What are they hiding?

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5.29.19:

There's a real problem here.  The article mentions that they don't need to prove probable cause of a crime in order to get a FISA warrant.  Excuse me, but when did the 4th Amendment get repealed?

All warrants are based upon probable cause, or they aren't legal.

I realize that national security is an issue here.  If you have probable cause for a wiretap, then a FISA warrant could be quite similar.  I'm thinking though, that these people may have exploited the apparatus which was intended for national security, and turned it into political advantage.

That's the real issue here.  The national security function must be protected, yet at the same time, those who violate the rules need to be held accountable for having done that.

That's why the Woods Procedures exist.  They are very extensive, and it was Mueller himself who created them.  Now these same people are trying to say that the Woods Procedures don't apply to them.  That's a big red flag right there.

It should be obvious how something like this can be abused, and how they can possible skate on it.  In fact, that appears to be their defense right now.

AG Barr Battles Intel Community And FBI. Illegal Surveillance Had Been Going On For Years. https://t.co/zcP3z2sjBF via @SaraCarterDC

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) May 29, 2019

5.28.19:

The Last Refuge has discussed the 702 FISA abuses once again.  This has jogged my memories of what happened shortly after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attacks.

POTUS Bush's response to that was somewhat controversial, at least in some circles.  One controversy was warrantless phone taps.  Is this not what the 702 FISA abuses are about today?  The abuse of this program in order to monitor terrorists?  Why was it adapted to supposedly monitor Trump vis-a-vis the Russians?  Are the Russians terrorists, then?

According to the Wikipedia article linked to above, critics were complaining that this was meant to silence the critics of Bush's policies.  Also, as a result of this criticism, Bush ended the program in 2007.  If Bush ended the program, did Obama renew it in order to spy upon his political enemies?  If so, then this shows the utter cynicism of their criticism against Bush.  At least Bush was fighting terrorists who attacked America on America's own soil.  Whatever you may say against the Russians, they haven't done anything like this yet.

Perhaps this is what they are hiding.  They do not wish for Americans to see how they are deceiving us into believing things that they say, when they say things that are actually hostile to this country, and its freedoms.

After all, why would these people oppose tracking terrorists, but be okay with tracking American citizens?  Why would these people want to politically destroy innocent Americans who are only exercising their civil rights?  Are they traitors, who sympathize with our enemies, and attack our own people?

Is this what they are hiding?