FBI ‘Granted FISA Warrant’ Covering Trump Camp’s Ties To Russia
Two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence
community have confirmed to Heat Street that the FBI sought, and was
granted, a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence
permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s
campaign with ties to Russia.
Contrary to earlier reporting in the New York Times, which cited FBI sources as saying that the agency did not believe that
the private server in Donald Trump’s Trump Tower which was connected to a Russian bank
had any nefarious purpose, the FBI’s counter-intelligence arm, sources
say, re-drew an earlier FISA court request around possible financial and
banking offenses related to the server. The first request, which,
sources say, named Trump, was denied back in June, but the second was
drawn more narrowly and was granted in October
after
evidence was presented of a server, possibly related to the Trump
campaign, and its alleged links to two banks; SVB Bank and Russia’s Alfa
Bank. While the
Times story speaks of metadata, sources
suggest that a FISA warrant was granted to look at the full content of
emails and other related documents that may concern US persons.
The FBI agents
who talked to the New York Times, and rubbished the ground-
breaking stories of Slate ( Franklin Foer) and
Mother Jones
(David Corn) may not have known about the FISA warrant, sources say,
because the counter-intelligence and criminal sides of the FBI often
work independently of each other employing the principle of
‘compartmentalization’.
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