Thread by @Purple_POV

FISA #MemoDay
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1. Well this is awfully inconvenient for the "Don't wear such a short skirt if you don't want to be raped" crowd.

2. House Intel memo key point: The FBI's Andrew McCabe confirmed to the committee that no FISA warrant would have been SOUGHT from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.

3. Well of course it wouldn't have. They had ALREADY been shot down by the FISA court earlier that year. If not for this bullshit, foreign "dossier", sourced from RUSSIA!!!(tm), that even news outlets had refused to publish for months because it was so unreliable, the F?!??

4. And this is awfully inconvenient for the "Do you realize how hard it is to get a FISA warrant" crowd.

5. More House Intel memo key point: The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.

6. Gee, I wonder why they would exclude the fact that they were asking for a warrant on the basis of oppo-research?

7. So who signed off on the FISA applications? It's a parade of well known names.

thefederalist.com/2018/02/02/hou…

8. James "I'm just going to ignore the text of the Espionage Act" Comey @Comey

9. Andrew "Sure, I don't see any problem taking $700k from the good friend of someone I'm investigating" McCabe
#McCabe

10. Rod "Let me just pick someone to investigate the guy I've already inappropriately investigated" Rosenstein #Rosenstein

11. Sally "This refusing to follow the law is starting to become a habit, #Resistance !" Yates @SallyQYates

12. So, political appointees of Barack Obama used government resources to spy on the Trump campaign because Hillary Clinton paid someone to make up stories about him.
@BarackObama

13. Those people had no other information to base their investigation on.

And they hid BLINDINGLY material information from the FISA court to do so.

14. We're gonnna need a new term. "Watergate" is now officially retired.
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