Crenshaw--deservedly tossed out of office--plays word-games with Party-Boy Patel about Section 702 (We Spy On YOU!!) use by FBI.
As usual, Last Refuge has the goods along with a video of Lying Sack Crenshaw's "grilling"....
...conveniently omitted in the questioning is the original surveillance of the 2016 GOP candidates from November 2015 through April 2016 that did involve exploitation of the database under the justification that FISA-702 creates....
...You are [....] correct that there is no “authority granted under 702” to conduct surveillance. However, in 2016 conducting surveillance using 702 as a justification is what took place.
The collection of American citizen metadata does factually take place. At this point no-one denies it.
That data is then stored in a searchable database, a library of U.S. citizen data colloquially known as the “NSA database”.
Within the NSA database that metadata collection creates, there is a process to search it based on “identifiers.”
The collection of data, the database itself, as well as the search functioning therein, is part of the toolbox for FISA-702 surveillance....
...The historic problem is not that “authorities granted under FISA-702” were/are used to conduct surveillance; but rather the search of the NSA collection database was done, illegally and frequently, for non-authorized reasons. The capability to conduct those search queries is maintained by justifying the need for FISA-702.
The historic searches and domestic surveillance were done by exploiting the NSA database, for a reason and purpose that is not authorized and has nothing to do with FISA-702. THAT’S THE PROBLEM
"Peeping Toms" Party-Boy and Crenshaw love that S702. Make sure your Congress-critter knows that you despise it, and anyone who votes to retain it.
BTW--in case you forgot--Peeping Tom Crenshaw also hates the Second Amendment. And he used Nancy's cookbook for self-enrichment. So it's no surprise that he likes looking into your wife's underwear drawer, too....
“The ruling essentially underpins the reality that government officials are using their access to the complete library within the NSA collection and storage database to conduct searches of U.S. communication that removes the constitutional protections of the 4th amendment”
ReplyDeleteRight. This is happening under Trump. So why isn’t he coming out and directly saying that he will immediately order a cease and desist and put in place safeguards?
One wonders how Eyepatch McCain’s portfolio will perform after he leaves congress?
ReplyDeleteThe same way Noem and her alleged lover Lewandowski. But leave it to Dad29 to not discuss their clear grifting of the American taxpayer.
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