"Was this really the sort of situation where you resort to the anti-constitutional back door to get your spy on?"

Ace of Spades writes,

Deep State Conspirators Filed a Motion To Share Their Unmasked Targets With Foreign Intelligence Services, Thereby Pointing Out Which Persons Foreign Intelligence Should Spy On -- Without Any Constitutional Protections for US Services
—Ace of Spades
Obama did this, and NeverTrump supports Obama in this, as they supported so much of Obama's agenda.

Remember the US intelligence trick? They can't spy on US citizens without a warrant sufficient to clear the probable cause evidentiary hurdle. But if they tell foreign intelligence services to do the spying and slip the results back to the US intelligence community, they get their spying done by proxy, avoiding a judge's scrutiny and any intersection with the US Constitution at all.

I think that that sort of thing maybe can be used on occasion. When there's something very serious to investigate.

But here? No one has been charged with any kind of espionage or conspiracy with Russia after two and half, maybe three years of foreign intelligence service wiretaps, US wiretaps, undercover agent infiltration, grand jury investigations, etc.

Was this really the sort of situation where you resort to the anti-constitutional back door to get your spy on?

Well, it is -- if you're determined to win an election for your successor and the intelligence community supports you in that, and no one minds that they are devolving the United States of America into the grubbiest, most venal third world junta.

...Gee, I wonder why our foreign allies oppose this move so much.

Well, their names can be blacked out and recorded as "FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES 1 and 2" as we do when we mask other actors we don't wish to embarrass.

But the story of how the Obama Administration weaponized the intelligence community to rig an election must be told.

Monica Crowley argues in favor of a theory many of us believe -- that the intelligence community, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Rice, etc. have been attacking Trump as viciously as possible because they know that they themselves might be facing actual criminal proceedings, and they want to make the record as dirty as possible so that no prosecutor would press such a case involving accusations and counter-accusations.

...it is interesting that the FBI and DOJ are so stridently opposed to telling the people who pay their salaries what did happen here.

Finally, Devon Nunes says he might refer up to two dozen people for possible criminal charges, largely owing to lying to Congress and investigators -- a criminal law which has previously only applied to Republicans or Republican-associates, but which it's time to begin imposing on Democrats and Obama officials.

...To quote Comey Conduit Benjamin Wittes...

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