by Robert M. Traxler
The FISA court is hopping mad that the deep state folks in the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) lied to them in the affidavit for the warrant to surveil the President Trump campaign. The court has called the FBI and intelligence agencies on the carpet to explain why they had 18 fact errors in the request.
Eighteen errors! Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. This should concern all of us, a lot; will it? Not a chance in the infernal regions, as the folks who have disdain in their hearts for our President will not even note this in passing.
The left is supporting the FISA system and the right is criticizing it; the universe is out of balance. The left called the creation Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance court a step towards fascism that would destroy our democratic form of government. The right had little problem with domestic spying on Americans, and the left was outraged; what a difference an election makes. The FISA court being used to spy on the Trump campaign after the Intelligence folks submitted an affidavit with 18 errors, a nice way of saying lies, is fine with the leftist media, really?
None of the big three in TV media even mentioned the FISA Court’s action, as of last week. The FISA court’s outrage is based on the FBI, IG report that the FISA warrant was issued and reissued, twice based on rumors and innuendo.
Very shortly after the election John Owen Brennan, a former CIA officer and later CIA director who was up to his neck in the FISA process to investigate the Trump campaign, was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe news and commentary program. Mr. Brennan was so angry his face was red and spittle was coming out of his mouth, stating President Trump was being blackmailed by the Russians and more. Watching him I got the impression he was very upset and angry, much more than a former CIA Director with nothing personal to lose should have been.
Mr. Brennan and Mr. James Comey (fired Director of the FBI) did not fair very well in the FBI Inspector General’s Report on FISA abuse. Mr. Comey even going so far as to admit the FISA Warrant was not proper and based on an affidavit with insufficient proof.
Now we must ask, where are the civil libertarians the leftists who condemn the government’s abuses of power? Where are they? Absent, without outrage; mute, quiet, silent as they detest our president and will support abuse of power if it helps degrade the President they disapprove of. Probably more than a bit disingenuous.
It is yet one more case of situational ethics, by our friends in the media and civil liberties communities. Ask yourself where is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)? Where are the hundreds of liberal watch dog groups? Is it really OK for the government to abuse its power as long as they do not like the target of the abuse?
Apparently yes, yes, it is. Shame on them.
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