One would Sessions (DOJ) and Pompeo (CIA) are doing a complete inventory of current and past wiretaps conducted by the Obama administration. Something stinks here.
Didnt they go to fisa to try to get wiretaps on transition team And were denied?? Maybe i remember wrong
Monitoring the communications of the Russian ambassador in Washington is standard practice; the Kremlim does the same thing to our guy in Moscow.
But here’s my question, and I defer to FReepers who are experienced in national security law. When a U.S. citizen is identified through collection against a foreign target, I thought the collection had to stop until law enforcement can obtain a warrant from a federal judge. If so, where’s the warrant? Apparently, Flynn was recorded multiple times in conversations with the Russian ambassador, so there should be a paper trail. Jeff Sessions needs to release that ASAP, so the American people can see who authorized the surveillance, and how many Trump appointees were targeted.
Having said that, I am quite familiar with various IC “tricks” that can be used to circumvent the law, and if such measures were used, they should be exposed as well. Ditto for a complete and unadulterated readout of the conversations between Flynn and the Russian diplomat. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said just yesterday that the information he’s seen indicates that Flynn never promised any sanctions relief.
I was just thinking about the time when Susan Rice lied openly and repeatedly about Benghazi and was forced to resign. Oh wait, that never happened.
Flynn’s best revenge (after weathering this storm) is to move to a deeply red state and run for Congress, get elected and spend the next 20 years (or so) giving his enemies hell on Capitol Hill.