Posted on 03/05/2017 8:17:15 AM PST by AJFavish
President Trump’s early Saturday morning tweeting has exploded to the forefront an uncovered scandal I’ve been talking about since early January (including in this weekend’s column): The fact that the Obama Justice Department and the FBI investigated associates of Donald Trump, and likely Trump himself, in the heat of the presidential campaign.
To summarize, reporting indicates that, prior to June 2016, the Obama Justice Department and FBI considered a criminal investigation of Trump associates, and perhaps Trump himself, based on concerns about connections to Russian financial institutions. Preliminary poking around indicated that there was nothing criminal involved. Rather than shut the case down, though, the Obama Justice Department converted it into a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). FISA allows the government, if it gets court permission, to conduct electronic surveillance (which could include wiretapping, monitoring of e-mail, and the like) against those it alleges are “agents of a foreign power.” FISA applications and the evidence garnered from them are classified – i.e., we would not know about any of this unless someone had leaked classified information to the media, a felony.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Diagram the sentences....What was said and not said.
Another exercise is the meaning of “is”.
Trump may have inadvertently been wire tapped....but he was not the target.
That's one clever little statement.
Who was the target in Watergate?
The Republican Party.
One of the side stories to all this is how it now seems like Trump has successfully brought Mark Levin and the National Review around to his side.
That’s not as big as the main story, but it’s still pretty Yuge in and of itself.
Hello, my FRiend. Check out my latest short YouTube clip about the future meeting to discuss this crime.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3531704/posts
There’s a reason Valerie Jarrett moved in with Obama....
If I may, the Watergate offices of the DNC. This is going to make that look like a tempest in a teacup. And I’m old enough to remember Watergate.
Well, Obama didn’t order it.
Where is that bus I ordered last month?
An important point McCarthy does not get into is this (from this link Yes, There Could Be Serious Legal Problems if Obama Admin Involved in Illegal Surveillance
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/yes-obama-could-be-prosecuted-if-involved-with-illegal-surveillance/ ):
That raises the third problem: it seems the FISA-compelled protocols for precluding the dissemination of the information were violated, and that Obama’s team issued orders to achieve precisely what the law forbids, if published reports are true about the administration sharing the surveilled information far-and-wide to promote unlawful leaks to the press. This, too, would be its own crime, as it brings back the ghost of Hillary’s emails — by definition, FISA information is strictly confidential or it’s information that never should have been gathered. FISA strictly segregates its surveilled information into two categories: highly confidential information of the most serious of crimes involving foreign acts of war; or, if not that, then information that should never have been gathered, should be immediately deleted, and never sourced nor disseminated. It cannot be both.
Recognizing this information did not fit FISA meant having to delete it and destroy it. According to published reports, Obama’s team did the opposite: order it preserved, ordered the NSA to search it, keep it, and share it; and then Obama’s Attorney General issued an order to allow broader sharing of information and, according to the New York Times, Obama aides acted to label the Trump information at a lower level of classification for massive-level sharing of the information. The problem for Obama is simple — if it could fit a lower level of classification, then it had to be deleted and destroyed, not disseminated and distributed, under crystal clear FISA law. Obama’s team’s admission it could be classified lower, yet taking actions to insure its broadest distribution, could even put Obama smack-middle of the biggest unlawful surveillance and political-opponent-smear campaign since Nixon. Except even Nixon didn’t use the FBI and NSA for his dirty tricks.
The ultimate or the initial act at The Watergate Hotel?
Initially, it was against the DNC performed by the “Plumbers” in response to Nixon’s paranoia.
Krauthammer thinks it's not the Deep State it's Deep State losers... I suspect it's worse... Clapper's not a loser - - which calls up uncomfortable questions.
EU calls for US wiretapping to ‘stop immediately’
http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/eu-calls-for-us-wiretapping-to-stop-immediately/
Forgot link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3531700/posts?page=3
I don’t think there is any question that the former president was intent on leaving behind landmines. And you are right, the NSA stuff is curious. Normally, when NSA is listening in on a foreigner, they take great care to redact any American involved. The NSA is not supposed to spy on Americans. Here it was the reverse, and there was an obvious attempt as was reported in the New York Times to make sure that this was spread as widely as possible, that it would become a problem for the Trump administration. I wouldn’t call it the “deep state,” it gives it a le Carré feel that there is this ominous enemy of the United States hidden in bureaucracy. What this is, is the revenge of the losers.
Unsubstantiated and unproven, they say.
Everyone has a microphone in everyone’s Wheaties
I know Levin has been a sore loser, He deserves a good smack-down. But he is ultimately a patriot. We are going to need men like him.
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