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DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#21

this might be somewhat more persuasive from sources other than the Federalist and the Epoch Times...they both push far right conspiracy theories...most recently the lie that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 elections, without proof or evidence...

delta1 wrote:

Remember it was Drudge that broke the Clinton sex scandal and the National Enquirer that broke the John Edwards lovechild/payments to mistress. You cannot simply dismiss the facts based on whom reports on them. Follow the facts. Look at where they're getting their information from. The Epoch Times cites their sources. The Federalist is more of a blog but mostly will show where their information comes from as well.

Just sayin'

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DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#22

Won't see this on the MSM...

FBI Abused Secretive Surveillance Program, Court Finds

The FBI continued abusing the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act program, including searching for information on people who had gone to the bureau to report they were victims of a crime, a newly declassified document shows.

One FBI information specialist between April 11, 2019, and July 8, 2019, conducted approximately 124 queries of information obtained through secretive methods under the act, or FISA, which permits warrantless surveillance of foreigners outside of the United States.

The surveillance can and has been used to ultimately obtain information on Americans.

The searches included looking at information for people who had requested to participate in a bureau-run citizens academy, a program for local leaders designed to foster greater understanding of the role of law enforcement, and people who needed to enter the field office the FBI worker was based in to conduct work, such as a repair, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reported in the newly released document.

In other cases, people who entered the field office, which was not named, to report they were victims of the crime were subjected to the background search.

In another example that concerned chief court Judge James Boasberg, an FBI task force officer conducted 69 queries that were not in line with the agency’s internal rules on how to conduct the searches.

“The Court continues to be concerned about FBI querying practices involving U.S.-person query terms, including (1) application of the substantive standard for conducting queries; (2) queries that are designed to retrieve evidence of crime that is not foreign-intelligence information; and (3) recordkeeping and documentation requirements,” Boasberg wrote.

The government also self-reported numerous incidents where queries involving Americans were designed to return evidence of a crime completely unrelated to foreign intelligence without getting an order from the court. The same issues were found the previous year, “which suggests that similar violations … likely have occurred across the Bureau.”

Boasberg’s overview of the FBI’s use of FISA was penned on Nov. 18, 2020, but just released to the public this week.

FBI workers have repeatedly abused the system that permits it to look at intelligence garnered under FISA, previous reports and analyses have shown.

The court found in 2018 that bureau personnel improperly searched an expansive foreign surveillance database for tens of thousands of phone numbers and email addresses that included those of Americans.

Additionally, a watchdog review of warrant applications to spy on Carter Page, a former associate of former President Donald Trump, uncovered 17 significant errors or omissions.

Boasberg eventually ordered the FBI to revamp its FISA procedures and the bureau has made changes like adding to warrant application forms whether the surveillance target was a government source, revamping training on how to use the system, and altering a checklist used to vet confidential sources.

Updated targeting procedures were submitted to the court last year.

In an emailed statement sent to The Epoch Times, a senior FBI official said the bureau implemented a number of changes by December 2019, including deploying updated training to all personnel who have access to unlimited information from FISA surveillance.

The majority of the non-compliance incidents referenced in the newly released report occurred prior to implementation of the FBI’s changes, the official added. Boasberg said as much in the report.

Absent evidence to the contrary and under the unique circumstances stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, he continues to determine that the FBI’s procedures meet lawful and Fourth Amendment requirements, the judge decided.

“While the Court is concerned about the apparent widespread violations of the querying standard … it lacks sufficient information at this time to assess the adequacy of the FBI system changes and training, post-implementation,” he wrote.

The bureau noted that Boasberg was overall supportive of the FBI and approved the bureau’s submission for reauthorization to continue using the FISA system.

Boasberg, an Obama nominee, is the judge that in January sentenced former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith—who admitted to altering an email to obscure the fact that Carter Page was a CIA asset—to probation, with no jail time.

The top Democrat and Republican members on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees did not respond to requests for comment on the newly released report.

