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Woodward: Surveillance Report Likely 'Highly Classified Gossip' About Trump
FOX News ^ | March 22, 2017 | The O'Reilly Factor

Posted on 03/22/2017 9:10:14 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward said that allegations from a report that say President Trump's transition team was named in surveillance reports of foreign individuals would be "gross violations."

A couple of diplomats who were legitimately wiretapped were talking about meeting Trump or his team, Woodward said on "The O'Reilly Factor."

However, U.S. intelligence agencies are supposed to comply with "minimization" rules, which protect Americans' names from being published in reports or leaked in any way, he added.

"The idea that there was intelligence value was really thin," Woodward said.

"You've got this really serious problem potentially of people in the Obama administration passing around this highly classified gossip," Woodward said.

He called the leaking of such names "inappropriate" and possibly illegal. If Nunes' statements are true, it would be a "gross violation."

They knew this information was floating around the intelligence agencies, Woodward said. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; nunespresser; trumptransition; trumpwiretaps
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To: GOPJ
Yea, we had a guy here at work years ago that would tawk this sorta stuff and everyone thought he was a tinfoil hat wearin Koo-koo conspiracy nut.

Folks ain't laughin no mo.

ALPR’s (automatic lic plate readers) along roadways, surveillance drones, Alphabet soup spying on internet/phone/CCard records, fake cell towers (gleaning cell phone data), TSA/DHS body searches, Digital photos/thumb prints on state DLs incorporated into bio-metric data bases...such as facial recognition, alarming increase in swat raids from a few thousand a decade ago to over 85K nationwide.

America is becoming an effin police state.

41 posted on 03/23/2017 6:10:01 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: nopardons

“And that she was hired,”

Gorelick only income should be from making license plates.


42 posted on 03/23/2017 6:32:06 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: proust
Trump did an incredible service by flushing every one out in the open.

He's still doing that...

43 posted on 03/23/2017 7:22:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elections no longer matter. We have lost the country to the appointed. - freeperRepRivFarm)
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To: Flick Lives

“Nepotism is not a crime.”
______________________________

If it were, JFK would have been impeached for having his brother Bobby as attorney general.


44 posted on 03/23/2017 7:23:55 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: KarlInOhio
Even to understand the word "doublethink" involved the use of doublethink.
45 posted on 03/23/2017 8:03:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elections no longer matter. We have lost the country to the appointed. - freeperRepRivFarm)
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To: GOPJ; proust; Just mythoughts

It’s all over the place, piece after piece after piece, photo after photo, President Trump and Senator Cruz socializing(along with Heidi and daughters) and cooperating with each other and negotiating over differences. It started in the late stage of the campaign and continued through the transition and on several big ticket issues.

It isn’t only them. Rubio and Kasich among other opponents and including the ridiculous Senator from South Carolina who is McCain’s puppy have been treated to dinner with Donald. Remember that craziness between Rubio and Donald? The verbiage? Oh, the insanity.

But that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone. To quote an old song lyric. The Donald knows this...


46 posted on 03/23/2017 8:06:25 AM PDT by txrangerette (("...hold to the TRUTH; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I believe that was discussed in the book “Silent Coup.”


47 posted on 03/23/2017 8:17:24 AM PDT by kallisti (Both soliloquized alternately and imagined they were conversing)
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To: servantboy777
Folks ain't laughin no mo.

That might be happening with this issue too...

48 posted on 03/23/2017 9:02:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elections no longer matter. We have lost the country to the appointed. - freeperRepRivFarm)
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To: servantboy777

That probably would have been me! Good to hear from you again servant. lurkedforadecad aka savant! 777 ;)


49 posted on 03/23/2017 9:46:27 AM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade
lol...Hello my friend. Yea, I'm a lil looney myseff.
50 posted on 03/23/2017 11:52:26 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: lurked_for_a_decade
lol...Hello my friend. Yea, I'm a lil looney myseff.
51 posted on 03/23/2017 11:52:30 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: boxlunch
I was always leery of Ivanka and her claims of the "power" she holds over her father; not to mention the fact that though she has always been more or less apolitical, knows nothing about politics, and wasn't intelligent enough to change her registration, so that she could vote for her father in the primary, she holds/tries to hold sway over some things she wants him to do.

Neither am I impressed by her husband, since finding out about his family's political and personal ties.

Now this damned Gorelick crap!

Obviously, I had credited the president with more political astuteness/acumen, than he deserved.

If the Kushners did the deals ( Jared used her too ) sans Trump's knowledge; that's their fault. OTOH....he SHOULD have known about it by now and that he hasn't made them fire her, is his fault...BIG LEAGUE; which is NOT just a "minor flaw"!

No....he can't be impeached over the nepotism thing; that has supposedly been wrangled out. But I don't want Ivanka ( especially since she is his "favorite child" and gets away with everything she wants ) or husband within 100s of miles of D.C. and I want Gorerlick FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

52 posted on 03/23/2017 1:15:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: alternatives?

SPOT ON !


53 posted on 03/23/2017 1:21:07 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“He called the leaking of such names “inappropriate” and possibly illegal.”

“Possibly illegal”? It’s 100% Illegal. It’s a FELONY


54 posted on 03/23/2017 3:31:54 PM PDT by heights
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