Many people have specific citations for the impact of Senator Lindsey Graham. Several people have noted his importance in releasing information associated with the fraudulent “spygate’ and “Russiagate” operations. However, to me, the most interesting release from Senator Lindsey Graham was the release he could never again mention.
Senator Graham released a highly compartmented letter [STILL ACTIVE LINK] that proved the depth of the fraud targeting President Trump. The letter formally outlined a complete governmental fraud using all three branches of government, and as a consequence it could never be discussed in public.
In/around April 2020 (the letter is technically undated) the Senate Judiciary Committee (Graham and Feinstein) along with the Senate Intelligence Committee (Burr and Warner) received a copy of a letter previously transmitted secretly by the Mueller-led Dept of Justice to the FISA Court in July 2018.
BACKGROUND: The Mueller led DOJ (Rosenstein compliant, Sessions recused) had previously sent a notification to the FISA Court, July 12, 2018, saying despite the Office of the IG investigation showing clear manipulation of Carter Page FISA application process, there was still “sufficient predication” to believe the FISA warrant was appropriate.
The Mueller team were covering their ass, and racing against the clock while hiding information from the public. The letter clearly establishes in July 2018 the Mueller team were lying to the FISC.
After the December 2019 OIG Horowitz report that exposed how the Mueller probe, DOJ and FBI having clearly manipulated information to continue using the FISA warrant, despite information showing the warrant was obtained using fraudulent information, the FISA Court demanded the DOJ, now under Bill Barr, inform the Legislative Branch (Judiciary Committee) of the July 12, 2018, lie told to them by the Mueller team.
The DOJ had to comply and send the secret letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. That’s how Graham received a copy of it in early 2020, which he then made public.
Until that moment in 2020, no one knew the Mueller team was saying one thing to the FISA Court, and another thing entirely to the media and public.
The FISC was angered, but the only oversight mechanism they had was to force the DOJ to give a copy of the letter to the Judiciary Committee.
The Judicial Branch (Judge Collyer) demanded the Executive Branch (AG Bill Barr) send the Mueller team letter to the Legislative Branch (Judiciary Committee).
Unfortunately, no one (except Graham) ever brought this up in the subsequent hearings on the matter, and when John Durham testified about his review, he was not questioned about it.
The Mueller team (Weissmann and McCord) successfully used the silo process to hide the deception, and John Durham was instructed by AG Bill Barr NEVER to investigate internal DC actors within the Legislative or Executive branches for their conduct, participation or role in the Trump targeting effort.
Bill Barr was trying to protect corrupt institutions, specifically the DOJ and FBI – and by extension the Mueller team, against sunlight upon their corrupt activity.
The lengthy letters remains -to this day- sitting in the Judiciary Committee data library (link below), as a permanent physical record of a direct lies told to the FISC by a corrupt DOJ, and to this day no one has been held to account.
The 2020 cover letter itself is undated, because Bill Barr was trying to coverup what had taken place.
READ FOR YOURSELF.
Amid a series of documents released by the Senate Judiciary Committee [SEE HERE] there is a rather alarming letter from the DOJ to the FISA Court in July 2018 that points toward an institutional cover-up. [Link to Letter]
Before getting to the substance of the letter, it’s important to put the release in context. After the FISA Court reviewed the DOJ inspector general report, the FISC ordered the DOJ-NSD to declassify and release documents related to the Carter Page FISA application.
In the cover letter for this specific release to the Senate Judiciary and Senate Intelligence committees, the DOJ cites the January 7, 2020, FISA court order:
Keep in mind that prior to this release only the FISA court had seen this letter from the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). As we walk through the alarming content of this letter I think you’ll identify the motive behind the FISC order to release it.
First, the letter in question was sent by the DOJ-NSD to the FISA Court on July 12, 2018. It is critical to keep the date of the letter in mind as we review the content.
Aside from the date the important part of the first page is the motive for sending it. The DOJ is telling the court in July 2018: based on what they know the FISA application still contains “sufficient predication for the Court to have found probable cause” to approve the application. The DOJ is defending the Carter Page FISA application as still valid.
