Wire taps were 'authortized' because - get this someone in a Mahattan skysrapper had money coming in/out of a Russian bank!
Must be espionage!
Obama: 'It was the Obama administration not White House Officials!' A legally sensitive statement. In other words, an admission of guilt, blame Loretta not me.
If the judge granted after first rejecting then what's wrong breh?
FBI requested one as they were conducting a investigation.
Btw Obama can't order anything like this, a judge approves it. Obama literally has nothing to worry about.
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“While the order would have been requested by some part of the executive branch, Obama can’t order anything. Nor can Trump,” says former NSA lawyer April Doss, who stresses that her comments are based only on public information. “The order has to come from the court, and the court operates independently.”
FISA court judges serve seven-year appointments, so the court’s composition doesn’t ebb and flow with the political tides. What’s more, specific laws adopted in the wake of Watergate prevent the very activity Trump accuses Obama of.
“You can’t tap the phones of a political candidate for political purposes,” says Doss. "
"The most detailed account thus far,
from the BBC in January, provided a timeline: The Justice Department sought a FISA warrant in June to intercept communications from two Russian banks suspected of facilitating donations to the Trump campaign. The judge reportedly rejected the warrant, as well as a narrower version sought in July. A new judge granted the order in mid-October, according to the BBC."
FISA doesn't allow willy nilly requests.