All Saints Day Sinners -- North Korea, China, Spain, AND the Podestas, Hillary, Comey, Mueller, and the Lies They Created and Used to Get FISA Warrants to Spy on the Trump Team

TODAY'S REAL NEWS IS THAT NOVEMBER 1st is All Saints Day in the Christian calendar. It's the day when we honor all those who have entered heaven because they led 'saintly' lives, especially all the saints -- and there are untold millions -- who don't have their own special feast day. All Saints' Day is celebrated every year on November 1 by the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church and some Protestant denominations, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Orthodox churches. November 2 is All Souls' Day -- a day of alms giving and prayers for the dead. And yesterday, October 31, was not only Halloween but also Reformation Day. In 2017, it was a very special celebration because it marked the 500th anniversary of the day -- October 31, 1517 -- when Martin Luther nailed his "95 Theses" on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, the act that started the Reformation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank- Walter Steinmeier took part in a service Tuesday in the famous Castle Church. Thousands of visitors participated in different church services throughout the day in the eastern Germany town. In remembrance of the 500th anniversary, Reformation day is a public holiday in Germany this year. • There is other, less uplifting news to report today, so let's get at it. • • • NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR SITE DISASTER. The UK Express reported on Tuesday that hundreds of North Korea's nuclear workers "died after an accident at despot Kim Jong-un's main nuclear testing facility." North Korea’s Punggye-ri facility suffered a devastating collapse, leaving around 200 people dead -- 100 people were killed when an unfinished tunnel collapsed at the NK main nuclear testing site, and another 100 people then died while attempting to rescue the buried workers. • Foreign experts, including China, had warned a collapse was likely, highlighting the danger of a cloud of radioactive fallout escaping from the site. The warnings came as a result of the earthquake-like tremors during the latest nuclear tests at Punggye-ri, built into Mount Mantap and extending deep within the mountain, North Korea’s sixth nuclear test, on September 3. North Korea said it had detonated its first ever H-bomb in September, but did not comment on reports that the test caused serious damage to the facility’s foundations. Subsequent small earthquakes have since indicated that the area is becoming increasingly unstable.The Punggye-ri test of a huge 100-kiloton explosive seven times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WW2, is believed to have badly destabalized the mountainside-based facility. While a test site could be operated safely at such a location, unsophisticated engineers are believed to have increased the risk of disaster with crude drilling techniques. China had already issued a dire warning to Kim regarding the state of the nuclear testing site, saying a cloud of nuclear fallout could spread across "an entire hemisphere" if the facility collapsed. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Geology and Geophysics warned : “China cannot sit and wait until the site implodes. Our instruments can detect nuclear fallout when it arrives, but it will be too late by then. There will be public panic and anger at the government for not taking action.” • The disaster was first revealed by Japan’s TV Asahi, although they could not clarify when the accident and subsequent fatal rescue attempts took place. They said North Korean sources told them the collapse occurred as workers were working on the new tunnel. A second collapse took place as workers tried to rescue their colleagues. Paul Richards, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said : “What we are seeing from North Korea looks like some kind of stress in the ground. In that part of the world, there were stresses in the ground, but the explosions have shaken them up." And, on Monday, South Korea also warned another nuclear test at the site could lead to a total collapse of the mountain facility, causing a deadly leak of radioactive materials. Even if a radioactive leak does not occurr, the disaster is a huge blow to Kim Jong-un. The new tunnel was very likely necessary to help modernize the facility and its collapse will severely slow North Korea’s nuclear progress. Monitoring group 38 North said this month: “If North Korea were to attempt to continue testing under this mountain, such as in the area more to the eastern side, then we would expect to see new tunnelling in the future near the North Portal, still under Mount Mantap.” • • • CHINA SIMULATES ATTACKS ON GUAM. Meanwhile, the UK Express reported on Tuesday that China has "simulated attacking Guam." The Express quoted US officials, who said Chinese bombers have been simulating attacks on Guam as part of a series of aggressive daily operations. The