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Comey Asks Justice Dept. to Reject Trump’s Wiretapping Claim
New York Times ^ | March 5th 2017 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Posted on 03/05/2017 1:50:03 PM PST by MadIsh32

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To: AndyJackson

Yes Nixon had no knowledge of the Water Gate break in. Absolutely none. They wanted him to resign because it was his campaign!!


101 posted on 03/05/2017 2:16:27 PM PST by WENDLE (Watch this on John McCain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0mHEJyC3Y)
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To: MadIsh32
Trump kept Comey on. I wonder if he knew something before doing that? I wonder if he was setting the stage for all of this?

If so, then he knew that Comey would, at some time, be smoked out and commit himself to whom he has allegiance.

If this is true about Comey, then his allegiance is to the Clinton's and not to the United States and its citizens.

102 posted on 03/05/2017 2:16:49 PM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: MadIsh32; WMarshal; Professional; teletech; MNDude; Celtic Conservative; piytar; Nifster; ...
James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.

Mr. Comey made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter. Mr. Comey has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down Mr. Trump’s claim because there is no evidence to support it and it insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.

A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment. Sarah Isgur Flores, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department, also declined to comment.

Remember, this is "what the meaning of 'is,' is." Bunch.

Comey is NOT quoted.

Unnamed sources do NOT quote Comey.

According to unnamed sources, the statement by Trump "needs to be corrected." Not withdrawn, corrected. (Comey may, or may not have even said it, but if he did, the existence of a "wiretap" is probably technically untrue, and should be corrected to "surveillance.")

Spokesmen for the FBI do NOT verify the story.

Spokesmen for the DOJ do NOT verify the story.

This is The New York Times. It's BS, and doesn't make a single verifiable statement.

103 posted on 03/05/2017 2:16:55 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: blueplum

Good Q. I tell ya, the way to make Breaking News happen is go tend the BBQ and manicure landscaping for 20mins.


104 posted on 03/05/2017 2:17:17 PM PST by txhurl
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To: piasa

So if it was Lynch, was Lynch giving the order unlawfully on behalf of Clinton, whom she met on the tarmac, or on behalf of her boss Obama?


105 posted on 03/05/2017 2:17:20 PM PST by piasa
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To: MadIsh32
...because there is no evidence to support it and it insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said

Trump didn't say it was the FBI, and who says it would have been illegal if there allegedly was actual "probable cause" as some claim?

This story doesn't even make sense. Sounds like bar talk from some pissed off Obama low-level jackass spouting BS to their reporter friend at the country club Saturday night.

106 posted on 03/05/2017 2:17:24 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: MadIsh32

Clapper (a known liar) said the FBI had never even sought a FISA request.. that he would know about it if they had.

But, he ALSO said... “there are other agencies that have the authority to request such”.

Really? Like who? CIA? Did this all come through Brennan? Or are there other agencies...?


107 posted on 03/05/2017 2:18:24 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: madison10

YEP


108 posted on 03/05/2017 2:19:17 PM PST by easternsky
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To: Georgia Girl 2; All

Maybe Comey is still there because he played the side of the street that helped Trump win. Maybe it will turn out that any wiretap was a private illegal tap and conducted by anyone ranging from the Dems. to the Russians.


109 posted on 03/05/2017 2:19:45 PM PST by gleeaikin (question authority!)
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To: MadIsh32

This SUMBITCH NEEDS TO GO — NOW!!!


110 posted on 03/05/2017 2:19:47 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. DIDN'T WE IMPRISON TOKYO ROSE???)
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To: Fantasywriter

>>>. Why does any conservative still post Fake News? <<<<

Why I don’t mind .......
So I can follow the narrative of the left, read good comments by conservatives, find humor in the lefts idiocy, see other links and comments provided by FReepers that effectively refute leftist articles, stay sharp on both sides of a subject and If a leftist website tracks where the reader linked from they know the reader originated from a Conservative site.

The better you know your enemy the better chance you have at defeating them FRiend


111 posted on 03/05/2017 2:19:58 PM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOS / PC guy forever and always e)
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To: AndyJackson

All I know, is there better had damn well been a wire tap.

I agree that Obama is complicit if it came from his people. It’s just that I’m not so sure it was wise to give the RATS an out early on by stating it was Obama that actually ordered it personally.

So rather than tying Obama to the tap by proxy after it is proven the tap was political, Trump has made whatever involvement Obama will ultimately be shown to have had spun in a less malevolent light by the press.


112 posted on 03/05/2017 2:20:05 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: dila813
That is what Ed Klein has been saying all along about Comey. It's nothing new; according to him Comey has always been upset about the possibility that Hillary®! would skate completely on the serious national security issue of keeping an unsecured server.

So this isn't new. It's just what Klein has always believed. He has no more reason to believe it now than he did in the book he published before Comey gave PIAPS a pass over the summer.

113 posted on 03/05/2017 2:20:21 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

It’s hard to imagine that at 6:30 AM on a Saturday, Trump decided to post that tweet with nothing to back it up. It’s too explosive a statement without concrete proof.


114 posted on 03/05/2017 2:20:41 PM PST by surrey
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To: MadIsh32

Why exactly is Mr. Comey still employed?


115 posted on 03/05/2017 2:21:08 PM PST by VideoPaul
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To: Syncro

You have it completely backwards. Lynch ran the show. So did Holder. There is no question whatsoever on that score.


116 posted on 03/05/2017 2:21:59 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: LS

I’m thinking Trump has worked a deal with Comey. “Help me roll your rat nest up and I grant you immunity from prosecution”.


117 posted on 03/05/2017 2:24:38 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: phoneman08

“This is not good folks.
Trump probably overreached by saying Obama ordered the tap.”

Baloney, Obama weaponized every agency, they all worked at his behest.


118 posted on 03/05/2017 2:25:24 PM PST by heights
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To: MadIsh32

I have a feeling U.S Military intelligence is going to get involved under Trumps orders.


119 posted on 03/05/2017 2:25:56 PM PST by Fhios
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To: FredZarguna

He is saying he has sources, he claims it isn’t a theory and is a fact.

I guess the White House Visitor Logs will confirm if true.

Mysteriously “Visitor Access Records
This page is being updated. It will post records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis, once they become available.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records


120 posted on 03/05/2017 2:26:04 PM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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