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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: -1, Troll) by jmorris on Monday April 17 2017, @05:57PM (2 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday April 17 2017, @05:57PM (#495386)

    All I'm seeing here is a lot of squid ink as Proggies try to escape the only possible end game here. Being forced to admit that Trump was right. About anything.

    But practice saying it in front of a mirror a bit and learn to get over your revulsion because you are going to be saying it a lot. Trump played you morons for chumps and any one of you with half a brain should have seen it coming thirty seconds after that infamous tweet. He knew you couldn't resist the bait, he then shut up and let you have all the rope you could pull for weeks, knowing the truth would come out eventually and you would all hang on it.

    He played Ryan and the cucks in Congress almost as hard, they too went for it hook line and sinker. Let Ryan run out that turd of an Ocare replacement, 'fully supported Ryan' so he gets no blame and then let it collapse of it's own inherent stupidity, knowing he ain't up for reelect in '18 while Ryan and every nitwit in the House is. So now they are desperate to get a deal and avoid the whomping they know the voters will deliver for their failure.

    And the Narrative of the left, even with supposedly smart folk, is that Trump is a blithering idiot. Amazing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @07:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @07:22PM (#495436)

    Your brain really can't handle the MAGA narrative collapsing all around you. Try relaxing the throat, I hear that makes it way easier to deepthroat your great leader.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @07:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @07:28PM (#495438)

    Trump played you morons for chumps and any one of you with half a brain should have seen it coming thirty seconds after that infamous tweet. He knew you couldn't resist the bait,

    Yeah, dumbassess. When the leader of the free world alleges a republic-shattering conspiracy, only a fool would pay it any mind. Suckas!

    Let Ryan run out that turd of an Ocare replacement, 'fully supported Ryan' so he gets no blame

    I know, right? That master strategist had all those meetings with house republicans and then blamed the freedom caucus, those cucks! [theblaze.com] Paul Ryan is the leader of the freedom caucus, right? Rayn's such a cuck, he's actually a democrat! [redstate.com]