Gun Control

The libs/dems/media have reopened their gun control play book… as expected after any shooting. Never let a crisis go to waste continues to be a prime rule of their play book. Do they really believe that any sort of gun law will keep guns out of the hands of criminals or deranged people? If they do believe that, they themselves are seriously deranged and living in some sort of utopian la la land.

Florida School Shooting Tragedy

The libs/dems/media continue to show their insensitivity and ability to politicize and take advantage of any event. The tragic shooting in Florida gave them another opportunity to push their anti-Trump, anti-gun agenda. They should be ashamed of themselves. Again.

Another Memo

An un (sort of) redacted version of the Grassley memo has been released. As expected, the media is hiding it from the general public and the libs/dems are howling. The howling and outrage grew even louder when President Trump refused to fall for the trap the Dems tried to set with the Schiff memo - which contained numerous illegal references to secret information and methodology. Trump bounced it back to them stating the memo would be declassified only when it was rewriten to exclude those types of references.
In the Pheebot’s mind, the libs/dems/media are coming close to the very definition of treasonous behavior. Their endless lies and manipulations of the truth are outrageous. If the libs/dems/media actually believe the American public will fall for their lies and distortions and return them to power in November, that belief is hard to understand.

The Memo - Day 2

The libs/dems/media are in total meltdown… The Nunes memo, which is only the first of which will surely be many more, totally exposes the corruption of the democrats. Of course, the dems and the media are out there spinning as hard as they can, but it just won’t work this time. The facts are clear. Hillary Clinton, the Dems, and their minions in the DOJ and FBI are guilty of corruption at a level never before seen in this country. And, this is beginning to clearly show an indictment against the Obama administration’s curruption.

Nancy's Crumbs

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi seems to think the Trump Tax Reform bill will only give “crumbs” to American workers.

Let’s see… over 200 companies are giving their employees tax-bonuses and substantial wage increases. Apple, for example, is giving every employee $2,500.00 in stock options. Walmart has increased its minimum wage by several dollars per hour. Are those “crumbs”?

On a personal note, The Pheebot’s personal monthly income has increased $138.32. Don’t know about Nancy, but this crumb is very welcome.

The Memo is Released

See original document here.

January 18, 2018

To: HPSCI Majority Members
From: HPSCI Majority Staff
Subject: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Purpose
This memorandum provides Members an update on significant facts relating to the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Our findings, which are detailed below, 1) raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and 2) represent a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.


Investigation Update
On October 21, 2016, DOJ and FBI sought and received a FISA probable cause order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC. Page is a U.S. citizen who served as a volunteer advisor to the Trump presidential campaign. Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.
The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant targeting Carter Page and three FISA renewals from the FISC. As required by statute (50 U.S.C. §,1805(d)(l)), a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed by the FISC every 90 days and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. Then-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Then-DAG Sally Yates, then-Acting DAG Dana Boente, and DAG Rod Rosenstein each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of DOJ.
Due to the sensitive nature of foreign intelligence activity, FISA submissions (including renewals) before the FISC are classified. As such, the public’s confidence in the integrity of the FISA process depends on the court’s ability to hold the government to the highest standard—particularly as it relates to surveillance of American citizens. However, the FISC’s rigor in protecting the rights of Americans, which is reinforced by 90-day renewals of surveillance orders, is necessarily dependent on the government’s production to the court of all material and relevant facts. This should include information potentially favorable to the target of the FISA application that is known by the government. In the case of Carter Page, the government had at least four independent opportunities before the FISC to accurately provide an accounting of the relevant facts. However, our findings indicate that, as described below, material and relevant information was omitted.


1) The “dossier” compiled by Christopher Steele (Steele dossier) on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was a longtime FBI source who was paid over $160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and research firm Fusion GPS, to obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
a) Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.
b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier). The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of—and paid by—the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.
2) The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow. This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News. The Page FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not directly provide information to Yahoo News. Steele has admitted in British court filings that he met with Yahoo News—and several other outlets—in September 2016 at the direction of Fusion GPS. Perkins Coie was aware of Steele’s initial media contacts because they hosted at least one meeting in Washington D.C. in 2016 with Steele and Fusion GPS where this matter was discussed.


a) Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations—an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, 2016, Mother Jones article by David Corn. Steele should have been terminated for his previous undisclosed contacts with Yahoo and other outlets in September—before the Page application was submitted to the FISC in October—but Steele improperly concealed from and lied to the FBI about those contacts.
b) Steele’s numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling—maintaining confidentiality—and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source for the FBI.
3) Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.” This clear evidence of Steele’s bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files—but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications.


a) During this same time period, Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC.
4) According to the head of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, Assistant Director Bill Priestap, corroboration of the Steele dossier was in its “infancy” at the time of the initial Page FISA application. After Steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within FBI assessed Steele’s reporting as only minimally corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even though it was—according to his June 2017 testimony—“salacious and unverified.” While the FISA application relied on Steele’s past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations. Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.
5) The Page FISA application also mentions information regarding fellow Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, but there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos. The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel’s Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had also investigated. The Strzok/Lisa Page texts also reflect extensive discussions about the investigation, orchestrating leaks to the media, and include a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an “insurance” policy against President Trump’s election.

