The memo's out

[Tiberius]

The FISA warrant was obtained using the unverified Steele Dossier as its basis.

Do you have evidence of that? The memo says it "formed an essential part" of the FISA application. That doesn't mean the same thing as being its basis. There's no mention of any other evidence that was used in the application. I believe this is a point of contention with the FBI and Democrats.

Parts of it corroborated? Not good enough. Mixing lies with a few truths isn't good enough. It's still deception.

Er...yeah it is good enough. If you have a document that has a mixture of lies and truth, but you are only using the corroborated parts as evidence, why would that not be fine? It's only deception if the FBI took parts of the dossier that weren't corroborated and tried to present them as absolute truth.

What other facts are you aware of that have been omitted?

The fact that the memo says the dossier was paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign, when actually the original funding came from a Republican. That's a pretty important fact considering the memo tries to present the dossier as a partisan hit job.

The memo also states that the FISA application said Steele did not directly provide information to Yahoo News, but he admitted to it in court. That would definitely be evidence that the FBI lied on the FISA application, except that the court date for Steele's admission was May 18, 2017, well after the FISA application. In other words, the FBI didn't lie, they were mistaken.

The Democrats are only opposing this because they want to keep the Russia witch Hunt investigation front and center through to the mid terms. They're not interested in justice or the truth.

Again, do you have any actual evidence of that? I could say the same thing about the ridiculous number of Benghazi investigations that went nowhere. I'm sure you'd argue they were all necessary in the name of justice and truth, right?

This is not the investigation of a crime to determine who was responsible. This is an investigation of a person to determine what unknown crime he might have committed. Usually there is a crime before a criminal investigation. What crime exactly was committed? Collusion is not a crime. This is not a criminal investigation. It is a counter-intelligence operation, one apparently funded by and sourced from an opposing political party during an election. And none of that bothers you?

The actual task of the investigation is to find "any links and/or coordination between Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump, and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation". Bolding mine, because it's important.

In more broader terms, it arose from several intelligence agencies concluding that with a high degree of certainty, Russia attempted to interfere with the US election. There is plenty of evidence of that.

This is a criminal investigation, which should be obvious from the fact that 4 people have already been charged with crimes. I fail to see how an investigation which began with a Republican FBI director (Comey), and later had a Republican deputy attorney general (Rosenstein) hire a Republican (Mueller) special counsel to perform the investigation, is in any way a counter-intelligence operation for the Democrats. This goes beyond party loyalty, this is, and always has been, about a notorious foreign adversary trying to interfere with our democracy. That should bother everyone.