Posted on 05/25/2018 6:01:37 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
An American POTUS can LEGALLY authorize electronic surveillance 'without a court order...to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year’.
Yes, it's true. Obama had legal authorization to by-pass the normal court vetting process. 4. Such power lies in 50 U.S. Code § 1802 -
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followup to comment #54. BBC doesn’t even have the following in its search results for Stefan Halper.
this is the interview - which appears to be lengthy according to the running order - for which real journalists and lawyers representing anyone being hounded by Mueller needs to request FULL TRANSCRIPT AND AUDIO from the BBC:
BBC Radio 4 Today Progam: 18/05/2017
(AUDIO NO LONGER AVAILABLE)
Today’s running order
0750
Former FBI boss Robert Mueller has been named special counsel to oversee an inquiry into Russia’s alleged interference in the US election. Professor Stefan Halper was a White House official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations and is now director of American studies at the department of politics, University of Cambridge.
0810
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q317m
note date for the above is 18 May, not 17th or 19th as reported by some websites, who carried the following short excerpt from the longer interview.
AUDIO: 1:07: 18 May 2017: BBC: Ex-Nixon official: ‘This is moving towards Watergate’
A White House official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations has said there is “a sense” the controversy surrounding President Trump is “moving in the direction” of the 1974 Watergate scandal.
Speaking on the Today programme, Stefan Halper also questioned the coherence and focus of the leadership.
“People who are briefing President Trump say he has a short attention span. They’ve taken to including his name in each paragraph so he is drawn to continue reading the memoranda,” he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0538l7m
I feel there is plenty to be learned from the full interview with BBC. BBC must release the full transcript and audio now.
Nice!
IMHO, Hillary put all kinds of classified info up on that homebrew server of hers, unencrypted, so any entity anywhere could access it carte blanche; and then send $$$$ to the Clinton Crime Family Slushfund.
Fiendishly clever, until Trump won the election.
Seems like amazing insight into how foreign intelligence really works; indirect, friendly, step-by-step, with some unrelated professional shared interest. And payment to Halper from what looks like black ops budget in the Defense Department.
If intelligence services wanted to keep this kind of stuff under wraps, they shouldn’t have unleashed it for domestic political purposes.
This is war, and backing away from war because there might be casualties on one’s own side is almost always suicidal.
Post/thread BUMP!
Someone does.
After five decades of obfuscating presidents, Trump was the one who released the information on JFK...which showed he had been shot from two directions.
Obama and Jarrett will be in a race to give up the other, if they haven’t already. Huber.
Link?
Not really. This fear is what sustains much idiocy.
They...the traitors and seditionists... mainly fear they will hang.
I hope you’re right.
MSM articles still paint a picture of BO basking in glowing adulation wherever he goes.
The comments on the articles are the most important part (OK, given that they may be censored).
Let’s see when the public stops loving him, or when the MSM finds it can’t fake his popularity anymore.
That would certainly explain why the deep state will not release the details of what started the investigation and any of the documents filed with the FISC court.
“I think everyone with an IQ above room temperature knows Obama did this. The real question is, does anyone have the stomach to do something about it?”
There’s going to have to be a helluva smoking gun. I think that’s why things are moving slowly. We only get one shot at this.
Let them burn. The country will move on
“An American POTUS can LEGALLY authorize electronic surveillance ‘without a court order... “
Yes, and they’ve muddied the intelligence trail just enough that it’s justifiable and nothing will happen.
Go back and look at the threads from the time. It wasn’t hard to find, it was in the autopsy.
I do t remember exactly when or who but we had something posted here last year - maybe it was Sundance that stated this : that Obama knew that the ‘legal’ way to go about this was via MI6/GCHQ as 5-Eyes because that would give cover spying on Trump. That’s what Rodgers found out and why MI6 guy quit day after Trump sworn in.
Every major city huh?Lets build walls around them now and them have at it.I can promise you they wouldnt try that crap in rural America.Not long anyway.
You, sir, summed it up in a nutshell.
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