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Amendments act authorizes the government to target only non-u.s. persons reasonably believed to be located outside the united states for the purposes of acquiring foreign intelligence information. section 702 cannot be used to target any person located inside the united states, and the law prohibits the government from reverse targeting, that is, targeting a non-u.s. person outside the united states specifically for the purpose of collecting the communications of a person inside the united state...

How much active role in terms of what the fbi is actually investigating. >> bill: do you know if the fbi is involved with this? are they investigating this? >> im told its a web, and there are multiple agencies involved here but they have to go to the fbi. how to take the reverse targeting, so there is an fbi element here. the fbi, the nsa of course. >> bill: they would be the agency to turnover the laws to the senate and house intelligence committee. theyre the ones that are doing the tapping a...

Watch this. >> heres the thing is you can order -- you can order the specific, you know, listening device or you can say, you know what, we already have it, and its just amazing reverse targeting, and we have millions of people in a database and i can can be susan rice and go down and type donald trump or general flynn into a database. >> do you know if that happens. >> is that not the same as ordering the surveillance? they know it exists. look, every business, every international businessman o...

This is the same accusations flying around with the irs, for instance, that the irs was using their tools for political purposes to be able to silent conservatives. if we get close to the campaign time period and they are using official documents, classified documents at that to either release names thats obviously a legal issue, to target individuals that are american citizens that were masked, thats called reverse targeting. but when you say you are targeting people internationally but actuall...

Access to then political achaccusations.this is the sames flying around with the irs, for instance, that the irs was using their tools for political purposes to be able to silent conservatives. if we get close to the campaign time period and they are using official documents, classified documents at that to either release names thats obviously a legal issue, to target individuals that are american citizens that were masked, thats called reverse targeting. but when you say you are targeting peopl...

House spying on the fbi. bart, let me start with that on you. i think the operating principle or the operating assumption a lot of us have had is there was a fishing expedition into the raw intelligence by the white house as a means of reverse-engineering some plausible kernel of a basis for this wildly unsupported claim by the president. it was then given to nunes. you sort of floated an alternate theory about what these individuals might have been doing inside that intelligence. what is that t...

Reverse-targeting. you want to actually spy on an american, so you pick some foreigners that that american might be talking to and spy on them. they might have been looking for finished reports that have to do with espionage on foreign targets whom the trump transition might have plausibly been talking to. why is it that they found -- if theyre just looking randomly, how is it they found trump campaign officials or the president himself in there? and the theory is that theyre looking to see what...

That news interview on "morning joe" she said if the trump team knew how we got the information, they would try to expose our tactics. she hinted those tactics were illegal surveillance and collection of trump team members using reverse targeting. meaning, again, going after legitimate targets cleared to reverse target trump officials. its very important that she be subpoenaed and talked to. she left the administration in 2015 to join the hillary clinton campaign. now shes coordinating with obam...

--? >> we will never -- >> even to you have another big committee. >> no. >> interesting "the wall street journal" lead editorial said governor nunes should not real estate sign doing a good job adam schiff hyper bipartisan spread innuendo across airwaves without evidence. >> "the wall street journal" suggests perhaps it sounds like the trump the recognition team could have been targeted by something called reverse targeting, in other words,, got a fisa order to watch the russian ambassador just...

Illegal practice where a government targets a citizen under the guise of targeting a person overseas. the california congressmen stood by his decision but offered some regret. >> a judgment call on my part, and that, at the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the wrong one, but youve got to stick by the decisions you make. >> the committees ranking democrats at the bipartisan probe is tarnished. >> we cant have our chair acting as a surrogate for the adminis...