With the Senate Criminal Referral to the FBI things are getting “curiouser and curiouser” in the swamp.
It is now reported that long-time Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal was feeding information to the MI-6 operative Steele, who was working with Fusion GPS, who was hired and paid by the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee to create a political opposition dossier on candidate Donald Trump. Some money was filtered through, (laundered by), the Perkins, Coie law firm that originally came from a lobbyist in DC who got it from his client, a Russian national.
Confused yet?
This spurious political hit piece was originally couriered over to the FBI by Senator John McCain, (R?- Arizona). At this point it is unknown where Sen McCain got his hands on it. The FBI used this “salacious”, (then FBI Director Comey‘s word), dossier as the basis for petitioning a FISA court to allow surveillance of a United States national, Carter Paige and thereby the political campaign of candidate Donald Trump.
The FBI, in the application for the first FISA warrant and in at least three subsequent extensions to it, failed to inform the court of the political nature of the basis for their request.
In tomorrows’ blog, I will break down in outline fashion who did what and I will attempt to illustrate the “why”.
Bottom line here is that the WAS collusion with Russian persons to influence the 2016 presidential election… but that collusion was not involved with persons from the Trump camp.
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