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Feds monitored Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones(NOT wired TAP)
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Posted on 05/03/2018 2:38:54 PM PDT by janetjanet998

EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.

But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohen’s phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.

NBC News has changed the headline and revised parts of the original article.


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: cohen; jamescomey; lisabarsoomian; lisapage; michaelcohen; omg; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; wiretap
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To: janetjanet998
Feds monitored Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones(NOT wired TAP)

"Wire Tap" has become a generic term meaning any method of listening in to someone else's phone conversations.

So yes, he was "wire tapped."

41 posted on 05/03/2018 4:14:11 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: janetjanet998

Ha Ha.

I like how they pretend “tapped - monitored” is easy mistake.

ALL PHONE CALLS are “monitored.”

Liars caught lying to cover lies.


42 posted on 05/03/2018 4:15:34 PM PDT by CharleysPride (Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
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To: xzins

Why wouldn’t we trust the “intelligence” services? They have never lied before //SARC


43 posted on 05/03/2018 4:16:57 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: janetjanet998

Oh, dear, the semantics game. Which they lose, incidentally - “monitor” does not mean “read the pen register”, a term I haven’t heard in years. When you hear “This call may be monitored for quality control purposes,” they aren’t talking about copying a list of caller and recipient, they’re talking about listening in. This is nothing but a bit of deliberate obfuscation on the part of the speaker.


44 posted on 05/03/2018 4:21:55 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: piasa

It is a matter of query. They have it, and I bet they’re looking, and I’m betting Trump knows they’re looking.

He probably messes with them.

“Michael, this is Donald. What say we order out for some stormy day bean soup?”


45 posted on 05/03/2018 4:52:47 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Oh you trusting soul. Your faith in our overlords truly humbles me. I need to repent right away.

:>)


46 posted on 05/03/2018 4:54:58 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Cementjungle; All
"The NSA records all our calls.
You don’t need to place
a “wire tap” these days...."


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47 posted on 05/03/2018 5:12:00 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Cementjungle

And you know this how?


48 posted on 05/03/2018 5:39:59 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Billthedrill

“When you hear “This call may be monitored for quality control purposes,”

When I hear that recorded message calling in anywhere to me, that’s the GREEN LIGHT to my taping my end of the call. PERIOD.

I don’t have to say I’m taping if they have already played that recording to me. Two can play the game. No contract is binding if both parties don’t have a copy.


49 posted on 05/03/2018 6:02:14 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Why wouldn’t we trust the “intelligence” services?

Good question...They're clearly corrupt to the bone.

50 posted on 05/03/2018 6:07:12 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: janetjanet998

51 posted on 05/03/2018 6:07:48 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

LOL!


52 posted on 05/03/2018 6:09:54 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Technicality. They still are snooping where it is not their business.


53 posted on 05/03/2018 6:32:57 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: madison10
Technicality. They still are snooping where it is not their business.

Back in 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a "search" at all for constitutional purposes, and thus requires no warrant, because it uncovers no information that the caller didn't voluntarily disclose to the phone company. Congress put some limits on the use of pen registers by statute in 1986, but it is far, far easier for the government to use a pen register than for it to get a wiretapping warrant.

54 posted on 05/03/2018 6:51:40 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: janetjanet998

I think there were likely real wiretaps, they just don’t want to admit it.


55 posted on 05/03/2018 7:17:07 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Cementjungle

That’s pretty scary.


56 posted on 05/03/2018 9:13:21 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/


57 posted on 05/03/2018 9:21:33 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: janetjanet998

Probably did listen, and probably illegally.

They spy in all of us routinely.


58 posted on 05/03/2018 9:42:54 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: antidisestablishment

How is this related to my comment?


59 posted on 05/04/2018 1:16:09 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen. But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohen’s phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.
Thanks janetjanet998. Of course, if this had been Hillary's lawyer, they'd have called Hillary first, asked if it was okay, been told no, and then not done it.

60 posted on 05/04/2018 2:37:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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