) and dissemination of top secret information for political purposes.

I suspect that fun and games with the FISA court have been going on for some time and Mike Rogers probably knew about it.

Benghazi, perjury before Congress, the corruption at the Consumer Finance Protection Board, etc. have yet been fully investigated and the Nuclear bomb is Uranium One and the Clinton Global Initiative. Which most of the usual top suspects were involved in some fashion. Our government's executive branch, intelligence community, judiciary, and law enforcement are all implicated in grand schemes of corruption and misbehavior that resemble a drug cartel operated government rather than what the civics books tell us how government is supposed to operate.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2018 01:18 PM (acrHV)

542 Carter Page should to sue the hell out of Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein et al. under Section 1983 for violation of his 4th Amendment rights. He's already suing Steele in GB so expect it.

Posted by: Haley's Butter Biscuit at February 02, 2018 01:18 PM (Nw8mx)

543 Now we know why flies like Obama's face.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 02, 2018 01:18 PM (YV+SU)

544 So the democrats fought to conceal this because...? I mean, all it does it make the Mueller probe look extremely fishy...which it already does.

If I were Mueller, I'd end the special council. Simply say "The contents of this memo, if true, show that the impetus for the special council was based on an the results of an improperly obtained FISA warrant. As such, anything we might uncover as part of this investigation is in fact fruit of the poisonous tree, and uncovered without cause. That being the case, charges against Manafort, Carter Page, and Kelly have been dropped, and the investigation is immediately terminated. It should be noted that, at this time, we have found no evidence of collusion between anyone at the Trump campaign and Russia, and only minor process crimes against any of his associates."

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 02, 2018 01:20 PM (fftfA)

545 Quenchy! Buddy! Where you been?

Posted by: SandyCheeks at February 02, 2018 01:20 PM (ihzOe)

546 hey, jeff sessions: time to announce that due to the collusion on the side of democrats to subvert the 2016 election, you are renouncing your recursion as it was based upon lies by Democrats and sympathetic bureaucrats. time for a charging bull in the house of DOJ

Posted by: Sardaukar working for Harkonnensontrol at February 02, 2018 01:21 PM (Wa5hI)

547 This is just the crust of the corruption pie. There are all sorts of ancillary scandals still to get cracked open.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2018 01:21 PM (oVJmc)

548 Trump has just driven the 'Eat Me!' float down the middle of the DC Homecoming Parade.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 02, 2018 01:23 PM (oVJmc)

549 Now Deep Sate Bret Baier spinning it BIGTIME

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:23 PM (y3aQB)

550 Perp walks! I demand PERP WALKS with CAMERAS!!!

Posted by: Mr Obvious at February 02, 2018 01:25 PM (5prN7)

551 Still taking bets?
Posted by: clutch at February 02, 2018 01:18 PM (UeOm/)

I'll cover you ... and Abiss, if he confirms. You get Three to One odds, Two Beers is the cost to get in. I pay on "Higher Than Bruce Ohr In Jail or Violently Sent to Morgue".

Players are ...

Mark Andrew Edwards
trev006
Country Boy
Abiss (please confirm)
Clutch (please confirm)

I can cover one more player, then I'm closing the House.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:26 PM (fiGNd)

552 >>>>If I were Mueller, I'd end the special council. Simply say "The contents of this memo, if true, show that the impetus for the special council was based on an the results of an improperly obtained FISA warrant. As such, anything we might uncover as part of this investigation is in fact fruit of the poisonous tree, and uncovered without cause.

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This investigation has never been criminal, it's always been political. Nothing has to be proven in a court of law, it only has to be proven in the court of public opinion. Having said that, the Republicans should come out now and start hammering away at the entire Mueller investigation using just the rationale you've cited. "It was all a lie from the beginning, the entire investigation has been based on a fraud, the judicial process has been corrupted, this entire investigation is part of an on-going fraud, it must be ended."

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at February 02, 2018 01:26 PM (nu45M)

553 I would like all of the Never Trumpers out there to tell me exactly which other candidate could have taken on this attack as well as the usual campaign and actually won?

Because as I sit here I cannot think of any of them that could have handled all of this successfully.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Cure Your Constitutional Constipation with Memo-Lax! 50% Off at The Outrage Outlet! at February 02, 2018 01:26 PM (hLRSq)

554 42 Perp walks in mid-air.