Jake Laperruque, senior counsel for the Project On Government Oversight, wrote on Twitter that the new documents show the FBI has been conducting so-called backdoor searches on people “for domestic policing” without receiving the mandated approval from the court.

“Essentially this means the FBI was able to conduct warrantless domestic searches without the FISA Court approval they were supposed to get, at best because personnel were sloppy, at worst because using the default settings gave plausible deniability for abuse,” he added.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-abused-secretive-surveillance-program-court-finds_3794295.html

Nefarious. Evil and unwarranted. This goes against the Constitution plain and simple.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#23

It’s Official, The FISA Court is Compromised – Presiding Judge James Boasberg Hires Former DOJ-NSD Head, Mary McCord, as Amici Curiae to Advise The Court

I hate to write this, but there is just no good way to look at this. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, specifically Presiding Judge James Boasberg, has hired former DOJ National Security Division head, Mary McCord, as amici curiae advisor to the court. [LINK] The placement was first noted by an announcement from Georgetown Law ICAP.

Presiding Judge James Boasberg, is the decision-maker in the appointment of Amici Curiae to the FISA court. There is no way, NO WAY, Judge Boasberg does not know Mary McCord was at the epicenter of the fraudulent FISA application used against Carter Page. Remember, in addition to being the FISC Presiding Judge, Boasberg was also the trial judge in the case against Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who lied about Page working for the CIA on the FISA application. {Go Deep}

Boasberg knows Mary McCord took over from former DOJ-NSD head John Carlin (October 2016); and it was McCord who guided the Carter Page FISA application through the court and across the finish-line (October 2016 and January 2017). That FISA application was built upon fraud and Mary McCord was at the center of it.

Mary McCord was also the DOJ-NSD official who went with Sally Yates to confront the White House Counsel, Don McGhan, about the Michael Flynn interview with the FBI. {Go Deep} It was also Mary McCord who had Michael Atkinson as the chief-legal-counsel for the DOJ-NSD -that’s her office attorney- when the FISA application was submitted in October 2016, and renewed in January 2017.

Michael Atkinson went from DOJ-NSD counsel to become the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG). {Go Deep} In that new role Atkinson changed the rules to allow an anonymous CIA whistleblower (Ciaramella on behalf of Vindman) to file the complaint that led to the Ukraine impeachment effort. {Go Deep} Who was the lead lawyer in the Jerry Nadler led House Judiciary Committee? Why Mary McCord of course. Judge Boasberg knows all of this… AND MORE.

"Let’s be really clear here. The FISA court is a small unit. The judges in/around Washington DC are also a small unit. They know everything that is going on in and around their DC network. A FISA judge inside that DC system knows every granular detail of everything that comes into their purview. All of it. Judge Boasberg even wrote the last two FISA court opinions (2019 and 2020) about the FBI abuses of the FISA-702 process and warrantless, illegal violations of the NSA database.

There is simply no other way to look at the placement of Mary McCord other than to see what it is. The FISA court is compromised; AND, McCord is being installed in order to coordinate any defensive measures that are needed to cover-up that compromise. [ex. if special counsel John Durham makes something public and Durham has been to the FISC with questions.]

There isn’t another way to look at this other than to see bad motives. There’s not a shred of possibility that Judge Boasberg does not know exactly who Mary McCord is, and what roles she played in the surveillance of candidate Donald Trump, President-elect Trump, President Trump and the House impeachment effort to remove President Donald Trump. Boasberg knows exactly who Mary McCord is."

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/28/its-official-the-fisa-court-is-compromised-presiding-judge-james-boasberg-hires-former-doj-nsd-head-mary-mccord-as-amici-curiae-to-advise-the-court/

They know they got caught. The facts are trickling out. Even a change behind the Resolute Desk can't stop this dam from bursting.

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DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#24

Busy busy beehive they have going there now...

FBI quietly breaking into US corporate computers

Secretive move aims to purge malicious code but rings alarms about the balance between cybersecurity and state overreach

The FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software.

