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To: RWR8189; Congressman Billybob
Absent specific, prior authorization from the FISA court, federal al Qaeda investigators were formally prohibited from sharing surveillance--derived intelligence information about terrorism suspects and plots with their law enforcement counterparts.

Legally speaking, what was the reason for this wall of separation? Is it because intelligence officers can monitor "foreign agents" whether they are engaged in a crime or not, thus if a crime is discovered in the course of intelligence surveillance there would not be probable cause, thus the surveillance would be no good in court?

On the conspiracy side, I have always wondered if this wall was put in place to keep the FBI from discovering too much about Clinton connections to Chinese espionage.

116 posted on 12/27/2005 7:49:46 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

excellent point! We know Hillary specifically chose Janet Reno because they could manipulate her.


122 posted on 12/27/2005 7:57:05 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Zack Nguyen
The purpose of the "wall of separation" between the CIA and the FBI, per the memo from Ass't Atty Gen'l Jamie Gorelick, was allegedly to prevent foreign intelligence from being used in domestic criminal prosecutions. It did prevent the laptop computer of the "20th hijacker" from being examined before the 9/11 attacks.

Because of when the Gorelick memo was issued, which admitted in its text that it "went beyond what the law required," it may have been done to prevent foreign intelligence on China from revealing Clinton crimes with Chinese money in his campaigns.

I suspect that, too, but the Clintons have never had their "John Dean," just one person near the center who turned honest and told all that he knew. Maybe Ron Brown or Vince Foster would have done that, the first because the prosecutors were closing in on him and he didn't want to go down alone. The latter because he had an attack of conscience. But, surprisingly, both of them are dead.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "My Father's 100th Birthday"

123 posted on 12/27/2005 8:00:27 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Have you heard about the newspaper editor who called a Freeper, "you blithering idiot"?)
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