This is what I see when I click your link:
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I really didnât. Russiaâs not a threat to me. I still call them the KGB.
So you got this information from Russians? What about Helsinki?
âCovertâ appears in an online dictionary as ânot openly acknowledged or displayedâ. Was Crossfire Hurricane openly publish and acknowledged as it happened or was it done covertly?
Perhaps there was a reference to âcovert in the sense as defined by the Hughes-Ryan Amendmentâ, but if so, I missed it.
And thatâs why youâre not allowed to use dictionary definitions as sources in academic papers.
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FBI brought Page in 2013 because the though he might be a Russian asset, but they cleared him because he wasnât that smart.
I like how no one is talking about FBI bais against Hillary Clinton when they leaked their investigation to Trump private lawyer.
Covert is a word in the English language. Its use in a particular amendment does not erase its common usage.
What, you never use words that are in the dictionary?
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Did you read the OP?
The Hughes-Ryan Amendment is the law that requires a âPresidential findingâ in the case of covert operations.
Can I just dead this real quick? A presidential finding or memorandum of notification is sent to the intelligence committees in Congress when the president orders the CIA to undertake covert action as statutorily authorized in the National Security Act of 1947. It has nothing to do with the FBI.
Good? Good.
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and no such thing exist because this was done by the FBI and wasnât a covert investigation.
âCovertâ, in the context of the law that is the topic of this thread, has a very specific legal meaning.
Something like Iran-Contra would be Covert or trying to overthrow the Cuban government.
You know something the government can deny because it doesnât exist on the books.
Interestingly enough, in the last 30 years or so, the Supreme Court has cited dictionary definitions in an increasing number of statutory interpretation cases.
Page was the original target and the FBI cleared him because the Russians said he was stupid?
That was in 2013 when the FBI broke up a Russian spy ring, Page was brought in to the FBI for questioning because they though he was a Russian asset, but cleared him because he wasnât so bright and they learned it didnât know he was talking with Russian intelligence.
Flash forward to 2016 Page is the a key adviser to a Presidential nominee.
I can understand why some at the FBI might be like âWait is this dude still talking with the Russiansâ
It has in the past.
Why did you add words that arenât actually in the entry itself
Covert operation overseas by the CIA. Was that the reference for the use of the word âcovertâ here?
A Presidential approval for overseas operations?
They may have given it a term of art for that purpose, but the word âcovertâ existed before that amendment and will exist after.
do you think Obama personal ordered this investigation? which is the claim in the OP and the reason for the use of the term covert.
President and Key members of Congress are the only ones who know of covert operations.