officials spoke to reporters travelling with the Chairman of the US Joint Chief of Staff, General Joseph Dunford. • North Korea had previously threatened to attack the island territory of Guam itself. But while Kim Jong-un’s sabre-rattling threats appear to have died down, China is continuing to provoke America in the Pacific. The US officials said they are confident the conflict with North Korea is “a fight we can win,” but said with China they “worry about the way things are going.” One official said : “The People’s Republic of China is practicing attacks on Guam. China is very much the long-term challenge in the region. When we look at the capabilities China is developing, we’ve got to make sure we maintain the ability to meet our alliance commitments in the Pacific.” The officials said these sorties are attempts by China to re-enforce its claims to huge areas of the South China Sea, including a string of disputed islands, stating that China had even taken control of 150,000 fishing vessels in the region, instructing them to ram Vietnamese boats -- and occasionally sinking them. And bombers now frequently storm through the area, an attempt at a “win without fighting” control of the region. This has led to an increase in confrontation between Chinese aircraft with those of the US and Japan. One official said : “It’s very common for Chinese aircraft to intercept US aircraft.” He said “armed Chinese Flankers and Japanese aircraft” are now doing into close proximity “on a daily basis." General Dunford also acknowledged the threat posed by China in the region but sent a message of intent to Beijing : “If we find ourselves in conflict out there we will be under air attack. We view ourselves as a Pacific power. There are some who try to create a narrative that we are not in the Pacific to stay. Our message is that we are a Pacific power. We intend to stay in the Pacific. Our future economic prosperity is inextricably linked to our security and political relationships in the region." • It would be comforting to know that while special prosecutor Robert Mueller is raising indictments related to Ukraine ten years ago, somebody in Congress is paying attention to a real problem, China's aggressive acts today and their impact on the entire Pacific. • • • THE CATALAN CRISIS. Again, it was the UK Express on Tuesday that reported extensively on Carles Puigdemont's re-appearance -- in Brussels -- after the Madrid crackdown on his Catalonia government. Puigdemont said he is not in Brussels for asylum, but that he wants an "EU reaction" to the Catalan crisis. Speaking in Catalan and French, Puigdemont said he had travelled to Brussels to make the EU see the crisis as "a priority" and to show the aggressive behavior from Spain. Puigdemont declared that Catalonia will not accept Article 155, which would "destroy" the region. He added that ministers are working to make it impossible for Madrid to "dismantle Catalan institutions." In a Tuesday press conference, he attacked the "aggression and violence against millions of people who exercised their right to vote," scathingly attacking Spain. He said "we've seen a very aggressive offensive against the Catalans." He added the priority is not violence, saying: "You can't build a republic upon violence. Peace and dialogue are our priority." He said the charges against him, of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds, are an example of the "extreme opression" from Madrid. • Puigdemont has hired a top human rights lawyer in Belgium, Paul Bekaert, who has helped several alleged ETA terrorists fight extradition to Spain. Spanish prosecutors want Puigdemont and his former government charged with rebellion or sedition as well as embezzlement over what Spain sees as an illegal October 1 referendum on independence and the Catalan Parliament’s subsequent unilateral declaration of independence. Some analysts think Puigdemont picked Belgium, which can grant EU nationals political asylum under certain conditions, so he can use it as a safe base to force Europe to mediate in the Catalonia crisis. Catalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras has also raised the possibility that Puigdemont could try to establish a quasi government-in-exile from Belgium, saying : “We see Brussels as a place where a lot of work can be done.” • Spanish prosecutors are expected to seek Puigdemont’s extradition if he tries to stay in Belgium -- and seek his immediate incarceration if he decides to return voluntarily but fails to appear in court for questioning. The Express says that this Friday -- and if not, next week -- is believed to be the likely date for the summons to the Audiencia Nacional, Spain’s National Criminal Court that will lead the lengthy criminal investigation into Puigdemont and his deposed government colleagues following the lawsuit presented by state prosecutors. • Spanish news website OKDiario.com claimed Puigdemont could end up going on to a third country to frustrate attempts to force him back to Spain if any hopes he harbors of staying in Belgium are blocked : “Puigdemont’s flight to Brussels along with part of his deposed government has been a surprise. It’s also an inconvenience because if he ends up asking for asylum in Belgium the Spanish government would have to seek his extradition. There’s another possibility and that is that Puigdemont...decides to put more distance between himself and Spanish justice and ‘jumps’ from Brussels to another country that can shelter him and whose relationship with Spain is not an ideal one.” Spanish Justice Minister Rafael Catala said he was confident any attempt by Puigdemont to seek political asylum in Belgium would be over in “half an hour.” • In an indication of just how high-handed Spain is being with the duly elected Catalan government, Socialist Party (PSOE) veteran Alfonso Guerra, ex-vice president of the Spanish government, accused the Catalan president of having a “Dalai Lama” complex : “I don’t think he’ll ask for political asylum. He’s in Europe. He’s ignorant. He’s probably just having a few drinks in a bar in Brussels.” A journalist on state broadcaster TVE called Puigdemont “pathetic.” • Right-leaning Spanish newspaper La Razon reported that several other members of Puigdemont’s deposed government had travelled to Belgium to join the five ex-ministers who travelled with him by car to Marseille and on to Brussels by plane. • Puigdemont’s Spanish lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, when asked if Puigdemont would show up if he was summonsed for questioning, said : “I can’t say he will or that he won’t,” labeling the Spanish State Prosecution Service lawsuit, announced by Attorney General Jose Manuel Maza Monday, as absurd. He told Catalan radio station RAC1 : “I think it is a disproportionate response because it has the same level of gravity as terrorism. The accusation of rebellion requires the existence of violence as a core element and there hasn’t been any.” • And that sad note on the disconcerting Franco imitations of the Spanish government brings us to the last news of the day -- an over-reaching US federal indictment. • • • THE MANAFORT INDICTMENT. The Daily Caller, along with every media outlet in the world, covered on Monday the indictment of the person the media love to call the "former Trump campaign chairman." Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates were indicted in a federal court on 12 counts, including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the United States, and making false and misleading statements. • The indictment has NOTHING to do with Trump or the Trump campaign...NOTHING !!! • But, as for the accusations against Manafort, Mueller says that between 2006 and 2014, Manafort and Gates failed to disclose lobbying and public relations work they conducted at the direction of Russia-supported Ukraine president Yanukovych and his political party, that Manafort and Gates were in direct contact with Yanukovych as part of the consulting contract; that Manafort and Gates laundered tens of millions of dollars from offshore shell companies, and that Manafort laundered $18 million from overseas companies by wiring funds to businesses in the US [Wow, is that dumb!!!], including a men’s clothing store in New York, an antique rug store in Virginia, and a home improvement company in the Hamptons. And -- most likely to be the element that convicts Manafort -- tax evasion. • The Daily Caller says the indictment appears only loosely related to the core of Mueller’s Russia investigation that began in May when the former FBI director was appointed special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate Russian interference in the US election, as well as any related issues, including possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Trump has always vehemently denied that it did and in a year of digging with bulldozers, nothing has been uncovered. But, Manafort has links to pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine. Manafort has also done business with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who became the Russian aluminum magnate and who has close ties to Putin. Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that just after joining the Trump campaign, Manafort sent emails to a Ukrainian business associate in which he appeared to offer to brief Deripaska on the campaign : “If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote to his associate on July 7, 2016. • Mueller is focusing on several suspicious wire-transfers Manafort made four years before the presidential election, according to a Sunday report from Buzzfeed. Manafort allegedly made 13 wire transfers from 2011 to 2012 that drew the attention of federal law enforcement officials who were examining whether he was helping the Ukrainian regime launder millions it plundered through corrupt dealings. Much of the money was filtered through the US before landing in various areas around the world, according to Buzzfeed. American financial institutions, which are required by law to tell the Treasury Department about any transactions they deem suspicious, began flagging