Posted on 03/21/2017 10:08:36 PM PDT by TBP
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday to discuss the upcoming fight over the GOP healthcare bill and the possibility that President Trump was spied upon. Senator Paul said he couldn’t say if there was (or was not) a wiretap on President Trump, but he did argue that we “know… for sure” that the President’s National security advisor, Mike Flynn, was most certainly spied upon.
George Stephanopoulos: “Finally, sir, you’re also a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We see the president standing by that claim about President Obama. It’s caused a rift now with British intelligence over the weekend. How big a problem is this for the president’s credibility? How does he fix it?”
Rand Paul: “I think that we know one thing for sure, that the Obama administration did spy on Flynn. Now, whether it was direct or indirect, somebody was reading and taking — a transcript of his phone calls and then they released it. It is very, very important that whoever released that go to jail, because you cannot have members of the intelligence community listening to the most private and highly classified information and then releasing that to The New York Times. There can only be a certain handful of people who did that, I would bring them all in and they’d have to take lie detector tests… we need to get to the bottom of who’s releasing these highly classified conversations. If the President was surveilled he probably wasn’t the target… they probably targeted someone in a foreign government and then they listened to the conversation with Americans… we can’t allow people in the intelligence community to release the content of that information to the media or we will get a deep state and we will have an intelligence community that has enormous power if that happens.”
George Stephanopoulos: “But you don’t believe that President Obama ordered a wiretap of President Trump?”
Rand Paul: “Well, what happens is it’s different than that. We target foreigners all the time, but they talk to Americans. They talk to the president. They talk to the national security advisers. And they’re supposed to be masked. But there was something alarming the other day. General Hayden admitted that people all the way down to some of the lowest analysts can unmask who the American is. So, someone unmasked General Flynn and they’re a low-level analyst, we need to be looking at their computer and find out if they unmasked that conversation and if they spoke with The New York Times you have got to put those people in jail, because you cannot allow this to happen, or we will have presidents being blackmailed or national security advisers being blackmailed. This is a huge, huge problem, bigger than anything else that’s being discussed is the fact that private conversations from the intelligence community’s perspective are being leaked to the press. That’s not like a leak that says, oh, the president watches TV in his bathrobe, this is important to national security, you can’t let it happen.”
https://youtu.be/iiOB_5Emz9g
BUMP
If the FBI is conducting an investigation of Donald Trump there must be surveillance, surveillance without warrant is a federal crime, ....Director Comey, where is it? Why are you not under indictment?
BTTT
If it turns out to be the Brits will Fox have to reinstate Judge Napolitano?
Did. Comey, did you or did you not CONDPIRE with others to deny Donald J Trump his Constitutional Rights?
And all Gowdy or one of the other tools on that committee would have had to do is ask the two men sitting in front of them, under oath, “Did you personally unmask General Flynn” and “Did you personally disclose his identity to the media”.
He’d would have either had proof positive it wasn’t them, or he’d have the evidence to put them in Leavenworth if it was ever proven they’d lied.
But as usual, instead of setting the hook, Gowdy threw the rod and reel into the lake.
Dir. Comey, did you or did you not CONSPIRE with others to deny Donald J Trump his Constitutional Rights?
Time to empanel a federal grand jury.....Comey, Lynch, Obama, Clinton, Brennan....all of them
And Obama never told the IRS to harass Tea Party members.
“Not a smidgen of corruption.”
HELL YES!
So, thanks to the Democrats tomfoolery, terrorists know even more about our national security apparatus.
How strange Paul mentioned Trump watching TV in his bathrobe. Why would he say that or is that just a Randism?
Rand Paul. Rand. R. R is for RUSSIA!!!
Can’t you hear the Democrats’ cry: Rand Paul is a Russian. Rand Paul is a Russian.
Hell, the colonists who dressed up like Indians and threw the British tea into Boston harbor, were Russians!
“Isn’t it a felony for the Clinton campaign to be given the data???”
Of course it is,....but Director Comey, of the Democrat Bureau of Investigation, is far too busy pursuing known Russian rabbit trails to actually do his job....
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