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Top Obama adviser to Trump: 'No president can order a wiretap'
thehill.com ^ | 3/4/17 | Brooke Seipel

Posted on 03/04/2017 9:43:14 AM PST by ColdOne

A former policy adviser to President Obama is firing back at President Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, saying it didn't happen — at least not under Obama's orders.

"No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you," Ben Rhodes tweeted Saturday morning.

He also said "only a liar" could make the case, as Trump suggested, that Obama wire tapped Trump Tower ahead of the election.

No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. https://t.co/lEVscjkzSw

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; itgate; obamafisa; trumpgate; trumptowertapped; watergate2
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To: Grampa Dave

Pretty.
Have you been able to identify all of the republicans in there as well? 8<)


41 posted on 03/04/2017 9:58:00 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: stylin19a

The FBI can. And who does the FBI work for? Loretta Lynch and the President...


42 posted on 03/04/2017 9:58:05 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: ColdOne
I knew this Ben Rhodes guy by name, but I never knew what he looked like. I just did a search on him and came across a few photos, and I don't know whether to laugh or cry ...

... because I once got a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct in a hockey game for pummeling the sh!t out of an @sshole who looked just like this guy.

43 posted on 03/04/2017 9:58:13 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Rome2000; Cementjungle; MHGinTN

gets better

Obama, on the way out the door, appointed ben rhodes to a seat on the council of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

I wonder why Trump hasn’t adiosed him yet.

as a P.S.

Obama, going out that same door appointed Valerie jarrett and susan rice to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees.

Trump hasn’t adiosed them, either, even with jarrett now living with the Obamas.

Trump knows how to play hardball...it’s time.


44 posted on 03/04/2017 9:58:16 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

And the IRS can’t legally target political opposition groups...


45 posted on 03/04/2017 9:58:53 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: ColdOne

Obama had partisan judge sign off.


46 posted on 03/04/2017 9:59:08 AM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: ColdOne

Let’s see what evidence Trump provides next.


47 posted on 03/04/2017 9:59:13 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: ColdOne

Ben Rhodes = Cheap Whore


48 posted on 03/04/2017 9:59:15 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: ColdOne

Take it to him! Slaughter those smug little Obama pricks start with Ben Rhodes...Throw his ass under the bus now.


49 posted on 03/04/2017 9:59:17 AM PST by databoss
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To: Telepathic Intruder

And the president can’t legally order spying on US citizens like a Fox News reporter...


50 posted on 03/04/2017 9:59:24 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Professional

I’m betting the intel community will take the entire rap for this, letting Obama off the hook. He will play victim.

Don’t think there will be any arrests of Obama and/or his minions.

Unless someone in the intel community squeals that Obama gave them false information that they went to the FISA court with. Then maybe.....

I hope the POTUS has solid intel on this because he can not be wrong on this.


51 posted on 03/04/2017 9:59:38 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: Grampa Dave

lol....I guarantee you Pelosi boobs are not that perky - and no I don’t have first hand knowledge.


52 posted on 03/04/2017 9:59:44 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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To: ColdOne

But a President can get a fake order or lie to get one


53 posted on 03/04/2017 10:01:00 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Timpanagos1
The fact is that Obama did order a wire tapp and that wire tapp was illegal.

It was merely an "undocumented" wire tap.

54 posted on 03/04/2017 10:01:04 AM PST by CrosscutSaw
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To: Meet the New Boss

Just think how great it will be when Valerie Jarret’s daughter at CNN and Ben Rhodes brother at CBS get to on-air report on their arrests.
The best ABC can do is for Stephi to report on the Hildabeasts’s incarceration.


55 posted on 03/04/2017 10:01:57 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: ColdOne

56 posted on 03/04/2017 10:02:10 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: ColdOne

Throw him in prison too.


57 posted on 03/04/2017 10:02:32 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: rod1

The media doesn’t care about credibility. They only care about who can shout the loudest for their side.


58 posted on 03/04/2017 10:02:36 AM PST by Luke21
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

Don’t underestimate how sloppy people can be.

Think about it....

Hillary has gotten away with stuff her ENTIRE life. Think she’s arrogant enough to have pissed off some of her “insiders”? Think they are scared to death of her? Think they’ll sing like a canary when under subpoena with Hillary facing criminal indictment?

You could say the same for a long list of players in Dem politics.

The focus right now, seems on Obama. I really think that it’s HILLARY that is behind this.


59 posted on 03/04/2017 10:02:43 AM PST by Professional
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To: ColdOne

Ben Rhodes LIES.

Ben Rhodes has a long record of LYING.


60 posted on 03/04/2017 10:02:43 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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