However, it is within the justification of the application that alarm bells are found. On page six the letter identifies the primary participants behind the FISA redactions:
As you can see: Christopher Steele is noted as “Source #1”. Glenn Simpson of Fusion-GPS is noted as “identified U.S. person” or “business associate”; and Perkins Coie is the “U.S-based law firm.”
Now things get very interesting.
On page #8 when discussing Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source, the DOJ notes the FBI found him to be truthful and cooperative.
This is an incredibly misleading statement to the FISA court because what the letter doesn’t say is that 18-months earlier the sub-source, also known in the IG report as the “primary sub-source”, informed the FBI that the material attributed to him in the dossier was essentially junk. That primary sub-source was Igor Danchenko.
Let’s look at how the IG report frames the primary sub-source, and specifically notice the FBI contact and questioning took place in January 2017 (we now know that date to be January 12, 2017):
Those interviews with Steele’s primary sub-source Denchenko took place in January, March and May of 2017; and clearly the sub-source debunked the content of the dossier itself.
Those interviews were 18-months, 16-months and 14-months ahead of the July 2018 DOJ letter to the FISC. The DOJ-NSD says the sub-source was “truthful and cooperative” but the DOJ doesn’t tell the court the content of the truthfulness and cooperation. Why?
Keep in mind this letter to the court was written by AAG John Demers in July 2018. Jeff Sessions was Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein was Deputy AG; Christopher Wray was FBI Director, David Bowditch is Deputy, and Dana Boente is FBI chief-legal-counsel.
Why would the DOJ-NSD not be forthcoming with the FISA court about the primary sub-source? This level of disingenuous withholding of information speaks to an institutional motive.
By July 2018 the DOJ clearly knew the dossier was full of fabrications, yet they withheld that information from the court and said the predicate was still valid. Why?
It doesn’t take a deep-weeds-walker to identify the DOJ motive.
♦ In July 2018 Robert Mueller’s investigation was at its apex.
This letter justifying the application and claiming the current information would still be a valid predicate therein, speaks to the 2018 DOJ needing to retain the validity of the FISA warrant…. My research suspicion is that the DOJ needed to protect evidence Mueller had already extracted from the fraudulent FISA authority. That’s the motive.
In July 2018 if the DOJ-NSD had admitted the FISA application and all renewals were fatally flawed Robert Mueller would have needed to withdraw any evidence gathered as a result of its exploitation. The DOJ in 2018 was protecting Mueller’s poisoned fruit.
If the DOJ had been honest with the court, there’s a strong possibility some, perhaps much, of Mueller evidence gathering would have been invalidated… and cases were pending.
The solution: mislead the court and claim the predication was still valid.
This is not simply a hunch, because that motive also speaks to why the FISC would order the current DOJ to release the letter.
Remember, in December 2019 the FISC received the IG Horowitz report; and they would have immediately noted the disparity between what IG Horowitz outlined about the FBI investigating Steele’s sub-source, as contrast against what the DOJ told them in July 2018.
The DOJ letter is a transparent misrepresentation when compared to the information in the Horowitz report. Hence, the court orders the DOJ to release the July letter so that everyone, including congressional oversight and the public can see the misrepresentation.
The court was misled; now everyone can see it.
The content of that DOJ-NSD letter, and the subsequent disparity, points to an institutional cover-up; and as a consequence the FISC also ordered the DOJ to begin an immediate sequestration effort to find all the evidence from the fraudulent FISA application. The proverbial fruit from the poisonous tree…. And yes, that job fell upon Bill Barr.
Bill Barr could not follow that FISC instruction because doing so would have opened up the entire Mueller operation to further scrutiny. The FISC told Barr to sequester evidence fraudulently obtained by false affidavits to the court. However, by early 2020 the Mueller cases were complete.
Reopening the cases would have been catastrophic to the institutional credibility that was predicated on the special counsel.
