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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 FISA application alleging an American citizen and adviser to the Trump campaign 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 inaugurated. 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.

A FISA application alleging an American citizen and adviser to the Trump campaign 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, and phone calls with foreign leaders after the new president was inaugurated. 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.

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.

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.