January 31, 2018
By Shimon Prokupecz, Laura Jarrett, Jim Sciutto and Abby Phillip
FBI Director Christopher Wray (click here) sent a striking signal to the White House Wednesday, issuing a rare public warning that a controversial Republican memo about the FBI's surveillance practices omits key information that could impact its veracity.
The move sets up an ugly clash with the President who wants it released.
"With regard to the House Intelligence Committee's memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it," the agency said in a statement. "As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."...
I appreciate the idea the FBI reviewed the memo, but, it is not worthy of any release. The memo has been tampered with for political purposes. It lacks accuracy.
Quite frankly, Trump asked for such surveillance to occur, because, he placed very controversial figures within his election campaign.
Paul Manafort, who is a nice guy on the surface, is a very worrisome person. Manafort alone would draw attention to any Russian involvement. What are you kidding me? Yanukovych? Give me a break. Trump has been stupid about this entire thing. He knew the kind of work Manafort conducted and then put him in the middle of his campaign. That's nuts. Trump deserves every bit of surveillance and there were and continues to be issues.
It is my best guess Putin suggested Manafort to Trump because of the work he did in Ukraine. It is so very obvious with so many people involved with Russia, Putin was exerting control however he could be accommodated, including the poisoning of the political well on the net. You may as well have had Putin at the podium for the State of the Union address, because, it is so very Un-American. That speech was delusional and simply horrible and lacked a real love of the country. The National Anthem? Those are warning signs about a greater agenda.
