{"id":35941,"date":"2019-04-23T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35941"},"modified":"2019-04-23T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:46:12","slug":"we-are-beginning-to-see-what-is-under-the-bright-shiny-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35941","title":{"rendered":"We Are Beginning To See What Is Under The Bright Shiny Object"},"content":{"rendered":"

The charges that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians were odd at best. No one ever explained exactly what that collusion looked like or why it was illegal (collusion by itself is generally not illegal). There were also some other odd matters about unmasking, domestic spying, and misuse of foreign information sources. All of that is currently out there, but not necessarily being shouted at this point. Well, The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article today that explains some of the reasons for the extreme hype of ‘Russian collusion’ and the reaction when Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Now that we have significant research files on the 2015 and 2016 political surveillance program; which includes the trail evident within the Weissmann\/Mueller report; in combination with the Obama-era DOJ \u201csecret research project<\/a>\u201d (their words, not mine); we are able to overlay the entire objective and gain a full understanding of how political surveillance was conducted over a period of approximately four to six years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with a timeline, but also referencing origination material in 2015\/2016 \u2013 CTH hopes to show how the program operated.\u00a0 This explains an evolution from The IRS Files in 2010 to the FISA Files in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article details some of the timeline involved:<\/p>\n

Early in 2016 NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers was alerted<\/a> of a significant uptick in FISA-702(17) \u201cAbout\u201d queries using the FBI\/NSA database that holds all metadata records on every form of electronic communication.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NSA compliance officer alerted Admiral Mike Rogers who then initiated a full compliance audit on\/around March 9th, 2016<\/em>, for the period of November 1st, 2015, through May 1st, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the audit was ongoing, due to the severity of the results that were identified, Admiral Mike Rogers stopped anyone from using the 702(17) \u201cabout query\u201d option, and went to the extraordinary step of blocking all FBI contractor access to the database on April 18, 2016 (keep these dates in mind).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains that many of the searches carried out were illegal:<\/p>\n

The operators were searching \u201cU.S Persons\u201d. The review of November 1, 2015, to May 1, 2016, showed \u201ceighty-five percent of those queries\u201d were unlawful or \u201cnon compliant\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…The [five digit] amount (more than 1,000, less than 10,000), and 85% error rate, was captured in a six month period.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also notice this very important quote: \u201cmany of these non-compliant queries involved the use of the same identifiers over different date ranges<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 So they were searching the same phone number, email address, electronic \u201cidentifier\u201d, or people, repeatedly over different dates.\u00a0 Specific people were being tracked\/monitored.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Additionally, notice the last quote: \u201cwhile the government reports it is unable to provide a reliable estimate of\u201d these non lawful searches \u201csince 2012, there is no apparent reason to believe the November 2015 [to] April 2016 coincided with an unusually high error rate\u201d<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That means the 85% unlawful FISA-702(16)(17) database abuse has likely been happening since 2012.\u00a0 (Again, remember that date, 2012) Who was FBI Director? Who was his chief-of-staff? Who was CIA Director? ODNI? etc.\u00a0 Remember, the NSA is inside the Pentagon (Defense Dept) command structure.\u00a0 Who was Defense Secretary? And finally, who wrote and signed-off-on the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains the role of the Steele Dossier was necessary to continue surveillance:<\/p>\n

Fusion GPS was not hired in April 2016 to research Donald Trump.\u00a0 As shown in the evidence provided by the FISC, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The Obama administration already knew everything about the Trump campaign, and were monitoring everything by exploiting the FISA database.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, after the NSA alerts in\/around March 9th, 2016, and particularly after the April 18th shutdown of contractor access, the Obama intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to create a legal albeit ex post facto<\/em> justification for the pre-existing surveillance and spy operations.\u00a0 Fusion GPS gave them that justification in the Steele Dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the FBI small group, which later transitioned into the Mueller team, are so strongly committed to and defending the formation of the Steele Dossier<\/em> and its dubious content.\u00a0 The Steele Dossier contains the cover-story and justification for the surveillance operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above and read the entire article. It is chilling. It paints a picture of an administration that politicized government agencies to spy on Americans and made an attempt to eliminate political opposition by using the force of government. Just for the record, even though the Obama administration is out of office, they are still using the government connections they have to work against the President and against the best interests of Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The charges that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians were odd at best. No one ever explained exactly what that collusion looked like or why it was illegal (collusion by itself is generally not illegal). There were also some … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11340,3637,3357,10582,10959,7224,135,1083,11437,5409,11430,11114],"class_list":["post-35941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admiral-mike-rogers","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi-director","tag-fusion-gps","tag-mike-rogers","tag-obama-administration","tag-russia","tag-steele-dossier","tag-surveillance","tag-the-conservative-treehouse","tag-trump-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35942,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions\/35942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}