gamewell45
02-24-2018, 11:44 PM
First off before we go any further, this is an opinion piece.
Now, that being said:
"The war of the memos has reached its Waterloo. The Nunes memo was released two weeks ago. The Democratic memo has now been released as well. The second memo shows no mercy to the first, destroying it with the heavy artillery of arguments loaded with logic and fired by facts.
When the Republican memo was released, the Justice Department — a department run, of course, by Trump appointees — issued an extraordinary statement, calling it a “reckless” act. The FBI, also run by a Trump-appointed director, warned that it had “grave concerns.” At issue was not only “sources and methods,” typically the most sensitive of intelligence matters, but the integrity of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process as well.
FISA was enacted in 1979, following the surveillance and other abuses at the CIA and the FBI that came to light in the mid-1970s. The law created a system whereby surveillance itself could be surveilled by federal courts. To protect the rights of Americans, in order to surveil a target for counterintelligence purposes, the Justice Department had to follow rigorous procedures that were subject to judicial review. The law’s provisions are complex but one of its most important is the necessity of an application to court showing “probable cause” that the target of surveillance is a ”foreign power” or the “agent of a foreign power.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/democrats-blast-holes-nunes-memo-volley-facts-logic-article-1.3840471
The democrats are royally upset according to the article because it shows "distortions and misrepresentations" by the republicans themselves. As the midterm elections grow closer it'll be interesting to see how nasty things really get.
Now, that being said:
"The war of the memos has reached its Waterloo. The Nunes memo was released two weeks ago. The Democratic memo has now been released as well. The second memo shows no mercy to the first, destroying it with the heavy artillery of arguments loaded with logic and fired by facts.
When the Republican memo was released, the Justice Department — a department run, of course, by Trump appointees — issued an extraordinary statement, calling it a “reckless” act. The FBI, also run by a Trump-appointed director, warned that it had “grave concerns.” At issue was not only “sources and methods,” typically the most sensitive of intelligence matters, but the integrity of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process as well.
FISA was enacted in 1979, following the surveillance and other abuses at the CIA and the FBI that came to light in the mid-1970s. The law created a system whereby surveillance itself could be surveilled by federal courts. To protect the rights of Americans, in order to surveil a target for counterintelligence purposes, the Justice Department had to follow rigorous procedures that were subject to judicial review. The law’s provisions are complex but one of its most important is the necessity of an application to court showing “probable cause” that the target of surveillance is a ”foreign power” or the “agent of a foreign power.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/democrats-blast-holes-nunes-memo-volley-facts-logic-article-1.3840471
The democrats are royally upset according to the article because it shows "distortions and misrepresentations" by the republicans themselves. As the midterm elections grow closer it'll be interesting to see how nasty things really get.