How does the office of a U.S. president; and more importantly the republic itself; survive a coordinated coup effort involving all three branches of government; while simultaneously those in charge of exposing the corruption fear the scale is too damaging for them to reveal? pic.twitter.com/oT5yPtPgIo
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) October 10, 2020
Moving on…
Two more big misstatements within the July letter appear on page #9. The first is the DOJ claiming that only after the application was filed did they become aware of Christopher Steele working for Fusion-GPS and knowing his intent was to create opposition research for the Hillary Clinton campaign. See the top of the page.
According to the DOJ-NSD claim the number four ranking official in the DOJ, Bruce Ohr, never told them he was acting as a conduit for Christopher Steele to the FBI. While that claim is hard to believe, in essence what the DOJ-NSD is saying in that paragraph is that the FBI hoodwinked the DOJ-NSD by not telling them where the information for the FISA application was coming from. The DOJ, via John Demers, is blaming the FBI.
The second statement, equally as incredulous, is at the bottom of page nine where the DOJ claims they had no idea Bruce Ohr was talking to the FBI throughout the entire time any of the FISA applications were being submitted. October 2016 through June 2017.
In essence the claim there is that Bruce Ohr was working with the FBI and never told anyone in the DOJ throughout 2016 and all the way past June 29th of 2017. That denial seems rather unlikely; however, once again the DOJ-NSD is putting the FBI in the crosshairs and claiming they knew nothing about the information pipeline.
Bruce Ohr, whose wife was working for Fusion-GPS and assisting Christopher Steele with information, was interviewed by the FBI over a dozen times as he communicated with Steele and fed his information to the FBI. Yet the DOJ claims they knew nothing about it.
Again, just keep in mind this claim by the DOJ-NSD is being made in July 2018, six months after Bruce Ohr was demoted twice (December 2017 and January 2018). If what the DOJ is saying is true, well, the FBI was completely off-the-rails and rogue.
Neither option speaks well about the integrity of either institution; and quite frankly I don’t buy the DOJ-NSD spin.
Why?
The reason is simple, the DOJ is claiming in the letter the predication was still valid… if the DOJ-NSD genuinely didn’t know about the FBI manipulation, they would be informing the court in 2018 the DOJ no longer supported the FISA application due to new information. They did not do that. Instead, in July 2018, they specifically told the court the predicate was valid, yet the DOJ-NSD knew it was not.
The last point about the July 2018 letter is perhaps the most jarring. Again, keep in mind when it was written Chris Wray is FBI Director, David Bowditch is Deputy and Dana Boente is FBI chief legal counsel.
Their own FBI reports, by three different INSD and IG investigations; had turned up seriously alarming evidence going back to the early 2017 time-frame; the results of which ultimately led to the DC FBI office losing all of their top officials; and knowing the letter itself was full of misleading and false information about FBI knowledge in/around Christopher Steele; this particular sentence is alarming:
“The FBI has reviewed this letter and confirmed its factual accuracy?”
Really?
As we have just shared, the July 2018 letter itself is filled with factual inaccuracies, misstatements and intentional omissions. So who exactly did the “reviewing”?
Here’s the Full Letter. I strongly suggest everyone read the 14-pages slowly. If you know the background, this letter is infuriating…
There is no apple, it’s all worms!
Treachery beyond belief.
Accountability, like common sense, is a lost commodity within our so-called government.
No, it is alive and well. But it does have its own timeline; not yours. Why would you want to sabotage it?
Sadly I believe we are far beyond the hope of any accountability for these pigs. All smoke and mirrors followed by shiny objects. The American completely immersed in their sportsball and click of the day while these monsters continue to tear it down from within. Look at Europe, that’s what is coming here unless Trump gets the help he deserves.
Me and many confidants agree we have crossed the rubicon. PDJT either sends in the military before September 2027, or it’s CWII, or communism.
That is where we are…
Silly, just defund them. They will retreat into their corners, and whimper.
We The People don’t have a representative gov’t.
We don’t live in a Constitutional Republic. We lost it a long time ago.
to be precise …155 yrs ago…1871…will VSGPDJT restore it from current USCorp. to Constitutional Republic…without wars and fake $$..????
Pretty much in 1913
Repeal the 16th Amendment. Take the profit motive out of deep state corruptions. Power over the purse is the only power they seek. They have so little other talent, than managing these inside hits.
