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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Replying to @oe1cxw
Even if this is true, Mueller's sloppy handling of the Manafort investigation, exceeding his special counsel authority, pulling Manafort out of bed at gunpoint, searching his wife (in night gown) for weapons, etc., is likely going to cause the whole cause to be thrown out.
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Replying to @zipcpu
Really? Did a pundit on Fox News say that? </sarcasm> The FBI is investigating Manafort since 2014. Among other things they had enough on him to get a FISA warrant. They even had enough to convince a judge to issue a warrant for a no-knock raid, which they lawfully executed.
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Replying to @oe1cxw
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.
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Replying to @zipcpu
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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Replying to @oe1cxw
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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