IIRC, wasn’t the dossier initially a project of Republican 'Never Trump’ers?
yes, but at issue are a couple things here:
- Fusion doesn’t trust Nunes et.al. not to spill beans on who else they do biz with
- Fusion believes that they are the only organization whose banking records the House intel committee is digging in to, vice, say, ohhhhh I don’t know maybe BANKING SATAN (Deutsche Bank).
Abbreviated Wiki page on the judge:
Leon graduated from the Holy Cross (where he was a classmate of Clarence Thomas) in 1971.
Leon served as deputy chief minority counsel on the House Iran-Contra committee from 1987 to 1988.
Leon was with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease from 1999 to 2002, when he was appointed to the district court. (Manafort was with Vorys from 1977-1980)
Leon was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by George W. Bush on September 10, 2001 and confirmed by the Senate on February 14, 2002.
Leon issued a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ordering graphic images on cigarette packs. On February 29, 2012, Judge Leon’s final ruling held that the graphic images & statements violated the commercial right to free speech.
On May 17, 2016, Judge Leon ruled the Washington, DC handgun carry permitting scheme unconstitutional. He struck down the District requirement that an applicant show “good reason” before a concealed carry permit would be issued
Except Steele didn’t illegally hack anyone’s computer or work with a foreign government to illegally hack private US computers…other than that its just like the GOP’s collusion with Putin except it wasn’t illegal or treasonous !,We now see this this criminally insane religious cult known as Republicans reduced to Pee-Wee Herman’s use of "logical reasoning "…I know you are but what am I…???
George Orwell’s 1984 is the language of Republicans…
Ooooooooooh, now we’re now in so much doody that our only hope is to try to discredit someone by poking in their bank accounts.
In other words, he is one of those activist judges the Republicans have wailed and screamed about, while appointing dozens of them, including most recently, Chief Justice Roberts, Associate Justices Alito and Gorsuch on the SCOTUS.
And nosing around in their client list.
Another step towards banana republicanism.
So, after he gets the Fusion GPS bank records and DOJ documents, let’s see if Nunes goes full traitor and doubles his efforts to shut down all investigations.
This crack investigation has no interest in discovering any Trump wrongdoing.
FIFY, that PoS Gorsuch doesn’t deserve the honorific to go with his stolen seat.
My hope/wish is that when Nunes goes to view the raw FBI documents he is so eagerly seeking, that he discovers that they know about not only his financial dealings with Russians and his silly subverting of the investigation, but that Paul Ryan and everyone else propping up the Orangutan in the Oval Office is exposed in their crimes, too.
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The first step in discrediting your opposition is to know what they have on you…
I hope that this solomonic decision is used as a precedent to obtain bank records of all election-associated PACs that are supposedly charitable organizations.
Nunes isn’t that smart. He’s just looking for his own oppo research.
Not the dossier itself, though they were the first to hire Fusion GPS to dig up oppo on Trump. By the time Fusion had found enough Russia stuff to trigger their concern, the primaries were over and Elias (the Dem attorney) had become their client. That was the point at which they hired Steele to look into the Russia ties in earnest. But yeah, it was absolutely a seamless continuation of the work begun under the Republican client.
Mueller will be relieved to know that it’s officially OK to follow the money wherever it leads.
Thank you. It is a little weird that the fact that this judge is a partisan GOP hack is not mentioned in the report. This case is not over. The appeal could succeed.
New house intel committee hats