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In operation crossfire hurricane, the FBI doctored an email and used its contents as part of an effort to get a FISA warrant to spy on a member of the incoming
by fareesh 6y ago
In operation crossfire hurricane, the FBI doctored an email and used its contents as part of an effort to get a FISA warrant to spy on a member of the incoming administration. This gave them access to listen to conversations of anyone 2 levels of connection away from the target.
They also withheld exculpatory evidence at the time of requesting the warrant, and relied on a fictional document paid for by the opposing political party.
This was used as a basis to conduct a 2 year long investigation into collusion between the campaign and the Russian government, which resulted in the conviction of Michael Cohen for tax evasion and perjury, and Paul Manafort for tax fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy all of which predated the campaign and had nothing to do with it.
Not only are these agencies spying based on fabricated evidence, they are using the spying to kick off independent investigations, each of which unveil various unrelated crimes, which they then prosecute.
The whole system is rotten to its core.
- autisticcurio 6y agoWell the security services in the UK, will enter your house and wipe your backups and handdrives whilst you are on holiday and there is nothing you can do about it. They also carry out secret operations on primary school kids phishing for information, speaking from experience and hindsight. Nothing is off limits.
- bosswipe 6y agoYou present a very one-side of view of that story that has been extremely muddied by a constant stream of conspiracy theories and misinformation from everyone including the president. Even though I agree with Trump on some things and dislike Biden the lying, conspiracy theories and general disrespect for our democracy is completely disqualifying in my book.
- fareesh 6y agoThe conspiracy theory is that the agency conspired to do this for political reasons. Even if you discount that entirely it does not take away from the fact that this is possible and happened, and that in itself ought to be cause for concern.
- strombye 6y agoThis is the writing of a partisan hack. The Trump campaign was and is so obviously dirty up to its eyeballs that it’s absurd on the face of it to claim that illegal spying is the genesis of those investigations, especially given that the administration has gone to great lengths to muddy the waters in all these matters, pushing the exact talking points you now repeat. It makes me sick.