Posted on 05/26/2019 12:50:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK — Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee claimed several times during a hearing that four members of the Trump campaign were the subjects of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) investigations. Lee’s claims have not been publically confirmed, but were also not explicitly denied during the hearing in question, with a Justice Department lawyer cautioning against the discussion of classified information.
As of now, the government has only confirmed that Carter Page, a tangential adviser to the Trump campaign, was under surveillance with FISA warrants during the Obama administration. The warrants were reportedly obtained citing the discredited anti-Trump dossier produced by Fusion GPS and funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Lee made the claim about FISA and the four Trump campaign members while she was posing questions to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch during a December 2018 House Judiciary Committee hearing. A transcript of the hearing was released online last week.
During the hearing, Lee posed the following question to Lynch, referencing George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn as also being under FISA investigation (emphasis added):
I want to talk about the spring, summer, and autumn of 2016. Carter Page, at the time, was suspected of being a Russian asset; George Papadopoulos had told the Australian ambassador that Russians had Hillary emails; Paul Manafort had been named Trump campaign manager; Michael Flynn was Trump’s chief national security adviser and foreign policy adviser; and just yesterday, had a continuance in his sentencing.
One thing that all of these persons had in common was that each was the subject of a FISA court investigation, which we now know, and all were directly connected to Trump. As Attorney General, you had the authority to oversee FISA application process. Is that correct?
“Yes,” was Lynch’s reply.
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I thought “uh-oh” and then saw Shiela Jackass-Lee.
What sort of access did Trump’s “campaign workers” have to the FISA process, or to the FISA court?
This nonsense story will be cited by left-wing conspiracy theorists for the next fifty years. “Trump is selectively releasing classified information that favors only his side of the story.”
Are they playing the good guys or the bad guys?
Good question. I just assumed they are the FBI criminals.
I understand the two actors will be “reading” (quoting exactly?) from the text emails between the two acting fib
employees. .
Dean says that Kristy wasn’t just good,
She was REALLY good
??
None, but the claim was that 4 Trump campaign workers were the subjects of a FISA investigation. So perhaps you misread what Sheila Jackson Lee was saying?
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