I don’t understand how this letter that was “released” can be considered important when, at this point, none of the players have gone to prison, none of them have been prosecuted, none have even the appearance of a concern about what’s been “released”.
I want to see accountability.
When elites possess immunity from legal consequences while ordinary citizens face strict enforcement, the result is a fundamental breakdown of the social contract.
This disparity creates a “two-tiered” justice system that destabilizes democracy, fuels resentment, and perpetuates cycles of poverty and crime.
The legal system becomes an arm of social control with anarcho-tyranny, designed to maintain the status quo rather than ensure fairness. The citizens paying attention don’t trust any institution and work out strategies to game the corrupt system as best they can to survive or be successful.
This is the America We live in. You can’t be cynical enough.
While we were sleeping…
Bivens Action vitiates their presumed “unaccountability”. Bring it on.
We were never going to see it with Pam Bondi as AG. Her replacement, Acting AG Todd Blanche, appears more amenable. But, his confirmation to permanent status looks even more challenging without Senator Graham. Just one more reason to gear up the conspiracy fears.
Bondi spread out the tablecloth. Now we eat them alive.
The stench of the corrupt dc cesspool politicians is overwhelming.🦨🦨
Then new crop of drive-by whingers here is also overwhelming.
Totally forget about “Voting” ourselves out of this mess…..
Will the country wake up in time to realize that ship has sailed?
We cannot “vote” ourselves out of this mess because of voter registration fraud, ballot fraud and voting fraud.
Plus, both wings of the UniParty control the primaries and you can bet your bottom dollar that both sides cheat.
Only God can save us.
Pray continually, speak truth to all people at all times, stay connected with like minded people (like here in the Treehouse), take care of your family, and be prepared to defend yourself.
“Pray continually, speak truth to all people at all times, stay connected with like minded people (like here in the Treehouse), take care of your family, and be prepared to defend yourself.”
this cannot be said enough. like a mantra.
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.”
‘wake up’ is in the same boat as ‘stand up’, ‘fight back’, and ‘do something’….
…all hollow commands born of pure frustration. And we all feel it.
Tax revolt goes to the very heart of the matter. They did this for money and nothing else . They wanted to keep their hands on the purse strings, their perks and pensions .That is where and why they will crumble into an incoherent mess.
Just defund them. cancel their pensions and ban all governmenemployee unions. Mission 99% accomplished. These are simple people. They did it only for the money.
You defund them out of this mess. Tax payer revolt is where the real action is. Look what California did to get Prop 13 to pass.
Christopher Steele was working on behalf of a foreign government agency (MI6) and coordinated with the Clowns In Action you can bet.
All of these people involved in this attempted coup should be in prison for life.
ALL of them
the City of London + John Maynard Keyens + Gramski is an interesting group
Reposting with added thoughts……..
South Carolina and its distinctive machine politics put a premium on Senatorial service. Thurmond and Hollings had both military and gubernatorial pedigrees. Graham had the military and Congressional tickets, but Scott had none of the above when he broke the glass ceiling.
South Carolina also has a long tradition of its Senators defying conventions as they upheld what they held to be long term comity and public goods.
Sen Graham was a premier contrarian while upholding institutional status quo, a superb retail politician, an unfettered free-agent, and a force whose good and bad deeds will never be fully measured.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and that big sucking sound you hear with Lindsey’s exit stage left is going to have significant unforeseeable reverberations, both good, and horribly bad for Our Sovereign Constitutional Republic. We will not see his type again. PRAYERS UP! 🙂
Back in the day, way back…weren’t Hollings and Thurmond known as, humorously, “Fritz and Grits”? Asking for a southern belle….
I have never heard that one, AG, but it SINGS!!! 🙂
Fritz and Strom were quite the bookends as WWII combat vets and former Chief Executives…. Statesmen and Patriots in their own rights.
Lindsey, with his USAFR legal creds and no real executive temperament is more the spawn of the DC system and a cautionary tale for some of the excesses that plaque our Special Nation and We The People. He goes to the grave having done less harm than leagues of his contemporaries. 🙁
What was that quote about the Tree of Liberty?
