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originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Grambler
Every other law enforcement agency in the country has to record interrogations, yet somehow it's okay that the FBI just lets agents take notes!?
I was blown away when this first came out a couple years ago and I still can't believe they're allowed to continue this practice.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: Grambler
There is also the fact that it was outed that the NSA was already spying on American citizens AND Merkels phone was tapped. Obama's administration had to issue a apology for it because they got caught. That was all based on Snowdens outing them.
And folks think they wouldn't do it to Trump.....cute.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: Grambler
There is also the fact that it was outed that the NSA was already spying on American citizens AND Merkels phone was tapped. Obama's administration had to issue a apology for it because they got caught. That was all based on Snowdens outing them.
And folks think they wouldn't do it to Trump.....cute.
Oh please. The American Surveillance State did not begin or end with Obama.
I know you know better.
It’s wrong when Obama did it, it’s wrong when Trump does it, it was wrong when Bush Bush Clinton Carter Ford Nixon Johnson Kennedy Eisenhower etc.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: Vasa Croe
The Obama Administration hasn’t been “caught” in much of anything. I know that your favored media makes that argument, but, at the moment, it’s mostly circumstantial and pure hogwash.
I am not DEFENDING Obama. Yes, you bet your bippy they acted illegitimately.
DId they “spy on Trump” ... nah. They were covered on that one.
It’s the things that aren’t trumpeted across the media that worry me. This is just sauce for the goose. In my opinion.
originally posted by: Grambler
And the fbi, even under Wray right now, has used this mantra of the fbi being beyond reproach to withhold documents from oversight asking for them
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: burntheships
OBAMA himself is going down. He authorized the illegal counter-intelligence investigation "Crossfire Hurricane", as it was officially named.
Cointel investigations have to be signed off by the President if an American citizen is involved.
Never thought the Patriot Act would be the thing that took these bastards down...
Karma, perhaps.
originally posted by: carewemust
CNN keeps modifying its "exclusive" story every few hours. Have now added that the "mistake" may not alter the basis on which the FISA applications were approved.
(Be Aware..CNN now has 76 tracking cookies and ads tied to this webpage.)
www.cnn.com...
The Washington Post deleted a key detail from its reporting about the FBI lawyer accused of altering a document related to the surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, according to a new report.
The newspaper nixed a portion of its story that identified the lawyer as an FBI employee underneath Peter Strzok, the ousted FBI agent who worked on the feds’ investigation into Russian election meddling, Fox News reported.
The update was made just after midnight Friday without explanation.
The lawyer in question is accused of fudging the document related to the FBI’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court warrant application to surveil Carter Page in 2016.
nypost.com...
The Post, hours after publishing its story, conspicuously removed the portion of its reporting that the FBI employee involved was underneath Peter Strzok, the FBI's since-fired head of counterintelligence. The Post did not offer an explanation for the change, which occurred shortly after midnight.
Earlier this week, the DOJ highlighted a slew of anti-Trump text messages sent by Strzok when he was leading the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the probe into the Trump campaign. While the exact nature of the alteration isn't known, PJ Media reported earlier that U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said, "If there was an FBI agent, who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, who can be proven to have altered a document in connection to a legal proceeding including the attaining of a FISA warrant, that's really serious. It doesn't get much more serious than that." pjmedia.com...
According to this report, the FBI's inability to properly track CHSs has led to a backlog of required "enhanced reviews" -- the validation process put in place to ensure proper handling of long-term informants. To make matters worse, the FBI unilaterally decided to remove "long-term" as a potential risk factor for CHSs, allowing these problematic informant-handler relationships to fly under the radar.