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Media "Embarrassed" they got the Russia story so wrong
Posted on: July 23, 2018 at 13:02:43 CT
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--- THE FBI WOULD GO TO THE FISA COURT ONLY WITH INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE CORROBORATED THROUGH STANDARD FBI RIGOR ----
Should I have assumed I could be wrong about that?
Sure, even great institutions go rogue now and again. But even with that in mind, I would still have told the conspiracy theorists they were crazy — because in the unlikely event the FBI ever went off the reservation, the Justice Department would not permit the submission to the FISA court of uncorroborated allegations; and even if that fail-safe broke down, a court would not approve such a warrant.
It turns out, however, that the crazies were right and I was wrong. The FBI (and, I’m even more sad to say, my Justice Department) brought the FISA court the Steele dossier allegations, relying on Steele’s credibility without verifying his information.
I am embarrassed by this not just because I assured people it could not have happened, and not just because it is so beneath the bureau — especially in a politically fraught case in which the brass green-lighted the investigation of a presidential campaign. I am embarrassed because what happened here flouts rudimentary investigative standards. Any trained FBI agent would know that even the best FBI agent in the country could not get a warrant based on his own stellar reputation. A fortiori, you would never seek a warrant based solely on the reputation of Christopher Steele — a non-American former intelligence agent who had political and financial incentives to undermine Donald Trump. It is always, always necessary to persuade the court that the actual sources of information allegedly amounting to probable cause are believable.
Well, guess what? No one knows that better than experienced federal judges, who deal with a steady diet of warrant applications. It is basic. Much of my bewilderment, in fact, stems from the certainty that if I had been so daft as to try to get a warrant based on the good reputation of one of my FBI case agents, with no corroboration of his or her sources, just about any federal judge in the Southern District of New York would have knocked my block off — and rightly so.
That’s why I said it.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/carter-page-fisa-applications-fbi-steele-dossier/
It's also posted in a thread below... but special attention should be brought to the section C&P above.
The Dossier bought by Clinton (through a British Spy and Russian Intelligence) for 'opposition research' was NEVER VERIFIED in any way and that is what was used to obtain an illegal wire tap on Carter Page, and hence, Donald Trump and everyone around him.
Comey and multiple others involved in this FISA scam need to go to jail for a very, very, very long time
Should I have assumed I could be wrong about that?
Sure, even great institutions go rogue now and again. But even with that in mind, I would still have told the conspiracy theorists they were crazy — because in the unlikely event the FBI ever went off the reservation, the Justice Department would not permit the submission to the FISA court of uncorroborated allegations; and even if that fail-safe broke down, a court would not approve such a warrant.
It turns out, however, that the crazies were right and I was wrong. The FBI (and, I’m even more sad to say, my Justice Department) brought the FISA court the Steele dossier allegations, relying on Steele’s credibility without verifying his information.
I am embarrassed by this not just because I assured people it could not have happened, and not just because it is so beneath the bureau — especially in a politically fraught case in which the brass green-lighted the investigation of a presidential campaign. I am embarrassed because what happened here flouts rudimentary investigative standards. Any trained FBI agent would know that even the best FBI agent in the country could not get a warrant based on his own stellar reputation. A fortiori, you would never seek a warrant based solely on the reputation of Christopher Steele — a non-American former intelligence agent who had political and financial incentives to undermine Donald Trump. It is always, always necessary to persuade the court that the actual sources of information allegedly amounting to probable cause are believable.
Well, guess what? No one knows that better than experienced federal judges, who deal with a steady diet of warrant applications. It is basic. Much of my bewilderment, in fact, stems from the certainty that if I had been so daft as to try to get a warrant based on the good reputation of one of my FBI case agents, with no corroboration of his or her sources, just about any federal judge in the Southern District of New York would have knocked my block off — and rightly so.
That’s why I said it.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/carter-page-fisa-applications-fbi-steele-dossier/
It's also posted in a thread below... but special attention should be brought to the section C&P above.
The Dossier bought by Clinton (through a British Spy and Russian Intelligence) for 'opposition research' was NEVER VERIFIED in any way and that is what was used to obtain an illegal wire tap on Carter Page, and hence, Donald Trump and everyone around him.
Comey and multiple others involved in this FISA scam need to go to jail for a very, very, very long time
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