03-06-2017, 01:10 AM
(03-06-2017, 12:45 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: What if it is true and the surveillance was approved because of repeated campaign contact with a country actively involved in tampering with our election?
Which to me seems like a very possible outcome.
That's why we'd need to see the evidence presented to justify the FISA warrant.
I'm not sure how "possible" that outcome is because I've not seen any real evidence of a connection, beyond Flynn starting the job too soon and undermining the duly elected and still sitting administration (and, really, I'm of the opinion that any sanctions should have been coordinated with the incoming administration). But that's post-election.
I'm hardly an expert on FISA, other than having the opinion that it gives wide latitude and power to gather intel on foreign agents. But I think when talking about a Presidential Candidate, to demonstrate that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power would require very substantial evidence with a high degree of certainty. Otherwise there is unacceptably massive potential for abuse for purposes of targeting political opponents.
My feeling is the investigation into the banking transactions, which was apparently justified and mostly innocuous, was the basis for building a conspiracy theory that ensnared the easily trolled Trump.
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