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While You Weren’t Looking, the Democrat–Media Election-Hacking Narrative Just Collapsed
national review ^ | March 6, 2917 | ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

Posted on 03/06/2017 10:43:47 PM PST by bitt

That supposed FBI investigation of collusion with the Russians? Never mind . . . They’re in retreat now. You may have missed it amid President Trump’s startling Saturday tweet storm, the recriminations over president-on-candidate spying, and the Jeff Sessions recusal — a whirlwind weekend. But while you weren’t looking, an elaborate narrative died. For months, the media-Democrat complex has peddled a storyline that the Putin regime in Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election. There is, of course, no evidence that the election was hacked in the sense that the actual voting process was compromised.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445522/russian-election-hacking-fbi-not-investigating-trump-campaign

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: dncstrategy; election; liberalmedia; media; nevermind; nsa; obama; russia; russianhacking; russians; trump; trumprussia; yowergate
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To: douginthearmy

Katie tur claiming something so unbelievable...I will just say view the thread just posted about it.

Is this what they will try next..


41 posted on 03/07/2017 2:28:38 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: bitt

McCarthy says there is no evidence Trump was surveilled. Not so. The transcript of General Flynn was accurate or he never would have been fired. Flynn was IN Trump tower as was reported yesterday.

Therefore, Trump (trump tower) was under surveillance by the Obama regime.


42 posted on 03/07/2017 2:43:06 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: mbrfl
Gowdy says all the right things when it doesn`t matter, but when it comes time to step up and actually make a difference, you can be sure he`ll be far away from the front lines.

Yep! BIG talk! NO action! Yuge disappointment!

43 posted on 03/07/2017 2:44:00 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Gene Eric
Despite our objections to Obama, we never engaged in the deceit and criminality the punks are waging against our guy.

Unless President Trump can restore the rule of law, I doubt that decent Americans will make that mistake the next time around. If they think the limp-wrist protests of those who live in Mommy's basement and the riots of black bloc anarchists are resistance, they haven't seen anything yet.

I pray that President Trump will repair the system. If not, this will get uglier than America has seen in 152 years, or perhaps ever. It won't be symbolic pink hats that mark our outrage over the thugs and terrorists of the Ctrl-Left if this is not fixed permanently in the next eight years.

. . . whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . .

44 posted on 03/07/2017 2:44:45 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Didn’t Jasper’s-owner and Chris ‘No Nose’ Stirewalt have a show together?


45 posted on 03/07/2017 2:48:07 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

> The question remains, if the NYTimes is reporting that “transcripts of Flynns’ convos with the Russian Ambassador” revealed....whatever they revealed...HOW IN BLAZES DID THEY GET transcripts...without wiretapping?

There’s really only one way, which is gallows-eligible.


46 posted on 03/07/2017 2:48:57 AM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: bitt

Trump has Rogers at the NSA....Rogers staged an unusual meeting with Trump where he did not inform his direct boss that he was going to Trump tower. I suspect this is how Trump found out about these taps. Expect Rogers to pop up soon in all of this.


47 posted on 03/07/2017 2:50:18 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Helicondelta
It’s interesting what nobody bothered to ask about FISA warrants when the Flynn story came up.

Interesting, yes. But not shocking. The Media is like a domesticated animal now -- one that is used to being fed & stroked by the Democrats. Generally they don't do real reporting or develop real stories anymore. They don't have the budgets for it on the print-side. And TV? Well that's all about ratings, gossip & rumor.

48 posted on 03/07/2017 2:50:32 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: bitt

See my new tagline, it fits here.

CGato


49 posted on 03/07/2017 2:51:19 AM PST by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: bitt

For later


50 posted on 03/07/2017 2:56:13 AM PST by Lord Castlereagh
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To: bitt

Bump!


51 posted on 03/07/2017 2:59:49 AM PST by 4Liberty (PRESIDENT TRUMP: Making Private Property Rights great again!)
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To: mazda77

I am not reading anywhere the possibility that the Flynn transcripts were intercepted by the NSA and leaked to the press.


52 posted on 03/07/2017 3:19:51 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: bitt

I don’t believe this would be happening without Saturday’s tweet.

That tweet has triggered the unraveling.


53 posted on 03/07/2017 3:26:47 AM PST by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: Helicondelta

I thought it was assumed back then that the surveillance of the Flynn call was done at the Russian end. Wouldn’t that be a standard approach for any national security operation? I’m sure the NSA or some other group in the U.S. government has every foreign embassy in the U.S. under this sort of surveillance.


54 posted on 03/07/2017 3:29:02 AM PST by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Gene Eric
The Democrat Thug Party is a nasty lot.

Joseph Stalin is their patron saint.

55 posted on 03/07/2017 3:37:28 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: Helicondelta
They got trapped by their own lies.

Flynn called the Russian ambassador from the Trump tower and the press has a transcript of the call.

How on earth can they claim that there was no wiretap?

It’s interesting what nobody bothered to ask about FISA warrants when the Flynn story came up.


What if...

There was no need for FISA because:

The intercept wasn't done by NSA? What if it was done instead by GCHQ? Then, via cooperation with the Obama Administration, it was shared with the USA.

Makes all this bluster about "we didn't authorize a wiretap" (which is an obsolete term anyway) kind of a moot point.

56 posted on 03/07/2017 3:44:46 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: ez

Check out Lou Dobbs show from last night with Judge Napolatano. The NYT article in January that got the whole Flynn thing going said they were given them. They should have never been recorded or at the very least transcribed when he was speaking.

https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/838919837955026944


57 posted on 03/07/2017 3:55:15 AM PST by mazda77
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To: bitt

it was odd that the president chose to tweet the one allegation in the whole mess that appears insupportable — viz., that President Obama had had candidate Trump wiretapped.


It is not odd at all.

By doing it the way he did, President Trump forced the Obama Administration to go on the defensive (and on a weekend). From the scrambled messages being put out it is clear they did not have time to get all their talking points in order.

Some of the defenses put out appeared to be contradictory.

Also, the media has to now talk about the possibility that someone was intercepting messages from President Trump and until they can prove otherwise, many will assume it was Obama’s DOJ and or NSA.

President Trump can not go back to Making America Great Again.


58 posted on 03/07/2017 4:09:48 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: jazminerose
From what I’be read, when the government is doing an intercept and they end up tapping an American citizen, they are to bend over backwards to minimize contact with the citizen and make sure he is protected.

What the government should do and what they actually do are two different things. We've seen so many shenanigans from various people in government through the years to make it our default position to think they routinely lie, cheat, steal, and sometimes even murder (Waco and Ruby Ridge being prime examples of the latter).

59 posted on 03/07/2017 4:11:51 AM PST by Avalon Memories (If Dems want to be purveyors of unverifiable sewer trash, we can play the same game.)
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To: bitt

btt


60 posted on 03/07/2017 4:12:42 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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