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Declassified: Did Rosenstein Make
False Statements to the FISA Judge?
by Allan J. Favish
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Why dummycrats-Democratic Socialists Can’t
Legitimately Claim Sweden, Denmark as Success Stories
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders and congressional candidate commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are popularizing the philosophy of dummycrats-democratic socialism, especially among younger age groups... Meanwhile, the Young dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) are gaining influence on college and high school campuses, claiming to have organizing activities planned at more than 250 campuses across the nation. The dummycrats-YDSA website describes the group’s vision as “a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships.” Many on the right question this vision, pointing to countries such as Venezuela and Cuba as examples of socialist disasters. dummycrats-Democratic socialists claim those countries implemented socialism “incorrectly” or that other factors are to blame. They prefer to cite Norway, Sweden, and Denmark as examples of socialist success. There are, however, several key problems with that....
Trump questions why FBI hasn’t released McCabe text
messages, warns ‘I may have to get involved’
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump questioned Saturday morning why the FBI had not provided conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch and others with text messages... of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, warning he “may have to get involved.” “Why isn’t the FBI giving Andrew McCabe text messages to Judicial Watch or appropriate governmental authorities. FBI said they won’t give up even one I may have to get involved, DO NOT DESTROY. What are they hiding? McCabe wife took big campaign dollars from liar-Hillary people......,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. “.....Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by scumbag-Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!”...
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Israel Unleashes Fury After Hamas Rocket
Barrage Causes Numerous Civilian Casualties
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Israeli Defense Forces hit back against Palestinian militants... after a barrage of rockets were fired from Gaza to Southern Israel beginning Wednesday, the Jerusalem Post  reported. Hamas took responsibility for the rocket attacks. A spokesman for the group, Abdullatif al-Kanoo, said Hamas was acting “in self-defense and has a duty to respond to the aggression against our people,” according to a translation from Al Jazeera. “The escalation of the barbaric shelling of Gaza and the deliberate targeting of civilians is premeditated and the occupation will suffer the repercussions and pay a higher price for its crimes,” he said. The rockets hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot, wounding 11 people, including a woman who is in serious condition. Thirteen others were treated for shock trauma, according to Harretz. Israeli military retaliated against the attack with 150 airstrikes early Thursday, killing three. Six others were wounded...
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Trump Administration Boots Hundreds More
Federal Employees out of Washington DC
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ The U.S. Department of Agriculture is moving two agencies and roughly 700 federal employees out of Washington, D.C. ... to save money and improve the department’s service to taxpayers. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced  Thursday that the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture will be fully moved out of the nation’s capital by 2020, according to the USDA. A location hasn’t been picked yet. “It’s been our goal to make USDA the most effective, efficient, and customer-focused department in the entire federal government,” Perdue said in a statement. “In our Administration, we have looked critically at the way we do business, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the best service possible for our customers, and for the taxpayers of the United States. “In some cases, this has meant realigning some of our offices and functions, or even relocating them, in order to make more logical sense or provide more streamlined and efficient services,” Perdue said...
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Huge incendiary kite from Gaza lands on kibbutz power lines 
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ A large incendiary kite launched from Gaza landed on power lines near Kibbutz Sufa... sparking a quick operation Saturday by employees from the Israeli Electric Corporation to remove the device before a fire was started. The kite caused a brief power cut at the kibbutz. It was removed from the high-voltage wires by electric company workers using a crane. In another community near the Gaza Strip, police sappers neutralized an incendiary balloon flown over from the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave that landed next to a dining room in an Israeli community in the Eshkol Region...
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Declassified: Did Rosenstein Make
False Statements to the FISA Judge?
by Allan J. Favish

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Journalist Paul Sperry tweeted on August 5, 2018 that we should look this month for President Donald Trump to "declassify 20 redacted pages of the June 2017 FISA renewal." Sperry is referring to a Portable Document Format file released on July 21, 2018 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which contains heavily redacted versions of four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications to conduct surveillance of Carter Page, who had been a foreign policy adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump. Even with the redactions, the June 2017 warrant application is damning for deputy United States attorney general Rod Rosenstein.

The June 2017 warrant application begins on PDF page 292, with the title "VERIFIED APPLICATION."  On PDF page 379, it states: "The FBI has reviewed this verified application for accuracy in accordance with its April 5, 2001 procedures."  On PDF pages 390-391, it states the following under the heading "APPROVAL":

I find that this application regarding Carter W. Page satisfies the criteria and requirements for such applications set forth in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, as amended, and hereby approve its filing with this Court. redacted Accordingly, I approve the filing of this application regarding Carter W. Page with the Court redacted.

This APPROVAL is signed on PDF page 391 by Rosenstein.

The unredacted portions of the June 2017 warrant application reveal two deceptions by Rosenstein that have not received sufficient attention.  The first is that Rosenstein told the FISA judge that the information from former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele that was in the warrant application was "verified" but failed to tell the FISA judge that a month earlier, Steele admitted that his information was "unverified." After Steele's dossier was published in early 2017, Steele was sued for libel in Great Britain. On page seven of Steele's response to interrogatories in that case, Steele stated:

The December memorandum a portion of Steele's dossier was a raw intelligence report which contained information gathered from a confidential source(s) about various national security issues that warranted further investigation.

