With the jaw-dropping revelation of former DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord being enlisted by the FISA Court as an Amici Curiae (advisor to the court) it is worthwhile revisiting this previous video explanation of the FISA Court.
John Spiropoulos does a great job outlining the history of the FISC looking the other way when the fourth amendment protections against searching American citizens electronic communication are violated by the FBI. “Mistakes were made”… and made, and made, and made, and made….
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Prior to the December 9, 2019, inspector general report on FISA abuse, FISA Court judges Rosemary Collyer (declassified 2017) and James Boasberg (declassified 2019) both identified issues with the NSA bulk database collection program being exploited for unauthorized reasons. Neither of them took any action against the FBI for warrantless searches of American citizen information.
So it should come as no surprise the 2020 report written again by James Boasberg, shows exactly the same issues still exist and the same unlawful abuses of the NSA database are still taking place. Taking events at their face value it would appear the court is in alignment with the FBI and thus the abuses have continued. Under that context Boasberg enlisting Mary McCord appears to be an institutional motive of covering-up the wrongdoing.
In order for corruption to continue advancing without consequence, those with institutional power have to pretend not to know things: “mistakes were made.”
Once again the FBI is outlined by the FISA court using the NSA database for warrantless searches of American citizen information. This is the fourth consecutive year the FISA court has outlined identical abuse of the NSA database by FBI workers, contractors and officials.
The latest 67 page FISA compliance review for the year 2020 was written by FISA Court Presiding Judge James Boasberg (same judge from Clinesmith trial). The opinion was written in November 2020 and declassified (with lots of redactions) in April 2021. [pdf version HERE] – [SCRIBD pdf HERE]
[…] In other words, the FBI is using FISA acquired information to investigate domestic crimes – not matters of foreign intelligence. These included investigations of “health-care fraud, transnational organized crime, violent gangs, domestic terrorism involving racially motivated violent extremists, as well as investigations relating to public corruption and bribery.”
[…] “Public corruption and bribery.” I highlight that last part because it means the FBI continued to improperly use FISA-acquired information to spy on government officials. (read more)
According to the Boasberg report seven FBI field offices were implicated in “these and a number of similar violations.” That means institutionally the FBI continues to perform warrantless searches of the NSA database that collects electronic information on every single American. The FBI is exploiting a backdoor into this database using search queries that violate the fourth amendment.
The FBI is extracting this information for their own personal use; likely political use including surveillance and black files on politicians; and for routine criminal investigations that are supposed to require warrants.
Keep in mind this 2020 review and report encompasses a time-frame prior to October 2020, so we can only imagine how many times since the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest the FBI reached into this NSA database to assist them with their investigation of “domestic extremists”.
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In 1960 we should have replaced the FBI with the Five Families. We would be in much better shape, and there would be no X File reruns.
Excellent.
The FISA Court is “compromised.”
“lt’s Official”
I’m ?????
Actually, the only thing I find shocking is the naivety of the writer of the headline; someone who allegedly knows that any Deep State organization is corrupt to the core.
First, you are commenting on the wrong article.
Second, calling Sundance naïve, seriously?
What an idiot. (Of course, I mean that in the most kinder, gentler, way. Or you could have been born without the sarcasm gene, I guess. Still an idiot.)
There is absolute proof the Deep State is corrupt to the core.
But you DemoCommieFascists pretend to not know things. It’s a “right wing conspiracy theory” for everything for you Demo-commie-fascist scum useful idiots
SD has forgotten more about the FISA courts than you ever knew — just saying.
They are all corrupt to the core,been going for a very very long time.
Changing the language
Blatant conspiracy to break the law, commit felonies
now just a few mistakes
No reform is possible when the whole thing is ROTTEN TO THE CORE !
we are no longer citizens of the United States of America, we are enemies of the state
Without our consent.
It is, perhaps, dawning on Deplorables that critiquing and complaining about DC corruption is no longer a recipe for removing DC corruption. If it ever was.
….another exercise in futility.
Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant today on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Upper East Side apartment, according to the New York Times, whose three anonymous sources say is an escalation of a “criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine.”
WHERE’S HUNTER
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rudy-giulianis-manhattan-apartment-raided-doj-electronic-devices-seized
You are looking for equity from these people?
Hunter is now teaching a university law class. Ya, you read that right. Now you know why I am up in the a$$ of academics and Lawyers. Not one of these clowns are worth the effort it would take to kill them.
No- I’m not looking for equity. I’m just looking for a cheap joke because it’s just so bad.
https://twitter.com/ilDonaldoTrumpo/status/1387452965687074816?s=20
I agree. Hunter is nothing but a cheap joke.
He’s worse than a joke but he hasn’t been prosecuted.
