Saturday, the House Intelligence Committee released the long-awaited Dem rebuttal to the GOP memo that outlined alleged government surveillance abuses during the 2016 Presidential campaign.
The rebuttal claims that officials at the FBI and Justice Department “did not abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.” (VIDEO BELOW)
The Dem counter memo is a big NOTHING BURGER. The 10 Page Memo is full of Schiff!
Democrats used the memo to undermine claims in the GOP memo released this month that the FBI and DOJ relied on a Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier. It was to ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a warrant to monitor Trump adviser, Carter Page.
That Republican memo also said agencies left out the Democratic National Committee’s funding of the dossier. Additionally, the anti-Trump motivations of author Christopher Steele in its request for a warrant.
Republicans have pointed to the revelations as proof that intelligence agencies had abused surveillance powers. (VIDEO BELOW)
Contrarily, the Democratic rebuttal backed the FBI and DOJ in its seeking of the FISA warrant.
It’s also worth noting that in the 10 page Democrat FISA memo, states terms “person 1” and “law firm 1” to conceal the fact that the CLINTON CAMPAIGN and the DNC paid for the Dossier. It also states that the FISA application used mainstream media reporting on the Dossier to justify it’s credibility.
Sarah Carter tweeted the highlights: (VIDEO BELOW)
#Breaking #DemMemo released. Here’s the highlights … more to come pic.twitter.com/PNOTcNmhTi
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) February 24, 2018
WATCH: Catherine Herridge-Democratic memo.
BREAKING NEWS: Catherine Herridge: “This is the Democratic memo.” pic.twitter.com/gjWt4x4n2F
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 24, 2018
“Page 4 is a critical section of the Democrats’ memo because it makes the argument that The Justice Dept provided additional information obtained through multiple independent sources that corroborated Steele’s reporting.”
BREAKING NEWS: Catherine Herridge: “Page 4 is a critical section of the Democrats’ memo because it makes the argument that @TheJusticeDept provided additional information obtained through multiple independent sources that corroborated Steele’s reporting.” pic.twitter.com/ssG7YgBmwH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 24, 2018
In summary, the Democratic Memo does NOT prove anything that was not already released by the Republican Memo. In other words, the three main points below, by Catherine Herridge – say it ALL.
1. Clinton campaign and the DNC STILL paid for the Russian dossier to get a FISA warrant to spy on an American.
2. Christopher Steele WAS let go by the FBI. They say he was MAD at Comey. (Who knows?)
3. The FBI DID cut a check to Christopher Steele. But he didn’t cash it. (Maybe he received cash instead, who knows?)
In ending, there’s a lot of conjecture and the FACTS still lead to dirty FISA Court abuses by the Comey FBI and Lynch DOJ.
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