Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight

Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by chrisco255 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:19PM (#22378202)

You understand that the Obama administration oversaw an illicit investigation of a political rival on the basis of the Steele dossier, which was bought and paid for by the DNC. The FBI and CIA knew the Russia narrative was false and pushed it anyways. Look if you need a Progressive source for this info because you can't appreciate alternative points of view, then Jimmy Dore did a very good job of breaking it down:

https://youtu.be/HjPgO57AzjQ

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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by amanaplanacanal on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:39PM (#22379303)

I believe that investigation started before the Steele dossier. Steele was fuel on an already raging fire.

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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by dwmcqueen on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:06PM (#22380395)

I forget how much Carter Page was a political rival of Barack Obama somehow.

Thanks for the reminder.

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Re:Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight by burfog on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:27AM (#22381712)

Carter Page was not the real target.

FISA warrants cover two hops. If person Y communicates with both X and Z, a FISA warrant on person X will allow spying on person Z. In this case person X is Carter Page, and person Z is Donald Trump. It is certain that a suitable person Y exists. Such a person would be anybody who communicated, no matter how briefly, with both Carter Page and Donald Trump. Numerous journalists would qualify as person Y.

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