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Report suggests FBI PAID Trump dossier author Steele’s travel expenses so he’d look like an ‘INFORMANT’ rather than a HACK for the DNC

(National Sentinel) Politicized: Congressional investigators are poring over evidence in an effort to find out if the FBI paid Trump dossier author and former British spy Christopher Steele’s travel expenses to Washingon, D.C., and Rome so he would look more like an “informant” than an opposition researcher paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Steele, who was due in a London court earlier this week for a long-awaited deposition, was a no-show after his lawyers argued he should not have to sit for videotape sessions.

Steele is under fire again following the release of a redacted eight-page memo by Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that was part of a criminal referral involving Steele to the Justice Department.

Steele and the dossier are key to the so-called “Russian collusion” investigation. Congress wants to the Obama FBI’s full role in its relationship with Steele. The four-page FISA memo last week said that the FBI cut its ties to Steele after agents discovered he was leaking info about his relationship with the bureau to the press.

The Grassley-Graham referral also said that Steele was paid $160,000 by Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the dossier, which was ultimately financed by the Clinton campaign and the DNC.

It also confirms that the FBI authorized payment to Steele as well.

Steele traveled to Washington D.C. in September of 2016 and met with reporters. One of the meetings was held in the office of the DNC’s general counsel. He also traveled to Rome in September of 2016 to meet with FBI officials.

Now, congressional investigators would like to know why the bureau agreed to pay Steele at all.

On Tuesday, Paul Sperry, an investigative reporter for the New York Post, tweeted that investigators were pursuing this “new line of inquiry.”

“BREAKING: Hill committees pursuing new line of inquiry into whether FBI offered to pay Steele in order to ‘clean him up’ before FISC as ‘paid informant’ vs hired Hillary hand. Looking at FBI reimbursement of Steele travel expenses to DC & Rome legat [sic] office. (Never went to Russia),” he tweeted.

In addition, according to Breitbart News, the Grassley-Graham memo indicates that Steele allegedly lied to the bureau about his contact with Yahoo News, while the FBI was not fully forthcoming with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in order to obtain a surveillance warrant for Trump campaign figure Carter Page.

“Then-FBI Director James Comey briefed Feinstein and Grassley in March 2017 and told them that the FBI had relied on the dossier “absent meaningful corroboration — and in light of the highly political motives surrounding its creation” because Steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work with the FBI,” the site reported.

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After FISA memo drops, now Gen. Flynn will seek to have ALL CHARGES against him DROPPED (Video)

(National Sentinel) Clearing His Name: Former U.S. Army Lt. Gen. and national security advisor Michael Flynn’s lawyers are preparing to file papers in court seeking to have all charges against him dropped in light of revelations made in the just-released FISA memo.

That’s according to legendary political operative and current Infowars contributor Roger Stone, who made the stunning announcement on Monday in a video for the Alex Jones Channel on YouTube.

“Lawyers for General Mike Flynn will shortly file a motion to dismiss all the charges filed against him, based on reports now confirmed by The Hill, Circa News and Infowars, that Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe told a teleconference of law enforcement officials, ‘First we f*ck Flynn, then we f*ck Trump.'”

Stone’s claim comes amid earlier reports noting that special counsel Robert Mueller has requested a delay in Flynn’s sentencing.

“Due to the status of the Special Counsel’s investigation, the parties do not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sentencing hearing at this time,” the special counsel asked the court last week.

Mueller’s office requested a 90-day extension.

Flynn, a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, pleaded guilty to charges of lying to FBI agents. But some reports have suggested Flynn may have been set up and improperly interviewed by anti-Trump counterterrorism agent Peter Strzok.

Flynn reportedly did not have an attorney present when he was being questioned. Others have said that’s because since he was part of a new administration he assumed the FBI was sending agents over to brief him on current investigations, not to question him about Trump-Russia collusion allegations.

Watch Stone’s report, via the Alex Jones Channel:

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WHAAAT? Fox News analyst says Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein THREATENED Intel Chair Nunes and panel members in meeting WEEKS ago (Video)

(National Sentinel) FISA Abuse: Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said during an appearance on “Hannity” Friday night following the release of the FISA memo earlier in the day with a stunning claim.

During the interview, Jarrett told host Sean Hannity and others that sources told him Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who took oversight of the “Russia collusion” investigation after AG Jeff Sessions recused himself, threatened House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and other GOP members of the panel over the FISA memo.

