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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @07:15PM (3 children)
You don't see any contradiction here?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 17 2017, @07:31PM (2 children)
Not everyone acts on every bad impulse. I would even suppose that most people don't. But everyone has their price.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @09:39PM (1 child)
So... you still don't see your contradiction???
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 18 2017, @12:54PM
No. Maybe you could explain it to me.
As I see it . . .
People have impulses to do bad things.
Some people give in to minor impulses, like steal a cookie when nobody is looking.
Others give in to much worse impulses like robbery, rape, murder, etc.
Government, of the people, creates laws against things like robbery, rape, murder, etc.
Government coerces people that do these things not to do them, or face punishment.
Government is made up of people, but hopefully not the people who give in to their worst impulses.,
Over time we have ended up with a government where the worst people have recognized that the best way to commit their crimes is to get into government.
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