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Declassifying the FISA papers

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Tom Fitton,

And here’s an interesting note. Is it due to the focus on FISA courts or is it because of a disinterest in working with the Trump administration? From ZDNet.com:

In Trump’s first year, FISA court denied record number of surveillance orders

by Zack Whittaker

More surveillance orders were denied during President Donald Trump’s first year in office than in the court’s history.

In its first year, the Trump administration kept one little-known courtroom in the capital busy.

A secretive Washington DC-based court that oversees the US government’s foreign spy programs denied more surveillance orders during President Donald Trump’s first year than in the court’s 40-year history, according to newly released figures.

Why would that be?

Annual data published Wednesday by the US Courts shows that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court last year denied 26 applications in full, and 50 applications in part.

That’s compared to 21 orders between when the court was first formed in 1978 and President Barack Obama’s final year in office in 2016.

That’s a rejection rate of 0.11 percent to date.

Okay, why?

Specific reasons for the modifications were not given, but they can include changing who or what is surveilled and for what length.

Or is it simply a Deep State political reaction?

What you may not know is this: going to the FISA court customarily equated to a Grand Jury and a ham sandwich.

BZ

 

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The FBI: massacred by mid-and-upper management

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Few trust the FBI any more.

With good reason considering recent revelations.

It used to be the premiere federal law enforcement agency. I worked for the FBI. They are a proud organization used to adhering to the triad of Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.

They are no longer so. Mid-to-upper level management — particularly James Brien Comey — ensured most of the trust the organization garnered in decades past has “left the building.”

The 7th floor couldn’t be more corrupt. Oh wait, yes it could. James Comey could walk back there for a visit.

It is now revealed: the FBI paid for the dossier. Cash. Your hard-earned American Taxpayer dollars. For oppo research. You know the rest. From the WashingtonTimes.com:

FBI hired dossier author Steele to investigate Trump, fired him for lying about media leaks

by Rowan Scarborough

The FBI officially authorized payments to Christopher Steele, who wrote the infamous Trump–Russia dossier, but then fired the former British spy for lying to agents about his covert leaks to the news media.

That’s a rather heady first paragraph.

Direct linkage from the FBI to the dossier. In terms of cash money. Paid. For oppo research. And former FBI agent Josh Campbell expects us to cry buckets of tears because he feels offended that the FBI has somehow become diminished in the eyes of the American public. Suck it up, buttercup. Your “leadership” put you there. I drink your disingenuous tears. You can pull the Martyr Bayonet out of your chest now. It ain’t playing and, worse, it’s poor stage blood.

The sequence of events is outlined in the declassified memo released Friday by Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The Nunes memo is the first official confirmation that the FBI hierarchy made a decision to start paying Mr. Steele and why the deal fell through. Justice Department witnesses in public have declined to confirm such a deal.

But wait. Hasn’t it been the various guilty parties who’ve insisted our alphabet agencies are strictly secular and have no political inclinations whatsoever? Like, say, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, et al?

James Clapper unmasked members of Congress for Barack Hussein Obama.

Didn’t James Clapper unmask Donald John Trump?

These cuts, of course, are conveniently forgotten and purposely avoided by the American Media Maggots because they doesn’t “fit.” You know why.

The memo shows that the bureau was using Mr. Steele’s unverified Democratic Party-financed dossier not only to obtain a court-ordered wiretap on Trump volunteer Carter Page, but it also wanted a commitment to a longer-term financial agreement with the former British intelligence officer to continue investigating President Trump.

If he had not lied, Mr. Steele, who vowed to ruin the Trump candidacy, could have been investigating Mr. Trump from the postelection transition into his presidency.

Your FBI at work, continuing to cement the relationship between — wait. What?

Apparently Leftists fervently believe we have no memory or access to this kind of unusual thingie called the internet. Where moments in time can live in perpetuity.

More damning yet is this:

Mr. Steele denied to the FBI that he was feeding his discredited information to the press. But on Oct. 30, 2016, an article in Mother Jones magazine quoted an unidentified former spy — who was obviously Mr. Steele — discussing his dossier and the FBI investigation.

The narrative is laid out in the Nunes memo. It notes that at the time the FBI sought the Page warrant on Oct. 21 “the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele” for the same information the bureau submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for the warrant. Mr. Steele wrote his last election dossier memo on Oct. 19, apparently ending his $160,000 in payments from Fusion GPS, the investigative firm that had hired him to produce the dossier.

