NSA Director Rogers Disclosed FISA Abuse Days After Carter Page FISA Was Issued
This goes to show what kind of man Obama really is. All these things I’ve posted about today happened during his administration. He is responsible for getting the Intelligence agencies involved in this 2-year long RUSSIAN! ‘collusion’ investigation. (Yeah, this guy really deserves a shrine.) This is particularly egregious. He gave outside ‘actors’ access to the inner workings of our most secret intelligence apparatus. It couldn’t have been done without his help and blessing. THIS (IMO) is a big part of why so many are so desperate to push this RUSSIA!!! crap. His legacy and legend are in danger. Who wants to build a shrine for someone who betrayed them all so shamefully?
NSA Director Rogers Disclosed FISA Abuse Days After Page Warrant Was Issued
On March 9, 2016, Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight personnel learned that the FBI had been employing outside contractors who had access to raw Section 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data, and retained that access after their work for the FBI was completed.
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That wasn’t an isolated incident and the improper access granted to outside contractors “seems to have been the result of deliberate decisionmaking” (footnote – page 87).
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Following the discovery that outside contractors for the FBI were accessing raw FISA data, then-National Security Agency (NSA) Director Adm. Mike Rogers directed the NSA’s Office of Compliance to conduct a “fundamental baseline review of compliance associated with 702” at some point in early April 2016 (Senate testimony & page 83-84 of court ruling).
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On Sept. 26, 2016, NSD head John Carlin filed the government’s proposed 2016 Section 702 certifications. Carlin knew the general status of Rogers’s compliance review. The NSD was part of the review.
In his filing, Carlin failed to disclose a Jan. 7, 2016, Inspector General report that was highly critical of agency controls for monitoring query compliance. Carlin also failed to disclose the FBI’s use of private contractors and Rogers’s ongoing compliance review.
On Sept. 27, 2016, the day after he filed the annual certifications, Carlin announced his resignation, which would become effective on Oct. 15, 2016.
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Carlin had to be aware of the FISA application on Page that was being prepared by the FBI. His lack of disclosure of the FISA abuses in the annual Section 702 Certifications paved the way for the Page application to pass. The FBI and the DOJ’s NSD were literally racing against Rogers’s investigation in order to obtain the FISA warrant on Page.
As all of this was transpiring, then-DNI James Clapper and then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter submitted a recommendation that Rogers be removed from his position as NSA chief. The move to fire Rogers, which failed, originated sometime in mid-to-late October 2016—exactly when Rogers was preparing to present his findings to the FISA Court.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/nsa-director-rogers-disclosed-fisa-abuse-day...
Link to the April 26, 2017, FISA Court ruling that led to big changes in the way raw Section 702 FISA data are conducted:
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin...
Rogers went to FISA Court judge FISA Court’s presiding judge, Rosemary Collyer, the same judge that signed the original FISA warrant on Carter Page on Oct. 21, 2016. He informed her of the Section 702 abused three days after the original warrant on Carter Page was issued. That means that there are a significant number of people involved in this fraudulent activity that have known about it for a long time. Think about that. Without Rogers actions, these criminal acts would still be buried, and I think it’s likely that the Clinton Creature would have her big caboose parked in the Oval Office today because the last thing he did was...
On the morning of Nov. 17, 2016, Rogers traveled to meet President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team at Trump Tower, but didn’t inform DNI Clapper about the meeting. That evening, the Trump team announced they were moving all transition activity to Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.
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Snoopydawg originally provided a link to Clapper’s admission that it was Obama that got the Intelligence community involved in the RUSSIA!!! ‘Investigation’ in the first place. It was a video included in a Tweet that no longer exists (surprise surprise) but I have a link where Clapper says the same thing in an Anderson Cooper interview:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/24/clapper_obama_ordered_...
The only ‘shrine Obama’s deserves (IMO) is a new penitentiary to house himself, The Clinton Creature, and all the other seditionists who tried to first steal the election and then, when that failed, delegitimize the administration of the new duly elected President of the United States. YMMV.
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Great job, Amanda!
I fall on my sword regarding Obama.
I allowed all my misgivings about him to be overridden by my glee in watching people in my community whom I believe are either in the KKK,or in sympathy with it, to vomit when he made a speech.
Now, I realize it was always about the PTB, and there is no difference between the harm he did to the right or to the left.
They hate him because he was an "n".
I dislike him because he was a constitutional law professor who picked and chose those portions of the Constitution that benefitted the PTB while signing those executive orders.
It is obviously more difficult to vote in a manner to right the wrong than it is to make your friends and yourself shitty rich if you get the chance while in a seat of power and influence.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The interesting thing
about NSA Director Rogers' investigation of FBI surveillance and FISA abuse, for me, is the timing with respect to Wikileaks' release of the DNC emails.
Rogers became aware of FBI abuse and began scrutinizing it in April 2016. The DNC says their email server was hacked in April 2016, upon which they immediately called their legal counsel and started the Russiagate story.
Craig Murray, envoy for Wikileaks and former UK ambassador, said that the leaker of the DNC emails had legal access to them.
Since reading that statement by Murray I have thought it was possible the leaker of the DNC emails was someone in law enforcement with access under a warrant. The emails show evidence of money laundering by the DNC, among other possible crimes, such as voter suppression.
So I wonder if realization that the DNC was under surveillance, legal or otherwise, and that emails were leaked to Wikileaks, and that the NSA Director had suddenly discovered the FBI was abusing surveillance, are all somehow connected. The DNC's behavior suggests that to me:
Someone with legal access to the DNC emails leaked them to Wikileaks. NSA Director Rogers discovered the FBI surveillance abuse and shut it down. The DNC immediately contacted their legal counsel who began the Russiagate story. Look at this sequence of events:
Thank you. It’s much easier to understand
When it’s put in a time line. Too bad those people didn’t work as hard for us as they did for themdelves. If not for Rogers...
No matter how you look at it, we were screwed either way.
Trump needs to quit listening to people like his son and son-in-law and find someone who’s not a slumlord or a general nuisance and who are both predators in their own particular way. Just like Trump. And his military needs to realize that they aren’t threatening a Third World nation. RUSSIA!!! can shoot back.
Clinton would already have the missiles armed and in the silos long before now.
Heads I win, tails you lose,
EDIT: deleted previous edit.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa