Yep. And apparently they did. Over and over.To initiate the 2nd application after the first one is expiring the applicant needs to show evidence collected by the 1st warrant was applicable, OR that information used to acquire the 1st one has been authenticated in the amount of time between the applications.
The judges who saw the whole unredacted brief disagree.Neither of the qualifications were met
Huh?the DNC used contacts inside the NSA to listen to Trumps phone calls in 2015 and read his mail until that was cut off in 2016.
This is Fake news, right? Or this is supposed to be a good thing, right??Clapper said –
If it weren’t for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today including Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place.
This is a good thing.his is supposed to be a good thing,
Hillary was SUPPOSED to win.This is Fake news, right? Or this is supposed to be a good thing, right??
I’m flabbergasted!!!
The FBI continued to tell judges that dossier writer Christopher Steele wasn’t the source of a news article the bureau used to corroborate a wiretap application when in fact Mr. Steele had publicly acknowledged that he fed the anti-Trump story.
This chronology is contained in four heavily censored Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents also show that the FBI relied as evidence on mainstream media stories that were critical of the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
The FBI submitted the warrants for surveillance on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page from October 2016 to September 2017. The FBI told surveillance court judges that Mr. Page was an illegal foreign agent of Russia. Mr. Page has repeatedly denied this and has not been charged. . . . .
. . . The FBI’s central piece of evidence in the unredacted parts is the dossier compiled by Mr. Steele, a former British spy hired by Fusion GPS with money from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. In other words, the FBI was relying on partisan opposition research to target Mr. Page for a year of intrusive phone and electronic intercepts. . . .
. . . “The FBI’s use of politically charged media reports to surveil political opposition is tyrannical,” said J.D. Gordon, a former Pentagon spokesman and senior campaign adviser. “It’s fundamentally un-American, and those responsible must be brought to justice.” . .
. . . In 2013, a Russian spy posing as a United Nations diplomat made contact with Mr. Page in New York. It is standard operating procedure for Russian intelligence to try to recruit American business contacts.
The FBI later informed Mr. Page that the Russian was an agent. He said he cooperated in the investigation and was never charged.
He has testified under oath that he never met the Russians named by Mr. Steele and repeated the claim on Sunday’s political talk shows.
Mr. Steele’s dossier also accused Mr. Page of coordinating Russian election inference, which included hacking Democratic Party computers, with campaign manager Paul Manafort. . . .
Why ask me?Why is CP still walking around???
And I’m going to try to remember that @dvdjs says this is a good thing…Clapper said –
If it weren’t for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today including Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place.
The Trump campaign was always the target. The FBI tried five months earlier back in June to get a FISA warrant to secretly wiretap four members of the Trump campaign, but were initially denied.Carter Page was the target of the surveillance, not the campaign. Page was no longer with the campaign when the FISA warrant was issued. With that inconvenient truth, the rest of the story crumbles. Worse, this source is repeating the tired claim that Yahoo was a source of information connecting Page to Russia, when the warrant makes it clear that that was not the case at all: the Yahoos story was mentioned in a section on Page’s denials . Finally, given the redactions, it is nonsensical to say that one thing or another are the only sources of information.
Great points worth repeating (so I repeated your quote).The Trump campaign was always the target. The FBI tried five months earlier back in June to get a FISA warrant to secretly wiretap four members of the Trump campaign, but were initially denied.
I think that this conclusion is not correct on the actual evidence that we have before us…The Trump campaign was always the target.