This calls for an investigation

[Darth Omar]

The secret court that oversees government snooping took the Obama administration to task late last year, suggesting it created "a very serious Fourth Amendment issue" by violating rules the government itself had implemented regarding the surveillance of Americans.

According to top-secret documents made public by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – often referred to as the FISA court – the government admitted that, just days before the 2016 election, NSA analysts were violating surveillance rules on a regular basis. This pattern of overreach, coupled with the timing of the government’s disclosure, resulted in an unusually harsh rebuke of the administration’s practices and principles.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...icans-journo-says-it-proves-wide-pattern.html
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Obama administration rebuked by the FISA Court for snooping on US citizens: the NSA was burning the midnight oil surveilling just days before the 2016 election. I wonder who they were 'wire tapping'?

This calls for an investigation. It would be over in three days and they would conclude no wrong-doing by the previous administration but they should do it anyway.

Might as well go full banana republic.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

for those who object to a Fox source, here's the original document......
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Mempin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf

I find it interesting that the requests for surveillance were requested to cover the period of time ending October 26.......refresh my memory, did anything else happen on October 26?

also note that in the FIA released document that when the court actually gets down to saying what the IA did wrong, Page 90-92, three pages are totally redacted.......

 

[anatta]

still working on my coffee..I can't follow it yet. the Deep State has so many powers,and so many rules that they skate around.
They are out of control..who's gonna investigate the investigators? "Congressional oversight" is laughable

 

[anatta]

The secret court that oversees government snooping took the Obama administration to task late last year, suggesting it created "a very serious Fourth Amendment issue" by violating rules the government itself had implemented regarding the surveillance of Americans.

According to top-secret documents made public by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – often referred to as the FISA court – the government admitted that, just days before the 2016 election, NSA analysts were violating surveillance rules on a regular basis. This pattern of overreach, coupled with the timing of the government’s disclosure, resulted in an unusually harsh rebuke of the administration’s practices and principles.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...icans-journo-says-it-proves-wide-pattern.html
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Obama administration rebuked by the FISA Court for snooping on US citizens: the NSA was burning the midnight oil surveilling just days before the 2016 election. I wonder who they were 'wire tapping'?

This calls for an investigation. It would be over in three days and they would conclude no wrong-doing by the previous administration but they should do it anyway.

Might as well go full banana republic.

indeed. they are desperate to keep Section 702
the unmasking is what we thought is was -political in nature for leakage. The "minimization proceedures" are a joke. Then once the names are unmasked -bingo they get leaked
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according to the FISA Court documents just made public, the notifications sent to the NSA often led to the unmasking of American citizens caught up in monitoring. And as the court pointed out, many of the requests being made to unmask the Americans taking part in these communications were in direct violation of safeguards established by the Obama administration.

According to the FISA Court documents, so-called “minimization procedures” adopted in 2011 to curb unlawful surveillance “have prohibited use of U.S.-person identifiers to query the results of upstream Internet collections under Section 702.”

And, according to the government’s October 26, 2016 admission, “NSA analysts had been conducting such queries in violation of that prohibition, with much greater frequency than had been previously disclosed.”

The suspended surveillance program has been a target of fierce criticism from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as journalists and even Snowden.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, told Fox & Friends on Wednesday that the “terrible” program was basically “a back doorway to sort of get at Americans' privacy without using a warrant.”

When the NSA announced it was stopping certain Section 702 activities, Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said he had raised concerns for years “that this amounted to an end run around the Fourth Amendment.”

Snowden tweeted that the NSA’s actions represented “the most substantive of the post-2013 NSA reforms, if the principle is applied to all other programs.”

 

[Darth Omar]

still working on my coffee..I can't follow it yet. the Deep State has so many powers,and so many rules that they skate around.
They are out of control..who's gonna investigate the investigators? "Congressional oversight" is laughable

Trump may be the last best hope.

Of course, 'they' know that too so they're after him with both barrels. What they are trying to do amounts to a coup.

 

[anatta]

Trump may be the last best hope.

Of course, 'they' know that too so they're after him with both barrels. What they are trying to do amounts to a coup.

indeed it is a defacto coup..It's amazing the Dems are quiet. they have become utter statists.
They no longer care about privacy rights, warmongering by Hillary or much of anything
besides their Trump Derangement Syndrome..

At one time that party had a conscience-it's just junk politics now from both sides.
Rand Paul is one of the few sane one's left.

Deep State is running wild, unchecked