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*'''25 October.''' ''NYT'' reports "Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/justice-dept-replaces-investigators-on-eric-garner-case.html</ref> Garner was a black man arrested for selling cigarettes who died from a chokehold while in police custody.

*'''25 October.''' ''NYT'' reports "Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/justice-dept-replaces-investigators-on-eric-garner-case.html</ref> Garner was a black man arrested for selling cigarettes who died from a chokehold while in police custody.

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*'''26 October.''' The FISA court issues a decision that reveals that the upper echelon of the FBI, Comey, McCabe, Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to FusionGPS. Assoc. Dep. AG [[Bruce Ohr]] was the lynchpin between Attn. Gen. Lynch, the FBI and FusionGPS. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for FusionGPS on the ''Steele Dossier'' portions of which were presented to the FISA court to get the court’s approval for the FBI’s previous and continuing unlawful surveillance of Trump associates. The Court noted “an institutional ‘lack of candor’ on NSA’s part and emphasized that ‘this is a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.’” On March 9, 2016, the {{quotebox|“DOJ oversight personnel conducting a minimization review of the FBI’s *** [redacted] learned that the FBI had disclosed raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information....certain *** [redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information on FBI storage systems. ***[redacted] the ***[redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to the FBI’s requests.”}} According to the Court, the {{quotebox|“FBI discontinued the above-described access to raw FISA information as of April 18, 2016.”}} The court continued, noting {{quotebox|“Restrictions were not in place with regard to the *** [redacted] contractors; their access was not limited to raw information for which the FBI sought assistance and access continued even after they had completed their work in response to an FBI request."}} Pg. 83: {{quotebox|"FBI gave raw Section 702–acquired information to a private entity [FusionGPS] that was not a federal agency and whose personnel [Simpson, Steele, Nellie Ohr] were not sufficiently supervised by a federal agency for compliance minimization procedures [protecting the Fourth Amendment rights of US persons]."}} Footnote 68 of the Court’s decision includes the statement that {{quotebox|“the government acknowledges that those disclosures were improper for other reasons.”}} In Footnote 69 the decision reads that {{quotebox|“'''improper access granted to the * * *[redacted] contractors . . . * * *[redacted] . . . seems to have been the result of deliberate decision-making'''. * * *[redacted] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding (presumably prepared or reviewed by FBI lawyers), no notice of this practice was given to the FISC until 2016.”<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref>}}

*'''26 October.''' The FISA court issues a decision that reveals that the upper echelon of the FBI, Comey, McCabe, Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to [[FusionGPS]]. Assoc. Dep. AG [[Bruce Ohr]] was the lynchpin between Attn. Gen. Lynch, the FBI and FusionGPS. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for FusionGPS on the ''Steele Dossier'' portions of which were presented to the FISA court to get the court’s approval for the FBI’s previous and continuing unlawful surveillance of Trump associates. The Court noted “an institutional ‘lack of candor’ on NSA’s part and emphasized that ‘this is a very serious Fourth Amendment issue.’” On March 9, 2016, the {{quotebox|“DOJ oversight personnel conducting a minimization review of the FBI’s *** [redacted] learned that the FBI had disclosed raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information....certain *** [redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information on FBI storage systems. ***[redacted] the ***[redacted] contractors had access to raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to the FBI’s requests.”}} According to the Court, the {{quotebox|“FBI discontinued the above-described access to raw FISA information as of April 18, 2016.”}} The court continued, noting {{quotebox|“Restrictions were not in place with regard to the *** [redacted] contractors; their access was not limited to raw information for which the FBI sought assistance and access continued even after they had completed their work in response to an FBI request."}} Pg. 83: {{quotebox|"FBI gave raw Section 702–acquired information to a private entity [FusionGPS] that was not a federal agency and whose personnel [Simpson, Steele, [[Nellie Ohr]] ] were not sufficiently supervised by a federal agency for compliance minimization procedures [protecting the Fourth Amendment rights of US persons]."}} Footnote 68 of the Court’s decision includes the statement that {{quotebox|“the government acknowledges that those disclosures were improper for other reasons.”}} In Footnote 69 the decision reads that {{quotebox|“'''improper access granted to the * * *[redacted] contractors . . . * * *[redacted] . . . seems to have been the result of deliberate decision-making'''. * * *[redacted] access to FBI systems was the subject of an interagency memorandum of understanding (presumably prepared or reviewed by FBI lawyers), no notice of this practice was given to the FISC until 2016.”<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=725X700959X1f9f116a5537f6a9a28958a63ea180de&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate</ref>}}