How wonderful for you. Paying taxpayer dollars for the device that a politicized FBI and DOJ via the NSA decided to weaponize against, first, an American citizen (in violation of section 702), a presidential candidate and then an actual sitting president because — do we know precisely when the surveillance stopped?

No. We do not. But this is also important:

The dossier was exclusively funded by Democrats beginning in June 2016 through Fusion GPS, according to court and congressional hearings. The Washington Free Beacon had paid Fusion for Trump opposition research but broke off that arrangement in April.

Your FBI.

BZ

 

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BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

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Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, thanks to my shameless contract, as well as appear on the Sack Heads Radio Show each Wednesday evening.

For the first hour we spoke to Dave Milner, the Unpleasant Blind Guy who isn’t. I mean, he’s blind, yes, but he’s not unpleasant. He brought us up to speed on the group Britain First who, it turns out, is far from being on the up-and-up as a “pro-UK” group.

Afterwards, these topics were covered, and more:

  • President Trump had his first State of the Union speech Tuesday night;
  • The American Media Maggots react to the Trump speech;
  • Trump’s pitchforked tail was seen as well as sulphur bleeding from his nostrils;
  • “Trump’s State of the Union speech showed little emotion and much anger;
  • Trump’s proposal for 1.8 million “Dreamers” and his Four Pillars necessary;
  • To BZ the most important aspect unmentioned by Trump was mandatory E-Verify;
  • Happy Stories: winners and losers — Nancy Pelosi’s mouth resembles a sphincter;
  • Congressman demands illegals be arrested at SOTU: didn’t happen;
  • Demorats sound stupid: the bonuses are merely “crumbs” according to DWS;
  • President Trump’s 8 Biggest Accomplishments;
  • #ReleaseTheMemo
  • Every Demorat on the Intelligence Committee voted against any Congresssman seeing the memo;
  • Then the House Intel Committee decided to release the memo to the public;
  • Illinois Demorat Mike Quigley says of the memo: “It’s a book report by a high school kid at 1 AM on two Red Bulls who hasn’t read the book;”
  • Adam Schiff’s ass is on the line as well as the FBI and the bulk of Obama’s food chain and Alphabet Agency chain;
  • The FBI cleared the memo and found it factually accurate;

And so much more buttery political goodness!

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Please join me, the Bloviating Zeppelin (on Twitter @BZep, Facebook as Biff Zeppe and the Bloviating Zeppelin, and on Gab.ai @BZep), every Tuesday and Thursday night on the SHR Media Network from 11 PM to 1 AM Eastern and 8 PM to 10 PM Pacific, at the Berserk Bobcat Saloon — where the speech is free but the drinks are not.

As ever, thank you so kindly for listening, commenting, and interacting in the chat room or listening later via podcast.

  • Want to listen to all the Berserk Bobcat Saloon archives in podcast? Go here.
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BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Thursday, January 25th, 2018

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Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, thanks to my shameless contract, as well as appear on the Sack Heads Radio Show each Wednesday evening.

Tonight we spoke about leadership, or the lack thereof. We also talked about reality and about Leftists attempting to capture votes in perpetuity via illegal aliens. We also featured two great articles by Kurt Schlichter and Matthew Betley.

These topics were covered, and more:

We began the show with the tolling of Big Ben, Winston Churchill’s “Fight On The Beaches” speech, and Churchill planning for D-Day in honor of true leadership in times of crisis; England at the time truly believed it would be defeated by Germany after all the conciliatory machinations by the Quisling Neville Chamberlain;

  • Bill Clinton gets addressed on the streets of NYC: “how’s Monica?”
  • Brian Shul’s “L.A. Speed Check”;
  • Landmark global warming study debunks high end temperature increases;
  • Physics-Astronomy.com headline: “NASA wants to probe Uranus in search of gas”;
  • People we lost in 2017;
  • NYT: Trump ordered Mueller fired;
  • WSJ: Trump proposes citizenship for 1.8 million “Dreamers”;
  • Kurt Schlichter article: “Will Trump Go Sloppy & Soft On Illegal Immigration?”
  • SCOTUS to hear most recent Trump travel ban;
  • Illegal Aliens are quietly redistributed around the US;
  • Matthew Betley article: “When Our Leaders Fail Us“;
  • It will be proven that the “dossier” was the source for an illegal FISA warrant;

And so much more buttery political goodness!

