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Mainstream Media Not Covering FISA Abuse Investigation

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 00:56:57 No.530749 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>530756 >>530783 >>530785 >>532010

This is the only thing The Washington Post has on the topic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-attacks-former-doj-official-appointed-to-review-the-fbis-proposed-wiretap-reforms/2020/01/12/ee3b434c-3570-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html
>Taking a cue from a GOP ally, President Trump on Sunday attacked a former senior Justice Department official appointed by a federal judge to review the FBI’s proposed wiretap application reforms in the wake of a critical inspector general report.
>“You can’t make this up! David Kris, a highly controversial former DOJ official, was just appointed by the FISA Court to oversee reforms to the FBI’s surveillance procedures. Zero credibility. THE SWAMP!” Trump tweeted.

A two sentence item about a Trump tweet. CNN doesn't mention the issue at all

Fox covers the issue more in depth
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-selects-former-obama-admin-lawyer-left-wing-blogger-to-oversee-fbis-surveillance-reforms

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 01:22:29 No.530756 Report

Quoted By: >>530811 >>530812 >>531988 >>535710

>>530749
>I'm OUTRAGED that the media won't cover my wacky wingnut conspiracy theories
I thought breitbart existed for people like you to self-affirm.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 02:04:21 No.530783 Report

Quoted By: >>530814

>>530749

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/11/795566486/fbi-apologizes-to-court-for-mishandling-surveillance-of-trump-campaign-adviser

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/us/politics/fbi-fisa-court.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 02:13:06 No.530785 Report

Quoted By: >>530787

>>530749
>A two sentence item about a Trump tweet.
Did you just not read the article?

>In his tweet, Trump seemed to reference a Sunday morning interview between Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. On the show, Nunes accused Kris of “defending dirty cops” and “accusing [Nunes] of federal crimes.”
>“You can’t make it up,” Nunes said. “I guess we’re just going to have to abolish this whole FISA system at this point and try to build something new.”
>FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is the 1978 law that undergirds national security investigations and governs surveillance undertaken in the United States and of U.S. people abroad.
>Kris is a respected former assistant attorney general for national security who has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He is one of several “amici” or experts named to advise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on complex cases, and he co-authored what is considered the definitive treatise on national security surveillance law — “National Security Investigations and Prosecutions.”
>The court’s presiding judge, James E. Boasberg, on Friday named Kris to help the court assess the steps the FBI has taken and plans to take to address the flaws exposed by Inspector General Michael Horowitz in his review last month of a wiretap application for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 02:15:26 No.530787 Report

Quoted By: >>530788

>>530785
>“David is a true national security professional and has served the Justice Department with great distinction under both Democratic and Republican administrations,” said Kenneth Wainstein, a former assistant attorney general for national security under the George W. Bush administration, and a former FBI general counsel. “There is nobody who knows more or cares more about our national security processes, their effectiveness and adherence to our laws and constitution.”
>Nunes’s ire at Kris was provoked by comments Kris made in blog posts after Nunes released a memo in 2018 alleging FBI and Justice Department abuses in seeking to wiretap Page as a suspected agent of the Russian government.
>“The Nunes memo was dishonest. And if it is allowed to stand, we risk significant collateral damage to essential elements of our democracy,” Kris wrote on the blog Lawfare.
>Kris also took issue with Nunes’s claim then that the FBI misled the court about Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was a source of information in the wiretap application and renewal requests. “Today we know that it was not true,” wrote Kris, who in the early 2000s was involved in creating new FBI rules to make national security wiretap applications more accurate.
>Horowitz’s report, however, concluded that Steele’s information “played a central and essential role” in the decision to seek a wiretap on Page.
>“If David was guilty of anything, it was the sin of assuming that everyone in government has the same integrity and good faith that he does,” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “There is an important lesson here that some of us have been warning about for years — about not being quite so forgiving of the government.’’

