2-2-18

The Nunes memo was released today at the direction of President Trump. As we thought, it summarizes an abuse of power by the DOJ and FBI under President Obama in an effort to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

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We told you so! Mueller’s toast. Nunes is a hero and Trump . . . well, he’s a genius. What a grand day for liberty-loving #patriots and a dour day for the fetid and olid Deep State. Bwahahahahaha! The Nunes FISA memo release accuses senior officials at the #DOJ of inappropriately using biased opposition research into then-candidate Trump to obtain surveillance warrants on transition team members as part of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, ZeroHedge reports. According to the document, information from the the so-called Steele dossier was “essential” to the acquisition of surveillance warrants on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It claims that then-deputy FBI director Andrew #McCabe told the committee in December that without the information from the Steele dossier, no surveillance warrant for Page would have been sought. The memo alleges that the political origins of the dossier — paid for by #HillaryClinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — were not disclosed to the clandestine court that signed off on the warrant request.

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FISA Memo PROVES Deep State Coup by TRAITORS

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The FISA memo has been released and it PROVES the deep state coup attempts of hardcore TRAITORS within the DNC, FBI, DOJ, and yes – even some within the GOP.

Nunes memo release: What you need to know about the controversial document

WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a classified memo that accused the Justice Department and the FBI of abusing top-secret surveillance to spy on an adviser to President Trump’s campaign. 

The memo was written by Republican staff members on the House Intelligence Committee at the direction of its chairman, Devin Nunes, R-Calif. The panel voted Monday along party lines to release the classified memo. President Trump, who has accused the FBI and Justice Department of political bias, declassified the memo. 

It alleges that the committee has uncovered concerns about “the legitimacy and legality” of applications in which the Justice Department sought permission to spy on a former Trump campaign aide. 

More: The controversial Nunes memo has been released. You can read it here

Here we break down what you need to know about the document rocking Washington: 

What does the memo say? 

The memo alleges that a salacious “dossier” prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele “formed an essential part” of a government request to eavesdrop on Carter Page, who was then a foreign policy adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign.

The Justice Department, according to the memo, did not reveal to the court that approved the surveillance that Steele’s work was funded by the Democratic National Committee, which it said was paying “to obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.” Nor did it reveal that Steele, who it describes as a “longtime FBI source,” had been in contact with news organizations, which ultimately prompted the FBI to terminate his use as an informant.

It alleges that Steele told a Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, that he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected.” It said Ohr’s wife was employed by the consulting firm Fusion GPS, which hired Steele, a fact that also was not shared with the court that approved. And it said that, at the time of the application, had made only minimal progress in confirming Steele’s accusations.

More: Analysis: With Nunes memo release, Trump barrels toward showdown with Mueller

More: Ex-FBI director James Comey on the Nunes memo: ‘That’s it?’

Although Steele had a history of “credible reporting on other unrelated matters,” the committee’s memo said, the FBI and Justice Department should have told the court about his “anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations.”

Andrew McCabe, then the second-in-command of the FBI, told the House Intelligence Committee in December according to the memo apparently said that “no surveillance warrant would have been sought” absent the information Steele provided. Democrats on the committee who had reviewed McCabe’s testimony disputed that characterization.

The memo offers little insight into what other information the government might have relied on in its surveillance application.

More: ‘I have never seen anything like this’: FBI, DOJ under pressure like never before with Nunes memo

Let’s back up. How can the government spy on Americans? 

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is a law that allows the government to eavesdrop on Americans for national security purposes.

To do that, the government must persuade a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that it has evidence to think that the person is working as an agent of a foreign power, is working on behalf of a government that conducts intelligence gathering in the United States, or is engaged in international terrorism.

According to the memo, the government began eavesdropping on Page in October 2016, and extended the surveillance three times. One of the requests was approved by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee; another was approved by Dana Boente, who FBI Director Chris Wray recently selected as his chief lawyer.

Aren’t these orders normally secret?

The details of FISA surveillance orders are classified, and they have long been among the government’s most carefully guarded national security secrets.

This is one reason why the memo’s release is so extraordinary. Trump declassified the memo on Friday, after the intelligence committee voted to release it under an arcane House rule. The White House also said it would work with Congress on the release of a somewhat longer memo prepared by the intelligence committee’s Democratic minority.

Other parts of FISA – including one Congress and Trump re-authorized in January – permit the government to spy on people overseas or to force business to turn over their records.

What does it take to get a FISA order? 

