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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 tibman on Monday April 17 2017, @06:24PM (1 child)
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
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.