It’s part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it’s an unprecedented intrusion that’s raising legal questions about just how far the government can go.

On April 9, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a search warrant allowing the US Department of Justice to carry out the operation.

The software the FBI is deleting is malicious code installed by hackers to take control of a victim’s computer. Hackers have used the code to access vast amounts of private email messages and to launch ransomware attacks.

The authority the Justice Department relied on and the way the FBI carried out the operation set important precedents. They also raise questions about the power of courts to regulate cybersecurity without the consent of the owners of the targeted computers.

As a cybersecurity scholar, I have studied this type of cybersecurity, dubbed active defense, and how the public and private sectors have relied on each other for cybersecurity for years. Public-private cooperation is critical for managing the wide range of cyber threats facing the US.

But it poses challenges, including determining how far the government can go in the name of national security. It’s also important for Congress and the courts to oversee this balancing act.

Since at least January 2021, hacking groups have been using zero-day exploits – meaning previously unknown vulnerabilities – in Microsoft Exchange to access email accounts. The hackers used this access to insert web shells, software that allows them to remotely control the compromised systems and networks.

Tens of thousands of email users and organizations have been affected. One result has been a series of ransomware attacks, which encrypt victims’ files and hold the keys to decrypt them for ransom.

On March 2, 2021, Microsoft announced that a hacking group code-named Hafnium had been using multiple zero-day exploits to install web shells with unique file names and paths. This makes it challenging for administrators to remove the malicious code, even with the tools and patches Microsoft and cybersecurity firms have released to assist the victims.

The FBI is accessing hundreds of these mail servers in corporate networks. The search warrant allows the FBI to access the web shells, enter the previously discovered password for a web shell, make a copy for evidence, and then delete the web shell.

The FBI, though, was not authorized to remove any other malware that hackers might have installed during the breach or otherwise access the contents of the servers.

What makes this case unique is both the scope of the FBI’s actions to remove the web shells and the unprecedented intrusion into privately owned computers without the owners’ consent.

The FBI undertook the operation without consent because of the large number of unprotected systems throughout US networks and the urgency of the threat.

The action demonstrates the Justice Department’s commitment to using “all of our legal tools,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement.

The total number of compromised firms remains murky given that the figure is redacted in the court documents, but it could be as many as 68,000 Exchange servers, which would potentially affect millions of email users.

New malware attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers continue to surface, and the FBI is continuing to undertake court-authorized action to remove the malicious code.

The shift toward a more active US cybersecurity strategy began under the Obama administration with the establishment of US Cyber Command in 2010. The emphasis at the time remained on deterrence by denial, meaning making computers harder to hack.

This includes using a layered defense, also known as defense in depth, to make it more difficult, expensive and time-consuming to break into networks.

The alternative is to go after hackers, a strategy dubbed defend forward. Since 2018, the US government has ramped up defend forward, as seen in US actions against Russian groups in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles in which US Cyber Command personnel identified and disrupted Russian online propaganda campaigns.

The Biden administration has continued this trend, coupled with new sanctions on Russia in response to the SolarWinds espionage campaign. That attack, which the US government attributes to hackers connected to Russian intelligence services, used vulnerabilities in commercial software to break into US government agencies.

This new FBI action similarly pushes the envelope of active defense, in this case to clean up the aftermath of domestic breaches, though without the awareness – or consent – of the affected organizations.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act generally makes it illegal to access a computer without authorization. This law, though, does not apply to the government.

The FBI has the power to remove malicious code from private computers without permission thanks to a change in 2016 to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

This revision was designed in part to enable the US government to more easily battle botnets and aid other cybercrime investigations in situations where the perpetrators’ locations remained unknown. It permits the FBI to access computers outside the jurisdiction of a search warrant.

This action highlights the precedent, and power, of courts becoming de facto cybersecurity regulators that can empower the Department of Justice to clean up large-scale deployments of malicious code of the kind seen in the Exchange hack.

