Posted on 03/07/2017 2:29:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Trump sparked a firestorm this morning when he suggested that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower prior to the November 2016 election.
An Obama spokesperson vehemently denied the former president's involvement, saying: "A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."
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More than a thousand applications for electronic surveillance, all signed by the attorney general, are submitted each year, and the vast majority are approved.
From 2009 to 2015, for example, more than 10,700 applications for electronic surveillance were submitted, and only one was denied in its entirety, according to annual reports sent to Congress. Another one was denied in part, and 17 were withdrawn by the government.
“That shouldn’t lead anyone to believe it’s easy to get the order," said Matt Olsen, a former NSA official who is now an ABC News contributor. "The fact that the government is successful in almost always getting approval is just an indication the government knows what the standard is."
According to George Washington Law School professor and longtime FISA critic Jonathan Turley, “FISA was designed more to facilitate than to limit surveillance. It adopted a standard that was heavily weighted toward approval. You almost have to work to find a way to get turned down by a FISA court."
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Now we know what the conversation on the tarmac was about.................
Bill got the signature
So based on the above report, applications to the FISA Court are signed off on by the Attorney General, and therefore if any applications were processed in the past year, they were signed off by Loretta Lynch.
This means that Lynch signed-off on any requests for wire-tapping Donald Trump during the Presidential race. This is disheartening knowing that she released a video over the weekend calling for the need for more “marching, blood and death on the streets”.
This also means that she chose not to investigate the Clinton Foundation for illegal activities, but rather signed an application to wire-tap Trump.
Finally, another very disturbing fact about the wire-tapping request of Trump is that the FISA Court turned down the 0bama Administration’s first request to wire-tap Trump that was evidently signed-off by Attorney General Lynch. With only two applications denied out of 10,700 from 2009 through 2015, the fact that the 0bama Administration’s application was denied by the FISA Court is very disturbing. The odds of this happening were 0.02%.
This was a fishing expedition from the get go. Does anyone believe that Obama did not know about Lynch’s activities?
I wonder what he offered Loretta in return?
I wonder if the deal is still a deal?
I heard Judge Napolatano say this morning that the President did NOT need anyone to sign off.
Did anyone else hear that? How can that be ?
wow. I wish this post would make a newspaper
“Does anyone believe that Obama did not know about Lynch’s activities?”
Do I only get 1 guess?
Now you know why she "deferred" to Comey. Sure stinks!!
I think Trump was right on....Watergate 2.
“This also means that she chose not to investigate the Clinton Foundation for illegal activities, but rather signed an application to wire-tap Trump.”
Spectacular point. She pleaded the fifth for a reason.
if they’re done legally. if done ‘under the table’ there would not be a paper trail.
Obviously, Lynch didn’t do that without an order from Obama. That guy is working overtime for the devil.
POTUS can legally bypass the FISA warrant process on national security grounds.
The President can order no FISA needed, so Obama tells John Brennan to go ahead, that’s all that’s needed.
Amusing that the left wing sycophants in the MSM are quick to claim that Trump is lying, that Obama or his commissars would never illegally wiretap or violate the privacy of any American. Yet none of them have sought to question Obama directly and ask him to unequivocally deny that he wiretapped Trump.
RE: I heard Judge Napolatano say this morning that the President did NOT need anyone to sign off.
Well, according to Judge Napolitano, IT’s THE LAW. So, if Obama decided to do surveillance on Trump IT IS ACTUALLY LEGAL ( “Lawful” according to Napolitano ).
The question is this — was the law written to allow President’s spy on one’s political enemy?
Napolitano says that the purpose is to spy on those the President believes are enemies of the country. The language of the law is however, so broad that it can be used to spy on ANYONE.
The idiots who wrote this law made this practice so pervasive that it has now become EASY to spy on ANY American citizen.
So, every piece of data that goes through the communication networks CAN BE TAPPED.
Napolitano keeps emphasizing -— THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT NEED A FISA WARRANT.
In other words, we’ve allowed this perverted law to make what ANY President would do LEGAL.
It was posted here a washington times story on bush who ordered one without FISA in 2006
RE: The President can order no FISA needed, so Obama tells John Brennan to go ahead, that’s all that’s needed.
Yes, the law as written allows the President to BY-PASS FISA.
Love him or hate him, Edward Snowden actually exposed this some time back.
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