Posted on 05/12/2017 1:22:39 PM PDT by markomalley
I missed nothing, having initially understood you perfectly well.
They were "associated with" having been vacuumed up by some federal agency snooping on everyone.
I thought the claim was there were X-number (900 million) records of phone calls on the 47 hard drives.
Still trying to put words to that effect (that somebody read them all) into whoever's mouth? It was not asserted by anyone that they had read all the emails, or simply the logs of who called who, (or had counted them by hand, etc).
There are database management/search tools sold over-the-counter that could find the names of politicians among the 900 million haystack.
Although there could be reasons to suspect this whistle-blower story, the ones you have raised are made of nothingburger (with cheese?).
This guy showed me 900 million phone calls. And I see myself in there. I see people I know. I see Donald Trump in there a zillion times, and Bloomberg is in there,” Blixseth said on the tape, referring to information that Montgomery allegedly showed him.
So, as you can see, he claims he was shown 900 million phone calls, and that he reviewed those 900 million phone calls enough to see his own name, see other people he knew, see Trump a zillion times. And the article then calls this "information that Montgomery allegedly showed him".
It is possible that what he meant was he was given access to a database, and he could search for his name, and saw entries with his name, and he searched for Trump, and saw entries with Trumps name.
But that is a different thing than saying you were "shown 900 million phone calls".
And clearly the guy was exaggerating. Unless you are also trying to insist that he actually saw Trump's name "a zillion times", which isn't even really a number.
You are seeing things that are not there based upoj your own assumptions of what he was talking about, and intending to mean. For all we know, he could have been shown 47 hard drives, and told there were 900 million calls registered on those drives, and then shown partial listings derived from those hard drives that had been sorted by name.
He still did not claim that he had reviewed all the phone calls. I provided hints as to how data could possibly be searched. It's not known if something along those lies was used, or not.
Attack the man's credibility using something other than your own assumptions that go; if they said "this" then it means "this other". You've been arguing from basis of your own if this/then that assumptions. But keep talking, if you must. I'll just ignore it from here on.
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You are welcome to read something else into the clear quotes from the tape. As I said, maybe he did not mean “This guy showed me 900 million phone calls”. Maybe he didn’t mean “I see”, maybe he was just being funny when he said “I see Donald Trump in there a zillion times”
But for now, I’m going to take him more literally then you are, and assume that this story really needs some credible evidence to be believable.
I think the reason behind the Russian investigation is to protect the clinton’s involvement whenever they were in office. During the clinton administration China received missile technology information. While Sec of State, hillary sold American uranium to Russia. Nothing has been done to either, yet the FBI, CIA and media are investigating the heck out of Russian’s involvement in the 2016 campaign, involving President Trump.
Please remove me from the MAGA list.
Any good guys/gals...
Therein lies the rub: There do not seem to be any patriots with courage left in the IC.
Any good guys/gals...
in the FBI
posted on 5/12/2017, 1:29:20 PM
“Therein lies the rub: There do not seem to be any patriots with courage left in the IC.”
I posted my reply on 5/12, 3 months ago, and no good guys or gals in the FBI have shown up, that we know about.
This is a sad note on the lack integrity in the FBI
Things may be different now with a new FBI director ...
Lets hope so.
When organizations are rotten from the very top, that rot often goes down to every level.
When that happens, often those organizations can not be saved.
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