Sara Carter:
A review of a classified document outlining what is described as extensive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse was made available to all House members Thursday and the revelations could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice, several sources with knowledge of the document stated. These sources say the report is “explosive,” stating they would not be surprised if it leads to the end of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation into President Trump and his associates.
The House Intelligence Committee passed the motion along party lines Thursday to make the classified report alleging extensive ‘FISA Abuse’ related to the controversial dossier available to all House members. The report contains information regarding the dossier that alleges President Trump and members of his team colluded with the Russians in the 2016 presidential election. Some members of the House viewed the document in a secure room Thursday.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., offered the motion on Thursday to make the Republican majority-authored report available to the members.
“The document shows a troubling course of conduct and we need to make the document available, so the public can see it,” said a senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the document. “Once the public sees it, we can hold the people involved accountable in a number of ways.”
The government official said that after reading the document “some of these people should no longer be in the government.”The document also apparently outlines “several problematic” issues with how FISA warrants were “packaged, and used” state several sources with knowledge of the report.
Over the past year, whistleblowers in the law enforcement and intelligence community have revealed to Congress what they believe to be extensive abuse with regard to FISA surveillance, as previously reported.
The dossier was used in part as evidence for a warrant to surveil members of the Trump campaign, according to a story published this month. Former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the dossier in 2016, was hired by embattled research firm Fusion GPS. The firm’s founder is Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has already testified before Congress in relation to the dossier. In October, The Washington Post revealed for the first time that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC that financed Fusion GPS.
Congressional members are hopeful that the classified information will be declassified and released to the public.
Julian Assange has offered up to $1 million to the person who leaks this memo.
Apparently it is a real bombshell, not just another diversion or chaff.
Start the clock and watch how long it takes for the corrupt liberal media to report on this. My guess is there will be nary a mention of the abuse of a vital tool necessary and intended to keep Americans safe.
I’m totally shocked that whatever undisclosed shocking thing happened was allowed to happen. Clearly the Mueller investigation should be shut down because of this shocking undisclosed thing.
“…but feel free to quote me.”
@Greg:
LOL.
Like how Dick Durbin leaked the shithole “quote” then “verified” his own leak by going on the record.
@Greg: But, we KNOW what was being allowed to occur. Much of it has already been reported and though all the evidence points in a particular direction (Obama-ward) the specific evidence was not yet confirmed. This report allegedly confirms it, which is about the least surprising thing confirmed since the total lack of Trump/Russian collusion.
@Nanny G: Not leaked… invented.
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #5:
Republicans won’t be able to shut down the Mueller investigation. If they try to get away with it, it will be all over for them in 2018 and 2020.
We’ll know what happened with Russia once Mueller releases his findings and presents the evidence. Until then, what he knows or doesn’t know is anyone’s guess.
What I know with certainty from my own observation is that a lot of republicans don’t want him to be allowed to reach that point.
@Greg: If it is revealed that Mueller was involved in Obama’s illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign, he will be removed from his position, as will any of his anti-Trump co-conspirators.
Don’t hold your breath. The sole purpose of this “investigation” is to drag on until the 2018 elections and, if possible, to 2020. It is the specter of an “investigation” that matters, politically, not the revelation of any “evidence” that most liberals KNOW doesn’t exist anyway.
You’re not fooling anyone. NO ONE. Like the Turk in “The Godfather”, you’re not that clever.
@Greg: Dont worry Trump may pardon Barry to “heal the nation” The others they are finished the just following orders, after those texts were revealed, is not to be believed. Hillary the fearless leader of this spitting on the constitution may have to do some time in a nice minimum security prison.
Seems there isn’t a crime loathsome enough for the liberals to think she shouldnt be living high on Haiti money.
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #8:
The Trump choir members may be an easy sell with such an argument, but not others. A strong majority of the American public believe the Mueller investigation must be allowed to proceed to its conclusion without interference. If Trump & Co want to test their reaction to shutting Mueller down, they can go ahead. I think they’d be hitting a trip wire. It’s that thing that has the sign reading “Caution! Trip Wire!” on it.
As for Obama’s “illegal” surveillance—whose responsibility would it be to investigate numerous credible reports that a foreign adversary has mounted an ambitious hacking and social media campaign with the intention of subverting our nation’s election process? Russia, in fact, actually did this. There’s abundant evidence establishing that to be true. Voter registration databases in 36 states were targeted by hackers. Wikileaks was used as a weapon against the United States by a hostile foreign power. Phony social media accounts were used as a tool in an effort to manipulate public opinion with false news, narrowly targeting audiences that could be manipulated to greatest effect.
