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Woodward: Surveillance Report Likely 'Highly Classified Gossip' About Trump
FOX News ^ | March 22, 2017 | The O'Reilly Factor

Posted on 03/22/2017 9:10:14 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward said that allegations from a report that say President Trump's transition team was named in surveillance reports of foreign individuals would be "gross violations."

A couple of diplomats who were legitimately wiretapped were talking about meeting Trump or his team, Woodward said on "The O'Reilly Factor."

However, U.S. intelligence agencies are supposed to comply with "minimization" rules, which protect Americans' names from being published in reports or leaked in any way, he added.

"The idea that there was intelligence value was really thin," Woodward said.

"You've got this really serious problem potentially of people in the Obama administration passing around this highly classified gossip," Woodward said.

He called the leaking of such names "inappropriate" and possibly illegal. If Nunes' statements are true, it would be a "gross violation."

They knew this information was floating around the intelligence agencies, Woodward said. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; nunespresser; trumptransition; trumpwiretaps
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To: Just mythoughts

I can’t argue with a thing you posted...am in complete agreement, with ONE caveat.....we don’t know, one way or another, that Jaime was ONLY hired for that one purpose. And that she was hired, AT ALL, doesn’t sit well with mje, nor others who know her history.


21 posted on 03/22/2017 10:38:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They can’t just accept that Trump was spied on. They have to spin it.


22 posted on 03/22/2017 11:28:18 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Red Steel
I thought last week Boooob Woodward was telling us there was no Trump surveillance? I’m surprised these clowns don’t suffer from whiplash.

It wasn't too long ago that Woodward was all spun up over the "dirty dossier".

It may be that he has finally realized that what has been going down makes Watergate, the event that he built his career on, look like a game at a child's birthday party.

It may be that he knows that his glory has long since faded, and he doesn't want to miss out on this one.

23 posted on 03/22/2017 11:45:30 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: nopardons

Ahem..... Remember I had to talk you into taking on the Cruz bots head on.

Relax about Ivanka and Jared. Jared will solve the middle east. The washington monument will look spectacular. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/white-house-2018/2933531?snl=1


24 posted on 03/23/2017 12:26:15 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
ROTFLMSO....you presume too much and pride yourself on that which didn't happen. :-)

Funny link!

25 posted on 03/23/2017 12:41:26 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Brad from Tennessee; Fred Nerks

‘Highly Classified Gossip’ About Trump>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nope. Not gossip. Ugly cannot be made cute.

Its felony Breach of the Espionage Act.

The goal was to destroy the transition and delegitimize President Trump.Sedition.

Comey needs to resign under threat of impeachment.

Jeff Sessions needs to get the necessary evidence from the NSA, and convene a grand jury.The FBI is dirty.

Notice how Obama is in French Polynesia on a private Island for a month without the wookie, beyond the subpoena reach of the House Committee on Intelligence chaired by Nunes. I am sure Trey Gowdy has a few questions for Obama. Unusual.

Any bets that Obama will re-enter the USA?


26 posted on 03/23/2017 1:46:18 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Mike Darancette

We need more of them to speak out.


27 posted on 03/23/2017 2:23:49 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: Candor7

Cut off Obama’s allowance and strip him of his secret service detail, if he chooses to stay out of reach.


28 posted on 03/23/2017 2:36:21 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: nopardons

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2017/03/ivankagate.html
In everything but name, Trump is settling in as what appears to be a full-time staffer in her father’s administration, with a broad and growing portfolio — except she is not being sworn in, will hold no official position and is not pocketing a salary, her attorney said.
Trump’s role, according to her attorney Jamie Gorelick, will be to serve as the president’s “eyes and ears” while providing broad-ranging advice, not just limited to women’s empowerment issues. Last week, for instance, Trump raised eyebrows when she was seated next to Angela Merkel for the German chancellor’s first official visit to Trump’s White House.

An office in West a Wing? Security clearance?? This has GOT to stop. We are in perilous times. We are basically at war. I believe Ivanka is being set up to be used for grounds for impeachment of the President ( nepotism). I do NOT trust Gorelick and do notwant her two degrees from our President! Get them OUT of Whitehouse. Don’t know what Trump is thinking !


29 posted on 03/23/2017 3:11:56 AM PDT by boxlunch (Pray for Donald Trump's safety, for his family and cabinet. Make America Good Again!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Highly classified gossip” is just a euphemism for attempts at blackmail.

We need to start seeing some arrests very soon or nobody is going to take Trump seriously anymore - the situation gives every appearance of Trump being powerless to stop the rampant leaking of classified info and unwilling to hold anyone to account for it.

Trump needs to reverse the momentum on this issue fast - we are already in the “spiraling out of control” phase. Feet need to be put down, not tomorrow, but right this very minute.


30 posted on 03/23/2017 3:38:35 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: Fresh Wind

And remember, if there is anyone who should know more than a great deal about highly classified gossip it is Woodward.


31 posted on 03/23/2017 3:39:18 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

FOLLOW THE MONEY! Just think of the valuable inside information that could be gathered from listening to Trump and his associates discussing their plans to legitimately divest the president-elect from his business dealings.

Look for stock trades and investments from everyone who could have seen these intercepts, then expand that search to family and friends.


32 posted on 03/23/2017 4:00:22 AM PDT by Carlucci
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To: boxlunch
I believe Ivanka is being set up to be used for grounds for impeachment of the President ( nepotism).

Nepotism is not a crime.

33 posted on 03/23/2017 4:05:49 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Depth charge the Deep State)
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To: Mike Darancette

http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/pdf/170321-Final%20Whistleblower%20Letter.pdf


34 posted on 03/23/2017 4:28:31 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Woodward: Surveillance Report Likely 'Highly Classified Gossip' About Trump

Nothing but speculation for the lyin' media!

35 posted on 03/23/2017 4:35:30 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Woodward used the term “wire tapped”

In so doing, Woodward justified the Trump use of the term.

CNN and Comcast must be destroyed


36 posted on 03/23/2017 4:39:29 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: bert

I noticed that there haven’t been any “leaks” coming out of the White House in the last couple weeks. Coincidence?


37 posted on 03/23/2017 4:42:17 AM PDT by Russ
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Essentially, Woodward is saying this surveillance is only people talking “about” Trump and his associates, did not capture any of his actual associates. I think Woodward is talking horse hockey here. He has no clue. He’s been living off his reputation since his Watergate days, as he’s completely lost his edge - if he ever had an edge. Bernstein must have been the smarter half of the team.


38 posted on 03/23/2017 5:02:56 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: Fresh Wind

Woodward wants access to Trump so he can write a book. He’ll be more favorable than most of the MSM toward Trump. Keep an eye on what he says, IMO.


39 posted on 03/23/2017 5:29:32 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: thoughtomator

the situation gives every appearance of Trump being powerless to stop the rampant leaking of classified info and unwilling to hold anyone to account for it.


The kenyan “classified” garbage gossip to give the appearance of guilt in Trump. He’s got nothing. Widely disseminating trivial matters gathered by intel is what will hang them, IMO. There is no plausible reason to do that other than harm Trump politically.


40 posted on 03/23/2017 5:32:35 AM PDT by lodi90
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