Posted on 05/26/2018 10:58:56 AM PDT by John Semmens
NBC, a mainstream media ally of the government intelligence conspiracy to undermine the Trump campaign and administration, has labeled the president’s characterization of this covert operation as “spying” as FALSE. In an interview on The View, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper explained that “we weren’t spying on Trump. We were spying on the Russians.”
“Look it’s not as if the Obama Administration’s practice of using covert methods to gather useful intelligence from a political campaign was unprecedented,” Clapper said. “LBJ used federal agents to secretly intercept communications inside the Goldwater campaign. And, of course, Nixon had his henchmen break into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate to access confidential files and tap the phones of the McGovern campaign. The important issue is the motivation for these extralegal actions. Remember, the sitting president has a responsibility to protect the nation from domestic, as well as foreign, enemies. Clearly, the threats posed by Goldwater and Trump necessitated this precaution.”
CNN’s Chris Cillizza called Trump’s accusation of spying “the type of baldfaced lie we’ve grown to expect from Trump’s ‘bull-in-a-china shop’ approach to discussing political issues. These undercover agents were inserted as ‘informants’ not ‘spies.’ Their role was to ensure that there was no collusion between Trump and the Russians. And as the Mueller investigation has thus far shown, they apparently were successful. There is no evidence of collusion. Rather than being thankful that the FBI went the extra mile to protect him, Trump now churlishly complains about it. In my mind, ingratitude like this ought to inspire Congress to move ahead with impeachment. It may not be a ‘high crime,’ per se, but it is outside the boundaries that have been respected by previous presidents.”
Meanwhile, Obama’s first Attorney General, Eric Holder, urged his former employees at the Justice Department to disregard Trump’s instructions to disclose information related to the spy operation launched in 2016 to members of Congress. Holder admitted that “legally, Trump is your boss, but sometimes duty requires a higher loyalty. In this case, your loyalty belongs to the department. Remember it is the Department of Justice, not the Department of Law Enforcement or the Department of Constitutionally Constrained Powers. The fate of government as we know it hangs in the balance. You must choose which side—good or evil—that you want to be on.”
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Always pay particular attention to what these gov deep state holes say. See the fbi does not run “spies” they run informants. Mueller says not a target which is NOT the same as saying he will not be prosecuted. They are the masters of obfuscation by lexicon.
Clapper is referencing the last two Presidents to resign from office... And he’s oddly justifying the criminal activities of the Obama administration, by pointing out previous criminal activities carried out during the Nixon and Johnston administrations.
It’s really quite bizarre and somebody should point out to Clapper that G. Gordon Liddy went to jail... And he may be going to one in the near future, unless he wants to cough up the goods on who ordered whom to do this political spying using government agencies and taxpayers money.
The media can twist it any way they like, but the Obama administration spied on his and Hillary’s political enemies and Trump is not likely the only one they spied on. Bernie’s campaign was also likely targeted.
Anyone who gets into an organization that they were not a part of and reports what that organization does to any other organization, be it business, gov. etc. is a a DAMN SPY.
What part of that does the liberal media fail to understand?
The Gov swamp clowns want to call them informants. If you placed the clown in an organization to report to about that organizations anything they are a DAMN SPY.
Holder... “You must choose which side—good or evil—that you want to be on.”... This sort of vitriol is bordering on insanity. If there is any evil, it lies within people such as Holder, Hillary and Obama who think they continue to run the government even after they become private citizens.
Their use of government resources for their personal protection and enrichment is beyond criminal, it’s treasonous
NPR is going to great lengths to insist that an informant is not a spy. NPR does not deny that the FBI had at least 3 informants in the Trump campaign.
The Orwellian nature of arguing over the meaning of a word cannot be lost on those who listen to NPR.
I think an informant is a spy if they’re planted with the intent to “inform”. That’s spying, jackasses.
This is so indicative of leftist thinking, John.
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