{"id":178,"date":"2019-06-29T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/?p=178"},"modified":"2020-07-21T20:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:40:51","slug":"a-wink-and-a-nod-from-fisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2019\/06\/29\/a-wink-and-a-nod-from-fisa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wink and a Nod from FISA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=WordSection1>\n<p class=MsoNormal>This Took My Breath Away<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>As I read a small paragraph in a rather predictable political story [albeit incredibly important beyond it&#8217;s simply political implications] &#8230; &#8216;Oh My&#8217; was what I quietly whispered to myself. Actually, about 3 times. It felt like a physical blow.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>The Headline is:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\"'>Any interference in Russia probe is something public has &#8216;right to know about&#8217;: GOP lawmaker<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>The Link to the story is:&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mueller-russia-investigation-political-interference-barr-declassify-steube\"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%'>https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mueller-russia-investigation-political-interference-barr-declassify-steube<\/span><\/a><span style='font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>Or copy and paste: <span style='font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mueller-russia-investigation-political-interference-barr-declassify-steube\">www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mueller-russia-investigation-political-interference-barr-declassify-steube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal>Finally, the paragraph itself:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b>&quot;I think that <\/b><b><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>every<\/span> American&nbsp;would initially have some grave&nbsp;concerns of a court that is&nbsp;operating completely in secret,&quot; Steube claimed. &quot;Given all the information and&nbsp;facts, if the information that&nbsp;was represented to the FISA&nbsp;court &#8212;&nbsp;if they knew this was&nbsp;campaign fodder or promulgated&nbsp;and still decided to issue a&nbsp;warrant, that would bring a lot&nbsp;of things to questions.&quot;<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>For two years &#8230;. we [I] people &#8211;&nbsp; following the unbelievable power struggle over control of this country &#8211; had some limits to how upside things had become in the last decade. Even so, we learned that some very high ranking and powerful people had their &#8216;thumbs on the scale&#8217;. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>We now know there were unimaginable improprieties and unlawful &#8211; unscrupulous, deceitful, behavior &#8211; from powerful leaders in (Leading!) Government entities {FBI, CIA, DOJ, MORE}. National Institutions we all hoped and prayed [and believed!] were fair and balanced &#8211; without political bend.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>Today we know there was indeed, more than thumbs on scales as the most powerful agencies in the world were weaponized to do the political bidding of one party over another. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>Further, we know <b>there was a coup de tat (attempt)<\/b>; <i>without doubt.<\/i><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>In this coup, we learned about FISA courts; and most of us &#8211; right up until very, very recently &#8211; believed those rogue government [Leaders] officials had hoodwinked, fooled, misrepresented evidence (to FISA judge(s)&nbsp; which they produced in support of warrants to spy on political candidates and their teams. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>That is all disgusting, despicable, behavior. Leaders of our FBI swearing before those judges facts that weren&#8217;t facts.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\";color:red'>AT least that&#8217;s what we [so many] believed; and, wanted to believe<\/span><\/b><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>. <span style='color:red'>No one ever once, at least publically, suggested that the <b>FISA court judges<\/b> themselves were a party to the behavior &#8211; with a sort of wink and nod &#8230; which then, it follows, these secret courts became a defacto &#8216; <b>partner(s) in the coup attempt&#8217;<\/b>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>I know very little about FISA courts and judges; I don&#8217;t know who appoints judges or who has oversight of them, &#8230; &nbsp;how long their terms are, or who is fundamentally in charge &#8230; however, as noted in the paragraph &#8211; they ARE Secret! SECRET COURTS. And, if <b>they were weaponized, politicalized<\/b> &#8230; <b>we have a major issue to examine in the light of day &#8230; and fix<\/b>. I seek no criminal action, and yet, I can&#8217;t bring myself to suggest those responsible not be held accountable. I agree with President Trump on this one &#8211; it sure seems treasonous.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! IF THESE THINGS CAN HAPPEN &#8211; WE NO LONGER ARE A GREAT COUNTRY &#8211; NEITHER UNITED, NOR UNDER GOD. \\<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>God Blessed America. God also blessed other nations and peoples throughout scripture; some also suffered greatly when they turned away.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Baskerville Old Face\",\"serif\"'>I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217; &#8230; .<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Took My Breath Away As I read a small paragraph in a rather predictable political story [albeit incredibly important beyond it&#8217;s simply political implications] &#8230; &#8216;Oh My&#8217; was what I quietly whispered to myself. Actually, about 3 times. It felt like a physical blow. The Headline is: Any interference in Russia probe is something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/2019\/06\/29\/a-wink-and-a-nod-from-fisa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Wink and a Nod from FISA?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imjustsayin.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}