Former NSA Lawyer on Laura Ingrahams Spying Theory: I Dont Think Ive Ever Heard a More Uninformed Conversation About Intel – Law & Crime

Fox News opinion host Laura Ingraham on Friday suggested that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff(D-N.Y.) abused his power by working with the National Security Agency (NSA) to obtain Rep. Devin Nuness(R-Calif.) phone records. Ingraham was immediately contradicted by a former NSA attorney who said the hosts allegations were so uninformed that it was honestly astonishing.

The Ingraham Angle segment centered on the House Intel Panels Impeachment Report, which contained phone records showing Rep. Nunes phone contacts with the Rudy Giuliani and Giulianis recently indicted business associateLev Parnas. Ingraham and her guest, Sara Carter, both claimed to have heard from a knowledgeable source that Schiff obtained Nuness records with the help of the NSA.

Carter has reportedly been barred from appearing on Fox Newss hard news shows because her reporting is not vetted, and passes none of the networks editorial guidelines.

A knowledgeable source tells the Ingraham Angle tonight that not only did Schiff get dirt from the secret subpoenas that he sent to phone companies, he also got help from the NSA. All Americans should be shocked by this and more, and demand a full and immediate investigation, Ingraham said.

Ive heard the same, Carter said, before launching into a diatribe against the Obama administration for expanding the NSAs spying program.

Former NSA attorney and current CNN legal analyst Susan Hennessey immediately responded that the entire exchange had absolutely no basis in reality.

Hi, former NSA lawyer here. This is not how it works. At all, Hennessey wrote in response to the segment. Its not how the law works. Its not how NSA works. Its not how phone records work. Thats all. Have a good evening.

But Hennessey wasnt done. She called this an unintelligence mess of people who dont understand [Executive Order] 12333, FISA, Title III, ECPA, Gates Procedures, contact chainingor honestly anything.

Hennessey concluded that Ingrahams segment was one of the most uninformed conversations she had ever heard.

Its honestly astonishing. I dont think Ive ever heard a more uninformed conversation about NSA or intelligence collection in my life. And I once had a relative corner me a wedding to say NSA was blackmailing John McCain into supporting immigration reform SO THE BAR IS REAL LOW, she wrote.

In response to questions about how the panel obtained Nuness records, Patrick Boland, the top spokesman for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, told The Daily Beaston Thursday that congressional investigators did not subpoena call records for any member of Congress or their staff. The report itself indicates that Nunes was picked up incidentally in the records of Giuliani and Parnas when AT&T call logs were subpoenaed.

National Security attorney Bradley Moss also weighed in on Ingraham-Carter segment, calling it delusional and pathetic.

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Former NSA Lawyer on Laura Ingrahams Spying Theory: I Dont Think Ive Ever Heard a More Uninformed Conversation About Intel - Law & Crime

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