Changes

*'''12 January.''' '''FBI lies again to the FISA court in surveillance application renewal.''' First of three 90 day renewals giving the Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Lisa Page ''et al'' virtual unlimited access to the new administration's electronic communications under the "two hop" rule.

*'''12 January.''' '''FBI lies again to the FISA court in surveillance application renewal.''' First of three 90 day renewals giving the Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Lisa Page ''et al'' virtual unlimited access to the new administration's electronic communications under the "two hop" rule.

:*Former NSA official John Schindler tweets, "When [[David Ignatius|@IgnatiusPost]] speaks, Langley's 7th floor lips are moving. They are taking [[traitor]] Trump out now."<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/20committee/status/819764059096678402?lang=en</ref> Langley's 7th floor is a reference to [[CIA]] headquarters.  

:*Former NSA official John Schindler tweets, "When [[David Ignatius|@IgnatiusPost]] speaks, Langley's 7th floor lips are moving. '''They are taking [[traitor]] Trump out now'''."<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/20committee/status/819764059096678402?lang=en</ref> Langley's 7th floor is a reference to [[CIA]] headquarters.  

:*In the renewal application Obama operatives again address Chris Steele credibility. They note that the FBI suspended its relationship with the foreign spy in October 2016 because of Steele's "unauthorized disclosure of information to the press." The FBI relayed to the court that Steele had been bothered by Comey's notification to Congress about reopening the Clinton investigation, and as a result {{quotebox|"[Steele] independently and against the prior admonishment from the FBI to speak only with the FBI on this matter, released the [Steele dossier allegations] to an identified news organization [''Mother Jones'']."}} The FBI cited Steele's past work and stated that {{quotebox|"the incident that led to the FBI suspending its relationship with [Steele] occurred after [Steele] provided"}} the FBI with the dossier information described in the application. The FBI further misrepresented to the Court in footnote 19 that it did not believe that Steele directly gave information to ''Yahoo News'' that "published the September 23 News Article". The FBI maintained that they believed Steele's claim that he had only provided the dossier information to the FBI and FusionGPS - and not to the media - prior to his October media contact that resulted in the FBI suspending the relationship. Accordingly, the FBI still deemed the information he provided prior to the disclosure to David Corn of ''Mother Jones'' as reliable. After all, the FBI already believed Steele was reliable, he had previously told the FBI he had not shared the information with the press - and lying to the FBI is a crime.  

:*In the renewal application Obama operatives again address Chris Steele credibility. They note that the FBI suspended its relationship with the foreign spy in October 2016 because of Steele's "unauthorized disclosure of information to the press." The FBI relayed to the court that Steele had been bothered by Comey's notification to Congress about reopening the Clinton investigation, and as a result {{quotebox|"[Steele] independently and against the prior admonishment from the FBI to speak only with the FBI on this matter, released the [Steele dossier allegations] to an identified news organization [''Mother Jones'']."}} The FBI cited Steele's past work and stated that {{quotebox|"the incident that led to the FBI suspending its relationship with [Steele] occurred after [Steele] provided"}} the FBI with the dossier information described in the application. The FBI further misrepresented to the Court in footnote 19 that it did not believe that Steele directly gave information to ''Yahoo News'' that "published the September 23 News Article". The FBI maintained that they believed Steele's claim that he had only provided the dossier information to the FBI and FusionGPS - and not to the media - prior to his October media contact that resulted in the FBI suspending the relationship. Accordingly, the FBI still deemed the information he provided prior to the disclosure to David Corn of ''Mother Jones'' as reliable. After all, the FBI already believed Steele was reliable, he had previously told the FBI he had not shared the information with the press - and lying to the FBI is a crime.