Posted on 03/12/2017 9:48:42 AM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
President Donald Trump must provide the American people, not just the Senate Intelligence Committee, with proof of his claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, and if he doesn't have the proof, he needs to retract his statements, Sen. John McCain said Sunday.
"If his predecessor violated the law, President Obama violated the law, we've got a serious issue here, to say the least," McCain told CNN's "State of the Union" program, while pointing out that he himself has no reason to believe the allegations are true.
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mclame is an absolute disgrace to humanity.
Nothing McC says is credible.
The Obama wire-tapping gang still has to face the music.
(JIM0216 hat tip)......the issue isn't whether Trump was wiretapped (Obama admitted such and apparently, there was a FISA warrant issued for the wiretapping). The issue is whether there was probable cause to issue a warrant. Probable cause is defined as the reasonable likelihood that a crime is or has been committed by the person or at the place designated........
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(REAGANGENERATION2 HAT TIP)---Trump should be able to review all 2 or 3 FISA requests (if he hasn’t already), and then let Congress determine if the requesters lied about the probable cause justifying them......then (1) you’d prove perjury, and, even worse, (2) the intent was to abuse executive power.
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A good beginning....and then it gets downright lethal for the Obama gang:
Via Breitbart, JOHN HAYWARD observed that the FISA court may have approved a warrant submitted without Trump’s name but “which Obama then misused to spy on Trump and many connected to Trump.”
Ergo the most serious legal jeopardy that might be faced would be (a) perjury for lying to the FISA court, and, (b) the dissemination of collected intelligence that should have been kept tightly classified.
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It is also entirely possible that Obama and his legal team may have perjured themselves before the FISA court by willfully withholding material information in order to manipulate the FISA court’s willingness to permit the government surveillance.
FALSIFYING GOVT DOCUMENTS would fall under the Crimes Act of 1958. Moreover, falsifying official documents is the criminal MO to hide larger crimes.
EXCERPT A person falsifying documents can be held criminally liable if they are deliberately acting with the intention of deceiving or defrauding another party.
Falsifying documents is a very serious offense and is generally classified as a felony. This means that a person charged with falsifying documents may be subject to the following legal penalties:
◾Having to pay a monetary fine
◾Incarceration in a prison facility
Depending on the gravity of the offense, as well as individual state laws, falsifying documents can result in a prison sentence of 5-10 years.
And if official government documents or govt authorities were involved, the legal penalties may be more severe. Legal penalties may increase with repeat offenses.
Many different types of acts can be considered as falsifying a document, including:
◾Altering or misrepresenting fact-based information
◾Stating false information when requested to provide truthful statements
◾Forging a signature
◾Using official letterheads without authorization
◾Knowingly using or distributing a fake document
The penalty for falsifying government documents is outlined in the Crimes Act of 1958.
If he does, do you promise to slither back under that rock you came out of?
Not my Senator! :)
Violated the law which time, ya putz!
I celebrate very few people’s death.
Ted Kennedy was one.
John McCain will be another.
Mccain is just dancing for Soros. (just as he was paid to do)
” . . if he stuck to something he knows, like arming ISIS.”
True, he made sure his ISIS pals conveniently had everything they needed when they needed it,
As one of the Keating 5, he also knows something about corruption,
Hes also been looking a little bit distressed in some of the videos I’ve seen recently, maybe he worried more of his treasonous activities are about to come under scrutiny?
What kind of authority does the Senate intelligence committee and McCain have to demand any information from the president? Can President Trump just ignore him? Should Trump release what he has? Serious questions
I think the asshole’s problem is that his ego is so over-blown that he simply cannot accept the fact that the voters rejected him and elected Trump. Therefore, if he manages to destroy Trump, he’ll show the voters they were wrong and come out looking like a hero (without being locked up somewhere to do it).
Normally I’d agree but at this point why should he have to prove anything. Everyone is flinging crock allegations 24/7 so just join in.
McNuts is an old fool! Sorry, don’t mean to insult fools!
When is McCain going to realize that he is mostly irrelevant?
Hmmmm....the turn-coat makes me think that Trump has a reason not to talk about it and the left is trying to force his hand. Is the left trying to find out what else Trump knows or where the hole(s) in their cover up are? Sure they would try to make hay out of the proof but I feel like this gambit, using McCain, is intended to force Trump’s hand. Maybe it’s like code breaking, they want to know if they can still use certain channels and they can’t tell unless they find out where his information is coming from? Or how to defend against what else Trump must already know?
He learned well while he was an indentured guest of the Communists!
McConnell is playing a deep game. I have no trust for him at all but am leaving him some rope.
How many football stadium rallies would Trump have to hold in Arizona to get this traitorous piece of Globalist filth recalled?
I think two or three would do it.
McCain needs to prove that he’s not an agent of a foreign government, which almost ALL members of congress are (China in particular). There’s a huge difference between working with other governments, and working for them. If Trump pushed this hard, we would hear a lot less bs from these traitors.
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