Unlike other types of government surveillance, FISA applications must be approved by a senior FBI officials and either the attorney general, the deputy attorney general or the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

They are supposed to lay out enough evidence to show “probable cause” that the target is an agent of a foreign power, and that the eavesdropping is needed to gather intelligence information.

That legal standard is essentially the same as the one courts use when approving routine search warrants and wiretap orders in criminal cases. It is a comparatively low bar; it essentially requires that the government produce only enough facts that a reasonable person would think that a search would turn up evidence of a crime.

The surveillance court seldom turns down the government’s applications. But in 2016, it turned down more requests – 34 – than in any year since FISA was approved in 1978, according to statistics maintained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Lawyers who have participated in that process said that is because FISA applications typically far exceed the law’s minimum requirements.

Does the memo provide actual evidence of wrongdoing? 

Not necessarily.

Neither FISA nor federal courts have set hard-and-fast rules about how much information the government must provide about its sources. “There is no ‘always,’” said Orin Kerr, a University of Southern California law school professor. “Everything is case by case, totality of the circumstances.”

Federal courts have said for decades that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from leaving out “material” information when it applies for search warrants and wiretaps, and the same standard would apply to FISA.

In practice, it means that warrant requests cannot leave out information that so badly undermines the application that a judge would have denied them permission to search had it been included. Although it is not unusual for suspects to argue that the police should have told judges about the baggage of their informants — spurned girlfriends, rival drug dealers, tax cheats and others — they seldom succeed in persuading courts that the surveillance was illegal. 

Carrie Cordero, a former Justice Department national security lawyer, said that in FISA applications, like applications for routine search warrants, typically include some assessment of a source’s reliability. How much depends on how much of a role their information plays in showing that the government has enough evidence to proceed.

“If it was central to the probable cause, then I would suggest more disclosure would be appropriate; if it was one fact and one source among many, then maybe not. It’s fact-specific,” Cordero said.

Has this come up before? Can you give me some examples?  

In 2012, a Chicago police officer got a search warrant for a woman’s house where he said he had seen marijuana plants growing. He didn’t mention the fact that he was the woman’s father-in-law, that he had helped her grow the drugs, or that days before they had a “bitter conflict” over religious displays at her son’s funeral.

But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that none of that mattered. The officer might have been motivated by “spite, his desire to see his daughter-in-law arrested just four days after the death of her child,” but he still put forward enough evidence that there was marijuana in the basement to justify a search warrant.

In other cases, federal appeals courts have said it didn’t matter that agents left out of their warrant applications the fact that an informant was a federal fugitive they had decided not to arrest, or that one had “perjured himself, lied, had been arrested, and failed to pay income taxes.” In some of those cases, courts said it was enough that agents described their sources’ biases in general terms; in others, they said the omissions didn’t matter because the government’s search application contained enough other evidence.

Kerr said judges expect that informants are “typically – or at least often – unsavory characters.”

More: Five key claims in the Nunes memo on FBI surveillance of Trump campaign aide

OK, so is this memo a big deal?  

In Washington, it’s certainly becoming one, and it depends on who you ask. The memo offered political grist for both parties.

The Republican memo confirmed that Page was a target of government surveillance, and that information from a paid opposition researcher played at least some role in the spying. But it also offered the first official confirmation that Steele’s infamous “dossier” was not the reason the FBI first opened the counterintelligence investigation that has cast a shadow over Trump’s first year in office.

Hours before the release on Friday, Trump accused the top leadership and investigators at the FBI and Justice Department of politicizing “sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans.” As the memo was released, Trump told reporters: ”I think it’s a disgrace.” 

House Republicans are also seizing on the memo’s release. “For FISA surveillance to be used for partisan political gamesmanship is nothing less than an assault on democracy itself,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. “The DOJ and FBI spied on American citizens associated with the Trump campaign based on the unverified claims made in a dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. This is repugnant on every possible level.”  

More: Meet the key players in controversy surrounding the Nunes memo on FBI surveillance

Yet the top Democrat on the House Intelligence panel, Adam Schiff of California, has described the Republican memo as “a profoundly misleading set of talking points” that is “rife with factual inaccuracies” designed to undermine the FBI and DOJ – and special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s election interference and possible collusion with Trump associates. Schiff is one of two lawmakers on the panel who has reviewed the Justice Department records on which the memo is based.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee, said that “unlike almost every House member who voted in favor of this memo’s release, I have actually read the underlying documents on which the memo was based. They simply do not support its conclusions.”

More: Meet the key players in controversy surrounding the Nunes memo on FBI surveillance

What does the FBI think?

In an extraordinary statement this week, the FBI expressed “grave concerns”about ”material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” The Justice Department, in a letter to Nunes, said releasing the memo to the public would be “extraordinarily reckless.” 

