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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) said the FBI and the Justice Department (DOJ) informed him they had wiretapped his past phone conversations with a Virginia state lawmaker. On Sunrise on The Hill, Subramanyam discussed his pushback against data centers, their impact on communities and Trump's speech at the Dallas midterm convention. #Datacenter #FBI #Congress
Photo Credit: NVO At the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet Union bugged the U.S. Embassy with one of the most ingenious devices ever created.
The House rejected a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Thursday, putting the government's foreign surveillance authority on track to expire. Why it matters: A standoff over President Trump's decision to install Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence has jeopardized what lawmakers in both parties consider one of the government's most important intelligence tools. - The vast majority of House Democrats opposed the extension through July 2, along with dozens of conservatives who are upset about a lack of reforms. The vote was 198-218. - If Congress doesn't act, Section 702 will lapse Friday. Driving the news: Democrats have refused to back an extension of Section 702 unless…
The House rejected a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Thursday, putting the government's foreign surveillance authority on track to expire. Why it matters: A standoff over President Trump's decision to install Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence has jeopardized what lawmakers in both parties consider one of the government's most important intelligence tools. - The vast majority of House Democrats opposed the extension through July 2, along with dozens of conservatives who are upset about a lack of reforms. The vote was 198-218. - If Congress doesn't act, Section 702 will lapse Friday. Driving the news: Democrats have refused to back an extension of Section 702 unless…Open
Former Trump campaign advisor Walid Phares's electronic communications were allegedly monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) between 2017 and 2018 under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant, mirroring the similar wiretapping of Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page in 2016. According to an FBI agent who claims to have been assigned to the investigation, the bureau—as with Page—withheld exculpatory evidence from the FISA Court in order to secure the wiretap warrant. The post FBI Abused FISA to Wiretap ANOTHER 2016 Trump Advisor – Who Says the CIA Was Also Spying on Him. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Former Trump campaign advisor Walid Phares’s electronic communications were allegedly monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) between 2017 and 2018 under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant, mirroring the similar wiretapping of Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page in 2016 . Phares believes the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under John Brennan was also spying on him. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Walid Phares, Carter Page, President Donald J. Trump, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the FISA Court, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, and former CIA director John Brennan. WHEN & WHERE: The revelations regarding the Phares wiretap were made in…Open
Carter Page wasn’t the only adviser from Trump’s first campaign wiretapped by the FBI. Walid Phares was electronically monitored for a 12-month period between 2017 […] Source
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A break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the 1970s set off a chain of events that ended a presidency. Operatives tied to President Richard Nixon installed wiretaps inside the Watergate complex. When it was exposed, the fallout reshaped American politics. Now a bombshell report from Reuters reveals Biden’s FBI carried out a Wategate-style […]