Two Possibilities in Trump Wiretapping, and Neither Is Good

[mystery-ak]

December 27, 2019
Two Possibilities in Trump Wiretapping, and Neither Is Good
By Frank Watt

The report of the I.G.'s findings on the use of FISA in the FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation is an outrage. As a 22 year FBI Agent, I have personally conducted multiple investigations using both Title III "wiretaps" and FISA authorized intercepts. From this perspective, I can only see two possible interpretations of the actions of the FBI and DOJ. Either scenario should anger and frighten every fair minded citizen who takes the time to read the report and understand its implications. To comprehend the magnitude of the wrongdoing, consider the following:

First, an American citizen, Carter Page, was targeted by our government for electronic surveillance under FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). Per the Act, his Fourth Amendment guarantee of privacy was judicially "suspended" to allow law enforcement to intercept and monitor his private communications. Ostensibly, the FISA court would allow this intrusion based on presented facts that indicated that Page was participating in an activity that was reasonably considered to be a threat to national security and was, in effect, the agent of a foreign power.

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[PeteS in CA]

Based on what we are told by the I.G., there are only two possible conclusions that can be reached regarding the official conduct of those responsible for infringing on Carter Pages Constitutional freedoms:

The first is that the hand selected team of investigators, attorneys, and Senior Executive Service officials with decades of law enforcement, administrative, and judicial experience were abject failures at a task that they were hired to perform. Speaking from personal experience, in FBI, DEA, and state and local wire tap investigations, the slightest omissions, misstatements, and clerical errors are routinely identified and corrected by the street agents and line prosecutors who do these investigations for a living. To believe that a "varsity level" team, with unlimited time, support, and resources, somehow inadvertently overlooked seventeen major omissions, misstatements, and/or outright falsehoods, is simply not believable.

The second possibility is that nearly everyone who significantly participated in obtaining FISA coverage on Page knowingly and deliberately operated outside the law to one degree or another. The reasons behind the decision to do so are irrelevant. The particulars regarding the seventeen I.G. findings are startling, taken individually. It's difficult to see how any of the individual omissions or misstatements could have happened accidentally. Viewed collectively, the apparent intentionality is nearly impossible to reconcile as anything but corruption.

The author offers two "possibilities", but opines that only one is credible, intentional violations of the law.

[240B]

Don't you all wish that we poor peasants could use the excuses of the seeming GODs who rule over us?

Hillary: Yes. What she did was completely illegal in every possible way. But, she's a nice old lady who didn't mean any harm so case dismissed.

Comey: Yes. What he did was completely and totally illegal in every possible way. But, we all make mistakes don't we? So, case dismissed.

When the ruling class gets caught in a blatantly, glaringly, illegal felony, it is a mistake. When any of us get caught doing something much, much, less serious, we go to prison. It must be good to be a King.

[Smokin Joe]

Don't you all wish that we poor peasants could use the excuses of the seeming GODs who rule over us?

Hillary: Yes. What she did was completely illegal in every possible way. But, she's a nice old lady who didn't mean any harm so case dismissed.

Comey: Yes. What he did was completely and totally illegal in every possible way. But, we all make mistakes don't we? So, case dismissed.

When the ruling class gets caught in a blatantly, glaringly, illegal felony, it is a mistake. When any of us get caught doing something much, much, less serious, we go to prison. It must be good to be a King.

But we have the best Justice system money can buy!