President Trump is reportedly expected to approve the release of a controversial memo, which alleges
surveillance abuses by the FBI.
On Friday, the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by Republican Representative Devin Nunes, released a four - page memo alleging
surveillance abuses by the FBI.
Trump did so again last month after the House Intelligence Committee released a controversial Republican memo purporting to show
surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice in seeking to monitor an adviser to the Trump campaign.
Not exact matches
The document alleges
abuses of power
by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties with Russia; it focuses almost entirely on FBI
surveillance of the president's former adviser Carter Page and is thin on evidence of actual wrongdoing
by the FBI.
The memo Duncan is referring to is a four - page memo written
by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), which allegedly details
abuses of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential campaign.
The memo begins
by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of
surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA pro
surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA pro
Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from
abuses related to the FISA process.»
There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of
abuse of
surveillance powers
by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed.
The House passed a renewal of a key foreign
surveillance program, even though Trump sent mixed signals
by complaining it was used to «badly surveil and
abuse» his campaign and then reverting to his support for it.
Republicans on Capitol Hill welcomed the decision but acknowledged that it fell short of demands
by three Republican committee chairmen that the Justice Department appoint a second special counsel to investigate the accusations of
surveillance abuses.
President Trump cleared the way for the release of a secret memo written
by Republican congressional staffers and said to accuse federal law enforcement officials of
abusing their
surveillance authorities.
He discovered the
abuse of
surveillance over everyday citizens rubberstamped
by a FISA court meant to provide oversight.
With a Sarah Palin-esque President giving the military carte blanche to operate inside America using any means necessary to deal with «illegals» blamed for the zombie outbreaks, Dead Rising 3 scores point after point
by attacking the concept of a
surveillance state, pro-fascist propaganda, and especially the US's colonial
abuses in Central America.
However, the
abuse of the power of this type of technology is completely left out of the equation, and only
by digging deeply enough into the brilliantly compiled linear notes on the exhibition's website detailing the history of
surveillance from 1274 BC to 2016, written
by Berit Gwendolyn Gilma and Hanno Hauenstei, can one even begin to realise the implications.
At the end of the day, once the principle of massive
surveillance schemes based on data mining mechanisms is considered to be acceptable as such, the standard of the «reasonable suspicion» is overrun and has to be replaced
by principles and other guarantees preventing any
abuse, provided that this is possible.
By bringing together human rights defenders and journalists from four different continents, it serves to highlight the dangers mass
surveillance pose to the vital work of countless organisations and to individuals who expose human rights
abuses and defend those at risk.»
The NPRM would have allowed covered entities to disclose protected health information without individual authorization to: (1) A public health authority authorized
by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health
surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; (2) a public health authority or other appropriate authority authorized
by law to receive reports of child
abuse or neglect; (3) a person or entity other than a governmental authority that could demonstrate or demonstrated that it was acting to comply with requirements or direction of a public health authority; or (4) a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease or condition and was authorized
by law to be notified as necessary in the conduct of a public health intervention or investigation.
The absence of association with agency contact may reflect that the Early Start series was under regular
surveillance by family support workers and thus would be expected to have greater agency contact for
abuse and neglect concerns.