Saturday night is where news stories go to die, so it’s not surprising that the Department of Justice would choose a time when most of us are occupied in leisure pursuits to dump bombshell documents on the American people.
Deb Heine covered the Carter Page FISA warrants story for PJ Media here, but the reaction from Donald Trump and others suggests that the “nothing to see here, move along” attitude of the press on the justification for wiretapping a presidential campaign bears closer examination.
Congratulations to @JudicialWatch and @TomFitton on being successful in getting the Carter Page FISA documents. As usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but confirm with little doubt that the Department of “Justice” and FBI misled the courts. Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2018
Andrew McCarthy – “I said this could never happen. This is so bad that they should be looking at the judges who signed off on this stuff, not just the people who gave it. It is so bad it screams out at you.” On the whole FISA scam which led to the rigged Mueller Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2018
Looking more & more like the Trump Campaign for President was illegally being spied upon (surveillance) for the political gain of Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC. Ask her how that worked out – she did better with Crazy Bernie. Republicans must get tough now. An illegal Scam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2018
No Collusion, No Obstruction – but that doesn’t matter because the 13 Angry Democrats, who are only after Republicans and totally protecting Democrats, want this Witch Hunt to drag out to the November Election. Republicans better get smart fast and expose what they are doing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 21, 2018
Andrew McCarthy’s comments, quoted by Trump above, are particularly on point:
https://youtu.be/82yajJR3iHo
The main takeaway from the documents is worrisome: is this pitiful amount of evidence all it takes for the government to carry out a surveillance operation on an American citizen who had the extraordinarily sensitive job of working for a presidential candidate?
Page has never been charged with “colluding” with Russia and isn’t likely to be. Since the FISA warrant process is super secret, we’ll probably never know how many of these warrants end up leading to a dry hole and an innocent target of the massive power of the government’s surveillance state.
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