Incidental 702 surveillance.

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Originally posted by nedosionist at Incidental 702 surveillance.

(@ Politico) House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes declared Wednesday that members of Donald Trump’s transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under inadvertent surveillance following November’s presidential election.
.. he described the surveillance of Trump aides through what’s called “incidental collection,” something he noted was routine and legal. Such collection can occur when a person inside the United State communicates with a foreign target of U.S. surveillance. In such cases, the identities of U.S. citizens are supposed to be shielded — but can be “unmasked” by intelligence officials under certain circumstances. .. Nunes suggested this unmasking might have been done for political reasons, saying the evidence he had seen had been widely disseminated across the intelligence community and had "little or no apparent intelligence value." He added that he was trying to get more information by Friday from the FBI, CIA and NSA.

Казалось бы, если говорят что «легально» и «рутинно», и невинно звучащее «попутно собранное» - то в чем проблема?!
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“The warrantless surveillance conducted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is arguably worse than the collection of records authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act,” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said in a statement to The Intercept. [Jan-2016] “Unfortunately, closed committee sessions and insufficient congressional oversight contributed to the evolution of our unconstitutional surveillance state".

Gowdy: I guess what I'm getting at, Director Comey, is you say it's vital, you say it's critical, you say it's indispensable. We both know it's a threat to the reauthorization of 702 later on this fall. And by the way, it's also a felony punishable by up to 10 years.

Возражение Шиффа здесь для полноты картины, но оно в основном не по сути, а по процедуре.

Осажденная крепость

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Джон Дин был адвокатом Белого Дома, который в 1973 пошёл на сотрудничество с ФБР и комиссией, расследующей Уотергейт, и дал показания против Никсона. Его интерпретация нынешнего поведения администрации Трампа - параноидальная попытка прикрытия (cover-up).

"I was more stunned by the reaction of the White House and their handling of it, which seemed to me over-the-top," Dean said of the Trump administration's response to Monday's House intelligence committee hearing on the subject.
"In fact they are in a cover-up mode. There's just never been any question in my mind about that," Dean said. "I've been inside a cover-up. I know how they look and feel. And every signal they're sending is 'we're covering this up.'"
"This White House is not showing their innocence," he said. "They're showing how damn guilty they are, is what we're seeing."
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-21/nixon-counsel-during-watergate-says-trump-administration-showing-how-damn-guilty-they-are

Вчера на осажденную крепость были сброшены две бомбы. Одна из них - сообщение CNN о том, что у ФБР есть информация о координации избирательной кампании Трампа с Россией. В сообщении отсутствуют детали, но вывод однозначный и подтверждает предположения.

The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.
This is partly what FBI Director James Comey was referring to when he made a bombshell announcement Monday before Congress that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, according to one source.
The FBI is now reviewing that information, which includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings, according to those U.S. officials. The information is raising the suspicions of FBI counterintelligence investigators that the coordination may have taken place, though officials cautioned that the information was not conclusive and that the investigation is ongoing.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/us-officials-info-suggests-trump-associates-may-have-coordinated-with-russians/index.html

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Божья воля

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Крис Стюарт - республиканский конгрессмен из Юты, бывший военный пилот и автор популярных книжек вроде "Seven miracles that saved America". В книжке рассказывается про семь эпизодов в истории Америки, когда только чудо (вмешательство бога) спасло страну. Последний такой эпизод - чудо, которое спасло жизнь Рональду Рейгану после покушения 1981 г.

На слушаниях в Конгрессе состоялся любопытный диалог между Стюартом и Коми по поводу того, верили ли русские в победу Трампа.



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