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2.3.17:
5:00 pm:
Well, the left isn't going to go down easily, are they?
The defense seems to be that it wasn't a fraudulent application after all, that the court was told. Say again???? How is that a defense? Now the court is suspect? The court okayed a warrant based upon mere political spin???? A phony dossier?
There's supposed to be probable cause. Where's the probable cause of a crime? What they have here is a guy that they plucked out of their files, Carter Page, who was in their crosshairs before. Just because Carter Page was a suspected foreign agent once upon a time ( and not charged ), does not make this probable cause of a crime. To me, he looks like a convenient target that they could use to go after Trump.
Even if the warrant was issued after Page left the Trump campaign, his prior file may have been quite useful in going after Trump. These type of files might have a huge number of people that were also drawn in because they can go after anybody that Page talked to in the first FISA investigation.
Question: did they use the previous investigation of Page for their follow up? If they did, it may have given them a lot of leverage.
But that was the whole point. Yet, it is not probable cause. Page may well have been a prop for a politically motivated investigation.
10:30 am:
A good post from Ace. He details how the FBI and DOJ lied to the FISC court. An important point that I'd like to extract from his writeup is this: that it was ex parte, meaning no defense counsel for the target was allowed in the court room. The question arises is this: "who" protects the rights of the accused???? It is supposed the court, I would think. Now, consider this: that the Supreme Court ( maybe the Chief Justice himself ) appoints the judges for these secret courts, and this information was said to have been sealed very recently. I smell a cover up which might include the Chief Justice himself.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be quite protective of the Constitution. If it is drawn into a political controversy and violates the rights of citizens itself, there needs to be some accountability there too.
A legitimate question is how do you prevent the abuse of government power when the government itself won't police itself, but instead becomes an agent of corruption? At the very least, the government, which includes the Supreme Court itself, should insure that any government investigation be based upon reliable and truthful information, not partisan tomfoolery.
The original post follows:
What the House Intelligence Committee Memo Says https://t.co/p5eH3KE1hl via @powerlineUS— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) February 3, 2018
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