The President can order no FISA needed, so Obama tells John Brennan to go ahead, that’s all that’s needed.
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.
So there is no “paper.” No signature, even Brennan’s. It is done by a verbal command.
I don’t believe that.
RE: The President can order no FISA needed, so Obama tells John Brennan to go ahead, that’s all that’s needed.
According to the law, There are LIMITATIONS:
SEE HERE: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1802
1) The acquisition of the contents of communications transmitted by means of communications used exclusively between or among foreign powers
2) The acquisition of technical intelligence, other than the spoken communications of individuals, from property or premises under the open and exclusive control of a foreign power.
So, if the Trump Tower was bugged, they did not bug a foreign power exclusively (as per the law ), and it was NOT in a property under the exclusive control of (in this case ), Russia.
Which means that if Obama DID indeed order this surveillance, it would be IN VIOLATION of the law.