Incredible find! Thanks to Kabar!
Posted on 03/06/2017 1:09:11 PM PST by drewh
President Donald Trump does not believe FBI director James Comey’s insistence that Trump Tower was not wiretapped, a White House spokeswoman has said.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deputy communications director, was asked whether Mr Trump believed Mr Comey’s denial.
"No, I don't think he does," she told Good Morning America, on Monday morning.
She said the president "wants the truth to come out to the American people,” adding: “He is asking that it be done through the House Intelligence Committee, and that that be the process that we go through."
She added that as president, Mr Trump "has information and intelligence that the rest of us do not."
On Saturday Mr Trump accused Barack Obama of ordering a wiretap to be placed inside Trump Tower before the election.
On Sunday the New York Times reported that Mr Comey said that the FBI had never tapped the building, and had asked the department of justice to issue a statement denying the tapping. They have yet to do so.
Mrs Huckabee Sanders was asked on a second breakfast show whether Mr Trump had received the information via the media.
"The president firmly believes that the Obama administration may have tapped into the phones at Trump Tower and that this is something that we should look into," she said. "We'd like to know for sure."
She then turned to attack the media for its reporting of his administration.
"The media has been extremely dismissive of this reporting and this potential story while all the while being very happy to jump on all of the false attacks that have been launched at this president. " she said.
"All we're asking for is a fair and same look at this potential story and to let the House Intelligence Committee do their job."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What really confuses me is how Obama thought this could be concealed after he was out of office. Is he really that deluded?
” Mr Comey said that the FBI had never tapped the building, “
Translation: We hacked the server via computer program, and intercepted everything else as the email went across the internet internationally. But we did NOT tap into the building physically.
He’s a liar.
Trump wasn't supposed to win.
“Come says, they never “wiretapped the building.” I call that another non-denial denial.”
I think what you are getting to is what is the definition of “wiretapped”.
The single source for the story about Comey disputing the wiretapping of Trump is the NY Times and is based on information obtained from an unnamed source.
The FBI has made NO statement about this matter.
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Bears repeating. Thanks.
Recall that Comey has given two closed briefings to Congressional committees in the past few weeks. Remember Trey Gowdy praising Comey for being forthcoming and adding that readers need to take NYT and WaPo reporting with a lot of salt. He couldn’t hide a grin when he said that, so maybe those outlets are being fed bogus leaks in a set-up or, at the least, are about to be decisively refuted.
MSM is quick to run with the Comey refutation story, while donk minion, Adam Schiff, was wringing his hands and moaning at the lack of specificity in Comey’s briefing to his committee.
Of the three, I’ll take Gowdy.
“Unnamed American sources” I believe is what the NYT reported. Interesting choice of words.
What really confuses me is how Obama thought this could be concealed after he was out of office. Is he really that deluded?
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IMO, he and Hillary have enough on one another that he was confident she’d keep it private.
Incredible find! Thanks to Kabar!
Yes, and said source probably isn't even in the government - described by the NYT as "senior American officials." Such a description can include DNC officials, NFL officials or people who are old and officially American.
Hillary may or may not have been tipped off by the fbi in late october of 2016 about the trump tower server traffic.
the trump tower server traffic in question back then seems to have been limited to dns protocol packet information. this does not carry any actual raw customer server-client data. it is more similar to metadata— it is a network analog to file metadata. you cannot learn any raw customer server-client raw data contents by looking at dns traffic.
because it is not raw data, dns traffic does not seem to be covered by any confidentiality restrictions. if it is covered by restrictions, perhaps it is not covered strongly enough.
people who do not understand internet protocols can blow things out of proportion by misreading and misunderstanding the difference between client-server raw data packets and monitoring of those packets on one hand, and dns traffic on the other hand. conflating the two would be confusing to anyone who is not at least very familiar with network protocol design and operation.
in particular it could be very confusing to someone with limited technical background. someone such as... say... a fisa judge. or a political party hack, especially one who has risen above his or her level of ability. if a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the packet stream occurred at the technical level, then all kinds of bad things could happen, because everyone relies on geeks to keep computers and networks running smoothly. one mistaken geek or one biased geek might be all that it would take in order to get a fisa order written. the fisa court process is not an adversarial process. find an expert, give him or her the information, let him or her make a recommendation in front of a fisa court judge, and in most cases, “away we go.”
