Posted on 01/09/2020 10:13:35 PM PST by blam
One of the businessmen accused of conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani to make illegal campaign contributions argued Thursday in federal court that the government is trying to cover up the "warrantless and unlawful electronic surveillance" it conducted in its investigation, including possible "stingray" technology to track cellphones.
Saying it now "appears to be the case" that the government obtained evidence through the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and that it was "inconceivable" that no communications were intercepted, lawyers for Andrey Kukushkin sought an explanation as to the "genesis of such evidence and the extent to which it was used."
The bombshell filing comes as the FISA court has sternly rebuked the FBI for submitting false and incomplete materials as part of its investigation into other members of the Trump team. However, the FISA court has not sought a comprehensive review of past FBI filings, and at least one high-level FBI agent apparently involved in FISA misconduct remains at the bureau.
"The government's insistence on complete secrecy is incompatible with the rights of the defendants, particularly in the face of rapidly advancing technology," Kukushkin's attorneys wrote Thursday. "Initially, it was the government's repeated insistence that 'no Title III [wiretap] warrants were used in this investigation,' even when asked whether non-Title III surveillance occurred. This was coupled by the government's refusal to answer direct and repeated questions as to its use of stingray and other electronic surveillance."
The attorneys continued: "Indeed, other than Title III warrants, there is not a single form of surveillance that the government has denied using in the course of this investigation, which makes sense and proves the defense's point."
The government, they said, should be ordered to undertake a comprehensive "agency search" and "affirm or deny" the existence of such evidence.
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The FBI needs to be disbanded. That organization is so corrupt that there is no fixing it.
Well of course -- otherwise how could the Deep State be sure he wasn't colluding with Russia, as we all know he was?!? /sarc
Maybe someday they can use that technology to go get MS-13, Cartels, the murder gangs in Chicago, St Louis, Baltimore, etc.
You know, after America’s political arrests have been properly attended to.
Pizzagate, Podesta pedophile art, Clinton bribery and misappropriation. Etc....
Then they are, precisely as I predicted, abusing FISA to spy on Giuliani.
We’re going to need to have mass hangings because there are way too many traitors running around to do one at a time.
If the accused shoots his persecutors in the face, it's self-defence.
As far as I can tell, no one has done a single thing wrong, because no one has been held to account.
And they wonder why nobody trusts them.
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