I’m sure there is a monumental effort underway by TPTB to keep Master Biden from imploding and leaving a massive crater. Come to think of it, I would not be the least bit surprised if a fatal accident might be in his future. My advice to Bunter Fiden is to NOT go fishing with Al Neri✌️
The report I saw said he is teaching a course as a “guest lecturer” at Tulane in New Orleans about “fake news” so that would not be a law course.
AGain, another opportunity for quickly assembled conservative protestors to call attention to the criminal being given a cushy job.
No one organizing to be seen nor heard.
We’re pathetic. We’ve sent our money to pols and a party that NEVER cared to fight. NEVER,
President Trump would be fauxpeach AGAIN if his children did this while in office. Not to mention, the school would have be burn to the ground and blamed on white suppressive behavior.
By far, Sundance has the most honest account, with tons of supporting documents that tell the truth about the corruption and manipulation by the powers to be to undermine our Government, our Constitution and the citizens of this great country.
Unfortunately, so many of these spot on posts don’t get the traction they deserve as Sundance is one voice. IMO the problem has always been a lack of organization/coordination of messaging by the right in this country to unite their voices and apply more “truth pressure.”
Take these last two columns and imagine if PT followed up almost immediately with direct video comments that reinforce Sundance’s words and evidence. And imagine if the MAGA party had just 50 coordinated MAGA media voices who would also follow up PT words and Sundance’s historical documentation.
Think just how much more powerful and impactful these messages could be to the millions of MAGA supporters especially as we head toward 2022.
This is why when Sundance asked the other week about funding CTH going forward, IMO the best option is GET PRESIDENT TRUMP involved with CTH in some way. Even if it is just coordinating the messaging, IMO that would go a long way in bring millions more viewers to CTH.
Not even Tucker has the same grasp on all the frauds and corruption that have been going on for the past 5 years so IMO Sundance SHOULD BE MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS TEAM WEEKLY!
Sundance’s words, coupled with his vast library of documents and evidence MUST never be allowed to be swept under the rug. It needs more than just this platform IMO.
Again, imagine the impact just these last two articles could have if today they were followed up by a video message from PT echoing the same message and referencing where to go for the evidence and documentation.
Don’t get me wrong, Sundance has done more IMO than any other MAGA supporter next to PT and the CTH is THE BEST SITE for documenting and exposing the past 5 years while also exposing the crap going on in DC today under JoeBama.
I just think it is time for Sundance and PT to hook up!
Trump rallys – and inspiring group support in resisting tyrany. EMail him now.
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if we fight alone its a bigger hill, if we stand in rally groups we are untouchable
You are onto something I have been thinking about. If we coordinated our messaging en mass it will make it harder to ignore the information. Get the message direction and set a time to send it out.
I’m confused. Which was the mistake….that DOJ/FBI attorneys committed felonies or that they got caught?
Getting caught.
They have been committing felonies since J. Edgar was breaking the glass ceiling for Brucelynn Jenner.
and 2016 pdjt win was the only reason they had to do this dance. otherwise they would of kept making perfectly desired moves of treason.
LMAO!
This very morning I experienced exactly what Sundance has warned about those who choose to believe they do not see the corruption.
A very good friend of mine became quite agitated when I told him writing letters to our elected representatives demanding the corrupt stop being corrupt is an exercise in futility. Agitated to the point he became very emotional and unreasonable.
An interesting experience it was.
beleives are the enemy of knowing. you may have to physically hit someone to get them back into reality.
On the bright side – your friend is starting to wake up; be gentle, it’s not easy to realize we can now see the strings on the marionettes when there has been little or no training on how to deal with the revelation!
Like many things in Government… They may make it “illegal” to abuse a resource. But when they put no stipulations on recourse and leave the action devoid of any criminal punishment then it’s a wink wink nudge nudge on regulation.
Hence FISA abuse is an illegal activity with no criminal punishment for the offenders.
Why bother to even make it illegal beyond lying to the public about its intended purpose.
These abusive mistakes were made with wantant intent with the full cooperation of the court. They know ahead of time they act with impunity.
Is Mary related to CIA James Walter McCord, Jr of Watergate?
Our geniuses created in Silicon Valley a technology so powerful in gathering electronic data that years ago the feds had to get involved. Sure, 9/11 prompted extreme measures, but we were “promised” that this new technology would not be used against Mr. Average American, only those bad guys who attacked us, wanted to attack us, or worked with the bad guys to harm us. I recall Bush coming on television saying such in his own words, etc.
So the CIA and FBI has some very new tools and methods at their disposal that would get ahead of these evil doers-what could go wrong? We did hear voices from the legislature that this would be an over reach by those who wished to control the government and its citizens-us! However, we were assured trip wires were in place to deny such bad, evil behavior by those who would control our every move, our daily lives, our very secrets, etc.
