Mention Little, Win Big: How Government Involvement in Press is never good
A look into the 17 inaccuracies of the FISA report into the Trump and Russia collusion
The bottom of the blog has all 17 listed errors and omissions*
The first Amendment is arguably the first because it is the most important. I may not really agree with this, but I see the merit.
My argument: The FISA report shows how the government actually manipulated the media violating the first Amendment.
Of the 17 inaccuracies one stuck out that made the whole mishap more than just a series of mistakes, more than just a conspiracy claiming that the left tried to get Trump impeached regardless of clear evidence, more than just the left media hating Trump, but one inaccuracy claiming that the FBI leaked information to yahoo news shows the government manipulating media; perhaps for political reasons or perhaps for political reasons.
The FBI lied, or as they put it, made omission errors, when filing the investigation into Trump and Russia collusion. Carter page was wire tapped for possible collusion with Paul Manafort, but had the FBI not performed some of the 17 mistakes, the FBI would not have been given the go ahead to wiretap Crater Page.
The NY Times mentions the 17 inaccuracies, but their audible news does not mention a single inaccuracy. Omission was an accident. Intent was the truth. The FBI was told that the Steele dossier cannot include certain unreliable sources that it contained and the FBI “omitted,” or in plain English, LIED, and claimed that their investigation does not heavily rely on the Steele dossier.
The FBI did not mention that Carter Page was actually working with the CIA to report possible Russian spies and hackers. Carter Page had been meeting with Russian officials and all this was documented, but the FBI wrongfully cited one meeting as suspicious, despite the CIA having already known of said meeting and deemed the occasion to not be a problem.
The inaccuracies add context to the FBI’s lie about leaking information to yahoo news. Steele and the FBI withheld information about how Steele leaked information to Yahoo news. So who is responsible for Steele? Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid for Fusion GPS, Steele’s company, to investigate Trump. The DNC is responsible and the FBI is responsible for lying and allowing this company to leak information.
Sneaky Hilly started this ball and helped aid in government lies and defamation. The accountability is lost. No one was in trouble for any of this. When does an “Inaccuracy” become gross misconduct, a lie, treason, defamation or an attempt at a coup?
The responsibility s placed firmly on Hillary Clinton for hiring Steele and on the FBI for lying about the leak. Government errors allowed for Page to be wire tapped and the government also turned a blind eye when the information was leaked to a news source. Failing to do your job is the same as causing it in this instance. The FBI did not leak the inaccuracies, but they allowed information damaging to Trump to be leaked. This implies that the FBI allowed certain information to get into the hands of the media, which is a manipulation of facts for a desired purpose.
One could error on the side of the FBI and claim that they were just trying to cover up their own mistakes. The FBI may have realized that Steele had leaked information to the press and they did not want to disclose this and further damage their investigations. The FBI knew that Carter Page was working with the CIA and perhaps the FBI did not want to disclose this because maybe they thought he was a double agent or a dangling mole. This would imply gross incompetence or conspiracy of CIA cooperation with Russia and the FBI would never want to make such assumptions public.
The problem with playing the good guy is with the a few facts that the FBI lied about to the intelligence community in order to obtain the wiretap on Carter Page. The FBI manipulated data to make it seem like Carter Page was talking with Paul Manafort, despite knowing that the current information proved this incorrect, the witness who heard that Manafort was in connection with Page was obtained at a bar in Italy and the conversation apparently was just conjecture anyways and lastly, the Steele dossier also included a joke that became highlighted news, which was obtained from a drunk person at a party.
The Joke? President Trump apparently like to watch Russian prostitutes pee on each other. This was a joke said at a party and yet Steele included this as viable information? The FBI was so bold they included a joke that later media pundits and social media goers were spreading as though the information was valid. The FBI not only leaked, or covered up a leak, information to reach the press during an investigation, but they knowingly allowed defamatory jokes to be given into a criminal inquiry in attempt to damage the president. Not inaccuracy, LIES and DEFAMATION. Furthermore (I feel like this story has so many furthermore), the FBI also lied and said that the Steele dossier was not a big part of their evidence, despite being the bulwark! Lies within lies about other lies.
It looks more like the FBI worked actively to seek impeachment of the President in a partisan fight. Trump and right wingers like inflated throat pouch Mitch McConnell, have been claiming that Obama had weaponized and politicized the FBI and unfortunately this FISA report makes that conspiracy a touch more realistic.
A monkey on speed. A cranked up joke box pouring out investigations based off one bad apple and a bunch of jackals making jokes! Lion King America playing King of the jungle Donald Trump whilst the insiders trying to push him off the cliff to die under foot of the mass stampedes. Hyenas giggle and guffaw and paint images of old Trumper pissing on the faces of Russian Slookas.
Where has the media gone? Was it ever there? Why the hell did Hillary Clinton and the DNC hire a British company, Fusion GPS, to investigate Trump?
