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He "played a part in it?" You mean he was a target of the thoroughly discredited dossier? Hillary playe a far biigger part in creatning If anyone should be facing charges it's her.Being disbarred is the least of what Cohen is facing.
I don't think John Dean ever practiced law again.
How in the fuck would a dipshit like you have the faintest idea of what Cohen is facing ? Repeating of bullshit that you know nothing about again??
Heck, it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out he's looking at serious charges. Cohen played a key role in the partially unverified, partially corroborated but not at all debunked Steele Dossier.
You Trump hatng douchbags are a bunch of despicable irrational pieces of shit
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Discredited by who? Link to the discrediting.
It was discredited by McCabe, dumbass. He testified that none of it hade been verified. It was also proven that Cohen never went to Prague as the dossier claims.
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The Dossier
The claim:
Republicans assert that officials relied primarily on an unverified dossier prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele to obtain a surveillance warrant on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. “Deputy Director McCabe testified before the committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information,” the memo said, referring to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who stepped down from that job this week.
Why it would matter:
Republicans on the House Intelligence panel say the investigation into possible collusion between Trump associates and Russia is tainted because it was instigated amid anti-Trump bias in the Justice Department and the FBI during the Obama administration. A key question is what evidence was used to secure warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court resulting in wiretaps on Trump associates, including Page. The Steele dossier is filled with unverified allegations about Trump’s connections to Russia, some of them salacious.
Is it true?
The FISA warrant concerning Page remains classified, but warrant applications are lengthy documents that often run 60 to 80 pages where officials need to show “probable cause” that the target is a foreign power or an agent of one. Obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on a U.S. citizen requires multiple levels of review that on average involves 10 government officials, according to a former U.S. national security official. Democrats on the House Intelligence panel issued a statement Friday saying “the investigation would persist on the basis of wholly independent evidence had Christopher Steele never entered the picture.”
Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said Friday that the Republicans “cherry-picked” information from McCabe’s testimony, leaving out what he said about the “genesis of the investigation that did not involve the dossier.” Page -- who denies wrongdoing and said he welcomes release of the memo -- was on the FBI’s radar long before the dossier: In 2013, Russian spies tried to recruit him, according to an FBI criminal complaint filed in 2015.
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Terms of Service Violation
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Accuses Republicans of misquoting testimony
What McCabe did or did not say during a closed-door congressional hearing has been a key source of controversy between Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee — and now McCabe is weighing in.
McCabe sided with the Democrats’ version of his testimony, which was recounted in a memo that House Intelligence Democrats released in February to counter one released by Republicans on the panel a few weeks prior.
Republicans insisted that McCabe testified to the committee that unverified material supplied by the so-called Steele dossier was integral to the FBI securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, arguing that helped prompt the ongoing federal probe into Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election.
Democrats said McCabe did not claim the FISA application depended on the dossier, which McCabe now corroborates.
"We started the investigations without the dossier. We were proceeding with the investigations before we ever received that information," McCabe told CNN. "Was the dossier material important to the package? Of course, it was. As was every fact included in that package. Was it the majority of what was in the package? Absolutely not."
5 claims McCabe made after being fired
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