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WSJ Columnist: Why is the Media Ignoring the Real Bombshell FISA Memo?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/02/08/strassel-tweetstorm-grassley-memo-n2445871
– Here's her case: 1) Why isn't the (mostly) unredacted Grassley memo front page news? … According to the two GOP Senators, the FBI did the latter.   … That’s big news. But that's not all.…
The Clown Show
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/02/08/the-clown-show-n2445773
– Still, in response to the release of the GOP memo, there are reports of anger inside the FBI. … That’s exactly the problem with the FBI now – the arrogance that accompanies unchecked power that believes itself above accountability … Not to be outdone, the media seized on a joke President Trump told in Ohio, calling Democrats not applauding good economic news in…
Why FISA-gate Is Scarier Than Watergate
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2018/02/08/why-fisagate-is-scarier-than-watergate-n2445740
– As a result of various controversies, the deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, has resigned. … news based on supposed leaks. … Liberal and progressive voices are excusing, not airing, the excesses of the DOJ and FBI.…
New FBI Texts: An Obama Briefing, a Mysterious Month-Long Gap, and an Anti-Trump Mission
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/02/07/new-fbi-t…a-mysterious-monthlong-gap-and-an-antitrump-mission-n2445811
– We are now getting our first look at a new trove of text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page -- who were having … Leah wrote up the basics earlier, but here are a few major takeaways, from my perspective: (1) In the "old news" file, it's clearer … Clinton herself was even interviewed, and after top aides were offered immunity and given passes for lying to the FBI.  …
Hmm: Did an Infamous Hillary Hatchet Man Provide 'Intel' for Anti-Trump Dossier Her Campaign Secretly Funded?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/02/07/oh-my-did…or-antitrump-dossier-her-campaign-secretly-paid-for-n2445393
– But this exchange between Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum and House Intelligence Committee Republican Trey Gowdy -- whom I trust and … eye last evening: Trey Gowdy just heavily implied that Sydney Blumenthal was a source for Christopher Steele's oppo dossier on Fox News … All my caveats from this piece still apply, but the extent to which the FBI/DOJ did or did not disclose the exact partisan roots of…
Gowdy Muses Why the Dems Want Their Memo to Be Redacted
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/02/07/gowdy-muses-why-the-dems-want-their-memo-to-be-redacted-n2445670
– Democratic colleagues with being politically savvy enough to include material that needs to be redacted in their anticipated memo on FBI … Having redactions in their response memo, Gowdy told Fox News Tuesday night, would paint a narrative that there is a more sinister … Russia investigation, reiterating his confidence in the majority of the men and women who serve at the FBI and DOJ.…
New Text Between FBI Lovers: 'Obama Wants to Know Everything'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/02/07/new-t…fbi-lovers-surfaces-obama-wants-to-know-everything-n2445634
– The latest text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page show one exchange that references former President Obama … The text, which was sent from Page to Strzok, discussed preparing talking points for former FBI Director James Comey, who was going … (Fox News) The messages then ended when Page wrote to Strzok on July 23, 2017, “Please don’t ever text me again.”…
Memo to Dan Rather: Shut Up About Memos
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2018/02/07/memo-to-dan-rather-shut-up-about-memos-n2445394
– After years of trashing alternative media, which exposed the veteran CBS News reporter's monumental Memogate fraud in 2004, Rather … The 86-year-old grandfather of fake news now uses Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to stoke the left's anti-Trump resistance -- all while … comments on the House Intelligence Committee's release of the four-page Nunes memo alleging domestic surveillance abuses by politicized FBI…
Republicans and Those 'Attacks' on the FBI
https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2018/02/07/republicans-and-those-attacks-on-the-fbi-n2445244
– The news is filled with reports that Republicans in Washington are "attacking" the FBI over the Trump-Russia investigation. … The FBI does enormously valuable, sometimes heroic things. … The FBI had to pay Hatfill millions in damages.…
'Memogate' Presents Rare Opportunity to Hold Secretive Institutions Accountable
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelmarsden/2018/02/07/mem…ortunity-to-hold-secretive-institutions-accountable-n2445184
– The "Nunes memo" basically accused the FBI of politicizing its investigation by citing $160,000 worth of political opposition research … The House Intelligence Committee's ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff, has said that the FBI was above board in disclosing the political … This makes little sense, unless perhaps the FBI was using him as a mole, unwittingly or not.…
The Memo and the Truth
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2018/02/06/the-memo-and-the-truth-n2444695
– The four-page document alleges, in the words of a Wall Street Journal editorial: "the FBI and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance … Now that the memo has been made public, partisans on the left, who once claimed its release would seriously damage the FBI and the … McCabe signed one of the FISA applications and then-FBI Director James Comey signed three.…
Democrats Melt Down over Nunes Memo and Enter the Upside Down
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnkass/2018/02/06/democrat…melt-down-over-nunes-memo-and-enter-the-upside-down-n2444629
– The memo alleges abuses by top officials of the FBI and the Justice Department in their investigation of President Donald Trump and … Or, what if senior FBI officials running the investigation of Obama had expressed loathing for the candidate and his voters? … And Republicans hammer at the FBI -- whose leadership they once respected -- including former FBI director Robert Mueller.…
House Intelligence Committee Votes to Release Democratic Memo
