{"id":29963,"date":"2018-01-20T20:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29963"},"modified":"2018-01-20T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T01:21:48","slug":"the-fisa-memo-is-all-the-ammunition-trump-needs-to-take-on-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29963","title":{"rendered":"The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the\u00a0CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/01\/19\/the-fisa-memo-is-all-the-ammunition-trump-needs-to-take-on-the-cia\/\">The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the\u00a0CIA<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>FISA is an abomination. Let\u2019s get that out of the way. And since I don\u2019t believe there are any coincidences in U.S. or geo-politics, the releasing of the explosive four-page FISA memo\u00a0<em>after<\/em>\u00a0Congress reauthorized FISA is suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Former NSA analyst (traitor? hero?) turned security state gadfly Edward Snowden came out in favor of President Trump vetoing the FISA reauthorization now that the full extent of what the statute is used for is known to members of the House Intelligence Committee, who are rightly aghast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Officials confirm there\u2019s a secret report showing abuses of spy law Congress voted to reauthorize this week. If this memo had been known prior to the vote, FISA reauth would have failed. These abuses must be made public, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> should send the bill back with a veto. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BEwJ9EyIq0\">https:\/\/t.co\/BEwJ9EyIq0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/954336411129442304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, like I said, timing in these things is everything. And the timing on this leak is important.<\/p>\n<p>Someone leaked this memo to the House Intelligence Committee with the sole intention of giving President Trump the opportunity to do exactly what Snowden is arguing for.<\/p>\n<p>And well Trump should.\u00a0 This is the essence of draining the swamp.\u00a0 It is the essence of his war with the Shadow Government.\u00a0 If one makes the distinction between the Deep State and the Shadow Government,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedailycoin.org\/2018\/01\/14\/trump-declared-war-deep-state-kevin-shipp\/\">like former CIA officer Kevin Shipp does<\/a>, then this falls right in line with Trump\u2019s goals in cleaning up the rot and corruption in the U.S. government.\u00a0 In a recent interview with Greg Hunter at USAWatchdog.com,<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the\u00a0CIA FISA is an abomination. Let\u2019s get that out of the way. And since I don\u2019t believe there are any coincidences in U.S. or geo-politics, the releasing of the explosive four-page FISA memo\u00a0after\u00a0Congress reauthorized FISA is suspicious. Former NSA analyst (traitor? hero?) turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,7844,249,6056,18047,8757,5570,577,720,765,18046,1796,9699],"class_list":["post-29963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-edward-snowden","tag-fisa","tag-fisa-memo","tag-greg-hunter","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-nsa","tag-shadow-government","tag-surveillance","tag-tom-loungo","tag-us-congress","tag-usa-watchdog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29964,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions\/29964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}