CNN is reporting that a high official of the FBI is under criminal investigation for allegedly altering a document used as part of the submission to the FISA court for the request for a warrant to surveil people associated with the Trump campaign in 2016. It must be killing CNN to report this.
Think what it means.
1. We already know that the FBI obtained a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page in 2016 and then it used that warrant to surveil others associated with the Trump campaign. That FISA warrant was based primarily on the bogus Trump dossier created at the behest of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. In fact, it cost the Clinton campaign about $13 million to have the dossier ginned up by Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele. The FBI was warned by the State Department that the Trump dossier was bogus BEFORE it was presented to the FISA court as the basis for the warrant. That was bad enough. The law requires that the FBI only present verified information to the FISA court. The FBI knew that the dossier was not verified.
2. Now we have this CNN report that someone in the FBI felt it necessary not only to present unverified information to the FISA court but also to create phony documents to present to that court as well. The FBI could always claim ignorance about the unverified nature of the dossier, even if that claim is laughable. There's no way to claim ignorance, however, if you intentionally created a phony document to present to the FISA court so as to defraud that court. This is a serious criminal activity.
Remember, this report comes from CNN. That means two things. First, the report by CNN may be inaccurate. CNN gets things wrong about as often as it gets things correct. Second, CNN goes out of its way to attack Trump and to protect Obama. This report has an Obama official breaking the law in order to improperly and illegally attack Trump. That almost guarantees that CNN double and triple checked everything before issuing the report.
Think what it means.
1. We already know that the FBI obtained a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page in 2016 and then it used that warrant to surveil others associated with the Trump campaign. That FISA warrant was based primarily on the bogus Trump dossier created at the behest of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. In fact, it cost the Clinton campaign about $13 million to have the dossier ginned up by Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele. The FBI was warned by the State Department that the Trump dossier was bogus BEFORE it was presented to the FISA court as the basis for the warrant. That was bad enough. The law requires that the FBI only present verified information to the FISA court. The FBI knew that the dossier was not verified.
2. Now we have this CNN report that someone in the FBI felt it necessary not only to present unverified information to the FISA court but also to create phony documents to present to that court as well. The FBI could always claim ignorance about the unverified nature of the dossier, even if that claim is laughable. There's no way to claim ignorance, however, if you intentionally created a phony document to present to the FISA court so as to defraud that court. This is a serious criminal activity.
Remember, this report comes from CNN. That means two things. First, the report by CNN may be inaccurate. CNN gets things wrong about as often as it gets things correct. Second, CNN goes out of its way to attack Trump and to protect Obama. This report has an Obama official breaking the law in order to improperly and illegally attack Trump. That almost guarantees that CNN double and triple checked everything before issuing the report.
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