Tuesday, April 11, 2017

#5- Jozzelyn Alejandro

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/04/11/trumps-first-100-days-russia-and-probable-cause/?utm_term=.a615fa9cb924

Law enforcement officials obtained the warrant after “convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia,” our colleagues wrote.

Here’s where things stand heading into Day 82 of the Trump administration: Remember Carter Page, the former adviser to President Trump’s campaign who last week admitted he was in touch with a Russian spy in 2013?

“This is the Trump era.”

White House press secretary Sean Spicer reached a new low in his performance as Trump’s chief spokesman Tuesday.

He’s back in the headlines after our colleagues revealed this: The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor Page’s communications as part of an investigation into alleged ties between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.

Russia, in tandem with Assad’s government, has argued that routine bombing accidentally struck a cache of chemical weapons held by the Syrian opposition.

While criticizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons at his daily briefing, Spicer when he said that even Adolf Hitler did not sink to that level during World War II.

Still, news that the FBI obtained a FISA warrant to monitor his communications is significant — it’s the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe someone from the Trump campaign was in touch with Russian agents.

“In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust,” Spicer stated.

1 comment:

  1. He's such a bad president, I can't trust him at all
    -Logan mook

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