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Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman (BREAKING!!!)
CNN.com ^ | September 18, 2017 | Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz and Pamela Brown

Posted on 09/18/2017 4:26:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Washington (CNN)US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

Some of the intelligence collected includes communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the investigation. Two of these sources, however, cautioned that the evidence is not conclusive.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cultureofcorruption; donaldtrump; eavesdropping; electionsurveillance; howtostealanelection; manafort; manafortwiretapped; muellerinvestigation; obama; obamaswatergate; paulmanafort; spying; trump; trump2016campaign; trumprussia; trumpwiretapped; trumpwiretaps; tyranny; wiretap; wiretapping
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To: redgolum
[Makes you wonder just home many sides this game has.]

The way it's looking .... I'm going with the same number (at least) that you find on a Buckyball.....
81 posted on 09/18/2017 5:07:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: WeWaWes

Isn’t it so very odd.

Before the Election, we have the US government investigating a party’s nominee. Sometimes candidates have misused prior office for gain, colluded in receiving money with family members or violated national security and foreign contact laws. However in this case. we decide not to investigate the candidate committing these crimes, but instead, we wiretap the candidate from the opposite party of the President.

We let the obvious criminal slide on her email criminality, ignore the rest of the crimes and instead, illegally wiretap the challenger to our party, the Democrat Party.


82 posted on 09/18/2017 5:07:18 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: JimSEA
There must be a reason for this wire tap information to come out now

IMO it wouldn't have been leaked if an indictment was pending. This was done to get DJT to react, perhaps even fire Mueller (which I think he should go ahead and do at this point).

83 posted on 09/18/2017 5:08:00 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Rockitz

I think the whole “Russia Collusion” was invented by the DNC as a cover for the DNC email leak. They knew they had a leaker, not a hacker. Out of embarrassment, they fabricated a story about “guccifer 2.0”. Once they put this story out they had to go all the way with it - since the RNC was not hacked, it must have been at the behest of the Trump campaign.


84 posted on 09/18/2017 5:09:29 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Rockitz

The FISA judges are also part of the problem.

The FISA judges appear to swallowed any line of crap put forth as a “justification” for the wire tap.


85 posted on 09/18/2017 5:10:01 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: PJ-Comix

Get some rope.


86 posted on 09/18/2017 5:10:10 PM PDT by Professional
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To: SkyPilot

I’m guessing he’s been “neutralized”; somehow.

As probably 90%+ of the House and the Senate.

That’s why Obama and co. used spies.


87 posted on 09/18/2017 5:10:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PJ-Comix
an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official

The most extraordinary thing is that CNN is reporting it. Will the NYT?

88 posted on 09/18/2017 5:12:36 PM PDT by libertylover (Inhabitants of Earth with any freedom probably have the USA to thank.)
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To: Red Steel; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON

CNN is certainly .... breathtaking.

Pack the bags, we’re going to see the baby. In the Hamptons.


89 posted on 09/18/2017 5:13:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: JimSEA; PJ-Comix
There must be a reason for this wire tap information to come out now

And I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Hillary is saying TODAY that she's thinking of "challenging the election".

We will find out very soon if Ryan (Romney) and McConnell (Bush) are in on the game.

90 posted on 09/18/2017 5:13:52 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Red Steel

What’s it gonna take for the media to either wake up, or just admit to their partisanship? The sad thing is, that is all it is: Partisanship, cheerleading for one party. They seem to have no core principles at all.


91 posted on 09/18/2017 5:14:08 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: JimSEA
"There must be a reason for this wire tap information to come out now. Perhaps Mueller needs it to make the case for impeachment?"

Agree completely. I can hear it now: "The crimes of the Trump administration were/are so egregious that this unprecedented step was required."

God, I sound like a concern troll but I have become so cynical. And I'm disgusted at the publics willingness to lap up and repeat any justification that is given.

92 posted on 09/18/2017 5:15:54 PM PDT by Partisan Hack
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To: dragnet2; Bon mots


Shoot, that's me with my typos on this $3.99 keyboard.....quite a mess to clean up all the time. It's also me when I see Merkel dancing in that bikini....oh, the horror. Haven't been frightened like that since I saw The Urban Sombrero.
93 posted on 09/18/2017 5:16:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PJ-Comix

Get rid of Sessions, Mr. President.


94 posted on 09/18/2017 5:17:10 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: CGASMIA68

NO ASSHOLES!


95 posted on 09/18/2017 5:17:30 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: the_Watchman

So the “Russion’s did it!” meme may be less from Hillary’s camp than a prepared cover story from Obama’s administration to justify their spying on political opponents.

X xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Exactly.

That’s why mueller is doubling down with pre dawn stasi type raid on manaforts condo.

Mule has to come up with something/anything on manafort to defuse this a use of gummit power


96 posted on 09/18/2017 5:18:20 PM PDT by thinden
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To: SaveFerris
Here's another from the New York Slimes and Comey. I guess it all depends what "is" is:


97 posted on 09/18/2017 5:18:30 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: PJ-Comix

Will anyone pay? Not a chance! Trump goes after no one for anything.


98 posted on 09/18/2017 5:18:42 PM PDT by alstewartfan (We have no money but we stay afloat. The Jellyfishes don't scare us. Al Stewart from Red Toupee)
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To: SaveFerris
Y-A-G...

Guess what that is spelled backwards.

99 posted on 09/18/2017 5:18:59 PM PDT by OKSooner (Never take a known wise-ass to the shooting range.)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman (BREAKING!!!)”

I wonder who the “government” was back then.


100 posted on 09/18/2017 5:20:35 PM PDT by aquila48
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