Manafort’s transactions, Buzzfeed notes. Suspicious activity reports do not prove wrongdoing, but they are sufficient to begin probes. Federal law requires financial institutions to file reports on cash transactions exceeding $10,000 in a single day. Manafort’s suspicious financial transactions were flagged as far back as 2012 and forwarded to the FBI’s International Corruption Unit and the Department of Justice, a former Treasury official told reporters. Law enforcement officials said they found red flags in his banking records going back to 2004. Four of the transfers originated with Manafort’s political consulting firm Global Endeavour, hired by Yanukovych to consult and lobby on his behalf. Manafort was working with the former Ukrainian president to lobby the US and other Western countries to support for Ukraine’s entry into the European Union. • • • MANAFORT AND TONY PODESTA. Mueller expanded the investigation to focus on Tony Podesta and his Democrat-leaning lobbying firm with connections to Hillary Clinton, sources told NBC in an October 24 report. The details of the Podesta connection are that Manafort organized a public relations campaign for a group called European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), which lobbied the US to support Ukraine’s EU push. Podesta’s company worked on the campaign. The sources said Mueller’s investigation into Podesta, the brother of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, began as a fact-finding mission about Manafort’s role in the campaign but quickly morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the Podesta firm violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act -- people and firms who lobby on behalf of foreign governments must file detailed disclosures about their spending with the Department of Justice. Willful failure to file is a felony and can result in up to five years in prison. Podesta and Manafort filed the required forms only after the media began reporting on their dealings with ECMU, according to NBC’s report. • If Paul Manafort is guilty of failing to register as an agent of a foreign government -- well before Manafort was on the Trump campaign team -- then so is Tony Podesta, who is also up to his waist in alligators regarding collusion between the Democrats and Hillary and Russia and Ukraine. Tom Podesta, the head of one of Washington's most powerful lobbying firms, did not disclose the wide extent of its lucrative political work representing a Ukrainian nonprofit, the ECMU, as it sought to counter the Obama administration's critical stance toward Ukraine's pro-Russia government and Congress' growing annoyance with Ukraine's leaders. The ECMU was tied to both Manafort and pro-Russian politicians, new filing records show. The Podesta Group said nothing in a 2012 lobbying report to Congress about at least 32 meetings, emails and other communications it had with the State Department, at a time when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scrutinizing Ukraine's upcoming election, according to records. The new disclosures in April 2017 filings to correct lobbying reports from 2012 to 2014 that had given little detail shed light on the web of contacts between Russian-leaning Ukrainians, Washington lobbyists and US policymakers during the Obama administration. Tony Podesta's brother, John, a longtime advisor to Clinton and chairman of her 2016 presidential campaign, had been a senior counselor to President Barack Obama in 2014 and had previously been head of a Soros think tank located close to the White House. John was also in the lobbying business with his brother, but is not currently affiliated with his brother's firm. • • • TRUMP AND MUELLER. The Daily Caller also reported on Monday a series of tweets posted Sunday from Trump, suggesting he would be in favor of an investigation into Uranium One : “Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),” Trump wrote regarding Democrat funding of the Steele Russia Dossier that alleged ties between his campaign and Russia. He added, “the Uranium to Russia deal, the 33,000 plus deleted Emails, the Comey fix and so much more…DO SOMETHING!” • • • McCARTHY CALLS INDICTMENT SHAKY. Former US Attorney Andrew McCarthy wrote in the National Review Online that Mueller’s indictments are about getting Manafort and Gates to cooperate, and, for now, have nothing to do with allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election : “From President Trump’s perspective, the indictment is a boon from which he can claim that the special counsel has no actionable collusion case. It appears to reaffirm former FBI director James Comey’s multiple assurances that Trump is not a suspect. And, to the extent it looks like an attempt to play prosecutorial hardball with Manafort, the President can continue to portray himself as the victim of a witch hunt.” • McCarthy said “Mueller’s case, at least in part, seems shaky and overcharged” based on what’s been unsealed, adding : “Obviously, one purpose of the conspiracy count (Count One) is to enable prosecutors, under