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2019-12-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-
John Brennan deflects questions about Carter Page FISA process to FBI
[Washington Examiner] Questions about government missteps in the electronic surveillance of a onetime Trump campaign adviser had former CIA Director John Brennan pointing at the FBI.

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd pressed Brennan to open up about the Justice Department inspector general's report on the Trump-Russia investigation, which outlined several "significant" errors and omissions in the FBI's effort to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to monitor Carter Page.

"I would defer to the bureau on the FISA matter, because they’re the ones that actually initiate and then follow through on it," Brennan said Tuesday on MSNBC regarding whether he would make a determination if there should have been an approved FISA warrant application.
Notice how skillfully Brennan skirts the approval process.
Brennan oversaw the CIA when the FBI began its counterintelligence investigation into members of the Trump campaign suspected of working on behalf of Russia in the summer of 2016. That inquiry, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, was later wrapped into special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which was unable to establish criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Todd noted that Brennan, now an MSNBC contributor, was limited in what he could say due to guidelines on classified information, but that did not stop Todd from trying to pry information from Brennan about how the CIA shared relevant information with the bureau.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-13 07:18|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 The use of Mr. Page (or anyone else) by United States Law Enforcement, to collect intelligence information on foreign officials (Russians in this case), falls under the purview of of the offices of the Director of Intelligence/Director CIA.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-13 07:33||   2019-12-13 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Reports are that Brennan collaborated throughout with the FBI.

He should be called to testify as to when he set up his inter-agency "war room" that was designed to share info across the counterintelligence and espionage investigations.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-13 07:46||   2019-12-13 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 This is 100x worse than Watergate.

The attempt to nail Trump for this domestic spying & railroading-via-disinformation effort is breathtaking in its audacity.

F--- these smelly conspirators. We need prison terms for these vile characters.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-13 08:00||   2019-12-13 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah yes, someone reliable, someone who has Russian contacts who could easily gain access, someone who could be monitored through some sort of legal, law enforcement process.... I believe we may have just the fellow you are looking for.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-13 08:01||   2019-12-13 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Its now out in the open: so f---ing obvious that they knew Page was on our side and yet they tried to claim he was worth wiretapping because ... he was on the side of the Russians.

They must have known - surely they can't have been so stupid as to believe the opposite - that Trump's business never had a prayer of striking a major real estate deal in the center of Moscow.

Obviously, their goal was ever and always to nail the OrangeMan using false pretenses. They thought that the whole shitty crew held over from Obama's DOJ and FBI would protect them once Hillary took office.

Do they really think we're so stupid as to swallow their horseshit?
Posted by Lex 2019-12-13 08:07||   2019-12-13 08:07|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Do they really think we're so stupid as to swallow their horseshit?

Yes.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-13 08:10||   2019-12-13 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Do they really think we're so stupid as to swallow their horseshit?

If we (all of us, not just you Americans) weren't most of these people would be washing floors for a living.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-13 08:45||   2019-12-13 08:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #7: ....most of these people would be washing floors for a living.

"Washing floors" is hard work, and hard work is honorable. I doubt you'd find any of these people involved in such activity.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-13 08:49||   2019-12-13 08:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Washing floors promotes cleanliness and proper hygiene.

These people spread filth and pollution for a living.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-13 08:51||   2019-12-13 08:51|| Front Page Top

#10 John Brennan deflects questions about Carter Page FISA process to FBI

on the advice of his lawyer.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-13 09:06||   2019-12-13 09:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Excuse me, Carter Page who ?
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-13 09:07||   2019-12-13 09:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't worry Mr Brennan, we will get to you in good time. Your efforts in developing the whole dossier and getting this coup started is dually noted. Please don't fret, you will get your moment in the sun just as soon as we are done with the FBI and certain congress critters and their kids. In the mean time, please "Stay Bitter".
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-12-13 11:11||   2019-12-13 11:11|| Front Page Top

#13  Nellie Ohr, her curious radio license in late middle age and her previous employment history before/during the GPS era keep being circled in open source reporting. Maybe John knows something about how that is a problem for him eventually now that the IG found her husbands insertion into the dossier story so interesting.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-12-13 12:08||   2019-12-13 12:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Public hanging. Pour encourager les autres
Posted by SR-71 2019-12-13 14:05||   2019-12-13 14:05|| Front Page Top

#15 This SOB caused a lot of harm to this country.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-13 17:28||   2019-12-13 17:28|| Front Page Top

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