State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield

Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by ausbah on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:26AM (#24696965)

The FBI instantiated investigations against several individuals in the Trump campaign in 2016-2017 due to suspected ties between them and the Russian government. [0] Of those investigated, all but one were convicted - not of collusion, but for lying to investigators and obstruction among other things.

However I think insinuating a lack of oversight or ulterior political motives is wrong. A counter-investigation by Trump's DoJ found that the initial motives for the investigation were solid, but did note a number of errors made in the process. In fact, one FBI lawyer who lied during the investigation has been charged. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_inves...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/politics/horowitz-hearing-rus...

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by m0zg on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:30PM (#24703126)

CNN is not a legitimate news source.

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by tehwebguy on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:49PM (#24710764)

Your reductive opinion of CNN does not change the underlying facts that OP stated.

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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield by m0zg on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @08:47PM (#24714517)

It kinda does, though. The "Trump's DOJ" investigation into these matters is not over. In fact it's barely entering its active phase, with declassifications etc. Charges won't be pressed until after election at this point, but there certainly will be charges. Yet if you only watch CNN, you could be misled into believing that the Obama FBI was beyond reproach and it's all over by now.

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