1) So the House GOP Intelligence committee has finally released the Democratic memo about Trump’s collusion with Russia, Carter Page, and the Steele (aka Pee Pee) memo. Let’s pull out some of the good stuff.— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 24, 2018
6) The FBI corroborated parts of the Steele dossier, and presented that to the FISA court, but that’s such a secret it got blacked out in the memo. Oh yeah, and the evidence corroborating Steele contradicts what Carter Page told the House Intelligence Committee. pic.twitter.com/TUBYQVFmQs— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 24, 2018
7) As we suspected, the FISA court renewed the wiretap on Carter Page 4 times because it kept yielding useful information. The info was so useful that it got censored from the Democratic memo. pic.twitter.com/uqsKonqVIe— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 24, 2018
8) Devin Nunes lied. The FBI told the FISA court all about Steele, and that the memo was paid for by people who wanted “to discredit” Trump’s campaign. And DOJ never paid Steele for the dossier — Nunes lied about this. pic.twitter.com/phrypQ9tDq— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 24, 2018
9) And Nunes lied about the Yahoo news story. Nunes claimed the DOJ used the Yahoo story as proof of the Steele dossier. No. The article was used to quote Page’s denials of secret Moscow meetings, which makes the meetings all the more suspect. pic.twitter.com/RtRPMlClui— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 24, 2018
10) And finally, those FBI lovebirds with the texting fetish had zero to do with the FISA warrant. Nunes lied about that too. pic.twitter.com/hLAMprVDw4— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 24, 2018
11) Some interesting footnotes. First of all, I’m still shocked that the Trump campaign didn’t go the FBI the second they were told the Russians had stolen “thousands” of Hillary’s emails. That’s un-American, un-patriotic behavior. pic.twitter.com/rVvB1RBxWX— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 24, 2018
13) Bottom line: Four Republican federal judges found sufficient evidence that former top Trump campaign foreign policy aide Carter Page was acting as a Russian agent, to issue a FISA warrant permitting the FBI to spy on him. And, they received useful info during that spying.
