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Jul 23 2018 03:51pm

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BREAKING: There isn’t just one audio file in the Michael Cohen matter.

There are at least 12, and prosecutors got them on Friday
- when the Times story ran on one of them.
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Jul 23 2018 04:32pm
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i'm confused, do you think the FISA warrant on Page was abuse of power or not? Do you really think the FBI is going around spying on people for no reason? because that's what it sounds like you're implying here... sounds like right wing paranoia to me. I mean, if your a die hard Libertarian, I get it but... seriously... it's all being politicized.


In Page's case, it appears they had good enough evidence for the FISA warrant. He had been on the FBI's radar for years, even before joining the Trump campaign. I'm not talking about Page.

I'm referring to the FISC and FISA warrant process as a whole. Think about it...historically, 99.7% of FISA warrant applications are granted. Personally, it looks like there could be some violations of our 4th Amendment rights in some cases. It's a non-adversarial system, and the people being monitored don't even know about it.

It's not right wing paranoia to say that the US Government has grossly expanded their surveillance powers. After 9/11, we saw an explosion of mass surveillance. It's been dialed back some in some areas, but it's still pretty bad.
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Jul 23 2018 04:35pm
we haven't dialed back shit we are expanding our intelligence alex
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Jul 23 2018 04:41pm
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In Page's case, it appears they had good enough evidence for the FISA warrant. He had been on the FBI's radar for years, even before joining the Trump campaign. I'm not talking about Page.

I'm referring to the FISC and FISA warrant process as a whole. Think about it...historically, 99.7% of FISA warrant applications are granted. Personally, it looks like there could be some violations of our 4th Amendment rights in some cases. It's a non-adversarial system, and the people being monitored don't even know about it.

It's not right wing paranoia to say that the US Government has grossly expanded their surveillance powers. After 9/11, we saw an explosion of mass surveillance. It's been dialed back some in some areas, but it's still pretty bad.


what specifically are you worried about?

you say the the FBI doesn't appear to be abusing it's powers in the case of Page (as you say "it appears they had good enough evidence for the FISA warrant"), but then at the same time you say we should be concerned about the FBI/Govt. spying on us? so... Idk...
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Jul 23 2018 04:41pm
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Adam Klasfeld
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BREAKING: There isn’t just one audio file in the Michael Cohen matter.

There are at least 12, and prosecutors got them on Friday
- when the Times story ran on one of them.


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Jul 23 2018 04:44pm
well i guess we'll have to impeach him for banging 12 porn stars before he was president
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what specifically are you worried about?

you say the the FBI doesn't appear to be abusing it's powers in the case of Page (as you say "it appears they had good enough evidence for the FISA warrant"), but then at the same time you say we should be concerned about the FBI/Govt. spying on us? so... Idk...


Edward Snowden pretty much already blew the whistle on this stuff. The Patriot Act greatly expanded US government surveillance powers in the wake of 9/11. Just take a look at the PRISM program and some of what the NSA has been caught doing with phone records.

This has been going on for a while, and it's only getting worse with technology. Even in the 1960s, the FBI placed MLK on warantless surveillance, saying he was "most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country." It's an extreme example, but it's a good example of abuse.

No amount of disdain of Donald Trump should allow us to be okay with an intelligence community that surveys its citizens with no probable cause because it just so happens they are butting heads right now. And don't forget, this is the same sacred intelligence community that told us Iraq had WMDs, which drove us into one of the worst wars in US history.

Again, in Page's case, there probably was probable cause. No need to rehash that aspect of this again.
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Jul 23 2018 05:01pm
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lmao scenes when Jimmy Garapollo’s current floozy also gets dragged into this
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I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!
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I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me,they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!
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