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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by howenterprisey on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:58PM (#27146627)
Just in case anyone sees that and thinks it was due to any sort of principles or concerns about mass surveillance, a quote from the article: "Thank you to our GREAT Republican Congressmen & Congresswomen on your incredibly important blockage last night of a FISA Bill that would just perpetuate the abuse that produced the Greatest Political Crime In the History of the U.S., the Russian Witch-Hunt. Fantastic Job!"
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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by koolba on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:04PM (#27146705)
Who would have a better understanding of the issue at hand than someone who’s campaign was spied on by political operatives leveraging FISA powers?
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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by howenterprisey on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:17PM (#27148706)
The campaign was certainly surveilled. Have you seen any indication it was unwarranted? I found https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/doj-fbi-review-of-s..., which suggests nothing untoward was going on. As I said, I don't think Trump was approaching this in a particularly well-considered way.
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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by koolba on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:22PM (#27148749)
> The campaign was certainly surveilled. Have you seen any indication it was unwarranted?

If it was any other campaign and there was sigint that a foreign power was trying to influence the campaign then they would have reached out to the candidate to alert him as such. But the intention here was not to prevent foreign tampering. It was to use the FISA process as an excuse to surveil the campaign wholesale.

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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by mtberatwork on Friday May 14, 2021 @07:15AM (#27152996)
That's not entirely true either. The Trump campaign did receive intelligence briefings in 2016 and there is evidence, although no official confirmation, that Russia was discussed. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/20/did-fbi-w...

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Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator... by iammisc on Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:05PM (#27149081)
Well good. The Russian Witch Hunt was an illegal spying against an American president, who is also an American citizen. While it's not the best look I guess, at some point, I guess the president himself will need to be affected by this shit before they finally get rid of it.
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