the authority, i think we will get a lot of information that we wouldn t have otherwise gotten directives. at the end of the day who do you think will benefit from this? i think both sides will get take aways here, certainly on all of the steele information and not telling the judges that it was paid by the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign, not telling judges that there s circular reportings, i m interested to see what they say about circular reportings and doj and fbi used same yahoo news story to almost corroborate steele in the application, also steele was terminated for leaking, when did the feds know about that, if it was in october prior to first application, that would have been in application as well. it ll be interesting. there have been a couple of leaks but as of right now no one knows for sure who is this the
produced in his report, it talked about i think, 13 different people at the fbi talking to one reporter. so we know this kate was going on, leaking things like crazy crazy, talking to the press of the time instead of focusing on doing their job. i can t get into the details but, yeah, remember, chairman noon as a part of this memo, he talks about the yahoo news story that mr. isikoff wrote, they used that when they went to the fisa court to buttress the argument about the dossier into get a warrant. again, stuff you are never supposed to do. but these guys did at. shannon: congressman matt gaetz had this to say about now potential conflicts between what you guys have heard from witnesses about what started the entire russia investigation. here s what the congressman sai said. in the first hour of testimony, it became very clear that there are a number of factual conflicts, either bruce ohr is lying or glenn simpson is lying. another circumstance, either bruce ohr is lying or lisa p
nevertheless, on a renewal. todd: we have to continuously remember in that type of a surveillance application, there is no defense attorney defending the interest of the person being surveilled. that s the nature of surveillance. that said, you need to be above board and they weren t. the judges trust the department of justice and the fbi, which is why they approve 98% of all fisa applications. when you read this thing, you know, they buried and concealed vital information and deceived the court. that s a fraud on the court and it s also a felony called abuse of power. steve: well, they not only used the dossier, which was made up largely. right. steve: but they also used a yahoo news story which was fed to them by the people who made up the dossier. that s right. they represent to the court that this is an independent corroboration of the dossier when, in fact, it came from the same source. it s called circular sourcing. another point is they in the preamble they lead the cour
any way challenge those facts. it doesn t challenge the fact that the fisa court was not told of the dnc and the clinton campaign funding of the steele dossier. it doesn t challenge the fact that they used a yahoo news story that was fed by christopher steele and it also does not challenge the fact that bruce ohr s wife who worked for fusion gps the court was not informed of that nor was congress by the way, so whereas the gop memo was an exercise in clarification the democratic memo was an exercise, i think let s see all of the documents including that court application if we can do that without endangering sources. maria: by the way one more thing they did it four times. right. maria: let s not forget they actually had to renew that fisa warrant to actually wire tap so for a year, they were overseeing and wiretapping trump aid and they used the dossier over and
yahoo news story that talked about carter page s ties to russia and he had been under investigation. is that possible? this is not a partisan statement. it s impossible that the dossier alone could have been used as the justification. the dossier with the yahoo news story. even with the news story. you have to understand that the bar for getting a fisa warrant is extremely high. the reason that most fisa warrants are granted is because the fbi and the intelligence community know how high the bar is. when they go to the court, they present a wealth of information. it is the case that you must have multiple sources of information in order to get that warrant granted. those sources of information necessarily in some cases must be from u.s. intelligence. the process is very complex and detailed. this puts the fbi in a tough spot. if there are material omissions