In 2017, for example, the FBI made use of the expanded Rule 41 to take down a global botnet that harvested victims information and used their computers to send spam emails.

Important legal issues remain unresolved with the FBI’s current operation. One is the question of liability. What if, for example, the privately-owned computers were damaged in the FBI’s process of removing the malicious code?

Another issue is how to balance private property rights against national security needs in cases like this. What is clear, though, is that under this authority the FBI could hack into computers at will, and without the need for a specific search warrant.

Rob Joyce, the NSA’s cybersecurity director, said that cybersecurity is national security. This statement may seem uncontroversial. But it does portend a sea change in the government’s responsibility for cybersecurity, which has largely been left up to the private sector.

Much of US critical infrastructure, which includes computer networks, is in private hands. Yet companies have not always made the necessary investments to protect their customers.

This raises the question of whether there has been a market failure in cybersecurity where economic incentives haven’t been sufficient to result in adequate cyber defenses. With the FBI’s actions, the Biden administration may be implicitly acknowledging such a market failure.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/04/fbi-quietly-breaking-into-us-corporate-computers/

Dg west deptford
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5 years ago

#25

Giulliani interview on Tucker tonight very interesting.
FBI raid to get electronics then refused to take hard drives that Rudy said we're Hunters laptop
Hilarious if it wasn't so sad in exposing the corruption of our injustice department.

Mr. Jones
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5 years ago

#26

Great articles DMV!!!

Like TW...I didn't believe the FBI was a totally "above the board's" Law enforcement agency beyond "reproach" like I did when I was very young...
My eyes were opened wide back in 1982/84 at Kent State University while working at the intERnationAl studEnT affAiRs office as a graduate assistant with a free tution stipend and a weekly salary for 24?-30? Hrs a week?

The FBI would come and talk to my boss about every 3-4 months...with lots of cash to smooth the information gathering that to they needed and he provided...sometimes I had to help gather that info...
When those FBI AGENTS LEFT my boss acted like a DUECE on payday...I had to go get him 2 half gallons of CAPTIAN Morgan rum and 2 cases of coke a cola , he'd give me a crisp
FIFTY and day keep the change....usually around $5 bucks

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#27

The link below has the rest of this article detailed with screenshots and messages for all to read.

6. Unbeknownst to FBI HQ, WasFieldOffice FBI Special Agent Brian Dugan was tasked with following the Wolfe leak of the FISA.

Dugan conducted physical surveillance on Wolfe, identified the reporters, went to a court and got a warrant. That's how solid the evidence he had was.

7. Agent Dugan set up a sting operation. Followed the reporting of the leak, and collected evidence about which reporters gained custody of the FISA application.

Mid-December 2017 Wolfe finally admitted to the leak.
8. Agent Dugan finished his investigative file and turned it over to DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu.

However, by early 2018 Robert Mueller (per Rosenstein) held all investigative authority over everything Trump/Russia. Liu couldn't prosecute Wolfe without first informing Mueller

9. In/around early February 2018 agent Brian Dugan's file of evidence against Wolfe was then given to the special counsel team for review and return to Liu.

This was the first time Mueller/Weissmann found out about the FBI FISA leak investigation.

10. By that time Weissmann and Mueller (oblivious idiot) were knee deep in using the special counsel for the cover-up operation to protect the DOJ and FBI officials who did the illegal surveillance.

11. The Weissmann crew freaked out. The Dugan file would undermine the validity of their own investigation. The special counsel obtained downstream warrants as an outcome of a fraudulent FISA application.

They needed to throw a bag over Dugan's file.

12. What the special counsel did with Dugan's file was pretty astonishing.

First they informed Senator Mark Warner that his communications were also intercepted by Dugan.

Dugan used the backdoor to Warner by getting the text messages of Adam Waldman.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1390883586581073930.html

And who investigated all this? Yeah. The man in the middle that kept criminal kingpins on his speed dial. Robert Mueller. The biggest POS to walk in DC.

