Who Will Wiretap the Wiretappers?

american spectator ^ | Daniel J Flynn

[RoosterRedux]

Obama denied Trump’s charges. He should deny the denial, which helped Trump’s cause more than his own.

“A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” President Obama’s spokesman said in a statement. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen.”

The first part of the statement obliquely charges the Trump administration with meddling with a federal investigation of Russian shenanigans regarding the presidential election. The second part of the statement leaves open the possibility that an investigation that, ostensibly or otherwise, targeted foreigners ensnared a very prominent citizen residing until very recently in Trump Tower. In other words, we didn’t target Trump and it’s wrong for Trump to inquire into our targeting Trump.

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Honesty, the president’s best quality, also works as his undoing on occasion. His unguarded intellect periodically flubs facts, such as when he boasted last month of achieving the greatest Electoral College triumph since Ronald Reagan. Critics regard such gaffes as proof of his mendacity. They actually highlight his honesty. Unlike numerous predecessors of note, he errs not through calculation but because he speaks, and tweets, off the cuff. He says what’s on his mind without a filter. Compare the too-carefully worded statement on this controversy from Team Obama, on the one hand, to Trump’s hasty early-morning tweets on the other, to begin to grasp the enormous difference between the two men. Even when Trump blows hot air, Americans receive it as a breath of fresh air. He talks unlike other politicians.

Wiretaps of the past president surely would reveal much. Bugs of Trump likely just show Trump as we know Trump.

[RoosterRedux]

Ping

[JudgemAll]

Obama was an empty chair indeed... Clint Eastwood had a very artistic insight into him.

Of course, when it came
to getting Bin Laden or accomplishing great deals with Iran Obama was at the helm all the time...

Bunch of horsesht

You do not selectively run things like this ex post facto of their results

[Dr.Deth]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Probably these guys

[Neidermeyer]

I still miss the comedian...