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  • Everything you need to know about FISA wiretaps [They require the signature of the Attorney General]

    03/07/2017 2:29:09 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 69 replies
    ABC News ^ | 03/07/2017 | ERIN DOOLEY
    President Trump sparked a firestorm this morning when he suggested that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower prior to the November 2016 election. An Obama spokesperson vehemently denied the former president's involvement, saying: "A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false." [SNIP] More than a thousand applications for electronic surveillance, all signed by...
  • President Trump Directs White House Counsel to Find FISA Warrants

    03/06/2017 7:24:32 AM PST · by Helicondelta · 115 replies
    heatst.com ^ | March 5, 2017
    A senior White House official tells the New York Times that White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn is now searching for a FISA warrant – or series of warrants – allegedly issued in an Obama-era investigation of Donald Trump’s ties to a shifty Russian bank. The official says that McGahn’s office wants access to any order, issued by the ultra-secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, relating to President Trump, his campaign, or his immediate associates. Those documents are usually only available to law enforcement, and while the White House has the authority to request the documents, they typically don’t – largely...