“I can tell you a congressional source tells me that Rod Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks ago threatened Chairman Nunes and members of Congress he was going to subpoena their texts and messages because he was tired of dealing with the intel committee,” Jarrett said.

“That’s threats and intimidation,” he added to a stunned Hannity.

Meanwhile, Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter, an investigative reporter for Circa News, added that the revelations contained in the FISA memo are merely about “10 percent” of what else is coming in terms of the abuses associated with spying on the Trump campaign by the Obama administration.

“This is even more important,” she said. “The investigation is now going to be reversed.” She added that Republican members of Congress would now be calling for a special counsel to investigate anyone who was tied to using the unverified “Trump dossier” in order to fool the FISA court into issuing a surveillance warrant so Obama-era FBI and Justice Department officials could spy on Team Trump.

“They’re going to look at criminality here,” Carter added.

Watch:

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Trump on FISA memo’s revelations: ‘I think it’s a disgrace’; president MUST pardon anyone caught up in crosshairs of special counsel Mueller

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(National Sentinel) Clean House: As you might have guessed, President Donald J. Trump — the subject of one the biggest political hit jobs in the history of the republic — was none too happy about the findings of the House Intelligence Committee contained in the so-called “FISA memo” released on Friday.

“I think it’s terrible,” Trump said, as quoted by The Associated Press. “You want to know the truth. I think it’s a disgrace. What’s going on in this country, I think it’s a disgrace.”

As reported by NewsTarget, the memo reveals “serial abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by upper echelon officials in the FBI and Justice Department to prevent [Trump] from becoming president, and to undermine him after he defeated Hillary Clinton in November 2016.”

The four-page memo goes on, noting that Clinton, several U.S. media outlets, top-ranking figures within DOJ and FBI including some that are still serving, and others conspired to create a bogus “dossier” full of false and salacious charges that purportedly came from Russian “sources,” and then pretend it was a legitimate intelligence document in order to secure a top-secret surveillance warrant so the Obama regime could spy on the Trump campaign. (Related: FISA memo released — bombshell report reveals MASSIVE Deep State conspiracy to keep Donald Trump out of the White House)

These same people knew that the dossier — which was paid for by the Clinton campaign through a third-party law firm (because ol’ Hill is so cloak-and-dagger) — was just a political document, not real intelligence.

So yeah, it certainly is a “disgrace” all of this happened.

But it goes much deeper than that. It’s also criminal. At least it has been so far for Carter Page, the principal Trump campaign official put under surveillance by political appointees and others within the DOJ and FBI. And former national security advisor Michael Flynn, indicted and convicted of “lying” to the FBI. And others caught up in this web of deceit.

But it’s also criminal because certain officials within the FBI and DOJ willfully misrepresented “evidence” before a federal court — the FISA court — in order to obtain a surveillance warrant so they could improperly spy on an American citizen.

Like the Gestapo, or Stasi, or KGB.

There is no other choice for the president: He must fire Robert Mueller, whose appointment was also based on this same bogus information; he must fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who signed off on the bogus FISA warrant application at least twice and who appointed Mueller knowing the Trump dossier was opposition research and not intelligence; and he must pardon Flynn (and maybe Page someday) since they have were ensnared in a political operation.

A version of this report first appeared at NewsTarget.com.

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Chief of Staff and former Marine Gen. John Kelly to IDIOT Calif. teacher who called military members ‘dumbsh*ts’ — ‘He can GO TO HELL’

(National Sentinel) Direct Fire: President Donald J. Trump’s chief of staff, former Marine four-star Gen. John Kelly, had some words for a California teacher who told a student wearing a Marines shirt that members of the military are “dumbsh*ts.”

“I think the guy ought to go to hell,” Kelly said in an interview with Fox News‘ Brian Kilmeade regarding the teacher, Gregory Salcido, who also sits on the Pico Rivera City Council. “I hope he enjoys the liberties and the lifestyle that we have fought for.”

“They’re the frickin’ lowest of our low,” Salcido can be heard saying in one of the videos.

“We’ve got a bunch of dumbshits over there. Think about the people who you know who are over there — your freaking stupid uncle Louis or whatever, they’re dumbshits,” Salcido continued.

“They’re not, like, high-level thinkers, they’re not academic people, they’re not intellectual people, they’re the freaking lowest of our low,” Salcido can be heard saying.

The offended student who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from his classmates told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that he comes from a military family and felt Salcido’s rant was “disrespectful.”

The Daily Caller reported that since the incident Salcido has been placed on administrative leave.

