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[quote=Anonymous][quote].This means the wiretapping was authorized more than ten months ago and perhaps more than a year ago. It was presumably a tough decision for a judge to issue a secret warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enabling the administration to spy on someone connected with the presidential campaign of its political adversaries.[/quote]

This is spin. Manafort may not have been connected with the campaign anymore. And DID have ties to Russian interests in Ukraine. Maybe not such a tough decision.

[quote]One would presumably only approve such an order if the request presented by the executive branch was highly compelling and likely to produce evidence that the subject of the wiretap was in fact working with Russia to disrupt U.S. elections. Roughly a year later, as the public still waits for such evidence, this column wonders how this judge is feeling now, especially now that CNN has reported that at least two of its three sources believe the resulting evidence is inconclusive.
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Well we haven't seen the evidence, we don't know who CNN sources are, and we do know that three of them thought it was conclusive.  And the other two may not have seen all the evidence the judge had. So discounting the judgement of the judge, in favor of two (of five) unnamed sources, seems like a stretch to me.

[quote]One would also presume—or at least hope—that seeking to wiretap associates of the leader of the political opposition is not an everyday occurrence in any administration.[/quote]

One would hope that leading chanting crowds in calling for the imprisonment of a political opponent is not an everyday occurrence. Or attacking US allies, while praising adversaries.  Or meeting with reps of foreign powers to get info on an opponent.  Or calling on a foreign govt to share hacked info.   Lots of very unusual things happened in 2016.

[quote]At the very least, it seems highly unlikely that such a decision would be made by a mid-level official. [/quote]

Unless of course Comey was specifically trying to avoid having this turned into a political football, in precisely the way this WSJ editor is attempting to do.

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