Andy, this is ridiculous. Page was not “labeled a spy” by the Obama administration or the #FISA Court.
You may think, per your column, that the nomenclature is in the eye of the beholder, but that belief is not a license to say other institutions used labels that they didn’t.https://twitter.com/andrewcmccarthy/status/1000736681421672450 …
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I see your logic: As long as the government contends
@emptywheel was colluding with a foreign power, it's okay to obtain a warrant and search her house, even in the absence of probable cause or evidence of criminal wrongdoing, and despite statutory language requiring evidence. -
That's actually not the logic here. FBI rules say if you want to ask questions -- w/o PC -- you send an informant. Andy knows that (and never had a problem with that when he was a prosecutor). It's in the DIOG. However ... 1/2
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If you want to wiretap someone under FISA (not TIII) you need probable cause they're helping foreign spies (which is different from being one), knowing that they are foreign spies. 4 Republican judges say FBI had that.
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My underlying point in all this is that according to DIOG (which Andy never objected to in the past), and informant is WAYYYYYYYYYY less intrusive than many other techniques.
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