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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
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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.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday April 17 2017, @05:48PM (1 child)
scoffing at Trump's claims, that the TLAs weren't surveilling him, but rather his aide, which is totally different.
Yes, it is.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @06:31PM
scoffing at Trump's claims, that the TLAs weren't surveilling him, but rather his aide, which is totally different.
Yes, it is.
Yes, the logic doesn't stand up to a second's worth of critical thought.
If the TLAs wanted to surveil trump, why didn't they just do it?
Why did they pick someone whom the trump campaign has said this about:
Trump spokesperson Sean Spicer stated that “Carter Page is an individual who the president-elect does not know and was put on notice months ago by the campaign.”
Page himself is even saying he wasn't anyone special:
Wednesday night on the PBS NewsHour: “I was a junior member of the campaign’s foreign policy advisory group … compared to other people that had much more direct interaction with Mr. Trump, who I never actually briefed or was in any small meetings with. I went to many rallies with him, but never any direct meetings.”
So, if the goal was a big conspiracy to watergate the trump campaign and help clinton, why pick this nobody and not someone with lots of juicy info worth spying on? The NSA has the technical ability to spy on anyone. What makes this low-level flunky so worth the risk of a whistleblower revealing the biggest scandal in modern american history and destroying the legitimacy of the NSA?