No big deal, c’mon !
Everybody did it? Is this a weak attempt to minimize the fact they attempted to frame, undermine and compromise a candidate and then a President of the United States?
I'll bet it really got going starting Jan 20, 2009.
See, no big deal, Fedzilla has been out of control for a long time......................
Anytime Democrats have been caught doing anything, up to and including selling baby organs or stealing an election, the corrupt media puppets like this NYT asses say “everybody did it.”
The “everyone does it” excuse. Never mind that a SITTING PRESIDENT used the power of government to spy on a CANDIDATE from the other party at the REQUEST of the DEM CANDIDATE.
The point is that even the liberal NYTIMES acknowledged years ago that the government was abusing the FISA process. What they did to Trump is treasonous.
This must be addressed in the most profound manner with clear heads and brought to a swift conclusion. All involved should be held accountable.
This whole thing needs to come to a grinding halt.
Secret Courts have no place in a Free Society.
our founders would be appalled
Is this a tacit admission from the NY Times that today’s FISA memo is dead on accurate?
“Secret” court. That’s the problem.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was introduced on May 18, 1977, by Senator Ted Kennedy and was signed into law by President Carter in 1978.
What the first thing many of us heard about the FISA court? That they almost NEVER turn down a request.
Think about that for a minute.
Here’s a court that decides whether or not it’s OK for the gov’t to spy on its citizens and it almost always says yes?
Are our federal agencies always that persuasive? Or maybe is the FISA process just a meaningless rubber stamp, which is why the FBI felt comfortable taking such liberties and lying in order to get what they needed when that rare event occurred, and they were turned down the first time?
you create a “court” where only the prosecutor is represented, what do you expect to happen?
OF COURSE this was going to be abused - it was absolutely inevitable.
It’s about our losses of privacy and rights.
The NY Slimes of course calls out the NSA right off the bat. I’ll leave at as an excerise for the readers to figure out why. /hint: they are not the FBI or CIA
A federal judge sharply rebuked the National Security Agency in 2011 for repeatedly misleading the court that oversees its surveillance on domestic soil....
That’s it folks.
The best we can hope for is a sharply worded letter from the court.
No one will be prosecuted....
I wonder if it dawned on the NYT who was “President” from 2011 until about a year ago? Where is the corresponding criticism of those who led the majority of the abuses.
By the way, are there any RECENT allegations (other than those in the memo) about FISA abuses by THIS administration?
Until then, I think I speak for most on here, NYT: GO TO HELL.
Nice try NYT. But in this new the rules were broken in an attempt to win a Presidential election, and then overturn a Presidential election. Makes Watergate look like a boyscout meeting.