Deputy director Andrew McCabe of the FBI testified in closed session to a House committee yesterday. Apparently, the testimony did not go well from McCabe's standpoint. Basically, what McCabe said pointed towards FBI collusion with the DNC and the Clinton campaign in arranging for the production and use of the so called Trump dossier. That's a compendium of false information compiled for the DNC and the Clinton campaign so that the FBI could then use it to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign.
Here's the key portion of the report from James Rosen of Fox News:
Investigators say McCabe recounted to the panel how hard the FBI had worked to verify the contents of the anti-Trump “dossier” and stood by its credibility. But when pressed to identify what in the salacious document the bureau had actually corroborated, the sources said, McCabe cited only the fact that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. Beyond that, investigators said, McCabe could not even say that the bureau had verified the dossier’s allegations about the specific meetings Page supposedly held in Moscow.
The sources said that when asked when he learned that the dossier had been funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, McCabe claimed he could not recall – despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance.
Take a step back and realize how bad this all is. McCabe says that the FBI worked extremely hard to verify the contents of the Trump dossier, but could only verify that Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. That's hardly the basis to suspect collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. With that alone, no court, not even the FISA court, would have granted a warrant to the FBI. So what did the FBI do? It allegedly used the entire Trump dossier to back up a request for a FISA warrant. That means the FBI used unverified info which was obviously false to get permission from a court to spy on Americans. No wonder McCabe is now denying knowledge that Hillary and the DNC paid to have the dossier produced. This is really bad stuff.
Here's the key portion of the report from James Rosen of Fox News:
Investigators say McCabe recounted to the panel how hard the FBI had worked to verify the contents of the anti-Trump “dossier” and stood by its credibility. But when pressed to identify what in the salacious document the bureau had actually corroborated, the sources said, McCabe cited only the fact that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. Beyond that, investigators said, McCabe could not even say that the bureau had verified the dossier’s allegations about the specific meetings Page supposedly held in Moscow.
The sources said that when asked when he learned that the dossier had been funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, McCabe claimed he could not recall – despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance.
Take a step back and realize how bad this all is. McCabe says that the FBI worked extremely hard to verify the contents of the Trump dossier, but could only verify that Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. That's hardly the basis to suspect collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. With that alone, no court, not even the FISA court, would have granted a warrant to the FBI. So what did the FBI do? It allegedly used the entire Trump dossier to back up a request for a FISA warrant. That means the FBI used unverified info which was obviously false to get permission from a court to spy on Americans. No wonder McCabe is now denying knowledge that Hillary and the DNC paid to have the dossier produced. This is really bad stuff.
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