emptywheel

They reauthorized the FISA program, not the illegal misuse of it (i.e. unmasking queries). Very disingenuous of you to float this with no facts

By this I mean monitoring of FOREIGN nationals, not US citizens. That was the issue. Not the program itself, but that they were abusing it by unmasking US citizens (Trump associates). Durp durp durp. Understand the process before spouting off

You don't actually understand 702, at all apparently. But what I was talking about was specific to US persons.

And how do you know people weren't unmasked? Do you have all the info? I don't either I'm just going off a public interview by Nunes back in April of 2017 (might have been March) and all of the public information out now. Seems extremely plausible

People were unmasked. Properly, per HR McMaster.

"Properly". Based on? What made it proper to unmask a US citizen (or US citizens would be more accurate)? Back before all of this..why were members of the Trump campaign being serveilled at all?

1) Members of Trump's campaign were only being surveilled, to the extent they were, because they were talking to Russian (or other countries') spies & diplomats. 2) Former members of Trump's campaign were surveilled bc there was abundant reason to suspect they might be spies.

Are you suggesting we should just let Russian spies run free? Want to give them the keys to the Pentagon while you're at it?