FISA warrants and Team Trump spying: What did OBAMA know and when did he know it?
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, February 04, 2018
More information continues to be revealed and released following Friday’s publication of the scandal-filled FISA memo.
It has now become clear that there is very likely a direct link from the FISA warrant approval process to the former president of the United States, Barack Obama.
Here’s an analysis not only of how the FISA warrant process works and who is involved, but how the information regarding current counterintelligence investigations, FISA warrant applications, and approval processes are relayed daily to the sitting president.
Let’s begin here. As ABC News reports:
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, commonly referred to as the “FISA Court,” is a secret tribunal with legal authority to grant (or deny) warrants for electronic surveillance against would-be spies or terrorists.
The court — made up of 11 federal judges, serving 7-year terms and selected by the chief justice of the Supreme Court — meets in private, sometimes in the middle of the night. FISA targets are highly classified.
More than a thousand applications for electronic surveillance, all signed by the attorney general, are submitted each year, and the vast majority are approved.
The Obama administration issued a blanket denial after President Donald J. Trump claimed he was “wiretapped” by his predecessor March 2017:
“A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
But changes made to the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 — via the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (and renewed in December 2012) give presidents and the intelligence community much more latitude when it comes to surveillance of “foreign” persons.
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