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Obama Spied, Media Lied
PJ Media ^ | April 2, 2017 | Andrew Klavan

Posted on 04/02/2017 12:03:19 PM PDT by Kaslin

Holy smoking gun, Batman!

Once you wave away all the smoke created by our dishonest media, the story of this past week was pretty simple. The Trump-Russia-Conspiracy narrative is falling apart. The Obama-Spied-on-his-Political-Opposition narrative is coming together. The media has given credence to Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff's hysterical charges about how the Republican chair of the committee, Devin Nunes, made his latest discoveries. But Schiff is a dishonest McCarthyite, spewing insinuations and accusations without any proof to back them up. Nunes, on the other hand, has obviously gotten hold of solid intel showing that Obama spied on Trump and his people, pretty much as the president tweeted back on March 4. The willing Democrat executioners of truth — i.e. the news staffs at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and the New York Times — give equal weight to the statements of both men, making it seem like the House Intelligence Committee has simply descended into partisan bickering. But that's a lie. Nunes has found something. Schiff is smearing him and the president. Those two actions do not deserve the same sort of coverage.

An intelligence whistle blower has apparently shown Nunes documents containing intelligence gathered on members of Trump's transition team. Though this intelligence may have been gathered legally — i.e. as part of a wiretap on foreigners — at least two of the names of Americans, including the name of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, were illegally revealed and shared widely. Other names were made obvious even though they remained concealed. None of the investigations seems to have had anything to do with Russia

You can tell that Nunes has got this stuff solid because after he saw the documents he first informed the media, then informed the president, then informed the media that he had informed the president. The White House has since invited members of both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to view certain documents which may or may not be the ones Nunes saw. That's a lot different than Schiff making McCarthyite noise about there being "more than circumstantial evidence" that Trump works for SMERSH. Schiff and other Democrats have tried to confuse the issue with cries that Nunes isn't playing fair and demands that he recuse himself.

But in a stunning piece of video a former Obama official who went on to advise the Hillary Clinton campaign essentially confirmed that she was urging the previous administration to abuse intelligence on the Trump people. Evelyn Farkas, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, told Mika Brzezinski earlier this month: "I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left, so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy. That the Trump folks – if they found out how we knew what we knew about ... the Trump staff dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence." But Farkas was already out of the administration and advising Hillary. Why the hell did she know anything about secret intelligence?

Ah, glad you — and no one in the mainstream media — asked. According to Senator Chuck Grassley, as reported by Fox News, Hillary and six of her aides retained access to classified and top-secret documents even after she left the State Department. Grassley says Clinton was "extremely careless" with the information. Wait, what? Hillary Clinton careless with classified information? Whoever heard of such a thing?

I have no doubt the Russians tried to influence our election process this past year and every year before that. I have no doubt that we have done the same in other countries. It's a legitimate news story, but not a shocking big hold-the-press news story. That the Obama Gang was using intelligence on Republicans to try to thwart a Trump administration from erasing Obama's legacy — that's a huge story, a scandal almost as big as the fact that Obama used the IRS to decimate the Tea Party movement. If there were even a single honest editor at the network news departments or CNN or the New York Times, this would end with some high-level Obama and Hillary cronies doing perp walks. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: corruptmsm; farkas; medialies; msmasleep; msmisajoke; nunespresser; sleepysleepyeyes; trumpwiretaps
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1 posted on 04/02/2017 12:03:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If a Republican has a wet fart, it is a national scandal. If a Democrat is standing over a disemboweled corpse, holding a hunting knife with blood soaked clothing, the media scarcely gives it notice. It is the way it is.


2 posted on 04/02/2017 12:10:14 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Kaslin

Prove every bit of this and it still won’t be tied to Obama or Hillary. A few people may fall on their swords like Susan McDougall and Webb Hubbell but no one will turn on them. Why? Because the Republicans won’t hang their butts out to dry.


3 posted on 04/02/2017 12:11:20 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Kaslin

The left will never care.

One more reason they should be defeated, not lived with.


4 posted on 04/02/2017 12:12:50 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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The Deep State, under Obama, surveilled American citizens, and the Trump Team. Obama wanted the information they had gathered to be as widely disseminated as possible.

