Posted on 03/09/2017 9:08:46 AM PST by LS
In the shifting saga of how members of the Trump campaign/administration ended up having their phone conversations tapped under the Obama administration, the American people have been fed a series of shifting excuses on how the Obama administration would never violate the laws concerning surveillance of US Persons.
We were told the President cannot order such surveillance (which we know is a false statement, see here and here).
Then we were given the impression by the Fake News Media these intercepts were under a FISA court warrant. But later we learned the FISA court rejected the application by Team Obama in June 2016.
Apparently, the Obamas administration tried twice last year to monitor members of Trumps campaign. Once via the regular (Title III) courts and once through the FISA Court. So lets stop pretending this was not something Team Obama desperately wanted to do. The fact they failed does not erase the efforts behind the attempts.
But then something else happened in October. What it was is unclear. Speculation was Team Obama tried either a second run at the FISA court with a more focused application, or they possibly appealed to the FIS Review Court. The initial reports were of a successful FISA application and surveillance warrant in October.
But then DNI Clapper publicly stated that there was no FISA Court warrant targeting team Trump. None.
(Excerpt) Read more at strata-sphere.com ...
Yes. As is often noted, they never thought Trump could win.
The most interesting part was the fact that CIA can and does impersonate Russian attackers. This would lend a blame-vector to the Democrats, in order to frame the narrative.
This has more substance than anything I have read. He points to the specific statutorily required steps that had to be done and accentuates the undeniable crime of Tapping President Trump individually in innocuous phone called the the Australian Prime Minister and the Mexican President ( Absolutely no Russian threat there!!) Think about that. NSA transcripts of the actual phone calls on Trump!!! On NO warrant — for none other than political reasons completely out of the statutory requirements for release to even other agencies! much less the NYT!!
I skim a lot and miss a lot but if you care about the diabolical tapping on Trump by Obama this is a must read leading to his cogent and important conclusion as follows:
“There is no legal basis for any of this. And we have the beginnings of paper trail to begin the investigation. Find the FISA applications. Find the AG certification of a POTUS ordered surveillance if one was launched. And find the requests to NSA for the data that was clearly leaked to the Fake News Media.
There are names a plenty to begin the process if these exist.
And if they dont exist then someone broke some very serious laws in the Obama Administration
I skimmed the article and saw no mention of ‘a health care company’ related to Trump.
HOWEVER: George Webb has published in his vlog (Try George Webb Day 134-135-136....one or all of those) the graph from an article by a Fredrick Foerr (memory only, no time to go check) showing the activity of the 2 banks and Spectrum Health Care in Grand Rapids, MI.
Webb has network forensic experience and says these are pings looking for open ports. The Spectrum connection is related to the DNC-hired Pakistani IT workers named Awan. A Dr Awan from Spectrum is involved or at least connected, somehow. I cannot evaluate the tech info, but IIRC, the Spectrum connection is the home network from which the pings originate/report. Charitable conclusion is *someone* used Dr. Awan’s email/computer.
I have to run. Take a look. Webb’s vids are short and storyboarded. Tech article has references and explanations.
It’s an interesting study in political paranoia as well:
On one hand, the Clintonistas were nervous enough about Hillary losting to engage in what seems to be very risky acts to try to damage Trump, but on the other they did these things under the assumption that Hillary would win, thus making sure they were never discovered.
But if they were confident she would win, why do them?
Where do the 3 Awan bros. (IT guys) fit into all of this?
“...a process that requires no warrants.” True, electronic surveillance of foreign entities requires no warrants, but there are SIGNIFICANT limitations on Intelligence Community agencies when they encounter a “US Person” in the course of collection.
Unfortunately, under the Patriot Act he can — and both Bush and 0bama did.
This is an excellent piece of video:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/gb_videos/wiretapping-were-arguing-about-the-wrong-thing/
So, like every female flea is born pregnant, every physical or wireless line is born tapped.
So, like every female flea is born pregnant, every physical or wireless line is born tapped.
United States Signals Intelligence Directive
SP0018
(U) LEGAL COMPLIANCE AND U.S. PERSONS MINIMIZATION PROCEDURES
(U) USSID SP0018 prescribes policies and procedures and assigns responsibilities to ensure that the missions and functions of the United States SIGINT System (USSS) are conducted in a manner that safeguards the constitutional rights of U.S. persons. This USSID delineates and promulgates the USSS minimization policy and procedures required to protect the privacy of U.S. persons.
Looks like they are involved.
Looks like they are involved.
The standard response is insurance to see she would win.
But if they were confident she would win, why do them?
Something happened for those fraud missions to abort... O’Keefe? I also suspect these vote fraud tactics were installed in dozens of nations and displayed to work... except maybe in Britain.
“Did Barack Obama give the greenlight for this material to be used in ways that fall outside the legal boundaries?”
Bending the rules can be outright illegal.
“Did Barack Obama or any members of his senior team ever discuss how to take steps to prevent Donald Trump from taking the oath of office?”
There’s a specific name for this particular crime.
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