As information raced through our government hallways on just how powerful this new data collection effort could be in so many different directions, some began to contemplate how best to use such data for his/her personal goals.
Enter Obama…a very malignant narcissist who had some very big chips on his shoulders and his group of pals who also had those same chips on their shoulders–so anti-American in many ways! They put on their new found “miner’s hats” and went to work retrieving data they could use for their power games.
Enter Trump…when he wasn’t supposed to win. Big trouble for the haters. However, they had made great inroads in the NSA and government, had many,many friends in Silicon Valley. They knew what they had to do and went about doing it!
The secret that no one seems to mention is that in Washington, D.C., for decades since Nixon opened the door to China, not only did our government make side deals with the Chinese, so did the American industries and manufacturers make deals with the Chinese. Recall how the Chinese demanded access to our inventions, patents, systems of creations in order for these companies to get “cheap Chinese labor and materials” to be competitive on the expanding world markets.
Nixon’s game was to balance with China the Soviet threats-good move, but the players in Washington, D.C. saw advantages way beyond a great foreign policy manuever. So, what is the glue that the Chinese believed would do the trick for their advancement, their rapid advancement in an industrial transformation within China?
Greed was that glue! One of the 7 deadly sins. Here we are, 40 plus years down the road of dynamic interaction with the Chinese, trying to get through the Wuhan flu, a virus that just perhaps our good Dr. Fauci and his pals may have supported (unwittingly). Have you sought images of the city of Wuhan…and other recent pictures of major Chinese cities? Do they look like the time of Chairman Mao? Do they look more modern than American cities?
Back to Obama and his minions. “Fundamentally transform America!” As Dr. Phil would say: “How’s that working out for you American patriots?” Who does Joe Biden really for? Who is his master? Who let him makes millions on the side?
Now we see the corruption of our NSA, our FISA Court and this list goes on and on…fundamentally we have been screwed, blued and tattooed. Rudy Giulani now feels the direct sting from a corrupted FBI. In concert with the CIA perhaps, among others who have long knives.
If we don’t control the integrity of our “one man, one vote” system this game will be over or civil war will appear. It may already be on the horizon, time will tell. Under the guise of “globalism” come new tryants, dressed as simple working people, hiding right before your very eyes, lapping up the smooth words of Obama and his ilk as they go about making deals on all that data they have collected. You think lawyers and judges can’t be bought? Guess again!
FISA Court snookered . . . please! they’re in on the game . . . always have been.
a judge is a complete dumbas by design. they quaratine themselves from all news and then let the lawyers present edited facts to them.
by design a judge is just another fool to fool.
click the declassified 2019 link SD provided above
go to page 44 to confirm my image post. Then think heavily. Who is in charge? what enformed doesnt this wimp have? none. its literally the created nonincluded agencies in the constituion are subverting it..
States rights aer the only way to defeat the Federal STATE.
click any username to see websites they respect
Nice comments..but that doesn’t solve the problem…What to do about the corruption. We have a corrupt judiciary even at the highest positions..Period. It has been for a long time embodied by Blackmun in the Roe v Wade ruling giving rights that are not Constitutional all the way to the seriously personally compromised Justice Roberts who guides the Obama lawyers to ratification of the obviously unconstitutional Obamacare.
So what we need is not discussion after the facts. We need solutions. Solutions to bring this country back to a Constitutional Republic or at least holds the evil left at bey.
Trump rally in every state create a MOB MENTALITY verus your mentality right now DEE (which is im alone, what can i alone do ! this is pointless).
The FBI/FISA is openly at war against any citizen who opposes the left.
If the Republican party were indeed the political institution tasked to defend its voters, there should be an immediate move to abolish/defund/delegitimize the FBI/FISA.
Nope. Letters of concern. Maybe some Kabuki. The Cheney/Kinzinger types would even attack any such a move as radical, extremist, and “not who we are”.
We no longer have any margin of safety. We need meaningful counteraction and we need it now. They say don’t give into despair. But when I look at the Republican party, that is all I feel.
Here is what the LEFT would do:
They would mobilize protestors.
Here is what we do: we find blogs that outline the problem, then we read and whine about it.
They would make sure the media covered the story, even if not inclined to do so. Noisy protestors make them want to cover the story.
Here is what we do:
we rely on internet bloggers and conservative journalists and columnists to write about it. So, we read. That’s it. Oh, we may now and then individually, but in no organized way, write our representatives.
I live 3ooo miles away from DC and at 72 don’t have the ability to do what I once did. It’s not an excuse but an explanation. I could support protestors with what I have, donations.
At least in CA it’s legal to stand on public sidewalks and protest to your heart’s content as long as you pose no physical threat and as long as you do not block access to one’s residence or street, and as long as the noise level doesn’t prevent sleep at night. It drives school trustees crazy and they almost always went back to the bargaining table after such tactics were employed…and they were RARELY employed.
