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Potential 'smoking gun' showing Obama administration spied on Trump team, source says
Fox News ^ | 23 Mar 2017 | James Rosen

Posted on 03/23/2017 4:16:08 PM PDT by mandaladon

Republican congressional investigators expect a potential “smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News.

Classified intelligence showing incidental collection of Trump team communications, purportedly seen by committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and described by him in vague terms at a bombshell Wednesday afternoon news conference, came from multiple sources, Capitol Hill sources told Fox News. The intelligence corroborated information about surveillance of the Trump team that was known to Nunes, sources said, even before President Trump accused his predecessor of having wiretappedhim in a series of now-infamous tweets posted on March 4.

The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump, according to sources.

The key to that conclusion is the unmasking of selected U.S. persons whose names appeared in the intelligence, the sources said, adding that the paper trail leaves no other plausible purpose for the unmasking other than to damage the incoming Trump administration.

The FBI hasn’t been responsive to the House Intelligence Committee’s request for documents, but the National Security Agency is expected to produce documents to the committee by Friday. The NSA document production is expected to produce more intelligence than Nunes has so far seen or described – including what one source described as a potential “smoking gun” establishing the spying.

Some time will be needed to properly assess the materials, with the likely result being that congressional investigators and attorneys won’t have a solid handle on the contents of the documents – and their implications – until next week.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bringiton; indictthekenyanbum; jamesrosen; nunespresser; obamasfault; shadyschiff; sneakycommies; trump; trumptowergate; trumpwiretaps
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To: gaijin

61 posted on 03/23/2017 5:13:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: miserare

BHO still in hiding in the S Pacific?


62 posted on 03/23/2017 5:14:39 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“Schiff is pissed he couldn’t BURY IT and keeping this info. from seeing the light of day. GOOD MOVE, NUNES.”

I agree. As far as I am concerned Schiff can take a long walk on a short pier.


63 posted on 03/23/2017 5:15:13 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: gaijin

This was a Sunday School picnic compared to what is going on right now!


64 posted on 03/23/2017 5:16:00 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: bigbob

“There’s another interesting tidbit floating around, to the effect that the NYPD investigators have grown tired of Comey”

Comey needs to go and Trump needs to put someone with some integrity in that position.


65 posted on 03/23/2017 5:16:19 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: gaijin

He never should have resigned. He should’ve hung tough.

A much maligned president, and unfairly so.

If he had rode it out, he would have skipped off like Slick Willy.


66 posted on 03/23/2017 5:18:10 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

I believe those are the two reporters that Sean has had on his radio and television show a number of times. They have inside sources to some of this information. They are worth listening to.


67 posted on 03/23/2017 5:18:47 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: jazminerose

Under the waves, I hope.


68 posted on 03/23/2017 5:20:16 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: jazminerose

Ha. Obama doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to get back to his
5 million dollar home in DC.


69 posted on 03/23/2017 5:21:00 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: tennmountainman

5 mil Castle...they keep building the brick wall higher and higher. Valjar is enjoying her stay there...the little Iranian bitch!


70 posted on 03/23/2017 5:22:24 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: TexasM1A
They will probably be so redacted that you will not be able to see a thing.

They will be so redacted you will be lucky to tell that they were on sheets of paper.

71 posted on 03/23/2017 5:23:05 PM PDT by dearolddad
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

What about his deputy taking over? Sounds good to me. Anyone know who the deputy to Sessions is? Last I heard the deputy was an Obama hold over.


72 posted on 03/23/2017 5:24:25 PM PDT by bunster
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

What about his deputy taking over? Sounds good to me. Anyone know who the deputy to Sessions is? Last I heard the deputy was an Obama hold over.


73 posted on 03/23/2017 5:24:55 PM PDT by bunster
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To: miserare

They are building the wall higher and higher so the DOJ can’t arrest
them.


74 posted on 03/23/2017 5:31:23 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: All
Recall:
"The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday.

"That's going to be very, very powerful," Waters said. "That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it's never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They're going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can't get around it. And he's [President Obama] been very smart. It's very powerful what he's leaving in place."

video at https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=49a_1360284775#s4AMQ1MlXq4EE3da.99

75 posted on 03/23/2017 5:34:04 PM PDT by wtd
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To: parmamenian
Thank you Mr. Nunes. God Bless and protect you!

Second that - sure would hate to see him Fosterized or Brietbartized.
76 posted on 03/23/2017 5:38:56 PM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: mandaladon

BTTT


77 posted on 03/23/2017 5:47:05 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: tennmountainman

DOJ has helicopters! They can run but they can’t hide! Unless they have completed the tunnel to the Mosque, which is only 300yards away! Then they will have religious “sanctuary”,


78 posted on 03/23/2017 5:52:43 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: miserare

“...Wonder how the Kenyan bastard will look in an orange jumpsuit!....”

Well, if he puts a flower in his hair, he’d be real cute.......to Big Bubba.
Prison is too good for the POS.


79 posted on 03/23/2017 5:54:02 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: mandaladon

The chances of this reaching all the way to Obama are zero to none. His sycophants will cover and do whatever is necessary to protect him. However, if people around him start going down, it will definitely look like guilt-by-association for him. He’ll never be charged, but it will tarnish him even more.

Expect the MSM to stay away from this UNTIL someone smells a possible Pulitzer.


80 posted on 03/23/2017 5:54:16 PM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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