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FBI chief's claim on
surveillance abuse doesn't fit the evidence
by SHARYL ATTKISSON
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Congress Should Cut Off Corrupt
DOJ, FBI Funding, Trump Order Cooperation
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton joined Judge Jeanine Pirro on her Saturday program for a discussion of the corruption at DOJ... and the FBI and the associated cover ups. Judge Jeanine starts off with a question about the incriminating texts between subversive conspirators Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and the cocoon of protection being afforded them by their equally culpable agencies. She says, “What I want to know right now is if we’ve only gotten 375 of 10,000 texts, whether we can expect even more context of these actions by the FBI and DOJ.” Fitton replies, “Yes, but they’re not going to put out the material willingly... https://rickwells.us/fitton-doj-fbi-funding-trump/
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Former Top FBI Official: Strzok Belongs in Leavenworth
by BEN MARQUIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ The American citizenry has been made aware in recent weeks of the incredible bias against President Donald Trump... among top officials leftover from the prior administration in the FBI and Department of Justice. Chief among them is FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, formerly a part of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation into alleged Russian collusion with Trump during the election, whose text messages revealed an intense hatred toward the current leader of this country. Those messages between Strzok and his mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page, not only exposed their bias against Trump, but also revealed their intentions to use their position of power to stop, subvert and undermine the president, via an “insurance policy” widely believed to have been the infamous Trump “dossier” that likely serves as the foundation of Mueller’s investigation... https://conservativetribune.com/former-fbi-strzok-leavenworth/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance.
Tucker Guest Drops Explosive FBI Bombshell: ‘Brazen Plot’
by Joe Setyon
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Newly revealed details regarding partisan bias at the FBI are evidence of a conspiracy... to absolve former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton and “frame” President Donald Trump, a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said Friday. Speaking on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Joe DiGenova said he thinks officials in the liar-nObama Justice Department tried to ensure that liar-Clinton wasn’t punished because they wanted her to prevail in the 2016 presidential election. The goal of this “brazen plot,” he said, was “to exonerate liar-Hillary Clinton because of an animus toward Donald Trump.”... https://www.westernjournalism.com/former-us-attorney-brazen-plot-fbi-exonerate-hillary-frame-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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liar-nObama, Dems Did Worse Than Their Smears
Against Trump, INVESTIGATE liar-nOBAMA
by rickwells.us
Conservative Congressman Steve King (R-IA) addressed the House and exposed some of the more blatant hypocrisy and abuses of power... by the liar-nObama regime, as well as their entanglements with George Soros in pilfering from the US Treasury for the purpose of financing worldwide globalist chaos. His comments from earlier this year begin with a reminder to the butt-hurt “Russia meddled in our election” Democrats that Hussein liar-nObama sent his own team, the V15 political operatives, into Israel in an overt and covert attempt to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from his position as Prime Minister. liar-nObama misappropriated at least $300,000 of taxpayer funds, funneling them to his agitator team who then assisted Netanyahu’s political opposition through get out the vote training and other, direct targeting of the sitting Prime Minister of one of our allies. Of course, the Israelis are Jews and we all know how hated they are by Islamists like liar-nObama... https://rickwells.us/king-trump-investigate-obama/.
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Putin Calls Trump To Thank For Helping To Prevent Isis Attack In St. Petersburg.
Jesse Watters Eats Steak While Debating Toxic Masculinity W/ Feminist Professor.
Professor Claims ‘Jingle Bells’ Is Rooted In Racism.
What Exactly Is The U.S. Nuclear Triad?.
Turkey’s Erdogan Announces He Will Open An Embassy In East Jerusalem.
Rosenstein says the Unimaginable about Firing Crooked Cop Mueller
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Roy Moore Accuser FACING ARRESTFBI chief's claim on
surveillance abuse doesn't fit the evidence
by SHARYL ATTKISSON
{/thehill.com} ~ I caught my breath when I heard FBI Director Christopher Wray testify to Congress that there’s been no abuse of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the law under which our intelligence communities electronically spy on possible terrorists and sometimes capture private communications of innocent U.S. citizens. Section 702 and related components expire Dec. 31, and Congress must decide whether to renew them.
To see if I’d heard Wray correctly, I searched for a transcript of his testimony. I found that he’d delivered the same line during an Oct. 13 Heritage Foundation speech. Wray claimed, “There’s been no evidence of any kind of abuse of power under Section 702 despite the oversight … with the three branches of government and quite a few years of experience now.”
As a backdrop, recall that spying on U.S. citizens by our Intel agencies is considered so contrary to our basic constitutional protections, that it’s generally prohibited, and is only permitted under strict limits set forth under the law.
With that in mind, here’s a short list of documented violations that seem contrary to the implications of Wray’s testimony:
*In 2011, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found some collection of internet data by the National Security Agency (NSA) to be illegal and unconstitutional, capturing tens of thousands of U.S. communications without a warrant. That would seem to be an abuse.
*To better protect the rights of U.S. citizens, the government adopted restrictions that “categorically prohibited NSA analysts” from using personal identifiers of Americans, such as our phone numbers, to search through internet information the NSA collects under Section 702. However, the government admitted violating those restrictions to a secret hearing in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Oct. 26, 2016. According to the judge, NSA analysts had been conducting such searches in violation of the prohibition “with much greater frequency than had previously been disclosed to the court.” The judge accused the NSA of an institutional “lack of candor” and stated: “This is a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.” That sounds like an abuse.
*Meantime, the NSA secretly expanded its authority to collect emails and other communications of U.S. citizens who had done nothing more than refer to a target in a single instance. For example, if you wrote an email that mentioned a target phrase — it could be “Osama bin Laden” — the NSA could use that as an excuse to spy on you. In 2015, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court criticized the practice saying the results likely netted information on U.S. citizens with “no foreign intelligence value.” That seems like an abuse.
*In January 2016, the NSA inspector general issued a top secret report criticizing the NSA for: not having proper processes in place to monitor how well it met key provisions designed to protect Americans; instances of non-compliance; and lack of documentation proving NSA analysts were meeting requirements prohibiting targeting of U.S. persons who were in the United States. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court stated that it appeared “the problem was widespread during all periods under review.” That sounds like an abuse.
All of this doesn’t even consider the now publicly known incidents in which the NSA surveilled the likes of former members of Congress Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.), or the communications between congressional staffs and Israeli officials in 2015, or Trump adviser Carter Page during the 2016 campaign.
Remember, FBI Director Wray testified there had been “no evidence of any kind of abuse.” Weirdly, nobody from the House Judiciary Committee challenged the accuracy of the statement or asked him to explain it. Are the members of Congress tasked with oversight — the ones who will vote to reauthorize, amend or abolish the surveillance authorities — unaware of the well-documented violations?
Our intelligence community insists the FISA Amendments Act, which includes Section 702, is absolutely critical to our fight against terrorism. Some civil rights activists argue it can be terribly intrusive to the constitutional rights of innocent Americans.
I’m not advocating either way. But to claim there’s no evidence of abuse is to ignore the record. It seems like important decisions should be made based on the full facts.
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