Protesters Surround Cop’s Home After Video Showed Him Arrest Mom for Bringing Kids to Park
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/protesters-cops-home-arrested-mom-park/
WATCH: Tucker Carlson says Trump’s original immigration order was GUTTED and explains what happened…
https://therightscoop.com/watch-tucker-carlson-says-trumps-original-immigration-order-was-gutted-and-explains-what-happened/
Rachel Maddow Calls The Timely Arrival Of Navy Hospital Ships ‘Nonsense’
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/30/rachel-maddow-calls-the-timely-arrival-of-navy-hospital-ships-nonsense/
Rachel Maddow said Trump’s promise that USNS Comfort would soon be in NYC was NONSENSE
https://therightscoop.com/watch-rachel-maddow-said-trumps-promise-that-usns-comfort-would-soon-be-in-nyc-was-nonsense/
Texas Court Says City, PD Must Answer Questions About Botched Drug Raid Led By A Crooked Cop
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200329/16403844194/texas-court-says-city-pd-must-answer-questions-about-botched-drug-raid-led-crooked-cop.shtml
Judge Benchslaps Cops And Courts For Turning Law Enforcement Lies Into 'Objectively Reasonable' Mistakes
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200329/14332944193/judge-benchslaps-cops-courts-turning-law-enforcement-lies-into-objectively-reasonable-mistakes.shtml
New Inspector General's Report Finds Even More Problems With The FBI's FISA Surveillance Applications
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200401/13263244214/new-inspector-generals-report-finds-even-more-problems-with-fbis-fisa-surveillance-applications.shtml
Court Tells Lying Cops That Someone Asserting Their Rights Isn't 'Reasonably Suspicious'
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200328/13175844188/court-tells-lying-cops-that-someone-asserting-their-rights-isnt-reasonably-suspicious.shtml
Court To Cops: No Expectation Of Privacy In A 'Beer-Drinking, Nap-Taking Hideout'
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200323/11502944151/court-to-cops-no-expectation-privacy-beer-drinking-nap-taking-hideout.shtml
Major Errors Found In All 29 of the FISA Warrants The IG Has Reviewed
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/386609.php#386609
AG Bill Barr: John Durham Isn't Writing a Report, He's Writing Indictments
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/386792.php#386792
The New York Times Lies About Why It Pushed the Christine "Blowsey" Ford Story But Covered Up the Tara Reade Allegation
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/386829.php#386829
Even more on the NY Times’ hypocrisy over Biden, Kavanaugh allegations
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/04/15/even-ny-times-hypocrisy-biden-kavanaugh-allegations/
Don’t Let The Washington Post Get Away With Memory-Holing Its Anti-Kavanaugh Campaign
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/20/dont-let-washington-post-get-away-with-memory-holing-its-anti-kavanaugh-campaign/
Get Rid of the FISA Court. It Is a Star Chamber, Nothing More. And It’s Unconstitutional As Hell
http://www.dailypundit.com/dailypundit.wordpress/2020/03/31/get-rid-of-the-fisa-court-it-is-a-star-chamber-nothing-more-and-its-unconstitutional-as-hell/
Barr: “No basis” for Crossfire Hurricane, “one of the greatest travesties in American history”
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/04/09/barr-no-basis-crossfire-hurricane-one-greatest-travesties-american-history/
It’s Official: Every Aspect of Crossfire Hurricane Was Shady
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/its-official-every-aspect-of-crossfire-hurricane-was-shady/
DOJ IG Report: “We do not have confidence that the FBI” acted “in compliance with FBI policy” on FISA applications
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/03/doj-ig-report-we-do-not-have-confidence-that-the-fbi-acted-in-compliance-with-fbi-policy-on-fisa-applications/
Latest Inspector General Report Slams Comey’s FBI For Massive Failures To Document FISA Claims
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/latest-inspector-general-report-slams-comeys-fbi-for-massive-failures-to-document-fisa-claims/
Ben Mankiewicz’s heroes
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/ben-mankiewiczs-heroes.php
The Attorney General Defends Civil Liberties Against Overreaching COVID-19 Control Measures
https://reason.com/2020/04/22/the-attorney-general-defends-civil-liberties-against-overreaching-covid-19-control-measures/
Teenager Threatened with Arrest for Posting About Being Sick with Covid-19
https://reason.com/2020/04/22/teenager-threatened-with-arrest-for-posting-about-being-sick-with-covid-19/
"I Suppose You Legally Have a Right Not to Give Your ID [to Police],"
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/i-suppose-you-legally-have-a-right-not-to-give-your-id-to-police/
Total Authority
https://reason.com/2020/04/14/total-authority/
Lawsuit Against Fox for Its Coronavirus Coverage
https://reason.com/2020/04/03/lawsuit-against-fox-for-its-coronavirus-coverage/
Using Vulgarities When Speaking to a Police Officer Isn't a Crime
https://reason.com/2020/03/30/using-vulgarities-when-speaking-to-a-police-officer-isnt-a-crime/
As The Goldbergs Flip, The Sham Is Revealed
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/04/14/as-the-goldbergs-flip-the-sham-is-revealed/
Due Process And The Biden Exception
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/04/08/due-process-and-the-biden-exception/
Seaton: When Title IX Meets COVID-19
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/04/03/seaton-when-title-ix-meets-covid-19/
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
In case Dayvoe disappears his defence of the Carter Page FISA warrant.
