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https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/highlights-from-daniel-ellsbergas-reddit-ama-on-edward-snowden-and-nsa-surveillance/</ref> intimidation of journalists for reporting on the FISA law,<ref>[http://www.cjr.org/criticism/national_security_letters.php When can the FBI use National Security Letters to spy on journalists? That’s classified.] By Trevor Timm, ''Columbia Journalism Review'', JANUARY 11, 2016</ref> and blackmail are either known to have occurred or potentially exist under the law.<ref>https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/trump-is-challenging-the-whole-cia-media-nexus/</ref> In 2017 the FBI said they could not assure that the hundreds of people administering programs created by the law would be investigated for felony criminal abuses.<ref>
https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/highlights-from-daniel-ellsbergas-reddit-ama-on-edward-snowden-and-nsa-surveillance/</ref> intimidation of journalists for reporting on the FISA law,<ref>[http://www.cjr.org/criticism/national_security_letters.php When can the FBI use National Security Letters to spy on journalists? That’s classified.] By Trevor Timm, ''Columbia Journalism Review'', JANUARY 11, 2016</ref> and blackmail are either known to have occurred or potentially exist under the law.<ref>https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/trump-is-challenging-the-whole-cia-media-nexus/</ref> In 2017 the FBI said they could not assure that the hundreds of people administering programs created by the law would be investigated for felony criminal abuses.<ref>
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2017/03/gop-lawmaker-fbi-stop-leaks-russia-probe-or-lose-key-surveillance-tool/136325/?oref=d-topstory</ref>
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2017/03/gop-lawmaker-fbi-stop-leaks-russia-probe-or-lose-key-surveillance-tool/136325/?oref=d-topstory</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
Throughout the [[2016 presidential election]], and well into the first term of President [[Donald Trump]], appointees of President [[Barack Hussein Obama]] illegally used the FISA process to obtain foreign intelligence surveillance warrants on domestic political opponents on behalf of the [[2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign]] and the [[Democratic National Committee]].
Throughout the [[2016 presidential election]], and well into the first term of President [[Donald Trump]], appointees of President [[Barack Hussein Obama]] illegally used the FISA process to obtain foreign intelligence surveillance warrants on domestic political opponents on behalf of the [[2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign]] and the [[Democratic National Committee]].
A heavily redacted FISA application used to install wiretaps, without justification, against an adviser to the campaign for [[Donald Trump]] was released late in the day on Friday, July 21, 2018, presumably to minimize media attention.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-doj-fisa-warrant-docs-00245/</ref>
Abuses of FISA by the [[Deep State]] are the subject of the "Nunes memo" that a congressional committee voted in January 2018 to release to the public.
A FISA application alleging an American citizen and adviser to the Trump was an "agent of a foreign power" was approved in October 2016,<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-doj-fisa-warrant-docs-00245/</ref> granting the FBI surveillance authority under the "two hop rule" to virtually the entire Trump campaign in 50 states and the [[Trump transition]] team. Confidential screenings and interviews with cabinet appointees and staff members were surveilled by [[Peter Strzok]] and other conspirators in the FBI and DOJ. As were [[Oval Office]] conversations, briefings, phone calls with foreign leaders after the new president was inaugutated. Many people [[White House]] staffers and personnel throughout other cabinet departments and agencies likewise had both thier work and private lives subject to intense FBI intrusions well into the first eight months of the Trump presidency.
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