Posted on 06/15/2021 3:45:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Where was the outrage back then?
Democrats are making a big deal about a case of phone surveillance in the case of locating leakers in Washington from the Trump administration.
They forget, or just don't care, that it was they who pioneered the surveillance state.
The Obama/Biden used the Justice department to protect career criminal Hillary Clinton from prosecution and to target Trump and associates. When that happened, there was no outrage from Rep. Adam Schiff of the House intelligence committee, or from most of the media.
FBI honchos James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and others used a fake dossier from a foreign national, that was paid for by the DNC and Hillary campaign, when they lied to the FISA court in order to spy on and listen in to people who were working with Trump. Schiff and Congress didn't demand hearings with the attorney general and there was little outrage by the media which spent most of its time campaigning for Hillary and seeking to destroy Trump.
Not once did I hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi say anything about Richard Nixon, nor did I hear Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer say this is what dictators would do.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is what dictators would do.
Are we certain what DJT’s DOJ did was illegal? Investigating leaks seems to be a legitimate function.
I am guessing Hussein’s actions were a mixture of legal and illegal.
I thought it was the Bush administration that greatly expanded the ability to do surveillance on Americans. Obama just took advantage of it.
The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
The worst crime to a leftist is not breaking the law, but being counter-revolutionary, and Trump is the ultimate counter-revolutionary, because he is the ultimate pro-American.
Leftism seems to be a religion. The leftists are as fanatical about their religion as any cult. They are trending toward being as fanatical as the jihadi muslims.
Obama is a Democrat. It is a different story for Democrats.
But we knew this
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