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re: ‘Worse Than Watergate’: ‘Shocking’ House Intel Memo Allegedly Reveals FISA Abuse

Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:39 am to
Posted by Decatur
Member since Mar 2007
32762 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:39 am to
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Too easy to acquire warrants to wiretap.


Do you know what it takes to get an application approved?
Posted by mwade91383
Washington DC
Member since Mar 2010
7889 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:40 am to
Do they? For such big damaging news they sure don’t seem to give a shite. But I’m sure you’re right, they’re actually secretly trembling in fear.
Posted by TigerBait1971
PTC GA
Member since Oct 2014
16385 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:40 am to
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Do you know what it takes to get an application approved?


Pay $60k to an ex spook to create a fictional piss dossier?
Posted by mwade91383
Washington DC
Member since Mar 2010
7889 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:41 am to
Exactly, they actually talked about it. It MATTERED and they had to do damage control and spin.

What could possibly be different this time????
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
24273 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:42 am to
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How so?


Actual Abuse isn't evidence of its susceptibility of abuse?
Posted by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
14918 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:42 am to
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Do you know what it takes to get an application approved?

No, but I listened to Judge Andrew Napolitano speak on the matter and I suspect he knows more about the procedure than either of us.

He finds the courts willingness to bow to government demands to be both appalling and frightening.
Posted by TigerCoon
Member since Nov 2005
22476 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:45 am to
They hyperbole is stupid on both sides.

I get that transparency matters, but how does public opinion drive the fact pattern? Release the fricking memo, work through the facts, and let the chips fall.

Stop with the stupid predictions. These folks are like a bunch of teenage girls.
Posted by mmcgrath
Indianapolis
Member since Feb 2010
37341 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:45 am to
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This is LITERALLY WHAT IM WORRIED ABOUT. Swap out the word Nixon for Obama and you have your answer.
Nixon's abuses are a fact. Obama's only exist in your mind.

Now supposedly there is a memo written by Nunes that offers some evidence, but it is probably more unmasking nonsense.
Posted by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
14918 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:46 am to
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What could possibly be different this time????

If what we are hearing from the representatives, who have read the report and spoken about it, is accurate, then I suspect the news agencies that covered and protected both Obama and Clinton are in a somewhat state of shock at the moment.

The spin will come in time.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
89083 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:46 am to
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Nixon's abuses are a fact. Obama's only exist in your mind.


I don't think even you really believe that.
Posted by the LSUSaint
Member since Nov 2009
15444 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:47 am to
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He finds the courts willingness to bow to government demands to be both appalling and frightening.


Follow the money...I guarantee you the judge(s) were on the take as well. Investigate the judges that did the granting of the warrants....there will be some extra money in their dirty fricking hands....can't do thia shite without crooked judges.
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11873 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:48 am to
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No, but I listened to Judge Andrew Napolitano speak on the matter and I suspect he knows more about the procedure than either of us.


You might want to go a bit deeper than Fox News segments.

Here's a piece by a former FBI agent who now teaches national security law.

It Ain’t Easy Getting a FISA Warrant: I Was an FBI Agent and Should Know
Posted by Decatur
Member since Mar 2007
32762 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:49 am to
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Pay $60k to an ex spook to create a fictional piss dossier?


All factual assertions included in an application must be verified. This process goes through multiple levels of review.

If any facts from the Dossier were included in an approved application then that means the FBI was able to verify them and the court agreed.

Posted by Decatur
Member since Mar 2007
32762 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:50 am to
That’s a good one.
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
24273 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:51 am to
And yet the rate st which they are granted is 99 percent.

Doesn't sound too hard to me.
Posted by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
14918 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:51 am to
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the FBI was able to verify them and the court agreed.

And all we're hearing now is, "well it appeared to be true at the time." Yea

It doesn't matter if the FBI reviews id the FBI is part of the problem.
Posted by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
14918 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:53 am to
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It Ain’t Easy Getting a FISA Warrant: I Was an FBI Agent and Should Know

Check the approval rate and get back to me.
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
40817 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:53 am to
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If any facts from the Dossier were included in an approved application then that means the FBI was able to verify them and the court agreed.



Or they were all in bed together to spy on the opposition.
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11873 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:54 am to
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Doesn't sound too hard to me.


Read the article. They can't just staple the Steele Dossier to a "PLEASE FISA". Applications are vetted through DOJ before going to FISA court and are routinely kicked back to FBI when they're found wanting of insufficient evidence.
Posted by Colonel Flagg
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2010
23488 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 8:54 am to
The article doesn’t matter as the accusation is that the process was corrupted over this topic.
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