Though with a rejection rate of less than 0.1% I think it's clear that the system is just a joke. You could probably get a FISA warrant to spy on a mentally retarded teenager living in Missouri who has never even met a foreigner.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
So that memo was released....
- 02/02/2018 06:59:35 PM
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Just reading the memo is indeed the best approach, I just did too.
- 02/02/2018 08:20:01 PM
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I find it hard to believe the Obama appointees in the DoJ did not know where the dossier came from *NM*
- 02/02/2018 09:17:06 PM
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As do I. Was that supposed to have any relevance to my post? *NM*
- 02/02/2018 09:34:57 PM
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Re: As do I. Was that supposed to have any relevance to my post?
- 02/02/2018 10:37:21 PM
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With over 34,000 FISA applications just 12 (not 12,000 or 1200 or 120) were denied.
- 03/02/2018 04:07:24 PM
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Correction: "just under", not "over" 34,000
- 03/02/2018 10:08:54 PM
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I do find it very telling how many members of the media are suddenly opposed to transparency
- 02/02/2018 08:51:28 PM
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So you are saying the House Intelligence Committee SHOULD release Schiffs rebuttal of Nunes' lies?
- 03/02/2018 03:58:13 AM
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I seem to recall much incredulity when Trump claimed he was being wire tapped
- 02/02/2018 09:15:14 PM
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Er. Let me see if I'm getting this right.
- 02/02/2018 09:34:14 PM
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They did somehow tap Flynn
- 02/02/2018 10:44:55 PM
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Keep in mind Sessions wanted Rosenstein to resign
- 02/02/2018 11:28:52 PM
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Why would SESSIONS want Rosenstein fired?
- 03/02/2018 05:22:16 AM
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It was on a list of about 40 Sessions wanted fired. Probably becuase he is a lib *NM*
- 04/02/2018 12:31:13 AM
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No, they tapped the Russian Ambassador to the US, per SOP; not the FBIs fault Flynn called him.
- 03/02/2018 03:59:54 AM
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no but were they listening when he spoke to Trump?
- 02/02/2018 11:25:30 PM
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Nope, just listening to the Russian Ambassador when Flynn repeatedly called during the campaign
- 03/02/2018 04:11:27 AM
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Actually, also, seems I missed a fairly crucial point until now, as did others here...
- 03/02/2018 01:15:10 AM
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If working with a forgein agent is such a sin...
- 02/02/2018 11:22:41 PM
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You're saying oppo research should have its own kind of Jones Act?
- 03/02/2018 12:51:27 AM
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No I am saying that it seen as crimianl when one side does and no big deal when the other does it
- 03/02/2018 01:15:22 AM
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I believe campaign aid from foreign private citizens OR govt is equally illegal, FWIW
- 03/02/2018 04:28:14 AM
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Actually, JEB BUSH hired the former MI6 agents firm to do oppo research on Trump during the primary
- 03/02/2018 04:03:08 AM
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Sometimes I forget how right-wing most everyone here is. 
The memo itself is just nonsense.
- 03/02/2018 02:44:16 AM
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The memo itself is just nonsense.
- 03/02/2018 02:44:16 AM
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Ironic, since Republicans Mueller, Comey and Wray threatened to resign over Ws warrantless taps
- 03/02/2018 04:07:10 AM
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I can't speak for the present with too much information is unknown
- 03/02/2018 04:51:14 AM
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The memo is clearly not nonsense to the extent it shows abuse within the FBI.
- 03/02/2018 10:15:49 PM
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Fruit of the poisonous tree wouldn't apply here, though.
- 04/02/2018 05:40:44 AM
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- 04/02/2018 05:40:44 AM
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I would certainly argue it
- 05/02/2018 04:55:18 PM
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I think you'd win! Insofar as you'd get the FISA warrant excluded.
- 07/02/2018 07:01:42 AM
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Actually, everyone I have seen exposing the material falsehoods Nunes invented are Republicans
- 03/02/2018 03:54:03 AM
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Dear Joel,
- 03/02/2018 04:31:18 AM
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I have
- 03/02/2018 05:09:19 AM
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Don't feed the Joel.
- 03/02/2018 10:17:12 PM
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Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian Knot of it he will tangle, Familiar as his garter
- 03/02/2018 10:51:36 PM
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I sort of want to like this, but your answers keep getting weirder and weirder *NM*
- 06/02/2018 09:17:42 PM
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WSJ source
- 03/02/2018 05:04:04 AM
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You believe the commie liberals at Rupert Murdochs Wall Street Journal? 
- 03/02/2018 05:14:08 AM
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- 03/02/2018 05:14:08 AM
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well as long as you have an unnaamed source it must be true *NM*
- 04/02/2018 01:05:36 AM
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What is yours?
- 04/02/2018 04:30:51 PM
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We are having completely different conversations right now, and completely different things we are
- 04/02/2018 11:38:35 PM
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Yeah, look what happens when you shit on the Fourth Amendment.
- 03/02/2018 09:09:00 PM
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Right, because the President of the United States is just a private citizen
- 04/02/2018 08:08:32 AM
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The point was that the people in power want the Fourth Amendment to apply, or not, as they see fit.
- 06/02/2018 08:16:19 PM
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Does anybody still cares about the Nunes memo? I ask for the Schiff memo was released?
- 26/02/2018 11:14:51 PM
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