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To: Fantasywriter

I posted the following at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3568078/posts?page=19#19

thinking there was some resemblance of a connection. And I still think that.

From https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/trumps-fbi-pick-has-troubling-history-digital-liberties

President Bush’s sweeping constellation of warrantless surveillance programs, codenamed STELLARWIND, played a key role in the mythos that surrounded the last two FBI Directors.

Wray was reputedly one of the senior Justice Department officials ready to resign if then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey chose to do so over STELLARWIND’s legality—though Wray himself wasn’t aware of its existence at the time.

Wray has since praised then-FBI Director Bob Mueller’s willingness to challenge President Bush over those surveillance programs, telling WIRED, “I think that the great thing about [people with] strong moral compasses is that they don’t have to hand-wring. When they’re uncomfortable, they know what they have to do.”

P.S. Movietime starts in eight minutes so a reply to a reply may not be forthcoming until much later.


135 posted on 08/02/2017 5:23:04 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (Drain swamp drain.)
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To: MurrietaMadman

Wray opposed warrantless wiretapping.

So?


137 posted on 08/02/2017 5:28:00 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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