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Trump STORMS Davos: ‘Invest in AMERICA’ speech will turn prez into ROCK star

(National Sentinel) America First: President Donald J. Trump arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday, set to deliver a speech on Friday that will echo his “America First” policy approach.

Trump noted that his administration wants “peace and prosperity,” while also offering better trade deals in his appeal for companies to invest in the United States.

“I think the real message is we want great prosperity and we want great peace,” Trump — who was clearly in his element among business and economic leaders — said after holding back-to-back meetings with British Prime Minister Theresa May and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As for investing in America, “It’s been going really well. A lot of people are coming back to the United States,” he said. “We are seeing tremendous investment. And today’s been a very exciting day, very great day and great for our country.”

White House officials noted that Trump will give a full-throated “America first” message to conference attendees during his highlighted and anticipated speech Friday, but the reiterated that the principle doesn’t mean the U.S. won’t engage globally.

“America First’ does mean working with the rest of the world,’ said Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who is leading the largest U.S. delegation ever to attend the exclusive gathering. “It just means that President Trump is looking out for American workers and American interests, no different than he expects other leaders would look out for their own.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rose 200 points after Trump’s well-received arrival in Davos, but then fell to around 167 points later in the day. Still, the index reached another record high.

Also, Trump’s approval rating popped to 45 percent on additional good economic news that the U.S. economy could hit a “trifecta” of 3 percent growth for three consecutive quarters — something that hasn’t happened since 2005.

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OUTRAGE: GOP lawmakers DEMAND second special counsel after FBI ‘loses’ Peter Strzok texts

(National Sentinel) Obamagate: Republican lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Justice appoint a second special counsel to look into how the FBI could have lost a group of texts involving disgraced counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.

Over the weekend, The Associated Press reported that the Justice Department turned over to Congress an additional batch of text messages involving Stzrok, but that for ‘technical reasons’ could not retrieve about five months’ worth of communications.

The AP noted further:

New text messages highlighted in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray by Sen. Ron Johnson, the Republican chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, are from the spring and summer of 2016 and involve discussion of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. They reference Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s decision to accept the FBI’s conclusion in that case and a draft statement that former FBI Director James Comey had prepared in anticipation of closing out the Clinton investigation without criminal charges.

Following revelations about that so-called glitch, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, renewed his earlier call for a second special counsel to begin probing what he and other Republicans say is a mounting scandal.

“First the IRS destroyed emails pivotal to our investigation of their political targeting. Now the FBI ‘failed to preserve’ texts between Peter Strzok & Lisa Page following the ’16 election. The time for a second special counsel is now,” he tweeted.

In addition, House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., echoed Jordan’s call.

“Unreal. We’ve been asking for the remaining text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents (and former Mueller team members), Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The FBI now says the texts are ‘missing.’ If it wasn’t already clear we need a second special counsel, it’s abundantly clear now,” he tweeted.

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Former Sen. Bob Dole is bound to a wheelchair, but when the National Anthem began…

(National Sentinel) Respectful: Former Republican senator from Kansas and presidential nominee Bob Dole, who is 94 and bound to a wheelchair, sent the NFL a not-so-subtle message on Wednesday when he was honored on Capitol Hill.

Dole, who is also a U.S. Army World War II veteran, was wounded so badly by German machine gun fire in 1945 he permanently lost the use of his right arm. Nevertheless, after a slow and painful recovery, he went to law school and spent more than four decades in politics, rising to the position of Senate Minority and Senate Majority Leader.

The long-serving senator received the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony that included Republican and Democratic leaders, as well as President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

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The former Kansas Senator was also honored for being particularly instrumental in the commissioning of the World War II Veterans Memorial.

Though he can no longer walk and remained in his wheelchair for the majority of the ceremony, when the Color Guard walked in hoisting the American flag and the flags of the military services, Dole was seen on camera waiving for an aide.

A young man responded and then helped Dole stand so that he could properly honor the American flag.

“In an America where standing for the national anthem is a controversial act, Bob Dole should be an example to us all,” The Daily Caller reported.

NBC is broadcasting this year’s Super Bowl. Executives said they planned to show any kneeling, protesting players during the broadcast.

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FBI now investigating NEW evidence obtained by Australian journalist that Clinton Foundation ‘mishandled MILLIONS of dollars’

(National Sentinel) Australian Connection: The FBI has launched another probe into possible Clinton Foundation malfeasance using evidence given to the bureau by a former Australian police officer-turned-investigative journalist.

