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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."  

In March of 2017, SSCI director of security James Wolfe [[leak]]ed the Carter Page FISA warrant application to the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1074181501774815234.html</ref> setting off a media firestorm of [[Trump-Russia collusion]].  Wolfe apparently leaked the classified information upon instruction from his Senate bosses.  

In March of 2017, SSCI director of security James Wolfe [[leak]]ed the Carter Page FISA warrant application to the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1074181501774815234.html</ref> setting off a media firestorm of [[Trump-Russia collusion]].  Wolfe apparently leaked the classified information upon instruction from his Senate bosses. 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 Steel's sources. The committee at the time supposedly was investigating Trump=Russia collusion, while Warner was engaged in witness tampering with the key witness.

 

[[Daniel Jones]], a staffer for former vice chair [[Dianne Eisenstein]] durin the [[2016 presidential election]], resigned to head a private organization that raised money to continue funding [[FusionGPS]], Steele's employer, and keep the Russia hoax alive during the [[Trump transition]] and first year of the [[Trump administration]].

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