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Disgraced Comey Denies Spying on Trump
Rush Limbaugh.com ^
| April 12, 2019
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 04/12/2019 12:14:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: In other lighthearted news, James Comey. Did you see? These are bizarre comments James Comey made yesterday at a cyber security conference outside San Francisco. By the way, does anybody find it strange that Comey is still out there weighing in on all this? He’s been fired. He has been repudiated. He was discredited in a lot of this. Yet he’s still out there. Clapper’s still out there. Brennan’s still… Well, Brennan’s kind of gone underground.
But Comey was at a cyber security conference outside San Francisco. He got a question about Barr’s comments about spying during his hearing and testimony on Wednesday. “Oh, I think there was spying.” Comey claimed again. He said, “When I hear that kind of language used, it’s concerning, because the FBI, the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance. I’ve never thought of that as spying.”
Electronic surveillance? What is he talking about? If electronic surveillance is not spying… It doesn’t matter if it’s court-ordered or not, doesn’t matter if it’s court-authorized or not. It’s still spying. The vast majority of the spying in the world is authorized by some government or another. These people know, folks. I’m telling you, they know, and they are quaking in their boots. And you know another reason, you know another way you can tell?
Here comes Barr at his testimony on Wednesday. In response to a question, he says, “Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think there was spying going on,” and what was the reaction to it? “You can’t say that! (sputtering) That’s outrageous. That is off the charts! That’s beyond the pale! That’s beneath the dignity of the office! You can’t say the FBI was spying!” As my friend Andy McCarthy pointed out, these are the same people who were calling Trump a traitor. They were calling Trump a Russian agent.
They were calling Trump Adolf Hitler! So they can run around and they can say that Trump is a traitor, that Trump is a foreign agent, that Trump is a Russian spy, that Putin is running and controlling Trump, but Barr cannot say what the FBI was doing was spying? I think a lot of people are properly quaking in their boots about now. But it is especially preposterous to hear Comey claim that his FBI went to the FISA court four times for warrants to spy on Carter Page using a political opposition research document created by the presidential opponent of Donald Trump.
Does Comey not know that foreign intelligence surveillance, FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Services court, is what it is. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA. Does he not know that’s a synonym for spying? “What is he talking about? He know they’ve been caught. (sputtering) I — I — I never consider spying. Spying, such a despicable word. We don’t — we don’t spy. We do court-ordered surveillance.” Maybe Comey only believes in spying when you spy on foreigners. When you spy on a political opponent’s campaign, maybe I guess that’s okay.
Or maybe when you spy-on-U.S. Naval Academy graduate who had even worked for the FBI as an informant, I guess that’s okay. That would be Carter Page. I’ll tell you, folks, it’s… I just have this sense. You know, and I’m kind of going out on a limb here because I don’t have any knowledge to back this up. I just have the sense that Barr and everybody here is just really, really serious about this, because everybody paying any attention to this has got to be fully aware of the absolute over-the-top outrage this was.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: comey; comeycoven; coupplot; espionage; fisagate; jamescomey; lisabarsoomian; lisapage; michaelcohen; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; rushlimbaugh; rushlive; rushtranscript; spooks; spygate; spying; transcript
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posted on
04/12/2019 12:14:00 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Comey should be hanged for treason. He attempted a coup that failed on the will of the people and he should pay.
To: shelterguy
Here’s the problem with their spying....They forgot to tell Trump.
To: Kaslin
right. it wasn’t actual spying spying, but just plain ol’ surveillance ...
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posted on
04/12/2019 12:26:08 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: bingoplayer
Did Samantha Powers read it to Cass Sunstein?
from the Hillary's Email keyword:
- Comey, Ohr shot down Assange deal (Jack Posiebic periscope [2019]
- Strzok Authored Draft of Comey Letter to Congress about Clinton Emails on Weiner Laptop (t) [2018]
- Comey DELETED Obama's Name From Hillary Hacked Emails Report [2018]
- Comey: If I could 'change time,' Anthony Weiner would never have 'been born' [2018]
- Agent dismissed from Mueller probe changed Comey's description of Clinton to 'extremely careless' [2017]
- Push is on to disbar James Comey after Clinton scandal [2017]
- Comey Drafted Statement Ending Clinton Investigation Months Before Interviewing Her, FBI Confirms [2017]
- PAPER: NSA Offered Hillary Clinton's "Lost" Emails to FBI -- Comey Turned Them Down [2017]
- Nets Censor Bombshell That Comey Didn't Wait for Facts to Rescue Hillary [2017]
- Jay Sekulow: New Revelations Show Comey Committed 'Fraud' In Clinton Probe [2017]
- Report: James Comey Moved to Exonerate Clinton Before FBI Interviewed Her or Other Key Witnesses [2017]
- Trump slams 'rigged system' over claim Comey 'exonerated' Clinton before probe ended [2017]
- Comey botched the Hillary Clinton email investigation [2017]
- Loretta Lynch Successfully Pressured Comey To Mislead Public Using Clinton Campaign's Talking Points [2017]
