Absolutely false and irresponsible claim. Reverse targeting is explicitly banned under procedures. Paul is accusing IC of a grave violation.https://twitter.com/shaneharris/status/840937556246188032 …
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And yet I can point to court docs and congressional claims that entire point of 702 is to ID convos involving Americans.
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Marcy is right. See AG Gonzales testimony in the lead-up to FAA.
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Sheldon Whitehouse are reauthorization. Theresa Shea in court declarations.
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see also 07 Rockefeller bill for softer reverse target language that was intentionally taken out
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Yup. And McConnell/Mukasey's veto threat of Feingold's RT prohibitions
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Replying to @emptywheel @Richardson_Mich
But other than those years of legal records, sure, totally absurd claim by Paul.
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Paul's quote " I don’t have any special information but the way it works is the FISA court ...
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wiretaps foreigners and then listens to Americans. It’s a backdoor search of Americans.”
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So, yes. Can do it w/o even evidence of crime at the FBI. @Richardson_Mich @Robyn_Greene
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If Paul wanted to criticize actual backdoor search issue, I have no objection. Not what he did.
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Not about papering over legalism. About being intentional and honest about important issue.
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