in this specific case, there seems to have been a long time monitoring of ordinarily very humdrum and boring dns traffic by typically bored computer scientists, mostly perhaps trying to ensure that no bottlenecks are developing and no malware (eg denial of service attacks) are occurring. someone asks someone else if there seems to be anything unusual at trump tower, and an answer comes back yes, but perhaps it is due in part to misunderstandings and in part due to subconscious political bias and not rigorously vetted. the accusations in their raw confidential but unclassified form gain a momentum of their own as they bounce around the deep political state that is the 2016 obama administration. it seems at least theoretically possible that at this stage that either the computer scientists themselves or low level political operatives take it upon themselves to share the confidential but unclassified analysis with the hillary campaign. the analysis goes to hillary directly. presto, hillary’s campaign manager writes a memo for release to the public based on a relatively lightly vetted raw analysis of questionable veracity.
in the manner described above, hillary could have learned about the analysis without any contact between hillary and the fbi. the fbi, fisa, and hillary received the same flawed technical analysis, and the rest is GIGO (garbage in, garbage out)— including the october 31, 2016 hillary memo and and the fisa request, presented to fisa without an adversarial hearing and without sufficient vetting to prevent a wild goose chase wiretap.
just saying it could have happened this way, not that it did happen this way— there does not seem to be enough information either way to know for certain. what does seem apparent is that there is not enough information in the public domain to make a conclusion based on information that is in the public so far about whether there was ever sufficient technical justification presented to the fisa court for a wiretap on trump tower, or any part of it. this is separate from another concern over whether the wiretap, once approved, was sufficiently limited in execution such that it operated entirely within the confines of the fisa court order, or was it expanded to a fishing expedition of the type originally sought in the first fisa court request.
She said the president “wants the truth to come out to the American people,” adding: “He is asking that it be done through the House Intelligence Committee, and that that be the process that we go through.”
If Congress does not do it’s job, President Trump (I love saying that) should declassify the information he has, and put it before the People, bypassing the weasely Congress and the lying press.
>>>”No, I don’t think he does,” she told Good Morning America, on Monday morning<<<
The Spokesman gave their Opinion. It does not match the Headline.
Lots of the intel community needs to resign. They are not protecting America they are protecting their own sorry hides. Trump should take EVERYTHING the intel says as a lie and the find ways to verify their information.
Everyone keeps assuming that the NYT report “claiming” Comey is urging the FBI to deny is true.
Unless I hear it from Comey himself or is otherwise corroborated, I’m going to assume it is just more “fake news”
The FBI’s #2, McCabe, is stinkier and needs to go first.
James Rosen describes being investigated by Obama admin
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5348347976001/?#sp=show-clips
“The seizure was ordered in addition to a court-approved search warrant for Fox News correspondent James Rosen’s personal emails. In the affidavit seeking that warrant, an FBI agent called Rosen a likely criminal “co-conspirator,” citing a wartime law called the Espionage Act”
In the latter case, an FBI agent also claimed in an affidavit that Rosen was possibly a criminal “co-conspirator.”
I listen to Jay Sekulow on the Salem radio network (in the Pittsburgh area on AM 1250 the Answer) and I trust his judgment.
I love this about Trump he will stand his ground and take on all comers....FBI don’t scare him, he will crush Comey and any other liar.
I appreciate your thoughts.They are far more educated than mine on the esoteric. But I am far more convinced that the entire project was driven by the FBI which has become infested with low life leftists at the head and neck.
Why was Trump wire tapped in conversations with the Australian Prime Minister? and Trudeau? Why was General Flynn wire tapped? Why was Session wire tapped?
Why tonight is it revealed that Senator Grassley is investigating the REAL possibility that after the old retired crazy English MI6 officer sold leftists Bull shit that whores pissed on Trumps bed in Moscow— THAT THE FBI HIRED THAT CRACKPOT BASTARD TO GET DIRT ON TRUMP? Let me tell you this. We are about to turn this real bad and if we do— watch out. Mika will really be begging.
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