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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: TideGlider who wrote (207752)3/16/2018 9:23:44 AM
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Judicial Watch: Clapper, Comey, Brennan Are ‘Self-Appointed Commissars’ of the ‘Deep State’ Who ‘Selectively Leak’ to the Media, ‘Attempt to Steal Elections,’ Attempt to ‘Manipulate the Public’ (VIDEO)

Commenting on how the statute of limitations ran out on charging former Obama administration Director of National Intelligence James Clapper with perjury -- for allegedly lying to Congress about government surveillance of Americans -- Judicial Watch's Chris Farrell said that Clapper was allowed to walk away from potential prosecution and that he is a "national security problem on two feet."

Farrell, the director of Investigations & Research at Judicial Watch, further said that Clapper and his colleagues in the Obama administration -- FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan -- are "self-appointed commissars," operatives of the "deep state," who "selectively leak" to the media, "attempt to steal elections" and try to "manipulate the public." ...



To: TideGlider who wrote (207752)3/16/2018 8:26:04 PM
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FBI supervisor warned Comey in 2014 that warrantless surveillance program was ineffective - SOUNDS LIKE THEY KEPT IT FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SPYING ON AMERICANS

By John Solomon and Alison Spann - 03/15/18 08:01 PM EDT
thehill.com

An official who supervised the FBI’s Section 215 warrantless phone surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 says he warned then-Director James Comey it was woefully ineffective in catching terrorists and needed to be modified.

Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef, the chief of the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit, said in an exclusive interview with The Hill that no action was taken by Comey in response to the concerns he raised.

He said his efforts were prompted by an audit his team conducted showing the program had searched through thousands of Americans' records but had helped disrupt only one possible terrorist plot over more than a decade. ...