"President Trump’s early Saturday morning tweeting has exploded to
the forefront an uncovered scandal I’ve been talking about since early
January (including in this weekend’s column): The fact that the Obama
Justice Department and the FBI investigated associates of Donald Trump,
and likely Trump himself, in the heat of the presidential campaign.
To summarize, reporting indicates that, prior to June 2016, the
Obama Justice Department and FBI considered a criminal investigation of
Trump associates, and perhaps Trump himself, based on concerns about
connections to Russian financial institutions. Preliminary poking around
indicated that there was nothing criminal involved. Rather than shut
the case down, though, the Obama Justice Department converted it into a
national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA). FISA allows the government, if it gets court
permission, to conduct electronic surveillance (which could include
wiretapping, monitoring of e-mail, and the like) against those it
alleges are “agents of a foreign power.” FISA applications and the
evidence garnered from them are classified – i.e., we would not know
about any of this unless someone had leaked classified information to
the media, a felony."
[National Review]
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