House Intelelligence votes to release controversial surveillance memo to the public

By Jim Campbell

December 29, 2018

The Democrats are in full panic mode.

The noose is tightening across their necks, and after a year-long witch hunt on President Trump, the tables are finally turning.

For years the “Deep State” was able to operate with little opposition, but all that changed when Donald Trump was elected.

At first, the Democrats thought they could get away with their crimes but President Trump promised he would drain the swamp and he is keeping good on his promise so far.

 

 

Retired Secret Service Agent, Dan Bondingo, “Don’t listen to anything Hillary says.”

The Democrats claim to be all about transparency, but when it comes to themselves, they will lie cheat and kill just to keep their names clear.

Dems will even go as far as to manufacture fake evidence in order to obtain a FISA warrant and now that the fingers are pointing at them they are plotting for ways to keep information from coming out. (Source)

 

 

FOX NEWS

 Joseph Weber and Catherine Herridge

January 29, 2018

This has been brewing for the past week in real-time.

It’s been know about for several years.

The House Intelligence Committee on Monday evening voted to release a classified memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses.

Schiff could not bring himself to do what was right for the country hee was covering his own ass which in the end will come back and bite him.

 

 

The vote was announced to reporters by California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, who called it a “very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee.”

The motion passed on a party-line basis, he said.

Schiff said the GOP-majority committee also voted against releasing a counter memo written by Democrats.

“Today this committee voted to put the president’s personal interests, perhaps their own political interests, above the national interests,” the Democrat said.

Seriously?

Nope, it’s the Democrat whining and whimpering we have all been accustomed to hearing since Donal J. Trump was elected by the people in fly-over country with brains.

 

 

President Trump now has five days to decide whether he has any objections before the memo can be publicly released.

Last week, a top Justice Department official urged House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes not to release the memo, saying it would be “extraordinarily reckless” and could harm national security and ongoing investigations.

“When the going gets tough the tough get going?

The four-page memo is being described by GOP lawmakers as “shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming,” with one congressman likening the details to KGB activity in Russia.

Those who have seen the document suggest it reveals what role the unverified anti-Trump “dossier” played in the application for a surveillance warrant on at least one Trump associate.

The vote came the same day that it was reported that FBI official Andrew McCabe has left his post as deputy director.

The White House seems to favor the memo’s release, but wouldn’t explicitly say whether the president will back the effort.

“We want full transparency,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday. “That’s what we have said all along.”

Sanders said they were letting the process play out before officially weighing in.

 

See the entire article below.

 

On Sunday, FBI Director Christopher Wray went to the Capitol on Sunday to view the four-page memo, sources told Fox News.

According to one source, Wray was asked to point out inaccuracies or other issues with the wording — and said he would need “his people to take a look at it.” The source said the review is ongoing.

South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy, who helped write the four-page memo, said Sunday he wants it made public.

He also suggested the memo indeed addresses whether the FBI relied at least in part on the dossier — paid for partially by Democrats and the Clinton campaign during the 2016 presidential election — to apply to a secret federal court to get a surveillance warrant, purportedly on then-Trump adviser Carter Page.

“If you … want to know whether or not the dossier was used in court proceedings, whether or not it was vetted before it was used. … If you are interested in who paid for the dossier … then, yes, you’ll want the memo to come out,” Gowdy told “Fox News Sunday.”

The dossier was compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and contained opposition research on Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Steele was hired by the U.S. firm Fusion GPS, which commissioned the research with funding from the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

At the same time, the firm was allegedly doing work to help the Russian government fight sanctions.

Requests for surveillance warrants are made through the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, also known as the FISA court, and target suspected foreign spies inside the United States.

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