Thread by @themarketswork

1) Did John Brennan Admit to Using Reverse targeting on the Trump Campaign?

My latest @EpochTimes
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2) John Brennan gave an interview on Maddow.

It turned out to be rather interesting. For a complete run-through see The John Brennan Interview.
themarketswork.com/2018/08/19/the…

3) Brennan managed to inadvertently describe His/Clinton/Steele Complicity & Collusion during one entertaining segment.

He also nearly fell over trying to describe how he didn't actually say President Trump committed treason.

"I didn’t mean that he committed treason."

4) But it was some later comments that really grabbed my attention:

Brennan was discussing concerns about Russian contacts with U.S. citizens during the 2016 presidential election.

5) Despite Brennan’s apparent concerns, he admitted that these contacts may have been completely innocent.

There was no proof that these same U.S. citizens had been successfully leveraged by Russian efforts.

6) Despite the lack of any proof, it appears that "surveillance" moved forward anyway.

This surveillance may have occurred before and after the election.

7) BRENNAN: When I left office on January 20th of 2017, I had unresolved questions in my mind about whether or not any of those US persons were working in support of Russian efforts.

RM: And those were referred - those concerns about specific US persons - referred to the FBI.

8) BRENNAN: We call it incidental collection in terms of CIA’s foreign intelligence collection authorities.

Any time we would incidentally collect information on a U.S. person, we would hand that over to the FBI because they have the legal authority to do it.

9) We would not pursue that type of investigative. We would give it to the FBI.

We were picking things up that was of great relevance to the FBI, and we wanted to make sure that they were there.

So they could piece it together with whatever they were collecting domestically.

10) That’s not how incidental collection is supposed to work.

More importantly, the collection described by Brennan doesn’t sound incidental.

The surveillance sounds targeted.

11) It sounds like Brennan is describing two things:

1) Reverse Targeting of U.S. Citizens

2) Unmasking of U.S. Citizens

12) Section 702 Surveillance allows for targeted surveillance of FOREIGN individuals located OUTSIDE the United States for the purpose of acquiring foreign intelligence information.

13) A “significant” purpose of the surveillance must be to obtain “foreign intelligence information”.

U.S. Citizens cannot be intentionally targeted.

Provisions known as minimization procedures are intended to protect information “incidentally collected” on U.S. citizens

14) Unlike traditional FISA surveillance, Section 702 surveillance is not subject to individual FISA Court approvals.

No specific FISC approval is required.

15) Significant "loopholes" exist regarding data collection under Section 702.

The FBI can “search” collected information using terms that relate to U.S. citizens.

And they can do so without a warrant.

16) But Reverse targeting is one technique specifically prohibited under Section 702.

Reverse targeting relates to the targeting of a foreign individual with the intent of actually capturing data on a U.S. citizen.

17) What Brennan discussed in the interview with Maddow sounds notably similar to reverse targeting.

And unmasking of U.S. Citizens.

It also sounds eerily close to what Devin Nunes disclosed in March 2017.

18) On March 22, 2017, after learning of surveillance on the Trump transition team, Nunes gave an impromptu press conference where he made some startling comments:

19) Brennan also noted a significant amount of coordination and cooperation between the FBI & CIA.

An Intelligence Sharing Operation.

20) MADDOW: So, it’s an intelligence sharing operation between…

BRENNAN: Right. We put together a Fusion Center at CIA that brought NSA and FBI officers together with CIA to make sure that those proverbial dots would be connected.

Sounds a bit like a Multi-Agency Task Force...

21) It almost sounds like the CIA used targeted collection of Section 702 Data, skipped the minimization requirements, and fed the raw surveillance data directly to the FBI.

Or maybe the FBI's private contractors...

22) What, exactly, did Brennan mean by:

“Any time we would incidentally collect information on a U.S. person, we would hand that over to the FBI because they have the legal authority to do it”?

23) Was this targeted Section 702 surveillance using reverse targeting techniques?

Was this being done on all U.S. persons, or did this particular description apply only to specific individuals?

Were standard minimization procedures correctly followed by the FBI and CIA?

24) Incidental collection happens all the time.

But Brennan’s comments sounded specific to certain U.S. citizens.

Brennan’s comments sounded like a description of the activities Nunes uncovered in March 2017.

25) A closer examination is needed.

Perhaps we’ll get one from the Inspector General’s pending Report on FISA Abuse.

Because it kinda sounded like Brennan admitted to something close to illegal targeted surveillance of U.S. citizens.
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