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Under the "two-hop" rule, the FISA warrant granted against Carter Page gave authority to spy on virtually the entire Trump campaign.<ref>https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/256333/fisas-license-to-hop</ref> When Carter Page emailed or phoned Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, [[Paul Manafort]], or [[Steve Bannon]], the FBI gained access to their contact lists, which would be Trump himself, the immediate campaign staff, and all campaign managers in all 50 states. And the same surveillance authority granted to monitor Carter Page can be applied to anyone appearing on those lists. The law, FISA Title I authority, is intended to discover and root out an entire network of foreign spies, terrorist cells, or drug and weapons traffickers.

Under the "two-hop" rule, the FISA warrant granted against Carter Page gave authority to spy on virtually the entire Trump campaign.<ref>https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/256333/fisas-license-to-hop</ref> When Carter Page emailed or phoned Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, [[Paul Manafort]], or [[Steve Bannon]], the FBI gained access to their contact lists, which would be Trump himself, the immediate campaign staff, and all campaign managers in all 50 states. And the same surveillance authority granted to monitor Carter Page can be applied to anyone appearing on those lists. The law, FISA Title I authority, is intended to discover and root out an entire network of foreign spies, terrorist cells, or drug and weapons traffickers.

Obama administration FISA abuse, and hoaxing of the court, took two forms: (1) lying to the court with fraudulent information to gain Title I authority over Carter Page, hence the entire Trump network, and (2) FISA Title VII Section 702 abuse, illegal search queries of the FISA database which, by law, can only be used against non-citizens ''outside'' the United States. American citizens and non-citizens residing inside the United States are protected by the Fourth Amendment. Foreigners outside the United States are not. An operator with clearance to access the FISA database can simply enter a search parameter - name and D.O.B., a phone number, email address, etc - into a search engine box and return a history of all relevant information, contact lists, a record of all phone calls, emails and texts sent to or from, etc. The Obama administration had been violating the law in this regard, performing illegal 702 search queries against its domestic political opponents since 2011 - and lied to the court about it.

Obama administration FISA abuse, and hoaxing of the court, took two forms: (1) lying to the court with fraudulent information to gain Title I authority over Carter Page, hence the entire Trump network, and (2) FISA Title VII Section 702 abuse, illegal search queries of the FISA database which, by law, can only be used against non-citizens ''outside'' the United States. American citizens and non-citizens residing inside the United States are protected by the Fourth Amendment. Foreigners outside the United States are not. An operator with clearance to access the FISA database can simply enter a search parameter - name and D.O.B., a phone number, email address, etc. - into a search engine box and return a history of all relevant information, contact lists, a record of all phone calls, emails and texts sent to or from, etc. The Obama administration had been violating the law in this regard, performing illegal 702 search queries against its domestic political opponents since 2011 - and lied to the court about it.

The FISA Title I application against Carter Page was granted on October 21, 2016. It granted access to all Page's contacts ''and their contacts'', retroactively, past, present, and future. It covered virtually all of 2016. It covered the post-election transition. A FISA warrant must be renewed every 90 days; it was renewed 3 times and spanned well into the first year of the Trump presidency.

The FISA Title I application against Carter Page was granted on October 21, 2016. It granted access to all Page's contacts ''and their contacts'', retroactively, past, present, and future. It covered virtually all of 2016. It covered the post-election transition. A FISA warrant must be renewed every 90 days; it was renewed 3 times and spanned well into the first year of the Trump presidency.

The FISA warrant intruded into President-elect Trump's selection of a cabinet. [[Michael Flynn]] was not the first casuality of Obama's illegal surveillance. There were others who declined jobs for fear of blackmail by the FBI and [[intelligence community]] when vetting for security clearances. Others, even low level staffers, were chased out and intimidated - long time Trump aides such as Keith Schiller, Hope Hicks, and Omarosa Managault. None of these were Russian colluders, but the FBI will manage to discover some tidbit of intimidating information that no one wants exposed on virtually anyone. In [[Michael Cohen]]'s case, [[Stormy Daniels]] is not a Russian spy, but that's all the FBI discovered while looking for Russian collusion.

The FISA warrant intruded into President-elect Trump's selection of a cabinet. [[Michael Flynn]] was not the first casualty of Obama's illegal surveillance. There were others who declined jobs for fear of blackmail by the FBI and [[intelligence community]] when vetting for security clearances. Others, even low level staffers, were chased out and intimidated - long time Trump aides such as Keith Schiller, Hope Hicks, and Omarosa Managault. None of these were Russian colluders, but the FBI will manage to discover some tidbit of intimidating information that no one wants exposed on virtually anyone. In [[Michael Cohen]]'s case, [[Stormy Daniels]] is not a Russian spy, but that's all the FBI discovered while looking for Russian collusion.

==See also==

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