Michael Avenatti

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Michael Avenatti is a long-time Democratic Party operative who received illegal raw FISA data related to Trump attorney Michael Cohen from the Obama administration. While conducting illegal FISA surveillance on the 2016 Trump campaign in search of Russia collusion, the Obama FBI only discovered a payment of $130,000 Cohen made to a prostitute, Stormy Daniels. The information was turned over to Avenatti to pursue civil action on behalf of the woman so as to mask Obama's illegal domestic spying and meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Avanetti is known for his frequent freeloading cable TV appearances where he presents himself as the epitome of a classic 'shyster lawyer' and an announced Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.

Kavanaugh smear

Main article: Kavanaugh smear

Michael Avenatti accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of targeting women for gang rape with alcohol and drugs.[1]

FISA abuse and the Stormy Daniels affair

See also: FISA abuse and Stormy Daniels

In early 2016 NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers, tasked with overseeing the vast databases used in FISA surveillance, detected unusual activity among Obama FBI contractors with FISA access, and ordered a compliance audit.[2][3][4] Nellie Ohr worked for FusionGPS since late 2015[5] and held a CIA security clearance.[6] Contractor access was terminated on April 18, 2016.[7][8]

After FusionGPS was hired by the 2016 Clinton campaign in April 2016 and cut off from access by the FISA Compliance Audit, FusionGPS and the DOJ needed a work around for continued access to FISA 702 information in order to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie could use her husband, Obama Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr’s high level DOJ access to continue gathering FISA-702 data.[9]

FISA 702 searches may not, by law, ever be used to target American citizens; they may only be used to target non-citizens outside the United States. Even non-citizens inside the United States enjoy Fourth Amendment protections.[10] FBI contractor access to the FISA database was cutoff for this reason - the Obama FBI under James Comey had violated the civil and constitutional rights of some 5,000 Americans by committing illegal FISA 702 searches beginning shortly after Donald Trump organized his national presidential campaign.

One such case was Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

References

  1. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-brett-kavanaugh-gang-rape-avenatti-20180923-story.html
  2. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/982755355842105344.html
  3. In March 2016, NSA Director Rogers became aware of improper access to raw FISA data. "Private contractors had access to raw FISA information on FBI storage systems," Pages 83-84 of April 2017 FISA Court Ruling. In April of 2016, Rogers directed the NSA’s Office of Compliance to conduct a “fundamental baseline review of compliance associated with 702”, Senate testimony June 7, 2017.
  4. https://youtu.be/CIJGH9RS2Fc
  5. https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/30/bruce-ohr-dossier-fbi/
  6. Nellie Ohr represented the CIA's "Open Source Works" group in a 2010 "expert working group report on international organized crime" along with her husband Bruce Ohr and FusionGPS founder Glenn Simpson. Open Source Works, the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information. The directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization.
    The directive itself that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization. CIA says the existence of any such records is a classified fact. “The CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to your request,” wrote Susan Viscuso, CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, in a November 29, 2017 response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Jeffrey Richelson of the National Security Archive for the Open Source Works directive and charter.
    “The fact of the existence or nonexistence of requested records is currently and properly classified and is intelligence sources and methods information that is protected from disclosure,” Dr. Viscuso wrote. This is a surprising development since Open Source Works — by definition — does not engage in clandestine collection of intelligence. Rather, it performs analysis based on unclassified, open source materials. -FAS
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-12/mccabe-cancels-testimony-something-far-more-sinister-fusion-gps
  7. pp. 83-84
  8. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-fisa-legislation-0#
  9. Nellie and Bruce Ohr and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson collaborated on other projects in the past. Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.
  10. Although Americans are sometimes caught up in incidental collection, and their names are required to be masked, an American is never to be targeted under any circumstances by a 702 search query, which does not require a FISA warrant. To target an American, probable cause and a FISA warrant must be adjudicated by a FISA court. 702 queries are conducted by low-level administors, and the technology is ripe for massive abuse, as occurred under President Obama.