A monkey on Americas back, but why? Why would Americans be the back and the monkey? It must be money and it must be regime change. A non-politician as King America must piss off the lifer political family dynasties like Clinton’s and perhaps even Bush is mad (despite probably loving our oil independence).
https://trendingpolitics.com/here-are-the-17-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fisa-report/
Check out seven of the inaccuracies and omissions below relating to the first FISA application:
Omitted information from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Page, including that Page had been approved as an operational contact for the other agency from 2008 to 2013, and that Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers, one of which overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application;
Included a source characterization statement asserting that Steele’s prior reporting had been “corroborated and used in criminal proceedings,” which overstated the significance of Steele’s past reporting and was not approved by Steele’s FBI handling agent, as required by the Woods Procedures;
Omitted information relevant to the reliability of Person 1, a key Steele sub-source (who, as previously noted, was attributed with providing the information in Report 95 and some of the information in Reports 80 and 102 relied upon in the application), namely that (1) Steele himself told members of the Crossfire Hurricane team that Person 1 was a “boaster” and an “egoist” and “may engage in some embellishment” and (2) [redacted]
Asserted that the FBI had assessed that Steele did not directly provide to the press information in the September 23 Yahoo News article, based on the premise that Steele had told the FBI that he only shared his election-related research with the FBI and [Fusion GPS Founder Glenn] Simpson; this premise was factually incorrect (Steele had provided direct information to Yahoo News) and also contradicted by documentation in the Woods File-Steele had told the FBI that he also gave his information to the State Department;
Omitted Papadopoulos’s statements to an FBI CHS in September 2016 denying that anyone associated with the Trump campaign was collaborating with Russia or with outside groups like WikiLeaks in the release of emails;
Omitted Page’s statements to an FBI CHS [Confidential Human Source] in August 2016 that Page had “literally never met” or “said one word to” Paul Manafort and that Manafort had not responded to any of Page’s emails; if true, those statements were in tension with claims in Steele’s Report 95 that Page was participating in a “conspiracy” with Russia by acting as an intermediary for Manafort on behalf of the Trump campaign; and
Selectively included Page’s statements to an FBI CHS in October 2016 that the FBI believed supported its theory that Page was an agent of Russia but omitted other statements Page made, including denying having met with Sechin and Divyekin, or even knowing who Divyekin was; if true, those statements contradicted the claims in Steele’s Report 94 that Page had met secretly with Sechin and Divyekin about future cooperation with Russia and shared derogatory information about candidate Clinton.
The next 10 errors are relating to the renewal applications:
Omitted the fact that Steele’s Primary Sub-source, who the FBI found credible, had made statements in January 2017 raising significant questions about the reliability of allegations included in the FISA applications, including, for example, that he/she had no discussion with Person 1 concerning WikiLeaks and there was “nothing bad” about the communications between the Kremlin and the Trump team, and that he/she did not report to Steele in July 2016 that Page had met with Sechin;
Omitted Page’s prior relationship with another U.S. government agency, despite being reminded by the other agency in June 2017, prior to the filing of the final renewal application, about Page’s past status with that other agency; instead of including this information in the final renewal application, the FBI OGC [Office of the General Counsel] Attorney altered an email from the other agency so that the email stated that Page was “not a source” for the other agency, which the FBI affiant relied upon in signing the final renewal application;
Omitted information provided by persons with direct knowledge of Steele’s work-related performance in a prior position about Steele’s professional judgment, including statements that Steele had held a “moderately senior” position (not “high-ranking” as noted in the applications), had no history of reporting in bad faith but demonstrated “poor judgment,” “pursued people with political risk but no intelligence value,” “didn’t always exercise great judgment,” and it was “not clear what he would have done to validate” his reporting;
Omitted information from Department attorney Bruce Ohr about Steele and his election reporting, including that (1) Steele’s reporting was going to Clinton’s presidential campaign and others, (2) Simpson was paying Steele to discuss his reporting with the media, and (3) Steele was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President”;
Failed to update the description of Steele after information became known to the Crossfire Hurricane team, not only from Ohr but from others, that provided greater clarity on the political origins and connections of Steele’s reporting, including that Simpson was hired by someone associated with the Democratic Party and/or the DNC;
Failed to correct the assertion in the first FISA application that the FBI did not believe that Steele directly provided information to the reporter who wrote the September 23 Yahoo News article, even though there was no information in the Woods File to support this claim and even after certain FBI officials involved in Crossfire Hurricane learned in 2017, before the third renewal application, of an admission that Steele made in a court filing about his interactions with the news media in the late summer and early fall of 2016;
Omitted the finding from a formal FBI source validation report that Steele was suitable for continued operation but that his past contributions to the FBI’s criminal program had been “minimally corroborated,” and instead continued to assert in the source characterization statement that Steele’s prior reporting had been “corroborated and used in criminal proceedings”;
Omitted Papadopoulos’s statements to an FBI CHS in late October 2016 (after the first application was filed) denying that the Trump campaign was involved in the circumstances of the DNC email hack;
Omitted Joseph Mifsud’s denials to the FBI that he supplied Papadopoulos with the information Papadopoulos shared with the FFG (suggesting that the campaign received an offer or suggestion of assistance from Russia); and
Omitted evidence indicating that Page played no role in the Republican platform change on Russia’s annexation of Ukraine as alleged in Steele Report 95, which was inconsistent with a factual assertion relied upon to support probable cause in all four FISA applications.
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