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!
I feel like I should hanging out in DC waiting to see these folks so I can throw rotting vegetables at them. Bad actors one and all.
Agree! Or like watching a bad theater play and there’s no hook!
Is Lindsey just another Clinton (Russia, Russia, Russia) Arkancide … and a warning to Thune ?!
What did Seth Rich know and when did he know it?
We are no longer a free republic.
Treasonous Barr.
And from Day One that Bagpipes started the job Sundance told us we were going to be disappointed.
“Bondo” indeed.
I’m having deja vu all over again
“There is no apple, it’s all worms!”
That has been evident to me for some time now.
For someone in the DC arena, Judge Collyer was pretty faithful to the Constitution and her oath to office.
For someone in the DC arena.
President Trump praises Lindsey Graham.
Graham appears to have dropped breadcrumbs to help his “good friend” President Trump.
Is that sufficient enough of an action to help a friend facing threats of impeachment, imprisonment and death?
I don’t understand well he can’t say this or that aloud.
I understand there might be a personal sacrifice in doing that in the snake pit, but President Trump’s and the nation’s future are at stake.
Maybe he was blackmailed into silence because he is gay
I’m sure that Lindsey and John McCain are both now smiling, up at us.
To me it’s like reading the Court transcript of a trial and I’m just waiting on the jury to come back with a guilty verdict it’s such a slam dunk! In my dreams!
Hopefully, Joe DiGenova has this, understands what it means, and can/is using it against these creeps.
And here is hoping Mr.DiGenova does not have a sudden heart attack if he tries to draw attention to these facts.
I recall bits and pieces – Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr’s wife, worked for Glen Simpson at Fusion GPS. Both were called to testify. One of the FISA judges, Contreras, was friends with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and attended a dinner party together. Ratcliffe called out Mueller, who looked dumbfounded as he mumbled a reply during one session at or near the end of the Mueller/Weissman investigation. Weissman was the pit bull, and Mueller was about as cognitively affected as Biden. Gowdy dressed down Strzok during the same session. Barr and Mueller were long-time friends, 30 years or so. James Baker, the FBI general counsel, circulated information about Trump’s alleged connections to a Russian Alpha Bank Organization. Later found to be erroneous. Baker later worked for Twitter under Dorsey, and Elon fired him in December 2022. DNI James Clapper and Brennan, the CIA Director, were also involved in the Trump Russian investigation. Admiral Michael Rogers, the head of the NSA, found 702 potential surveillance issues related to the trump campaign and transition team. He found communications from trump tower were being collected during foreign surveillance operations by the FBI. He informed Trump, and Trump moved his transition team to Bedminster Club, NJ. And don’t forget, at least 22 cell phones belonging to Mueller’s investigation team were somehow wiped before being able to be reviewed for records about the Russia/Mueller investigation.
Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
I had relentlessly criticized Lindsay Graham for years when I was removed from the ballot in 2022. At the time the most recent polling had me soundly winning the race for Congress.
Lindsay Graham got my phone number and called me wanting to contribute $ to my lawsuit to get back on the ballot, despite my criticism, and said it was unAmerican that people wouldn’t get the chance to vote for me.
I’m sure he would’ve voted for someone else if he lived in the district but still, he wanted people to get to vote for who they wanted to vote for and ultimately, for people told decide the election instead of a dozen people in a back room.
Cont…
I have never followed Lindsey Graham’s political ideas with tremendous analysis and investigation, however, at least in my ‘superficial’ analysis, have always found him to be honest…even if I did not agree with his opinions or reasonings. I think that in hindsight, just as we see with the reputation of, say, Richard Nixon, the snarkiness about Graham, while he was alive, will fall by the wayside, and he will be remembered in far more positive and glowing terms than were afforded to him when he was alive. In his own right, he was a political institution. It is difficult to think of the political arena without Graham as an active player.
His untimely death has left a big void, that’s for sure!
Is our Government STILL as corrupt? No one is being charged God Damn it! Evidently so!
No accountability, no country.
Oh there will be accountability. We will all face that judgment. Never worry. The lord has all:of this. Trust Him not man.
Trivial to vote our way out of. /s
If the “Military is the ONLY WAY” then I say “Let’s get on with it.” It’s codified in our “FOUNDING DOCUMENTS” as detailed below:
–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–
As I see it also, “There is no apple, it’s all worms!” it’s OUR DUTY, pursuant to the above, as American PATRIOTS to throw them ALL out and START OVER! Nuff said!
CTH goes into the weeds – with the
Weed-Whacker of Truth!
I’m not aware of ANY other organization that has so fully examined and illustrated the issue with the Federal Government.
The Apple 🍎 is rotten.
“Many people have specific citations for the impact of Senator Lindsey Graham.”
Substack author Don Surber has this one:
Lindsey Graham, a profile in courage
Jul 13, 2026
“Senator Lindsey Graham died this weekend from a heart attack, two days after his 71st birthday. He left behind no wife, no children and not much of a fortune—at best $3 million after 33 years in Congress.
But he bequeathed to the American people a fair and impartial Supreme Court that had the boldness to take on the powers of the federal bureaucracy (West Virginia v. EPA) and return to the states powers previous courts and Congress had stolen (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization)….
…Nevertheless, Republican senators were reluctant to endorse him.
Graham rose to the occasion and used his interview time to make Kavanaugh’s case….
….The vote for Kavanaugh was 50-48—the narrowest margin for a Supreme Court Justice. Clarence Thomas held the previous record, 52-48….”
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/lindsey-graham-a-profile-in-courage
My bottom line is that I do not trust elected and un-elected officials and their immediate underlings at any level of government.
Yes, there are many good people working in government but those at and near the top are all questionable unless proven otherwise.
Once you see how the political sausage is made, it kinda gags you.
May Bill Barr, one of the worst to have ever served in our government, rot in hell from an appropriate time, the sooner the better.
And, the apple peel is disintegrating. Excellent work once again, Sundance!!!
Yet here we sit with no accountability being dished out. “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”
Where the h#ll are the Joint Chiefs, NSA, and DIA??
Did all the money budgeted and funneled to the military war colleges over recent decades just end up squandered like so many millions/billions of daycare/healthcare/1000-other-vectors-of-graft across the country??
Banana republic.
SO WHEN are ALL involved in this SCAM going to PRISON?????? The answer is NEVER, and THAT IS THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!