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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump and His Ilk are Possibly the Most Surveilled Individuals in History
Just sayin.
Theres a reason he knows the word FISA and its important to him.
peppertree
(21,624 posts)The Trump administration - and his activities since then - have proved to be the worst intelligence calamity since 9/11.
So for all our sake, I hope so.
Beetwasher.
(2,970 posts)Thats one reason hes so interested in all the FISA intelligence. My hope is that Obama (and his VP) on their way out had an inkling, which they should have, and perhaps compartmentalized some things, certain operations, salted documents, etc, and some of that is coming to fruition now.
peppertree
(21,624 posts)A real-world experiment, perhaps?
If so, I'm sure he confirmed their worst expectations.
Beetwasher.
(2,970 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)he had russian spies in the Oval Office four months after his inauguration.
What more evidence should they have needed to be watching him, his spawn and the Kushners???
peppertree
(21,624 posts)Yes - some of that is absolutely essential (terrorist plots cooked up overseas, brewing wars that might affect regional stability, etc.).
But a lot of it is squandered on monitoring - and, allegedly, manipulating - petty politics in foreign countries.
And even there, they often come to the wrong conclusions - mostly because they tend to rely on "sources" with one-sided agendas (mainly right-wing).
In any case, they end up squandering untold thousands of man-hours - and millions of dollars - on what generally amount to cat fights and food fights among foreign politicians we'll never really understand anyway.
While domestic fifth-columns and anti-democratic threats (many of them richly-funded) fly under the radar.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)dalton99a
(81,451 posts)Hes very interested in it, extremely telling.
walkingman
(7,597 posts)3rd Jan. 6....4th Classified Docs....The first couple were disappointing but I'm now ready to turn off this shit, it's getting old and move on to something else.
Beetwasher.
(2,970 posts)Living in "interesting times" it seems.
dclarston13
(410 posts)They took lindells phone at a Hardees drive thru. They had to be on him all day, to grab it there. I think they are following lots of these guys.