Posted on 03/04/2017 2:36:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson
The Federal Information Surveillance Act has been a hotly debated piece of legislation, but nobody could have conceived that a sitting president or administration would use it to spy on a candidate from the opposing party, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said Saturday.
"There is no question under the law that you can do surveillance of private citizens when they are talking to foreign powers," Bennett told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" after President Donald Trump, in a series of early Saturday morning tweets, accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower in October, just before the election.
However, said Bennett, who could have conceived that Obama, or his FBI or Justice Department, would have used the act to watch Trump. Bennett does not blame the president for being "hot on this one, as he should be. What will the American people think of this?"
In February, author James Hirson reported that days before Trump's inauguration, Obama issued an executive order allowing the National Security Agency to share raw communications with other intelligence agencies including the FBI, the DEA, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Further, the Justice Department and the FBI under Obama had been seeking FISA warrants against Trump's campaign insiders and Trump in the last months of the 2016 campaign, mere days before then-president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, former President Barack Obama expanded the ability of intelligence agencies to share unfiltered telephone surveillance information.
The Obama administration issued Executive Order 12333, which allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to share raw intercepted communications with agencies that include the FBI, DEA and Department of Homeland Security — among others.
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It is an inside joke from a line in a movie I believe. “Princess Bride”
Is this for real? Be honest, please.
If it is, then your right. Its gonna be something to behold.
#24, It was started after Trump publicly suggested that if the F.B.I. couldn’t retrieve Illary’s emails perhaps they could ask the Russians if they had them.
You can bet that President has all the evidence he needs. The documents at the FISA court will back him up. Trump has Obama by the short hairs.
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I really want to believe you. Can you expound- how would one know that the President has all the evidence?
Wowza.
I wonder if 0 would like a cigarette with that blindfold..
Who would have thought? I would have.
When are the cookie-cutter conservatives going to figure out that Soetoro and company are communists?
Yeah.
Are these dopes like Bennett (and Limbaugh) truly clueless, or are they just disingenuous to keep the Uni-Party unexposed for what it is?
Soetoro is a communist, so of course he will do anything he can, legal or not.
The Azzhole Obama spied on everybody from foreign governments to the American citizen plus media. The retarded left thinks it’s ok as long as it is anybody but them but I guarantee that dipsh*t Obama spied on libtards like Clinton also.
Once it was learned that Senate servers had been hacked over 40 sitting Senators wiped their PCs and servers.
This is why they're so shrill and frantic about Russia...after the election was over. They wiretapped him and assumed they would find dirt that would allow Clinton to win the election. When they didn't they had to enter major CYA mode. They KNEW that as President he would have access to the records for this. It's why they were delaying everything as well...to give them time to destroy and coverup. All makes perfect sense.
The proceeds and charges start, he is dragged off in handcuffs, and then PDJT drops the velvet hammer.
He pardons him. Says the Country can't have this, and politely nudges both him and the Clinton's that need to go and enjoy their retirement. The private discussions are more robust, no more politicking or 501(c)(4)'s and if you do, or involve yourself with Soro's your done...
He has leftist looking at him differently, the country starts to heal.
Tell me where my scenario is wrong.....
Although I recall that what you mentioned happened, I don't remember when. Do you? Was it sometime in June?
Edward Snowden’s leaks proved that
I will believe that when I see the Roswell stuff.
not just a communist, but a muslim also.
Will not happen........
I know. And so was my post, if you know the script inside out like I do from watching it an ungodly amount of times as a summer camp counselor.
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#52 it was spring of 15, when there were stories that the F.B.I. couldn’t retrieve her emails. I thing April/May.
Doesn't the FISA law prohibit the sharing of information with other agencies?
An executive order cannot overrule a law passed by the Congress.
This is just setting in for me.
June. This was BEFORE a single “Russia” comment, even the joke, and BEFORE Trump was even the nominee. He was not even (yet) guaranteed to win-—538 said he still would have a tough time.
THEY HAD IT OUT FOR TRUMP BEFORE HE WAS THE NOMINEE.
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