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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
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @03:51AM (2 children)
We need actual details before we claim it is one thing or another. You calling it McCarthyism is just parroting a lying sociopath.
So, how about we wait for actual facts to come out? Also, investigating the Trump administration is a very different thing than the overly broad witch hunt of McCarthy.
To address your concern however, it is important to find out the facts. If laws were broken then we can all get bent out of shape, but if laws were broken by Trump then I hope you push for prison sentences...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:54PM (1 child)
The Great Orange One isn't my boy - I voted for Johnson. Do I want to see criminals in prison? Of course I do - it doesn't matter to me what party they might be affiliated with. But - figure the odds. When was the last time a president was successfully impeached?
https://www.thoughtco.com/presidents-who-were-impeached-3368130 [thoughtco.com]
by Tom Murse
Updated February 06, 2017
Only two presidents have been impeached in United States history, and neither was convicted of the charges filed against him. No president has been convicted of the charges filed against him during impeachment proceedings.
And aside from conviction on impeachment charges, there is no mechanism set forth in the U.S. Constitution that allows for the removal of a failing president. Impeachment is used against a president only when there is evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:56PM
"treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." to be more precise.
Interesting choice to specifically mention the first two (as opposed to mangle them together with the other "high crimes")
An article [crf-usa.org] I found interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford