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Current Membership - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review FBI tried to get a FISA surveillance warrant on Trump and his campaign operation at Trump Tower in the summer, according to multiple reports, and only succeeded in getting one in October for people around him according to other reports. Investigators at the FBI may have done that on their own, but they did so in Obama's Attorney General's Department of Justice. One would think that a request to get a counter-espionage warrant that includes surveillance on a major-party presidential candidate or campaign would need some approvals from high up...

Following Trump's stunning allegation that Obama wiretapped the Trump Tower in October of 2016, prior to the presidential election, which may or may not have been sourced from a Breitbart story, numerous Democrats and media pundits have come out with scathing accusations that Trump simply has no idea what he is talking about. The best example of this came from Ben Rhodes, a former senior adviser to President Obama in his role as deputy National Security Advisor, who slammed Trump's accusation, insisting that "No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people...