Trump’s FISA tweets throw Washington into chaos
Clinton News Network ^ | Updated 7:07 PM ET, Thu January 11, 2018 | Kevin Liptak, Jamie Gangel and Deirdre Walsh
Posted on 1/11/2018, 10:47:16 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump’s sunrise tweet casting aspersions on the domestic surveillance program his own intelligence officials have called essential set off a thunderclap of concern in Washington — and underscored the pitfalls of the President’s morning television tweet-alongs.
Phones at the White House began ringing almost immediately after Trump wrote at 7:33 a.m. ET that the FISA program up for reauthorization in the House on Thursday may have been used to “badly surveil” his campaign.
On the blinking lines: Republican lawmakers and top intelligence officials perplexed that Trump had appeared to contradict more than a week of
public statements from the administration in support of the reauthorization, which allows the government to conduct warrantless spying on US soil.
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