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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:03PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:03PM (#495847) Journal

    You see the schedule of meetings that Bill and Hillary that the Scheduling Department (yes, the Clinton Foundation has a "Scheduling Department." Have you ever heard of a non-profit having a "Scheduling Department?") sends around in a daily, paper memo. Bill and Hillary are married, you see, so there was overlap in their two schedules. Then you see agreements--by total coincidence, I'm sure--coming out of State that closely follow those meetings. And you think to yourself, "Huh, that's a funny coincidence..."

    There are piles of gifts/bribes left out in the CF kitchen. Anything you can imagine. The basement of the archives of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock are filled with every kind of thing, from jewel-encrusted golden horses from Saudi Arabian princes to badly executed portraits of Bill and Hillary painted by some potentate's nephew.

    The Clintons and people like them don't see it as actionable corruption. It's just their business. Selling influence is what they do. Also, because they're both lawyers who have played fast and loose with the law all their lives and never having been caught, they figure they can wriggle out of anything. And they are right. They have never been nailed for their crimes.

    You don't seem to like that unvarnished look into a world you will probably never personally witness. But there it is. It's a fact. I share it with you and everyone because few people get that opportunity, or ever will.

    You're welcome.

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