Posted on 03/16/2017 12:30:48 PM PDT by ColdOne
WATCH: Speaker Ryan: "No such wiretap existed ... we've seen no evidence of that" - @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/GgjYuxwxqR — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 16, 2017
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday pushed back on President Trump’s accusation that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign, saying "no such wiretap existed."
"The intelligence committees, in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigations of all things Russia, got to the bottom — at least so far with respect to our intelligence community — that no such wiretap existed," Ryan said during a news conference.
"We've seen no evidence of that," he added when pressed about Trump's claim.
Ryan echoed comments Wednesday from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who said of Trump's wiretap accusation, "We don't have any evidence that that took place."
Shortly after Ryan's comments, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released a statement with the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), dismissing Trump's wiretapping claims.
“Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016," they stated.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
It would be helpful if YOU ACTUALLY LOOKED, Ryan-o.
This POS NO TEAM PLAYER HAS GOT TO GO!!!!!!!
What a snake.
no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government
Riight, we understand. Wink, wink, nudge.
Paul RINO never misses a chance the throw President Trump under the bus.
I suspect Ryan is going to have to eat those words soon.
Trump’s behind the curve on this one. He needs to move.
Plausible deniability: Barry strongly requests from the UK to do him a favor, spy on Donald, and report back. So Barry didn't "order it", it was a suggestion. More false/fake news, or is there something to this?
They are correct. ““Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016,” they stated.”
However, thanks to Lynch, who probably spoke to Clapper, a Brit counterpart/subsidiary of NSA was asked to monitor Trump Tower thanks to a program called: Muscular!
“It couldn’t possibly be true, because that is not how our system works,” Pelosi said during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington.
“We do not investigate, through a FISA court, Americans — here or abroad.”
Well, Nancy how about this:
MUSCULAR (surveillance program)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MUSCULAR (DS-200B), located in the United Kingdom,[1] is the name of a surveillance programme jointly operated by Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that was revealed by documents which were released by Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
[2] GCHQ is the primary operator of the program.[1]GCHQ and the National Security Agency have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google.[3]Substantive information about the program was made public at the end of October 2013.
Contents
1 Overview
2 Operational details
3 Reactions and countermeasures
4 Gallery
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Overview[edit]
The programme is jointly run by:
– Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (United Kingdom)
– U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
MUSCULAR is one of at least four other similar programs that rely on a trusted 2nd party, programs which together are known as WINDSTOP. In a 30-day period from December 2012 to January 2013, MUSCULAR was responsible for collecting 181 million records. It was however dwarfed by another WINDSTOP program known (insofar) only by its code DS-300 and codename INCENSER, which collected over 14 billion records in the same period.[4]
Operational details:
According to the leaked document the NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from internal Yahoo! and Google networks to data warehouses at the agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The programme operates via an access point known as DS-200B, which is outside the United States, and it relies on an unnamed telecommunications operator to provide secret access for the NSA and the GCHQ.[3]
According to the Washington Post, the MUSCULAR program collects more than twice as many data points (“selectors” in NSA jargon) compared to the better known PRISM.[2] Unlike PRISM, the MUSCULAR program requires no (FISA or other type of) warrants.
Because of the huge amount of data involved, MUSCULAR has presented a special challenge to NSA’s Special Source Operations. For example, when Yahoo! decided to migrate a large amount of mailboxes between its data centers, the NSA’s PINWALE database (their primary analytical database for the Internet) was quickly overwhelmed with the data coming from MUSCULAR.[5]
Closely related programmes are called INCENSER and TURMOIL. TURMOIL, belonging to the NSA, is a system for processing the data collected from MUSCULAR.[1]
According to a post-it style note from the presentation, the exploitation relied on the fact that (at the time at least) data was transmitted unencrypted inside Google’s private cloud, with “Google Front End Servers” stripping and respectively adding back SSL from/to external connections.
According to the Washington Post: “Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing.”
After the information about MUSCULAR was published by the press, Google announced that it was working on deploying encrypted communication between its datacenters.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program)
When is Trump going to grow a set of Balls and take this punk on? When is Trump going to go after those that physically attack conservatives, as in Savage’s case?
I suspect Ryan is going to have to eat those words soon.
President Trump needs start uttering “campaign finance reform” and put some fear in these beltway pigs at the trough.
I disagree. I only have the past 18+ months to go on, but if I have observed anything about Trump: He’ll let the lightweights bloviate about their Two Pairs, and swagger and blow; And then he’ll throw down his four aces. IMHO.
Trump doesn’t open his mouth unless he knows what is gong on.
He is waiting to drop the bombshell until all the weasels, like Ryan, have identified themselves.
There’s a thread that mentions President Trump has proof of the wiretapping. Could it be he is simply allowing folks more opportunities to prove their untrustworthiness and traitorous selves?
Agree 100%. We cannot survive the enemy within.
Ryan is a bold liar, therefor his opinion means spit.
Count the ways that this is potentially misleading.
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