Kev_Russell
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https://theintercept.com/2017/03/04...retapped-trump-can-declassify-that-right-now/
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So let's have it, little orange man. Declassify the order now and clear things up. If you have nothing to hide, you should have nothing to fear.
He also made a big mistake. Assuming the FISA order does exist, that means it was leaked by someone, the the mere presence of an order is supposed to be secret. By taking to the twitters while having his morning constitutional, he just made it so that no one can be prosecuted for the leak.
I wonder what you people see in this dummy.
According to a report in the BBC, citing unnamed sources, a joint government task force was formed in spring of 2016 to look into an intelligence report from a foreign government that Russian money was somehow coming into the U.S. presidential race. In June the Department of Justice, part of the task force, asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for a warrant to intercept electronic communications by two Russian banks (presumably involving communications with Americans, or else no warrant would be needed).
However, the BBC’s report says, the FISA court turned the application down, something it almost never does. The Justice Department then asked again in July with a more narrowly drawn request, which was again turned down. Justice then made a third request for a warrant on October 15, which was granted.
None of this involves wiretapping Trump Tower. However, it is possible that Trump picked that up from a Breitbart article that in turn relied on a Heat Street piece that claimed the warrant was issued because of evidence of links between a “private server in Donald Trump’s Trump Tower” and a Russian bank. In fact, the server in question, set up by a marketing company hired by Trump, was physically located in Philadelphia.
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The most likely explanation is that there was never any wiretapping of Trump Tower – or as Trump put it in another tweet, “my phones” — but the FISA court did allow surveillance of the Philadelphia server and the Justice Department ultimately decided there was nothing to it.
Or perhaps the Justice Department decided there was something to it and is still investigating it.
Or perhaps there were FISA court warrants but for surveillance of people around Trump that had nothing to do with the Philadelphia server and the Russian bank.
Or perhaps Trump never read the Breitbart article but instead learned there was significant surveillance of Trump Tower in the way you’d expect a president would, from the massive intelligence apparatus he commands.
Or perhaps Trump has simply gotten all of this wrong.
So let's have it, little orange man. Declassify the order now and clear things up. If you have nothing to hide, you should have nothing to fear.
He also made a big mistake. Assuming the FISA order does exist, that means it was leaked by someone, the the mere presence of an order is supposed to be secret. By taking to the twitters while having his morning constitutional, he just made it so that no one can be prosecuted for the leak.
I wonder what you people see in this dummy.