If CNN is the source for this it's hogwash.
Meanwhile, speaking of Russia lies about Trump, remember the FISA warrant that the Obama administration sought from the FISA (secret) court?
This just to tap the Trump tower /campaign phones and of course to prevent Trump from winning the election. All this so that Hillary could win.
Well, it is now out that everyone behind that FISA dossier /warrant before the court knew they were perjuring themselves. They knew the dossier was a complete fabrication paid for by Hillary.
This latest is just the smoke screen, old news really, to distract from the fact there are a lot of corrupt Liberals who are going to face the fire.
I think I know why Trump is letting Mueller hang himself with this nonsense special investigation.
By
Andrew P. Napolitano
January 17, 2019
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Can the FBI investigate the president? In a word: Yes. Here is the back story.
The FBI conducts generally two types of investigations — criminal and counterintelligence. Criminal investigations are intended to find the people who have already committed particular crimes, with agents lawfully and constitutionally gathering evidence against them under the supervision of a federal prosecutor and in conjunction with a federal grand jury.
A counterintelligence investigation is aimed at shoring up national security by looking at people who may be breaching it. This type of investigation often involves surveillance of the suspected people. A national security breach is any event — criminal or not — that may have enabled foreign enemies to acquire classified secrets or influence government decisions."
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"...Why should anyone care about this? The dual purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to protect personal privacy in persons, houses, papers and effects, as well as to compel law enforcement to focus only on those people as to whom it has probable cause of guilt. When the feds can bypass these profound requirements, they are violating and rejecting the dual purpose of the amendment, which they have sworn to uphold.
FISA warrants are general warrants. General warrants basically authorize the bearer to search where he wishes and seize what he finds. One FISA warrant authorized surveillance of all 115 million Verizon customers. General warrants were the totalitarian practice of British officials in Colonial America, and the Fourth Amendment was enacted expressly to prevent them.
Trump is correct when he argues that FISA has corrupted and seduced some FBI officials and agents into violating the Constitution — yet they keep getting away with it. The insatiable appetite of government officials to spy in violation of the Constitution has infected the rule of law. If they can do this to the president, they can do it to anyone.
Reprinted with the author’s permission."