Questions about the FISA surveillance data used for the Russia investigation. I’m not very knowledgeable in this area, so chime in if you are knowledgeable or have thoughts.
Based on the Q drops, the Russia investigation was initiated with the fabricated intel from the dossier that was passed back and forth between Clapper/Brennan/McCain/the Press, etc. Based on that, it appears that FBI counterintelligence investigation was started, which including the requests for the FISA warrants.
But who conducted the surveillance on the the Trump campaign AFTER the FISA warrants were issued? Surely the FISA warrants included electronic surveillance. The narrative they constructed for this plot claims that the initial information implicating the Trump campaign was conducted by foreign intelligence agencies MI6/GCHQ and passed to US intelligence officials (Brennan/Clapper) through FVEY arrangements. Fine, but doesn’t the NSA also have the legal authority to gather at least some info on US citizens already? Aren’t they the experts in this area? It seems doubtful that the NSA was consulted or included in the investigation to support the fraudulent investigation. But wouldn’t this be normal procedure for a counterintelligence investigation?
“Section 702 of FISA allows the NSA to conduct a “programmatic surveillance” program called PRISM. The parameters of PRISM, including how the NSA may target individuals and what can be shared with the CIA and FBI, are presented to and approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and renewable annually.”
https://www.justsecurity.org/47428/dont-fall-hype-702-fbi-works/
Well, we know why the NSA couldn’t be trusted in their conspiracy to commit treason, or to participate in a setup like this, so the FBI had to conduct their own surveillance and try to collect their own info using HUMINT (Trump Tower meeting) and whatever electronic surveillance they could muster. It also sure looks like there was surveillance going on PRIOR to the FISA warrants. Who was doing the surveillance? Wouldn’t it be illegal if the CIA was involved with that? It would surely not be the normal approach used to monitor a US citizen within the USA. Would presidential authorization be needed if the CIA was being used? Brennan and Clapper’s public statements indicate they were trying to cover up for something.
Doesn’t the FBI usually rely on the NSA for gathering it’s electronic surveillance, especially for counterintelligence? Doesn’t the FBI usually have to go through some bureaucratic process/procedure to request NSA collected data from an individual become a target so the NSA can focus it’s resources and attention on certain individuals?
Moreover, what if the FISA requests DID NOT include information that was cited as being collected by the NSA? Wouldn’t that raise a red flag to the FISA court, who presumably would see NSA-gathered material included in probably ALL of the FISA requests they see?
“It’s worth emphasizing here that unlike the CIA or NSA, whose primary mission is to collect and analyze intelligence, the FBI is a law enforcement agency. Although it may collect intelligence, that function is ancillary and supportive to its primary job of investigating and preventing violations of federal law and threats to national security.”
(from same link as above)