If you care to listen to the show in Spreaker, please click on the yellow start button at the upper left.

Listen to “BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Thursday, 1-25-18” on Spreaker.

If you care to watch the show on YouTube, please click on the red start button. Fear not, it’s actually the Berserk Bobcat Saloon and not the Sack Heads Radio Show.

Please join me, the Bloviating Zeppelin (on Twitter @BZep, Facebook as Biff Zeppe and the Bloviating Zeppelin, and on Gab.ai @BZep), every Tuesday and Thursday night on the SHR Media Network from 11 PM to 1 AM Eastern and 8 PM to 10 PM Pacific, at the Berserk Bobcat Saloon — where the speech is free but the drinks are not.

As ever, thank you so kindly for listening, commenting, and interacting in the chat room or listening later via podcast.

  • Want to listen to all the Berserk Bobcat Saloon archives in podcast? Go here.
  • Want to watch the past shows on YouTube? Please visit the SHR Media Network YouTube channel here.
  • Want to watch the show live on Facebook? Go to the SHR Media page on Facebook here.
  • Want to watch the show on High Plains TV? Go here.

Thank you one and all for listening, watching and supporting the SHR Media Network: “Conservative Media Done Right.”

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Sara Carter: “dossier” utilized to spy on Trump campaign

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FINALLY. IT’S OUT.

And it’s what I’ve been saying and writing for months.

Sara Carter said it Friday night on the Sean Hannity show. The headline from Hannity.com:

BOMBSHELL: Clinton-Financed Russia Dossier USED TO SPY on Trump Campaign

The unverified dossier alleging connections between President Trump’s campaign and the Russians was used as evidence by the FBI to gain approval from a secret court to monitor members of Trump’s team, this reporter has learned.

A large portion of the evidence presented in the salacious 35-page dossier put together by former British spy Christopher Steele, has either been proven wrong or remains unsubstantiated. However, the FBI gained approval nevertheless to surveil members of Trump’s campaign and “it’s outrageous and clearly should be thoroughly investigated,” said a senior law enforcement source, with knowledge of the process.

Sara Carter wrote at SaraCarter.com:

Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court?

Multiple sources told this reporter that the dossier was used along with other evidence to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as FISC. The sources also stressed that there will be more information in the coming week regarding systemic “FISA abuse.”

“(The dossier) certainly played a role in obtaining the warrant,” added another senior U.S. official, with knowledge of the dossier. “Congress needs to look at the FBI officials who were handling this case and see what, if anything, was verified in the dossier. I think an important question is whether the FBI paid anything to the source for the dossier.”

Representative Matt Gaetz (R, FLA) said it was “outrageous” if the FBI used the “dossier” to justify a FISA court warrant request.

Which, well, yes, apparently they did.

On Wednesday, Sean Hannity said he has also independently confirmed that the dossier was used to obtain the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant from three separate sources.

Imagine that. Not one anonymous source as is the current and common trend in American Media Maggot circles. Three.

The “dossier” is specious, already factually disproven, yet was utilized as the basis for the acquisition of surveillance warrants against those involved in the Trump presidential campaign. See: the “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” doctrine.

NOW do you see why the FBI has been stonewalling? NOW do you see why the DOJ has been stonewalling?

NOW do you see why Judge Rudolph Contreras recused himself from the Flynn case? Because he was a FISA judge?

Are you beginning to see, as Leftists are wont to say, how we “connect the dots”? Dovetailing? Starting to make sense?

The specifically applicable portion in the video below begins at 4:00 and runs until 20:00. Gird thy loins.

This is what I have said. And now let me emphasize.

This will turn out to be the greatest black mark on the history of DC politics.

This is in fact indicative of a soft coup against a president campaign, a president-elect and a sitting president.

A soft coup. In America. In your country. In my country.

Committed by the Leftists, Demorats, the FBI, the DOJ and other governmental elements hostile to Conservatives.

A coup to overthrow one man, one campaign, because they did not agree with his politics and feared his efficacy.

Oh my, will there ever be more to come.

I truly believe this is the veritable TIP of the ICEBERG. This was far more than a mere RICO, this was an intricately interwoven purposeful and end-goal-designed SOFT COUP on an AMERICAN presidential candidate and now a sitting president. This is pure out-and-out treason.

Think about the implications.

BZ

 

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