What happened and why...

[Jolly]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/20/before_november_america_must_know_more_about_trump-russia_probe_143251.html

[George K]

Kass-errific.

[Improviso]

As Jolly posted in another thread.

So...If there is no FISA warrant, there is only ONE person in government who can do this surveillance legally.

According to the FISA Rules and Regs ..... There is only one person that can order "Electronic Surveillance" without a warrant ..... As stated .... "...
The President may authorize, through the Attorney General, electronic surveillance without a court order for the period of one year."

He's by no means off the hook.

[George K]

@Improviso said in What happened and why...:

As Jolly posted in another thread.

So...If there is no FISA warrant, there is only ONE person in government who can do this surveillance legally.

Unless, as McCarthy wrote a few days ago, there was a "friendly nation" which did the surveillance, with a "wink and a nod" from the US.