Further, the words complained of [by the plaintiffs in the libel suit] were published by BuzzFeed as part of an article which stressed that the contents of the dossier which included the December memorandum were "unverified", "unconfirmed" and contained "unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations".  The article added that, "BuzzFeed News reporters in the US and Europe have been investigating the alleged facts in the dossier but have not verified or falsified them."  The article reported that the President-elect's attorney, Michael Cohen, had said that allegations in the dossier "were absolutely false".

In these circumstances, readers of the words complained of were therefore aware that (i) the contents of the December memorandum did not represent and did not purport to represent verified facts, but were raw intelligence which had identified a range of allegations that warranted investigation given their potential national security implications; (ii) persons mentioned in the December memorandum were unlikely to have been approached for comment, and therefore many of those persons were likely to deny the allegations contained in the raw intelligence; and (iii) while the December memorandum was prepared in good faith, its content must be critically viewed in light of the purpose for and circumstances in which the information was collected.

As seen on page nine of Steele's response to the interrogatories, the document is dated May 18, 2017. Presumably, this document was made public on that date or shortly thereafter. Although we know that Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, sent FBI director Christopher Wray a copy of Steele's interrogatory responses in October 2017, it is likely that the FBI and the DOJ had a copy before the June 2017 warrant application was submitted.   It would be difficult to believe that the FBI and DOJ were not monitoring the lawsuit against Steele. If for no other reason, failure to monitor the lawsuit would have been a dereliction of duty by the FBI and DOJ, given that the Steele dossier was used in the three previous FISA warrant applications and was being used again in the fourth FISA warrant application for a warrant that would allow surveillance for another 90 days.

The FBI and DOJ had a duty to monitor the lawsuit to see if anything developed that would impact the representations the FBI and DOJ were making to the FISA judges. This is precisely what happened in May of 2017, when Steele responded to the interrogatories. Yet there is nothing in the June FISA warrant application indicating that Rosenstein informed the FISA judge about Steele's interrogatory responses. It is unlikely that a disclosure about Steele's interrogatory responses was redacted in the publicly released version of the June 2017 FISA warrant application because there would be no legitimate reason to redact it given that Steele's interrogatory responses were public information.

Rosenstein's second deception was falsely telling the FISA judge that Steele did not disclose his information to the press in September 2016, but disclosed to the press only in October 2016. Footnotes on PDF pages 308-309 and 320-321 in the June 2017 warrant application state that 1) Steele told the FBI that he shared his information only to Fusion GPS and the FBI, and the FBI did not believe that Steele shared his information with the press in September 2016; 2) in late October 2016, when FBI director James Comey publicly announced the reopening of the liar-Hillary email server investigation, Steele became "frustrated" with this action and, in response, disobeyed the FBI and shared his information with the press in late October 2016; and 3) the FBI continues to assess Steele's reporting as reliable but closed Steele as an active source.

The problem for Rosenstein is that on page eight of Steele's interrogatory responses, from May 2017, Steele admitted that he shared his information with the press in September 2016. This is the opposite of what Rosenstein told the FISA judge in June 2017. Rosenstein did not tell the FISA judge in June 2017 about Steele's admission from a month earlier. The FISA judge was likely left with the impression that Steele had only disobeyed the FBI once regarding sharing with the press, and then only because Steele was "frustrated" at the reopening of the liar-Hillary email investigation in late October 2016, and Steele had no other motivation for sharing with the press. This was a false impression because Steele's "frustration" over the reopening of the liar-Hillary investigation could not account for Steele's sharing with the press in September 2016. Moreover, Rosenstein did not tell the FISA judge that Steele had lied to the FBI about his sharing with the press in September 2016. The FISA judge was not given any indication that Steele's credibility was in serious doubt because of that lie. This is especially egregious, given that the June 2017 warrant application was significantly based on Steele's credibility.

Senator Grassley and Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, noticed the significance of Steele's interrogatory responses over six months before the public release of the FISA warrant applications. On February 6, 2018, Grassley and Graham, released a redacted version of their memorandum on the topic dated January 4, 2018. On pages 4-5 of their memorandum, they asserted that FBI and DOJ officials misrepresented Steele's credibility to the FISA Court in order to make Steele appear more credible than the facts would justify.

The Grassley-Graham memorandum is primarily focused on Steele's lying to the FBI about when he spoke to the press. However, the memorandum sets forth a compelling case that Rosenstein was dishonest with the FISA judge in June 2017, and the unredacted portions of the June 2017 warrant application support this conclusion.


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  • that won't happen they will lose it all and the republicans will continue. the pres has warned rosenstein to stop stonewalling and hand over the documents.

  • LIES TO FISA HOW IN THE WORLD IS THERE A COURT WHERE THE O/OPINION IS NOT EVEN HEARD?  FAIR HARDLY

    ROSENSTEIN HAS BEEN LYING AND STONEWALLING.  CONGRESS HAS OVERSIGHT OVER THE FBI AND DOJ THEY ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN ROSENSTEIN IS TRYING TO STONEWALL.   HOPING THE DEMS TAKE THE HOUSE THEN HIDE THE INFO.   

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