We just got huge sign US intel community believes Trump dossier is legitimate (Business Insider)

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The FBI reportedly used the explosive, unverified dossier detailing President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia to bolster its case for a warrant that would allow it to surveil Carter Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to Trump's campaign.

It's a key signal that the FBI had enough confidence in the validity of the document to work to corroborate it and present it in court.

"In my long experience in dealing with FISA processing, unconfirmed information about a potential target cannot (and has not been) included in the application?," said John Rizzo, the former acting general counsel of the CIA.

"So, if the CNN report is accurate, then I have to believe that the FBI and Department of Justice concluded (and the Court agreed) that the info in the dossier about Page was reliable," Rizzo said, "and in all liklihood was backed up by other available intelligence."

The FBI has been using the dossier as a "roadmap" for its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election since last year, the BBC's Paul Wood reported last month. The document itself was not central to the bureau's argument before a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that Page could have been acting as an agent of Russia, according to CNN.

But the raw intelligence contained in the 35-page collection of memos — written by the former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, who spent 20 years spying for MI6 in Moscow — apparently helped the FBI convince the court that Page could be acting as an agent of a foreign power.

More:
http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-fbi-dossier-fisa-warrant-case-2017-4

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1. Proceeding at the speed of a shit glacier.

[Golden Raisin]

2. It didn't take as long to build the Pyramids at Giza.

And I trust Comey just about as much as I trusted J. Edgar Hoover. The cherry on the sundae will be when we get into a literally "trumped-up" war with N. Korea (or fill-in-the-blank country). Then all bets are off. I understand the need for a thorough, solid case to be built but time is running out.

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3. I really like that more and more is coming out and more agencies have information....

...will be harder for a small number of IC and congresspersons to decide that devastating and embarrassing info about our POTUS should be hidden from the world in favor of a measure of stability.