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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.”
Too many Russian wolves being called by the side where they actually DO exist — speaking fees, uranium purchases are NOT howling at the moon.
He probably didn’t have to tell them to do it. If there’s a culture of Get Righty in government circles, people just do it on their own and know it will be appreciated.
If they didn’t spy on Trump, how did they find out that Flynn talked to the Russian ambassador?
It depends on what’s in the contract between Fox and a Judge Nap.
Maybe not. On his way out, BHO declassified a lot of sensitive data, just to be an aresehole.
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The Russian fleet, in alliance with the Union, sailed into NY in 1863.
Does George Steponallovus understand the concept of "plausible deniability"?
The judge stated that Fox ( not he) had been told by three sources.
Maybe the network didn’t want to be investigated.
There are Obamaton general order. Or a “prime directive” if you will. Obama doesn’t have to issue an order directly just as a 4 star general doesn’t have to directly issue a general order to a private. The Obamaton order is “destroy Trump.” They know it, we know it, CNN knows it, the democrats kmow it, and Obama knows it.
The whole “watching TV in a bathrobe” was actually reported in the media in early February, 2017. This is what Rnad used as an example.
By spying on the Russian Ambassador. They have already admitted they monitor all of the calls to and from him and any other foreign entity.
At least they were the White Russians and not the dirty Reds!
And they failed to mask Flynn’s identity.
Comey admitted under oath that Trump has been under criminal investigation since July 2016. Do you think one of the morons on Capitol hill could have asked him if there was some type of survellience during that period of time?
They didn’t ask the questions because it was all scripted between the two parties. The goal was to hang Trump out to dry. Hearings are about a narrative, not finding out “whodunit”.
Trump said Trump tower was wire-tapped. Taken literally, that means someone in Trump tower was communicating by physical wire and someone else physically tapped into that physical wire.
But what if the surveillance was by means other than the literal meaning of wire-tap?
The media is so accustomed to the way other politicians (and people like Comey) carefully word their answers so the literal interpretation always gives them an escape route. (Depends on what the meaning of is is.)
So it gets back to the observation that Trump opponents take Trump literally, even though they do not take the Constitution literally. Trump supporters do not take Trump literally. But they do take the Constitution ... and their Bible ... literally.
Gowdy is a show horse, a dry hump. Someone has got something on him. (as with Justice Roberts).
How did they get it? Hmmmmmmmmm, “wire tap?”
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We know for sure that Obama’s “birth certificate” is a fake, a fraud, a forgery.
So what? The MSM succeeded in burying that story. They will bury the Obama-spied-on-Trump story too!
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