As reported by Lifezette, former police detective Michael Smith was asked to provide the FBI with details regarding numerous allegations of mishandling millions of dollars that were contributed to the Clinton Foundation by the Australian government.

“I have been asked to provide the FBI with further and better particulars about allegations regarding improper donations to the CF funded by Australian taxpayers,” Michael Smith told LifeZette.

The news site noted further:

At the center of Smith’s complaints are former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and multiple Australian government officials, including senior diplomat Alexander Downer, that government’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Downer hit U.S. headlines recently when he was reported to have told the FBI of a May 2016 conversation he had with George Papadopoulos, then a campaign aide to President Donald Trump. Downer told U.S. law enforcement officials that Papadopoulos told him Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.

The New York Times claimed in a Dec. 30, 2017, story that the information Downer gave the FBI was a principal factor in the bureau’s decision to investigate allegations of collusion between Russian government interests and the Trump campaign.

Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last year.

As The National Sentinel noted, the Times story was criticized by a number of other media outlets who say that the infamous “Trump dossier,” not a minor campaign figure, was what the FBI used to launch its investigation. A number of Republican lawmakers agree with that conclusion, citing evidence congressional panels have amassed in their investigations of the alleged collusion.

In any event, as Lifezette reported further:

The materials Smith is giving the FBI focus on a 2006 memorandum of understanding between the Australian government and the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton HIV/AIDs Initiative (CHAI). Smith claims the foundation received a “$25M financial advantage dishonestly obtained by deception” as a result of actions by Bill Clinton and Downer, who was then Australia’s minister of foreign affairs.

In addition, Smith is providing evidence he believes shows “corrupt October 2006 backdating of false tender advertisements purporting to advertise the availability of a $15 million contract to provide HIV/AIDS services in Papua New Guinea on behalf of the Australian government after an agreement was already in place to pay the Clinton Foundation and/or associates.”

Smith describes a third complaint as “the $10 million financial advantage dishonestly obtained by deception between April 1, 2008, and Sept. 25, 2008, at Washington, D.C., New York, New York, and Canberra Australia involving an MOU between the Australian government, the “Clinton Climate Initiative,” and the purported “Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute Inc.”

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Bill Clinton DENIES foundation funds used for Chelsea’s wedding — then Wikileaks dropped a TRUTH BOMB

(National Sentinel) Caught: Last week President Donald J. Trump caused a stir in the media, Hollywood and among Democrats when he allegedly called Haiti a “sh*thole country” during immigration reform negotiations with lawmakers.

The comment drew a rebuke from the Clintons — Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea, the latter of whom was then chastised via Twitter by actor James Woods.

“Mr. President, immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and the 54 countries in Africa likely helped build your buildings. They’ve certainly helped build our country. cc @POTUS,” she tweeted.

In response, Woods accused the Clintons of using Clinton Foundation funds on daughter Chelsea’s $3 million wedding.

“Tell your dad, the bagman, to give the dough back to Haiti that you all pocketed. Then maybe we can discuss this other malarkey you’re trying to peddle,” he said.

On Saturday, the former president tweeted out a denial that any “funds” were used to pay for his daughter’s and son-in-law’s wedding.

“No Clinton Foundation funds—dedicated to Haiti or otherwise—were used to pay for Chelsea’s wedding. It’s not only untrue, it’s a personal insult to me, to Hillary, and to Chelsea and Marc,” Bill Clinton tweeted, along with a Washington Post ‘fact-checking’ article defending his claim.

However, an email released by Wikileaks from foundation official Doug Band to long-time Clinton associate John Podesta in 2012 provides clear evidence to the contrary.

“Bill Clinton claims that no Clinton Foundation ‘funds’ were used to pay for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. However, the leaked email from then top Bill Clinton aide Doug Band doesn’t say ‘funds’ it says ‘resources,'” Wikileaks tweeted.

Here’s a graphic of the email tweeted by Wikileaks:

“The investigation into her getting paid for campaigning, using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade, taxes on money from her parents,” the memo said.

“I hope that you will speak to her and end this…Once we go down this road…” he added.

The former president’s tweet spurred another one from Woods, who excoriated him for it.

“The balls on this guy! You looted Haiti like a peg-legged pirate. You, your crooked wife, and your cheesy slush fund ‘foundation’ worked in concert to turn it into the sh*thole it has become,” said Woods.