What do you not understand about the reality of this threat? Given that reality, how can anyone conclude that repeated contacts with Russian actors by highly placed parties inside the Trump campaign organization should have been totally ignored, and now should be completely forgotten?
From Business Insider, January 17, 2028 — New poll suggests Trump’s attacks on the Russia probe and the FBI are having an unexpected effect on voters from both parties
@Greg:
Are you saying you will not believe the results of a government investigation? This is the same as you saying FBI and DOJ investigators are incompetent! Is that what you think of these professionals?
Or, is it simply that you only believe the things you want to believe… those things that reinforce your bigoted biases? Which can it be? One wonders….
And when would that be, Greg? What constitutes being “finished”? As you stated above, you will only accept outcomes you have already decided will BE the outcome. However, not every investigation is like Comey’s, when he writes the verdict long before he begins, making sure it is acceptable to Democrats. If Mueller is one of the vermin found to be members of the liberal deep state, working to remove a duly elected President of the United States and conducting illegal surveillance of American citizens, he is GONE. He will not have a position to BE investigating anything other than whether he is a bitch or HAS a bitch in prison.
You are about, I believe, to have a great big hunk of reality dropped on your head. You’d best brace yourself.
@Greg:
If the basis for the investigation was a falsified document, it will have to come to an end and those who concocted it will have to be held accountable. I’ve said a million times- if there was something to any of this, obama would have leaked it long ago . Further, everything being done now by the left is an effort to stymie and blunt the effect of what’s coming.
This is like a cop planting false evidence, Greg. It all gets thrown out of court.
At least three reasons why you know this will damning for the coup:
1. After the House Intel Committee read the memo last week, Shifty Schiff didn’t leak its contents to his buds in the MSM.
2. All the dems on the committee voted against releasing it to the full House. They obviously don’t want the American people to know what’s in there.
3. The dems and MSM have been very silent about it. They are probably in crisis mode right now working together trying to figure out how to best distract from it. A new made up scandal perhaps? Maybe a government shutdown?
In reality, everything coming out of this has been known for sometime by certain people. Remember NSA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery? He handed all those documents over to various people and said there was clear cut evidence of crimes and FISA abuse which included spying on Americans for political reasons.
@Greg:
Trump wasn’t supposed to win. All of this would have deeply buried had she won. They abused the system and he still won.
@Greg: I watched both conventions on PBS, they looked and looked and found 1 woman making a fuss at the GOP, they zoomed in on her as she was removed.I Ignored the chanting, demonstrations and near riots at the DNC, they are simply an arm of the DNC like the other liberal media, one sided and keeping the public that trusts them in the dark feeding them BS. As they are your source you must be a mushroom. Funny the DNC needed fences to protect themselves from their own(Bernie) voters.
@Greg: Gee you site an opinion poll from a left wing media outlet of people with no real facts or evidence. Just OPINIONS.
You want things run by polls?
You seem to be short of facts, AGAIN.
How about sighting the statute and penalties for collusion as it relates to this case. Bet you can’t.
Looking for facts here, not an opinion poll.
@DrJohn:
The whole purpose of this was to use the information to KEEP Trump from being elected, not wait till he WAS elected (an impossibility, according to the polls) and use it to destroy him. So, as you say, if there was a “smidgen” of actual collusion, it would have come out to damage Trump prior to the voting, not after he was President.
Now, all they have is an “investigation” to give the impression that there is something there, for our esteemed DOJ and FBI would never… NEVER… conduct an investigation purely for political purposes. Or, so it used to be.
See, Greg, this is how it looks when you base your suspicions on FACTS instead of fantasies you wished were true.
That’s what Mueller is presently doing.
Nor is Mueller playing games with semantics in an effort to manipulate public opinion. Collusion isn’t a crime, but if collusion occurred it would likely involve a number of other things that are. Four people have already been charged as a result of Mueller’s investigation; a number of the charges are not minor, by any stretch of the imagination; a grand jury has concluded that the evidence could be sufficient to support a guilty finding in court.
Obstruction of justice could also be a serious issue.
@Greg: No one has been charged with anything that has to do with the election of 2016. Or does that matter to you. Can we have him look into Hilliary Clinton too? Is that ok as well?