- Comey misstated key Clinton email evidence at hearing, say people close to investigation [2017]
- Watch - FBI Director Comey Admits Knowledge Of Lynch Protecting Hillary [2017]
- Comey: Thousands of Clinton Emails, Including Classified Ones, Were Forwarded to Anthony Weiner [2017]
- Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election. [2017]
- Trump: Hillary Clinton 'would be going to trial' if Comey wasn't 'very, very good' to her [2017]
- The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his bombshell [2016]
- Now Bill Clinton blames the FBI for his wife's defeat claiming Comey cost her the election - and ac [2016]
- REPORT: Hillary Clinton Couldn't Stop Crying, Blamed Comey and Obama for Her Stunning Loss [2016]
- [Former U.S. Attorney General] Ashcroft: FBI Director James Comey Didn't Clear Clinton [2016]
- White House: Comey not trying to sway election [2016]
- Comey Announcement NOT Credible - Special Alert! (Dick Morris Video) [2016]
- Comey Announcement Not Credible [2016]
- BREAKING: Hillary OFF the hook as FBI Director James Comey reveals the department... [2016]
- FBI Director Comey says agency won't recommend charges over Clinton email [2016]
- Comey Letter--No Change in Conclusion from July [2016]
- Comey tells Congress FBI has not changed conclusions [2016]
- Brzezinski: Dem Criticism of Comey Reinforcing Idea 'There's Something There' [2016]
- FBI Director James Comey screwed up big time [2016]
- Dems Blood Guilt Reaction to Comey's Bad News [2016]
- Comey has a long history of cases ending favorable to the Clintons [2016]
- Hillary Clinton Assails James Comey, Calling Email Decision 'Deeply Troubling' [2016]
- Mook's Excuse for Hillary Lie: She Didn't Bother Reading Second Page of Comey's Letter [2016]
- Vanity-NYPD, FBI & FBI Director, Comey hook up to do Hillary Clinton in!!! [2016]
- Callan: It's Time for FBI Director Comey to go [2016]
- Clinton Camp: Comey 'Owes the Public Answers' for Reopening Probe [2016]
- Weiner revelation Proves Comey Dropped the Ball on Hillary Probe [2016]
- Just a reminder: Democrats and their lousy candidate left Comey with no good options [2016]
- James Comey Acted on His Own in Clinton Email Disclosure, Violated Justice Department Policy [2016]
- James Comey Broke with Loretta Lynch and Justice Department Tradition [2016]
- Attorney General told FBI director James Comey NOT to send letter to Congress [2016]
- DOJ's Loretta Lynch Tried To Squash Comey's Letter To Congress [2016]
- My thoughts on why FBI director Comey made the Hillary probe announcement. [2016]
- It Must Be Outright Treason, Comey Knows Wikileaks & Every Foreign Intelligence Service Has It [2016]
- Letter from DU attorney on why Comey reopened investigation (CYA) [2016]
- BREAKING: We Just Discovered REAL Reason Why Comey Didn't Charge Hillary... This WILL Cost Him His JOB [2016]
- FBI agents reportedly close to revolt over Comey's friendly treatment of Clinton [2016]
- Comey is a full on Clinton Operative [2016]
- Is Comey Batting Cleanup for Clinton?-No other explanation, former judge says. [2016]
- Comey's Corrupt and Shameful Conduct Revealed [2016]
- Why Comey Didn't Charge Hillary [2016]
- Bill, Hillary, Loretta Lynch, James Comey and the emails (Corruption in plain sight) [2016]
- Lynch is Clearly Compromised by Comey [2016]
- Clinton Email Case Update? (Weekly Update) [Statement on Comey] [2016]
- FBI's Comey: Hillary Clinton not 'sophisticated enough' to understand classified markings [2016]
- Why Comey Would Not Present the Case against Hillary to a Grand Jury [2016]
- FBI DIR COMEY TO HOST PRESSER, MAY 11, 2016? [2016]
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posted on
04/12/2019 12:32:40 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: bingoplayer
There needs to be a Nurenburg style trial to get to the bottom of all this.
This treason was vast and deep
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posted on
04/12/2019 12:58:11 PM PDT
by
WashingtonFire
(The charisma of Reagan + the vision of Jefferson + the patriotism of Washington = Trump)
To: Kaslin
Maybe they should have a couple of FBI agents go question him, four or five times, not keeping any notes are any records and then come back and charge him with lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice. /s
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posted on
04/12/2019 1:14:45 PM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
To: Kaslin
No spying on Trump, only surveillance per Comey. This will be the new media talking point. It will be fun watching the media tie themselves in knots explaining the difference.
To: Kaslin
Taking him literally, Comey didn’t spy on Trump or anyone else; he just facilitated the spying.
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posted on
04/12/2019 1:45:32 PM PDT
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: Kaslin
And what of the Human Intelligence employed against Team Trump? That is good Statecraft. As well as his forgetting about the CIA human intelligence also employed.... Sorry Jim (jame-ski), he dead.
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posted on
04/12/2019 2:06:20 PM PDT
by
Jumper
(The DNC's Big Tent ... a place where he opposition to America comes together)
To: All; you; FReepers; who; Love; rush
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posted on
04/12/2019 3:43:46 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: Kaslin
He was astonished that electronic eavesdropping would be considered “spying”! And Bill Preisap, FBI Counter Intelligence chief, said the FBI does not spy on Americans. Only foreign entities spy!
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posted on
04/12/2019 5:02:14 PM PDT
by
vigilence
(Vigilence)
To: Kaslin
From thesaurus.com:
Synonyms for spying
surveillance
bugging
observing
prying
voyeurism
surveyance
wiretapping
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