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Oh i have.....Patriot Act allows NSA to spy only on people that are foreigners, not US citizens. Only metadata can be collected on US citizens.

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The FISA warrant was originally submitted with Trump's name on it. Denied in summer '16. Resubmitted in Oct/ Nov absent Trump's name on it, but apparently, Manafort was the catalyst for the 2nd FISA application (that was approved). After they'd dropped the first IC surveillance on Manafort back in 2014/ 2015 for lack of evidence.

Trump lived in Trump Tower. The FISA warrant allows all and any communication/ video recording to be accumulated in Trump Tower with regard to Manafort. The 3 degrees of Paul Manafort thingy allowed by FISA/ IC collection of other people in communication with Manafort and whoever they communicate with. Get it? Political chicanery by the Obama justice department. And his National Security advisor.

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The FISA warrant was originally submitted with Trump's name on it. Denied in summer '16. Resubmitted in Oct/ Nov absent Trump's name on it, but apparently, Manafort was the catalyst for the 2nd FISA application (that was approved). After they'd dropped the first IC surveillance on Manafort back in 2014/ 2015 for lack of evidence.

Trump lived in Trump Tower. The FISA warrant allows all and any communication/ video recording to be accumulated in Trump Tower with regard to Manafort. The 3 degrees of Paul Manafort thingy allowed by FISA/ IC collection of other people in communication with Manafort and whoever they communicate with. Get it? Political chicanery by the Obama justice department. And his National Security advisor.

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Because Trump own DOJ already stated so?



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/02/doj-no-evidence-trump-tower-was-wiretapped.html

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Lol,  ok listen.  I understand how that would read to someone unfamiliar with how the feds talk about investigations,  but read it again,  VERY carefully.

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Manafort was suspected of being an "agent of a foreign government."

Per all of our discussions this year on this topic, that was how they were able to collect.

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haaaa ok Trumps own DOJ would try to cover up for Obama after Trump makes bold allegation....GOT IT!

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Hell he can't even read the Patriot Act.

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Have you been watching the news at all the last 6 months? People in this government have been "resisting" Trump the entire way to the point of releasing full transcripts of classified conversations. Damn dude,  I know Trumps not your guy but wake the fuck up

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yeees they are all against him, including his own DOJ appointees tasked with proving him correct........

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As I said in my edit: that statement says in fed speak,  "Obama didn't order it": why didn't they say no record of anyone ordering it?

"FBI and NSD don't have the records": instead of no record of this exists.  

See the difference?

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Sally Yates?

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CNN's still right.  Obama did not physically enter Trump Tower and attaching listening devices to Trump's communications equipment himself.

Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is calling on the Justice Department to release transcripts of any intercepted communications he may have had with foreigners.

Manafort, a longtime Republican political consultant, also called on the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the leak of details of secret surveillance warrants obtained by U.S. investigators.

“Mr. Manafort requests that the Department of Justice release any intercepts involving him and any non-Americans so interested parties can come to the same conclusion as the DOJ — there is nothing there,” Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni said in a statement.

On Monday, CNN reported that investigators obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Manafort prior to the presidential election. The wiretapping continued into early this year, according to CNN’s unnamed sources. (RELATED: Feds Wiretapped Paul Manafort Before And After The Election)

It is unclear whether the warrant was obtained before or after Manafort left the Trump campaign in August. According to CNN, the surveillance on Manafort, who has a residence in Trump Tower in New York, picked up conversations he had with Russian operatives about the election.

That was the second FISA warrant obtained by investigators against Manafort. The FBI also conducted surveillance on the longtime Republican operative during a 2014 investigation into his consulting work for a Ukrainian political party. That surveillance reportedly ended without charges being followed prior to Manafort joining the Trump campaign last May.

Manafort is currently at the center of a sprawling investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

That probe began as an inquiry into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government, but Mueller appears lately to have focused on Manafort’s business dealings. Mueller conducted an early-morning raid on Manafort’s Virginia residence at the end of July. The New York Times reported on Monday that Mueller, a former FBI director, told Manafort that he will be indicted.

Whether or not Manafort committed a crime — and he has not been charged with anything — the leak of information about FISA warrants is a federal crime, Maloni noted in his statement.

“If true, it is a felony to reveal the existence of a FISA warrant, regardless of the fact that no charges ever emerged,” Maloni said.

Information about FISA warrants is classified and tightly held by government officials and the federal judges that approve them. Unauthorized disclosures of FISA information is also a felony.

At a House Intelligence Committee hearing in March, then-FBI Director James Comey testified that the leak of FISA information is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

In his statement, Maloni called on the Justice Department’s watchdog to “immediately” open an investigation into the leak and to “examine the motivations behind the previous Administration’s effort to surveil a political opponent.”

Trump’s Justice Department has recently ramped up its efforts to get to the bottom of a spate of classified leaks. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are overseeing the effort, which includes a task force involving FBI agents.

The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment about the Manafort leak.

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LOL you seem not to be aware what roles NSD plays.....all while insisting that Trump's own DOJ is covering for the ex-boss (Obama) by lying to current boss (Trump) that employed them.  You live, breath and eat cognitive bias.

It's time to admit a defeat once the man's own admin is forced to admit that they have nothing to support the man's fairytales.....

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Any of you think the FBI, CIA, NSA or congress are going to admit to violating the 4th amendment?

Republicans are actively covering this up. There are maybe 5 members of congress trying to get to the truth out there and the rest are stabbing them in the back and contradicting their statements.

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We need a prison rope just for politicians.

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+1, thumbs up, all day long.

I'm aghast that anyone, anyone at all that calls themselves an American can't see this for what it is. If this path is left unpunished, there will be such abuse of this it will be biblical.

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Also for the record, Patriot Act allows NSA to spy only on people that are foreigners, not US citizens.

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so how is this not watergate? whose going to jail?

Long before the special counsel began investigating Russian meddling in the U.S. election -- and whether anyone in the Trump campaign was involved -- Paul Manafort was the target of an FBI investigation. It included electronic surveillance of the one-time Trump campaign chairman.

CBS News has learned that the surveillance on Manafort occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign.

According to a former U.S. official, the intercepts picked up conversations between Manafort and Russian individuals about the campaign. The intercepts potentially include conversations between Manafort and President Trump.

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Are you enjoying watching the country get torn apart ?

Why no outcry about possible violations by Dems?

I see way more probable cause to go after Clinton, Lynch, Rice, DWS et al.

Will you be happy if the Trump goes to jail? His family and every one around him destroyed or bankrupted trying to defend themselves in FISA court ?

You should read up on the staff getting dragged into this witch hunt. Not wealthy or powerful people either.




I'm seeing extra Constitutional bullshit every where the last 20 yrs. It angers and scares me at the same time.


I don't know you. But I dont like you.

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Manafort was suspected of being an "agent of a foreign government."

Per all of our discussions this year on this topic, that was how they were able to collect.