The memo is out, and here’s what we now know.
1) The Clinton Campaign paid Fusion GPS for opposition research.
2) Fusion GPS enlisted Steele to create a dossier and made it look like an intelligence document, but nothing contained in this document has ever been corroborated or found to be factual.
3) Steele gave this document to Obama’s administration this document.
4) High ranking officials in both the FBI and DOJ KNEW the source of this dossier and KNEW it was bogus, but went ahead and used this as the basis of obtaining the FISA warrant. They outright lied to the judge and passed this dossier off as their own rather then telling the judge the origin.
5) Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FIS court without the Steele dossier.
6) The initial and all 3 renewals of the FISA warrant continued to use this bogus dossier. Again, the FBI and DOJ KNEW it was bogus.
7) meanwhile, Steele had been speaking with the press, thus creating a circular validation of the bogus dossier.
Here’s what this means (imho)
1) The FISA warrants were obtained illegally. They were obtained based on the feds lying to a judge. Everyone who was involved in obtaining these FISA warrants should be a) fired and b) held in contempt of court and hauled to court and put into prison. This may include Loretta Lynch and James Comey.
2) Trump, and everyone involved in the Trump campaign, and anyone who was spied upon as a result of this FISA warrant should exert their 4th amendment rights.
3) Any evidence being used as a result of this FISA warrant needs to be destroyed.
4) The Special council looking into the ‘Russia did it’ (tm) needs to close up shop as just about everything leading up to creating the special council was based on this illegal wiretapping. Any further activity by the Special council risks a constitutional crisis as per the 4th amendment.
5) The DOJ should open an investigation into the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration to understand how this fiasco was allowed to happen, and what laws were broken (of which there’s already a lot).
