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===FISA abuse===
===FISA abuse===
{{See also|FISA abuse|FBI scandal}}
{{See also|FISA abuse|FBI scandal}}
[[File:Atd-fbi-memo-1.png|thumb|250px|right|Polling data shows a reversal of roles of traditional support for the FBI in the Obama era after passage of the [[Patriot Act]] and expanded domestic surveillance.]]
On May 26, 2022 Andrew McCarthy published ''FBI ignored lies to get their hands on Trump''.<ref>https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/fbi-ignored-lies-to-get-their-hands-on-trump/</ref> McCarthy documents how FBI headquarters officials fully realized they were acting on highly political information and took steps to conceal that fact. First, a decision was made to treat [[Michael Sussmann]], the source, as a confidential informant. This was not done to protect Sussmann’s security. It was done to protect the [[FBI]]’s reputation. The informant pretext enabled headquarters to conceal Sussmann’s identity from the line agents in [[Chicago]] who were tasked to assess the false [[Trump-Russia]] Alfa-Bank information. As good investigators, the agents wanted to know the source of the information so they could assess the purveyor’s motive and thus the data’s likely reliability. They were frustrated and annoyed that FBI [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] headquarters would not identify the source and allow him to be interviewed. If they had been told Sussmann was behind the data, they would instantly have known that the information was [[political]]. As it was, they quickly concluded that the information was nonsense, that it did not come close to establishing a [[Trump]]-[[Kremlin]] communications channel, and that it probably came from someone with an [[anti-Trump]] agenda.
On May 26, 2022 Andrew McCarthy published ''FBI ignored lies to get their hands on Trump''.<ref>https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/fbi-ignored-lies-to-get-their-hands-on-trump/</ref> McCarthy documents how FBI headquarters officials fully realized they were acting on highly political information and took steps to conceal that fact. First, a decision was made to treat [[Michael Sussmann]], the source, as a confidential informant. This was not done to protect Sussmann’s security. It was done to protect the [[FBI]]’s reputation. The informant pretext enabled headquarters to conceal Sussmann’s identity from the line agents in [[Chicago]] who were tasked to assess the false [[Trump-Russia]] Alfa-Bank information. As good investigators, the agents wanted to know the source of the information so they could assess the purveyor’s motive and thus the data’s likely reliability. They were frustrated and annoyed that FBI [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] headquarters would not identify the source and allow him to be interviewed. If they had been told Sussmann was behind the data, they would instantly have known that the information was [[political]]. As it was, they quickly concluded that the information was nonsense, that it did not come close to establishing a [[Trump]]-[[Kremlin]] communications channel, and that it probably came from someone with an [[anti-Trump]] agenda.