Saturday, December 23, 2017

I Remember When Intelligence Took Judiciary's "Big Red Bouncy FISA Ball"

The National Review did a very detailed timeline of the events leading up the FBI oversight hearings in Judiciary, but it left out a few juicy details.

Section 702 had been stripped from House Judiciary right around the time FISA authority was called into question by Conyers, the only member to speak upon the civil rights violations of unauthorized surveillance and call for the program to be shut down.

I remembered when it happened.

I used to make fun of Bachmann and Rogers on Intelligence of
taking my Sweetie's "Big, Red, Bouncy FISA Ball" and even offered to jump the committee fences and get it back for him.

So, the Judiciary home team needed to kick up its strategy and get the ball back, but not many were up for the task, for whatever reasons.

Conyers spoke fluently upon this issue of unprecendented surveillance of U.S. citizens, even with bipartisan support, because this direction of stripping civil rights were well placed in the PATRIOT Act.

“In sixteen days, three provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are set to expire,” said Conyers.  “It is clear that many members of both parties still have serious concerns about the PATRIOT Act, including these three provisions.  But instead of discussing these concerns, the majority has introduced legislation that would make the Lone Wolf authority permanent and extend the business records and roving wiretaps for six years.  Their bill would make no improvements to the PATRIOT Act.  It includes no new protections for privacy.  It requires no reporting to Congress.  I do not support this approach."


The PATRIOT Act was obviated about 10 years prior to its enactment as a well-crafted plan to implement privatization, or what I like to call "neofeudalism".

But alot more stuff happened right about the time the Big Red Bouncy FISA Ball was stripped from House Judiciary.

Give me a minute, I will start filling in the blanks.

Until then, enjoy the new way to preserve the annals of history, in real time.

Was the Steele Dossier the FBI’s ‘Insurance Policy’?

Clinton campaign propaganda appears to have triggered Obama administration spying on Trump’s campaign. 

The FBI’s deputy director Andrew McCabe testified Tuesday at a marathon seven-hour closed-door hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. 

According to the now-infamous text message sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, it was in McCabe’s office that top FBI counterintelligence officials discussed what they saw as the frightening possibility of a Trump presidency. 

That was during the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, no more than a couple of weeks after they started receiving the Steele dossier — the Clinton campaign’s opposition-research reports, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, about Trump’s purportedly conspiratorial relationship with Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia.

Was it the Steele dossier that so frightened the FBI? I think so.

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454909/trump-russia-collusion-fbi-investigation-steele-dossier-hillary-clinton-campaign

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