Here's the thing... total straight shooting:C-Mag wrote:Listen guy, I'm passionate about this issue, not because of Trump, but because it's about spying on ME.
Here's the deal with these FISA Warrants that are weird and pretty shocking actually. If you get a FISA Warrant on someone, it makes any spying done on them in the past retroactively legal. So, the government is spying on all Americans, quite illegally and hiding it. If they need/want to go after someone, they can call up all the data and meta-data, find what they want, get a FISA Warrant and it's like they Federal Government did nothing wrong. Having a case involving a POTUS being spied on can expose all of this to my fellow American walking zombies and maybe, just maybe we can push back on the spying of innocent civilians.
It's very clear from what we know that there was a strong bias against Trump with the Senior Officials in these agencies. They are dirty cops. What do dirty cops do when they want to get someone and don't have the evidence, they manufacture it. It's not something new, they are essentially planting the drugs under Trumps driver seat with this and acting like it was a routine traffic stop until................. Oh, what's this............. Sir, why do you have heroin under your seat.
Your concerns about the government spying apparatus and FISA process are totally accurate, and justified.
However, I think there is good reason to think that Trump and his team were a little too cozy, possibly illegally cozy, with Russians. Remember, nobody, not even Trump and his team, thought he was actually going to win. With a President Clinton timeline, you have a rich public figure with a platform in Trump, and a media mogul (with Bannon) who had access to 'unnamed sources' with dirt on Clinton that could be used perpetually, and no one would be able to really vigorously pursue them because attacking journalists who are critical of the administration is not a good look. It was a very good plan.
Unfortunately, Trump winning kind of fucked it all directly up by giving the DOJ a really good godamn reason to start scrutinizing every detail of Trump's team, finances, friends, et cetera.
The fact that now this terrible system installed because OMG terrorists is being used against the leader of the free world is just one of those delicious little ironic twists of fate that makes truth stranger than fiction.