Not simple at all as Paul continues to try to use stuff that was all based upon the only info (false) that was available at the time…and subsequently totally debunked.Quote:
Originally Posted by paulxu
None of that trash was legit that started the whole process as the Wall Street Journal points out:
“ The report’s 316 pages detail the FBI’s failings at every turn. Mr. Durham describes how the bureau initiated its probe based on a conversation between unpaid Trump adviser George Papadopoulos and an Australian diplomat. No U.S. law-enforcement or intelligence agency thought the conversation was evidence of collusion, but the FBI launched a formal investigation anyway without “any significant review of its own intelligence databases” or “conducting interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received.” The FBI also opened full investigations of four members of Mr. Trump’s campaign team.
The bureau then began working on authorizations for use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, warrants—which would lead to highly intrusive electronic coverage of Trump adviser Carter Page. We learned from the special counsel that former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith committed a criminal offense by fabricating language in an email that helped the FBI obtain the FISA surveillance order against Mr. Page. Agents also used the unverified dossier, concocted by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, as probable cause in its FISA applications.
Mr. Durham notes that the FBI personnel working on those applications displayed “a cavalier attitude towards accuracy and completeness.” FBI personnel continued to seek renewals of FISA surveillance while acknowledging that they didn’t believe there was probable cause. They also disregarded exculpatory information, such as surrepti-tiously recorded statements from some of the targets themselves.
At the very least, Mr. Durham reminds us, the bureau should have exercised restraint when it received information from Mr. Steele, who was at that time being paid by entities of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. This partisan information helped sustain the probe and, in Mr. Durham’s opinion, contributed to the creation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.”
Stop with your ridiculous gaslighting Paul.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/durham-...ussia-ce31d6e6