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SHOCKER: Kids put into STORM drains in Hawaii during FAKE missile alert (Video)

(National Sentinel) False Alarm: Hawaiian emergency management officials apologized profusely Saturday after a missile attack alert was mistakenly broadcast to residents, sending many scrambling for cover.

In the aftermath of the warning, in which emergency management officials took nearly 40 minutes to correct, videos posted online show panicked parents instructing their children to climb down into dank storm drains.

Residents of the state have been on edge in recent weeks amid ongoing nuclear and ballistic missile tests by North Korea.

The hermit nation tested an ICBM last fall that experts believe has the range to strike Hawaii and other U.S. states. It’s not clear that North Korea has perfected the technology to actually place a nuclear warhead on an ICBM, but U.S. intelligence agencies say if that hasn’t happened yet, they expect it will soon.

Here is one video of a child being placed in a storm drain:

Other residents sought shelter in various places.

The Federal Communications Commission announced Saturday it will be conducting a full investigation into the incident. The agency has jurisdiction over emergency broadcast systems.

“Emergency alerts are meant to keep us and our families safe, not to create false panic. We must investigate and we must do better,” said FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel.

Hawaiian Gov. David Ige said the mistake was human error, adding that a worker pushed the “wrong button” at shift change.

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Trump CALLS OUT Feinstein over possible ‘ILLEGAL’ release of Fusion GPS transcript

(National Sentinel) Scandalous: On Thursday President Donald J. Trump criticized Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California for “possibly illegally” releasing the transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.

Earlier in the week Feinstein claimed that she was pressured to release the transcript, but then backtracked, suggesting that a “bad cold” affected her judgement.

In August, congressional investigators interviewed Simpson about his firm’s role in the creation of the so-called “Trump dossier.” The firm hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the dossier, in which he used Russian sources.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, along with the Democratic National Committee, financed a major portion of the dossier.

Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed back against Feinstein’s release of the transcripts, which they had sought to block.

“It’s totally confounding that Senator Feinstein would unilaterally release a transcript of a witness interview in the middle of an ongoing investigation. Her decision was made without consulting Chairman [Chuck] Grassley [R-Iowa],” reported Fox News’ Chad Pergram.

“The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice,” Feinstein said in a statement at the time the transcript release. “The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”

Her actions were heavily criticized by Trump.

“Democrat Dianne Feinstein should never have released secret committee testimony to the public without authorization. Very disrespectful to committee members and possibly illegal. She blamed her poor decision on the fact she had a cold – a first!” he tweeted.

He added: “The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization, is a disgrace. Must have tough Primary!”

According to the transcripts, Simpson said he was “stunned” when he learned about a meeting between Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Donald Trump Jr., in Trump Tower in June 2017. He also said he learned about the meeting in news reports.

However, Simpson met with Veselnitskaya the morning of the Trump Tower meeting, and also afterward.

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House Freedom Caucus chair Meadows: ‘Some things coming out about the Trump dossier are SO UNBELIEVABLE’ (Video)

(National Sentinel) Conspiracy: The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Mark Meadows, said Wednesday night during a Fox News appearance that many things he and other lawmakers are learning about the so-called “Trump dossier” are “so unbelievable.”

Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, appeared with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Circa News investigative reporter Sara Carter, who reported exclusively on Wednesday that the FBI did indeed use the discredited dossier to obtain a FISA court warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.

Hannity agreed, saying that he verified that same piece of information from three additional sources.

As for Meadows, he noted, “Some of the things that will be coming out are so unbelievable that the FBI and DOJ would actually allow it to happen. And I would also say that there are other agencies… We are focusing in, honing in on that target.”

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In a series of tweets, Meadows said that Jan. 10 marked the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the dossier, which was published in full by Buzzfeed News, with the caveat that none of what it contained had been verified (Buzzfeed has been sued multiple times for defamation by several people named in the document, the most recent being President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer).

He also noted five questions which Congress and investigators are still seeking answers for regarding the dossier.

Question No. 3, at least, appears to have been answered.

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MASSIVE: The bogus ‘Trump dossier’ funded by Hillary’s campaign WAS used to obtain fraudulent FISA warrant to SPY on TEAM TRUMP

(National Sentinel) Politicized: Members of the Obama Justice Department and FBI enforcement apparatus used a 35-page opposition research document paid for in part by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to obtain a counterintelligence surveillance warrant so they could spy on President Donald J. Trump’s campaign.

