Posted on 09/01/2020 10:25:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Justice Department announced new restrictions Tuesday on how it conducts any secret national security surveillance of candidates for federal office or their staff.
The restrictions, announced by Attorney General William Barr in a pair of memos, are part of broader changes to the Justice Department’s surveillance procedures implemented in response to problems detected during the 2016 investigation into ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign.
Coming just two months before the 2020 election, the changes are designed to ensure that law enforcement officials have to clear additional hurdles before pursuing the same type of surveillance as was conducted on a former adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign. […]
One new policy would require the FBI to consider briefing a federal candidate or staffer that the person was being targeted by a foreign power before applying for a warrant from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to eavesdrop on their communications. …
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Wow! Just what we needed, a new policy! The jackass, The problem is not the policy, the problem was -criminal- behavior on the part of the FBI and CIA. And nobody has been prosecuted.
This is NOT the outcome we were wanting you to produce, Mr. Barr.
Problems?
What about criminal activity by top-level FBI officials?
I read this as protection for foreign born candidates and same for their staff. Including those already seated.
Comments BUMP!
Bully Bagpiped while America burned. JUSTICE? Not so much where it counts from the Dept. of SELECTIVE Justice/Injustice. The BIGGEST scandal in United States history...UNTOUCHED.
“Yeah, that illegal spying wasn’t right — try not to do it again, okay?”
He’s just marginally better than all the other swamp creatures eligible to be AG - what fo you expect? Wine from a dead cow?
My very first thought. Internal rules are useless.
We have no justice department.
Consider? As in, we considered but decided against it?
“This is NOT the outcome we were wanting you to produce, Mr. Barr.”
It shuts the barn door. Now go round up all the animals and euthanize them.
Gee. Just in time to protect Biden.
Good grief.
Never mind Harris.
Just in time to protect Biden and Harris who are colluding with domestic terrorists.
Or am I being too cynical?
“Yeah, that illegal spying wasn’t right — try not to do it again, okay?”
Barr is laying the foundation to say the spying on Trump wasn’t illegal. Good luck to the sunshine pumpers on spinning this one.
Just in time to protect Biden and Harris who are colluding with domestic terrorists.
Or am I being too cynical?
Not necessary. The all hate Trump at Main DOJ and won’t be lifting a finger in support of the Rule of Law as long as it benefits POTUS.
This is stupid.
How can more ‘rules’ change a dam thing when the FBI is willing to break laws with ZERO consequence?
The ‘heros’ in the FBI tried to steal the votes of 63 million and manufacture false charges against anyone they chose to destroy and Barr adds a few ‘rule changes’.
The ‘tree of liberty’ is almost beyond saving at this point.
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