DOJ-NSD FISA spying on Trump campaign...VERY BIG DEAL

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yup, we know...

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fvcking hillaryous

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this copied comment sums things up pretty well

The FBI went full J. Edgar on Trump and it was epic. Strzok could smell Trump supporters at WalMart while he went light on Hillary and went full corrupt on Trump. Brennan lied under oath saying the Steele dirt was not used. Comey changed gross negligence to extremely careless to give Hillary a pass. The list is endless. They altered email, lied to a FISA judge, failed to include exculpatory evidence and spied on American citizens.

And unbelievably, unfathomably Trump was SO CLEAN they got nothing. Impeachment is a cry of desperation from the Dems. Nobody is listening.

for sure...it's amazing that despite the herculean effort there has been nothing to show for it...no one is saying trump is a saint but there doesn't seem to be anything close to nefarious about him...

there doesn't seem to be any turning back at this point...one side has to go down in flames...if the accusations vs the D's are accurate they are done...if not trump will have a serious credibility issue with much of his base...not enough to ever even consider voting for a D but it won't be helpful in any way for him...if by some wild turn of events anything schiff has conjured up is true then trump and the R's will be the ones to go down in flames...odds of schiff's antics being even remotely successful are nil...

meanwhile every failed candidate on the D side is desperate for a rules change so they can hang around long enough to perhaps become the cleanest dirty shirt left...No way biden can hang on...

that's the political climate right now...

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"The FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the hieghtned duty of candor" required by federal investigators, adding "The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable," wrote the court, which called the recent watchdog report from the DOJ's Inspector General "troubling."

The court ordered the government to explain to by early next year what steps it was taking to prevent such lapses in the future.

every day the cup go to the well....

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"And you'll never forget, I'm sure, that famous Susan Rice email on inauguration day of Donald Trump, where she sends an email to the file memorializing that there had been a meeting on January 5th with the president of the United States, all senior law enforcement and intelligence officials, where they reviewed the status of Crossfire Hurricane and the president announced - President Obama - that he was sure that everything had been done by the book.

I want to thank Susan Rice for being so stupid and so arrogant to write that email on January 20th because that's exhibit A for Barack Obama - who knew all about this from start to finish, and was more than happy to have the civil rights of a massive number of Americans violated so he could get Donald Trump." -Joe diGenova

there shouldn't be a single person here who approves of what the obama administration did...there's absolutely no question that obama was fully aware of what happened...but virtually every one of you TDS clowns will find reality impossible to fathom and will cheer happily that "no one was arrested"...in reality a good dozen or more should be swinging from a rope...

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Flub Or Felony: 17 FISA Errors Submitted Four Times?

The inspector general’s findings seem to confirm what many have suspected all along: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) request made during the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation doesn’t pass the sniff test.

In total, there were 17 errors submitted four times. The level of incompetence required to make these errors in four separate court submissions is nigh inconceivable, leaving two questions that must be answered: Was this flub – or felony? And if the latter, how far does the corruption extend?

Frank Watt, a 1983 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a 22-year veteran of the FBI, believes that these errors would have been career-ending felonies in any other situation. He explained in an article for American Thinker:

“The report of the I.G.’s findings on the use of FISA in the FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation is an outrage. As a 22 year FBI Agent, I have personally conducted multiple investigations using both Title III ‘wiretaps’ and FISA authorized intercepts. From this perspective, I can only see two possible interpretations of the actions of the FBI and DOJ. Either scenario should anger and frighten every fair minded citizen who takes the time to read the report and understand its implications.”

As Watt further explained, these “errors” made it past a great many eyes. The case had to be approved by both the FBI director, James Comey, and the attorney general. In addition, the IG’s report identified several others who reviewed and approved the FISA affidavit to surveil Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign: “National Security Division’s (NSD) Acting Assistant Attorney General, NSD’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General with oversight over 01, 01’s Operations Section Chief and Deputy Section Chief, the DAG, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, and the Associate Deputy Attorney General responsible for ODAG’s national security portfolio.”

That long list of required approvals seems like it should prevent mistakes of the caliber and frequency enumerated by the IG. Was this a rogue group acting independently, providing sanctions all the way to the top?

When a FISA warrant is authorized, the FBI is allowed to conduct telephone, microphone, cell phone, email, and computer surveillance against the named person’s home, office, and vehicle. They can even access the individual’s safe deposit box and intercept his or her mail. In the wake of the IG report, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which authorizes such extraordinary examinations, has been shown to be extremely deferential to law enforcement and approves 99% of all search warrant requests. In return for the suspension of Fourth Amendment rights, the court ostensibly requires extremely reliable and meticulously detailed applications.

The presiding FISC judge, Rosemary M. Collyer, gave a harsh rebuke to the FBI and NSD. Liberty Nation’s Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. explains the issue:

“The former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page is not, and was not, a ‘foreign government agent.’ That is a vital fact surrounding the Obama administration’s attempt to get court-ordered taps for his communications. FISCs are permitted by statute only to grant secret wiretaps when the target is a ‘foreign power’ or an ‘agent of a foreign power.’”

Andrew McCabe has been fired. The Grand Jury is looking into how he intentionally abused the FISA process while conspiring with Peter Strzok to use the notorious and now discredited Steele Dossier to undermine the president. The list of “non-indicted co-conspirators” is extensive. It includes James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele, Glenn Simpson, John Brennan, Sally Yates, Loretta Lynch, James Clapper, Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Samantha Powers, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, and the DNC.

But back to the IG report: It focuses specifically on House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) falsehoods. White House Deputy Communications Director Adam Kennedy told NPR that Rep. Schiff and others weren’t just completely wrong – they were misleading the public about what the president had done, and they deserve to be held accountable for that.

No doubt Attorney General Bill Barr and his appointed investigator John Durham are looking closely at all the thumbprints on the Steele dossier left by the above cast of characters. Will the bad actors among the group ever be charged and face justice? Only time will tell.

the answer is plainly obvious to all but the most ignorant of the ( barely) useful idiot TDS crowd...

it doesn't seem that any of you are actually that fvcking stupid so the ignorance must be willful...ya gotta do what they tell you...

just fvcking pathetic...