After a so-called Trump
Administration insider wrote anonymously at the NY
Times claiming to be a part of the Leftist Resistance against President Trump,
the President should do more declassifying of redacted documents than just 20
pages of a FISA warrant allowing the FBI to spy on Carter Page as reported by
Sara Carter.
Kelly McLaughlin
writing for Business Insider has a list
to date of Trump Administration Officials who have DENIED being the
identity of the anonymous Deep State Trump traitor. I suspect Attorney
General Jeff Sessions or some DOJ/FBI
upper echelon Obama hold-over is my suspect. Glaringly, Sessions is not on the
McLaughlin denial list.
Still, if Sara Carter is correct, declassifying the Carter
Page FISA warrant is a good first step of swamp draining and sticking it to the
Deep State perpetrating a coup against the duly and Constitutionally elected
President Donald Trump.
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President Trump May Declassify the 20 FISA Docs Congress
Wants
By Sara Carter
September 05, 2018 2:58 PM EDT
President Trump
is expected to declassify the redacted 20 pages of documents from the
controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that have
still not been made public, which allowed the FBI to spy on short-term campaign
volunteer Carter Page, numerous sources told SaraACarter.com. This comes after
nearly a year of stonewalling by the Department of Justice at the demand of
lawmakers, who claim that the 20 redacted pages will reveal explosive
information about the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation,
according to sources.
However,
President Trump, who has been under pressure from some DOJ officials not to
release the classified documents, “could always change his mind and it’s not a
guarantee that it will happen, but the indications are that it more than likely
will possibly be before the end of this week,” said a U.S. official, who spoke
on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject.
In July, the Justice Department released over 400 previously
top-secret documents connected to the Page warrant. However, more than 20 pages
of the FISA document remained highly classified and have only been viewed by a
select group of Congressional members and investigators. The lawmakers are now
asking that those documents be made public. Behind the scenes, the battle
between Justice Department officials and senior members of Congress intensified
over the past year, leading lawmakers to call on President Trump to intervene
and declassify the documents.
In a 38 minute interview with the Daily Caller Tuesday,
President Trump said the White House is “looking at it very seriously right now
because the things that have gone on are so bad, so bad. I mean they were
surveilling my campaign. If that happened on the other foot, they would’ve
considered that treasonous. They would’ve considered that spying at the highest
level. Can you imagine if we were doing that to Obama instead of Obama and his
people doing that to us? Everybody would’ve been in jail for the next 500
years. OK? Can you believe it, where they paid this guy millions of dollars, it
turned out? If you look at all of the things that are happening.”
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes
(R-CA) told Fox New’s Sean Hannity this month that the remaining classified
documents regarding Page need to be declassified because “there is exculpatory
evidence that we have seen of classified documents that need to be
declassified. The judges should have been presented with this exculpatory evidence
that the FBI and DOJ had.”
In July, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles
Grassley (R- IA) also requested the declassification of embattled Department of
Justice official Bruce Ohr, whose wife Nellie Ohr worked in 2016 as a
contractor for the research firm Fusion GPS, which was paid by the Democratic
National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to investigate Trump’s
alleged ties to Russia.
“All these documents will expose how the FBI handled this
investigation and give clarity to the public,” said one congressional official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The American people deserve to know the
truth and our country needs to move on.”
The FISA
documents, which were heavily redacted by the FBI and Department of Justice are
expected to reveal detailed information showing that the bureau withheld
exculpatory information from the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court (FISC) and the role former British spy Christopher Steele
had in getting his unverified anti-Trump dossier to the bureau. Steele was hired
by Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, to
compile the dossier.
New documentation obtained by Congress are already revealing
the deep ties Ohr had to Steele and the bureau. Recent texts, notes and emails
obtained by Congress reveal that Ohr worked as a backchannel for the FBI to
move information being collected by Steele to the FBI.
The documentation also exposes Ohr’s inter-workings with the
FBI and that he was in communication with former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his paramour former FBI
Attorney Lisa Page. Strzok was recently fired by the FBI and Page has since
left the bureau. McCabe was fired earlier this year after DOJ Inspector General
Michael Horowitz released a scathing report showing that McCabe lied on
numerous times to investigators and leaked information to the media.
A recent report
by Fox New’s Catherine Herridge also exposes Ohr’s ties in 2016 to Robert
Mueller’s Special Counsel’s lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann. Weissmann, who
was then chief of the DOJ’s criminal fraud division, was “kept in the loop” by
Ohr about his contact with Steele and the FBI, according
to the report.
Earlier this year, SaraACarter.com revealed that before
Weissmann was appointed to the Special Counsel, he arranged a meeting with
AP journalists investigating Paul Manafort and his Ukrainian business dealings.
On April 11, 2017 Weissmann, the AP reporters and several FBI officials
Weissmann brought into the meeting met with the reporters.
On April, 12 the AP published the explosive
expose on Manafort.
According to sources who spoke with this news outlet, the
meeting was attended by three different litigating offices. Two employees from
the U.S. Justice Department and the other representative was from the U.S.
Attorney’s office, according to the sources. FBI agents also attended the
meeting, law enforcement sources confirmed.
At the time Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, and chief
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores also declined to comment.
According to sources, FBI officials at the meeting
complained about Weissmann’s failure to follow protocol with journalists. They
issued a formal complaint against him to the Justice Department, as they were
concerned the meeting with the journalists could harm the ongoing probe into
Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
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About Sara Carter National Security Correspondent
Sara A. Carter is a national
and international award-winning investigative reporter whose stories have
ranged from national security, terrorism, immigration and front line coverage
of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Sara A. Carter is currently
an investigative reporter and Fox News Contributor. Her stories can be found
at saraacarter.com. She formerly worked as a senior national security
correspondent for Circa News.
She was formerly with the Los
Angeles News Group, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner
and wrote numerous exclusives for USA Today, US News World Report, and Arutz
Sheva in Israel.
Her work along the U.S.
Mexico border paved a new path in national security related stories in the
region. Her investigations uncovered secret tunnel systems,
narcotics-trafficking routes and the involvement of Mexican federal officials
in the drug trade.
Sara has made appearances on
hundreds of national news and radio shows to discuss her work. She has also
made guest appearances on Fox, CNN, BBC International and C-Span.
She has interviewed numerous heads of State and foreign officials.
She grew up in Saudi Arabia
and has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe and
Mexico.
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