Posted on 04/13/2019 3:19:30 PM PDT by detective
During a rater innocuous podcast discussion panel yesterday, one of President Trump’s personal lawyers Jay Sekulow mentioned the FBI had three FISA applications denied by the FISA court in 2016. [Podcast Here – Note comment at 25:05] The denials were always suspected; however, until now no-one in/around the administration has ever confirmed.
Jay Sekulow did not expand on his statement and did not explain where the information was derived from; however, if accurate this may explain the backstory to why FISA Judge Rudolph Contreras was recused. This issue has been nagging many people since the recusal notation in December 2017.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
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Their attempted coup via sedition becomes more obvious when we have release of data like this, some data unfortunately not all the data.
Check the article. Wow! The presiding FISA judge Collyer smelled a rat and had judge Contreras recused from the case against Flynn!
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The article is an excellent piece of investigative journalism. Absolutely 1st rate!
Can a FISA court judge still hear cases from prison?
From Day one the Obama Clinton Axis was illegally trawling the NSA databases for politiical dirt on anyone and everyone.
At some point, as Trump started to look viable as a candidate, some resistance was encountered within the IC about all the Friends of Hillary rummaging in the intelligence files. A need was felt to legitimize the trawling.
A quick lash-up of a FISA application was produced to gain a fig leaf warrant. It was rejected. And dressed up and rejected twice more.
Obama’s tool, John Roberts, solves the problem by putting Strzok’s buddy Contreras on the FISA court.
Presto! Much needed FISA warrant is issued.
Contreras’s term runsolution from May 2016 to May 2023.
Nice timing, eh?
At this point one has to wonder if the utility of the entire FISA program hasn’t just proven to be less than the danger inherent in its compromise. Because this really was the last level of check and balance between unlimited access to the entire surveillance capabilities of the United States and a group of grasping, thoroughly abusive political operators working for everyone’s benefit but that of the people who entrusted them with that power. Certainly there are bright spots in this murky business: Collyer and Mike Rogers, for two. But the rot has obviously run very deep.
Can you imagine if he is dragged into this and has to take a powder? The Egg on Dubya's face?... Oye Vey...
CIRCA 2018---In trudging through the FISA document that came to light, it was discovered that Obama's National Security Agency (then-headed by Susan Rice) had been illegally conducting searches on people in the US. The document has gone on to state that those illegal searches, which were conducted under Obama amounted to a whopping 85% of the total searches involving US person identifiers.
Section 702 data on US persons identifiers may be conducted if they are first “approved in accordance with [internal] NSA procedures, which must require a statement of facts establishing that the use of any such identifier as a selection term is reasonably likely to return foreign intelligence information.” The problem is that querying US persons without a warrant amounts to a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment, no matter what “internal NSA procedures” are followed.
The Fourth Amendment is crystal clear: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
On page 81, the FISA report pointed out that “In May and June 2016, NSA reported to oversight personnel in the ODNI and DOJ that, since approximately 2012, use of [redacted] to query communications in [redacted] had resulted in inadvertent violations of the above-described querying rules of Section 702 information.”
The NSA claims that “the violations resulted from analysts not recognizing the need to avoid querying datasets for which querying requirements were not satisfied or not understanding how to formulate [redacted] queries to exclude such datasets.” more at freedomoutpost.com ...
Rodgers, for sure. Collyer, meh. She was totally asleep at the controls of an extremely dangerous apparatus.
Hillary and Company have been doing this crap since Arkansas. She knows no other way to rule other than intimidation, fear, reprisals, blackmail, money laundering, fraud, charity fraud, etc......
Jays son Jordan has a house near me in Franklin TN. Nice guy.
All of the President’s WH lawyers are top shelf.
But Sekulow is one of the best.
Does anyone realize how many people Donald Trump had to beat to become president and stay president. All the Republican candidates plus Hillary Clinton plus the never Trumper‘s and government agencies foreign and domestic. It’s a modern miracle this guy is still president or the opposition is really inept.
I am willing to bet Trump was not the only candidate they were plotting and scheming against. I think Ted Cruz and others were being watched illegally. Because it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.
FISA court needs investigated.
Outstanding Article
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