Sunday, December 29, 2019

Marco Rubio and the Carter Page FISA


A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words


Sen. Marco Rubio has complained that a Fox News contributor Sara Carter tweeted a Rubio quote that made it appear that he was defending the FBI in the wake of the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report.  In a July 2018 interview with Deep State media shill Jake Tapper Rubio responded to a question about the FISA warrant on Carter Page, “I don’t think they [the FBI] did anything wrong. I think they went to the court, they got the judges to approve it, they laid out all the information, and there was a lot [of] reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at Carter Page.”  Sara Carter should have pointed out that Rubio made the remarks prior to the release of the IG report.  However, this does not excuse his remarks in support of the FBI.

Sen. Marco Rubio is a member of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence.  He is privy to information that the general public was not. The IG found that members of the Crossfire Hurricane team failed to meet the basic obligation to ensure that the Carter Page FISA applications were “scrupulously accurate.”  The report detailed 17 errors and omissions.  The IG was "deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate, hand-picked investigative teams, on one of the most sensitive FBI investigations, after the matter had been briefed to the highest levels within the FBI.”   Yet Rubio did not suspect any of this and was not at all skeptical.

The DOJ Inspector General found that the investigation of Carter Page was factually and legally justified and did not find that there was a political conspiracy at the FBI to take down Donald Trump.  This is what could be expected from a Deep State investigation of the Deep State.  In order to retain some credibility Horowitz found  and exposed numerous FBI errors and omissions in the FISA application process. None of these "errors" and "omissions" benefitted Page.  Was this due to carelessness or was it intentional.  A review of senior FBI agents behavior would suggest it was intentional. Yet the IG report claims "that the FBI’s actions were not motivated by partisan bias."

If the IG could not find evidence of bias at the upper levels of the FBI they are totally incompetent.  They are career officials of above average intelligence.  There is only one explanation for their inability to recognize bias.  They are all members of the Deep State. Yet incredibly progressives are still claiming there is no political bias.  Senator Dianne Feinstein said: “I believe strongly that it’s time to move on from the false claims of political bias.”  Are we to believe that John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Liza Page were all objective officials?


Senator Schumer explained, "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”  Yet, like the Deep State media, they were the one to initiate the attack.

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