Counter...

Attorney General William Barr has assembled a "team" to investigate the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.

The FBI's July 2016 counterintelligence investigation was formally opened by anti-Trump former FBI agent Peter Strzok. 

Ex-FBI counsel Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was romantically involved, revealed during a closed-door congressional interview that the FBI “knew so little” about whether allegations against the Trump campaign were “true or not true” at the time they opened the probe, noting they had just “a paucity of evidence because we are just starting down the path” of vetting the allegations.

The FBI's ultimately successful October 2016 warrant application to surveil Carter Page, which relied in part on information from British ex-spy Christopher Steele, whose anti-Trump views are now well-documented, flatly accused Page of conspiring with Russians. Page has never been charged with any wrongdoing, and he since has sued the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for defamation.

The FBI assured the FISA court on numerous occasions, in the October 2016 warrant application and in subsequent renewals, that other sources including a Yahoo News article, independently corroborated claims, without evidence to back it up. It later emerged that Steele was also the source of the Yahoo News article, written by reporter Michael Isikoff.

Weaponize...

Pelosi said we are a country of Immigrants. She wasn't to change it to a country of illegals.

Barr..

Head Stone...

الْحَجَرُ الَّذِي رَفَضَهُ الْبَنَّاؤُونَ قَدْ صَارَ رَأْسَ الزَّاوِيَةِ

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

²³ This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

²⁴ This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Pour...

Light.....

As the Muller report fades away, the new word coming up is, "Spying."

This will be something for the 2020, similar to other issues around the Presidential election time. For those who know, the tides have turned.

Racket...

A defamation lawsuit was filed by former Trump aide Carter Page against the Democratic National Committee in Oklahoma. 

The suit, which revolved around the infamous dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, alleged that the DNC paid for the dossier as part of opposition research that made "extremely malicious and destructive falsehoods" about him. 

Page made a number of charges in the lawsuit, including that the DNC's actions constituted as "act of terrorism" and racketeering. 

Page’s suit claims that those individuals gave information reporters about Page's dealings with Russia. He blamed the DNC for the public release of the dossier, which alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. 

The dossier was used in part to help launch the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a probe led by speical counsel Robert Mueller. 

AG Barr...

AG Barr says “I think spying did occur” against Trump campaign 

The criticism of Barr reached a crescendo after he used the word “spying” in congressional testimony to refer to the surveillance of Trump campaign officials in 2016. 

The reaction to his testimony was over-the-top. Yes, the word “spying” has a negative connotation, but it’s functionally indistinguishable from “surveiling.”  

There is no doubt that Trump officials were surveilled or spied on. The FBI famously acquired a FISA warrant against Carter Page, but the warrant allowed it to look back at his time with the campaign.

The FBI also gathered information on Page and campaign adviser George Papadopoulos via an informant, who contacted Trump aide Sam Clovis, as well.

The question is whether this surveillance was properly predicated. Barr is being attacked as a partisan hack for saying he’s going to find out. 

Democrats fear that Trump will use whatever is found for his own political purposes, but this isn’t a good reason to oppose Barr determining whether the intelligence agencies conducted itself in good faith during this episode. 

The public certainly has an interest in knowing the facts, this may be the next emails mishap of 2016.

Barr wrote a memo prior to his appointment as attorney general outlining his view that the legally aggressive theory of obstruction of justice that Mueller seemed to be operating on was flawed.  

Barr didn’t take the job of attorney general for the sake of résumé padding he already had the job on his résumé. He thought his experience, knowledge, and credibility gave him a unique ability to lead the Justice Department at an incredibly fraught time. Nothing he has done so far has cast any doubt on that assessment.  [MSN-News]

Wiki...

One guy cause a lot of heart aches.

Bias...

CNN has often been the subject of allegations of party bias. In research conducted by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the authors found disparate treatment by the three major cable networks of Republican and Democratic candidates during the earliest five months of presidential primaries in 2007: 

"The CNN programming studied tended to cast a negative light on Republican candidates – by a margin of three-to-one. Four-in-ten stories (41%) were clearly negative while just 14% were positive and 46% were neutral.

The network provided negative coverage of all three main candidates with McCain faring the worst (63% negative) and Romney faring a little better than the others only because a majority of his coverage was neutral. With the exception of Obama, 

Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell, among others, have referred to CNN as the "Clinton News Network".^[2] DeLay has also called it the "Communist News Network".^[3] In its early days, CNN was sometimes referred to as "Chicken Noodle News".^[4] 

In September 2009, a Pew Research Poll showed that Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to rate the network favorably, and Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to see CNN unfavorably.^[5]