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NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up On Wiretap Claims (POTUS is 'absolutely right!')
US News and World Report ^ | | March 7, 2017, at 12:00 p.m. | Curt Mills

Posted on 03/07/2017 1:13:21 PM PST by drewh

President Donald Trump is "absolutely right" to claim he was wiretapped and monitored, a former NSA official claimed Monday, adding that the administration risks falling victim to further leaks if it continues to run afoul of the intelligence community.

"I think the president is absolutely right. His phone calls, everything he did electronically, was being monitored," Bill Binney, a 36-year veteran of the National Security Agency who resigned in protest from the organization in 2001, told Fox Business on Monday. Everyone's conversations are being monitored and stored, Binney said.

Trump's Base Is Standing Firm

Binney resigned from NSA shortly after the U.S. approach to intelligence changed following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He "became a whistleblower after discovering that elements of a data-monitoring program he had helped develop -- nicknamed ThinThread -- were being used to spy on Americans," PBS reported.

On Monday he came to the defense of the president, whose allegations on social media over the weekend that outgoing President Barack Obama tapped his phones during the 2016 campaign have rankled Washington.

"How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" Trump tweeted.

"Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!... I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!," he continued.

Binney seemed to go further than the assessment of former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a George W. Bush administration official, who offered a tacit defense of Trump to ABC on Sunday.

"This is the difference between being correct and right," Mukasey said. "The president was not correct in saying President Obama ordered a tap on a server in Trump Tower. However, I think he's right in that there was surveillance and that it was conducted at the behest of the attorney general – at the Justice Department through the FISA court."

But Binney told Sean Hannity's radio show earlier Monday, "I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant."

The judges on the FISA court are "not even concerned, nor are they involved in any way with the Executive Order 12333 collection," Binney said during the radio interview. "That's all done outside of the courts. And outside of the Congress."

Binney told Fox the laws that fall under the FISA court's jurisdiction are "simply out there for show" and "trying to show that the government is following the law, and being looked at and overseen by the Senate and House intelligence committees and the courts."

"That's not the main collection program for NSA," Binney said.

What Binney did not delve into, however, was if President Obama directed surveillance on Trump for political purposes during the campaign, a core accusation of Trump's. But Binney did say events such as publication of details of private calls between President Trump and the Australian prime minister, as well as with the Mexican president, are evidence the intelligence community is playing hardball with the White House.

"I think that's what happened here," Binney told Fox. "The evidence of the conversation of the president of the U.S., President Trump, and the [prime minister] of Australia and the president of Mexico. Releasing those conversations. Those are conversations that are picked up by the FAIRVIEW program, primarily, by NSA."


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billbinney; binney; deepstate; insurrection; nsa; obama; shadowgovernment; trump

1 posted on 03/07/2017 1:13:21 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

But the MSM will somehow spin or twist this, and continue to report that Trump accused 0bama of wiretapping, without offering any evidence.

In a “fair” world, the MSM would be trying to get to the truth and details of the story, instead of trying to paint our beloved POTUS as a maniac.

The MSM is so far gone that the only hope, as I see it, is for them to improve over these next 4 years. If not by their own decision to be more thorough and accurate, then by their recognition of their increasing irrelevance to anything going on in our country. (I know, “dream on”, right?)


2 posted on 03/07/2017 1:17:33 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: drewh

Intelligence needs to HEEL to the people and our elected representatives.


3 posted on 03/07/2017 1:19:48 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: drewh

Soon, the leftist freak Hussein Heads will be HAPPY that Trump was right, because he must be reined in, etc, but then will have to prevent themselves from figuring out that they, themselves, TOO, have been wiretapped.


4 posted on 03/07/2017 1:20:23 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: drewh

WRT leaks of private/sensitive conversations that President Trump is having AS PRESIDENT, there HAVE to be intelligence people who go to jail after being convicted of violating the Espionage Act, or for treason.

Failure to charge, and obtain convictions against, these traitors will not go unnoticed by others of similar bent. Make an example of a few - bankrupt them as they defend themselves, then clap them in jail for life - and the leaks will stop. Let it go, and this crap will continue.