Yet Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday said the issues the memo raised were of “great importance” and that “no department is perfect.” 

Does this spell trouble for Mueller’s investigation? 

That remains to be seen. Trump declined Friday to say whether he had confidence in Rosenstein, the man he nominated to be the Justice Department’s second-in-command.

Rosenstein is overseeing the Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election interference and possible collusion with Trump associates since Sessions recused himself over his own contacts with Russians. If Trump uses the memo as a reason to dismiss Rosenstein, it would almost certainly trigger another round of political tumult in Washington, and it was not clear on Friday even how a majority of his own party would respond to such a move. Sessions went out of his way on Friday to praise Rosenstein in public remarks.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Friday that the memo “raises serious concerns about the integrity of decisions made at the highest levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI to use the Government’s most intrusive surveillance tools against American citizens.” 

More: ‘I have never seen anything like this’: FBI, DOJ under pressure like never before with Nunes memo

What role did FISA play in Mueller’s investigation? 

Nunes’s memo gave no indication of how significant a role the FISA surveillance played in Mueller’s investigation, and there have been few other public clues.

So far, prosecutors working for Mueller have brought charges against four people, including former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his former national security adviser, Mike Flynn. A campaign foreign policy aide, George Papadopoulos, acknowledged last year that he had lied to the FBI about his contacts with a person he believed to be connected to the Russian government who was offering “dirt” on Trump’s political rival, Hillary Clinton. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador about sanctions designed to punish the Russian government for election-year meddling.

None of the cases has made any mention of Carter Page or what, if anything, investigators uncovered during the surveillance. But prosecutors have given some signals that their investigation continues. On Wednesday, they asked a court to further delay a sentencing hearing for Flynn, who has promised to cooperate with the special counsel investigation. 

Contributing: Kevin Johnson, Erin Kelly 

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FISA memo: Steele fired as an FBI source for breaking ‘cardinal rule’ –leaking to the media

He was the spy who couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

Christopher Steele, the former British spook behind the discredited dossier the FBI used to get a warrant to spy on an adviser to Donald Trump, comes off as more blabbermouth than Bond in the bombshell House memo released Friday.

The report, compiled by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and greenlighted for release by the White House against the wishes of Democrats and the Justice Department, painfully details Steele’s disclosures to the press. It even states that the FBI cut ties with him after he blew his own cover.

Steele was “suspended and then terminated” as an FBI source for what the bureau defined “as the most serious of violations” – an “unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI.”

In an Oct. 30, 2016 Mother Jones article written by David Corn, Steele leaked his involvement with the FBI.

“Steele should have been terminated for his previous undisclosed contacts with Yahoo and other outlets in September –before the Page application was submitted to the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] FISC in October –but Steele improperly concealed from and lied to the FBI about those contacts,” the memo read.

“Steele’s numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling—maintaining confidentiality—and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source for the FBI.”

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The memo also said that “Steele’s numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling—maintaining confidentiality—and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source for the FBI.”

Steele was hired by research firm Fusion GPS to compile details for the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier, containing salacious allegations against Trump. The dossier was published by BuzzFeed News in January 2017.

Fox News learned in the fall of 2017 that the dossier was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through law firm Perkins Coie in an effort to conduct opposition research against the Trump campaign.

According to the memo released Friday, the FBI and Justice Department were aware of the political origins of the dossier, but were not included in FISA warrant applications to surveil Trump foreign police adviser Carter Page.

The Page FISA application did cite, however, a Sept. 23, 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focused on the former Trump campaign advisor’s July 2016 trip to Moscow. According to the memo, the article did “not corroborate the Steele dossier” as the article was “derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News.”

“The Page FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not properly provide information to Yahoo News,” the memo read. “Steele has admitted in British court filings that he met with Yahoo News—and several other outlets – in September 2016 at the direction of Fusion GPS.”

The memo said that Perkins Coie “was aware” of Steele’s “initial media contacts” because the firm hosted Fusion GPS and Steele for a meeting in Washington D.C. where the matter was discussed.

Another item that was not included in the Page FISA warrant application was the fact that even after his termination, Steele remained in close contact with DOJ official Bruce Ohr –whose wife, Nellie Ohr, was employed by Fusion GPS, where she assisted in the compilation of materials for the dossier. That relationship with Steele and the Ohrs was “inexplicably concealed from the FISC.”

Steele told Bruce Ohr in September, 2016 that he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.”

Steele’s “bias,” according to the memo, was recorded by Ohr, but not reflected in the Page FISA applications. 

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