the guise of establishing the full scope of the scheme, to prove law violations that would otherwise be time-barred [beyond the statute of limitations]. It may well be that Manafort and Gates made false statements when they belatedly registered as foreign agents, but it appears that Mueller’s office has turned one offense into two, which is an abusive prosecutorial tactic that flouts congressional intent. Finally, the money-laundering conspiracy allegation (Count Two) seems far from slam-dunk -- for someone to be guilty of laundering, the money involved has to be the proceeds of criminal activity before the accused starts concealing it by (a) moving it through accounts or changing its form by buying assets, etc., or (b) dodging a reporting requirement under federal law.” • • • MUELLER VS. NUNES AND GOWDY. American Thinker's Thomas Lifson wrote on Tuesday : "Special counsels, with their unlimited budgets and access to grand juries, can be fearsomely arbitrary. But in the case of Robert Mueller and his staff of Democrat donors, there is competition that threatens to show up any bias toward hunting only Republicans. Given the fact that this is primarily a political, not a legal tussle, Mueller should be worried about his reputation. William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal explains : 'Like the special prosecutor, Mr. Nunes and his committee have been investigating the 2016 presidential campaign. Unlike the special prosecutor, Mr. Nunes has unearthed hard evidence about both Russian influence on the election and domestic spying on Trump campaign officials. And if the committee gets the documents it has been demanding for months about the FBI’s handling of the salacious Christopher Steele dossier, this week may end even more explosively than it’s begun.' " • Despite the MSM hype, Mueller’s first indictments have nothing to do with Russia or the election, and suggest Mueller is desperate to find any crime among Trump staffers. In plain Emglish -- a witch hunt. An indictment of Tony Podesta might camouflage the partisan nature of the witch hunt, but would be just as far-removed from the mandate Mueller received. • What has Nunes’s committee found? Here's what Lifson says : "Turns out that in the Obama years, especially in 2016, officials made many requests to unmask the identities of Americans, including Trump campaign officials, who were caught up in foreign surveillance. When asked about it by PBS’s Judy Woodruff back in March, Obama national security advisor Susan Rice claimed she was 'surprised' and told Ms. Woodruff 'I know nothing about this.' Under oath before Mr. Nunes’s committee, Ms. Rice’s memory returned, and she admitted of unmasking senior figures in the Trump campaign. Meanwhile the committee learned that Ms. Rice’s colleague at the United Nations, Ambassador Samantha Power, had made hundreds of unmasking requests. During Ms. Power’s appearance before the committee, she oddly claimed others were doing much of the asking -- even though her name was on these requests. Did anyone outside the House committee think to ask why a Democrat White House was so free with such sensitive info in an election year? The unmasking of Trump aides could amount to use of the NSA’s universal telecom surveillance capability to spy on the rival party’s campaign, a scandal unprecedented in the history of the Republic." • Representative Trey Gowdy told Fox News last weekend that it appears the Clinton campaign attempted to “launder all of this through a law firm” to avoid transparency laws. Gowdy said : “I’m not an election law expert, but the good news is you don’t have to be to understand the absurdity of believing you can just launder all of your campaign money by just hiring a law firm. Imagine if you and I were running for Congress, and we just hired a law firm and said ‘Hey, you go do all the opposition, you go buy all the television, you go buy all the bumper stickers, you go hire all the experts, and we will launder all of this through the law firm. I can’t think of anything that defeats the purpose of transparency laws more than that. I am interested in that, and I am also interested in sharing some memory tricks with folks at the DNC because no one can remember who paid 10 million dollars to a law firm to do oppo research. I find that stunning. $10 million and no one can remember who authorized it, who approved it. So you’ve got two issues, a memory issue and then the lack of transparency by laundering money through a law firm.” • Even New York Times senior White House correspondent Maggie Haberman and reporter Kenneth Vogel agree, slamming Hillary's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, saying they lied about funding for the so-called Trump Steele Dossier. Vogel tweeted : "When I tried to report this story, Clinton campaign lawyer @marceelias pushed back vigorously, saying 'You (or your sources) are wrong,' " referring to Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias. Haberman tweeted : "Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year." • And, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited