Wow. Former Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer was part of Paul Manafort’s lobbying campaign on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, according to new filings made public by special counsel Robert Mueller. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/23/paul-manafort-mueller-probe-washington-lobbying-ukraine-austria-423439 …
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Your ignorance of the FISA court is showing. (See wikipedia) FISA warrants are not criminal warrants, nor could they be. The fact of a FISA warrant is therefore not evidence of a crime, but more likely an abuse of the court. But, yes, we'll see how this plays out.
To get a FISA warrant against a US citizen ("United States person") the law enforcement agency must convince the judge that there is reason to believe the target was knowingly engaging in clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power that violate American criminal laws.
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Only for "any person other than a United States person" a FISA warrant can be issued without reason to believe that American criminal law is violated. 92 Stat. 1783 Title I Sec. 101 (b)(2).pic.twitter.com/rul5ShAC0W
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The FISA court therefore is not about prosecuting US persons, but rather as its name implies its purpose is to facilitate the gathering of intelligence on FOREIGN powers.
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Not quite. Were the results of a FISA warrant to be used in a criminal proceedings, the warrant would need to be unsealed as well as the result. This would also reveal intelligence sources and methods. This reality is missing from your reading of those documents.
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You are disputing a point that I did not make. I said the fact that they got the FISA warrant about Manafort indicates that the FBI had incriminating material on Manafort long before the no-knock raid.
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