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Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman (BREAKING!!!)
CNN.com ^ | September 18, 2017 | Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz and Pamela Brown

Posted on 09/18/2017 4:26:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Washington (CNN)US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

Some of the intelligence collected includes communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the investigation. Two of these sources, however, cautioned that the evidence is not conclusive.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cultureofcorruption; donaldtrump; eavesdropping; electionsurveillance; howtostealanelection; manafort; manafortwiretapped; muellerinvestigation; obama; obamaswatergate; paulmanafort; spying; trump; trump2016campaign; trumprussia; trumpwiretapped; trumpwiretaps; tyranny; wiretap; wiretapping
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To: Red Steel

Yes, it’s painfully obvious James Comey is a Swamp Creature.

There were enough folks at the FBI that made it so he had to pretend to “investigate” Hillary.

But his Obama love bleeds right on through.


101 posted on 09/18/2017 5:20:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: blueunicorn6

Unless they are ALL locked up, our nation can not be healed and restored.

LOCK THEM ALL UP.


102 posted on 09/18/2017 5:21:07 PM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Roccus
Integrity is what you do when no one is looking......not what you don’t do when everybody is looking.

Integrity is also doing the right thing, when the establishment, Big Media, the Democrats and the RINOs want you to do the wrong thing.

Sessions should show integrity and resign, and let Trump appoint an AG who doesn't feel the need to recuse himself.

103 posted on 09/18/2017 5:21:18 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: PJ-Comix

—Now being HEADLINED with big red letters on Drudge.—

That’s good, but I personally stopped using Drudge about 2 months ago. Someone owns Matt, couldn’t determine who, but he’s a paid, in the back pocket cuck.


104 posted on 09/18/2017 5:22:20 PM PDT by fastrock (It is never right to do wrong, even if sanctioned by law. - Abe Lincoln)
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To: PJ-Comix
Remember when Trump was mocked for claiming his campaign was wiretapped by the Obama administration?

He's a New York real estate developer with an international portfolio. They underestimate him at their own peril. You would not want to be anywhere near some of the people he's dealt with.

105 posted on 09/18/2017 5:22:36 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I remember it being reported at the time President Trump said he’d been wiretapped, that an office in Trump Tower, situated just three floors below his residence, had been wiretapped to listen in on a Russian organized crime ring that leased the space. That supposedly occurred between 2011-2013. The CNN video also said that Manafort has his residence in Trump Tower, and that the initial wiretapping of Manafort began in 2014, but was dropped for lack of evidence. Then they obtained a second FISA warrant to surveil Manafort, but they have no idea when they occurred. I hope we’ll one day be able to see exactly what bogus evidence the Obama Administration provided in order to get those warrants.


106 posted on 09/18/2017 5:23:19 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: OKSooner; null and void

The Reverend David Manning calls him “the Long-Legged Mack Daddy”.

In other news, if you haven’t seen this video of Big Mike, I hope you haven’t eaten dinner yet. If you have, this will help if you’re on a diet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=448&v=gISByrEVWUI

Remember, you have been warned. Granted it’s AJ - he says they don’t believe it’s doctored video. Well there have been other videos. But I work for Nully, so.....


107 posted on 09/18/2017 5:23:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: CGASMIA68

Mind your language, please; there are ladies present.


108 posted on 09/18/2017 5:24:15 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Jim Noble; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; Lera; 444Flyer; metmom; SVTCobra03; Texas Fossil; ...

[And I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Hillary is saying TODAY that she’s thinking of “challenging the election”.]

Exactly. And Obama’s gonna change the world Oct. 31-Nov. 1 with 200 leaders from around the world.

Funny, I seem to recall Nicolae Caparthia saying something like that at (ostensibly) the United Nations.

“It’s time to change the world”.

Probably just a coincidence.


109 posted on 09/18/2017 5:25:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

He’s Kenyan, but I’m sure he’s dribbled down some Nigerian’s leg at some point in his life.


