A new report released today features both the FBI seeking to launch a surveillance operation against an active US presidential campaign, and the ultra-rare case of the FISA courts actually turning down an FBI request to conduct surveillance against somebody.
The report, originating at the Guardian, claims that the FBI had sought broad surveillance powers over four high-ranking members of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign during the election, claiming them to have had contact with Russian officials. The FISA court turned the request down, telling investigators they needed to narrow the request.
Though the four are not directly named in the report, it is related to claims in a dossier of Russia having substantial blackmail dirt on Trump, and that dossier centered heavily around accusations against a handful of Trump campaign personnel, including Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, along with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, meaning some of them may well be among the targets.
Secondary reports speculated that the FBI may well have sought a more narrow application for surveillance, though details on that are even less clear than the previous reports. Though a lot of these reports don’t end up substantiated, if true this could well add to the expected acrimony between the incoming administration and the intelligence community.
Jan 3, 2017 – With Rule 41 the FBI Is Now Officially the Enemy of All Computer Users
Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original pirate party and head of privacy at PrivateInternetAccess com, joins us to discuss his recent article, “Today, the FBI becomes the enemy of every computer user and every IT security professional worldwide.”
https://youtu.be/OFOXbCYdrhc
Jun 4, 2015 Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
There’s an organization responsible for more terrorism plots in the United States than al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and ISIS combined: The FBI. How? Why?
https://youtu.be/SGG97dDfZ7E
Really, all that video is doing is blaming the FBI for being proactive against terrorism.
You will find that the majority of the American people are totally in favour of them doing just that. You’re really going off the wall and out of line on this one Crispus. Even though the biased schlunks on this site will love it.
You simply have to understand that the US created a situation in the ME that is resulting in lots of terrorists seeking revenge. The FBI made the choice to be proactive and save the people from the conswquences of revenge.
luv from Canada.
I am sure you would be better commenting on Canada and not the U.S. topics!
Apr 22, 2013 The Boston Bombing: What You Aren’t Being Told
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpu6_kArb9U
April 19, 2013 “Contractors” at Boston Marathon Stood Near Bomb
Left Before Detonation (Photos) Seen across street after blasts talking with FBI bomb squad. Who were they? What were they and the FBI doing?
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/04/contractors-at-boston-marathon-stood.html
April 17, 2013 ‘Chilling’ photo of man on roof sets off search for answers
When nearly a day passes after a tragedy like the Boston bombings without answers from authorities, not everyone is interested in leaving the investigation to the professionals. Case in point, Boston’s so-called “man on the roof”
http://www.smh.com.au/world/chilling-photo-of-man-on-roof-sets-off-search-for-answers-20130417-2hzd9.html
You were over the top with your conspiracy theories on the one by Trevor Aaronson so I’m not even going to look at the one on the Boston bombers. Credibility is important and you can win that or compromise it away with me.
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius
You were over the top with your conspiracy theories on the one by Trevor Aaronson so I’m not even going to look at the one on the Boston bombers. Credibility is important and you can win that or compromise it away with me.
Don, you are not that clever, so give it up. Stop pretending that you are what nobody thinks you are. Your arguments often do not hold water –.except when I position them from the perspective of a person who you try so hard to deny you are. Makes sense?
OK –lets do Boston. Two brats spoiled from the fact that their fsther and their uncle are CIA people. Father still in Russia pretending to be an activist, smells like a Soros. Uncle officially CIA , once stagioned in Kirgizstan, once married to CIA station chief’s daughter there. Currently in Maryland — supposedly keeping an eye on youngsters. They sere living alone, as their mother was caught shoplifting, and could not face the prosecution, fled home to Chechnya (it could be a neighboring state). The brothers joined Salafi center in Boston that is for years churning up Wahhabi clones, radical Salafi fundamentalist cults. The older went to Chechnya, and visited a well known Salafi radical there. And got attention of Russian intelligence. Why was not that taken serously? Of course not. The brothers living their whole life immersed in family devotion to anti-Russian activism — could not POSSIBLY be anti-American! Right? Wrong! Their life was by far more affected by permanently losing their mother.