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/* FISA abuse and the Stormy Daniels affair */
The Obama FBI had been allowing contractors to access FISA data since 2012, and in July 2015 Deputy Attorney General [[Sally Yates]] issued a legal opinion denying the Office of Inspector General oversight of the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). DOJ-NSD is the division in the Justice Department that applies for FISA warrants. The opinion was adopted as DOJ policy a month after Donald Trump declared his candidacy.
In the following months, FBI contractor access (FusionGPS) accelerated with hundreds of illegal FISA searches of upstream and downstream information on American citizens performed. [[NSA Dir. Mike Rogers]] discovered the FBI and its contractors misuse of the [[NSA]] electronic monitoring systems, and ordered a compliance audit. The audit reported back to Dir. Rogers on the violations of American citizens' [[Fourth Amendment]] rights, and Dir. Rogers cut off the FBI contractors' access.-->After FusionGPS was hired by the [[2016 Clinton campaign]] in April 2016 and shut out from access by the FISA Compliance Audit, FusionGPS and the [[DOJ]] needed a work around for continued access to FISA information in order to spy on the [[2016 Trump campaign|Trump campaign]]. Nellie could use her husband, Obama Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]]’s high level DOJ access to continue gathering FISA-702 data.<ref>Nellie and Bruce Ohr and Fudion founder [[Glenn Simpson]] collaborated on other projects in the past. [https://t.co/u5HPgJwvWd Expert Working Group Report on International Organized Crime, John T. Picarelli, Discussion Paper Document No.: 230846, National Institute of Justice, June 2010, p. 30 PDF. Published by the United States Dept. of Justice.]</ref> FISA 702 search may not, by law, ever be used to target American citizens; they may only be used to target non-citizens ''outside'' the [[United States]]. Even non-citizens ''inside'' the United States enjoy [[Fourth Amendment]] protections. FBI contractor access to the FISA database was cutoff for this reason - the Obama FBI under [[James Comey]] had violated the civil and constitutional rights of some 5,000 Americans with by committing illegal FISA 702 searches beginning shortly ''after'' Donald Trump organized his national presidential campaign.
One such case was Trump attorney [[Michael Cohen]].
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