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 02:17:02 No.530788 Report

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>>530787
>Kris is not shy about criticizing the government when he feels it is overstepping legal bounds. In 2006, he publicly rebuked the Bush administration over its legal justifications for warrantless domestic wiretapping.
>“But that is all the more reason why David’s the right person for this new role,” Vladeck said, “because unlike someone who’s going to come in as a natural critic, David is someone who is going to understand what the real problems are and what the invented ones are.”
>Kris was asked to submit his assessment to the court by Jan. 31.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 03:25:13 No.530811 Report

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>>530756
It's not a competent theory. It's the findings of the IG.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 03:26:24 No.530812 Report

Quoted By: >>530931

>>530756
>media won't cover
It's not a conspiracy theory. It's the findings of the IG.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 03:37:54 No.530814 Report

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>>530783
DILATION INBOUND

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 14:55:29 No.530931 Report

Quoted By: >>530955 >>530956 >>531092 >>531310

>>530812
>It's the findings of the IG.
No it isn't.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/internal-justice-watchdog-finds-russia-probe-was-justified-not-biased-n1098161

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 16:37:28 No.530955 Report

Quoted By: >>530981

>>530931
Nice try
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/4387545002
>Review of FBI's surveillance of Trump campaign aide doesn't 'vindicate anybody,' inspector general says

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 16:41:22 No.530956 Report

Quoted By: >>530981

>>530931
>No it isn't.
Yes it is, FISA documents were intentionally edited per the IG. Meaning anything found after said documents were edited is fruit of the poisonous tree.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 17:08:43 No.530974 Report

Quoted By: >>530977 >>530981

I think anyone with a brain can agree that given the facts, the investigation may have been legally initiated but it was more or less illegally continued

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 17:18:28 No.530977 Report

Quoted By: >>531520

>>530974
Hence why "fruit of the poisonous tree" exists as a legal concept.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 17:22:07 No.530981 Report

Quoted By: >>531019

>>530955
>opinion
lol here's another one
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/12/11/justice-department-fbi-inspector-general-crossfire-hurricane-fisa-horowitz-column/4390685002/

>>530956
No.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/474134-doj-inspector-general-refutes-trump-claim-that-obama-tapped-his

>>530974
>anyone with a brain
You aren't as smart as you think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 18:31:59 No.531019 Report

Quoted By: >>531164

>>530981
It was a direct quote from the ig, not someone's opinion
Cope harder with your seethe next time you need to dilate

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 22:34:13 No.531092 Report

Quoted By: >>531164

>>530931
You're bagging your claims on an interpretation by a known propagandists. Meanwhile, the actual report is literally the same one-click away.
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/o20012.pdf
Stop being manipulated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 00:21:54 No.531164 Report

Quoted By: >>531286

>>531019
Here's your direct quote from the IG:
>Review of FBI's surveillance of Trump campaign aide doesn't 'vindicate anybody,'
He's talking about Carter Page, not Comey.

>>531092
https://www.lawfareblog.com/thoughts-horowitz-report-part-ii-what-inspector-general-did-not-find
>During Horowitz’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this month, a number of Republican senators sought to retroactively morph his undoubtedly devastating findings with respect to the handling of the Page FISA application into support for the broader proposition that the FBI had been, in fact, politically targeting the Trump campaign. This understanding simply does not survive even a cursory reading of the report, which makes clear that the misconduct and errors found were confined largely to the handling of the Page FISA application, were confined to the line levels of the investigation, and, critically, did not involve investigative steps against the campaign itself or against people about whom there was no predicated investigation. It’s a feeble sort of witch hunt indeed that goes after only people against whom the FBI has a proper basis for conducting an investigation and uses against those people only lawful investigative tools.

an American citizen

an American citizen Tue 14 Jan 2020 00:50:15 No.531171 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 11:43:47 No.531286 Report

Quoted By: >>531291

>>531164
>Carter Page
>doesn't 'vindicate anybody,'
>not Comey
So you believe that Comey is above personhood?
>lawfareblog
READ THE FUCKING REPORT.
FORM YOUR OWN THOUGHTS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 12:03:00 No.531291 Report

Quoted By: >>535713

>>531286
I'd believe a patriot like Comey over a Russian tool like Page any day.
>READ THE FUCKING REPORT
Follow your own advice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 12:53:43 No.531310 Report

Quoted By: >>531311

>>530931
>The eternal Russian bogeyman

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 12:55:23 No.531311 Report

Quoted By: >>531515

>>531310
With good reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 20:27:58 No.531515 Report

Quoted By: >>531519

>>531311
>implying the russkies haven't been doing that for 70 plus years

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 20:35:22 No.531519 Report

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>>531515
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-not-soviet-union-27041

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 20:36:02 No.531520 Report

Quoted By: >>531535

>>530977
Unless its evidence that would likely have been obtained aside from the illegal search, which you'd know if you went to law school and weren't just repeating phrases you read.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 20:55:21 No.531535 Report

Quoted By: >>531720

>>531520
But the continuation of the search it's self was illegal, I believe is the point

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 05:31:33 No.531720 Report

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>>531535
The report specifically says the search was justified.