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/02/05/democratic-memo-n2444535
– The House Intelligence Committee has unanimously voted to make the Democratic response to the FBI surveillance memo public. … Chairman Devin Nunes and committee Republicans voted last week to release their memo on surveillance abuses at the FBI during the 2016 … The document details how the FBI abused FISA to spy on Trump campaign associates such as foreign policy advisor Carter Page.…
Reince Priebus Never Heard Trump Say He Wanted to Fire Mueller
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/02/04/reince…bus-never-heard-trump-say-he-wanted-to-fire-mueller-n2444242
– Trump and the FBI.   … PRIEBUS: "I think it's news. I think it's a 24/7 obsession with this issue.…
Journalism is Dead
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/02/04/journalism-is-dead-n2444085
– There was an opportunity to report the news and journalists and their fellow travelers in the pundit class balked. … There was an unprecedented attempt to make the release of the FISA memo NOT NEWS before anyone knew what was in it. … (This is a story that will never be written about NBC News or the New York Times.…
Meghan McCain To Anti-Trump View Co-Host: Why Are You Still a Republican?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/03/meghan-mc…i-trump-view-co-host-why-are-you-still-a-republican-n2440525
– The government shutdown is over and the FISA memo war took over the news cycle, but Meghan McCain is pushing back against liberal … Program, they’re probably going to renew FISA, though that could be in doubt due to the memo exposing some shady activity by the FBI…
Did The FISA Court Know Warrant Request Was Based On Information Paid For By The Clinton Team?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/03/did-the-f…s-based-on-information-paid-for-by-the-clinton-team-n2443927
– For investigative reporter Sara Carter, now a Fox News contributor, she feels quite adamantly that the FBI knew the dossier was false … I think that the FBI with this memo is going to expose is that the FBI used other information in an effort to get that warrant. … SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS: Did they know it was false? Did they know Hillary paid for it?…
The Mueller Witch Hunt Must End
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2018/02/03/the-mueller-witch-hunt-must-end-n2443880
– Trump rightfully declassified the document, allowing the American people a chance to learn about the abuses that occurred within the FBI … Incredibly, the FBI did not disclose the partisan connections to the dossier in the application to the FISA court. … His close ties to former FBI Director James Comey should have disqualified him from this position of utmost authority.…
Oh My: New Texts Show FBI Agents Discussed Ways To Avoid Federal Records Regulations
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/02/oh-my-new…discussed-ways-to-avoid-federal-records-regulations-n2443641
– FBI agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page sent each other tens of thousands of texts. … It’s a shockingly cavalier attitude from an attorney and high level FBI official.  … (Interesting that the FBI couldn’t.) Where are all those text messages now?…
Wow: Dossier Author Admitted He Was 'Desperate' that Trump 'Not Get Elected'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/02/02/memo…itted-he-was-desperate-for-trump-not-to-get-elected-n2443741
– “In September 2016, Steele admitted to [former FBI official Bruce] Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump, when Steele said … “This clear evidence of Steele’s bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files—but not reflected in any … happening in our country...A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves." https://t.co/vNb1ydyEqm pic.twitter.com/UIFcdCQ42W — ABC News…
Nancy Pelosi, Other Top Dems Have A Meltdown Over Release Of FISA Memo; UPDATE: Constitutional Crisis?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/02/nancy-pelosi-has-a-meltdown-over-release-of-fisa-memo-n2443706
– The FBI also expressed ‘grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.’ … Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could spark a constitutional crisis. https://t.co/VWeWFdPBhR pic.twitter.com/bgYWH90f82 — ABC News … President Trump: The decision to release a partisan and misleading memo over the objections of your own Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI…
WSJ Columnist: Unprecedented Desperation From Democrats In Their Campaign To Kill FISA Memo
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/02/wsj-colum…to-kill-a-memo-about-a-republican-abusing-wiretaps-n2443494
– And shows the FBI omitted crucial information from a FISA court. … The second is the news media’s intense opposition to transparency, where there is a legitimate allegation lobbed against the FBI/DOJ … FBI Director Wray has read the memo. Two senior FBI officials also said it contains no factual inaccuracies.…
Carter Page Says He's Updating Lawsuits Thanks To FISA Memo's Release
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/02/carter-pa…hes-updating-lawsuits-thanks-to-fisa-memos-release-n2443722
– A shoddy document that was really partisan opposition research from a presidential campaign was used by the FBI/DOJ to secure a warrant … unprecedented abuse of process represents a giant, historic leap in the repair of America’s democracy." pic.twitter.com/o90hrSHeC5 — ABC News…
Trump on Details of The Memo: People Should Be Ashamed
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/02/02/trump-on-details-of-the-memo-people-should-be-ashamed-n2443671
– It shows the FBI used the infamous Fusion GPS dossier to obtain a FISA warrant on members of his campaign.  … happening in our country...A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves." https://t.co/vNb1ydyEqm pic.twitter.com/UIFcdCQ42W — ABC News…
Don't Forget The Obama Administration: WSJ Columnist Tells Us What To Look For In The FISA Memo
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/02/dont-forg…stration-wsj-columnist-tells-us-what-to-look-for-in-n2443661
– news media. … The FBI sometimes presents news articles to the court, but primarily for corroboration of other facts. … FBI also used a news story ginned up by FusionSteele as further "evidence"--though came from same source. — Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel…
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