1) Alright, I'm livetweeting reading this memo. Holy fucking ballsacks.
2) FISA warrants have to be initially approved, the renewed every 90 days, with NEW PROBABLE CAUSE justifying each renewal.
3) As announced elsewhere, the FISA applications state only that Steele was working for a US person, NOT for Fusion GPS and ultimately the DNC and Hillary campaign.
4) Also, yes, the FBI then paid Steele as well.
4) The initial Carter Page FISA application included referenced to a September 2016 Yahoo article about Carter Page's trip to Moscow to corroborate the Steele dossier. It does NOT mention the fact that the Yahoo article was based on information leaked to Yahoo by Steele himself.
5) Yes, this means that when asked about supporting information for the Steele dossier, the FBI pointed to articles that Steele himself had helped create by leaking the dossier information.
6) "The FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not directly provide information to Yahoo News."
7) "Perkins Coie was aware of Steele's initial media contacts because they hosted at least one meeting in DC in 2016 with Steele and Fusion GPS where this matter was discussed."
8) The FBI FIRED Steele for his unauthorized media contacts as a result of an October 2016 article in Mother Jones. Steele hid and lied to the FBI about his earlier media contacts (at the behest of Fusion) from before the FISA application, which would have caused his termination
9) Before and after Steele was terminated as a source he was maintaining contact with the DOJ through ADA Bruce Ohr, where there was documented bias against Donald Trump from Steele, none of which was reflected in the FISA application.
10) "During this same time period, Ohr's wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump." Ok, this is where it gets scary
"Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and the Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC."
12) Steele shouldn't have been in contact with Bruce Ohr, and Fusion GPS used Bruce Ohr as another channel to feed opposition research to the FBI. Holy shitsnacks, was this AFTER Steele had already been fired as a source by the FBI?!?!?!?
13) Priestap, head of the FBI's counterintelligence division, said the Steele dossier was in its 'infancy' for corroboration when the initial FISA application occurred. After Steele was terminated in October, the dossier was only 'minimally corroborated.'
14) Comey testifies in June 2017 that it was 'salacious and unverified'. McCabe testifies in December 2017 that no FISA application would have been sought without the Steele dossier.
15) AHA! "the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters" FUSION GPS RELIED ON STEELE'S REPUTATION! FUCKING CALLED IT!
16) And Papasmurfalous? July 2016 STRZOK used the Papasmurfalous information to open a counterintelligence investigation. There is no evidence that Papasmurfalous and Page had any connection, but Papasmurfalous was included in the Page FISA application anyways.
17) This memo... holy fuck. No wonder the media was so hard up against it being released. Same with the DNC. HOLY SHIT.
18) CONCLUSIONS from me: The DNC and the Clinton campaign, acting by proxy through the law firm Perkins Coie, launched a smear campaign through Fusion GPS using the Steele dossier and leaking it to the media.
19) Partisans within the FBI like Strzok launched investigations into the Trump campaign based on scurrilous bullshit from Papasmurfalous, then when they received the Steele Dossier they started using that too, I guess assuming the media reports were supporting it.
20) Once they found out the media reports they were using in their FISA application to support the Steele dossier were ALSO based off the Dossier, they fired Steele, but kept taking opposition research from Fusion GPS through other Clinton partisans in the justice department
21) The worst part is, even once they found out how royally they had fucked up with the Steele dossier and the FISA application against Carter Page which resulted in the entire Trump campaign being spied on, THEY KEPT GOING. They tried to HIDE IT.
22) This? This is endgame level shit. This is 1984. This is Watergate in the Matrix. This was done with the knowledge and cooperation of the DNC and the Clinton campaign, and by extension the Obama administration.
23) This is why Hillary was panicking election night once she realized she lost. Game over, man, game over. We just won. /end
