John Solomon’s report yesterday is damning. In October 2016, James Comey's FBI was warned by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec that Christopher Steele and his Dodgy Dossier were not to be trusted. She warned that Steele was unreliable to the point of absurdity:
She quoted Steele as saying, “Payments to those recruited are made out of the Russian Consulate in Miami,” according to a copy of her summary memo obtained under open records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United. Kavalec bluntly debunked that assertion in a bracketed comment: “It is important to note that there is no Russian consulate in Miami.”
Kavalec, two days later and well before the FISA warrant was issued, forwarded her typed summary to other government officials. The State Department has redacted the names and agencies of everyone she alerted. It is unlikely that her concerns failed to reach the FBI.
Yet Comey and Co. in getting the okay to spy on Trump later swore to the FISA court that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated” and that the FBI has determined him to be “reliable.”
Now I guess it is possible that Comey and friends were so clueless that they missed Kavalec’s e-mail and really thought Steele was “reliable,” but that is very unlikely.
So what we probably have here is lying to a FISA court to get a warrant to spy on a U. S. citizen for political reasons. If so, Comey belongs behind bars.
Yes, I said it.
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