Obama-Gate US politics

Sharyl Attkisson: FBI chief’s claim on surveillance abuse doesn’t fit the evidence, when mounds of evidence proves otherwise…….


 

The FBI is rather rotted at the top…

 

After only eight years of Obama’s misrule, he’s (and Marxist cohorts) managed to subvert the country’s bedrock institutions.

 

FBI chief’s claim on surveillance abuse doesn’t fit the evidence

I caught my breath when I heard FBI Director Christopher Wray testify to Congress that there’s been no abuse of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the law under which our intelligence communities electronically spy on possible terrorists and sometimes capture private communications of innocent U.S. citizens. Section 702 and related components expire Dec. 31, and Congress must decide whether to renew them.

 

To see if I’d heard Wray correctly, I searched for a transcript of his testimony. I found that he’d delivered the same line during an Oct. 13 Heritage Foundation speech. Wray claimed, “There’s been no evidence of any kind of abuse of power under Section 702 despite the oversight … with the three branches of government and quite a few years of experience now.”

 

As a backdrop, recall that spying on U.S. citizens by our Intel agencies is considered so contrary to our basic constitutional protections, that it’s generally prohibited, and is only permitted under strict limits set forth under the law.

With that in mind, here’s a short list of documented violations that seem contrary to the implications of Wray’s testimony:

  • In 2011, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found some collection of internet data by the National Security Agency (NSA) to be illegal and unconstitutional, capturing tens of thousands of U.S. communications without a warrant. That would seem to be an abuse. 

 

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