Posted on 05/07/2019 9:06:43 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Wray said he was not personally aware of any evidence the FBI illegally surveilled the Trump campaign.
The FBI relied on the unverified Steele dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
An FBI informant, Stefan Halper, also made contact during the campaign with Page and two other Trump aides, George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis. Halper was accompanied on his outreach to Papadopoulos by a government investigators working under the alias Azra Turk. It remains unclear if Turk was working for the FBI or another government agency, such as the CIA.
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No no no no no no no no no.... We we’re ‘spying’ .. we were just looking at him with love
Yeah, it is spying. No matter what other words they want to use.
Trump needs to fire this establishment puke before he becomes the undoing of Trump’s presidency.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARR SAYS HE WON’T STOP USING THE WORD ‘SPYING’!
Daily Caller ^ | May 1, 2019 | Amber Athey
Posted on 5/1/2019, 12:47:19 PM by onyx
Attorney General Bill Barr sparred with Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Wednesday over the AG’s use of the word “spying” to describe the actions the FBI took against the Trump campaign.
Barr alleged during his testimony to the House Appropriations Committee in April that “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign as the FBI investigated alleged ties to Russia.
Whitehouse grilled Barr about his use of the term “spying” in relation to those efforts, suggesting that the term was not accurate because the activities of the DOJ were “authorized.”
“I’m not going to abjure the use of the word ‘spying,’” Barr said. “My first job was in CIA. I don’t think the word ‘spying’ has any pejorative connotation at all.”
Barr continued, “I think spying is a good English word that, in fact, doesn’t have synonyms because it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection, so I’m not going to back off the word ‘spying.’”
To further defend his use of the word, Barr pointed out that many members of the media also used the term before they decided to attack him for doing the same.
“Frankly, we went back and looked at press usage and up until all the faux outrage a couple of weeks ago, it’s commonly used in the press to refer to authorized activities,” he explained.
“It’s not commonly used by the Department,” Whitehouse retorted.
Barr shot back, “It’s commonly used by me,” planting a smirk on his face.
Why are the Rat Congressits and their Rabid Mediots so upset with AG Barr using the words ‘spying on!”?
How about 99.99% of people know what spying is?
Stay did not deny there was spying. All he said was he was not “personally aware of any”.
Weasel words from a deep state scumbag.
OK, Director Wray, how about “unjustified use of National Intelligence assets”?
Wray just protecting his former law partner, Sally Yates.
Wray needs to be replaced.
Wray was answering a general question. Please don’t fall for Fake News from our enemies.
Chris Christie’s butt boy. Who’s surprised?
I wouldn’t call 0bama an American either
Surveillance by FBI = SPYING!
The way to move forward on this is to ask under oath what Graham, Corker and Flake knew about FISA and where they first heard about it.
The RATS are going to slow walk this to election day.
Go for the weak link...the GOP-e.
We weren’t spying, we were trying every dirty trick in the book to entrap Mr Trump in an effort to OVERTHROW THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT!!!
Depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is. Lawyers playing with words. Disgusting. I didn’t like Wray when he was first appointed and I still don’t like him.
Don’t you just love how the language police wheel out a douche like Wray to dictate the latest round of newspeak. As if we give a sh*t what this tool would or wouldn’t say. Quit trying to steer us from the logical conclusion: the muslim usurper, frequenter of gay bathhouses in boys’ town in Chicago, Barry Choom gang/Cokehead, in between boofings courtesy of big Mike, was SPYING on the taxpayer dime.
DC, the land of double speak. Words that mean whatever they say they mean.
When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.
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The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.
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The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be master — thats all.’
—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Hi.
Electronic and human surveillance of a target is called spying. Another term is espionage.
In this spying case, the crime is sedition/treason of certain conspirators in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and others in the 0bama administration.
Wray is a poor choice for FBI director. Imho.
5.56mm
I wouldn’t use the term “intelligent” to describe Christopher Wray.
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