Government Official Who Approved Improper Spying on Trump Staffer Tapped for Spy Court Advisory Role
Former Justice Department official Mary McCord will serve in an advisory role for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court earlier this month.
McCord was one of the officials who reviewed and approved warrants to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The FISC, which approved the warrants in 2016 and 2017, later excoriated government officials for providing false and misleading information about Page and the infamous Steele dossier.
Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who approved efforts to snoop on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, has been appointed to advise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
apparent widespread violations of the querying standard.
That s the euphemistic term the bureau tends to use to denote white supremacist violence. On one occasion, an FBI analyst ran a
multi-search-term batch query on Americans in connection with predicated criminal investigations relating to domestic terrorism that returned 33 foreign surveillance results. And not only domestic terror. The FISA Court recounts government acknowledgment that
at least 40 FBI searches through the NSA s warrantlessly collected data involved health care fraud, transnational organized crime, violent gangs and public corruption and bribery.
On at least one occasion, around May 2020, an FBI analyst looked through the
foreign NSA troves to vet [a] potential source in [a] predicated criminal investigation relating to public corruption.
The FBI wrongly accused my father of spying for China. Our government has anti-Asian bias, too.
My dad’s wrongful prosecution is emblematic of anti-Asian violence by the U.S. government. We must address the government’s role in hate.
Joyce Xi
Opinion contributor
In response to horrific attacks against Asian Americans across the country, the Biden administration has announced a new initiative to combat anti-Asian violence, xenophobia and bias. Days later, a federal court denied my family recourse for the anti-Asian violence and xenophobia the Obama-Biden administration subjected us to several years ago, when the Justice Department and FBI falsely accused my father of sending sensitive technology to China and treated him as a Chinese spy.
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