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Barack Obama's Trump Tower Wiretap Denial Reeks of Orwellian Doublespeak
pjmedia ^ | MARCH 5, 2017 | TYLER O'NEIL

Posted on 03/06/2017 9:42:39 AM PST by MarvinStinson

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1 posted on 03/06/2017 9:42:39 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

More Obonics.


2 posted on 03/06/2017 9:45:43 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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When you start to look at exactly what they say in their “denials” it is obvious.


3 posted on 03/06/2017 9:47:49 AM PST by Jolla
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"it would be a scandal of Watergate dimension"

So much bigger than Watergate.

We need to stop tolerating this particular yardstick. Watergate was simply small potatoes.

4 posted on 03/06/2017 9:48:15 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Like I said earlier there is a 100 times more evidence that the Trump tower was tapped in one form or another than the Russian BS. I love how Trump fights back.


5 posted on 03/06/2017 9:48:31 AM PST by Parley Baer
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They keep telling us they were wire-tapping the Russian ambassador and “accidently” picked up Flynn. I think its the opposite. They were wire-tapping Trump’s people in general and accidently picked up the ambassador.

Obama has a history of always having the goods on his opponents. Sealed files magically unseal themselves, while his own remain locked up tight as a drum. We know he wire-tapped congressmen, journalists, allied heads of state. And the press was telling us before the election that he was tapping Trump... the very press that now tells us there is no evidence.


6 posted on 03/06/2017 9:49:01 AM PST by marron
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Utah:
7 posted on 03/06/2017 9:49:18 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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Obama and his administration have a serious credibility problem:

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3532024%2C1

WikiLeaks released the following list on February 23rd (see link here) of Obama Administration wire taps:

* The US National Security Agency bugged a private climate change strategy meeting; between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin;
* Obama bugged Chief of Staff of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for long term interception targetting his Swiss phone;
* Obama singled out the Director of the Rules Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Johann Human, and targetted his Swiss phone for long term interception;
* Obama stole sensitive Italian diplomatic cables detailing how Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to help patch up his relationship with US President Barack Obama, who was refusing to talk to Netanyahu;
* Obama intercepted top EU and Japanese trade ministers discussing their secret strategy and red lines to stop the US “extort[ing]” them at the WTO Doha arounds (the talks subsequently collapsed);
* Obama explicitly targeted five other top EU economic officials for long term interception, including their French, Austrian and Belgium phone numbers;
* Obama explicitly targetted the phones of Italy’s ambassador to NATO and other top Italian officials for long term interception; and
* Obama intercepted details of a critical private meeting between then French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel and Berluscon, where the latter was told the Italian banking system was ready to “pop like a cork”.

In addition to the above list we also know now that Obama wire tapped various individuals in the US media that were reporting information not flattering to the Obama Administration. It is widely known that Obama’s Justice Department targeted journalists with wiretaps in 2013:

* In 2013 the liberal Washington Post expressed outrage after the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the newsgathering activities of a Fox News reporter as a potential crime in a probe of classified leaks. The reporter, Fox News’ James Rosen and his family, were part of an investigation into government officials anonymously leaking information to journalists. Rosen was not charged but his movements and actions were tracked.
* Also in 2013, members of the Associated Press were also a target of the surveillance. The ultra liberal New Yorker even noted that “In moderate and liberal circles, at least, the phone-records scandal, partly because it involves the dear old A.P. and partly because it raises anew the specter of Big Brother, may well present the most serious threat to Obama’s reputation.”
* Reporter Sharyl Attkisson said in 2014 that her personal computer and CBS laptop were hacked after she began filing stories about Benghazi that were unflattering to the Obama administration. A source who checked her laptop said the hacker used spyware “proprietary to a government agency,” according to an article in the New York Post.


8 posted on 03/06/2017 9:51:05 AM PST by GOPJ ("Acting' is the art of lying convincingly. Outside of Hollywood that's 'con-men' stuff..)
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To: MarvinStinson

Depends on what the definition of “is” is.


9 posted on 03/06/2017 9:54:27 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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If you mean to say “No, it didn't happen” then you say “No, it didn't happen”

Not this mishmash of officious sounding gobbledy-gook with enough caveats and holes big enough to drive a truck through.

10 posted on 03/06/2017 9:54:54 AM PST by Mr. K
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Interesting progression.

First reaction of dems and fake Republicans....Trump's gone off the deep end.

Second reaction. It might have been bugged but the President can't order that (already parsing words)

Third reaction. The FISA court would have a legitimate reason if they approved it.

Now. Silence. Especially noteworthy is that McCain has been silent. When as he EVER not taken the opportunity to undermine President Trump?

11 posted on 03/06/2017 9:56:42 AM PST by grania
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I watched GMA this AM while Steppinalloverus was desperately trying to quash this.

They kept referring to the FISA court like it was going top be some LEGAL wiretap authorization, ergo, the wiretap didn’t happen because there was no warrant issued to do so!

Like a criminal political operative is going to go to the damn court for authorization...............


12 posted on 03/06/2017 9:59:09 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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Link to associated FR thread: Flashback: New York Times front page from 1/20 Confirms Wiretap

13 posted on 03/06/2017 10:01:26 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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The second one cracks me up! There is a whole governmental department who’s purpose it is to wiretap and otherwise spy on citizens. It’s nothing new.


14 posted on 03/06/2017 10:07:54 AM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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Here is the NYT reporter who said there were wire taps at Trump Tower...called for by the White House...via the FBI. Put this man on the fake news list as he now says there were no wire taps, pure fantasy....

Michael S. Schmidt is an American journalist and correspondent for The New York Times in Washington, D.C He is a liar hardly a reporter/ journalist.

15 posted on 03/06/2017 10:10:44 AM PST by yoe
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Besides the fact it been reported in the press, the left press New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post that there were FISA warrants..

The thing is ..Obama and the dem were accusing Trump of working with the Russians .... So there would have to be investigating in to it..it be required..... and how do you do that?..Spy on his communication...so flat out..there was wiretap by the Obama admin on Trump

The thing is when you do investigated someone that also your political opponent. You have to build a “Chinese Wall” because of the conflict of interested

...Not only does it look like this was not done...Obama going out made it easy for that intel to be past around Maxine Water is even quoted saying that Obama left this breadcrumbs trail to trump So the taps even if legal ...the intel collected by the taps have been illegally used by the Dem

16 posted on 03/06/2017 10:15:46 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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Obama doublespeak

Wiretap is not “electronic intercept.”

Ordered Trumps phones bugged does not equal surveilling Trumps server in Trump Tower because obama admin were looking at a russian bank’s comms over that server and that is what we asked FISA.

Obama ordered my phones tapped “no Obama did not because FISA court ordered it after Obama admin jsutice dept requested it.

Obama dissembles n lies...it is what liberal community acticists do.


17 posted on 03/06/2017 10:16:26 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Repeal & replace Obamacare, tax reform, fix infrastructure, fixin military, Israel, kill enemies)
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Now. Silence. Especially noteworthy is that McCain has been silent. When as he EVER not taken the opportunity to undermine President Trump?

****

Good job noticing "the curious incident of the dog in the night"! (Sherlock Holmes reference, The Adventure of Silver Blaze, the fact the dog did nothing in the night was the curious incident. He should have barked.)

18 posted on 03/06/2017 10:31:31 AM PST by leftcoaster
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Thank,Texas Eagle.


19 posted on 03/06/2017 11:28:40 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Nah. Just lawyerly language by an attorney who is on the wrong side of things and has to say something.


20 posted on 03/06/2017 12:19:48 PM PST by arthurus (.)
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