For that matter, the same applies to any Obama-era appointees acting as moles within the government. They should ALL be fired, immediately, and any who can be found to have violated the law MUST be prosecuted.

This will be rough sledding, and a LOT of dirt will be flung around and uncovered, but it is critical that the Dept. of Justice do this so that government employees - i.e. civil SERVANTS of the people - understand their place in our society, and so that EVERYONE understands that we are returning to the rule of law. If this is not done, then the Rule of Law is over and everyone will simply do as they please.

Prosecute these people, Mr. President, good and hard...or our society will fall apart and everything that you have ever worked for these last 2 years or so, everything that you value about our society, will turn to garbage.


5 posted on 03/07/2017 1:24:30 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: treetopsandroofs

the ‘deep state’ is getting awfully public these days..


6 posted on 03/07/2017 1:28:23 PM PST by drewh
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To: NEMDF

I love the fake the Fake Media was reporting the wire tapping in Jan 2017 as part of their “proof” to back up their fake “Russia hacked the election” propaganda NOW in March 2017 the same “journalists” claim there is no proof of the wiretapping!


7 posted on 03/07/2017 1:31:28 PM PST by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: drewh

In plain English, Obama and his intelligence butt boys had either better have come up with evidence from their monitoring of Trump that Trump posed a national security risk or probable cause that he presented such a risk in order to authorize issuing a warrant.
Otherwise it is pretty clear that they were doing it for the reasons we all know they were doing it: to get information helpful to them in election 2016.

If that is the case, and it appears likely—since we’re well past the “That wasn’t my dog that bit you” stage of typical Clinton/Obama denials—Obama and Clinton are culpable/liable for violating a raft of federal laws intended to protect American citizens’ 4th amendment rights.


8 posted on 03/07/2017 1:33:28 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: drewh
President Donald Trump is "absolutely right" to claim he was wiretapped and monitored, a former NSA official claimed Monday, adding that...

... the administration risks falling victim to further leaks if it continues to run afoul of the intelligence community.

Would be a smart thing to do?

9 posted on 03/07/2017 1:33:30 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MNJohnnie

Oooops!


10 posted on 03/07/2017 1:34:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: drewh

He’s been out for 16 years. I’m not sure what he knows that is useful.


11 posted on 03/07/2017 1:44:26 PM PST by webheart (All comments are considered to be sarcasm unless otherwise noted,)
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To: drewh

The fractures have started.
The MSM is starting to worry about jail time.


12 posted on 03/07/2017 1:48:20 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

They are very deserving. Let’s be sure that they get it!


13 posted on 03/07/2017 1:57:03 PM PST by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: drewh

14 posted on 03/07/2017 4:53:02 PM PST by Stepan12 (go)
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To: Elsie

That sounds like a warning about blackmail.


15 posted on 03/07/2017 4:56:27 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: right way right

Nice little shop you have here...


16 posted on 03/07/2017 6:41:02 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: webheart

If he knows what the monitoring technology state of the art was in use by NSA 16 years ago, you can be sure it has only improved since then.


17 posted on 03/08/2017 1:56:36 AM PST by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: tumblindice; LucyT; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; TigersEye; Oynx; ...
I hope som of them some heat from the House and Senate investigations.

O'Reilly didn't get much out of Sen Cotten from what I saw on a video clip of his interview of Cotton.

18 posted on 03/08/2017 9:50:48 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The swamp is worse than most can imagine.)
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To: drewh
Binney resigned from NSA shortly after the U.S. approach to intelligence changed following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He "became a whistleblower after discovering that elements of a data-monitoring program he had helped develop -- nicknamed ThinThread -- were being used to spy on Americans," PBS reported.

One more reason to block as many suspected terrorists as possible from coming to our country. "Intelligence Services' use these people as an excuse to spy on Americans.

19 posted on 03/08/2017 11:24:18 AM PST by GOPJ (Obama's Deep State is attempting to overturn results of a Presidential Election - it's treason.)
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