Fox - House Intelligence Committee FISA Memo
I considered writing about how this all went down and what it means; but, you know what, it doesn't really matter. You will know soon enough and the discussion will go on for months. Let me tell you what is coming.
The memo shows how political opposition research was used to get a secret court to approve phone taps and surveillance by the Obama administration against the Trump campaign. The memo is short because it is not meant to answer all questions, it is meant to raise questions and answer some. It is the beginning, not the end. It will cause a year long investigation to begin, one that looks at everything Clinton, the DNC and Obama did to rig the system and prevent Trump from winning the election.
Let me tell you, if Hillary had won, the Russian dossier would never have come out. They didn't want it to come out, what they had used it for was to tap, unmask and see all communications between people on the Trump campaign. They never meant for it to be released, that was done by Steele while working for the FBI, when it did come out, they fired him. That will come out too.
In November of 2017, Hillary said everyone had known for over a year that the DNC had paid for the dossier; but, Podesta and Debbie Wasserman Shultz and Donna Brazile all said they did not know who funded it. Obama is going to say the same. Comey has a problem, he cannot claim he did not know as he hired Steele.
There will be a public investigation by congress into what transpired and it will drag on and on all the way through this years elections. Democrats will claim they did not knw what had happened and while many may have suspected, they did not know, they chose not to know, same as they chose not to read the FISA memo.
Mueller will not be fired by Trump, his position is much worse. He now has to justify his investigation by showing that he has found something. You see, the investigation was based on the Steele dossier and the FBI hired Steele to authenticate it, which he could not. Mueller has to either show that he has found something or quit and say he has found nothing. All the Democrats are right now nagging Mueller to prove that he has found something; but, he has not. It is put up or shut up time for Mueller and he has nothing. Illegal phone monitoring has provided nothing, a couple of years of investigation has providing nothing and he has nothing now.
Mueller may in fact claim that he did not know the DNC paid for the dossier. How will that make him look, wouldn't that be something he would have asked. LOL. He may claim it didn't effect his investigation, the question will then be if he used information gathered by the FISA investigation. The answer to that is yes and it gets worse because Carter Page is not the only one who was tapped. We know this because Flynn was tapped. Nope, what Mueller will do is say that he has nothing and he cannot proceed because he is offended by the tainted information he was given by the FBI when he began his investigation. I anticipate Mueller resigning, the media speculating he was forced to and it coming out that it was his own choice.
Here is a question. Did Mueller know that the Trump dossier was funded by the DNC and used to put surveillance and justify unmasking of people in the Trump campaign. Did Comey tell him that when he became special prosecutor. My guess is no. I do not believe Mueller would have taken the job if he knew what was behind it. If Mueller did know then he has a bigger problem.
The Republican will want this next investigation to drag out and the Democrats will want it all to end. Obama, Mueller and Hillary have all been quiet today. How strange and yet expected. "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you." I expect them to all remain relatively silent. Mueller will be first to speak about the memo and will say that he needs to reconsider what he has discovered in light of these new revelations. Bet me.
I should explain something else. Everybody expected the memo to answer all questions. I did not expect that, I have written what I expected. Now, people expect this immediately cause results, I do not expect that. Hell is not a pinprick, it is not a broken arm, it is not even a heart attack, hell is the slow continual and increasing pain of hopelessness and misery.
The establishment Democrats are beginning a process of grief. The first is denial. That is what we are witnessing. The second is anger, that is just beginning. The third is bargaining, that is beginning behind the scenes and will be public soon enough. Depression is the next step, that is when the realization that the Democrats have been screwed by the Clintons once again and that they are going to lose even more seats in congress. Finally, you will see acceptance and that is where hope resides because if they accept what happened, they can begin cleaning house and fighting for the issues of the middle class and working class. They will see the need to work for the base of their party.
