Nunes Memo Reports Crimes at Top of FBI and DOJ
Nunes Memo Reports Crimes at Top of FBI and DOJ
By Ray McGovern
The newly released “Nunes Memo” reveals felony
wrongdoing by top members of the FBI and DOJ for misrepresenting evidence to
obtain a FISA warrant and may implicate other intelligence officials.
The long-awaited House Intelligence Committee report made
public today identifies current and former top officials of the FBI and the
Department of Justice as guilty of the felony of misrepresenting evidence
required to obtain a court warrant before surveilling American citizens. The
target was candidate Donald Trump’s adviser Carter Page.
Former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
The main points of what is widely known as the
“Nunes Memo,” after the House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes
(R-Calif.), have been nicely summarized by blogger Publius
Tacitus, who noted that the following very senior officials are now liable
for contempt-of-court charges; namely, the current and former members of the
FBI and the Department of Justice who signed off on fraudulent applications to
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: James Comey, Andy McCabe, Sally
Yates, Dana Boente and Rob Rosenstein. The following is Publius Tacitus’s
summary of the main points:
- The dubious but
celebrated Steele Dossier played a critical role in obtaining approval
from the FISA court to carry out surveillance of Carter Page according to
former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe.
- Christopher
Steele was getting paid by the DNC and the FBI for the same information.
- No one at the FBI
or the DOJ disclosed to the court that the Steele dossier was paid for by
an opposition political campaign.
- The first FISA
warrant was obtained on October 21, 2016 based on a story written by Michael
Isikoff for Yahoo News based on information he received directly from
Christopher Steele — the FBI did not disclose in the FISA application that
Steele was the original source of the information.
- Christopher
Steele was a long-standing FBI “source” but was terminated as a source
after telling Mother Jones reporter David Corn that he had a relationship
with the FBI.
- The FBI signers
of the FISA applications/renewals were James Comey (three times) and
Andrew McCabe.
- The DOJ signers
of the FISA applications/renewals were Sally Yates, Dana Boente and Rod
Rosenstein.
- Even after Steele
was terminated by the FBI, he remained in contact with Deputy Attorney
General Bruce Our, whose wife worked for FUSION GPS, a contractor that was
deeply involved with the Steele dossier.
From what Michael Isikoff reported in September
2016 it appears that the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence (as well
as the FBI) are implicated in spreading the disinformation about Trump and
Russia. Isikoff wrote:
“U.S. intelligence officials are seeking to
determine whether an American businessman identified by Donald Trump as one of
his foreign policy advisers has opened up private communications with senior
Russian officials — including talks about the possible lifting of economic
sanctions if the Republican nominee becomes president, according to multiple
sources who have been briefed on the issue. […]
“But U.S. officials have since received
intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor
Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who
is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian’s leading oil company, a
well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.”
Who were the “intelligence officials” briefing the
select members of the House and Senate? That will be one of the next shoes to
drop. We are likely to learn in the coming days that John Brennan and Jim
Clapper were also trying to help the FBI build a fallacious case against Trump,
adds Tacitus.
Indeed, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Chair of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee, has already indicated that his disclosures in
the Nunes Memo represent just “one piece of a probably much larger mosaic of
what went on.”
The Media Will Determine What Comes Next
As for Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), ranking
member of the House Intelligence Committee, it is now abundantly clear why he
went to ridiculous lengths, as did the entire Democratic congressional
leadership, to block or impugn the House Intelligence Committee report.
Until the mid-December revelations of the text
messages between FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page turned
Russia-gate into FBI/DOJ-gate, Schiff had been riding high, often hiding behind
what he
said “he could not tell” the rest of us.
With the media, including what used to be the
progressive media, fully supporting the likes of Adam Schiff, and the
FBI/CIA/NSA deep state likely to pull out all the stops, the die is now cast.
We are in for a highly interesting time over the next months.
Ray McGovern works with the publishing arm of the
ecumenical Church of the Savior in inner-city Washington. He was a CIA analyst
for 27 years and co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
(VIPS).
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