“Watch closely for Barack Obama’s fingerprints,” said Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday, suggesting the recent alleged partisan weaponization of state surveillance powers could be connected to the 44th president. “[Democrats and their allies] will defend Barack Obama at all costs, and they’ll defend Hillary Clinton almost at all costs unless they have to sacrifice her to protect Barack Obama,” he added.
Public release of FISA applications submitted by the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking warrants from the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to surveil Carter Page “is not going to happen,” Ron Hosko, former assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters, said during an interview Friday on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
None of the critics of the memo acknowledged the importance of the constitutional rights potentially implicated by the memo’s accusations about the abuse of government authority.
Nancy Pelosi urged Paul Ryan to remove Rep. Devin Nunes as House Intel Committee chairman for his decision to release the FISA memo.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made a last-minute effort Wednesday evening to block the release of a highly-anticipated House Intelligence Committee memorandum that is expected to allege that the Obama administration abused the federal government’s surveillance powers to spy on Donald Trump’s political campaign.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told host Chuck Todd he thought it would be “appropriate” for the House Intelligence Committee to vote to release a memo that has been the focus of much attention
“It seems to me you’d be concerned if there was something there, not if there’s nothing there,” said Peter Schweizer, Breitbart News’s Senior editor-at-large, referencing FBI official Peter Strzok’s expressed concern that no evidence existed corroborating narratives related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s ostensible investigation into Russian political interference.
American accounts inside the United States — not Russian “bots” — led to the trending of hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo, according to a report.
The Obama administration weaponized the Department of Justice and intelligence services in pursuit of partisan political purposes, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) suggested on Monday.
#ReleaseTheMemo was a trending Twitter topic on Thursday evening as public concern mounts over abuse of government surveillance power.
