A Weekly Dose of President Trump- Trump Family Train 5/2/2020

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[DollyCali]

Ladies Im late to the party as usual. One today and one yesterday. Happy Happy birthday.

dkstex .. is the trip back on again? If yes have a great time. The fla panhandle beaches are beautiful

[Lakeside Granny]

There was a shooting at Westgate Mall in Glendale, AZ last night.

Shooter was taken into custody, 3 victims.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale-breaking/2020/05/20/arizona-shooting-westgate-entertainment-district-witnesses-describe-scene-glendale/5234478002/

[lysie]

Good morning, Gran. You are welcome. Ugh! Cleaning out closets. Where does all the stuff come from and why has it been hiding all these years? LOL

[gubamyster]

Q #4300 available

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How The Obama Administration Weaponized Surveillance Laws To Target Trump

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21 May 2020 - 10:31:35 AM

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/21/how-the-obama-administration-weaponized-surveillance-laws-to-target-trump/

A Brief History of Surveillance Abuse and FISA But Obama and Biden and other top law enforcement and intelligence officials need not have committed crimes to have egregiously abused their power. It now appears that Obama officials used intelligence authorities to defeat the entire purpose of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act—that is, to do the very thing that led to the creation of FISA: spy on their political opponents.

To understand how they did this, a bit of historical context is in order. Congress passed FISA in 1978 as a result of the Church Committee hearings, which were convened in response to revelations that President Richard Nixon and prior presidents had used the FBI and CIA to spy on U.S. citizens and organizations, including antiwar groups and political dissidents. The Nixon administration’s widespread wiretapping of U.S. citizens, including his political opponents, shocked the nation. But, strictly speaking, it wasn’t illegal.

Before FISA, the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld warrantless wiretaps if the primary purpose was gathering foreign intelligence, but had also ruled that court approval was required for domestic surveillance to satisfy the Fourth Amendment, citing the “inherent vagueness of the domestic security concept” and warning of the potential for abuses.

That’s why Congress passed FISA. The law established procedures for collecting intelligence and conducting electronic surveillance on “foreign powers” and “agents of foreign powers” suspected of espionage or terrorism. It also created the FISA court to oversee request for surveillance warrants by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The idea was that if executive branch agencies were going to conduct secret electronic surveillance, there needed to be some congressional and judicial oversight so foreign intelligence collection wasn’t used as an excuse to spy on Americans.

Toward that end, FISA relied on privacy protections for U.S. citizens called “minimization procedures” that redact or “mask” the identities of Americans incidentally caught up in the surveillance of foreign nationals and suspected clandestine agents of foreign powers. Officials with national-security or foreign-relations responsibilities have the authority to unmask these Americans if they believe that information is necessary.

Usually, unmasking requests are made by specialists in the FBI or the NSA, and careful records are kept of these requests by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The practice of unmasking became more widespread during the Obama administration and has continued under Trump, although in theory it’s meant to be limited only to situations where intelligence agencies need to know the identity of a U.S. citizen in order to understand the full context or meaning of the intelligence being collected.

Obama Admin Distorted FISA Beyond Recognition Proponents of FISA likely never imagined that warrants for electronic surveillance or unmasking requests might be used by an outgoing administration to spy on an incoming one, but that appears to be what happened in the Trump-Russia investigation and the targeting of Flynn.

We’ll likely know more soon. Sens. Johnson and Grassley have since expanded their request, calling for the release of records related to the unmasking of Trump campaign affiliates by Obama officials from January 2016 to January 2017. The senators say they’re concerned that surveillance of the Trump campaign began long before the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation, Crossfire Hurricane, which became the basis for the Robert Mueller probe and years of conspiracy theories about Trump colluding with Russia.

We don’t yet know where all this will lead, but it seems increasingly clear that the Obama administration managed to thwart the entire purpose of FISA, particularly its minimization protections, transforming them from a safeguard against domestic political spying into a vehicle for Obama to do just that.

Last week Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he would begin holding hearings on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, FISA abuses, and the appointment of special counsel Mueller. The first thing on Graham’s agenda, he said, will be “the government’s decision to dismiss the Flynn case as well as an in-depth analysis of the unmasking requests made by Obama administration officials against Gen. Flynn.” He says he intends to subpoena witnesses over the unmasking of Flynn.

NIKK..only parts of the article.

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#4300

How The Obama Administration Weaponized Surveillance Laws To Target Trump
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21 May 2020 - 10:31:35 AM
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/21/how-the-obama-administration-weaponized-surveillance-laws-to-target-trump/
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[gubamyster]

I hope you didn’t have to move a cat to post that, but thank you.