The Memo

The libs/dems/media are fighting tooth and nail to block the release of the Nunes memo, a report that completely exposes the corruption of the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton. American’s have a right to see this report! It is our right under the Constitution to learn about corruption and societal abuse by any political member or party. The libs/dems/media will be crushed by this report, and about time! Hillary, in particular, must be shown to be the criminal that she is, as well as the endless corruption of the Democratic Party.

State of The Union

The Pheebot has been watching State of The Union addresses for a very long time. This address by President Trump was easily one of the best. He promoted America compared with Obama’s endless denigrating of our country. President Trump’s message was America is Great Again! How can the libs/dems/media continue to lie about our country? They continue to completely lie/distort Trump’s achievements that are making America great again. Schumer, Pelosia, Schiff, and the rest of the congressional dems/lefties should be ashamed of themselves. Their only interest is in maintaining their idiological left wing beliefs and their power.

The Real Lib/Dem/Media Agenda

Shutdown

In reality, a government shutdown is pretty meaningless. Yes, some segments of the government may close down during the shutdown, but federal employees will still be paid (late, of course), Social Security and Medicare payments will continue, just as everything else. The dirty secret the libs/dems/media don’t want you to know is that all federal budgets include contingency funds to cover expenses during a shutdown. Who really hurts during the SchumerShutdown? Over 2,000,000 military personnel and other federal workers will not receive their paychecks on schedule. The Dems should be ashamed of themselves, they’re punishing American Citizens in order to protect illegal aliens.

Wolff

Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, is, by the author’s own admission, a work of fantasy and fiction. Why even write this? The Libs/Dems/Media have an intense hatred of Trump that’s hard to fathom - other than the fact that he threatens their hunger for power and control. Libs/Dems have a fundamental belief that they, and only they, have the smarts to tell everyone else how they should live their lives, what they should be allowed to do, how they should spend their money. In their view, they own your money, you’re just too stupid to use it correctly.

Finally!

President Trump has asked a fundamental question of Democrats about immigration. Why do they want to endlessly allow immigrants into our country that have no interest in becoming Americans, that have no skills, that come from countries rife with poverty and corruption that will become an endless drain on our resources - i.e., the American taxpayers. The answer is simple. Democrats depend on a voter base that they can buy with our tax dollars. It’s way past time that someone has finally exposed the Democrats for the power hungry fools that they are. Guess that’s why we’re deplorables!

I Am The Pheebot

Search for Pheebot in your favorite browser. Other than me at pheebot.com, there is no other true Pheebot!
Just another example of why you should be very careful about what you put on the internet! Nothing ever disappears… what you post lives on in infinity! Or as Buzz Lightyear said -
to infinity and beyond!

Iranians Fight Back

The Iranian people have finally had enough. The recent demonstrations against their Islamic corrupted government clearly demonstrates that Iranians have no love for the tyrannical Islamic government that so crushes their lives. The next few days will be very interesting… will the Islamic clerics attempt to crush the Iranian folks crying out for freedom, or will they make some attempt to placate the people? Sadly, The Pheebot suspects that the Islamic Iranian dictatorship will harshly react to the demands of their people.

Economy Roars On!

You’d never hear this from any Dem/Lib/Media person - the DOW set another historic high today… over 25,000 points. I seem to recall that the unholy triumvirate of Dem/Lib/Media was predicting, wishing and praying (oops… do they pray?????) that a Trump economy would lead to economic disaster, even worse than the Obama economy, which was truly a disaster for all Americans. Obama categorically declared that the American economy would be forever stuck under 3% growth just because America was so terrible in so many ways. Just one more thing that Obama was so wrong about…

Landscape Littered With The Dead

According to Nancy and Chuck/Dems/Libs/Media the passage of the Trump tax reform bill should be causing the immediate deaths of millions of Americans… are your streets littered with dead Americans? Haven’t been tripping over any corpses where I live… you?

Year One

The first year of the Trump presidency has seen an amazing turn around in our country. The economy is booming, the stock market is setting record highs, unemployment is shrinking, especially among blacks and latinos, and consumer confidence is at an all-time high. Yet, the Dems/Libs/Media continue their endless lies and news manipulation to denigrate the presidency of Donald Trump. President Trump is a threat to their way of life and endless power they want to exert over America. The 2018 mid-terms will be a true indication of American beliefs - are we embracing the Trump agenda or accepting the endless lies of the Dems/Left/Media who care only for the preservation of their dictatorial power?