Good links.
One thing that no one is speculating on:
Was the Obama’s lame-duck attack on Israel a parting shot against a country the left hates? His expulsion of the Russians a way to gin up more controversy around Russian hacking?
The recent revelation of closing an investigation against Flynn reveals that both actions were taken after they had the wiretaps on Flynn in place. So people should back up a step and consider if Obama took both actions on the advice of Brennan and Clapper BECAUSE they expected Flynn to immediately reach out to both countries.
Good point and you might be right. It is hard to piece together the exact machinations of the landmines they seeded for Trump during the transition, but your suggestion on Israel would have followed the apparent playbook with Russia.
We know that Barr went to our 5-eye intelligence partners personally. We don’t know why. What if he has asked them to prepare their own reports on what they did at the request of Brennan?
It is all speculative, but despite the willful ignorance of the GOPe and uniparty types in DC, the dam appears to have finally broken.
All FReepers need to watch the Edward Snowden movie and absorb what he says. He is frankly not a likeable character in many ways to me, but nobody to my knowledge has ever refuted what Snowden says our intelligence has built and what the capabilities mean to our privacy. It is frightening.
The potential for abuse of such a system is staggering.