Suppose some local prosecutor was given unlimited time and an unlimited budget to investigate you looking for a crime. Would that be ok with you? He will not stop until he comes up with something, anything. That is what Mueller is doing. I guess you can’t see the obvious.
This is similar to Scooter Libby who leaked NOTHING but was prosecuted anyway in another political witch hunt.
Once again collusion is not a crime but there must be one in there somewhere to save face. This is banana republic stuff.
Here’s some food for thought for you.
Putin’s Master Plan to Install a Pawn In the White House Who Would Greatly Amp Up Energy Production and Thereby Decimate the Russian Oil-Based Economy Is Nearly Compete.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/286409/
@Greg:
So is murder. However, just imagining it to be so does not MAKE it so. You truly need to grasp that.
None of the charges thus far have anything whatsoever to do with Trump. None. Nothing. The only people exposed so far have been Democrats, caught in their own snare.
Then republicans should have no problem with Mueller’s investigation continuing uninterrupted to its conclusion, when his findings will be announced and his reasons for them presented.
Nearly 700,000 Americans promoted Russian bots spreading pro-Trump propaganda during the campaign
@Greg: So I tell the government you are a terrorist threat, You Greg, then pay some shady characters to make up fake things about you, they begin an investigation without parameters, anything they can find on you or any of your close friends, they dont have to find you are a terrorist, just anything in the entire US code. Is that how our justice system is suppose to work should investigations be based on a lie? By the way if they dont love you they can read those laws anyway they want. You get your own lawyer bills but I have the entire resources of the federal government to pay for a hunt started off with a big fat lie.
Let it go if everyone is innocent of the russian thing, Hillary and the cruds at the FBI repay all attorneys fees.
@Greg:
Except for the issue I mentioned before; the MAIN POINT of the “investigation” is that there IS an investigation and, therefore, some implicit wrong-doing and you liberals intend to keep this “investigation” going on indefinitely or until Trump is defeated, whichever comes first.
In other words, you all know there is no collusion or obstruction… nothing. Just keep the investigations going and use those as the proof of wrong-doing. However, with the amount of schemes, corruption and illegal surveillance that is being turned up, you might not have any Democrats left to run for office.
I don’t do twitter, so I voted against Hillary based on her long and well documented career of lies, corruption and incompetence. If the tweets were anything like the examples of Facebook you provided, they promoted facts and also hit both sides pretty much equally. As I have said, I find it inconceivable that the Russians would prefer Trump over Hillary, someone they could blackmail and buy to get any result they desired.
I wonder why Obama felt it necessary to whip up that dossier, spy on Trump instead of curtailing Russian interference? What was it this time, blind ignorance or stupidity?
That being the poll of registered Democrats who voted for Hillary?
Funny, I seem to recall any time there was an investigation (oops, excuse me, MATTER) involving Hillary, your response was to declare it a ‘nothing burger’, whine about the waste of money and tell us it should be ended as there was nothing to find.
Yeah, it’s called perjury and cost him his law license. I suppose that could be defined as ‘unwise’.
I don’t seem to recall you interpreting Flynn’s plea for ‘unwisely lying’ as such small beer.
Oh, right…this is an investigation of a dreaded Republican.
And is it just me, or whenever you mention Mueller, do others also ‘hear’ you chanting ‘Blessed Agent Mueller, Hallowed be thy Investigations!’ while crossing yourself?
A little searching indicates he may not be quite the career professional choir boy you think he is.
Not one, but TWO incorrect suspects who were never charged with any crime in a single investigation. One of whom committed suicide, but was later shown to be innocent, the other who won almost $6 million taxpayer dollars – which is on top of however much was spent in ten years for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of investigator hours.
But at least Mueller didn’t feel the need to apologize.
Draw your own conclusions, but it appears Mueller has a background of massive screw-ups along with a tendency to ignore facts that might lead in a different direction than his pre-determined outcome.
@Jay:
Absolutely, and this was in spite of the FACT that there WERE emails, they WERE on a secret, private, unsecured server, there WERE classified emails illegally among them, she DID obliterate 33,000 emails as soon as they were requested for evidence and she DID lie about every aspect of it. This is compared to an investigation that is based solely and completely on what is merely WISHED to be true, something invented as an excuse for what was supposed to be a shoe-in for President losing.
That’s how you keep investigations going the direction you want them to go instead of following the facts and seeking the truth.