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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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.
This is a strawmen. I did not say that FISC is about prosecuting US persons. I said you can't get a FISA warrant on a US person without being able to demonstrate that there is reason to believe that the US person is violating US criminal law.
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"Acting as an agent of a foreign power" is not equivalent to violating US criminal law. Many foreign governments hire US lobbyists. This in itself isn't a crime.
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The fact that a FISA warrant was (or was not--I don't really know) issued against Manafort in 2014 is therefore irrelevant to any criminal discussions.
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