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| Ten problems with the release of the heavily redacted FISA warrants on Carter Page |
| 2018-07-23 |
| [American Thinker] It is a huge scandal that the vast, frightening surveillance powers of our intelligence agencies, normally forbidden from snooping on American citizens, were used to spy on a presidential campaign antagonistic to the sitting president. Far too slowly, the underlying documents that permitted this are coming to light. Last night, 412 pages of heavily redacted versions of the original FISA warrant and subsequent renewals used to spy on Carter Page (and others ‐ see below) were released. Ten hard hitting "problems" or issues follow. I would reckon #5 (below) captures the essence of the FISA warrant: Five: Surveilling Page is a classic "camel’s nose under the tent maneuver," meaning that other people of much greater interest to people spying on a rival campaign could also be targeted. The warrants use the expression "incidentally acquire foreign intelligence information as defined by other subsections of 50 U.S.C. 1801(e)" no fewer than 8 times. My emphasis added. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Weren't the Democrats supposed to be all about Open® and Transparent™ government? Most transparent administration ever? |
| Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 2018-07-23 16:55 |
| #7 Ref #6: Exactly! Our betters don't want us to unscramble the social network and reporting. No telling how pervasive this scandal is. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-23 15:12 |
| #6 Besoeker, if you are correct they should use a copy/paste to replace phone number digits with |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-07-23 15:03 |
| #5 There is a call to issue an unredacted copy to the public. Goodlatte has seen the unredacted version and is saying most of the info could be easily issued unredacted. Trump could declassify it but there would be another extended round of teeth gnashing and self-righteous indignation clamor from the Dems. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-07-23 13:35 |
| #4 They must be covering something up." Just about everything is redacted. Some Feeb must be suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome after all this redacting. My guess (and only a guess) is that they've redacted contact reports, names, events, dates from Page or other well placed sources within the Trump campaign. It's not bloody Channel weather reporting from Dover's Manston Sta. Got to be contact reporting. WTF else could it be ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-23 12:31 |
| #3 I downloaded the Carter Page FISA material (I think from Judicial Watch). I took one look at it and said "What and why are they (DOJ and FBI) keeping things from the American people. They must be covering something up." Just about everything is redacted. Some Feeb must be suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome after all this redacting. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-07-23 11:38 |
| #2 Will anyone go to jail for falsifying the FISA application? Will the judge who granted it and looked over it so casually ever chime in on how he was duped/used? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-07-23 10:28 |
| #1 Surveilling Page is a classic "camel’s nose under the tent maneuver," meaning that other people of much greater interest to people spying on a rival campaign could also be targeted. As has been said previously, Page was either a witting or unwitting tool of the Deep State. As far as I am concerned, his past association with the intelligence community, somewhat cavalier attitude regarding recent events, and lack of charges, put him in the 'witting' or accessory camp. It is entirely likely that the FISA warrant, Mr. Page and the alleged Russian connection, were little more than vehicles. The real targets (US Persons) of the investigation remain redacted. If Mr. Page was indeed a witting source, other redacted portions of the released data could contain his actual 'source reporting' which would be quite damaging to the FBI and intelligence community. The entire FISA process has been corrupted and should be immediately terminated. A thorough review of previous criminal convictions gained through the FISA process should also be initiated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-23 01:38 |