So these two articles go together and guess what group is behind the huge expansion of viewing raw data signals intelligence, you guessed it buddies, “Lawfare”. This is the same group that Comery, McCabe, Strzok and Page we’re forwarding important articles to each other and would there to consult with others.
Interesting the title “Lawfare” is a perversion of what the law is supposed to provide, justice and fairness, they’ve made it intentional and known that they are waging war by the use of the law, attack and destroy others by legal means…which they almost succeeded in doing. Remember the insurance policy quote from Strzok came from a discussion or article on Lawfare.
Jay Sekulow Discovers New Documents To Backstop Obama’s Operation Against Trump – Connects To Evelyn Farkas…
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In March 2017 CTH first highlighted statements by Evelyn Farkasthat described a coordinated effort from within the Obama administration to push political opposition research, gathered by the intelligence community, into the media.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/25/jay-sekulow-discovers-new-documents-to-backstop-obamas-operation-against-trump-connects-to-evelyn-farkas/
Why Is Obama Expanding Surveillance Powers Right Before He Leaves Office?
It could be to prevent Trump from extending them even more
! Kaveh WaddellJan 13, 2017
The Obama administration made it easier for the NSA to share information with other intelligence agencies, just weeks before the inauguration. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Susan Hennessey, a Brookings fellow and the managing editor of
Lawfare
says firming up the changes before Trump takes office makes it harder for the incoming president to encroach even further on civil liberties
There was this identified issue of “stovepiping”: Intelligence wasn’t being shared frequently or fast enough. Some modifications have already been made throughout the years.
Under Executive Order 12333 as it previously existed, NSA analysts had to make an initial determination and apply a set of privacy rules before sharing raw signals-intelligence information with other parts of the intelligence community. After this change, it doesn’t necessarily have to be an NSA analyst that makes that determination—that information can be shared with other parts of the intelligence community.
So it doesn’t change the substantive rules, it doesn’t change the scope of collection, it doesn’t change the types of protection, it doesn’t change the possible uses;
it essentially just broadens the group of people who can apply those protections to the raw intelligence
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/obama-expanding-nsa-powers/513041/