https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/...iretapping

If this is correct, it is a compelling argument to shut down FISA.

"...It means the government not only listened in on Carter Page, but also authorized itself to access highly personal communications of everyone who contacted Page (that’s “one hop”) and, believe it or not, everybody who contacted those people (“two hops”), even if those folks never actually made direct contact with Carter Page himself.

In 2015, U.S. intelligence sources privately told me that rogue government officials sometimes used this latitude to reverse-engineer wiretap applications. This means, said the officials, that government agents might wish to improperly spy on a certain U.S. citizen on whom they could not justify getting a wiretap. So they would look for easier marks surrounding that person, wiretap them, and capture the true, intended target through the one-hop-two-hop policy.

One intel official told me at the time, “If you ever see the paper trail [for the reverse-engineered wiretaps] it will all look legitimate. There will be legal memos from the White House counsel’s office justifying them. It’s all worked out to hide that they are really going after somebody else....""

Jumping Jack Flash came on the radio yesterday and the opening line of the sang are


"I was born in a crossfire hurricane"

The smartasses at the FRBI named their investigation crossfire hurricane. Basically telegraphing that they were not going to let the Trump Administration get off the ground.

cocksvckers.

Two things in this article.

1) I thought they were using ONLY "electronic survelliance" but were NOT "wiretapping" phones. If they were actually listening to phone calls. then Trump is ENTIRELY vindicated and Obama (along with Comey and others including the press) have been lying the ENTIRE time when they said Obama did NOT bug the Trump campaign.

2) The 2 and 3 hop rule basically allows for an intelligence agency to listen not just to the target---but also to all phone calls made by people the target speaks to and in some case---the folks that speak to the people that Page speaks to. That is a huge network--especially since they were also listening in on Paul Manafort. If your listening in on Page and Manafort, everyone they talk to, and everyone that those first jump people talk to, then you were basically listening in on the Trump campaign and transition team.