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By Ellen Nakashima February 2 at 8:52 PM
The court that approved surveillance of a former campaign adviser to President Trump was aware that some of the information underpinning the warrant request was paid for by a political entity, although the application did not specifically name the Democratic National Committee or the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
A now-declassified Republican memo alleged that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was duped into approving the wiretap request by a politicized FBI and Justice Department. The memo was written by House Intelligence Committee Republicans and alleged a troubling breakdown of legal processes flowing from the governments wiretapping of former Trump aide Carter Page. But its central allegation that the government failed to disclose a sources political bias is baseless, the officials said.
The Justice Department made ample disclosure of relevant, material facts to the court that revealed the research was being paid for by a political entity, said one official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matters sensitivity.
No thinking person who read any of these applications would come to any other conclusion but that the work was being undertaken at the behest of people with a partisan aim and that it was being done in opposition to Trump, the official said.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-told-court-of-sources-political-bias-in-request-to-wiretap-ex-trump-campaign-aide-officials-say/2018/02/02/caecfa86-0852-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)seems to me this would negate Nunes assertions from the gitgo/
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)The Democrats are not to blame for what they found on Trump.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Well that's the entire Republican Party and Fox News audience.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Republicans are guilty as hell. They are ALWAYS the victim, blaming others. What about the years of constant research and investigations on the Clintons. These people are full of shit.
Party needs to go.