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Confirmed: The Obama DOJ Went Rogue to Spy on an Ex-Trump Campaign Official
Townhall.com ^ | 9/22/2021 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 09/23/2021 10:59:32 AM PDT by bitt

It took too long to confirm what we already knew about this fiasco. It's a classic tale of government overreach, one we're seeing more often with Joe Biden issuing vaccine mandate edicts and rebuilding the IRS to spy on our financial activities. No, this is something of a throwback. It deals with the Russian collusion hoax and the unlawful targeting of Carter Page, a former 2016 Trump campaign official. Page had worked with the CIA, State Department, and the FBI in years past. There was plenty of exculpatory evidence to prove he wasn't a Russian asset. Obama's Department of Justice intentionally omitted these key pieces of information when applying for a FISA spy warrant during the campaign.

Page has long since been exonerated of the ludicrous charge that he was a spy and part of this Trump-Russia collusion delusion that engulfed the political class and the DOJ for years. Very powerful anti-Trump forces worked and manufactured evidence to support this baseless claim. They always collapsed under scrutiny, but the damage was done. The FISA court ruled in June that the DOJ unlawfully spied on Page (via The Federalist):

A newly declassified ruling from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in June demonstrates that the government lied about its legal basis for spying on former Trump campaign official Carter Page. The ruling states that the information produced by the FBI’s unlawful investigation into Page was illegally obtained and that it “found violations of the government’s duty of candor in all four applications.” The ruling also orders the government that “it must temporarily retain, and potentially use and disclose, the information collected, largely in the context of ongoing or anticipated litigation.”

Under the court’s 21-page assessment, information obtained by all four of the warrants and applications is invalidated due to its

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carterpage; doj; fisa; obama; overreach; page; trumpcampaign
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To: bitt

Rogue?

Obama needs to be prosecuted.

He did the crime, he can do the time.


41 posted on 09/23/2021 5:31:17 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: bitt

Consequences? None, apparently.


42 posted on 09/23/2021 8:00:50 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Little Ray

Because it all leads to the Hildabeast, Bammy, and Biden.


43 posted on 09/24/2021 2:35:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: DesertRhino

Interesting. Could be.


44 posted on 09/27/2021 6:58:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Little Ray
Any yet nobody has even been charged for it.Our government is evil.
45 posted on 09/27/2021 7:00:56 PM PDT by ladyjane
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