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This is the furthest thing from a nothingburger. Comey testified under oath that the dossier was salacious and unverified. The FBI knew the document was opposi
by insickness 9y ago
This is the furthest thing from a nothingburger. Comey testified under oath that the dossier was salacious and unverified. The FBI knew the document was opposition research created by Clinton and the DNC. Yet Comey approved surveillance on the Trump team based on that document. So in effect, the FBI worked with the democrats to falsify documents to go after a political opponent. This is a pretty big scandal.
- gumby 9y ago> Yet Comey approved surveillance on the Trump team based on that document. The surveillance started long before that dossier was put together. So it couldn't be based on the not-yet-compiled document regardless of what this document claims.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The surveillance started long before that dossier was put together. The FISA surveillance targeting Page did not. Information about Page, and implicating him as a Russian asset, was captured on surveillance of Russian nationals suspected of being spies in 2013, and was no doubt key to the FISA application (apparently, one of the points on which Democratic rebuttal challenges the Nunes memo’s characterization is on the centrality of the dossier info to the FISA application.)
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- dragonwriter 9y ago> Yet Comey approved surveillance on the Trump team At the time of the FISA warrant, Page was a former campaign staffer. Characterizing surveillance of him as surveillance of “the Trump team” is wildly inaccurate on many levels.