Forget “conspiracy theories” – the public record shows that the Nixon Administration spied on the Trump campaign…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…sorry. Obama Administration. Obama. No similarity. Perish the thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point in time, at least six different methods that the Obama administration used to spy on the Trump campaign have been made public:
1. FISA Warrant:<\/strong> Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page<\/a> was targeted with a FISA warrant by the FBI in October 2016. The warrant was subsequently renewed three times for 90-day periods. Other members of the Trump campaign might have had FISA warrants on them, as well.
2. Unmasking:<\/strong> Hundreds of so-called unmasking requests<\/a> were made for the identities of members of the Trump campaign in intelligence reports. The House Intelligence Committee has so far identified Obama\u2019s national security adviser Susan Rice, Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power, and former CIA Director John Brennan, as having filed such requests.
3. Undercover Informant:<\/strong> The FBI used Stefan Halper<\/a>, an undercover agent, to infiltrate the Trump campaign. He contacted Trump campaign associates Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. Halper has ties to the CIA, as well as MI6.
4. National Security Letters:<\/strong> The use of national security letters to target the Trump campaign was first revealed by officials to The New York Times<\/a> in a May 16, 2018, article. National security letters allow the FBI to secretly subpoena customer records from banks, phone companies, internet service providers, and others.
5. Foreign Intelligence:<\/strong> British intelligence agency GCHQ provided officials within the CIA with information on the Trump campaign as early as late 2015, The Guardian reported<\/a> in April 2017. Then-head of GCHQ Robert Hannigan also provided Brennan with sensitive information on the Trump campaign on a \u201cdirector level\u201d in the summer of 2016.
6. Reverse Targeting:<\/strong> Brennan admitted<\/a> in an Aug. 17, 2018, interview with MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow that the CIA had obtained the communications of Americans associated with the Trump campaign through what appears to have been the use of reverse targeting. \u201cWe call it incidental collection in terms of CIA\u2019s foreign intelligence collection authorities,\u201d Brennan said.
<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nNixon’s use of federal law-enforcement, and less institutional private entities, to spy on his political opponents was a national scandal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
LBJ’s and Kennedy’s, and everyone who presided over J. Edgar Hoover’s reign at the FBI, less so, for some weird reason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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