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All the intelligence information the Obama DOJ and FBI collected via their illegal FISA-702 queries, combined with the intelligence [[FusionGPS]] created during their earlier contractor access to FISA-702(17) “about queries”, was the intelligence data delivered to Christopher Steele for use in creating the ''Steele dossier''.
All the intelligence information the Obama DOJ and FBI collected via their illegal FISA-702 queries, combined with the intelligence [[FusionGPS]] created during their earlier contractor access to FISA-702(17) “about queries”, was the intelligence data delivered to Christopher Steele for use in creating the ''Steele dossier''.
===Executive Order 12333===
The executive order’s history dates back to President Ronald Reagan. He signed the order into law in 1981, giving the intelligence community the ability to extend their powers and streamlining the ability of federal agencies also investigating intelligence issues, to cooperate with the CIA requests for information.
It gives the NSA almost unlimited authority to access information and intercept overseas communications.
[[Obama]] sought to expand those powers and take down the wall during his second term in office. The original executive order only allowed limited personnel - those with the highest levels of security clearances - to view the original raw data.
But the changes came at the end of his presidency. On Jan. 3, then Attorney General [[Loretta Lynch]] signed the expansion of the executive order, which had already been signed by [[DNI]] [[James Clapper]] in mid-December.
For many years the executive order didn’t draw a lot of attention, but NSA [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] [[Edward Snowden]] exposed its vast reach.
Snowden, who is being sought by U.S. authorities for leaking classified information and is now in [[Russia]], was the catalyst that exposed the vast authority of the NSA by revealing how the agency is capable of retrieving and storing vast amounts of what Americans considered private communications in their servers."<ref>http://circa.com/politics/some-us-intelligence-officials-want-trump-to-rescind-obamas-expansion-of-nsa-data</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==