Posted on 03/31/2019 9:24:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Obama-era FISA warrant obtained to monitor the communications of Carter Page was most likely utilized as a gateway to spy on the rest of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, contended William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official turned whistleblower. The same warrant against Page technically could also have been used to legally justify collecting data on the Republican National Committee (RNC) or the leadership of the Republican Party, Binney said.
Binney was an architect of the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001 after spending more than 30 years with the agency.
He was speaking during an interview that aired Sunday on this reporter’s weekend talk radio show, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia.
Binney referred to measures put into place by President Obama in January 2014 that restrict the NSA to collecting data on individuals that are only two steps removed from a target being monitored. He explained that if Page had called anyone from the Trump campaign or the RNC, the NSA could legally have spied not only on that second individual but on others called by the second person.
Stated Binney: “If you get a warrant on say Carter Page and for example he has a call or an email to the Republican National Committee or anybody in the Trump campaign, that warrant then allows them to go out two degrees from the RNC to everybody associated with the RNC and from anyone from the Trump campaign to anyone they are associated with.”
“So effectively what that means is that they had the ability to basically spy on anybody,” he said. “They could spy on everybody on the Republican National Committee or everybody in the...
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A FISA warrant was supposed to be used only for foreign spies or terrorists that posed a real threat to the USA. A FISA warrant allows a “two hop” surveillance on the subject of the warrant. I still do not understand why politicians or media people on our side have not made this clear. An illegal warrant allowing surveillance on a single person, Carter Page in this case, is bad enough. The two hop nature of every FISA warrant very probably meant that every communication of Trump’s team had its correspondence, past, present and future (until the warrant ran out) surveilled. Trump must have run one of the cleanest campaigns of all time.
Likely? We have merely reached the point of saying, likely? Pathetic.
Dude, chillax OK?
“Dude, chillax OK?”
Yep. Any second now Sessions will jump out of the shrubbery and release those 10,000 top secret Huber indictments.
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“He’s going to surprise a lot of people. Even you.“
Wasn’t that big surprise supposed to happen 9 months or so ago according to you? It would surprise me to learn that Sessions was breathing 6 months ago. He was the worst pick President Trump made.
Period.
Useless little weasel. Check that. He was worse than useless. He was frigging complicit.
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Pop on in here at 15:40 if you want some more on George P. and his wife and how they were in the center of the dossier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIYxMrv8Wis
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