Did Brennan Admit to Using Reverse Targeting to Spy on the Trump Campaign?

The Epoch Times ^ | August 20,2018 | By Jeff Carlson

[Hojczyk]

In the Aug. 17 interview, Brennan was discussing concerns about Russian contacts with U.S. citizens during the 2016 presidential election.

Despite Brennan’s apparent concerns, he admitted that these contacts may have been completely innocent—there was no proof that these same U.S. citizens had been successfully leveraged by Russian efforts. But that surveillance moved forward anyway. This surveillance may have occurred before and after the election. From Brennan’s interview:

BRENNAN: When I left office on January 20th of 2017, I had unresolved questions in my mind about whether or not any of those U.S. persons were working in support of the Russian efforts.

MADDOW: And those were referred—those concerns about specific U.S. persons—referred to the FBI.

BRENNAN: We call it incidental collection in terms of CIA’s foreign intelligence collection authorities. Any time we would incidentally collect information on a U.S. person, we would hand that over to the FBI because they have the legal authority to do it. We would not pursue that type of investigative, you know, sort of, leads. We would give it to the FBI.

So, we were picking things up that was of great relevance to the FBI, and we wanted to make sure that they were there—so they could piece it together with whatever they were collecting domestically here.

That’s not how incidental collection is supposed to work. More importantly, the collection described by Brennan doesn’t sound incidental. The surveillance sounds targeted.

Unlike the surveillance of Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page, which used a traditional FISA Warrant granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the surveillance being described by Brennan occurred under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

[GOPJ]

Brennan’s a bad guy...

[1Old Pro]

He admitted he was at the core of the Trump surveillance.

[BlueLancer]

Brennan’s a bad guy...

He's a VERY bad man ...

[Robert357]

We all know that Brennan was spying on the Trump campaign for Obama. I would wager that 5-eyes was also asked to help to provide some cover as well, which is why Australian and MI6 are involved in the FISA Steel Dossier big-time.

[Zathras]

I would have asked....”So if you were doing your job, what part of your job lets you hand over secure documents to John McCain so he can then pass it to the FBI?”
“....unless the purpose was to hide your involvement in it”