[kabar]

Because what we have here has been shown by new evidence to be not a legitimate surveillance in pursuit of national security, but dirty tricks? If there was nothing damaging produced by the surveillance at Trump Tower, is this a case of no harm to Trump and therefore no foul committed by Obama?

We don't know what was produced nor do we know if the IC exceeded the limitations of the FISA warrant. We do know that there have been orchestrated leaks of Flynn's conversations with the Russians and the telephone conversations Trump has had with world leaders.

The Democrats don't need any evidence to call for the impeachment of Trump and the prosecution of Sessions for perjury. They are calling for the assignment of a Special Prosecutor regardless of what the investigations by the FBI and others show.

Trump needs to declassify the FISA warrant requests showing what authority was requested, especially the first one that was turned down by the court.

Trump is justifiably upset by these chain of events. He is an early riser. Today also happens to be the day of pro-Trump rallies scheduled throughout the country. I assume this new news will increase attendance and enthusiasm.

Is Trump in possession of new facts which are unknown to us?

Definitely.

[nathanbedford]

Trump needs to declassify the FISA warrant requests showing what authority was requested, especially the first one that was turned down by the court.

I agree completely.

I just saw a video clip of Lindsay Graham saying that surveillance with a warrant is even more troubling than surveillance without a warrant. I am not sure that is true, but it does raise interesting questions about how the FISA court operates.

[Ray76]

The attack on Sessions is a CNN operation.

The day prior to Sessions confirmation hearing CNN began hyping a Buzzfeed article which contained long known unsubstantiated allegations. After being advertised for hours by CNN Buzzfeed published a “dossier”. During the confirmation hearing Franken references CNN’s breaking report of this dossier. Then when reporting on the confirmation hearing CNN edits out most of Franken’s question to make it appear that Sessions answered a different question than what Franken asked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otYVn2bW17g

CNN drove the Buzzfeed garbage to prominent attention. This created the dynamics necessary to generate exploitable situations. Franken’s question is such a situation and CNN’s dishonest editing is the exploit.

This is one battle in the attack on Trump by CNN/WaPo/NYT/DNC.