“turned down by the courts”
so far as i can understand as of this moment, from various online sources:
apparently the obama administration tried to apply to FISA to tap all the lines into trump tower, including those of a russian bank, for the relatively narrow justification that the russian bank was likely guilty of some wrongdoing. Apparently the FISA court turned them down on the overly broad wiretap request, but later granted a tailored version of that request to tap only the lines leading to the russian bank inside the trump tower.
apparently the obama adminstration went ahead and tapped all of the lines into the trump tower including the 2016 trump presidential campaign.
imho this would be watergate magnitude information, and could lead to criminal indictments inside the intelligence agencies against officials that exceeded the narrowly tailored FISA wiretap order against the russian bank. a prosecutor could follow the money and follow the paper trail all the way to the white hut and even potentially obama himself.
iow this story has watergate redux written all over it.
as for trump releasing this info on a saturday morning, another potential reason for the prima facie odd timing is that a saturday morning tweet minimizes fluctuations in the stock markets, which don’t open until monday morning. by that time, there is a news cycle consisting of the sunday talking head MSM political pundits and their guests. calmer heads should be able to prevail and (ideally) ensure that the financial analysts will take a more calm view than the political pundits and the worst of the chicken little skitters should (in theory imho) be over by monday morning when the stock markets open. (i suppose we will have to wait and see.) but trump being a businessman with his extensive business background is very unlikely to take any steps (even on twitter) without fully doing the stock market effects calculus beforehand.
Excellent analysis again!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3531317/posts?page=138#138
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With his tweet that -his- phones had been tapped, President Trump validated your point that the taps went beyond the narrow focus (bank’s phones) that had been OK’d .
SAVE and BUMP!!!
I am doing some big time interpolation and extrapolation on most of this. hopefully there will be forthcoming from fr-vetted reliable sources some expository describing the actual situation. I am looking forward to more accurate and complete coverage myself.
Great analysis. If you can post some sources links, that would help. But you’ve already provided more than enough. Thanks!
Don’t you think something’s missing regarding that limited scope request to tap just the bank?
This comment deserves a thread of it’s own!
Thank you for this explanation, this is what I have been looking for since this broke. This is what creates real legal jeopardy for Obama and his team. If they received a narrow warrant only for lines to the Russian Bank, then tapped all of Trump Tower, including Trump’s office and residence, they were operating without warrant and illegally. And that would take them down.
Saturday morning is ideal as everyone is home and will hear about it and sets up the Sunday morning talk shows for next week. Guess what all of his people will be talking about?
Yuge. Needs its own thread. Thanks. My hair is standing on end. We need to stop these bastards. A lot of people went to jail and the president resigned, in Watergate.
How did these a holes think this wouldn’t be found out?