Posted on 12/11/2019 11:39:20 PM PST by knighthawk
Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978 in response to the unlawful surveillance of Americans by the FBI and the CIA during the Watergate era. President Richard Nixon -- who famously quipped after leaving office that "when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" -- used the FBI and the CIA to spy on his political opponents.
The stated reason was national security. Nixon claimed that foreign agents physically present in the U.S. agitated and aggravated his political opponents to produce the great public unrest in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and thus diminished Americans' appetite for fighting the Vietnam War.
There was, of course, no evidence to support that view, but the neocons in Congress and the military-industrial complex supported it even after Nixon left office.
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I do wonder why FISA was used when traditional, common, tapping and surveillance warrants were available
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Part of the narrative if they were caugght.
LBJ used the same ruse to spy on Nixon
I do wonder why FISA was used when traditional, common, tapping and surveillance warrants were available
?......
Part of the narrative if they were caugght.
LBJ used the same ruse to spy on Nixon
FISA was used because it aided secrecy and because they had at least one FISA judge in their pocket.
A single FISA warrant gave the FBI full surveillance access to Page, anyone Page communicated with and anyone those people communicated with. Essentially, the entire Trump campaign, including Trump.
What is the downside of an unconstitutional act? The worst penalty is a strong news release. So why should we care whether or not something is unconstitutional? Hillary erases federal evidence, no problem, Comey lies under oath, no problem, Obama....
I think other side of that coin is that when the government finds it can ignore its own laws and do whatever it wants without consequences, that also heralds the end of the republic.
I think both points have been reached.
Eddie Munster is right... a stopped clock is right twice a day...
Too late, Nappy . . . you squandered your credibility
I still don’t care what Nap has to say about anything.
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