Trump orders feds to declassify key FISA documents, text messages in FBI Russia probe

Finally. Maybe now we’ll start to get somewhere.

You notice the Clinton Creature is out on the campaign trail flapping her gums? Telling everybody how right HER was about Trump and her usual line of whining. She must be feeling pretty comfortable. Wonder if this might make her start chugging Chardonnay and stalking Smokey the Bear again? (Maybe StB could get a protection order?)

Trump orders feds to declassify key FISA documents, text messages in FBI Russia probe

President Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of several key documents related to the FBI's probe of Russian actions during the 2016 presidential election, including 21 pages of an application for a renewed surveillance warrant against former campaign aide Carter Page, and text messages from disgraced FBI figures Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump had ordered the documents released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department "[a]t the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency."

The documents to be declassified also include all FBI reports on interviews with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all other applications to surveil Carter Page.

Trump also ordered the Justice Department to release text messages from a number of the key players in the Russia investigation "without redaction" -- including Ohr, Strzok, Lisa Page, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

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House Intelligence Commitee ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called Trump's decision "a clear abuse of power."

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And here I was wondering just the other day what happened to Schiffty (and Warner). I bet this was enough to drive him out from under his rock.

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snoopydawg's picture

Um, no it isn't, Adam. Too bad that he didn't do this long before now. He could have put a stop to this Russian nonsense. Yeah about that Creature. I saw too many people sighing whist fully that she isn't president because she probably would have been even better than Barry.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg

Now now, we ALL know that’s a “complete impossibility”. No one will be as Transparently Transformational as The Empty Suit.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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@snoopydawg
can Adam's head explode? Brains are everywhere. Oh snap - that's why he can no longer think! Got it!
Diablo

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Bob In Portland's picture

I had an essay here in April of 2017 about the okeydoke of Russiagate. In it I told the other side of the MH17 versus the propaganda we were fed here in America.

So don't expect this story to appear on CNN tonight. Or the missile attack by Israel against targets in Latakia, which also took out a Russian military plane. Here: https://www.rt.com/news/438596-mh17-downing-russian-briefing/

Sorry, but I had to spread the story.

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documents whose secrecy serves only the malefactors who usurp governmental authority to carry out the private agendae.

in other words, most of the documents that most "governments", ours included, keep secret from their theoretical constituencies.

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

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This is all about an illegal abuse of power for political purposes.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Alligator Ed's picture

@gulfgal98 Anybody have an inkling of what's behind the Presidential Alert? Think hard. Okay, not that hard. It will be obvious prior to election day.

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@gulfgal98

This is all about an illegal abuse of power for political purposes.

The irony....

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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams

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@kharma by using unverfied information for the express purpose of spying on a political campaign is an abuse of power. This is exactly why they are asking for the unredacted twenty pages of the FISA warrant application on Carter Page.

Further Lisa Page confirmed in her testimony before Congress that the FBI did not have information to warrant the appointment of a special prosecutor. Lisa Page is a Democrat and was a strong Clinton supporter.

I really wish people would get beyond their distaste or hatred of Trump and understand why this abuse of power is so dangerous. If FISA warrants could be granted this easily without even a court hearing or enough evidence to reach some sort of probably cause in the case of the spying on the Trump campaign, it could easily be abused against any one of us or ALL of us.

I like to take the personalities out of these things and look at the long term ramifications they can have upon the health of our country as a whole.

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

@gulfgal98
The FISA process with nothing approaching probable cause is regularly used against some of the rest of us. Only TPTB have been exempt. I say let it all out. Maybe they'll be a bit more protective of us if it can happen to them.

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@gulfgal98

the FBI did not have information to warrant the appointment of a special prosecutor.

There was no crime committed either that a special prosecutor would be looking to prove. Mueller was appointed after Comey leaked his notes of his conversation with Trump to a friend and that's when Rosenstein appointed Mueller. On what grounds was that done? If anything he should have been looking into Comey's actions not Trump's. And Comey said that he did that so that a special prosecutor would be appointed. What was the conversation about? Hmm? Not anything to do with the original charge that Trump and Putin colluded to keep Hillary from becoming president.

I really wish people would get beyond their distaste or hatred of Trump and understand why this abuse of power is so dangerous.

This is the same thing that happened when Bush was president. People's dislike his policies went away when Obama was elected and continued doing the same things. Except Barry did it with charm. He took the FISA court and put it on steroids with even less oversight.

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at the conservative treehouse makes some interesting points, including this:

BREAKING: President Trump Directs Dan Coats (DNI), Jeff Sessions (DOJ) and Christopher Wray (FBI) To Declassify Documents and Release Unredacted Text Messages…

Posted on September 17, 2018 by sundance

... The president (WH counsel) is referencing “committee requests”, this is critical because it removes the legal conflict (executive self-interest) within the release; and makes the request a function of legislative branch oversight. Additionally, and importantly, the request calls for all of the prior text messages to be released without redactions.

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@Linda Wood @Linda Wood

folks thought that Dan Coates was behind the NYT Op-Ed--the author, IOW.

And, Sessions is probably not to fond of DT, about now. Wink

Would love to read them--especially, Ohr's.

Blue Onyx

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~~W. R. Purche

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@Unabashed Liberal

such governmental crimes and efforts by presumably sincere legal challengers being reduced to not even a slap on a wrist, it's hard to know if they'll comply or whether they'll stall. But what's most scary of course is that this is about the Deep State, and so we watch Syria and Ukraine and hope nothing happens to change the subject.

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@Linda Wood as a Plan B, don't they?

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

gulfgal98's picture

@jim p both Plan A and Plan B as well as Plans C, D E, F...and Z.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

@gulfgal98

So True!

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@Linda Wood though the heavens fall.

This might also be about the election, to remind independent voters in particular just how corrupt the Dims are. Not to mention incompetent, notice how this comes about after the Dim leadership has finagled to get conservadims on the ballot and keep Berniecrats off it. Nice move, Schemer and Co. Yous guys really are the smartest in the room.

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@Nastarana @Nastarana by using our systems that were sold to us as means of fighting terrorism and using them to not only to attempt to thwart an election, but also to pull off a coup against the elected President. If they succeed in doing so, we no longer need to hold elections in this country as they will have been officially rendered meaningless.

Further, we have learned from recent documents released that the FISA court does not even hold a hearing in a courtroom and there are no official records of what transpires to grant a warrant to spy upon American citizens. All the supposed safeguards of this unconstitutional system are not really there. It is simply a rubber stamp process.

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White flag the 3rd's picture

The dichotomy of the Russia gate narratives can be viewed optimistically by either side; Manafort flipping or the FISA Release (text messages unredacted).
Presidents come and go but the establishment in the executive branch must be kept in check as they are the biggest potential threat to the constitution.
Transparency is something we all agree on, right?
Even if they rip each other to pieces, the citizenry will be stronger in the long run.
Trump’s, the most transparent administration? It’s a crazy world.

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Funny that is never asked about in his interviews. Well, Russiagate is a growth industry.

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