*NSA Dir. Mike Rogers personally informed the FISA court of the Obama administration's 702(17) violations. The abuses covered the period from November 2015 to May 2016 and centered around the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and DOJ’s National Security Division.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/05/the-uncovering-mike-rogers-investigation-section-702-fisa-abuse-the-fbi/</ref>

*NSA Dir. Mike Rogers personally informed the FISA court of the Obama administration's 702(17) violations. The abuses covered the period from November 2015 to May 2016 and centered around the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and DOJ’s National Security Division.<ref>https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/04/05/the-uncovering-mike-rogers-investigation-section-702-fisa-abuse-the-fbi/</ref>

*[[Joe diGenova]] claims FusionGPS and CrowdStrike are two of the redacted contractors; Daniel Richman is also a possibility.

*[[Joe diGenova]] claims FusionGPS and [[CrowdStrike]] are two of the redacted contractors; Daniel Richman is also a possibility.

*In the closed door hearing before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Obama administration lawyers admit to routinely violating American privacy protections for the past five years while scouring through overseas intercepts. More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011.<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/05/23/politics/obama-intel-agency-secretly-conducted-illegal-searches-on-americans-for-years</ref>

*In the closed door hearing before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Obama administration lawyers admit to routinely violating American privacy protections for the past five years while scouring through overseas intercepts. More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011.<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/05/23/politics/obama-intel-agency-secretly-conducted-illegal-searches-on-americans-for-years</ref>

*Hillary Clinton tweets about leaked info from the October 21 FISA warrant.<ref>Check out @HillaryClinton's Tweet: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?s=09</ref>  Some speculate the server was hacked by the CIA with malware in order to obtain a FISA warrant.<ref>https://me.me/i/pay-close-attention-the-server-in-trump-tower-with-alleged-10790639</ref>  

*Hillary Clinton tweets about leaked info from the October 21 FISA warrant.<ref>Check out @HillaryClinton's Tweet: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?s=09</ref>  Some speculate the server was hacked by the CIA with malware in order to obtain a FISA warrant.<ref>https://me.me/i/pay-close-attention-the-server-in-trump-tower-with-alleged-10790639</ref>  

*BakerHostetler, the law firm acting on behalf of Prevezon Holdings and its owner Denis Katsyv, makes final payment to FusionGPS. FusionGPS was hired by BakerHostetler to investigate Bill Browder who helped push through the Magnitsky Act. Glenn Simpson, founding partner of Fusion GPS, compiled the research for the anti-Browder project. He worked closely with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer. Katsyv, a Russian businessman, and Prevezon sought to limit the impact of the Magnitsky Act sanctions. Payments from BakerHostetler to FusionGPS since March 2016 total $523,651.

*BakerHostetler, the law firm acting on behalf of Prevezon Holdings and its owner Denis Katsyv, makes final payment to FusionGPS. FusionGPS was hired by BakerHostetler to investigate Bill Browder who helped push through the Magnitsky Act. [[Glenn Simpson]], founding partner of Fusion GPS, compiled the research for the anti-Browder project. He worked closely with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer. Katsyv, a Russian businessman, and Prevezon sought to limit the impact of the Magnitsky Act sanctions. Payments from BakerHostetler to FusionGPS since March 2016 total $523,651.

*Senate Democratic Leader [[Harry Reid]] files complaint with FBI against Dir. Comey alleging misconduct as does former [[George W. Bush]] [[White House]] counsel Richard Painter files complaint with the Government Ethics Office alleging [[Hatch Act]] violations.<ref>http://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-director-accused-misconduct-new-emails-possibly-tied-clinton/3573504.html</ref>

*Senate Democratic Leader [[Harry Reid]] files complaint with FBI against Dir. Comey alleging misconduct as does former [[George W. Bush]] [[White House]] counsel Richard Painter files complaint with the Government Ethics Office alleging [[Hatch Act]] violations.<ref>http://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-director-accused-misconduct-new-emails-possibly-tied-clinton/3573504.html</ref>