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Facebook agreeing to turn over the ads that the Russians bought could be very interesting.
1) do they show a pattern of trying to get Trump elected?
2) are they matched with or connected to ads bought by others? For example did the Trump campaign run the same or similar ads?
It would not be illegal for rushing to run ads.
It would not be illegal for the Trump campaign to go " hey, those are good adds" and run the same one.
Edit: The country and not what we should do on 1st and goal
I repeat, this is going nowhere. It's all a big distraction.
The FISA warrant was issued after NSA intercept Russian intel operatives and government officials discussing Trump associates which included Manafort.
"In piecing together Mr. Manaforts connections to the Russian government, investigators have reviewed intelligence reports suggesting he was in contact with Russian operatives as early as 2015, according to current and former U.S. officials. In the spring of that year, U.S. spy agencies captured Russian government officials discussing associates of Mr. Trump, including Mr. Manafort, according to the officials.
In some cases, the Russians in the overheard conversations talked about meetings held outside the U.S. involving Russian government officials and Trump business associates or advisers, the current and former officials said."
" More recently, Mr. Mueller has been investigating Mr. Manafort for possible money laundering, according to a person familiar with the matter. In July, agents for Mr. Mueller served a search warrant on Mr. Manaforts Virginia home, obtaining documents and other material tied to foreign bank accounts and tax matters, according to people familiar with the raid."
"CNN reported that investigators had obtained a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which allows the government to monitor the communications of suspected spies and foreign agents."- Wall Street Journal.
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/u...ampaign-1506034258-lMyQjAxMTI3NjIyMTkyNjE3Wj/
And for the people who are wondering how a FISA warrant against Manafort was issued here is how explained by Benjamin Wittes.
"If there was FISA surveillance of some kind against Paul Manafort, it was notI promise youan exercise in political spying.
It was because the FBI developed evidence that persuaded a federal judge that there was probable cause to believe he was functioning as an agent of a foreign power. The application would have been thickmany many pages. It would have contained sworn evidence.
And it would have been personally signed by either the attorney general or the deputy attorney general. It would have been personally reviewed by then FBI Director Jim Comey. And it would have been approved by a member of the FISA Court.
All of these people would have acted knowing exactly how politically explosive FISA surveillance against the former campaign manager of a major party candidate would be if it ever became public.
Without knowing anything about the specific warrant or the evidence that supported it, I think it's fair to say that even in the context of a rigorous process, this matter would have been handled with extreme care by all involved.
If a FISA warrant issued here, either as CNN reports or as the WSJ reports (and the latter report seems more credible to me), expect that the evidence underlying it was very strong and that every I was dotted and every T was crossed--many many times."
"This means that about 99.7 percent of warrant requests have been approved in the 36 years since FISAs inception. The last time a warrant was rejected was in 2009, when two requests were rejected and 1,320 were approved."
FISA Surveillance Requests Are Almost Never Rejected
You are so full of ****!