JimofPennsylvan
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- Jun 6, 2007
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The Wall Street Journal yesterday in their key OpEd article praised the release of the Republican memo from the House Intelligence Committee and condemned the FBI and FISA Court in their actions involving the issuance of warrants authorizing surveillance on Carter Page. The WSJ condemns the FBI on its reliance of a former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele and the research firm he worked for Fusion GPS in its securing of the warrants. The WSJ here and entities that voice the same opinion are really out of line they try to paint the FBI as using the pressure from their hand to subvert the scales of justice that the FBI just threw away the "rule of law" in this investigation and anyone with knowledge of widespread known facts knows this criticism of the FBI is bogus! For widespread known facts include the following. Mr. Carter Page lived in Russia for several years and had consulting contracts with major Russian Energy companies and anyone with competent knowledge of how the country of Russia works knows the highest levels of the Russian government have their tentacles in these Russian companies. And this is the really key part in 2015 the U.S. government had brought criminal charges against a Russian government employee for trying to recruit Mr. Page to be a Russian spy as it turned out the Russian government extended diplomatic immunity for the accused and the accused was deported but nevertheless these facts would raise suspicion about Mr. Page. Further, after this Mr. Page takes a role in the Trump presidential campaign and Mr. Trump himself after information, obtained through hacking widely believed to be from the hand of the Russian government, is publicly released about the DNC and Ms. Clinton's campaign manager which is really harmful to the Democrats in the 2016 Presidential election does the following. Mr. Trump in a major Rally calls on Russia to hack more and if they discover any more detrimental information to release it. This Candidate Trump remember won't release his tax returns so the American people can know if he has investments or loans with Russian citizens or companies. One or more of Mr. Trump's sons publicly alluded to the existence of Russian loans for the Trump organization. And during the 2016 Presidential election cycle Mr. Page, a member of Mr. Trumps Presidential campaign, took a plane trip to Russia. These facts alone indicate the FBI is not out of line into with looking into Mr. Page and trying to determine if he is up to anything with the Russian government. One alarming aspect of this Republican memo release is that now the U.S. government needs to release all the underlying documents to protect the precious reputation of the FBI and to be fair to this agency; even the WSJ agrees "the public should see more of the documents that are behind the competing intelligence memos to judge who is telling the truth". This is a great mess you created Republicans because this fair release will reveal U.S. security assets and methods thus weakening America!