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Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman (BREAKING!!!)
CNN.com ^ | September 18, 2017 | Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz and Pamela Brown

Posted on 09/18/2017 4:26:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Washington (CNN)US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.

The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.

Some of the intelligence collected includes communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the investigation. Two of these sources, however, cautioned that the evidence is not conclusive.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cultureofcorruption; donaldtrump; eavesdropping; electionsurveillance; howtostealanelection; manafort; manafortwiretapped; muellerinvestigation; obama; obamaswatergate; paulmanafort; spying; trump; trump2016campaign; trumprussia; trumpwiretapped; trumpwiretaps; tyranny; wiretap; wiretapping
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To: odawg
I have to scroll down and always catch this repulsive image. Can you have it removed?

You can do it yourself. Capture the url of the graphic in properties then put it in your spam blocker and it will delete all instances where that root comes up on various pages. I had to do this during the Helen Thomas days and also with some clown that posted carton crap all over football threads.

181 posted on 09/18/2017 6:01:17 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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To: SaveFerris

182 posted on 09/18/2017 6:02:03 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: DesertRhino
It was supposed to be a Hilliary coronation. Lynch would remain as AG. Brennan at CIA, Comey at FBI, and Clapper at NSA. And this would have been buried with 33,000 emails.

Trump and his 62+ million deplorables kept the Clinton as Potus nightmare from happening.

183 posted on 09/18/2017 6:05:37 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: JimSEA

Maybe because it just came out that some rat in the Awan investigation gave the FBI a faked server


184 posted on 09/18/2017 6:05:42 PM PDT by piasa
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To: PJ-Comix
This is like watching a two way, head on train wreck in slow motion. You don't want to watch but can't turn away.

The article says that this was under a FISA warrant, just like there was a FISA warrant on Trump. No matter how CNN spins it, the more that comes out the more it shows that the Russia story is not only about Hillary losing. Its to cover up that under Obama FISA warrants were used to spy on Obama's and Hillary's political opponents. Loretta Lynch and James Comey would have known about this even if they didn't authorize it, which they probably did. If there was any evidence of a crime then those two would have acted on it, and if that went nowhere then found a way to leak it.

So, in the end, in spite of spending twice as much as Trump, the cheating by the DNC, the news admitting they were out to stop Trump, Obama encouraging illegal immigrants to vote, and now adding to the list, using FISA warrants to spy on opponents, Hillary still could not win.

185 posted on 09/18/2017 6:05:55 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: OrangeHoof

Thanks.


186 posted on 09/18/2017 6:06:03 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Mr. K

It’s easy to explain.

Hillary and her husband commit various crimes in pursuit of money, power and higher office. As a fellow Democrat, Obama can’t afford for her to squander her chance as it will reveal flaws in his administration.

Obama decides to unleash his administration to investigate Hillary’s challenger — Donald Trump. Through misuse of law and power, the investigation is launched.

Trump detects the vile intrusions. He announces it and a complicate media belittles his claims to shield the lying Obama administration. To prolong the effort they forward elaborate Russian contact and misdeeds to try and undue the Obama victory.


187 posted on 09/18/2017 6:06:33 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: PJ-Comix

So did Drudge wake up from his attack of over sleeping?


188 posted on 09/18/2017 6:06:58 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: Jim Noble

You were right til you got to the last part.

There will be no “heavy heart.” There will be no impeachment. There will be no charges against Manafort.

Mulehead has nothing. On anyone . . . except Democrats.

In the end, he will indict some low level Dems.


189 posted on 09/18/2017 6:08:47 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: PJ-Comix

Is Sessions going to do anything about this? Can he do anything about this? Will he do........uh, never mind.......


190 posted on 09/18/2017 6:09:09 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: martinidon

The Communist News Network, AKA the Democrat Party Headquarters just cant admit that TRUMP WAS RIGHT..if this had been done to Obama by the Bush Administration they would have been protests in the streets..but hey it was done to Trump so its all good


191 posted on 09/18/2017 6:10:01 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: PJ-Comix

Sessions needs to unrecuse himself and go to town on these clowns.


192 posted on 09/18/2017 6:10:08 PM PDT by JohnyBoy (We should forgive communists, but not before they are hanged.)
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To: KC Burke

Reasons for the present leak:

1. A good guy in the Deep State

2. The Deep State knows something big is about to break against them and are trying to cushion the fall.

As someone already pointed out, if they had something, it would have already been put out.


193 posted on 09/18/2017 6:11:22 PM PDT by odawg
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To: WeWaWes
The DOJ needs to act and now.

Do you have any suggestion as to what action they should take?

194 posted on 09/18/2017 6:12:35 PM PDT by etcb
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To: CGASMIA68

That gif doesn’t irritate me at all. Obama isn’t in the WH any more. Trump is flushing Obama’s legacy down the drain on a daily basis. It has to be killing the Community Organizer. He thought he was so cool when he could put his feet on the Resolute desk. Now he’s a has-been. Trump is showing him how a real POTUS acts. I see that pic and I imagine Obama gnashing his teeth at Trump. Then he has another bong hit. He’s impotent, relatively speaking. I don’t mind being reminded of that fact.


195 posted on 09/18/2017 6:13:45 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: jiggyboy
Yes, I can't wait for his tweet on this! One Trump tweet is worth 100 MSM "news articles". Image and video hosting by TinyPic
196 posted on 09/18/2017 6:14:18 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: SaveFerris

Floppy dangly bits.


197 posted on 09/18/2017 6:14:43 PM PDT by null and void (Because it's a firearms related word, I'm triggered by "trigger"...)
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To: DesertRhino

So Manafort “encouraged” some Russians to “help” with the campaign. Damn right that’s inconclusive.


198 posted on 09/18/2017 6:14:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: odawg
If only we had a decent Attorney General. He could be wrapping this around the neck of the entire Obama administration, including Obama. If the weasel cannot find it within himself to jump on all of this, he should resign, or be fired.

Therein lies the problem. If POTUS knows (and he should know everything) that Sessions hasn't moved on this crap then fire the bastard. Let Congress try to impeach over that, they couldn't even tie it to Russia since Sessions is out on Russia.

199 posted on 09/18/2017 6:18:53 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: odawg
If only we had a decent Attorney General. He could be wrapping this around the neck of the entire Obama administration, including Obama. If the weasel cannot find it within himself to jump on all of this, he should resign, or be fired.

Therein lies the problem. If POTUS knows (and he should know everything) that Sessions hasn't moved on this crap then fire the bastard. Let Congress try to impeach over that, they couldn't even tie it to Russia since Sessions is out on Russia.

200 posted on 09/18/2017 6:18:54 PM PDT by Kenny
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