Op-ed:
The Case of the Dueling Memos
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
It was a set-up from the get-go...we
knew it, the Democrats knew it and didn't care if President Trump
knew it. And he indeed knew it and was so right in saying that the
Democrats rebuttal memo was written as it was so that they could
"blame the White House for lack of transparency."
And
Trump's claiming that the Democrat's memo, as it stands now, was
written as "a very political and long response memo
which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would
have to be heavily redacted"...is
of course true for it was deliberately written in just that way
knowing well that F.B.I. and D.O.J. officials would tell Trump it
could not be released as written...which they did.
So,
the very two agencies complicit in the Russian scandal itself...are
now both complicit in making sure President Trump alone would be blamed for
a lack of transparency no matter that he publicly stated that he is
absolutely not against releasing the Democrats memo...a rebuttal
to the recently released Nunes' what Trump called “blockbuster”
memo...but that they need to "re-do and send back in
proper form!" After all,
the Republicans had their memo properly prepared so it could safely be
released to the public...as in removing anything that might compromise national security...so why shouldn't the Democrats have to do the same thing.
They should have to do the same thing no matter that, as expected,
senior members of the Democrat hierarchy called Trump to task for his
refusing to release said memo...or what they sometimes call a
“document”...claiming that the president had no right to
withhold it after he had cleared Nunes' memo almost immediately. But
what the Democrats are really saying is they demand their
media-driven soapbox to attack and try to further discredit Donald
Trump and they demand that soapbox post-haste...national security be damned.
And Trump knows this and to that affect, White House Counsel
Donald McGahn outlined our president's rightful concerns in a
letter
he sent to
Rep. Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee Chair. The letter
included two main points. First, in a document from Attorney General
Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, regarding specific
passages in the Democrat response that involved as per A.G. Sessions,
"longstanding principles regarding the protection of
intelligence sources and methods, ongoing investigations and other
similarly sensitive information"...McGahn
pointed out the exact
passages that needed to be redacted. And second, McGahn wrote that in
"public interest and transparency in these unprecedented
circumstances," President
Trump had directed "Justice Department personnel be
available to give technical assistance to the committee"
in making the needed revisions.
And yet even with said specifics given...specifics that were and
still are an easy fix...the Democrats whined in defiance...including
whining that the White House sent said memo back to Nunes directly
instead of submitting it to Rep. Adam Schiff, the H.I.C's ranking
minority member and the memo's chief composer...along with whining
that they believed their memo was to be revised solely
"to
mitigate risks identified"...as
in to take the heat off President Trump...no matter that those who
have already seen said memo have said that in no way does it negate anything
in Nunes' memo.
And the whining continued on throughout this past weekend no
matter the fact that not only did above said White House Counsel
McGahn, on President Trump's
“directive” no
less, personally offer Rep. Schiff the above said technical
assistance
so that the memo could be
released in a timely and proper manner...McGahn
did so no matter that the memo in its current form would see him
saying that it “contains numerous properly classified and
especially sensitive passages”...passages
that would obviously have to be redacted and/or revised before being
released for public consumption.
But was the offer of technical help good enough for the
Democrats...of course not...and out came the usual cast of characters
to say that President Trump is once again obstructing justice...their
version of justice that is. And the attacks, as expected, were led
off by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer who said that Trump's
double
standard when it came to transparency was "appalling"... and
"What is he hiding?"...to
be followed in tune by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's
claiming that the memo's
“blockage” shows that Trump's
“hypocrisy” is on full display, and that this is nothing
but his attempt to put and end to the still on-going Russian
investigation.
Continuing on by saying that Trump's not releasing said memo was
"a stunningly brazen attempt to cover up the truth about the
Trump-Russia scandal from the American people"...“the
president has something to hide"...and... "Why
won't the president put our country before his personal and political
interests?"...Nancy Pelosi
is very woman who not only puts illegals and her and
their corresponding personal and political interests before our
country, before American citizens, and before our troops who defend
our freedoms in the theaters of war...but also before those here at
home...as in our police...who help keep America's streets safe...or
at least they try to what with the animosity our police have to deal
with all initiating and coming from the left.
And while the Democrats continue to whine and stamp their feet
like the two-year old children they relish in acting like, there is another
memo slowly circulating that most know nothing about because the
liberal controlled media refuses to report on it.
