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Donald Trump continues to get his policy advice from people on the shows.
President Donald Trump is at odds with his own chief law enforcement officers over a controversial memo fueling Republican allegations of a conspiracy against the Trump presidency. But by all indications, the president is less amenable to the concerns of his own FBI than those shared by a less formal, more bombastic adviser.
That adviser is Sean Hannity, who has been hyping the so-called Nunes memo all week, and with whom the president continues to speak regularly.
According to three sources with knowledge of their conversations, Trump has been in regular contact with Hannity over the phone in recent weeks, as the Fox News primetime star and Trump ally has encouraged the prompt release of a controversial four page memo crafted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. Hannity has gone to the wall to push for the public release of the memo, which the Intelligence Committee and its chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), authorized this week in a party-line vote despite the classified information therein.
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renate
(13,776 posts)get the red out
(13,466 posts)It is more like Fox News Administration, which is the dog and which is the tail?
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)under FISA law is up to the FISA judge, not up to the FBI.
If Republicans seriously think that a warrant was issued without sufficient cause or evidence, they should change the FISA law or impeach the judge. The FBI just requests the warrant, the permission to conduct the surveillance.
If something is wrong, rather than blame the FBI, the Republicans in Congress should either blame this particular FISA judge (and I don't know anything about him or have anything against him personally but am pointing the finger at the Republican majority in Congress more than the judge) and/or change the FISA law to make it harder to get permission to conduct surveillance on someone.
IF there is a problem to correct, the Republicans have the majority in Congress and have had it for a while and should correct it.
If not, this whole FISA warrant thing is just for show, just to get Trump voters riled up, and the Republicans in Congress are responsible for what happens to our country . . . . .
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the NSA to warrantlessly target people in other countries who are communicating with Americans which means that they collect the personal communications of Americans without their knowledge.
The Trump administration demanded that Congress pass an extension, with supposed reforms that do hardly anything to stop the feds from abusing their powers. In fact, the extension actually codifies the ability for the FBI, in many cases, to search Americans emails without a warrant.
This is not about Republicans concerned about FISA abuse. This is Republicans aiding and abetting Trump's obstruction of justice.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Ivanka and Jared?? Are they complicit in this shitshow? Oh, wait. Ivanka doesnt know what the word complicit means.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)with really, really bad hair. There must be a correlation!