AUDIO: 1 Feb: NPR: Morning Edition: Ex-CIA Director Hayden Weighs In On Republican Surveillance Memo
RACHEL MARTIN: As you see it, what’s the problem with making this memo public?
EX-CIA DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAYDEN: Oh, my. Where to begin? The FISA process is a very tightly controlled, almost sacred, in a certain sense of the word, process.
MARTIN: This is how you get permission to survey Americans.
HAYDEN: You get the warrant to go up and begin surveillance of a protected person, an American citizen or someone in the United States. And the normal dialogue is between career intelligence or and law enforcement professionals and an Article III court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court. It is the part of intelligence all of which should push politics to the side. It is the part of intelligence that most needs to keep politics out of the process. And here we have now an injection of hyper partisanship into that process, and I just fear the great damage that will be done to institutions including oversight committees in the Congress, including the presidency and of course, obviously, the FBI...
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https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582338649/ex-cia-director-hayden-weighs-in-on-republican-memo
These Dems current defense is that there’s more than the Dossier that allowed the Title 1 warrant.
But Nunes, and others on the House Intel Committee, and possibly Trump, must have read the actual (recurring) FISA applications.