Something along the lines of a government fearing the citizenry in order for liberty. Well….looks like we need more of these liberty trees you speak of.
He knew and he needs you to have his back. He is the junkyard dog we have all been waiting for. Woof.
Just take their allowances away. Like you do to all naughty children.
The president did not know how deep the swamp was
or that it would not be easy to clean up like the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
It is now very oblivious that when the Democrats are installed in the Presidency, the combination of elected officials, heads of agencies appointed by elected officials and deep state civil servants make up 90/95% of government jobs. When Republicans control the Presidency that percentage drops maybe to 75%. We will never see accountability against these crooks regardless of who is at the top.
I have lived in the DC area for 47 years and my guess is that 75% is too low. It’s probably closer to 90% even with a Republican President. The Fed Government is a Communist Dem Hell Hole. It needs to be reduced to a Cinder but that will never happen.
Will you start the petition process in your state to Repeal the 16th Amendment? If not, why not?
It’s critical to remember the Senate was in on the creation of the Steele dossier.
It started with resentful GOP and opposition research against their view of the “upstart” Trump primary campaign.
The source one contacted a Senator…..
the one who can’t be mentioned or……?
Hillary ran with the scam material later.
to expand:
All of DC is worms and so is the big sap-ple which is now bejing #2
The shining city on a hill doesn’t exist. It has morphed into small town USA.
What we have here is Discretionary Due Process.
The letter argues that the little thing called due process is just a guideline and the govt has no obligation, and is indeed allowed discretion, to show a judge the evidence and clears the target.
Always deeply researched info. Incredible!
Also,
MOAB Kharg!
The deep state is a thing. Are the recent Acting DNI Pulte firings culling out the worst of the worst? Will they face prosecution? Does Trump have standing for a Biven’s Action – denial of a person’s constitutional rights abrogating “government action immunities?
How does this tie into raiding Mar-A-Lago? What documents, or even copies of documents, were they searching for? What was in the missing three-inch binder?
I remember Lindsey Graham backing Pelosi’s J6 position that it was a MAGA insurrection instead of a Democrat insurrection. He also was not happy with the J6 pardons.
Perhaps it’s not within the purview of the grand jury in Ft. Pierce, FL but it oughta be!
Joe DeGenova, are you aware of this?
If the DOJ had been honest with the court, there’s a strong possibility some, perhaps much, of Mueller evidence gathering would have been invalidated… and cases were pending.
President Trump needs to recall the impeachment, sue for damages, send people to jail and appeal all court cases.
Thank you once again, Sundance. I do chuckle at the thought of Sundance firmly biting his lip whilst writing “the July 2018 letter itself is filled with factual inaccuracies, misstatements and intentional omissions”, when what we all know he means is, ‘lies, lies and bloody big lies’.
As Bill Clinton would say, ‘You’d better put some ice on that lip’.
Linking the media as co-conspirators to this criminal cover up will also be key. Just like Watergate, it was not the crime …….it was the cover-up. The media, the deep state and complicit Democrats is the conspiracy. Pensions must be stripped from all government actors.
Lindsay Graham Accomplishment List. A career dedicated to subverting the will of the people as a pretending Conservative, Deep State Gate Guardian, and senior ranking member and co-founder of the United States UniParty:
-Helped manufacture the “war on covid hoax.
-Contributed to the “New Normal” national election fraud system.
-Assisted in the coup de tat of President Trump 2020.
-Assisted in the installation and cover-up of the fake 46th pResident.
-Helped manufacture and perpetuate the fake “war in Ukraine” hoax.
Just a few of his more memorable contributions….
Rest In PEEce
and old IKE said …”beware the Military Industrial Intelligence Complex……
Even when they change their name to the Sea Island conference.
BREAKING: DC Medical Examiner Releases Preliminary Findings After Lindsey Graham’s Sudden Death * The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila
“The preliminary examination findings were: Aortic Dissection due to Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease,” Graham’s office said.
“The death certificate will be PENDING until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death.”