WITH ROPES!!!

Posted by: Mr Obvious at February 02, 2018 01:26 PM (5prN7)

555 Legal question: Can the Federal judge who signed/issued the FISA warrants rescind those warrants based on the new information?

Posted by: Mr Obvious at February 02, 2018 01:29 PM (5prN7)

556 Having said that, the Republicans should come out now and start hammering away at the entire Mueller investigation using just the rationale you've cited. "It was all a lie from the beginning, the entire investigation has been based on a fraud, the judicial process has been corrupted, this entire investigation is part of an on-going fraud, it must be ended."
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Ghost - all that needs to happen is to convene a Grand Jury (somewhere other than DC) and start charging people with crimes. Lots of them to go around. I suspect Sessions will wait for the OIG Report but the result is the same.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 02, 2018 01:29 PM (YV+SU)

557 >>>>I would like all of the Never Trumpers out there to tell me exactly which other candidate could have taken on this attack as well as the usual campaign and actually won?

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I am starting to think that even if some other Republican had won the nomination and the election that this cabal would have pulled the same stunt. Maybe not the Piss Dossier, but some other fraud that would have served as the same sort of justification.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at February 02, 2018 01:30 PM (nu45M)

558 #488 exactly.

You can punish an individual, but so what? these guys are just cannon fodder for the progressive war machine. There will always be a long line willing to take their place for the cause.

You only when when the cause is absolutely shown to be corrupt and evil. then the cannon fodder dries up. and this can end.

Show a touch of mercy towards these people, treat them not like criminals, but escaped mental patients.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 02, 2018 01:31 PM (fftfA)

559 555 Legal question: Can the Federal judge who signed/issued the FISA warrants rescind those warrants based on the new information?
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Yes. And he can refer charges against those who perpetrated a fraud on the court. Judges really don't like be fucked with by crooked lawyers and cops.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 02, 2018 01:32 PM (YV+SU)

560 Still in ? Since I'm the House, I reserve the right to refuse service. Current recognized players are trev006 and Mark Andrew Edwards.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 02, 2018 01:06 PM (fiGNd)

Yah brother - deal.

Posted by: Abiss at February 02, 2018 01:34 PM (L6Zpd)

561 Should we start a pool on when the next Arkancide will occur?

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at February 02, 2018 01:35 PM (nu45M)

562 That is an important point - what is the confidential information the dems were yammering about in this memo? I don't see anything confidential at all.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 02, 2018 01:36 PM (fftfA)

563 out of a cannon

Into the sun

Posted by: GMan (My kingdom for 10 feet of rope and some torches) at February 02, 2018 01:37 PM (sxq57)

564 I actually feel quite sick about all this. I grew up
in a country where the government did and still does, this kind of shit
all the time. Spying on its citizens, using false narratives to get rid
of the opposition, murder, etc. I just can't believe its happening here
as well. I want to cry. Posted by: IC at February 02, 2018 12:47 PM (a0IVu)
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Me too, although I came from Chicago area and have been literally denigrated for my tinfoil hats that 'I just don't understand', etc. All politics is local.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 02, 2018 01:40 PM (MIKMs)

565 http://bit.ly/2EynkPi
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FISA Memo Release - Here It Is
Posted on February 2, 2018 by sundance

Posted by: MISHBOT at February 02, 2018 01:40 PM (y3aQB)

566 Let this be the first of many flaming skulls!

Posted by: nraendowment at February 02, 2018 01:59 PM (7Zph2)

567 I think our problem about shrinking the federal government just solved itself.

Posted by: Texican(ette) at February 02, 2018 02:22 PM (CjE8v)

568 Democrats got caught red handed, trying to rig an election and overthrow a legally elected President.......and yet NO ONE IS SITTING IN JAIL, and the investigators are being eliminated like falling drops of rain. DID SOMEBODY SAY; TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE in broad daylight and the criminials are running the institutions and the investigations into themselves ! Banana Republic injustice farce, Nazi/leftist UTOPIAN STYLE.

Posted by: ron n. at February 02, 2018 02:29 PM (MBrFx)

569 FLAMING SKULL!

Release it all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen of Macedonia Content F at February 02, 2018 04:31 PM (J5mzk)

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