If the FBI can spy on a man running for and eventually winning the Presidency despite their meddling...what do you think they do to you?

You don't care? Don't believe yourself to be that important?

DON'T SURRENDER YOUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN LIKE YOU DO SIGNING UP FOR TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT!

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ZRX1200
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5 years ago

#28

Doesn’t matter, Orange Man bad......the blind crew not one bit for the larger picture.

ZRX1200
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5 years ago

#29

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#30

Listening to this now...I'm reading the comments on this video and LMAO!

I remember the crusty sheriff that ran Waco then saying that it didn't have to go down like it did. David Koresh would come into town at least once a week and buy guitar strings. He could've been arrested then without incident. Janet Reno and the Clinton administration wanted to show with impunity that they would crush anyone they wanted with the full force of everything they could throw at a US citizen. Forced compliance.

All of a sudden, anyone with zero experience should come to a blinding realization why we have the Second Amendment.

* Edited...just finished the video. WHOA.

From one that was knee-deep in it...lucky to be alive. Loved his take on Texas!

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ZRX1200
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5 years ago

#31

Yeah I hadn’t heard it before and just happen to run across it....listened to the whole thing uninterrupted while in the warehouse yesterday. I’m about to listen to a RRidge one next.

I thought it was funny hearing Alex Jones helping folks out, people are so quick with the lizard people stuff and his wacky antics. He is like the National Inquirer he’s been right about a LOT of damn stuff that he was called crazy for. And he’s been wrong too.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#32

That's why I'm not so quick to dismiss a source.

Like I've said before here to those that do...The Drudge Report took Clinton down with the "blue dress" and the National Enquirer took down John Edwards with his mistress/love child payments.

RR, Waco and OKC...whew the ATF could really f' up like a football bat. They haven't been in the headlines as much as the SS, er FBI lately. Guess they just run traffic control and push paper.

Speyside
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5 years ago

#33

When was any federal enforcement agency honorable?

ZRX1200
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5 years ago

#34

The AFT has been in the news if you’re a big 2A guy/gal....they’re currently trying to make me a felon.

teedubbya
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5 years ago

#35

The AFT has been in the news if you’re a big 2A guy/gal....they’re currently trying to make me a felon.

ZRX1200 wrote:

My guess is better have tried and failed LOL

by the way they are trying same towards me.

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DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#36

The AFT has been in the news if you’re a big 2A guy/gal....they’re currently trying to make me a felon.

ZRX1200 wrote:

Must be the state you live in. I dunno. The only time I see them anymore are at the gun shows. Really funny when they take their windbreakers off to get a hot dog...everyone is coughing "d!ck" at them. To see them look away real quickly to see where it's coming from is funny to me.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#37

When was any federal enforcement agency honorable?

Speyside wrote:

Ya know...I'm going to say never. They were there to suck off the taxpayer at each and every turn. Now, THEY'RE the criminals. Murder, wiretapping, spying, entrapment, lying...worse than any mobster...they have a badge and KNOW the law.

Mr. Jones
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5 years ago

#38

You know my feelings about the FBI...

YOU A.L.L. KNOW MY FEELINGS ABOUT THE
FBI-SSG (special surveillance GrOuP) too...

The SSG ARE FELON CRIMINALS ON STEROIDS WITH CARTE BLANCHE TO BREAK ANY LOCAL , STATE, OR FEDERAL LAW...PLUS THEY CAN STEAL ALL YOUR MONEY AT WILL and just out right murder ANYONE THEY WANT WITH Z.E.R.O. REPERCUSSIONS...

NONE AT ALL...TOTAL SS NAZIS THEY ARE...& THEY ARE
CONTROLLED BY THE D.N.C.

Speyside
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5 years ago

#39

teedubbya
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#40

Mr. Jones wrote:

So you are Pro FBI and possibly working for them gang stalking others to recover the coin taken from your hut and transfer the heat to others?

Thats how I read it.

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