December 11, 2019

What we should have learned from the just-released IG report

Mueller spent two years searching for evidence that Trump "colluded" with the Russians to steal the 2016 election from Hilliary.

His $25 million effort found...no evidence.  But being a cunning Democrat partisan, Mueller stated the findings of his investigation in a unique way, saying he "was unable to rule out the possibility of collusion."

Clever, eh?  Cuz as every American over 15 should know, it's impossible to prove a negative.

But I digress.  The issue at the moment is with the NEW report, by DOJ Inspector General Horowitz.  That investigation showed that the FBI's FISA requests--used to spy on members of the Trump campaign--used a thing called the "Steele dossier" as the sole justification.  And they were approved by the FISA judges based on the FBI's sworn statements that the Steele dossier was valid and had been verified by other sources.

This was a lie.  And that lie has been used to put American citizens in jail.

If you have an IQ over room temperature, and you're not a Democrat, this should outrage you.  But wait!   There's more!

Over the last three years many Trump-hating journalists published articles or tweeted the exact opposite of this truth, claiming the Steele dossier was NOT the sole basis of the FISA wiretap warrants.  Hmmmm.....

One Twitter-user has compiled tweets where those journalists lied. Exhibit 1: the Washington Post's Shane Harris. On January 12, 2018, Harris wrote: "I am telling you the dossier was not used as the basis for a FISA warrant on Carter Page."


Exhibit #2:  Fake conservative Jonah Goldberg in February of 2018: "More than one FISA court judge issued actual warrants after reviewing intelligence collected from Page surveillance that had nothing to do with the Steele Dossier."


Again, lest you forget the point: this statement was a lie.  The FISA warrant was based entirely on the Steele dossier.  Moreover, the FBI deliberately didn't tell the FISA judge(s) about who paid for the dossier, or that no one supported it.  Hmmm....

Exhibit #3: NBC's Ken Dilanian tweeted that "Trump is wrong about Carter Page, the dossier and the FISA warrant."  (Trump said it was based on a fabrication.)

Of course Trump turned out to be totally right.

Exhibit #4: Reuters' Jonathan Landay tweeted that the "dossier played [a] minor role in Page FISA warrant. [The m]ajor reason: FBI believed Page [was] recruited by Russian intelligence from [a] recording of 2 SVR officers discussing him during [the] 2015 probe into [a] Russian illegal working in [the] NYC brand of VEB bank."

Exhibit #5: Will Wilkinson, an opinion writer for the left-wing New York Times, not only lied that the dossier wasn't the ground for issuing a FISA warrant, but added that most of the dossier "had been validated," which was a huge lie.

 

Of course we now know--courtesy of Horowitz--that the FBI didn't bother to try to corroborate the dossier, because they knew that's all they had.

Exhibit #7:  Washington Post moron Jennifer Rubin tweeted "Did Lindsey Graham even read the FISA application?  Why would he say it largely relied on Steele dossier. That is FALSE."

We now know that the FISA application submitted by the FBI actually did rely solely on the dossier. 

This list is far from exhaustive. Many more names of journalists could be added to it, which just goes to show how incredibly dishonest they all have been -- and still are, considering that not one of them has apologized for their published lies.

Of course one can make the case that these Mainstream Media bastards didn't REALLY lie.

Perish the thought!

Instead, the journos were merely passing on lies their anti-Trump buddies in the FBI told them.

Oh, well then, never mind.  Nothing to see here, citizen.  Everything is just peachy.

The number-one rule of con-men is:  never admit the con.

posted by SF at 6:07 PM

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