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originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: Dfairlite
a reply to: introvert
Ahhh, but this wasn't communications with foreign individuals.
The entire reason members of Trump's team were caught in their surveillance was because they were in communication with foreign individuals the IC were keeping an eye on.
Correct?
Is it correct?
We have yet to see the FISA warrant.
If I remember correctly, the government agencies were on record as saying that there was no FISA Court warrant.
Before getting too excited about oversharing intelligence, however, let's remember that Nunes is the only member of his committee to actually read these documents. It's possible that other people could have a different interpretation of what they mean or their pertinence to foreign intelligence collection, the legal standard that must be met to unmask the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected by the intelligence community.
The good news is that we will soon get a second and third opinion. Nunes told me that he expects that his committee's members, including Democrats, will be able to read these documents themselves at secure locations outside of Congress as soon as this week.
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: Dfairlite
Well, here we have it, Obama was getting info on the political oppsoition by using our intelligence agencies against them.
That's not what your source states. Getting updates on current investigations as a sitting president is not the same as using the intelligence agencies against political opponents.
One is normal and expected. The other would be illegal.
The House Intelligence Committee was supposed to be briefed on these matters too.... but it was only quite recently that they were briefed.
Ok.
What your point? Was their a law broken?
Unmasking and disseminating classified information that was important enough that the POTUS was briefed, but the Congress was left out.
Obama wrote an executive order to allow for the information to spread like it never had before.
Yeah, nothing to see here folks... move along.
originally posted by: tothetenthpower
a reply to: iTruthSeeker
No a few big wigs came out and said that they had no evidence that Trump had been wiretapped, as Trump had suggested a few weeks ago.
There are ongoing hearings about the Trump/Russian connection that have not been completed yet. The DOJ and FBI stated last week there were active investigations into Trump's people and various ties.
~Tenth
Each day it seems more and more like Obama and Hillary made the whole Russian scandal up. Months of investigations and nothing found. So did they make it up just so they could pull this off in the eyes of those who believed it?
Is it not also possible that is was unmasked and the president was briefed because someone within the Trump team was doing something they should not have been doing?
Not if what Nunes has been saying is true. And I'll admit, he's the only public source and currently has a monopoly on the information, being a politician, maybe he is lying.
originally posted by: Dfairlite
a reply to: introvert
You all get your marching orders, don't you. Follow them like a good soldier.
originally posted by: Dfairlite
a reply to: introvert
Is it not also possible that is was unmasked and the president was briefed because someone within the Trump team was doing something they should not have been doing?
Not if what Nunes has been saying is true. And I'll admit, he's the only public source and currently has a monopoly on the information, being a politician, maybe he is lying.