>>680059
OK, I think I may have something here(again, specifically with reference to Q's deliberate "You have more than YOUR know" grammatical error:
An article specifically pertaining to FISA abuse from December 19,2017:
"Don’t Pass It Before Your Know What’s In It" [ http:// www. insidesources.com/dont-pass-know-whats/ ]
"The original FISA Act — passed in 1978 — set up protocols for law enforcement surveillance of suspected “foreign powers” and “agents of foreign powers.”
Ironically — given subsequent events — the act arose in response to public outcry over surveillance abuses uncovered during the Church/Ervin hearings that followed in the wake of the Watergate scandal. President Richard Nixon had been caught red-handed using federal law enforcement (as well as the IRS) to target political opponents under the pretext of “national security.”
The whole point of FISA was to prevent such abuses from recurring by establishing congressional and judicial oversight of surveillance activities. These included affirmation of constitutional probable cause requirements prior to the issuance of warrants for surveillance, as well as that cause be established for individual (rather than generic) suspicion.
The post-911 amendments to the 1978 FISA law — passed in the early 2000s with almost no debate and with heavy-handed suggestions that to even ask what the amendments entailed amounted to “support for terrorists” — effectively turned the original intent of FISA on its head by eliminating meaningful oversight and giving the police organs of the federal government — in particular, the National Security Agency — virtual carte blanche to do whatever they liked to whomever they liked whenever they liked.
Individual suspicion and probable cause were greatly watered down. Warrants became rubber-stamped absurdities issued upon request by the secret FISA courts. Government prosecutors simply presented their one-side cases to government judges — eliminating the protective shield of an adversarial proceeding, as required by the Constitution in all criminal proceedings."
Another interesting sentence from the article:
"The words of the Red Queen from Lewis Carroll’s 'Alice in Wonderland' come to mind: 'Sentence first! Verdict afterward!' ”