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CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims - https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/news/...s-before-2016-russia-collusion-claims-report/
Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana discuss reports that the CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies spied on dozens of Donald Trump's associates prior to the 2016 election.
CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims - https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/news/...s-before-2016-russia-collusion-claims-report/
- US Intelligence Community asked foreign spy agencies to surveil 26 associates of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, which triggered the allegations that the former president’s campaign had been colluding with Russia
- Former CIA Director John Brennan identified and presented the targets to the US’s intelligence-sharing partners in the so-called “Five Eyes” agencies – the intelligence-gathering organizations in the US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
- The report by independent journalists Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag has not been confirmed by The Post.
- Warrantless surveillance of US persons is specifically prohibited by US law.
- Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was sentenced to probation in 2021 after admitting that he falsified an e-mail to renew a wiretap against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Page had been wiretapped after intelligence sources suspected he might have been targeted by Russian spies. The wiretap, which was approved by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, was renewed several times after it was first granted.
- Last March, Special Counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI investigation of Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia was “seriously flawed” and had no basis in evidence, after a four-year review of the probe.
- In response, the FBI said it had “implemented dozens of corrective actions” since the improper Trump probe and that “the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented” had the reforms been in place in 2016.
- In 2022, Taibbi and Shellenberger were involved in the publishing of the Twitter Files expose, which detailed how the social media giant’s previous management team sought to silence controversial voices and suppress news items such as The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana discuss reports that the CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies spied on dozens of Donald Trump's associates prior to the 2016 election.
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