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Atticus

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8. Keep in mind that all Rosenstein did was approve an APPLICATION to the FISA

Reply to triron (Original post)

Thu Feb 1, 2018, 07:54 PM

Feb 2018

court ASKING that a pre-existing warrant be extended. Rosenstein did not issue or extend the warrant. A FISA judge had to authorize the extension and his or her primary concern would have been whether or not the government had been successful in obtaining the FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE they had predicted when originally seeking the warrant. In other words: "Is this guy talking to the Russians about things he shouldn't like you suspected 90 days ago?"

Apparently, the FISA judge (most are Republicans) thought the warrant had been productive.