There is something we are missing here and it's right before our eyes and just have been over looking it or at least I have, and maybe I missed it being mentioned before. This whole farce about the Counter Intelligence being started against Trump being kicked off in
April 2016 with the Papadopoulos meeting with Downer is total crap. If you go back and sift through the mountain of paperwork we have compiled on this case you come across this.
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/NSA_IG_Report_1_7_16_ST-15-0002.pdf This is the OIG report that was put together by NSA Inspector General Ellard. Now this report was triggered due to an unusual elevated amount of 704/705b target unmasking queries of 702 surveillance, by the DOJ starting back in
June 2015. Now Horowitz could not look into this because Hrpwitz had been chopped off at the knees from the National Security arm of the DOJ by Sally Yates. So Ellard started monitoring it from the NSA OIG office, that Sally Yates no control over. Ellard puts together this report show an enormous amount of non-compliances on 704/705b unmasking queries on 702 surveillance data bases going back to
June 2015. This report was submitted to Admiral Rogers in
January 2016, and it spurred him to pull a full audit of FISA queries especially the 702 upstream "About" queries in
April 2016 after he shut down all outside contractor access to the 702 data base.
Now the DOJ became aware that they were being looked at by the NSA audit, and the National Security Division Head John Carlin filed the DOJs intent to get back in compliance report to the FISC, which was basically a report saying we realize we messed up and we are sorry and we intend to get our act together shame on us, on
September 26, 2016 and then promptly announced his resignation the next day to be effective October 15th 2016. That's very fishy in itself.
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Certification_Cover_Filing_Sep_26_2016_part_1_and_2_-merged.pdfEvidently Carlin knew what was going on and new it was going to get worse and got out while the getting was good.
October 4th 2016 they had a follow up hearing on the DOJ 702 compliance proposal he filed the week earlier and Carlin was outta there a week later.
October 20 2016, Rogers was briefed by the NSA compliance officer on findings from the 702 NSA compliance audit. The audit had uncovered numerous query violations.
October 21, 2016, Rogers shut down all 704/705b query activity, not just contractors but everybody, and reported his findings to the DOJ head, Loretta Lynch.
Is it just a coincidence that on
October 21 2016, the DOJ/FBI seek and receive a title 1 FISA probable cause order authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISA Court? Hell no it wasn't because the FISA Court wasn't aware of the 702 query violations going on because Rogers didn't brief them until
October 24 2016. So that morning on the 21st Rogers informs Lynch that he knows they are violating the 702 protocols and that afternoon they push through the title 1 warrant on Page. So the warrant on Page was already in place, when Rogers verbally briefed the FISC of the issues with the DOJ and their 702 abuses on
October 24 2016. On
October 26, 2016, Rogers appeared formally before the FISA Court and presented the findings of his audit.
on
October 28 2016 Clapper submitted a recommendation that Director Rogers be removed as NSA Head, which failed because the last thing they want to do is fire a guy that has access to every dirty secret in the government, so Clapper was told to piss off. But like everything in the government the audit results that Rogers submitted to the FISC were not signed off on the 2016 Section 702 Certification non compliances until
April 26, 2017, and it wasn't much more than a slap on the wrist, with the new administration in place of the actual violators.
Point being in all this rambling is the counter intelligence surveillance didn't start with Papadopoulos in
April 2016, that's BS they were unmasking at 5 times the normal rate American names starting right after Trump came down the escalator in Trump Tower on
Jun 16, 2015. And it was these huge increases in 704/705b unmaskings that triggered the NSA OIG Ellard to start looking into it and put out that report in
January of 2016. And remember The NSA IG report was released internally on
January 7, 2016 was just a snapshot that only covered
March 2015 through
August 2015. This report was put out a full
four months before Papadopoulos ever got drunk, and talked to Downer. Papadopoulos was still attached to the ben Carson Campaign at this time frame. This whole farce on the Papadopoulos drunken talk starting this counter intelligence investigation is BS. The DOJ was unmasking Trump people in huge numbers long before then. Basically from the minute Trump made his formal announcement, the DOJ was looking into him. And if you remember Rand Paul got a little unhinged when he learned that they had been unmasking/surveilling him as well. I'm guessing they did it on each and every candidate on the republican side and likely Bernie too. The Clintons weren't messing around, they were in full court press mode. So the Timeline of this mess doesn't start in
April 2016 it starts in
June of 2015, ten full months prior to Papadopoulos bender.
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