Transcripts of Lisa Page's testimonies provide new revelations in Spygate scandal

Spygate. Pfffft. Whatever. It works.

This report is so deeply in the weeds that it's insane. And yet omits so many species of weeds that it makes a weed survey nearly worthless. You won't like it. Reading it is 10x more wearisome and taxing than deciphering ancient and remote language behind Egyptian hieroglyphs. And I mean it. First you have what was said, boring, and then you must read between the lines, doubly taxing and boring. Finally you must collate with what is not said, and none of that is any fun.

Key takeaways listed on the Market Network by Jeff Carlson. Synthesized from original reporting at the Epoch Times from transcripts that were leaked. So then, for whatever they're worth.


* FBI considered investigating President Trump for obstruction before and after James Comey was fired.
* DOJ refused to pursue gross negligence charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of private email server to send classified information.
* Steele's handler was FBI agent Michael Gaeta, head of Eurasian Crime Squad. He received the dossier from Steel in July 2016
* FBI maintained a verification file for the Steele dossier that Congressional investigators did not know about.
* DOJ National Security Division headed by John Carlin was kept abreast of the FBI activities through FBI Deputy Director McCabe.
* Page worked with Bruce Ohr for five years and had met his wife Nellie.
* The role of FBI Agent Jonathan Moffia and DOJ official George Toscas was greater than assumed.

The report reveals the dates Page and Strzok joined the team of special counsel Robert Mueller, but it does not mention they were put there in the first place for their known intense hatred of Trump and their loyalty to Democrat Party. Instead we are told she was chosen to bridge the gap between what the team knew and the (bogus) evidence they gathered (contrived by underhanded means) on the collusion investigation.

Page agreed to work with Mueller for 45 days and at the end she left for ... wait for it ... spend more time with her children.

Page traveled only once while she worked for McCabe, to London. With Strzok, and three others. But not Bill Priestap, FBI head of counterintelligence. Page was prohibited by FBI counsel for detailing the purpose of her visit. To meet with Steele, obviously. Duh.

Prior to working for FBI McCabe, Page worked within the DOJ under Bruce Ohr.

[Bruce's wife, Nellie, worked for both CIA and for Fusion, hired for access to protected information and for her Russia expertise. She, of ham radio interest, is the person who wrote the Steele dossier. Steele sought complementing information then fed it back to American intelligence by various means. Steele cleaned up Nellie Ohr's work, separating it from American agencies to that those agencies could claim they were given credible information (that their members created).]

Page read memos written by James Comey almost in real time. She reviewed most of his memos the next day. Others also had access to Comey's memos. But not Strzok.

Page denies bias.

Right.

But says FBI focussed more on Trump than on Clinton.

Of course.

“If you were weighing resources with respect to which poses a graver threat to national security, which is more, frankly, important, there is no doubt—at least in mine or anybody else’s mind that I know—that the Russia investigation posed an incredible threat to national security, and whether we got into the Weiner laptop simply did not.”

Page returned to this topic several times.

What a strange reality partisan loyalty creates. Selling the office of State Department to the highest foreign bidders and laundering that money through protected foundations, and redistributing to political allies, and setting up a private server to conceal that activity while simultaneously opening the transmission of state secrets to spying is much less concern to DOJ and FBI lawyers than ridiculous charges presented in obviously bogus and partisan dossier about a political opponent during the late months of an election year.

And keep repeating that, Lisa Page, the more you say it the more real it becomes in your mind.

The notion that there might be more emails that have not previously been seen that existed on Hillary Clinton’s email server just simply don’t even enter into the realm of the same room of seriousness. The Clinton investigation involved activities that had taken place 3 years prior. It’s an entirely historical investigation.

The notion. A fancy little notion. An idea that flutters through the mind briefly then disappears. The high crimes of state, and felonies, and RICO-rich material is just so three years ago. Now the subject is going to be president. And this Trump guy's activities from birth, and everyone who ever spoke to him, are far more important.

In the assessment of the Counterintelligence Division, they still don’t even come close to the threat posed if Russia had co-opted a member of a political campaign. 

Except there wasn't any co-opting. You didn't know of any, you couldn't find any and you couldn't properly create any. And now we have Mueller investigation taking over your three illegal Trump investigations specifically to protect the departments that your partisan loyalty destroyed.

Much more at the link to the Market Network.

If you choose to click over, you'll see more about Page not caring for Hillary Clinton, and about the influence of DOJ on not prosecuting Hillary Clinton. How the DOJ loaded the FBI-Clinton interviews with their own people.

There was a great deal of discussion between the FBI and the Department with respect to whether to proceed, obtain the server which housed the bulk of Secretary Clinton’s emails, pursuant to consent or pursuant to a subpoena or other compulsory process.

