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According to conservativeactionnews.com, Nunes memo-gate hinges on the assertions that:
The New York Times reported on Monday that the secret Devin Nunes memo reveals that Trump-appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application to extend FISA surveillance of Carter Page, a former low-level Trump campaign associate.
The Justice Department “saw reason to believe” that Page was “acting as a foreign Russian agent.”
and they are asserting this 1-dimensional and unfounded rationale, about the Fusion GPS/Steele Dossier, as the sole basis for the FISA Warrant re-approval, for Carter Page (a Trump Advisor):
Ed Krassenstein: "Nunes’ memo targets Rod Rosenstein for renewing the FISA warrant on Carter Page. This happened after the Dossier was public and the GOP publicly condemned it. This means the FISA court knew exactly what the Dossier was, hence they couldn’t have been mislead into renewing it." (twitter.com)
The “Trump Team” has “trashed” the Dossier from day one. They are going to ride that horse into the Sunset …
Unfortunately for them, much of it has been verified as true or credible, since then. Ooops.
How True Is the Trump-Russia Dossier?
www.newsweek.com/…
Jan 10, 2018
Verified: Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page met with representatives of Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft.
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Page vehemently denied that he met with Sechin. But in November, the House Intelligence Committee released a transcript of Page’s congressional testimony revealing he had in fact met with other Rosneft officials, including Sechin's subordinate Andrey Baranov, during a trip to Moscow in 2016.
Verified: Trump maintains ties to rich businessmen from Azerbaijan.
[...] connections between Trump and fellow billionaire are now well-established. Agalarov and his pop singer son Emin have known Trump for years, and both men worked with Trump on the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow in 2013.
Emails released in July revealed that Agalarov’s publicist Rob Goldstone had written to Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., to set up a meeting with a Russian lawyer who supposedly had dirt on Hillary Clinton, as part of what Goldstone called "Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump."
Verified: The Kremlin targeted educated youth and swing state voters during its cyber attacks in the 2016 campaign.
The dossier said educated youth and swing voters were a central target in the Kremlin's campaign of fake news and social media chaos, with the hope of cultivating their anti-establishment anger against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. This has been proven by congressional investigations into Russia’s misinformation campaigns during the election, which also showed the cyber attacks were broadly aimed at a variety of voters, with the intent to sow divisions on heated political topics.
Part of MI6 Dossier Has Been Verified By CIA
grondamorin.com/…
Feb 10, 2017
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“For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN. As CNN first reported, then-President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama were briefed on the existence of the dossier prior to Trump’s inauguration.”
“None of the newly learned information relates to the salacious allegations in the dossier. Rather it relates to conversations between foreign nationals. The dossier details about a dozen conversations between senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals. Sources would not confirm which specific conversations were intercepted or the content of those discussions due to the classified nature of US intelligence collection programs.”
“But the intercepts do confirm that some of the conversations described in the dossier took place between the same individuals on the same days and from the same locations as detailed in the dossier, according to the officials. CNN has not confirmed whether any content relates to then-candidate Trump.
The corroboration, based on intercepted communications, has given US intelligence and law enforcement “greater confidence” in the credibility of some aspects of the dossier as they continue to actively investigate its contents, these sources say.” “Reached for comment this afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, “We continue to be disgusted by CNN’s fake news reporting.”
US officials have verified core aspects of the Trump dossier
www.mediamatters.org/…
July 14, 2017
The BBC has learned that US officials "verified" a key claim in a report about Kremlin involvement in Donald Trump's election - that a Russian diplomat in Washington was in fact a spy.
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In light of his earlier work, the US intelligence community saw him as "credible" (their highest praise).
The FBI thought the same; they had worked with Steele going back to his days in MI6. [BBC, 3/30/17]
The fact that both Obama and Trump were briefed on the report in a meeting with the heads of the NSA, CIA, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence suggests that US intelligence agencies at least consider its contents important, if not altogether true, says Susan Hennessey, a former NSA lawyer.
[Wired, 1/11/17]
The Foreign Office official who spoke to the Guardian on Thursday acknowledged that the Steele dossier was not perfect. But he pointed out that intelligence reports always came with “gradations of veracity” and included phrases such as “a high degree of probability”. “You aren’t dealing with a binary world where you can say this is true and this isn’t,” the official said.
He added: “The strongest reason for giving this report credence is that intelligence professionals in the US take it seriously. They were sufficiently persuaded by the author’s track record to find the contents worth passing to the president and president-elect.” [The Guardian, 1/12/17]
Unfortunately for the Nunes Memo-gate and the game of one-sided checkers they are attempting to foist on the public now …
The FISA Court had plenty of evidence against Carter Page, before the Dossier was even a Trump Team talking point, farmed out to Nunes and his co-conspirators — before Rod Rosenstein RE-approved an application to extend FISA surveillance of Carter Page
(a routine official duty.)
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From the Washington Post:
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page — April 11, 2017
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Page is the only American to have had his communications directly targeted with a FISA warrant in 2016 as part of the Russia probe, officials said.
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Last month, the former director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that U.S. law enforcement agencies did not have any FISA orders to monitor the communications of Trump, either as a candidate or as a president-elect, or his campaign. But Clapper did not address whether there were any FISA warrants targeting Trump associates.
Three years before Page became an adviser to the Trump campaign, he came to the attention of FBI counterintelligence agents, who learned that Russian spy suspects had sought to use Page as a source for information.
In that case, one of the Russian suspects, Victor Podobnyy — who was posing as a diplomat and was later charged by federal prosecutors with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government — was captured on tape in 2013 discussing an effort to get information and documents from Page.
In one secretly recorded conversation, detailed in the complaint, Podobnyy said Page “wrote that he is sorry, he went to Moscow and forgot to check his inbox, but he wants to meet when he gets back. I think he is an idiot and forgot who I am. Plus he writes to me in Russian [to] practice the language. He flies to Moscow more often than I do. He got hooked on Gazprom thinking that if they have a project, he could rise up. Maybe he can. I don’t know, but it’s obvious that he wants to earn lots of money.’’ [...]
From Page’s publicly available Track Record in the generic press, over the last several years, it is plainly obvious that Page was going that ‘extra mile’, to “earn lots of money” from his newly-established friends and contacts, with the common goal to promote the Policy Goals of none other than the Kremlin …
Benedict Arnold has nothing over Devin Nunes. As Nunes’ loyalties are clearly fixed on promoting the Trump-approved “fake news” cover-ups — with the purpose of Obstructing an ongoing Investigation.