Sage

Sage Wed 15 Jan 2020 17:40:16 No.531988 Report

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>>530756
FPBP

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 18:08:40 No.532010 Report

Quoted By: >>532062

>>530749
Probably because this whole FISA fiasco is a nothingburger fueled by Qbrains

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 20:16:22 No.532062 Report

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>>532010
partisanry within the bureaucratic eunuchs is significant and worth paying attention to, anyone who studied byzantine history knows that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 20:19:32 No.532065 Report

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>mainstream media not covering
>cites wapo and fakenews

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 05:25:54 No.535680 Report

Quoted By: >>535683

WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE COMEY COVERUP UNRAVELS
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-comey-coverup-unravels-11579304278
In a curious report on Thursday evening, The New York Times carefully averts its eyes from everything that’s interesting. Even Adam Schiff has acknowledged that James Comey’s actions in 2016 may represent the most important and significant Russian influence on the election. (Hoist your shot glass. This will be the umpteenth time I’ve quoted Mr. Schiff on this matter in this column.)

Surely one of the most consequential pieces of intelligence ever received by U.S. agencies was, as we now learn, received in early 2016 from a Dutch counterpart. This is the dubious Russian intelligence that set off Mr. Comey’s multiple interventions in the last presidential race, culminating in an improper act that may have inadvertently elected Donald Trump. Even at the time Mr. Comey’s FBI colleagues considered the intelligence, which indicated questionable actions by the Justice Department to fix the Hillary email investigation, to be false, possibly a Russian plant.

The Times adds the unsurprising revelation that Mr. Comey himself is suspected in the illegal leak that, in early 2017, alerted the media to this untold aspect of his 2016 actions, before the matter disappeared again behind a veil of official secrecy. Yet bizarrely, the paper plays down its scoop, suggesting that any inquiry into a “years-old” leak now can only be a political hit job by an “ambitious” Justice Department attorney seeking to please President Trump.

First of all, I doubt this subject pleases Mr. Trump—it re-raises the question of whether his election was an accident caused by Mr. Comey. Second, the information is obviously important. The scandal hiding in plain sight is our intelligence establishment’s misuse of its authority to muck around in the 2016 election.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 05:38:43 No.535683 Report

Quoted By: >>535684 >>535692 >>536144

>>535680
MAYBE YOU SHOULD POST THE ORIGINAL NYT STORY INSTEAD OF AN OPINION ARTICLE ABOUT THE STORY????

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 05:41:13 No.535684 Report

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>>535683
lol you tell 'em Anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 06:02:19 No.535692 Report

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>>535683
NYT is paywalled

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 07:39:30 No.535710 Report

Quoted By: >>535763

>>530756
>illegal mass surveillance is a conspiracy
good lord dude you are approaching peak retardation

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 07:42:00 No.535712 Report

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>>531171
based

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 07:43:10 No.535713 Report

Quoted By: >>535716

>>531291
a patriot lmao he let hillary off the hook, a patriot would've stood up to the powers that told him to shut it down regardless of the consequences, he is a fuckin pussy with no integrity, fuck comey

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 08:11:14 No.535716 Report

Quoted By: >>535719 >>535766

>>535713
Hillary was let off the hook because she didn't do anything wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 08:39:41 No.535719 Report

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>>535716
And because she a hit squad on speed dial.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 10:47:45 No.535763 Report

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>>535710
He probaly thinks that Snowden only wanted to make himself famous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 10:49:29 No.535766 Report

Quoted By: >>536148

>>535716
Comely didn't say that. Comely said, "No credible prosecutor would try this case." he didn't say the case wasn't credible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 19:53:10 No.536144 Report

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>>535683
Agree. Here's a (you) for your mantle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2020 20:10:49 No.536148 Report

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>>535766
Comey did say that, you left out the next sentence. Context is important
>"No reasonable prosecutor would try this case. (because it) does not rise to the level of a criminal offense."

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2020 00:01:48 No.537003 Report

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swamp swamp swamp

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jan 2020 08:43:39 No.537003,1 Report Delete

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Americans think tyranny is perfectly acceptable now because the US has been a police state for 20 years.

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