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The campaign was certainly surveilled. Have you seen any indication it was unwarranted? I found https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/doj-fbi-review-of-surve
by howenterprisey 5y ago
The campaign was certainly surveilled. Have you seen any indication it was unwarranted? I found https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/doj-fbi-review-of-surveillance-applications-finds-almost-all-errors-are-minor-391101 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/doj-fbi-review-of-s..., which suggests nothing untoward was going on. As I said, I don't think Trump was approaching this in a particularly well-considered way.
- koolba 5y ago> The campaign was certainly surveilled. Have you seen any indication it was unwarranted? If it was any other campaign and there was sigint that a foreign power was trying to influence the campaign then they would have reached out to the candidate to alert him as such. But the intention here was not to prevent foreign tampering. It was to use the FISA process as an excuse to surveil the campaign wholesale.
- mtberatwork 5y agoThat's not entirely true either. The Trump campaign did receive intelligence briefings in 2016 and there is evidence, although no official confirmation, that Russia was discussed. [1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/20/did-fbi-warn-trump-campaign-about-russia/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/20/did-fbi-w...