Posted on 07/09/2021 10:14:11 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
Really?
They said this?
Wow.
The whole nation is be constantly gaslighted.
Stalinists lie. Always
I thought the post was from Babylon Bee for a moment. Who would have imagined 20 years ago that we would have high federal government officials telling us we have no 4th Amendment rights.
This clown needs to go to prison.
I’m expecting Hitlery to come out any minute and remind us how dissent is patriotic. Waiting....waiting.....
When is someone going to run 100amps through his ears.
It’s anti-American to attempt to suppress complaining.
WEISSMANN now THERE’S AN SOB WHO SHOULD BE IN JAIL!!!!!
Sophie Scholl
Calling for active opposition to tyrannical government.
Jail? That’s way too nice.
And it’s likely racist also.
That is not the issue. The issue is that he was illegally unmasked and they NSA provided the text messages to a leftist website in order to discredit him as yet another Russian agent, just like Trump.
The NSA is in the business of suppressing dissent and Tucker is a leading voice in exposing the wrongdoing of Biden and our intelligence community.
It’s blatantly illegal from them to conduct domestic spying and then to use it to suppress political opposition.
Why do you put the worst possible spin on what happened?
It was a crime to spy on Tucker Carlson. It is illegal. It is wrong. It is immoral. It is abhorrent. Stop rationalizing it!
So would you say NBC News should be spied on for arranging an interview with Vladimir Putin. See here:
Screw this p ittle turdblossom. He’s ruined enough lives c already. I detest him!!
The NSA released Tuckers name to other journalists.
This is illegal.
It’s blatantly illegal from them to conduct domestic spying and then to use it to suppress political opposition.
And yet it hasn't done anything to suppress any political opposition in this case. In fact, it's enhanced Tucker Carlson's reputation as a media representative for "the opposition."
You might be right, but nothing I've seen about this story supports this statement. The first time I heard about it was from Tucker Carlson himself.
Weissman has just confirmed that the NYT and other major newspapers are government organs and nothing more.
Yo, Andy, “free press” mean anything to you?
Wait, I’ll answer that for you: not if you’re a commie apparatchik
There’s an interesting aspect to an Andrew Weissmann statement on MSNBC that almost everyone is missing. Before watching the brief excerpt, let me put the comments into context. Remember, the Intelligence Branch uses intelligence silos to protect themselves; however, the Intelligence Branch also violates those silos when ever they want.
First, Andrew Weissmann comes from the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). More specifically, in that division Andrew Weissmann was in charge of the section that used FARA (Foreign Agent Registration Act), or FARA-951 as a weapon against their political enemies.
The only targets Weissmann ever selected for FARA investigations were political opposition. You might also remember it was Weissmann who led the Mueller team, and in that position Weissmann went after every target (Flynn, Rafiekian, Manafort, Papadopoulos, Phares, even Rudy Guiliani etc.) with accusations of FARA violations.
Second, the DOJ-NSD had no inspector general oversight.
During the Obama administration the DOJ-NSD exempted themselves from DOJ Inspector General review. In 2015 the Office of the Inspect General (OIG) requested oversight and it was Deputy AG Sally Yates who responded with a lengthy 58-page legal explanation saying, essentially, ‘nope – not allowed.’ (PDF HERE) All of the DOJ is subject to oversight, except the NSD.
There is a very specific reason for this intentional avoidance of oversight as we found out through the Carter Page FISA warrant. The DOJ-NSD is the weaponized mechanism against domestic political opposition inside the DOJ.
[Sidebar: I would not be surprised to find out the DOJ-NSD operatives used their FARA authorities to control and threaten political opposition around Washington DC, using lobbying investigations as leverage/blackmail.]
As the current story is told a whistleblower in the intelligence community told Tucker Carlson his communication was intercepted by the NSA. By the NSA originating standard, the same standard they claim to uphold publicly, the NSA has a foreign intelligence mission; and their data collection is supposed to be in a silo related to foreign intelligence gathering. If an American is picked up ‘incidentally‘ by the NSA collection, that information is supposed to remain inside that silo.
However, as you watch this MSNBC segment, notice how casually Andrew Weissmann says that Tucker Carlson should have gone to the DOJ (Main Justice) with any concerns about his communication being intercepted by the NSA. Listen carefully to how Weissmann frames what Carlson “should have done” (prompted):
Andrew Weissmann Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: DOJ would've had control over Carlson NSA intercept.
We have talked about this quite a bit and I’m sure you can see why this explanation from Weissmann is problematic, yet at the same time it highlights his reference point.
In essence, what this segment reveals is Andrew Weissmann being so comfortable and casual with his reference point from time and experience inside the DOJ-NSD, that he doesn’t even realize what he is saying so matter-of-factly is something that is not supposed to take place.
The DOJ (or DOJ-NSD) is not supposed to have simple access to the NSA database without a reason for it. Or without a contact from the NSA with a directive to review an intercept because it might involve unlawful activity.
The DOJ-NSD personnel are not supposed to be randomly data-mining the NSA database just to see if they can find some issue they would be under the authority to investigate. Yet this frame of reference is exactly the casual nature of Weissmann’s diatribe.
If the NSA database is so easily searched by any domestic law enforcement agency, FBI or DOJ, then what exactly is the difference between the DOJ sucking up all the communication of Americans (brutally obvious 4th amendment violations) and the NSA capturing it? Under the process Weissmann seems so casual about, the DOJ apparently has full unlimited access to everything the NSA captures.
This is not supposed to be happening. However, that is also likely why the DOJ-NSD under President Obama refused to have any oversight. That’s why I said Andrew Weissmann is saying the quiet part out loud.
Yes, I know there is ample evidence for this random domestic data-mining process I have just stated. As we have seen from reports summarized by the FISA court, this random searching of the NSA database is apparently commonplace.
Just because we know the DOJ and FBI exploit an unlawful process for unfettered access to the electronic communication of every single American, doesn’t mean we should just sit back and accept it.
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