[gubamyster]

Q #4301 available

[jennychase]

Betting markets at @PredictIt have Trump over Biden 49-46

[gubamyster]

Betting markets at @PredictIt have Trump over Biden 49-46

+3? Should be +30

[stars & stripes forever]

Thanks, lysie. All the breaking news has whetted my appetite!

[stars & stripes forever]

Inspiring life story all should watch – Available until JUNE 1

Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words

https://www.pbs.org/video/created-equal-clarence-thomas-in-his-own-words-rymp6z/

Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, loved by some, reviled by others, few know much more than a few headlines

and the recollections of his contentious confirmation battle with Anita Hill. Unscripted and without narration, the documentary takes the viewer through this complex and often painful life, dealing with race, faith, power, jurisprudence, and personal resilience.

Aired: 05/18/20
Expires: 06/01/20

[gubamyster]

Q #4302 & #4303 available

[stars & stripes forever]

‘Bet You Stay Home Now Hypokrits’: Church That Refused To Close During Lockdown Gets Burned Down, Investigated As Arson

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3847167/posts

EXCERPT:

A Mississippi church in the midst of a legal battle to stay open despite local shutdown orders was burned to the ground early Wednesday morning. According to first

responders, the First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs was vandalized and suffered a large explosion to the back of the church. The incident is being investigated as a criminal act of arson.

“I Bet you stay home now you hypokrits,” read one message spray painted on the church parking lot, Thomas More Society senior counsel and lawyer for the church Stephen Crampton told Fox News on Thursday.

“First Pentacostal Church Holly Springs. Arson is Suspected,” reported Tom Dees of FOX 13 Memphis. “Investigators say the church was spray painted with graffiti and set on fire. There was a major explosion in the back of the church that blew out the front.”

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Link to New Q Drop
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21 May 2020 - 10:44:57 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html
Worth remembering.
Who was the quarterback?
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This is difficult...I’ll have to give a smidgin...quiry by C.I.A. Affirms It Spied on Senate Panel

July 31, 2014

The C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program.

The C.I.A. officers read the emails of the Senate investigators and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department based on false information. The officers created a false online identity to gain access on more than one occasion to computers used by the committee staff.

The C.I.A. secretly monitored a congressional committee charged with supervising its activities touched off angry criticism from members of the Senate and amounted to vindication for Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, who excoriated the C.I.A. in March when the agency’s monitoring of committee investigators became public.

[jennychase]

When should a nursing home accept a resident who was diagnosed with COVID-19 from a
hospital?
A nursing home can accept a resident diagnosed with COVID-19 and still under TransmissionBased Precautions for COVID-19 as long as the facility can follow CDC guidance for
Transmission-Based Precautions. If a nursing home cannot, it must wait until these precautions
are discontinued. CDC has released

[jennychase]

https://twitter.com/SeemaCMS/status/1263455033242386432

Cuomo is now blaming President.

[lysie]

Good morning. You are welcome.

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Link to New Q Drop
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21 May 2020 - 10:50:21 AM
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00901R000600400020-9.pdf
Expand your thinking.
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NIKK..I can’t copy and paste it. Gov.CIA library.... Newsweek...September 22, 1986.....Reporters and the CIA....They Keep in touch-but at arm’s length.

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#4303
Link to New Q Drop
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21 May 2020 - 10:53:12 AM
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/ciasuseofjournal00unit.pdf
Logical thinking.
CIA coming back into the news [soon]?
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CIA’S USE OF JOURNALISTS
AND CLERGY IN
INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
Y 4, IN 8/ 19; S. HRG, 104-593
Gift’s Use of Journalists and Clergy. .
BEFORE THE
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
OF THE
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
ON
CIA’S USE OF JOURNALISTS AND CLERGY
IN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1996
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For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents. Congressional Sales Office. Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-053885-8
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SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman
J. ROBERT KERREY, Nebraska,
Vice Chairman RICHARD G. LUGAR, Indiana
JOHN GLENN, Ohio RICHARD C.SHELBY, Alabama
RICHARD H. BRYAN, Nevada
MIKE DeWINE, Ohio
BOB GRAHAM, Florida
JON KYL, Arizona
JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts
JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma
MAX BAUCUS, Montana
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas
J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, Louisiana
CONNIE MACK, Florida
CHARLES S. ROBB, Virginia
WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine
ROBERT DOLE, Kansas,
Ex Officio THOMAS A. DASCHLE, South Dakota,
Ex Officio Charles Battaglia,
Staff Director Christopher C. Straub,
Minority Staff Director Kathleen P. McGhee,
Chief Clerk
(II)