Picketing Boasberg’s residence, Chief Justice Roberts’ residence, McCord’s residence with signs that say CORRUPTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM day after day, with growing fervor would at least call attention to what has happened.
Those who say that the public doesn’t know any of these people nor do they know what the FISA Court really is are correct.
There’s no better way to educated them than not reading about it, but calling attention to it visually and making the names of these people better known.
It’s just one tactic the LEFt uses. Yes, yes, I know we don’t have the benefit of the media and their cameras, but it’s not unusual for such tactics that don’t let up to cause the cameras to show up.
We are meek.
We don’t even try. We need leader of strategy and tactics and we can’t look to the GOP. They are the last folks to look to.
Of course, we should picket the GAng of 8 and the “oversight” chairs that do nothing but pretend to do something.
This is all legal, for those who think we are not yet at the point of civil disobediance.
On a related item pertaining to the total control of government by unconstrained leftists, Rudy Giuliani’s home and office were raided by Federal agents as part of an ongoing probe into his activities in the Ukraine.
The brazen attitude of the left is a direct measure of the passive compliance of the GOP and of their votes to confirm whoever the left wants to lead the next stage of oppression against conservatives.
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Tired of hearing media and politicians wondering about mistakes or incompetence or being “hoodwinked”– for acts and omissions that are knowing and deliberate.
Unfortunately it took a World War to defeat the Nazis and I don’t know what it’s going to take to defeat them this time around.
The Constitution disintegrates while Judge Master Bates.
I’m sorry to have to write that, but that’s essentially what these lawyers-in-robes are being paid to do.
“Mistakes were made” ???
That’s what the Nazis said at Nuremberg.
Will write a sternly-worded memo, distribute it to the FB!, and wait another 2 years to see if that does the trick.
The FISA Court is a lot like Military Tribunals which were essentially outlawed for use against American civilians by a unanimous Supreme Court decision over 150 years ago.
The following is the that decision. Just replace “Militarily Tribunals” with “FISA Court” and see how seamlessly it fits.
“The use of military tribunals in cases of civilians was often controversial, as tribunals represented a form of justice alien to the common law, which governs criminal justice in the United States, and provides for trial by jury, the presumption of innocence, forbids secret evidence, and provides for public proceedings. Critics of the Civil War military tribunals charged that they had become a political weapon, for which the accused had no legal recourse to the regularly constituted courts, and no recourse whatsoever except through an appeal to the President. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its [unanimous] decision in Ex parte Milligan (1866).”
Well stated offcoursenation. This episode of legal history, if not a repeat, is at least a rhyme. Regards, X.
Uniparty members sure are a paranoid bunch
I understand why so much of the frustration centers on what we can do civilly and politically. It also seems that none of this addresses the root cause. Here is an excerpt from the Epoch Times.
A Mom’s Research (Part 4): Why Are Many Elites Leftists? By Jen Chen in the Epoch Times quotes Solzhenitsyn:
“More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.
“Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution … But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Where the Hell am I anyway ??? !!!
Did someone abduct me and send me back to Nazi Germany in a Time Machine?
Calling Agents Mulder and Scullly. This is a really big X-file. More like XXX-file.
These judges who are calling out the abuses, should grow a spine, and act against the FBI, or anyone else who abuses the Constitution.
John Spiropoulos videos are the best!
Excellent video John just outstanding! The Comey Hillary defense rears its ugly head again “no intent”! The 4th Amendment is dead when there can be no violations of it when Judges all believe there is no intent! Ha!
Officer, it was not my intent to be speeding, therefore I’m free to go, right?
It is impossible to have a country under the rule of law when the courts shy away from their obligation to uphold the said rule of law and, instead, place political expediency above the letter and spirit of the law.
Remember, when concepts such as “legal” and “illegal” lose any objective meaning through a selective refusal to enforce the law (by the executive) or a wilful misapplication of the law (by the judiciary), how can any action be considered illegal or punishable?
Tufts law professor Michael Glennon points out in his essay in Humanitas that the Cold War brought something new and ominous in military-civilian relations. The national security bureaucracy became so large and omnipotent that the Madisonian branches of government became something like the British House of Lords, symbolically important but in reality without much power. The executive, legislature, and judiciary became a kind of Potemkin village, with real national security power lodged in, as Glennon describes it, “a largely concealed managerial directorate, consisting of the several hundred leaders of the military, law enforcement and intelligence departments.” As this bureaucracy grew, Glennon argues, “those managers…operated at an increasing remove from constitutional limits and restraints, moving the nation slowly toward autocracy.”
good video
when there is no punishment for constitutional violations, those violations will continue for eternity.