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Reporter brings up two Obama FISA requests to do surveillance on Trump. One in June - that was rejected. One in October - that was accepted. Details here...
To summarize, reporting indicates that, prior to June 2016, the Obama Justice Department and FBI considered a criminal investigation of Trump associates, and perhaps Trump himself, based on concerns about connections to Russian financial institutions. Preliminary poking around indicated that there was nothing criminal involved. Rather than shut the case down, though, the Obama Justice Department converted it into a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
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In June, the Obama Justice Department submitted an application that apparently named Trump in addition to some of his associates.
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In any event, the FISA court reportedly turned down the Obama Justice Department's request, which is notable: The FISA court is notoriously solicitous of government requests to conduct national-security surveillance (although, as I've noted over the years, the claim by many that it is a rubber-stamp is overblown).Not taking no for an answer, the Obama Justice Department evidently returned to the FISA court in October 2016, the critical final weeks of the presidential campaign. This time, the Justice Department submitted a narrowly tailored application that did not mention Trump.
So it looks like Trump is correct in blaming Obama for the leaks.
It is also interesting that we have the media buzz about Trump colluding with Russia to cheat the election... and in the meantime, Team Obama is wiretapping his opponent in the last days of the campaign.
Note how Martha asked the question at 2:09... she asked about seeking and obtaining a FISA order... that is the key. Obama didn't order it, but he requested it... twice. The full clip has more dodging by Earnest.
The question in the OP occurs around 5:50 of the video.
Last edited by DRob4JC; 03-06-2017 at 08:32 AM..
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