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<\/p>\nRUSH: Sharyl Attkisson. She was on Chatsworth Osborne Jr. Tonight on the Fox News Channel, and he asked her if the government spying on Americans is uncommon. This FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page from the Steele memo, is that a one off, is it uncommon, or is it more common than we know?<\/p>\n
ATTKISSON: I think not. You know, long before Trump announced running for president I had intel sources — contacts who I\u2019m still in touch with — who have said that for a long time there has been presentation of bad evidence to the FISA court to justify warrants, that there has been sort of a reverse engineering. When political figures want to target people illegally, they find someone in their orbit that they can target, and then capture them incidentally, and then accidentally capture their data and unmask them, acting surprised that that\u2019s who it was, when that\u2019s the target that they intended to capture all along.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me translate this. Here\u2019s what she\u2019s saying. What she\u2019s saying is exactly what happened to Michael Flynn. She is saying that political people within law enforcement or political people at the request… Sorry. Law enforcement people — say at the FBI, DOJ — responding to a request, let\u2019s say, by a Democrat, will go to the FISA court and get a warrant to spy on somebody who may be engaging in legitimate criminal activity, who it is known is talking to the real target that the political operative wants dirt on.<\/p>\n
So they get the warrant to spy on the legitimate criminal actor but not to get data on him. Since they surveil him, they\u2019re gonna overhear what he says to the real target they want data on. They get that, and then they unmask, which is exactly what the Obama administration was doing in droves. Susan Rice and Samantha Power were unmasking people in droves toward the end of 2016, and she\u2019s saying that this is exactly how FISA warrants are being used. I saw a stat last night. I don\u2019t have these numbers. I didn\u2019t write them down; so I\u2019m paraphrasing the numbers.<\/p>\n
But I want to just give you the percentage. Something like 30,000 FISA warrant requests or applications and only 18 rejections. The point is that they\u2019re pretty much always granted, and her point is that she\u2019s got sources telling her that the FISA warrant application process is being used by political people to get a warrant to spy on somebody when the intent is to actually catch somebody else for political purposes. Somebody you know the target knows and talks to on the phone or wherever. And I have to tell you, I\u2019m not surprised.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019re talking about the swamp here.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re talking about the establishment.<\/p>\n
If this is true, it doesn\u2019t surprise me in the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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