In retrospect, I'm sure Obama, and the Dumbocrats, rue the day Evelyn Farkas got on MSNBC.

The Dumbocrats sorely needed someone to dig them out of Hillary-induced oblivion.....to make a strong case for them.......to suggest that “The Russians Made Us Do It” narrative was legit.

But it seems odd that this Farkas person no one ever heard of, was selected to appear on-air.

Who gave the go-ahead for Farkas? She, herself, didn't decide to "help out" by going on TV. Doesn't work that way.

So, is Obama still calling the shots? Maybe Hillary thought it was a good idea (smirk)?

Maybe Evelyn needed a perk to pump-up her resume?

An entire thesis could be written on how "Evelyn Faced Life" on MSNBC and brought utter infamy onto the heads of Obama and the Dumbocrats.

5 posted on 04/02/2017 12:13:02 PM PDT by Liz
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To: fhayek

The Media is taking advantage of their First Amendment rights to the extent that it thinks it is allowed to lie to the American public without consequence.


6 posted on 04/02/2017 12:14:32 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: Liz

Interesting thought. Was she just throwing smoke like Rice did with the Bengauzi video? In that case there is something even more damning that they are trying to hide ? What?


7 posted on 04/02/2017 12:26:02 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: Kaslin

I find it curious how Obama has spent the last month on a remote private island in French Polynesia as all these revelations have come in.


8 posted on 04/02/2017 12:27:50 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Terry Mross

Speaking of butts, I’m prayin Trump is getting his people in, getting his “ducks lined up” and that at some point a year or year and a half in he starts applying the Law to Hillary and company. If he doesn’t he’s DEAD. They’ll bring him down.


9 posted on 04/02/2017 12:27:56 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Rurudyne

of course not


10 posted on 04/02/2017 12:28:31 PM PDT by Kaslin ( The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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To: Terry Mross

You’re right....we are in a total cultural war with the left & still we fight with one hand tied behind our back.


11 posted on 04/02/2017 12:29:19 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Liz

I consider bozo’s present physical distance from America proof positive he is involved and calling the shots.


12 posted on 04/02/2017 12:30:05 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: 353FMG
Hopefully over the next few years more and more people will get their news from alternative sources outside the dishonest mainstream media. Their credibility is waning and president Trump might drive the final nail into their coffin.
13 posted on 04/02/2017 12:35:36 PM PDT by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear)
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To: 353FMG
The Media is taking advantage of their First Amendment rights to the extent that it thinks it is allowed to lie to the American public without consequence.

99 years after Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested that there are limits to the right of free speech under the Constitution by stating that "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" is speech that is both dangerous and false, and therefore not protected, we are in a situation where all the MSM does is shout fire in a crowded theater, day after day, 24-7.

14 posted on 04/02/2017 12:38:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Kaslin
Wait, what? Hillary Clinton careless with classified information? Whoever heard of such a thing?
. . . and we are supposed to believe that Craig Livingstone’s “FBI Filegate” caper never diverted classified personal information about Republicans to Hillary.

Whooee! Have I got a deal for you on the Brooklyn Bridge!


15 posted on 04/02/2017 12:38:51 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: Steely Tom

Good post bears repeating....

....”99 years after Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested that there are limits to the right of free speech under the Constitution by stating that..... “falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater” is speech that is both dangerous and false, and therefore not protected,..... we are in a situation where all the MSM does is shout fire in a crowded theater, day after day, 24-7”......


16 posted on 04/02/2017 12:40:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: TalBlack

No question.......he’s hiding out.

I never thought he’s be as repulsive out of office as he was in office....but I was wrong.


17 posted on 04/02/2017 12:43:54 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Kaslin

>>Obama Spied, Media Lied<<

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

EXCELLENT!

Headline says it all.


18 posted on 04/02/2017 12:44:27 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
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To: hoosiermama

Oh yeah....big stuff’s coming....count on it.


19 posted on 04/02/2017 12:45:39 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Nah, it was Jarrett. She’s in DC while Obama will end up staying in a nation that won’t extradite him.


20 posted on 04/02/2017 12:48:10 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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