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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 4:45:19 AM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo longnshort THE WATSONYOUTH Respond to of 1573092

FISAGate https://t.co/IHbppSV7Bn — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 18, 2018

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 5:21:57 AM
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#ReleaseTheMemo: Do you know someone who has access to the FISA abuse memo? Send them here: https://t.co/cLRcuIiQXz WikiLeaks will match reward funds up to $1m sent to this unique Bitcoin address: 3Q2KXS8WYT6dvr91bM2RjvBHqMyx9CbPMN or marked 'memo2018': https://t.co/lmsmphuH2N pic.twitter.com/j1YEkXqi2S — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 19, 2018

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 5:25:10 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo THE WATSONYOUTH Respond to of 1573092

I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #releasethememo — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) January 19, 2018

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 5:25:46 AM
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director Mick Mulvaney intensified his efforts to curb the agency. His latest tactic: starve it of cash. https://t.co/TjyMkILkle — The New York Times (@nytimes) January 19, 2018

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 5:26:21 AM
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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 5:27:36 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo THE WATSONYOUTH Respond to of 1573092

"I think that this will not end just with firings. I believe there are people who will go to jail. You don’t get to try to undermine our country, undermine our elections and then simply get fired." #ReleaseTheMemo #ReleaseTheDocuments https://t.co/M6HwVVw3Qk — Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) January 19, 2018

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 5:30:13 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo THE WATSONYOUTH Respond to of 1573092

I viewed the classified report from House Intel relating to the FBI, FISA abuses, the infamous Russian dossier, and so-called "Russian collusion." What I saw is absolutely shocking. This report needs to be released--now. Americans deserve the truth. #ReleaseTheMemo pic.twitter.com/oP2UNujKQL — Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) January 19, 2018

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 5:41:04 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

A Bombshell House Intelligence report exposing extensive FISA abuse could lead to the removal of senior government officials saraacarter.com A review of a classified document outlining what is described as extensive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse was made available to all House members Thursday and the revelations could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice, several sources with knowledge of the document stated. These sources say the report is “explosive,” stating they would not be surprised if it leads to the end of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation into President Trump and his associates. The House Intelligence Committee passed the motion along party lines Thursday to make the classified report alleging extensive ‘FISA Abuse’ related to the controversial dossier available to all House members. The report contains information regarding the dossier that alleges President Trump and members of his team colluded with the Russians in the 2016 presidential election. Some members of the House viewed the document in a secure room Thursday. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., offered the motion on Thursday to make the Republican majority-authored report available to the members. “The document shows a troubling course of conduct and we need to make the document available, so the public can see it,” said a senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the document. “Once the public sees it, we can hold the people involved accountable in a number of ways.” The government official said that after reading the document “some of these people should no longer be in the government.” The document also apparently outlines “several problematic” issues with how FISA warrants were “packaged, and used” state several sources with knowledge of the report. Over the past year, whistleblowers in the law enforcement and intelligence community have revealed to Congress what they believe to be extensive abuse with regard to FISA surveillance, as previously reported. The dossier was used in part as evidence for a warrant to surveil members of the Trump campaign, according to a story published this month. Former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the dossier in 2016, was hired by embattled research firm Fusion GPS. The firm’s founder is Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has already testified before Congress in relation to the dossier. In October, The Washington Post revealed for the first time that it was the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC that financed Fusion GPS. Congressional members are hopeful that the classified information will be declassified and released to the public. “We probably will get this stuff released by the end of the month,” stated a congressional member, who asked not to be named. But the government official, who viewed the document said “it will be tough for a lot of people to see this and especially the media, which has been attempting to deemphasize the dossier. It’s going to punch a hole in their collusion narrative.” The House vote to make the report available to all members is a major step in exposing the long-guarded classified documents obtained by the House Intelligence Committee over the past year. It allows members of the House to view the report and could quickly lead to a motion to declassify the report for the public, numerous House members told this reporter. “It’s a (House Intelligence) committee document that deals with the assessment on the Department of Justice, FBI and the oversight work that is being conducted by the committee,” said a congressional source, which spoke on condition that they not be named.

