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FISA and the Trump Team obama-fisa-trump-wiretap
Nationalreview ^ | Jan. 11, 2017 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 03/04/2017 8:58:12 AM PST by HarleyLady27

The idea that FISA could be used against political enemies always seemed far-fetched. Now it might not be. Remember the great debate over “the Wall” following the 9/11 attacks? “The Wall” was a set of internal guidelines that had been issued by the Clinton Justice Department in the mid 1990s. In a nutshell, the Wall made it legally difficult and practically impossible for agents in the FBI’s Foreign Counter-Intelligence Division (essentially, our domestic-security service, now known as the National Security Division) to share intelligence with the criminal-investigation side of the FBI’s house. Those of us who were critics of the Wall — and I was a strenuous one, beginning in my days as a terrorism prosecutor who personally experienced its suicidal applications — made several arguments against it.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; chinesewall; constitution; elections; gorelick; gorelickwall; government; illegalcrimes; obamafisa; thegorelickwall; trumptowertapped
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1 posted on 03/04/2017 8:58:12 AM PST by HarleyLady27
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To: HarleyLady27; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; RoosterRedux; DoughtyOne; ...

This is an old article, but one that explains how Barky got the ‘wire tapping’ after he was denied the first time...

Ping...


2 posted on 03/04/2017 8:59:23 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27
A scumbag Democrat congressman named Ted Lieu has outed himself as a seditionist:

We need to arrest this man for undermining the legitimate authority of the President of the United States.

3 posted on 03/04/2017 9:00:45 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: HarleyLady27

“The idea that FISA could be used against political enemies always seemed far-fetched. Now it might not be.”

Why not? Obama used the IRS against his political opponents.


4 posted on 03/04/2017 9:03:09 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: HarleyLady27; detective

“4. October: FISA request. The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes. The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/03/the-shadow-government-timeline/#more-129451


5 posted on 03/04/2017 9:04:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave (We are winning every day, while the Dems and Never Trumpsters are whining every day!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

These are the actions of a POLICE STATE! People need to be hanged for SEDITION!

This is WAR!


6 posted on 03/04/2017 9:05:02 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: HarleyLady27
In other words, if we assume an agent is inclined to be a rogue, it would be far easier (and less likely of detection) to trump up evidence of a crime in order to satisfy the probable-cause standard for a traditional wiretap than to manufacture a national-security threat in order to get a FISA wiretap. No rational rogue would do it.

Criminals are not rational, McIdiot.

7 posted on 03/04/2017 9:05:46 AM PST by PGalt (HOORAY President Donald J. Trump)
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To: kiryandil

Interesting how much an Obama surrogate has become.

This one, he messes up.


8 posted on 03/04/2017 9:06:40 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: HarleyLady27

It’s killing me! The news outlets say there is no proof of Obama ordering a wiretap so he’s out of line.....But the dimwits have no proof of Russian interference in the election yet they keep up the BS. Shouldn’t the libs be called out of line as well?


9 posted on 03/04/2017 9:06:52 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: kiryandil

This remark is for the Obama rectum, Ted Lieu.

Ted, it only means that Obama got a rat judge to approve the wire tap.

Your green card if you have one best be in order and up todate.


10 posted on 03/04/2017 9:07:20 AM PST by Grampa Dave (We are winning every day, while the Dems and Never Trumpsters are whining every day!!!)
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To: TTFlyer

Absolutely.

I’m ready to FINALLY see our gloves come off. Start dragging people off to jail, hand cuffs, us marshals, sirens, flashing lights. And some of them better be the media criminals too because it is they that enable crooked politics.


11 posted on 03/04/2017 9:08:04 AM PST by Professional
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To: HarleyLady27

For those who might not know, Andrew C. McCarthy is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney.


12 posted on 03/04/2017 9:08:16 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: New Jersey Realist

President Trump has had this information for a long time, he set a trap and the rats and rino’s got caught...

Do you possibly think that President Trump would come out on this if he didn’t have factual proof of this that can really be used to bring down this Government the way we know it??? Not on your life!!!


13 posted on 03/04/2017 9:09:26 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Yes, this reeks of Barky.
This also reeks of Brennan.
This also reeks of Comey.

Why oh why doesn’t the POTUS revoke the admin order that allowed the NSA to share with 16 other agencies? Worried about appearances, I get it.

We are way beyond it. Lock it down.


14 posted on 03/04/2017 9:09:40 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Go to my reply at:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3531399/posts?page=5#5

Relax, when have the left wingers in the media ever been trueful about Trump and Obama/Clinton?

They will not change until we make them irrelevant!


15 posted on 03/04/2017 9:10:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (We are winning every day, while the Dems and Never Trumpsters are whining every day!!!)
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To: kiryandil

Shackle and chain the bastard. TODAY.


16 posted on 03/04/2017 9:10:36 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Start referring to it as #ObamaGate. Here, there, everywhere. Make the moniker stick!


17 posted on 03/04/2017 9:11:29 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: TTFlyer

Welcome my son,

Welcome,

............... to the machine.

Where have you been?

It’s alright we know where you’ve been.


18 posted on 03/04/2017 9:12:30 AM PST by Zeneta
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To: Grampa Dave

Amen Grampa, you always come through and help us in the hard times...

Sure glad I was sitting down when I opened my twitter feed this morning and just read ONE of President Trump’s tweet...wow, talk about an eye opener...

But I remember you saying back in the campaign:

“Truth will always win out, lies won’t”....


19 posted on 03/04/2017 9:12:58 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: AFreeBird

OBAMAGATE


20 posted on 03/04/2017 9:13:31 AM PST by petercooper (Why don't polls ever add up to 100%?)
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