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FISA Applications Confirm: The FBI Relied on the Unverified Steele Dossier

Try again, it did no such thing....the FISA request was requested in 2013.

Andrew McCarthy: How the FBI manipulated the FISA courts using the salacious Steele dossier

Now that we can see it all in black and white — mostly black, as they are heavily redacted — it is crystal clear that the Steele dossier, an unverified Clinton-campaign product, was the driving force behind the Trump-Russia investigation.

Based on the dossier, the FBI told the FISA court it believed that Carter Page, who had been identified by the Trump campaign as an adviser, was coordinating with the Russian government in an espionage conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.

This sensational allegation came from Christopher Steele, the former British spy. The FISA court was not told that the Clinton campaign was behind Steele’s work. Nor did the FBI and Justice Department inform the court that Steele’s allegations had never been verified. To the contrary, each FISA application — the original one in October 2016, and the three renewals at 90-day intervals — is labeled “VERIFIED APPLICATION” (bold caps in original). And each one makes this breathtaking representation:

The FBI has reviewed this verified application for accuracy in accordance with its April 5, 2001 procedures, which include sending a copy of the draft to the appropriate field office(s).

In reality, the applications were never verified for accuracy.

New NBC/WSJ Poll Shows Trump Approval Rating and GOP Generic Ballot Up

Hey Mac, why don't you 'splain it to us? We're not sure that conspiring with a foreign dictatorship to manipulate, weaken and ridicule the US democracy and divide NATO actually counts as treason. Maybe it's all mindless fun, huh?

At a hearing in the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., on Monday morning, Judge Ellis granted Mueller’s request and ordered that the names of those five prospective witnesses be made public.

Within hours of Ellis’ ruling, the names of those witnesses were unsealed: Dennis Raico, Cindy Laporta, Conor O’Brien, Donna Duggan, and James Brennan.

Toronto shooting suspect identified as Faisal Hussain

Canadian authorities identified the gunman who killed two people and injured 13 others in a lively Toronto neighborhood Sunday night as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain.

Canadian authorities identified the gunman who killed two people and injured 13 others in a lively Toronto neighborhood Sunday night as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain. The 13 wounded ranged in age from 10 to 59, and suffered injuries ranging from serious to minor.

Witnesses heard many shots and described the suspect walking past restaurants and cafes and patios on both sides of the street and firing into them.

Which is about par for the course. His idea of a fact is anything that comes to him in a bizarre fever dream. He doesn't know what facts are,

like he doesn't know what freedom is,

or intelligence for that matter.

Quote:

In criminal law, the duty to retreat, or requirement of safe retreat, is a legal requirement in some jurisdictions that a threatened person cannot stand one's ground and apply lethal force in self-defense, but must instead retreat to a place of safety...Other states apply what is known as the castle doctrine, whereby a threatened person need not retreat within his or her own dwelling.

In Erwin v. State (1876), the Supreme Court of Ohio wrote that a "true man", one without fault, would not retreat. In Runyan v. State (1877), the Indiana court rejected a duty to retreat, implying it was un-American, writing of a referring to the distinct American mind, "the tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against" a duty to retreat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_retreat

Most of these candyass States require you to run away from threats as fast as you can until you get home, eh? Some even require you to keep running, out your back-door, if the criminal wants to keep chasing you inside your crib. The law actually requires you to be a damn coward.

Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Texas, and some others got it right, eh? They don't cotton to no cheese-eatin "unamerican" crap, like commies do, eh?

Have you been following the Florida popcorn shooting case?

http://able2know.org/topic/234184-1

A brief synopsis of the events:

A retired police captain (now an old man) had a habit of going out to the movies and hassling anyone who used cell phones during the movie.

Some guy (middle aged, not muscle bound like a body builder, but clearly stronger than an old man) was on a date with his wife and was texting the baby sitter during the movie previews.

The retired police captain hassled the texter relentlessly until the texter got fed up, threw his cell phone at the retired police captain, stood over the retired police captain in his seat, grabbed his box of popcorn out of his lap, and threw the box of popcorn in his face.

The retired police captain shot the texter once in the heart and killed him.

I'm not sure what to think about the incident, but it seems to generate a lot of strong opinions on both sides.