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==Spygate==

==Spygate==

[[File:3 hop.PNG|right|500px|thumb|Illustration of how the 3 hop rule works after a FISA warrant is obtained. A typical subject has 50 contacts in their phone or email. The same legal surveillance authority is applied to those 50 contacts, and then to the contacts' contacts.  A FISA warrant on the Trump campaign chairman would grant surveillance authority to all 50 state campaign chairmens and their contacts.]]

[[File:3 hop.PNG|right|500px|thumb|Illustration of how the 3 hop rule works after a FISA warrant is obtained. A typical subject has 50 contacts in their phone or email. The same legal surveillance authority is applied to those 50 contacts, and then to the contacts' contacts.  A FISA warrant on the Trump campaign chairman would grant surveillance authority to all 50 state campaign chairmens and their contacts.]]

:{{See also|Obamagate timeline|FISA abuse}}

:{{See also|Obamagate timeline|Fake news in the 2016 presidential election|FISA abuse}}

Initially in December 2015 there were 17 GOP candidates and all needed to be researched.  However, when Donald Trump won New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina the field was significantly whittled. Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Carson remained.  During the time-frame of December 2015 through April 2016 the [[NSA]]'s [[FISA]] database was being exploited by contractors within the [[intelligence community]] doing unauthorized searches.

Initially in December 2015 there were 17 GOP candidates and all needed to be researched.  However, when Donald Trump won New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina the field was significantly whittled. Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Carson remained.  During the time-frame of December 2015 through April 2016 the [[NSA]]'s [[FISA]] database was being exploited by contractors within the [[intelligence community]] doing unauthorized searches.