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/19/2018 2:44:24 PM
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A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds substantially greater Republican risk in a government shutdown, with Americans by a 20-point margin saying they’re more likely to blame Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress than the congressional Democrats if one occurs. Forty-eight percent in the national survey say they’d blame Trump and the GOP, vs. 28 percent who’d blame the Democrats in Congress. An additional 18 percent would blame both equally. As is often the case in Washington mud fights, political independents make the difference: They’re more likely to blame the Republican side by 46-25 percent.

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (1049263)	1/22/2018 8:10:21 AM
From: RetiredNow	4 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo majaman1978 Tenchusatsu TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

I'll check it out. Here's some facts you can take to the bank. The FBI, the DNC, Obama, the DOJ, and Hillary are involved in a massive coverup of both Hillary's criminal activity and their efforts to destroy Trump first as a Presidential candidate and then to destroy his credibility as a President, when he won. We are basically living in a USA where our security agencies are no better than the Nazi SS or the Soviet KGB, in that they tried to subvert American Democracy, but Trump won anyway. And if that doesn't scare you, many folks on this thread, including conservatives are STILL supportive of the Patriot Act and FISA Laws, which hand these criminals massive surveillance powers to continue their spying on American people and their obvious inclination to disrupt American Democracy when the candidates don't tow the establishment line. Houston, we have a problem. ------------ More texts turned over from FBI agent taken off Mueller team WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has turned over to Congress additional text messages involving an FBI agent who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team following the discovery of derogatory comments about President Donald Trump. But the department also said in a letter to lawmakers that its record of messages sent to and from the agent, Peter Strzok, was incomplete because the FBI, for technical reasons, had been unable to preserve and retrieve about five months' worth of communications. 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. The FBI declined to comment Sunday. Strzok, a veteran counterintelligence agent who also worked the Clinton email case, was reassigned last summer from the team investigating ties between Russia and Trump's Republican presidential campaign after Mueller learned he had exchanged politically charged text messages — many anti-Trump in nature — with an FBI lawyer also detailed to the group. The lawyer, Lisa Page, left Mueller's team before the text messages were discovered. The Justice Department last month produced for reporters and Congress hundreds of text messages that the two had traded before becoming part of the Mueller investigation. Many focused on their observations of the 2016 election and included discussions in often colorful language of their personal feelings about Trump, Clinton and other public figures. Some Republican lawmakers have contended the communication reveals the FBI and the Mueller team to be politically tainted and biased against Trump — assertions Wray has flatly rejected. In addition to the communications already made public, the Justice Department on Friday provided Johnson's committee with 384 pages of text messages, according to a letter from the Wisconsin lawmaker that was obtained by The Associated Press. But, according to the letter, the FBI told the department that its system for retaining text messages sent and received on bureau phones had failed to preserve communications between Strzok and Page over a five-month period between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017. May 17 was the date that Mueller was appointed as special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation. The explanation for the gap was "misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI's collection capabilities." In Johnson's letter to Wray, he asks whether the FBI has any records of communications between Strzok and Page during that five-month window and whether the FBI had searched their non-FBI phones for additional messages. He also asks for the "scope and scale" of any other records from the Clinton investigation that have been lost. One of the messages references a change in language to Comey's statement closing out the email case involving Clinton, Trump's Democratic opponent in the 2016 presidential election. While an earlier draft of the statement said Clinton and President Barack Obama had an email exchange while Clinton was "on the territory" of a hostile adversary, the reference to Obama was at first changed to "senior government official" and then omitted entirely in the final version. In another exchange, the two express displeasure about the timing of Lynch's announcement that she would defer to the FBI's judgment on the Clinton investigation. That announcement came days after it was revealed that the attorney general and former President Bill Clinton had an impromptu meeting aboard her plane in Phoenix, though both sides said the email investigation was never discussed. Strzok said in a July 1 text message that the timing of Lynch's announcement "looks like hell." And Page appears to mockingly refer to Lynch's decision to accept the FBI's conclusion in the case as a "real profile in courag(e) since she knows no charges will be brought." Days later, on July 5, Comey announced the FBI's recommendation that no criminal charges were merited.