Trump Didn’t Know How FISA Process Worked When He Accused Obama Of Wiretap: Report
Donald Trump asked his aides how the FISA process works only after accusing President Obama of wiretapping his telephones.
With Donald Trump the process is clearly to shoot first and ask questions later… or in this case tweet first. According to a new report by the New York Times, Donald Trump didn’t know how the FISA warrant process worked when he accused President Obama of wiretapping him.
The New York Times, in an article devoted to Donald Trump’s steep learning curve, noted that Donald Trump didn’t know that in order to obtain a “wiretap” the Justice Department would have had to present substantial evidence to the FISA court that the subjects were working as agents of a foreign government.
“So much of this is new to Mr. Trump that only after he publicly accused Mr. Obama of having wiretapped his telephones last year did he ask aides how the system of obtaining eavesdropping warrants from a special foreign intelligence court worked,” the New York Times reported.
