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Sorry, Democrats, The Obama Spying Scandal Isn’t Going Away
The Federalist ^ | 04/07/2017 | Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 04/08/2017 2:33:41 PM PDT by MaxistheBest

Devin Nunes stepped away from the Russia probe. But he's still investigating the Obama administration's leak campaign against the Trump administration. -----------------------------------------------------

For one thing, stepping aside on the Russia inquiry isn’t as big of a deal now as it might have been months ago. That’s because the Russia investigation isn’t really going anywhere. On March 9, BuzzFeed reported that Democrats on the committee are worried that their base is expecting dramatic results that simply won’t be coming.

Even some Democrats on the Intelligence Committee now quietly admit, after several briefings and preliminary inquiries, they don’t expect to find evidence of active, informed collusion between the Trump campaign and known Russian intelligence operatives, though investigators have only just begun reviewing raw intelligence. Among the Intelligence Committee’s rank and file, there’s a tangible frustration over what one official called “wildly inflated” expectations surrounding the panel’s fledgling investigation.

“The Russia narrative has been a sensational marketing effort, but the investigation won’t live up to the hype,” Michael Sainato writes. Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept has a good rundown of the problems caused by Democrats hyping Russian conspiracy theories.

Democrats Quietly Caution Russian Investigation Won’t Meet Hysterical Expectations http://observer.com/2017/03/democrats-caution-russia-trump-investigation-wont-meet-expectations/

Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion https://theintercept.com/2017/03/16/key-democratic-officials-now-warning-base-not-to-expect-evidence-of-trumprussia-collusion/

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But Rep. Nunes will continue to dig into the potentially improper handling of information collected on Trump associates. And now he’ll have more time to do so. Those who watched him investigating previous intelligence problems know he is like a dog with a bone when it comes to getting to the bottom of wrongdoing.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: intelligence; russia; russiaisademruse; surveillance; trump; trumpwiretaps; wiretapping

1 posted on 04/08/2017 2:33:41 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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Democrats Quietly Caution Russian Investigation Won’t Meet Hysterical Expectations http://observer.com/2017/03/democrats-caution-russia-trump-investigation-wont-meet-expectations/


2 posted on 04/08/2017 2:34:11 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion https://theintercept.com/2017/03/16/key-democratic-officials-now-warning-base-not-to-expect-evidence-of-trumprussia-collusion/


3 posted on 04/08/2017 2:34:28 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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Not what they want, ah hell no! We need rioting in the streets major temper tantrums all across the country are coming! Throw the babies a pacifier! /s


4 posted on 04/08/2017 2:43:57 PM PDT by zaxtres
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The Russia collusion is 100% crap - All #fakenews!

5 posted on 04/08/2017 2:47:37 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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Bump!


6 posted on 04/08/2017 2:52:46 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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The real collusion was between Hillary, Bill, The Clinton Foundation and Russia. Then there was Obama whispering to the Russian President, “After the elections, I will have more flexibility” to meet your needs.
7 posted on 04/08/2017 2:55:46 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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The whole Russian thing was a lie from start to finish. A lie to cover the RATS criminal spying on Americans for political gain. Were any conversations or people outed from Hillary’s side that talked with the Russians? Kind of odd seeing as how she could sell 20% of American Uranium to Russia with big pay to play bonuses to the Clinton foundation syndicate without any conversations revealed from that. Amazing how one sided this has become has it not?


8 posted on 04/08/2017 2:57:57 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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though investigators have only just begun r̶e̶v̶i̶e̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ attempting to manipulate raw intelligence.
9 posted on 04/08/2017 2:58:03 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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though investigators have only just begun reviewing raw intelligence

Huh ? What more is there ? this has been looked at 6 different ways from Sunday ...and bupkus !
and the Intelligence Committee is going to go down this path anew ?
10 posted on 04/08/2017 3:01:50 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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Isn’t Trump’s Syria attack the end of the Russian fake news story? It was a direct challenge to the Russians and their Assad ally.


11 posted on 04/08/2017 3:05:05 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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This whole thing has got to be serious. Especially the Susan Rice thing. We all know in office and now out Barky Obama couldn't keep his trap shut or his face away from a camera for a day. But since Susan Rice has come to the fore he's invisible. He's dropped off the planet. Rice is in trouble and she knows it. Obama knows it too. He knows that if they put the screws to Rice she's going to start talking and dropping the dime on him is the only card she can play and he has GOT to nervous about that.
12 posted on 04/08/2017 3:19:21 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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“Rice is in trouble and she knows it. Obama knows it too.”

Yup...Team Kenyan got wind of this months ago, so he ran away like the **ssy he really is. And when has the MSM gone a month without mentioning what the Kenyan and his skank wife is doing?


13 posted on 04/08/2017 3:23:13 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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Today I saw someone suggest that Russia was behind the chemical attack in Syria to enable President Trump to look good. Unbelievable what they will come up with to make up a Trump/Russia connection.


14 posted on 04/08/2017 3:34:42 PM PDT by Mare
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Isn't this something though? That little pissant would go on all day and night lecturing all of us on everything under the sun. Telling us all how racist, homopohbic yada yada we all were and how wonderful he was. Why to listen to the little pipsqueak you'd think he believed he could walk on water. Now all of a sudden his seems to have shut his yap and went to ground somewhere. Good. Hallelujah. I hope he stays there.
15 posted on 04/08/2017 3:37:25 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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That the facts cut against the narrative is no harm to the narrative. Trayvon Martin is still considered a “victim,” and the “Trump/Russia Connection” can be similarly kept alive, forever.


16 posted on 04/08/2017 3:39:08 PM PDT by Cboldt
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“Trump/Russia Connection” can be similarly kept alive, forever.”

I have an idea that President Trump has a few surprises for us along these lines!!


17 posted on 04/08/2017 4:00:28 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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Obama did the surveillance and knew he would be in deep doodoo if it came out.

Trump might have known about it and ignored it but for the Russia BS story.

I have started to wonder if Obama, although not very smart, figures if Hitlery had left the Russia thing alone Trump might leave the illegal spying alone.

So Obama might be there on the island tell his gay friends,”That dumb, dumb .itch. If had let it go, Trump might have let it go.”

He probably says that all the time, dumb, dumb .itch.


18 posted on 04/08/2017 6:28:52 PM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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I guess I am not following the news as closely as I
thought. When I heard that Devin Nunes had recused
himself from the election interference investigation
by the Russians I thought it was a big Democrat victory.
Instead, Nunes gets to rid himself of the biggest
nothingburger since hope and change while focusing on
the real crime of Dem’rats spying on the Trump
transition team. Sounds good to me.


19 posted on 04/08/2017 6:49:02 PM PDT by Sivad (The Federalist #46 = Second Amendment)
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