@nytimes--Don McGahn. Trumps Chief Council looking for FISA court surveillance order !!!!

[riversedge]

lordy lordy--Trumpy has his lawyer looking for a FISA document --presumably to back up his lie about Obama wiretapping him.



Rick Hasen‏Verified account @rickhasen

Via this @nytimes report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/us/politics/trump-obama-tap-phones.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share …) Don McGahn looking for FISA court surveillance order that may not exist

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Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/us/politics/trump-obama-tap-phones.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT


MARCH 4, 2017



President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump on Inauguration Day. Mr. Trump has praised Mr. Obama repeatedly since taking office. But on Saturday, he called his predecessor a “bad (or sick) guy.” Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla....................


......But a senior White House official said that Donald F. McGahn II, the president’s chief counsel, was working to secure access to what Mr. McGahn believed to be an order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing some form of surveillance related to Mr. Trump and his associates.

The official offered no evidence to support the notion that such an order exists. It would be a highly unusual breach of the Justice Department’s traditional independence on law enforcement matters for the White House to order it to turn over such an investigative document.

Any request for information from a top White House official about a continuing investigation would be a stunning departure from protocols intended to insulate the F.B.I. from political pressure. It would be even more surprising for the White House to seek information about a case directly involving the president or his advisers, as does the case involving the Russia contacts.

Last month, Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, came under fire for asking a top F.B.I. official to publicly rebut news media reports about contacts between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government.....................

[mcar]

1. I was in my early teens during Watergate

But studied it (and devoured "All the President's Men&quot in my college years.

This is bringing me back, but times 1000.

[triron]

2. Hmmm

This seems like a dangerous thing to do. Why is he doing it??

[riversedge]

6. Someone--Trump, most likely really believes Obama 'wiretapped' The Towers. It is beyond

inappropriate for the WH to even ask for these FISA documents (which do not exist)!!

[babylonsister]

3. Hahaha! That's not how it's supposed to work, make an

accusation and THEN look for evidence? Ack, these clowns are running (?) our country?

[riversedge]

4. A White House Counsel nosing around a federal investigation of the President's campaign is by defin

This whole issue is so strange.



Robert Costa‏Verified account @costareports 2h2 hours ago

McGahn has reportedly told staffers to be very careful moving fwd and let his office handle things, citing classified/legal issues at stake
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Rick Hasen Retweeted
southpaw‏ @nycsouthpaw 2h2 hours ago

A White House Counsel nosing around a federal investigation of the President's campaign is by definition not treading lightly.

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[fun n serious]

5. Is this an attempt to force information about his own investigation

be leaked to him?

[Takket]

7. if it doesn't exist that will only convince 45 more

that it was an illegal conspiracy by Obama against him. remember that for paranoid trump and the delorables fantastic conspiracy theories are more believable than fact.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "would be a stunning departure from protocols"

They have followed NOT one "protocol" since he was elected.

[leanforward]

9. I would hope he gets nothing.

It seems to me they are running scared.

Impeachment.

When you have a bed a coals covered in ash, an introduction of a breath of air/wind causes the glow and flame. pPrezident dRumpf is unable to shut up or stop.

It seems he is unable to contain himself from lashing out. I'm not privy to compartmentalized security data. But, based on what I read, the President can not order wire taps of citizens.

dRumpf has history with the russians back to 1987. His whole enterprize seems to be based on russian money. To me, that is why they have him by the "short hairs".

There is too much coincidental information/corroborated in what I read to suppose anything else.

I am a loyal citizen, in opposition to pRezident dRumpf and any GOP lemming.

[sarcasmo]

10. The last 45 days plot wise, has been better than anything I could watch on TV.