gangstonc
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It was a pretty reasonable interview. However, many other sources say the Justice department made the court very well aware the origins of the dossier. It's a reasonable thing to ask, but I don't think it should be done so publicly. I guess we will see what the Democratic Memo says.I listened to Trey Gowdy on Face the Nation, who helped draft the Memo and who actually read the FISA application. He is not a partisan hack and I found what he had to say to be thoughtful and extremely fair. If you haven't seen his interview, don't comment. Just...don't. He said the Russian investigation would be happening without the dossier. What's happening here is Trump's bloviating and distoring the point of the memo (and a lot of other talking heads) by trying to say the investigation is a sham and this memo proves it. It does not. The point of this memo is that a paid political collection of information (the dossier) should never be used in a FISA application as evidence to spy on an American citizen (your opponent)...period. It should never have been part of the application process. For any reason. And according to Gowdy, (who read the application) he was adamant to state at no time was the judge ever told that the DNC and Hilary's campaign had paid for the dossier. A lie by ommission. This is the rub. His issue was the process the surveillance was obtained/signed off on, not the surveillance itself. The investigation needed to have happened based on other factors. This is a separate issue. Trey Gowdy has nothing but respect for the FBI and especially the Director, but there were issues within the FISA application that was unprecendented and raised serious concern. Those concerns were addressed in the memo. To quote Gowdy, "The ends should never justify the means." He has been demonized by the left over this memo and their reaction to it has been so over the top ridiculous they should be embarrassed. But their motives for distoriing the point of this memo are for entirely different reasons. Nafarious things are going here. I believe on BOTH sides.
After hearing what Trey Gowdy had to say, I don't blame him for wanting to leave office. I'd want to leave too.
There should be no doubt that nefarious things are going on both sides. It's always been that way and is getting worse.
I still think the bigger news right now should be Trump not enacting the bipartisan sanctions bill to penalize Russia for their meddling. There is not excuse for that.
And this just days after Russian spy leaders visited with Pompeo in DC? These people are not our friends. If Obama had done this, people would have called for his impeachment.
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