Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) just released an unredacted version of the FISA memo that has thrown Washington D.C. into turmoil.
The memo, addressed to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, shows more about the FBI’s relationship to Christopher Steele, the ex-Brit spy whose name is attached to the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier.
2018-02-06 CEG LG to DOJ FBI (Unclassified Steele Referral) (1) by Kyle Becker on Scribd
The side-by-side comparison of the earlier more redacted memo and the unredacted (technically, less redacted) memo is striking.
Twitter blogger @drawandstrike had snap analysis.
Wow. The unredacted Grassley memo claims that:
1) Steele lied to the FBI about his media contacts
2) Even *after* the FBI knew Steele was the source of the media stories, they LIED to the FISA court about this & *still* proffered the Isikoff article to the Court.
— Stealth Jeff (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
Wow. The unredacted Grassley memo claims that:
1) Steele lied to the FBI about his media contacts
2) Even *after* the FBI knew Steele was the source of the media stories, they LIED to the FISA court about this & *still* proffered the Isikoff article to the Court.
— Stealth Jeff (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
3) The FBI was still claiming to the FISA Court Steele hadn’t talked to the media when they knew he had. They did this during EACH of the three renewals of the warrant.
— Stealth Jeff (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
Remember, the FBI had to *pretend* to the FISA Court they didn’t know Steele was reporter Michael Isikoff’s source for that Yahoo News article they proffered to the Court to corroborate the dossier allegations about Carter Page.
— Stealth Jeff (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
It looks like Hillary Clinton’s seedy associate Sidney Blumenthal’s name is coming up again and again.
If I was right about this redaction https://t.co/Q4gmSGrhwr
I think we might be right about the Sid Blumenthal Cody Shearer (still) redactionshttps://t.co/9OBZY9nHih
Cc: @SaraCarterDC @seanhannity @chiIIum @kevinh07 @TheLastRefuge2 .. @EveryOtherPersonOnHere pic.twitter.com/FjTkQSdGb7
— Severus “Comey” Snapes (@politicalwilli) February 7, 2018
Grassley’s newly-declassified criminal referral on Steele indicates the ex-spy lied to FBI about his media contacts.
Maybe he forgot about his secret dinner with @Isikoff when he was the source for the infamous Yahoo News article. Me for @theamgreatness https://t.co/sBdVgyirPp
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) February 6, 2018
It may very well be the case that Hillary Clinton commissioned the opposition research via Sidney Blumenthal and Shearer, who then used ex-Brit spy Christopher Steele as a cut-out to append his name to the dossier and then it was dropped to Yahoo! News editor Michael Isikoff. After Buzzfeed latched onto it and published it as is with the fairly obvious aim of steering the election, the toothpaste was out of the tube. It’s a despicable mess, now let’s hope we get to the bottom of it.
Via BizPAC