That is a sudden death condition for sure. One has to think he had warning signs.
Declare a “National Emergency” Send in the military and clean house. Non-Article III Courts and deliver justice for Sedition, Treason, with foreign Nation States involved Traitors.
Somewhere there’s a gallows screaming for a traitor.
I think the main reason the Senate doesn’t want to pass the SAVE act is Republicans are also still using voter manipulation (cheating) of their own to seat people who go along with this stuff. That is why it is still so hard for MAGA to be able to get into local election machinations.
One thing that continues to amaze me about these “Official Criminals” is their compulsion to document every aspect of their criminal activities – then to ##CLASSIFY## it.
J K Rowling knew exactly what she was about when she created the “Room of Requirement” in the Harry Potter series. Likewise in the Indiana Jones movie: “Top … Men.”
Wow-just wow. Again, I cannot have enough contempt for these slimy lower than a snake’s belly traitors. “Source 1” C. Steele and his buddy “the identified US person” Glen Simpson of Fusion GPS friend of Bill & Hil were obsessed with keeping Trump out of office-by any means necessary. Shameful they should all be hung in the town square. Including Barr & Comey.
When a Department has to have it’s inage and integrity “portacted”, it’s time to empty it out and start over.
Headline grabber from TGP:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/video-fbi-violent-crimes-taskforce-spotted-outside-home/
And right on cue…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/breaking-mcconnell-releases-photo-statement/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/mitch-mcconnells-wife-elaine-chao-issues-statement-addressing/
Who amongst us would be smiling, if we knew we just lost a close friend and colleague, about 20 hours ago???
Turtle looks like reduced to the drool bucket stage. He didn’t even dictate that statement.
Vegitables in office……shameful
So why are none of these criminal miscreants being prosecuted? NO ONE is being prosecuted for anything, despite the egregious corruption. Wow– talk about two tiers of justice! The elite skate free while the peons (e.g. J6ers) go to prison for years, awaiting their “speedy trials”– a clear violation of our Constitution’s 6th Amendment. Yet, not even the miscreant prison guards were disciplined.
Everyone knows that the court was lied to, including the court. Why then is releasing the letter the only possible recourse for the court? I get that a corrupt FBI is not going to hold their own corrupt operatives accountable. But, whatever happened to the court holding people in contempt and stating publicly and plainly the reason(s) why those persons are being held in contempt?
The reason is that the court was in on the scheme from the very beginning. Releasing the letter was merely a CYA face saving measure. They wanted to get rid of a duly elected president just as much as the rest of the Uniparty Deep State. And, that court and those judges are still hearing cases and making corrupt decisions which are not in the National interest.
The FISA court judges should all have been impeached and prosecuted, on day 1 of DJT’s second term. They all knew what was going on and yet they looked the other way and said nothing. I refuse to believe that with all three branches of government coordinating in a conspiracy against DJT, that there were anything but open secrets about what was transpiring. In other words, the FBI didn’t withhold anything from the court, they merely omitted to commit it to paper, as part of yet another CYA cover up.
Recent events has reminded me of how fake everything is. Its hard to comprehend and contemplate the fact that there are so many apparently that actually believe Russia is still “invading Ukraine” 5 years later. Especially after witnessing the fake pandemic, subsequent fake elections and installation of the first US pResident of the United States…
If its this easy to fool people, especially conservative minded people, what hope is there for the future of this country and human race….so sad
Where is the President?
He must know of the deceit . This is far more important than Ballroom , Helicopter pad , Arch etc
Where ? Where?
I wonder if his best friend thumbs down McCain has greeted him?
RINO’s and war mongers like Graham have brought untold misery upon the American people. Graham somehow thought bringing death and destruction upon Ukraine was a good idea.
We tried to create two movements to right the ship, the TEA Party and MAGA.
Graham made a choice not to support either movement.
Retired Magistrate here: Yes I know all this information is really distressing; however, look at all the people that came to the United States to watch the soccer games and fell in love with America and would love to live here.
With all of this country’s faults there is no other county I would want to live in. So life goes on, enjoy the day that GOD has given you because you never know if this day will be your last.