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After FusionGPS was hired by the [[2016 Clinton campaign]] in April 2016 and cut off from access by the FISA Compliance Audit, FusionGPS and the [[DOJ]] needed a work around for continued access to FISA 702 information in order to spy on the [[2016 Trump campaign|Trump campaign]]. Nellie could use her husband, Obama Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]]’s high level DOJ access to continue gathering FISA-702 data.<ref>Nellie and Bruce Ohr and Fusion founder [[Glenn Simpson]] collaborated on other projects in the past. [https://t.co/u5HPgJwvWd Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.]</ref>  

After FusionGPS was hired by the [[2016 Clinton campaign]] in April 2016 and cut off from access by the FISA Compliance Audit, FusionGPS and the [[DOJ]] needed a work around for continued access to FISA 702 information in order to spy on the [[2016 Trump campaign|Trump campaign]]. Nellie could use her husband, Obama Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]]’s high level DOJ access to continue gathering FISA-702 data.<ref>Nellie and Bruce Ohr and Fusion founder [[Glenn Simpson]] collaborated on other projects in the past. [https://t.co/u5HPgJwvWd Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.]</ref>  

FISA 702 searches may not, by law, ever be used to target American citizens; they may only be used to target non-citizens ''outside'' the [[United States]]. Even non-citizens ''inside'' the United States enjoy [[Fourth Amendment]] protections.<ref>Although Americans are sometimes caught up in incidental collection, and their names are required to be masked, an American is never to be targeted under any circumstances by a 702 search query, which ''does not'' require a FISA warrant. To target an  American, [[probable cause]] and a FISA warrant must be adjudicated by a [[FISA court]]. 702 queries are conducted by low-level administors, and the technology is ripe for massive abuse, as occurred under [[President Obama]].</ref> FBI contractor access to the FISA database was cutoff for this reason - the Obama FBI under [[James Comey]] had violated the civil and constitutional rights of some 5,000 Americans by committing illegal FISA 702 searches beginning shortly ''after'' Donald Trump organized his national presidential campaign.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-campaign-spying-obama-administration-investigation/</ref><ref>https://spectator.org/did-trump-really-save-america-from-socialism/</ref>

FISA 702 searches may not, by law, ever be used to target American citizens; they may only be used to target non-citizens ''outside'' the [[United States]]. Even non-citizens ''inside'' the United States enjoy [[Fourth Amendment]] protections.<ref>Although Americans are sometimes caught up in incidental collection, and their names are required to be masked, an American is never to be targeted under any circumstances by a 702 search query, which ''does not'' require a FISA warrant. To target an  American, [[probable cause]] and a FISA warrant must be adjudicated by a [[FISA court]]. 702 queries are conducted by low-level administors, and the technology is ripe for massive abuse, as occurred under [[President Obama]].</ref> FBI contractor access to the FISA database was cutoff for this reason - the Obama FBI under its disgraced director [[James Comey]] had violated the civil and constitutional rights of some 5,000 Americans by committing illegal FISA 702 searches beginning shortly ''after'' Donald Trump organized his national presidential campaign.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-campaign-spying-obama-administration-investigation/</ref><ref>https://spectator.org/did-trump-really-save-america-from-socialism/</ref>

One such case was Trump attorney [[Michael Cohen]].

One such case was Trump attorney [[Michael Cohen]].