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posted by on Monday April 17 2017, @01:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the sunday-red-meat dept.

The FBI and DoJ Were Granted a FISA Warrant to Monitor a Trump Campaign Aide Last Summer

A FISA warrant was obtained to monitor Trump campaign aide Carter Page before the election:

The FBI obtained a warrant to secretly surveil former Donald Trump aide Carter Page last summer under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), according to a Tuesday Washington Post report.

The FBI and Justice Department demonstrated probable cause that Page is acting on behalf of a foreign state in order to be granted the warrant.

The FISA warrant was part of the FBI's investigation into possible ties between Russia and Trump campaign associates, law enforcement and U.S. officials told the Post.

"This confirms all of my suspicions about unjustified, politically motivated government surveillance," Page told the Post Tuesday. "I have nothing to hide."

Page has not been accused of committing a crime.

Also at MarketWatch.

DiGenova: Rice Ordered 'Spreadsheets' on Calls Involving Trump, Aides

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Former President Barack Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce "detailed spreadsheets" of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.

"What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals," diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.

[...] Other official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova's description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/susan-rice-ordered-spy-agencies-to-produce-detailed-spreadsheets-involving-trump/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @03:31PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @03:31PM (#495291)

    "convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power"

    The evidence was that he was meeting with Russians.
    But as a member of the campaign, that seems a reasonable thing todo.

    I don't see how a meeting connects the dots to agent of a foreign power because he was an agent of Trump.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 17 2017, @04:18PM (8 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 17 2017, @04:18PM (#495306) Journal

    The evidence was that he was meeting with Russians.

    [Citation needed]

    A "a friend of mine inside the FISA court told me so, said an AC" need not apply.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:39PM (7 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:39PM (#495318)

      [Citation needed]

      His contacts with russian intelligence who were trying to recruit him have already been documented in public court testimony. [pbs.org]

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 17 2017, @04:50PM (6 children)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 17 2017, @04:50PM (#495330) Journal

        So, at that time, there was an attempt of russians to recruit him and thus probable cause for investigation/interception did exist.
        Oh, wow!

        According to the court documents, Podobnyy tried to recruit Carter Page, an energy consultant working in New York at the time, as an intelligence source. Page is referred to in the filing as “Male-1.”

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @05:06PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @05:06PM (#495348)

          Get outta here with those "facts" and "reasons".

          The right wingers are so out to lunch, I really find it hard to believe some of these people are real... It just boggles the mind so much, but I guess that's what Republican brainwashing has been working towards for a long time. Don't think, just get emotional when your "side" is attacked. You can see this with some of the more extreme leftists as well, but those leftists are a much smaller percentage.

          I guess this post will just hurt their feelings and make them dig in even harder.

          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 17 2017, @08:50PM (2 children)

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 17 2017, @08:50PM (#495483) Journal

            but those leftists are a much smaller percentage.

            Keep an eye on it, it won't stay like this for long.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @10:27PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @10:27PM (#495566)

              Keep an eye on it, it won't stay like this for long.

              Unlikely. There will always be whackjobs, but whereas conservatives have constructed an entirely distinct media ecosystem dedicated to pushing non-science and other anti-reality stories into the minds of their consumers, there is no significant effort to do the same for liberals. The two most high-profile haven't worked out: Al Gore's tv network died. MSNBC has been hiring conservatives. The left still values the norms of journalistic standards, and a lack of standards is seen as a failure. Whereas the right sees it as feature.

              • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:39PM

                by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:39PM (#495864) Journal

                The left still values the norms of journalistic standards, and a lack of standards is seen as a failure. Whereas the right sees it as feature.

                Yes, but that ship sailed 20 years ago (at least). The moment NPR and the New York Times started cheerleading for the invasion of Iraq on W's and Cheney's flimsy, fabricated pretense, I knew there were no journalistic standards left in America. There is only the Narrative. Conservatives caught on to that long before liberals because the Narrative had turned so sharply against them in the 60's and 70's. That's when they went to the guys with the deep pockets to fund think tanks and PR studies on Framing and the like in the 70's in the aftermath to build an infrastructure for their own counter-Narrative.

                Somewhere along the line real policy differences vanished when both sides realized it was more lucrative to do business together and only pretend to fight in front of the plebes. That's why suddenly we had a reality where it was possible for NPR and the New York Times, previously the champions of journalistic integrity, to do as they did and not have anyone bat an eyelash.

                The latest round of shenanigans with the entirety of legacy media calling the election for Hillary and getting it wrong, and the slur of "fake news" being hurled back and forth, is only the end stage of that process.

                It seems to me that the real tension, the real point of conflict, is not the Left-Right duality that has been the programmed fare for 30 years, but between the Deep State and people like us, who know enough and are close enough to discern the reality behind the smoke screen they put out. It doesn't look good for our side, frankly. They have all the money and all the advantages. They control every sphere of life. We only have our numbers.

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        • (Score: 2) by tibman on Monday April 17 2017, @06:24PM (1 child)

          by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 17 2017, @06:24PM (#495409)

          I remember reading too that Carter did actually give Podobnyy some documents he had access to as an energy consultant. Carter told the authorities that it wasn't anything secret, just stuff you could get off the internet.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @06:36PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @06:36PM (#495416)

            FWIW, that's the start of the process of turning someone into an asset They ask for something innocuous, because the ethical hurdle is much lower. But once you've given them something you've mentally crossed a line that makes it easier to keep giving them something a little more important next time. Each time its one little step down the path until you get to a point where you've done something really big without even realizing it. Then they've got blackmail material on you and you have to keep giving them stuff or else they will make sure your prior transgressions are found out.