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GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com)
The controversial four-page memo created by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence Committee alleging abuse of surveillance authority by the Justice Department and FBI has been released Friday after being declassified by the president. The memo is unredacted. (Alternative link for the memo.) The Washington Post: The four-page, newly declassified memo written by the Republican staffers for the House Intelligence Committee said the findings "raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain (Justice Department) and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) calling it "a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process."
The memo accuses former officials who approved the surveillance applications -- a group that includes former FBI Director James B. Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe, former deputy attorney general Sally Yates and current Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein -- of signing off on court surveillance requests that omitted key facts about the political motivations of the person supplying some of the information, Christopher Steele, a former intelligence officer in Britain. The memo says Steele "was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations -- an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI." The FBI Agents Association on Friday said that agents "have not, and will not, allow partisan politics to distract us from our solemn commitment to our mission." The full statement: The men and women of the FBI put their lives on the line every day in the fight against terrorists and criminals because of their dedication to our country and the Constitution. The American people should know that they continue to be well-served by the world's preeminent law enforcement agency. FBI Special Agents have not, and will not, allow partisan politics to distract us from our solemn commitment to our mission.
The memo accuses former officials who approved the surveillance applications -- a group that includes former FBI Director James B. Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe, former deputy attorney general Sally Yates and current Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein -- of signing off on court surveillance requests that omitted key facts about the political motivations of the person supplying some of the information, Christopher Steele, a former intelligence officer in Britain. The memo says Steele "was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations -- an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI." The FBI Agents Association on Friday said that agents "have not, and will not, allow partisan politics to distract us from our solemn commitment to our mission." The full statement: The men and women of the FBI put their lives on the line every day in the fight against terrorists and criminals because of their dedication to our country and the Constitution. The American people should know that they continue to be well-served by the world's preeminent law enforcement agency. FBI Special Agents have not, and will not, allow partisan politics to distract us from our solemn commitment to our mission.
Are you insane? This is to clean out the EXACT people who have no regard for the Constitution, who will actively use the intel apparatus to violate the 4th amendment rights of citizens, who will withhold information from judges, who openly conspire with one political party against another political party. These people have corrupted the DOJ and FBI, from the top down, and need to be cleaned out for the good of us citizens.
Comey is the problem, not some poor innocent guy who was pushed out, and has too much free time to tweet out poetry and quips about liberty. He signed the FISA applications knowing that the DNC paid for the dossier, and withheld that information from the FISA court. He used media reports on the dossier as evidence the dossier was true when it was time to renew the FISA application? He misled the congress, those who by constitution are empowered to oversee him. He misled the chief executive, when asked why he didn't work to disavow the Russia investigation (which is alleged by the way).
There's a very good reason why the FBI and DOJ has lost the trust of the people. What proof do we REALLY have that there was any Russia involvement by anyone, other than the word of the same people who openly lied?
And this is just the tip. This openly proves that the FBI was "wiretapping" the Trump Campaign. They sniffed the whole campaign headquarters to get conversations of one person, Carter Page. What did the DOJ do with the results of the FISA 702 evesdropping of the Trump campaign? Inside information says that it went straight to the President's Daily Briefing (PDB) reports, where names were unmasked by the DOJ and fed back to the DNC. Just wait for the next round.