Re:Pentagon surveilling Americans without a warrant, Senator...
by mtberatwork on Friday May 14, 2021 @07:15AM
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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...
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.