Gathering evidence has never been easier than it is now. So much is created so easily and so often. And there are so many access points for law enforcement. Sure, a few outliers (and outright liars [cough] Chris Wray [cough]) may claim everything is "going dark," but never before in history have there been this…
documents from michael cohen s home, office andmh? hotel room was living in, and a safety deposit box he maintained. for several hours today, we thought federal agents and prosecutors received authorization to surveil his actual live phone calls, to listen in on wiretap lines. nbc later corrected that story and said the kind of phone warrant prosecutors got wasn t that high level. it was the kind of warrant that tells you in real time what calls are going into and out from the surveilled phone, but it s not the kind of wiretap order that would let them listen in in real time. so, that all happened today in terms of what the federal government, what prosecutors have, in terms of access to information and documentation and communications from michael cohen. but now, on top of all that, we ve got this new explanation from the president s lawyer, giuliani, as to how exactly things work between president trump and this lawyer, michael cohen.
ni michael cohen s home, office and a safety deposit box he maintained. we thought agents and prosecutors received authorization to surveil his actual live phone calls to listen in on wiretap lines. nbc corrected that story and said the kind of phone warrant prosecutors got wasn t that high level. it was the kind of warrant that tells you in realtime what calls are going into and out from the surveilled phone but it s not the wiretap order that would let them listen in in realtime. that all happened today in terms of what the federal government, what prosecutors have in terms of access to information and documentation and communications from michael cohen. now, on top of all that we have this new explanation from the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, as to how exactly things work between president trump and this lawyer, michael
justice department for in its application for this wiretap order, which was granted, using information from christopher steele, that was opposition research financed by democrats, without adequately explaining to the judge that chris steele was being financed by the campaigned an the dnc. one of the things that supposedly is so misleading about this is that there was all kinds of evidence from all kinds of sources woven together in this application of which this was a single thread. but supposedly the memo focuses on it as if that was it. they just used this one thing and but for that there wouldn t have been a wiretap order. the catch-22 is that the fbi cannot and the justice department cannot talk about all that other stuff to defend itself, to show this was just one thing among many, not the pivotal thing. because to talk about the other stuff would blow all these other intelligence sources the government has for keeping track
to been a judge or the pfizer court approving the wiretap order, correct? by law that is exactly what happens. at the request goes to fisa courts. that is sold top secret. nobody knows where it is in washington, d.c. but they would put the request in, and they would have to be substantial evidence to get to that point that a judge would then say, yes, go ahead and do it. we should point out by the time that you get the request for the foreign intelligence surveillance act court, most times i think it is only .1% or something that get turned down, so you would wonder whether or not they went forward. we do not know the specifics of whether it happened or did not. and we are trying to get to the bottom of it. you know that you have various people saying that some investigation happens, and clearly over the past couple of months there have been many stories that have cited anonymous officials about the