Right. But candidate Trump is a much greater threat to National Security.

* Emails to a third party

* Commentary on the DOJ

She is so loathed, she is a very polarizing figure, Secretary Clinton, and so we all knew it was 100 percent consistent and universal that she was—there was not a prosecutable case. And we, the FBI, thought that that message was more credible coming from the FBI, who is independent and is not a political sort of body, in the same way that the Justice Department is being headed by political appointees who have closer relationships with the White House.

* Gross negligence and intent. They get hung up on the term gross negligence, and that being prosecutable. While setting up a private server to conceal transactions of State do not require that term. The fact is that DOJ would simply not prosecute Hillary Clinton. The entire section is precise legalese rigamarole.

* John Carlin's role. This section is interesting for its contortions. Carlin was a political appointee who was kept abreast of investigative activity. When there were conflicts Carlin would contact McCabe and make his team's pitch.

* Brennan's role.

I was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons that raised concerns in my mind about whether or not those individuals were cooperating with the Russians, either in a witting or unwitting fashion, and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation to determine whether such collusion [or] cooperation occurred.

Devin Nunes previously disclosed that no official intelligence was used to open the FBI's investigation.

This section gets deep into Brennen knowing about the Steele dossier before the FBI did, and using that (bogus, contrived) dossier to brief Harry Reid.

... if Director Brennan—so we got that information from our source, right?  The FBI got this information from our source. If the CIA had another source of that information, I am neither aware of that nor did the CIA provide it to us if they did, because the first time we —

* FISA Briefings and White House knowledge.

* Steele's FBI handler.

* The FBI's verification file and the dragon FISA.  FBI is putting pressure on speedy FISA warrants 4 weeks prior to the election. They want to ruin Trump and ruin him good and fast.

* Page's Russia Bias.

Russia poses the greatest threat certainly to Western ideals of any of our foreign adversaries. And we have vast foreign adversaries.  But even the threats that are posed by China or by Iran or North Korea or others doesn’t speak to sort of the core of Western democracy, right?

Stop it. You're killing me. Your boy-Jesus told us to tremendous sustained international laughter during debate with Romney that Russian threat is so last century. And nothing is so threatening to our democracy as corruption within our government departments such as your overtly biased official actions and private communication reveal combined with your official inaction in not prosecuting Hillary Clinton selling her office to foreigners for her own political gain and revealing state secrets.

"You mean wipe as with a rag?"

* Comey's draft memo. A few questionable elements about the draft are highlighted during Page's questioning. More nonsense about the term gross negligence upon which so very much hinged.

* The insurance policy. After babbling.

Perhaps realizing she’d been less than perfectly clear, Page attempted to clarify her position, noting, “this reflects: Let’s be reasonable, let’s not, you know, throw the kitchen sink at this because he’s probably not going to be elected, and so then we don’t have quite as horrific a national security threat than if we do if he gets elected.”

* Kortan's role in Page's leaks to the media.

* A possible obstruction case. This section is remarkable for its inversion. The illegal FBI investigation is itself obstruction. It's interference with legal election. It is an actual coupe by government departments. The case is the crime, and Page discusses in reverse view the non-crime being investigated by criminals as authentic. She's still in Mirrorland looking back through the separating glass at reality imagining she's one of the good guys and not a refection herself of evil personified.

Page: Sir, I need to — I need to take back my prior statement. 

Rep.: Which one? 

Page: Whatever the last thing I just said was. Sorry. That there were no discussions of obstruction, yeah. That is — I need to take that statement back. 

Rep.: So there were? 

Page: Well, I think that I can’t answer this question without getting into matters which are substantively before the special counsel at this time. 

Rep.: Well, I think you’ve just answered it by not answering it. Was Andy McCabe privy to those same conversations? 

Page: I can’t answer this substantively, sir. I’m sorry. 

Rep.: Well, were these related to some charges, whether obstruction or other charges, potentially against Donald Trump? 

Page: I can’t—I can’t answer that question, sir, without getting into the substance of matters that are now before the special counsel.

Ah yes. The special counsel set up to take over 3 bogus FBI investigations that went so far south over fake foreign dossiers and FISA warrants all by anti-Trump partisans and other foreign anti-Trump agents, that they had to be turned over to an entity that has no such legal constraints as FBI, for the protection of corrupted agencies. So that Lisa Page can say things like this while Mueller with unlimited resources is off digging, scrounging, snorting for tidbits that resemble crime instead of prosecuting actual known government crimes such as committed by FBI and DOJ and Secretary of State.

The original story at Epoch Times.