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The Southern District of New York (Manhattan) has the largest [[United States Department of Justice]] personnel in the country, larger that [[DC]] headquarters. The presence of the [[United Nations]] leads many cases of [[surveillance]] and [[espionage]] activity. New York is also known for its organized crime elements. McCarthy joined the Manhattan SDNY as a prosecutor in 1986.
The Southern District of New York (Manhattan) has the largest [[United States Department of Justice]] personnel in the country, larger that [[DC]] headquarters. The presence of the [[United Nations]] leads many cases of [[surveillance]] and [[espionage]] activity. New York is also known for its organized crime elements. McCarthy joined the Manhattan SDNY as a prosecutor in 1986.
==Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act==
==Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)==
Former U.S. Attorney and ''[[National Review]]'' journalist covering [[national security]] Andrew McCarthy writes
Former U.S. Attorney and ''[[National Review]]'' journalist covering [[national security]] Andrew McCarthy writes
{{quotebox|FISA authorities are not criminal-law authorities. It is not just that '''FISA is not designed to ferret out evidence of [[crime]]; it is not permitted to be used for that purpose'''. FISA’s objective is the collection of foreign intelligence, the gathering of information about the actions and intentions of foreign powers that may threaten American interests.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-russia-probe-fbi-fisa-application/</ref>}}
{{quotebox|FISA authorities are not criminal-law authorities. It is not just that '''FISA is not designed to ferret out evidence of [[crime]]; it is not permitted to be used for that purpose'''. FISA’s objective is the collection of foreign intelligence, the gathering of information about the actions and intentions of foreign powers that may threaten American interests.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-russia-probe-fbi-fisa-application/</ref>}}
===FISA abuse===
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.
Second, the FBI headquarters effort to cover up Sussmann’s identity reached such absurd heights that the FBI itself made false statements in documenting the investigation. In the “electronic communication” by which the bureau opens cases, agents claimed that the information had come not from Sussmann, not even from a confidential source, but from the [[US Department of Justice]]. This was so ridiculous that, embarrassingly, none of the agents involved could explain how that happened.
Third, the FBI’s brass was so hot to nail Trump for supposedly being a clandestine agent of Russia that the line agents’ rejection of the evidence made no difference. “People on the 7th floor to include the Director are fired up about this server,” said headquarters agent [[Joe Pientka]] in a message to one of the Chicago agents. The 7th floor houses the suite of top executive offices at FBI headquarters, including that of director [[James Comey]]. When the Chicago cyber investigators found no basis for criminal charges, they were told to keep the case open as a [[counterintelligence]] matter. “[[Priestap]] says it’s not an option — we must do it,” admonished Pientka, referring to the bureau’s top counterintelligence official.
Former and [[NBC News]] "expert" [[Shawn Henry]] admitted under oath he had no evidence of Russia hacking the [[DNC]], despite having originated the [[fake news]].
==Obama regime==
==Obama regime==