The so-called “Trump dossier,” commissioned by Washington, D.C.-based firm Fusion GPS and also paid for in part by the Democratic National Committee, contained highly charged allegations of Team Trump “collusion” with the Russian government during the election, but have yet to be publicly verified by the FBI or Justice Department — meaning use of the document to obtain a warrant from the secretive FISA court was done so under false pretenses.

As reported exclusively by investigative correspondent Sara Carter of Circa News, “The unverified dossier alleging connections between President Trump’s campaign and the Russians was used as evidence by the FBI to gain approval from a secret court to monitor members of Trump’s team.”

Much of the so-called ‘evidence’ contained in the dossier was gathered by former British spy Christopher Steele has either been discounted outright or is still unsubstantiated.

Nevertheless, Carter reported, the FBI under Obama “gained approval…to surveil members of Trump’s campaign and ‘it’s outrageous and clearly should be thoroughly investigated,’ said a senior law enforcement source, with knowledge of the process.”

Carter said multiple sources told her that the dossier was used, along with other evidence, to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC.

Sources also stressed to her that in the coming week more information regarding systemic “FISA abuse” will be forthcoming.

Federal judges who serve on the FISA court meet in secret. They serve single seven year terms and do not have to have any particular knowledge of the U.S. Intelligence Community or intelligence functions. Their only ‘client’ is the U.S. government. They seldom turn down government agency requests for counterintelligence surveillance warrants because they don’t want to be seen as impediments to legitimate intelligence collection.

“(The dossier) certainly played a role in obtaining the warrant,” added another senior U.S. official, with knowledge of the dossier. “Congress needs to look at the FBI officials who were handling this case and see what, if anything, was verified in the dossier. I think an important question is whether the FBI payed anything to the source for the dossier.”

Carter said that on Wednesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity said that he has also independently verified that the dossier was improperly used to obtain the FISA surveillance warrant from three separate sources.

On Monday, The Daily Caller reported that the House Intelligence Committee had finally received all of the documents it subpoenaed last August pertaining to the Trump dossier from the FBI and Department of Justice.

In October, the Washington Post reported that Clinton and the DNC paid for a large portion of the dossier, which was initially opposition research but somewhere along the way became an ‘intelligence document.’

Fred Fleitz, vice president for Policy and Programs told One America News Network‘s Liz Wheeler in November that the dossier was something other than what has been portrayed.

“This was a foreign intelligence officer paid by the Democrats to work with the Russians to prepare a dossier to smear a presidential candidate from the other party,” he said, in reference to Steele.

“This is not ‘opposition research,’ and if they somehow got the FBI involved into investigating members of the other party…Liz, think what would have happened if Trump had did this,” Fleitz said.

Some have said if the FBI relied on the phony dossier to obtain a FISA warrant, that could have negative implications for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump-Russia collusion.

In July last year, the Washington Times reported that some Democrats widely circulated the dossier on Capitol Hill.

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DeSantis Demands: Declassify ALL docs related to the BOGUS Trump-Russia ‘dossier’

(National Sentinel) Full Disclosure: A leading Republican has sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., demanding that all documents the House Intelligence Committee has related to the discredited “Trump-Russia dossier” be declassified and released to the public.

“The American people deserve answers; the American people have the right to know,” Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida wrote.

Previously, DeSantis, who has been demanding more disclosure over regarding the dossier, also wants the House to release all documents related to Obama-era FISA court requests related to spying on the Trump campaign.

DeSantis’ request is pursuant to Rule X of the House rules.

“The bureaucracies at FBI and DOJ have refused to answer basic questions about the origins of the Russian counterintelligence investigation or provide a full accounting of how the government utilized the Steele dossier,” the lawmaker tweeted.

According to a tweeted picture of his letter, DeSantis wrote to Ryan, “The American people deserve answers. I’m requesting Speaker Ryan ask, pursuant to House rules, Chairman Nunes to declassify any documents his committee may have related to the Steele dossier.”

Rep. Devin Nunes is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which has been investigating the origins of the dossier and whether it was improperly used to justify a counterintelligence surveillance warrant from the FISA court to spy on the Trump campaign.

“The American people have the right to know whether government agents such as Peter Strzok inappropriately intervened in the 2016 presidential election against then-candidate Donald J. Trump,” he wrote.

“On January 3, 2018, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes announced that his committee will receive all documents it sought from the Department of Justice related to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation.

“The American people have a right to know to what extent the federal government made use of the dossier,” DeSantis wrote.

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