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When the [[Obama administration]] illegally used the foreign intelligence gathering apparatus for domestic political spying, this presented unique unprecedented problems for the committee. The [[FISA court]]s and intelligence committee oversight were created specifically to deal with [[Nixon]]-era and [[J. Edgar Hoover]]'s [[Fourth Amendment]] abuses of American citizens' rights. The Obama administration exploited loopholes in the [[Patriot Act]] and amendments to target members of an opposing political campaign as a network of "agents of a foreign power."  

When the [[Obama administration]] illegally used the foreign intelligence gathering apparatus for domestic political spying, this presented unique unprecedented problems for the committee. The [[FISA court]]s and intelligence committee oversight were created specifically to deal with [[Nixon]]-era and [[J. Edgar Hoover]]'s [[Fourth Amendment]] abuses of American citizens' rights. The Obama administration exploited loopholes in the [[Patriot Act]] and amendments to target members of an opposing political campaign as a network of "agents of a foreign power."  

==2016-2019==

==Carter Page leak and Russia collusion hoax==

In March 2017, SSCI director of security James Wolfe [[leak]]ed the Carter Page FISA warrant application to the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref>[https://archive.fo/OhIXO Remember James Wolfe - Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Security Director?], Gregory J Ferguson</ref> setting off a media firestorm of [[Trump-Russia collusion]].  Wolfe apparently leaked the classified information upon instruction from his Senate bosses.<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/07/28/wolfes-indictment-media-leaks-the-page-fisa-application/ Wolfe’s Indictment, Media Leaks & the Page FISA Application],  by Jeff Carlson, July 28, 2018.</ref>  Ranking Democrat Sen. Mark Warner was in covert contact with an attorney for [[Christopher Steele]], who authored the information used in the warrant application, and [[Oleg Deripaska]] who was one of Steele's sources. The committee at the time supposedly was investigating Trump-Russia collusion while Warner was engaged in behind-the-scenes witness tampering with the key witness.

In March 2017, SSCI director of security James Wolfe [[leak]]ed the Carter Page FISA warrant application to the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref>[https://archive.fo/OhIXO Remember James Wolfe - Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Security Director?], Gregory J Ferguson</ref> setting off a media firestorm of [[Trump-Russia collusion]].  Wolfe apparently leaked the classified information upon instruction from his Senate bosses.<ref>[https://themarketswork.com/2018/07/28/wolfes-indictment-media-leaks-the-page-fisa-application/ Wolfe’s Indictment, Media Leaks & the Page FISA Application],  by Jeff Carlson, July 28, 2018.</ref>  Ranking Democrat Sen. Mark Warner was in covert contact with an attorney for [[Christopher Steele]], who authored the information used in the warrant application, and [[Oleg Deripaska]] who was one of Steele's sources. The committee at the time supposedly was investigating Trump-Russia collusion while Warner was engaged in behind-the-scenes witness tampering with the key witness.