2018-02-02 at 5:49 PM UTC
shaggy
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TL;DR:
Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Yates, and Boente all signed off on FISA applications for Carter Page (a volunteer advisor for Trump's campaign)
The Christopher Steele dossier was paid for with $160,000 by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC via Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS
None of the FISA applications or renewals mention the HRC or DNC funding the dossier, but the FBI and DOJ were both aware that they funded it
Steele leaked information to Yahoo News, but was not punished until he leaked information to Mother Jones; he was fired for the latter
Steele admitted to the FBI that he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president." These feelings were not disclosed in the FISA applications
The dossier was not corroborated before the FISA filing. Comey declared it "salacious and unverfied," but McCabe testified under oath that no surveillance would have been sought without the dossier
The FISA applications also mention collaboration between Page and Papadopoulos, despite no evidence of such a connection existing.
Strzok was in charge of investigating Papadopoulos before his text messages with his mistress caused him to be reassigned. The texts mention anti-Trump bias and also mention an "insurance" policy against Trump that was mentioned by McCabe during a meeting.
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2018-02-02 at 5:51 PM UTC
shaggy
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i'll tl;dr the tl;dr:
This is proof that the FBI and DOJ were fine spying on US citizens using a document paid for by the political opposition, and they concealed this fact while making the applications for the spying.
This is one of the biggest political scandals in US history. The DOJ and FBI were literally doing the bidding of a political party and trying to hide that fact from the American people. The entire "Russian Collusion" investigation was triggered by this document.
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