TotalyMeow wrote:Claeyt wrote:The FBI used the Carter Page section of the Trump/Russian Dossier as evidence in the FISA Warrant application through the FISA court. This means they have confirmed at least a portion of this section of the dossier. They would not have used it as evidence unless they could prove that it was true.
You might expect that, but so far they can't say what or how much was corroborated. So far, there is no evidence that Page colluded with the Russians at any point and still nothing corroborated in that ridiculous dossier. They used that dossier alone as their 'evidence' to get their
politically motivated warrant.
So your argument is that Comey, a Repbulican, former deputy attorney general for Bush and former attorney in the justice department is directing the ongoing investigation to politically hurt Trump?
You're missing the point. Although we haven't SEEN the evidence, the dossier's use (or part of the dossier's use) as evidence in the FISA court means that the FBI HAS evidence that at least part of it is true. If they didn't have evidence showing it to be true then it would be illegal for them to use as evidence in court. Clearly the FBI showed the evidence that proves part of the dossier to be true to the FISA court, thus making the dossier available as evidence.
The FBI would not use uncorroborated evidence to get a FISA warrant. That would be illegal and make the application for the warrant illegal. They would have had to show the judges the dossier (or part of the dossier) was true. They probably did this by showing the judges foreign intelligence intercepts of Page that had been passed on to them. We already know from reported sources in foreign intelligence that MI-6, the Polish and the Estonians all have intelligence on Page from those meetings and passed it on to the CIA so that's probably where they got it from.
Now comes the hard part of proving that what Page (and others) did was illegal.