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Breaking: Lynch Ordered Manafort’s Phone Tapped During Veselnitskaya Meeting

I'm not sure about the source for this but there are at least two interesting tidbits here, one which does not appear to be getting any attention.  The first is that the tapping may have been illegal.  The second is that others involved in the campaign could have participated via conference call.  Others?  The "others" could be really big news.

Accusations have arisen that the meeting was part of a wider setup to achieve a FISA warrant to wiretap phones of the Trump campaign during 2016. President Trump himself has accused the FBI under Loretta Lynch of wiretapping his campaign.

Now, a former Trump campaign official reports that Paul Manafort’s phone was subject to FISA wiretap during the infamous meeting.

If true, this FISA warrant would have been carried out under Loretta Lynch, Attorney General to Barack Obama. Former FBI Director James Comey has testified under oath to instances of collusion between AG Lynch and the Clinton campaign during 2016, as well as obstruction of justice in the Clinton investigation. . . 

FISA transcripts of the meeting in June 2016 may have also served the basis of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, now headed by Bob Mueller.

Other senior members of the Trump campaign may have participated in the meeting via conference call.

Update: This would have been illegal, as FISA court denied Obama’s June 2016 request.

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