Take a look at this, from the Washington Post:
The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.
This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor. Of course Page calls it "unjustified, politically motivated government surveillance."
But let's take a look at the FISA Court anyway, shall we? What does it take to get a FISA Court to OK some surveillance?
From CNN:
The FISA Court's larger mission is to decide whether to grant certain types of government requests-- wiretapping, data analysis, and other monitoring for "foreign intelligence purposes" of suspected terrorists and spies operating in the United States.
The once-secret approval of collecting bits and pieces of information from electronic communications -- called metadata -- comes quarterly from judges at the court. To collect the information, the government has to demonstrate to a judge that it is "relevant" to an international terrorism investigation. And who's on this court? Again, CNN:
The court is made up of 11 judges who sit for seven-year terms. All are federal district judges who agree to take on the additional duties on a rotating basis. They are appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts, without any supplemental confirmation from the other two branches of government. Roberts has named every member of the current court, as well as a separate three-judge panel to hear appeals known as the Court of Review. So ALL the judges are Roberts approved.
Back to the Washington Post:
The judges who rule on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests oversee the nation’s most sensitive national security cases, and their warrants are some of the most closely guarded secrets in the world of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence gathering. Any FISA application has to be approved at the highest levels of the Justice Department and the FBI.
Applications for FISA warrants, [FBI Director James] Comey said, are often thicker than his wrists, and that thickness represents all the work Justice Department attorneys and FBI agents have to do to convince a judge that such surveillance is appropriate in an investigation. I hardly think a "politically motivated" and "unjustified" FISA warrant application from the Obama DOJ is going to make it past all those levels of guv'ment bureaucracy - especially not all those FISA judges appointed by the conservative Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts.
And now onto that thought experiment: Imagine if she won the electoral college and someone (anyone) attached to the Clinton campaign was under similar surveillance. Imagine the calls for impeachment that would have inevitably risen up out of the otherwise freedom loving conservatives on the right side of our nation's political discourse. Where there's silence from the right now, there would have been riots and burning effigies.
Forget the damned emails, this is treason!
But that's a different timeline, a different reality. And in this reality, different rules obviously apply.
The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
The FBI and the Justice Department obtained the warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.
This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents. Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor. Of course Page calls it "unjustified, politically motivated government surveillance."
But let's take a look at the FISA Court anyway, shall we? What does it take to get a FISA Court to OK some surveillance?
From CNN:
The FISA Court's larger mission is to decide whether to grant certain types of government requests-- wiretapping, data analysis, and other monitoring for "foreign intelligence purposes" of suspected terrorists and spies operating in the United States.
The once-secret approval of collecting bits and pieces of information from electronic communications -- called metadata -- comes quarterly from judges at the court. To collect the information, the government has to demonstrate to a judge that it is "relevant" to an international terrorism investigation. And who's on this court? Again, CNN:
The court is made up of 11 judges who sit for seven-year terms. All are federal district judges who agree to take on the additional duties on a rotating basis. They are appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts, without any supplemental confirmation from the other two branches of government. Roberts has named every member of the current court, as well as a separate three-judge panel to hear appeals known as the Court of Review. So ALL the judges are Roberts approved.
Back to the Washington Post:
The judges who rule on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests oversee the nation’s most sensitive national security cases, and their warrants are some of the most closely guarded secrets in the world of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence gathering. Any FISA application has to be approved at the highest levels of the Justice Department and the FBI.
Applications for FISA warrants, [FBI Director James] Comey said, are often thicker than his wrists, and that thickness represents all the work Justice Department attorneys and FBI agents have to do to convince a judge that such surveillance is appropriate in an investigation. I hardly think a "politically motivated" and "unjustified" FISA warrant application from the Obama DOJ is going to make it past all those levels of guv'ment bureaucracy - especially not all those FISA judges appointed by the conservative Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts.
And now onto that thought experiment: Imagine if she won the electoral college and someone (anyone) attached to the Clinton campaign was under similar surveillance. Imagine the calls for impeachment that would have inevitably risen up out of the otherwise freedom loving conservatives on the right side of our nation's political discourse. Where there's silence from the right now, there would have been riots and burning effigies.
Forget the damned emails, this is treason!
But that's a different timeline, a different reality. And in this reality, different rules obviously apply.
High Lord Inquisitor and Factchecker of 2PJ. said...- "What does it take to get a FISA Court to OK some surveillance?"
Not much as the FISA court is a rubber stamp and despite the CNN puff piece and official trappings to pretend it respects Due process, they still keep approving the surveillance of all Americans.
"Forget the damned emails"
No, I will not forget the Clinton FOIA dodging illegal private email server.
- High Lord Inquisitor and Factchecker of 2PJ. said...
- https://twitter.com/ScottGreenfield/status/852157047407869952
@ScottGreenfield Watching @RachelMaddowSho last night, she stated "FISA warrants aren't easy to get." I laughed so hard I hurt myself. Ima sue.
- High Lord Inquisitor and Factchecker of 2PJ. said...
- Oh look the FISA warrants were based on the BS Trump Russian Peegate dossier.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/854464613211090945
@seanmdav
Obama's FBI/DOJ used made-up claims from a document paid for by a Super PAC donor to justify spying on a US citizen.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/838915513052954624
Sen. Grassley wants to know if the FBI used unsubstantiated claims in that garbage dossier to obtain FISA warrants.
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