Posted on 03/04/2020 6:01:29 AM PST by EyesOfTX
WINNING Alert! – In a meeting with top House and Senate Republicans Tuesday night, Politico reports that President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those three glorious words) made it clear he will not support a so-called “clean renewal” of the FISA act. That is, of course, a direct contradiction to the position assumed by the increasingly swampy-smelling Attorney General, William Barr.
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From the Politico report:
“The president made it exceedingly clear he will not accept a clean re-authorization … without real reform,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), told reporters after the meeting. “He was told by the attorney general, we can massage around the edges and we can fix this through regulation, the president didn’t accept that, pushed back very vigorously and said ‘we’re not doing this.'”
Trump instead told the lawmakers: “You all work out a bipartisan deal and come back to me and I’ll sign it,” according to a source in the room.
This is exactly the posture the President – who was clearly targeted by corrupt Obama-era officials at DOJ and the FBI via abuse of this very law – should be assuming. The December Horowitz report made it crystal clear that the FISA statute has long been a tool for systematic abuse, and that the FISA courts themselves are unwilling to use their authority to police and punish officials who intentionally mislead them. The thought that worthless FBI Director Christopher Wray and AG Barr are going to contain things via internal reforms is truly laughable, and the President understands that.
Just another of a thousand of examples of this President actually doing the job he was elected to do.
Funny how this works. – Hey, have you noticed how the Democrats and their corrupt toadies in the news media have suddenly dropped their whole “let’s call the Coronavirus the Trumpvirus” narrative designed to weaponize a deadly virus for political gain over the last couple of days? I know, right?
Obviously, the initial polling data and focus group results came back, and they were not favorable to the Democrats on this latest in their never-ending hoaxes. So, suddenly, the very same people who were screaming just a few days ago that “it’s all the evil Orange Man’s fault!” are now on CNN or MSNBC calmly saying things like “it’s a public health issued that should not be politicized.” The execrable Debbie Dingel was on Fox Business saying exactly that to Maria Bartiromo this morning, in fact.
So, it’s just like when they pulled out the whole “Trump blackmailed Ukraine” canard during the impeachment hoax last October: They got bad polling data back three days later and dropped it like a hot coal. This is just how these demented people operate.
The more important point here, though, is why this particular hoax polled poorly for the Democrats and their media toadies: Because the President and his public health officials are doing an absolutely stellar job in dealing with this virus and containing its spread in the United States. Despite the media’s best efforts to create mass hysteria around the issue, that reality becomes increasingly obvious to the public every day.
The President’s early, decisive action to ban non-essential travel to and from China has proven to be crucial, and his putting Vice President Mike Pence in charge of a multi-agency Coronavirus Task Force has worked to enhance public confidence. In addition to that reality, Democrats also now fear growing comparisons of the quick, effective response by the Trump Administration to the fact that the Obama Administration waited until more than 1,000 Americans had died of the H1N1 virus in 2009 before taking similar steps to combat it. Not a good look for The One His Own Self.
With the reality on the ground shifting beneath their latest false narrative, the Democrat/media propaganda complex had to shift the narrative. Thus, suddenly, the same people who were squealing to the rafters in an effort to create a mass public panic for purely political reasons are now calm, rational policymakers just trying to promote public health.
Another hoax come and gone, but don’t worry: Their next hoax is without doubt just around the corner.
That is all.
NO SECRET COURTS PERIOD!
Another hoax come and gone, but don’t worry: Their next hoax is without doubt just around the corner.
Amen.
The FISA court is unconstitutional in its current form and proven illegal functioning.in addition the court refuses to police thiose who illegally abuse the exp arte process. It can no loner be ex parte.It may be that it cannot exist any longer period.
Let the system go back to presidential findings.
I had high hopes for Barr. Very disappointed.
The biggest hoax of all is that anything Democratic equates to good for America. It’s all about their power period. To heck with the American people and way of life.
Disappointed in Barr on this. Regulations come and go with the President and the wind. Law is the only real way to fix this. Trump is 100% correct . . . AGAIN
Rand Paul suggested we use the secret foreign court for foreigners, only and exclusively. How about we change that? he asked the President.
This FISA abuse is a pretty serious deal. We really shouldn't have secret courts with secret proceedings precisely because they will be corrupted and misused, no matter the stated good intentions when put into place (and part of me thinks stated good intentions are just that, put out for public consumption).
IMHO 6 months is plenty of time for Spygate prior to the election. Don’t want to peak too soon.
I’ve been saying for a while now that Trump is a master of dramatic pacing for a mass audience, a skill honed over several seasons of The Apprentice. I think we’ll start seeing stuff drop starting this Summer.
Disappointed in Barr on this. Regulations come and go with the President and the wind. Law is the only real way to fix this. Trump is 100% correct . . . AGAIN
Barr was confirmed as AG to protect Gang of 8er McConnell and the rest of the corrupt GOP Senate.
Makes sense to me. Turtle and his gang would not have confirmed if he was a threat to them. Corruption is corruption, no matter which side of the aisle . . . it still hurts the American people. Maybe Trump can find a way to fix it all.
President Donald J Trump!!
He has Titanium G0n@ds.
FISA has to be flushed down the toilet.
No more secret courts that can target Americans.
MAGA & Keep America Great
We’ve never had a full accounting of the Intel briefings the obama admin gave to Congress during Spygate. Now why would that be? The only plausible answer is that the GOP is covering up their role in aiding and abetting obama era spying on Trump campaign.
Oh, I believe there are plenty of skeletons in the GOPe closet.
Deep state hack status confirmed.
At the end of the day, FISC isn’t even needed. The same amount of work and processes that go into a federal agent, etc, needed to go to a federal judge and get a warrant signed is the same in every federal courthouse in the country. Comes down to basic criminal procedure. Nothing more. If a case warrants a certain level of confidentiality or classification, that can be done. Nothing magical about it. But, as we all know, especially now, power corrupts. And at the end of the day, that is what they all want and why they hate the President so much. He’s been trying to give the power back to the people.
In the President’s case, they - FBI, CIA, DOJ, NSA, FISC - and all the participants, thereof, tossed hundreds of years of law in the trash, committed Perjury and other crimes, to target and try to get rid of the President because they don’t like him and because he’s disrupting the criminal enterprise they’ve been running. The FISC judges involved in any part of this are just as culpable as Strzok, Page, McCabe, Comey, et al. If they truly wanted to remedy this, if they were honest, they’d have all parties concerned sitting in a federal holding facility, awaiting charges and a trial. The fact that no one is, the fact that McCabe is a tv commentator, the fact that Comey is still flying around running his mouth, tells us everything we need to know.
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