emptywheel

The moral of the story is....there’s a history of the FISA Court being abused, so accusations that it was abused during the campaign/election probably isn’t a stretch. Correct?

You misstated what I said. I--a fierce civil liberties person--say the FISA Court is generally better than people make out (except for Rosemary Collyer).

Curious: what do you mean there by "during the campaign/election"?

During the primary and general elections. During the campaigning period. Also, the already unclassified court documents don’t exactly paint a great picture of what was happening.

But who? Page wasn't part of the campaign anymore. So for his purposes, it WASN'T part of the campaign. Are you suggesting he was still doing Trump's work?

I guess we’ll see. They had Manafort under surveillance since 2014, so it’s a bit strange that they didn’t start surveillance on the Trump campaign until right after he left.

It’s also strange that the Clinton camp was working so closely with the Ukrainians. They were getting “information” about Manafort from them. I wonder how much information flows between our agencies and theirs?

It’s ALSO strange that Grassley just asked for documents from the DNC/Clinton camp from March 2016 onwards. The same month the Podesta emails ended. Odd.