{"id":1613554,"date":"2022-08-18T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1613554"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:42:37","slug":"part-of-the-abuse-rand-paul-condemns-fbi-for-surveilling-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/part-of-the-abuse-rand-paul-condemns-fbi-for-surveilling-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Part Of The Abuse\u2019: Rand Paul Condemns FBI For Surveilling Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpart-of-the-abuse-rand-paul-condemns-fbi-for-surveilling-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1613554&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DCNF-Rand-Paul-FBI-Surveillance-Featured.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky lambasted FBI Director Christopher Wray about surveilling Americans during a Thursday Fox News appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the Democratic republic like we have is allowing dissent and having discussion over government behavior,\u201d Paul told the hosts of \u201cFox and Friends.\u201d \u201cSo, for example, Christopher Wray came to my committee and I asked him, is it appropriate, does it meet the constitutional standard to use a foreign intelligence warrant on a domestic politician such as Trump, on an American? And I indicated to him that I think it\u2019s a lower standard because a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant only requires probable cause of a connection to a foreign country or a foreign government, whereas the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution says probable cause of a crime. So I think a FISA warrant has a lower standard.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/15\/ratcliffe-trump-maralago-fbi-doj\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Enforcement Arm Of The Democratic Party\u2019: Former DNI Calls Out Partisanship In FBI, DOJ)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FBI obtained warrants under FISA to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/05\/carter-page-kevin-clinesmith-durham\/\">monitor<\/a> communications by Carter Page and other associates of former President Donald Trump during Trump\u2019s successful 2016 campaign for the White House. Special counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation led to an FBI lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/29\/kevin-clinesmith-sentencing-carter-page-john-durham\/\">pleading guilty<\/a> to charges stemming from altering documents used to obtain the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristopher Wray\u2019s response to me \u2014 and this is the current head of the FBI \u2014 was, it\u2019s no big deal,\u201d Paul continued. \u201cHe thinks it\u2019s fine to use FISA or foreign intelligence warrants on Americans, and a lot of people think that\u2019s true. I don\u2019t, but this is part of the abuse. But this is part of the same people who are still running the FBI. They have a different understanding, maybe, of what they think the FBI can and cannot do and how it should be used on Americans, but I\u2019m going to require proof that there was actually some sort of probable cause of a crime, and I\u2019m suspicious that there was not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky lambasted FBI Director Christopher Wray about surveilling Americans during a Thursday Fox News appearance.\u201cPart of the Democratic republic like we have is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}