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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: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Monday April 17 2017, @04:43PM (5 children)

    by VLM (445) on Monday April 17 2017, @04:43PM (#495323)

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    No. For example, its not an issue that Hillary got a $50M bribe from Saudi Arabia. Technically donating to someone's charitable foundation is legally not a bribe, although obviously it is. And post election nobody really cares although there's some poor SOB in S.A. trying not to get fired for bribing the wrong candidate LOL.

    Let me quote Australian Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott (Sky News, October 13, 2016) "They're decent people who want to see change inside their country and that's fair enough. And many of the Trump positions are reasonable enough." Thats pretty lukewarm support.

    How about LNP senator James McGrath (Sky, July 27, 2016) "You've got Hillary Clinton [who] couldn't operate a toaster..."

    So do we need to nuke Australia again or are we content with just a cold war or maybe somewhere in between take out that ugly as F opera house with a couple nuclear tomahawk cruise missiles or ...

    Given that no evidence is required to claim interference in elections, I think I'm gonna run with the idea that the Australian LNP hacked the election for Trump. I mean its a thought crime to consider any other way Hillary could have lost. And Putin does not seem as involved or interested as the Aussies were. So yeah the Aus LNP hacked the election.

    I don't even see the point in enumerating every time the CIA regime changed some other country or hacked their election. IF, for the sake of argument, Putin himself personally wrote a buffer overflow exploit or personally piloted the plane the sprayed chemtrails(tm) that forced people without tinfoil wrapped around their heads to vote Trump, THEN, solely for the sake of argument, whats the problem with a regime change scorecard of "world 1 USA 3525" Especially since Crazy Hillary was sounding off about starting WW3 and half of us would probably be dead right now if she had won.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:54PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:54PM (#495336)

    Two wrongs don't make a right. Did you miss that little bit of wisdom when you were growing up?

    Every time your crazy ideas get criticized you trot out Hillary like that is some sort of majestic "AH HA!" You fail to realize that there are few to no Hillary supporters on this site and most people don't like her or her corrupt politics. I am just not an idiot so I ALSO don't like Trump and his corrupt politics. He's making us look like a bunch of idiots, and people like you make me wonder...

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 18 2017, @01:48PM (1 child)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @01:48PM (#495841) Journal

      I am just not an idiot so I ALSO don't like Trump and his corrupt politics. He's making us look like a bunch of idiots, and people like you make me wonder...

      I am not so sure it would be different with anybody else as president. I have lived through complete changes of regime in DC from Democrats to Republicans and back and forth and people outside the US still hate the US because its policies, determined by the Deep State that's really in charge, have never really changed. There's also an element of "poking fun at the boss," whereby underlings carp about the boss, whoever it is, and are completely convinced they can do a better job than he or she can.

      But hey why not? Let's give Beijing a shot at ruling the Earth and see how everybody likes it then. Having lived in China myself, I am pretty certain they will like it far, far less than the US, but they should find out for themselves. Or, while we're at it, we can give New Delhi a shot and look forward to religious riots where people get burned to death by the thousands at a shot; on the plus side there will be a hundred new holidays and three score new religion-driven restrictions on everybody that will bring business and daily activity to a halt. And if you're a funtionary of any level you can look forward to taking your bribes in the open.

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      Washington DC delenda est.
      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:16PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:16PM (#496498) Journal

        There's also an element of "poking fun at the boss,"

        Humour and ridicule can be used as political weapons.

        This is why the lobby groups don't come to light - don't know about them and who they represent and you won't be able to poke fun at the defence industry nor at the "entertainment" one or whoever else is the real boss.

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:56PM (#495337)

    Technically donating to someone's charitable foundation is legally not a bribe, although obviously it is.

    Is it? So all charities are just a means for self-enrichment?
    Even the most highly [charitynavigator.org] rated [charitywatch.org] charities?

    Tony Abbott

    James McGrath

    Hello? Pulling quotes from two random foreign politicians is totally irrelevant.
    What a bizarre tangent. If that is what passes for persuasive logic in VLM world, then VLM world is not rational.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @05:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @05:41PM (#495375)

    To be clear here, you are drawing a parallel between somebody making a public comment for which the source and context are known, and (alleged) covert illegal activity? By the same argument, I can hack break into a store and take stuff, as people are buying things during business hours all the time.

    If Putin had come out and said, "I want Trump to win, and he is the better candidate for these reasons," nobody would be alleging illegal activity. In fact, he did say similar things (I think the quote is "I think Trump is a better candidate; he's somebody I can work with," although it's been a long time so I may be mis-rembering). Nobody is complaining about that. People are rightly outraged at the thought that foreign powers could be covertly manipulating the elections.

    And don't get me started on the "they only exposed the truth of the DNC's shady dealings." Exposing malfeasance to the open is good, but if you only do it for one side it is still bias and trying to manipulate the election results. I guarantee you the RNC also had dirty laundry, some of which is coming out now, just after the nick of time. It's just like the climate change deniers who claim to be on the side of science, but in fact only scrupulously question one side and give the other side carte blanc to make any claim with no evidence.