110 posted on 09/18/2017 5:26:06 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
CNN was twisting their selves into pretzels trying to claim this had nothing to do with “Trump” being wiretapped as he claimed. It was astonishing listening to the reporters claiming Trumps tweet was still false while at the same time claiming Manafort was wiretapped and Trump conversations might have been recorded.
111 posted on 09/18/2017 5:26:14 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: KC Burke

You raise a good point and allude to something sadly ironic about all this. The POTUS and the Sec of State both had unlimited access to Russia and any other country’s information leading into the campaign. This is all protected by Executive Privilege. Cannot be investigated. Even after she resigned as Sec of State she maintained her clearance and access, not to mention her communications were in her sole custody. All that, yet somehow the wildest of accusations on the slimmest of evidence is enough for the entire establishment to come down like a ton of bricks.

I know your point was different, and well taken. The number of scandals runs so high that they seem to count on making everyone too dizzy to investigate. The nexus between the CF and the campaign, pay to play, fundraising for private donations while in high office, the use of high office to spy on opposition, abuse of power are just some of scores of alleged crimes for which there is solid evidence to justify investigation. Yet the country is on a wild goose chase.

I’m wagering that Meuller doesn’t come with a single indictment related to the primary investigation. He’ll get someone for lying, or he’ll have dug up an old financial crime from one of Trump’s cronies. But on the main allegation a) there is probably no crime to charge and b) no evidence even if there were a crime to charge.


112 posted on 09/18/2017 5:26:38 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: fastrock

Also above the headline also in red it says Manfort is on the brink of being indicted. This completely changes the impression of the story to the CNN spin. Drudge has been turned for awhile now.


113 posted on 09/18/2017 5:27:18 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: PJ-Comix
"The surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, according to one of the sources."

HAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

114 posted on 09/18/2017 5:27:37 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Well then Manaforte is doomed. They will have to manufacture evidence if it doesn’t exist to justify their actions.


115 posted on 09/18/2017 5:27:37 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: monkeyshine

The leak was plugged, his name was Seth Rich.
That’s what they are covering up.


116 posted on 09/18/2017 5:28:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: WeWaWes
"I cringe at the thought of how close Hillary came to pulling off the biggest crime in Americas history."

I thank God every day in my prayers. The other thing is...you know Hillary knew about all of this when it was happening.

117 posted on 09/18/2017 5:28:46 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

I know - I just (at various times) call him some version of The Indonesian Kenyan Nigerian Scam Artist.

He might as well be sitting at a computer with an auto-dialer in Nigeria.

He pulled it off too. That’s not approval nor admiration.

Just saying it’s a reality we have all been forced to live under.

(sighs)


118 posted on 09/18/2017 5:29:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: JonPreston; JimSEA; PJ-Comix

Mueller has been begging to be fired for months.

This is what’s going on: Bush and Romney, plus the Clinton Crime Family, decided long ago that Trump had to go, to be removed. But to impeach him and convict him with no cover story was a bridge too far for Ryan and his caucus.

Ryan needs 25 Republican members to indict (I presume all 193 Democrats are “yes” votes). But with elections every two years, he has to give his members cover to vote that way.

The plan was “RussiaRussiaRussia”. When there was nothing there, the plan was to provoke Trump to fire Mueller. Lately, it’s been “Charlottesville” (whatever that even means).

But they have to move now. In less that two months, we’ll be inside one year from the next House election. Any GOP Member who votes to impeach Trump will go home after the next election unless they can concoct a story about why impeachment was necessary.

So, the story will be that Manafort, with Trump’s approval, got the Russians to do something bad.

As soon as Mueller releases whatever he has, or has made up, Ryan will be everywhere reading the speech he wrote six months ago, “It is with a heavy heart that I have concluded...”


119 posted on 09/18/2017 5:29:14 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: odawg

I am scanning this thread because it is interesting, and I have to scroll down and always catch this repulsive image. Can you have it removed?
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What are you a snowflake requiring a safe space? Gud God Batman! The Snowflakes have invaded FR!

Here is an idea...

When you scroll down and get to the picture just close your eyes or put your hand over them. No peeking! Keep scrolling until the picture is no longer on the screen. You ask how do you know when the picture is no longer on the screen you say?

Exactly.


120 posted on 09/18/2017 5:29:16 PM PDT by zaxtres
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