McCabe became embroiled in the investigation of President Donald Trump because of his alleged approval of the use of a political dossier, written about Trump and paid for by the Democrats and not entirely substantiated, as a basis to secure a search warrant for surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser who once boasted that he worked for the Kremlin at the same time that he was advising candidate Trump.
The dossier itself and whatever was learned from the surveillance formed the basis for commencing the investigation of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia by the Obama Department of Justice, which is now being run by special counsel Robert Mueller and has been expanded into other areas.
The surveillance of the Trump campaign based on arguably flimsy evidence put McCabe into President Trump's crosshairs.
After the unlawful use of the FBI and CIA by the Nixon administration to spy on President Nixon's domestic political opponents, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978.
It's a court where only the government's lawyers appear; hence there is no challenge to the government's submissions.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted 99.9 percent of government surveillance requests.
The stated reason for McCabe's firing was not his abuse of FISA but his absence of candor to FBI investigators about his use of FISA. I don't know whether those allegations are the true reasons for his firing or McCabe was sacrificed at the altar of government abuse - because those who fired him also have abused FISA. But I do know that there are lessons to learn in all this.
http://www.judgenap.com/post/march-madness-washington-style
The dossier itself and whatever was learned from the surveillance formed the basis for commencing the investigation of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia by the Obama Department of Justice, which is now being run by special counsel Robert Mueller and has been expanded into other areas.
The surveillance of the Trump campaign based on arguably flimsy evidence put McCabe into President Trump's crosshairs.
After the unlawful use of the FBI and CIA by the Nixon administration to spy on President Nixon's domestic political opponents, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978.
It's a court where only the government's lawyers appear; hence there is no challenge to the government's submissions.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted 99.9 percent of government surveillance requests.
The stated reason for McCabe's firing was not his abuse of FISA but his absence of candor to FBI investigators about his use of FISA. I don't know whether those allegations are the true reasons for his firing or McCabe was sacrificed at the altar of government abuse - because those who fired him also have abused FISA. But I do know that there are lessons to learn in all this.
http://www.judgenap.com/post/march-madness-washington-style
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