the Dossier development in calling for Mueller’s resignation last Thursday, saying the “troubling question is whether the FBI played a role” in aiding a “Russian disinformation campaign,” saying there are two pertinent questions : "Did the dossier trigger the FBI probe of the Trump campaign, and did Mr. Comey or his agents use it as evidence to seek wiretapping approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Trump campaign aides?" The Editorial Board, turning to Mueller's role, wrote : "The Fusion news means the FBI’s role in Russia’s election interference must now be investigated -- even as the FBI and Justice insist that Mr. Mueller’s probe prevents them from cooperating with Congressional investigators. Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest." • • • DEAR READERS, as Business Insider wrote last week : "Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a tough job. After all, how can you prove allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials to influence our 2016 presidential election when, from all evidence after a year and a half of investigation, it didn't happen? Naming Mueller to head the investigation was a huge error. His investigation should be shut down and Mueller sent home." • If we put aside for another day the pay-for-play of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her husband former President Bill Clinton, and their Clinton Foundation charity that took in millions of dollars from Russian entities and the grateful executives of Uranium One, who were taken over by the deep-pocketed Russians -- a classic example of illegal pay-for-play, and yet neither President Obama's Justice Department nor his FBI found anything wrong with it," we can instead, says Business Insider : "Fast forward to 2016, and Hillary and the DNC retaining Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. Fusion then hired former British spy Christopher Steele, a man who, as former head of the Moscow desk for Britain's MI6 intelligence agency, has deep espionage ties in Russia, to do 'research' on Trump." What they got instead, says Business Insider, was "innuendo, half-truths, distortions, exaggerations and just plain gossip -- much of it from Russian "sources." And yet, this "phantasmagorical bit of research became the basis for a full-blown investigation of the Trump campaign's supposed ties to Russian officials and their interference in the 2016 presidential election." The collusion in 2016 wasn't on the part of Trump, but Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, who have been playing a double-game with the Russians since at least Obama's first term. That's the real collusion. And, in typical Progressive fashion, they have accused their opponent of the very thing they are guilty of -- colluding with a possible enemy. Yet,says Business Iinsider : "It is now clear that the real Russian collusion was among Hillary and Bill Clinton, their Clinton Foundation, the DNC, Democratic operatives and bagmen John and Tony Podesta, Fusion GPS and James Comey. Not Trump and his campaign. When a legal mistake of this magnitude is made, it must be undone. That's just what Congress is doing right now. In recent days, both houses of Congress have unveiled investigations into the Uranium One deal and possible pay-for-play deals at Hillary Clinton's State Department and her family Clinton Foundation." • In addition, the very premise of the Russian investigation has been proven false, based almost entirely on a politically motivated opposition-research operation run by the Democrats against Trump, and later picked up by the FBI's Comey and used to get FISA approval for "wiretap" surveillance of the Trump team. • Former Trump campaign official Michael Caputo insists that he has been told by intelligence sources that hundreds of Trump campaign figures were unmasked in this espionage effort. The Steele Russia Dossier is by all accounts at the heart of the reason the FISA Court reversed itself to permit the unmasking, a request it had earlier denied prior to the production of the Steele Dossier. So, if the special counsel appointment of Mueller and his Democrat activist employees was a result of the phony Steele Dossier, Thomas Lifson concludes : "Messrs. Manafort and Gates may well be guilty of everything they’ve been charged with. But this week, thanks to a congressional committee’s persistence, we may find out the answer to what surely is a much more combustible question : whether a presidential campaign was able to leverage opposition research based on Russian disinformation to bring about an FBI investigation into its rival’s campaign." • Would it not, dear readers, be the ultimate justice if the Supreme Court throws out all "evidence" collected under the FISA surveillance warrants because the factual premises presented, by using the Steele Russia Dossier, to convince FISA to grant the surveillance was, and was probably known by the Obama petitioners to be, false. Remember that I told you this on All Saints Day, 2017.