Posted on 03/05/2017 6:55:56 PM PST by drewh
The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says his panel will probe President Donald Trump's allegations that Trump Tower was wire-tapped by President Obama's administration. Rep. Devin Nunes, Rep for California, said his committee 'will make inquiries into whether the government was conducting surveillance activities on any political party's campaign officials or surrogates', the chair said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
Earlier Sunday, Senate Intelligence Committee member, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., suggested his committee would look into the matter as well. 'We've already begun an inquiry on the intelligence committee into Russia's efforts to undermine confidence in our political system,' Cotton said.
'That inquiry is going to be thorough, and we're going to follow the facts wherever they lead us. And I'm sure that this matter will be a part of that inquiry.'
Cotton's committee chair, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., made a broader statement. 'As I've said since the beginning and have repeated since, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will follow the evidence where it leads, and we will continue to be guided by the intelligence and facts as we compile our findings,' Burr said Sunday.
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Hahahahahahaha! Excellent...If you didn’t have it as your tagline, I would steal it!
Even if she didn't say it, she seems to have too much influence on Obama and his nefarious agenda. And many on the thread point out there is only one source for the quote which some sites have debunked.
Holding my breath on this. Even most congressional Republicans would take 0bamas side over Trump.
Trump is taking on on huge, corrupt monster.
LOL, would you be offended if I adapted it for my tagline?
Thanks!
This isn't Jeb Bush in the White House. It's Donald Trump.
He probably already knows what a Congressional investigation is going to find, and if they try not to find it he is going to make sure it gets shoved in their collective faces even if he has to do it via Twitter messages at 5:30 AM.
Even as recently as a few years ago I never believed in my wildest dreams that I'd see a U.S. President post a message like this about the Senate minority leader:
I’d actually be honored if you’d “steal” it. LOL. Go right ahead ... I think it’s a great bumper sticker line!
I saw Cotton on FNC. He said in so many words that he doesn’t think it happened, so guess how much effort HE’ll put into it. I don’t think any half-A$$ed com-mittee will do anything. Can you say Gowdy, or Issa?
President Trump uses colloquial terms and common language so that most Americans can follow the basics of the message.
If terms of metadata, network access nodes, packet stripping, etc. were used, the message would be lost on a large part of the public.
But most everyone can understand the term ‘wiretap’.
I have no problem with the President’s word usage but he is mocked as being uninformed and unsophisticated when in fact he reaches a huge swath of the population using simplified terms, reaching a population who don’t care to know the jargon of networks and who don’t need to know the jargon, all that is needed is to understand the crime.
First thing to do Monday morning is for President Trump to fire EVERY single person Ophonybama hired!
The GOP leadership has no interest in helping Trump, but they're alarmed because they can't control him, either. Look how quickly and effectively Trump made the Jeff Sessions story seem like it happened 25 years ago.
They have been tapping his phones for 6 mos and if they had found anything they would have leaked it by now.
Bingo.
“Trump is taking on on huge, corrupt monster”.
That’s certainly the truth.
I asked myself the question, “Can a former President invoke Executive Privilege once out of office?” I then set out to find the answer. Here is what I found from Library of Law and Liberty website under an article titled “The Constitution and Executive Privilege”(Rozell, 2012)”
“President George W. Bush was not so reluctant to claim executive privilege. Bush moved on several fronts to reestablish executive privilege as a customary presidential power. Yet his efforts were highly controversial. In one case, he expanded the scope of executive privilege for former presidents, and even to allow them to transfer this constitutional authority under Article II to designated family representatives. Bush issued an executive order in 2001 that effectively revised the intent of the Presidential Records Act of 1978 in a way that made it harder for the public to get access to the papers of past presidential administrations.
In another case, the Bush administration tried to expand executive privilege to protect Department of Justice (DOJ) documents from investigations long ago closed. This claim was particularly bothersome because the longstanding practice was to claim a right to withhold information about ongoing investigations that could be compromised by public disclosure.
The most significant Bush-era executive privilege controversy surrounded the president’s efforts to prevent the release of subpoenaed documents and then testimony of certain White House aides regarding the politically motivated firings of several U.S. attorneys. The president claimed absolute immunity for White House aides, although the U.S. district court of D.C. ultimately rejected that argument.
These uses of executive privilege by the Bush (43) administration showcase how the political give-and-take of our system of separated powers often resolves such controversies. In the former example, the president initially prevailed in large part due to a tepid response from Congress and a lack of significant opposition outside of the academic community. President Obama eventually overturned the Bush executive order. In the second example, a spate of negative publicity and aggressive efforts by a congressional committee to get access to the disputed documents resulted in the administration agreeing to turn over most of the materials it had tried to conceal.”
I bet Obama is going to rue the day he turned over this Executive Order.
- See more at: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2012/07/12/the-constitution-and-executive-privilege/#sthash.mc7UWKVo.dpuf
I would start by looking at the applications to secure the warrants.
THE BIG PICTURE is Trump is ruthless.
And Brilliant.
Now obummer and his gang have to be on the defensive as well as their offensive. And they are offensive :)
That’s a hard war to fight.
And he ain’t the president anymore. Think he forgot
I think he thinks he’s ####ing with Linda or McLame or romney or anybody else but Trump. Exception Rudy.
Rudy would have ####ed him up too.
Notable that Trump hasn’t been back there once since the inauguration.
I thought JFK’s home-taping system on the White House phones were removed after Nixon was run out of office.
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