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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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.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/proof-russia-not-hack-dnc/241185/

“Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,” Murray said. “The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.

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:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/perkins-coie-lawyer-michael-sussmanns-coor...

Perkins Coie Lawyer Michael Sussmann’s Coordinated Leaks…
BY JEFF CARLSON
October 4, 2018 Updated: October 9, 2018

… Although the DNC has claimed that the actual date of the hack was April 18, 2016, alleged detection did not occur until April 28, 2016. Immediately following the alleged discovery, DNC CEO Amy Dacey called Sussmann at Perkins Coie. After speaking with Dacey, Sussmann contacted Shawn Henry, CSO and president of CrowdStrike...

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:

https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/15/the-uncovering-section-702-abo...

… A compressed timeline:

November 2015-April 2016 – The FBI and NSD uses private contractors to access raw FISA information using “To” and “From” FISA-702(16) & “About” FISA-702(17) queries.
February/March 2016 – Trump’s securing of GOP nomination seen as probable.
April 2016 – NSA Director Rogers orders NSA compliance officer to run full audit on 702 NSA compliance.
April 18 2016 -Mike Rogers shuts down FBI/DOJ contractor access to the FISA Search System.
April 18 2016 – The FBI discontinues private contractor access to raw FISA information.
April 19 2016 – Wife of Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS) Mary Jacoby visits White House.
Late April 2016 – Clinton Campaign begins paying Fusion GPS.
April/May 2016 – Fusion GPS hires Christopher Steele.
April/May 2016 – Fusion GPS hires Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ Assoc. Deputy AG Bruce Ohr.
May 2016 – Trump becomes presumptive GOP Nominee.
May 23 2016 – Nellie Ohr applies for a HAM Radio license.
June 2016 – FBI Agent Peter Strzok – and possibly DOJ’s Bruce Ohr – meet with Christopher Steel.
June 9 2016 – Glenn Simpson meets with Natalia Veselnitskaya before Trump Jr. meeting.
June 9 2016 – meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Rinat Akhmetshin and Natalia Veselnitskaya.
June 9 2016 – Glenn Simpson meets again with Natalia Veselnitskaya after Trump Jr. meeting.
June 15 2016 – FBI Agent Strzok changes wording of Clinton charges from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless”.
June 27 2016 – AG Loretta Lynch has secret meeting with Bill Clinton on tarmac.
Late June 2016 – First draft of Trump Dossier shared w/Fusion & possibly FBI’s Strzok.
Late June 2016 – First FISA 702 Surveillance Authority request made. It is denied.
July 2 2016 – FBI Agent Strzok interviews Hillary Clinton.
July 5 2016 – FBI Director Comey exonerates Clinton.
July 19, 2016 – Trump officially becomes GOP Nominee.
July 24 2016 – Clinton Campaign manager Robbie Mook suggests Russian Government is behind release of DNC emails.
Mid/Late July 2016 – FBI begins counter-intelligence investigation into Russia and Trump.
Late July – Second draft of Trump Dossier shared with FBI.
August 2016 – Strzok sends “insurance policy” text referencing Deputy FBI Director McCabe.
August/September 2016 – CIA Director Brennan meets with Gang of Eight suggesting Russia is helping Trump.
Late Summer/Early Fall 2016 – Trump Dossier shopped.
September 5 2016 – Hillary Clinton accuses Russia of interfering with U.S. election.
Late September 2016 – Second FISA 702 Surveillance Authority request made.
September 26 2016 – John Carlin, head of DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD), admits to FISC that surveillance included Obama’s political opponents.
September 27 2016 – John Carlin, head of DOJ’s NSD and involved with FISA requests, announces he is resigning.
Early October 2016 – Bruce Ohr meets with Dossier author Christopher Steele.
Early October 2016 – Bruce Ohr meets with Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS).
October 2016 – FISA 702 Surveillance Authority request is granted. No evidence is found but surveillance continues – ostensibly for national security reasons.
October 20 2016 – NSA Rogers briefed by NSA compliance officer on 702 NSA compliance audit.
October 21 2016 – NSA Rogers shuts down all “About Query” activity. Permanently. Reports activity to DOJ and prepares to go before FISA Court.
October 26 2016 – NSA Rogers personally informs FISA Court of 702(17) violations.
Late October 2016 -Defense Secretary Ash Carter and DNI James Clapper recommend to Obama that Admiral Mike Rogers be removed as director of NSA.
October 2016 – The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using federal intelligence services.
November 17 2016 – NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers travels to see President-Elect Donald Trump.
November 17 2016 – Trump Transition Team announces they are moving to Trump National Golf Club.
November 19 2016 – Washington Post reports a recommendation made by DNI Clapper in October that Mike Rogers be removed from his NSA position.

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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.

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