FBI Ran Spy Operation Against Trump Campaign

Darth Omar said:
Which is a much bigger crime than perjury or even colluding with Russians.
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ROFL @ "collusion" what a bunch of stuff, They were out to spy on the campaign.
Remember when Trump said they thought they were spied on and everyone said said that's nuts??

well....
 
noise said:
Leakers to the New York Times confirmed in a story published on Wednesday that the FBI had run a spy operation on the Trump campaign that involved government informants, secret subpoenas, and possible wiretaps.

The story comes ahead of the release of the pending Department of Justice inspector general report on the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election, and likely is an attempt by the leakers to paint the FBI’s efforts in the most flattering light possible.

But the story revealed that the FBI – which is supposed to be an apolitical agency – was spying on the Trump campaign through phone records and with “at least one” human asset.

“The F.B.I. obtained phone records and other documents using national security letters — a secret type of subpoena — officials said. And at least one government informant met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos,” the Times reported, citing “current and former officials.”

The revelation of “at least one government informant” appears to confirm a Washington Post story last week in which leakers revealed that the FBI had a “top secret intelligence source” — a U.S. citizen who likely lived overseas — who had spied on members of the Trump campaign for the FBI.

The Post‘s report came out as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) was fighting the Justice Department for access to information on the source.

According to the Wall Street Journal‘s Kimberley Strassel, the source meant “the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.”

“This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting,” she wrote in a piece last Thursday.

The Times‘ story also seems to conflict with what the FBI has previously maintained — that the investigation into the Trump campaign began with information that Papadopoulos had told an Australian diplomat he knew that Russians had stolen emails that would be embarrassing for Clinton.

Leakers told the Times that “within hours” of opening the investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016, the FBI dispatched two agents to London to interview the Australian diplomat who had talked to Papadopoulos, meaning that the investigation had officially opened even before they interviewed him.

In fact, it was not until two days after the investigation began that the agents summarized their interview — which apparently “broke with diplomatic protocol” — and sent the summary back to Washington.

The Times‘ story glosses over this discrepancy by saying the agents’ report “helped provide the foundation” for the case – instead of sparked the case – as has been claimed.

Those facts appear to confirm that the FBI had opened the investigation on the Trump campaign based on other information — perhaps the “top secret intelligence source
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I think they're called Informants and if you're doing nothing wrong, there's nothing to inform on.
 
Bourbon said:
I think they're called Informants and if you're doing nothing wrong, there's nothing to inform on.
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I can see you're not big on reasonable suspicion..FISA warrants require a high degree of certainty,
but hey -what's the big deal?
 
noise said:
ROFL @ "collusion" what a bunch of stuff, They were out to spy on the campaign.
Remember when Trump said they thought they were spied on and everyone said said that's nuts??

well....
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Bullshit.
They were compelled to investigate.
There is no deep state conspiracy.

Why do you hate honesty?
 
noise said:
ROFL @ "collusion" what a bunch of stuff, They were out to spy on the campaign.
Remember when Trump said they thought they were spied on and everyone said said that's nuts??

well....
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They can still fall back on the claim Trump Tower wasn’t literally wiretapped lol.
 
Tranquillus in Exile said:
The question is why did the FBI start their Trump-Russia investigation. According to Nunes it was on the basis of "no intelligence". We are left to infer that it was because Comey et al. didn't like Trump and conspired to stop him (but, perplexingly, it wasn't made public until after the election).

You know what I think. The investigation was spurred by multiple, repeated warnings from friendly foreign intel agencies, and the FBI was slow off the mark.

But we'll see.
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It has already been revealed that no official channels were used to relay any intelligence. That is NOT how it's supposed to work. But of course leftist losers applaud any tyrannical action, as long as it hurts their political enemies. They are too myopic to realize these tables can be turned against them too.
 
countryboy said:
It has already been revealed that no official channels were used to relay any intelligence. That is NOT how it's supposed to work. But of course leftist losers applaud any tyrannical action, as long as it hurts their political enemies. They are too myopic to realize these tables can be turned against them too.
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Citation required.
In fact the info was treated so sensitively that it was passed Director to Director.

I encourage you to prove otherwise.
 
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