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Posted on 03/04/2017 8:35:12 PM PST by Helicondelta
President Trump recently tweeted claiming that former President Obama wiretapped him during his campaign.
The stories currently are three-fold: first, that Obama’s team tried to get a warrant from a regular, Article III federal court on Trump, and was told no by someone along the way (maybe the FBI), as the evidence was that weak or non-existent; second, Obama’s team then tried to circumvent the federal judiciary’s independent role by trying to mislabel the issue one of “foreign agents,” and tried to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “courts”, and were again turned down, when the court saw Trump named (an extremely rare act of FISA court refusal of the government, suggesting the evidence was truly non-existent against Trump); and so, third, Obama circumvented both the regular command of the FBI and the regularly appointed federal courts, by placing the entire case as a FISA case (and apparently under Sally Yates at DOJ) as a “foreign” case, and then omitted Trump’s name from a surveillance warrant submitted to the FISA court, which the FISA court unwittingly granted, which Obama then misused to spy on Trump and many connected to Trump.
Under section 1809, FISA makes it a crime for anyone to either “engage in” electronic surveillance under “color of law” under FISA without following the law’s restrictions, or “disclose” or “use” information gathered from it in contravention of the statute’s sharp constrictions.
FISA can only be used for “foreign intelligence information.” Now that sounds broad, but is in fact very limited under the law. The only “foreign intelligence information” allowed as a basis for surveillance is information necessary to protect the United States against actual or potential “grave” “hostile” attack, war-like sabotage or international terror.
(Excerpt) Read more at lawnewz.com ...
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Good point. Thanks.
For all his flaws, Chris Christie might be better suited for something like this. He's younger, has never been afraid to offend anyone, and probably would have been the U.S. Attorney General if Mitt Romney had won in 2012.
Ya don’t sayyyyyyyyyy......
Oh wow, wow, this could be just right.
Nice graphic (save for the typos).
I wonder why BO even bothered wearing an American flag pin on his lapel. Wonder if he still wears one.
I agree.... Rudy might be working behind the scenes. If he
isn’t up to it as he once was, he can still contribute
significantly. This is most serious and a smart, well
executed plan is going to be needed.
It’s us or them and if
they win it is over.
Getting Obama on this abuse is like getting Capone on taxes.
“He recused himself because he might be a witness for the prosecution”.
Great thinking!!!! May you be absolutely right.
Obama will skate. Hang the underlings by the balls.
Or espionage.
OK. Save him for the stake.
After a trial of course.
Excellent article. Way too early to come to any conclusions, but there is definitely a possibility that some high level Obama minions if not the man himself are going to see jail time over this.
Innocent prank, the MSM will claim.
Wow..!
Excellent prediction, very sharp.
Now let’s see if wiretap info was misused in the election.
You know they would not be able to resist.
Waterboard her the way the Japanese did it during WWll.
When he has all his ducks in a row and firmly in place, the president must address the nation.
Obie probably never wears anything but golfing clothes. It’s all he ever wanted to do anyway; especially on our dime.
I like your thinking.
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