And why do they not
report on it...because this document, known as the Grassley-Graham
memo, absolutely corroborates both the claims made in the Nunes
memo...claims that Obama's F.B.I. and D.O.J. did indeed use only the
“anonymously sourced, Clinton-campaign generated innuendo”... as
in the Steele dossier...to convince the FISA court to issue
surveillance warrants against Trump campaign foreign policy advisor
Carter Page...and that in their doing so, they deliberately, and I
say with malice, concealed both the Clinton campaign and the DNC role
in getting the Steele dossier compiled and funded.
And why did Hillary's people zero in on
Carter Page as the fall guy...a man who by the way had left Trump's
campaign before the first warrant was even issued...simply because
they knew that if they secured the much needed FISA warrants that the
in-their-pocket F.B.I. could now “seize” not only Page’s
“forward-going communications,” but also “seize”
any past emails and texts he may have stored on his computer...as in
communications between him and the Trump campaign.
Devious sorts Hillary's campaign people
were...well trained by Obama and his people but of course.
So what exactly is in the
Grassley-Graham
memo (a letter actually) that is so very damning to the
Democrats...and most especially to Hillary and Obama...how about
these three key facts. Fact one: the FISA warrant targeting Carter
Page appears to have been issued on
“insufficient grounds.”
Fact two: the
Steele dossier itself, which was the basis for the FISA application,
“appears to contain no additional information corroborating the
dossier allegations against Mr. Page.” And fact three: the
F.B.I.
“relied more heavily on Steele's credibility than on any
independent verification or corroboration for his claims.”
In
other words whether Steele deliberately and with malice misled
the F.B.I. about the “extent of his contacts” with the
press, especially in regards to his 'supposed' findings coupled with whether this
should have influenced the F.B.I.'s assessment of him being
credible, and if they took what is deemed “adequate steps”
to either confirm or refute Steele’s reporting before they sought a
wiretap order.
Obviously the F.B.I. did none of the
above for they obviously knew the truth all along...at least their hierarchy did...and for that they need to be investigated.
Now add in that we also need not only
an investigation into just the FISA warrant applications
themselves but also into how the FISA judge(s) could dare to sign both the
original truly baseless warrant and its three just as baseless
renewals..including the last renewal that was done after Donald Trump became
president.
Can you say collusion via “activist
judges” sitting on the FISA court...I can. And I absolutely
refuse to buy into the nonsense that some on the left are now
spewing...as in that the FISA judge(s) warrant approval allowing the
surveillance of U.S. citizen Carter Page was based upon the
'supposed' fact that the court was not given the full picture of
exactly who was behind the unverified obviously partisan dossier of a
man who was a known former aide to the presidential campaign of the
opposition party.
And know that both Sens. Charles
Grassley and Lindsey Graham composed their memo...which they sent to
the D.O.J. in early January weeks before the Nunes memo was
composed...strictly in support of the criminal referral recommending
that Christopher Steele be investigated for making false statements
to the F.B.I., which some might not know is a felony. And while their
memo was at first withheld because its contents were deemed
“largely
classified,” it was finally released shortly after the Nunes
memo but with heavy redactions...redactions done for national
security reasons...which was the right thing to do.
And as I write this we seem to have
reached a stalemate of sorts as the Democrats keep whining that
Trump's refusal to declassify the Schiff memo is nothing but an
“assault on the legitimacy of the government's Russia
investigation” as well as it being a ploy to undermine Special
Council Mueller's lead in that investigation.
So, where do we go from here as we
await seeing if the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee
will do the right thing and put the Schiff memo into its
“proper
form” replete with the much needed
for national security reasons redactions, or if they
take advantage of what is known as 'Rule X'...a rule that would allow
the Democrat committee members to call for a committee vote on
releasing said memo over the objections of the president. 'Rule X'
was what allowed the Nunes memo to be released setting all into
motion. But thankfully they would need the support of the majority
Republicans on the intel committee which they surely will not get, so
I guess we are in for more accusations and mud-slinging against
President Trump and his administration.
More mud-slinging for sure even while
we know that the cunningly crafted Schiff memo was composed not as
true rebuttal to the Nunes memo, but solely to back Trump into a
corner in a desperate attempt to try to convince 'We the People' that
the Trump administration is hiding something from us...which they are
not.
So as President Trump rightfully and truthfully continues to call
out the Democrats for playing
“political games,” and with
the Democrats countering...whining actually...that Trump
“flip-flopped” over the memo's promised release denying
them promised transparency, the fact remains that all this memo
back-and-forth has done is implicate not President Trump but the
Democrats themselves. And to that I say job well done.
Copyright
@ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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