Posted on 04/03/2017 8:38:58 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
“The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”
Other knowledgeable official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova’s description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
He better....
‘It becomes tedious to be forced constantly to respond to false allegations that I am a Trump hater. Nothing could be further from the truth.’
I’ll revise my assessment accordingly. You don’t hate trump; you just post the way a person who hates Trump would. I.e.: you put the worst spin on his comments. You treat discredited polling as objective truth, and if it’s negative for Trump, you reference it CONSTANTLY. Your posts reek of anti-Trump gloom, doom and pessimism.
But if you’re sure you don’t hate him, then I’ll just give you credit for doing a first class imitation.
You have your chronology backwards. Russian meddling in our election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign dominated the news and was the sole subject of the Congressional investigations.
Trump’s 5am tweet changed the narrative and added the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign and the transition team including unmasking of Flynn. Without the tweet the MSM would not have been forced to address it.
The MSM is trying to mute the coverage of the Rice connection. CNN is telling its viewers to ignore the story. Eli Lake and the NYT sat on the story similar to what happened with the Lewinsky scandal that was broken by Drudge.
You were not a Trump supporter during the primary and have been quick to criticize at every opportunity. The Trump train keeps on rolling. He has accomplished a lot in 73 days. Chill.
It’s Drudge’s top story now, along with a couple other related links, including one detailing CNN’s response to the whole thing. From that article, what Don Lemon said on air -
“And last week, it was a debunked talking point that former Obama Administration official Evelyn Farkas admitted spying on the Trump team. She did no such thing. The week before that, it was Representative Devin Nunes’ clumsy effort to give the President cover for the wiretapping claim. The President said he was vindicated by Nunes. He was not. The ‘Washington Post’ today calls the latest claims about Susan rice an anatomy of a fake scandal, ginned up by right-wing media and Trump. So let’s be very clear about this. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Trump team was spied on illegally. There is no evidence that backs up the President’s original claim. On this program tonight, we will not insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise, nor will we aid and abet the people trying to misinform you, the American people, by creating a diversion. Not going to do it.”
They are more and more outrageous every day. But I find it strangely comforting that the media masks are finally and completely and unapologetically off.
No I do not. See my early post to LS and you will see that I agree with everything in your first two paragraphs. My only point is that it could have been done more effectively had Trump not tweeted impetuously at 5 AM. These were my criticisms of the tweet made contemporaneously that morning. I stand by them even while acknowledging their good effect but say the charge could have been made to better effect.
Of coarse a charge by the president of the United States against his predecessor in office that his predecessor had committed crimes was bound to have a massive effect. The point is it could have been done without leaving Trump open to the charges which I have gone through several times on this thread. The pity is all of this downside could have been avoided and only upside effected.
Yes, I agree Trump has accomplished a lot in 73 days. Now am I still a Trump hater? Or do I have say a longer catechism or maybe even a mea culpa in order to prove that I have utterly abandoned my own powers of discernment and given myself utterly to the cult of Donald Trump? Is there a finite number of policies with which one has to agree in order to escape being a Trump hater?
As I just said in a very recent reply:
It becomes tedious to be forced constantly to respond to false allegations that I am a Trump hater. Nothing could be further from the truth. The difference between you and me is that I judge a politician on his policies, you base the policies on whether you like the politician. I think you have it backwards.
Therefore, when Trump is right as he is, for example, about immigration (except Daca) I support him but when he is wrong as he is for example about Rino care and about reneging on his promise to pursue Hillary Clinton for her crimes, I oppose him. It is not a question of liking or disliking Trump.
It is policy not personal.
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Here is a quote from the article. Is is saying that the wire taps were going from American citizen to individuals that were NOT FOREIGNERs?
“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
“The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”
+1
That's low priority. Cleaning out the Dept of State that let her do it is the higher priority.
Trump tweets the way he does in order to A, change the subject, and B, dominate the news cycle. For example, yesterday he tweeted that Hillary was given the answers to debate questions ahead of time. He’s still hoping someone will correct him, and specify that Hillary was only given the questions, not the answers. (Bol!)
To see an expert analysis of the genius of Trump’s tweets, visit Scott Adams’ blog. He’s the one who predicted a Trump victory when the MSM was handicapping the race as 100% in the bag for Hillary. Adams grasps the subtleties of Trump’s tweets that elude many if not most others. His analysis is worth a read.
No they removed the oversight of the FCC which was added last year and returned it to the purview of the FTC. The rest is media spin.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/03/joint-statement-acting-ftc-chairman-maureen-k-ohlhausen-fcc
http://fortune.com/2017/03/29/privacy-advocates-decry-repeal-internet-privacy/
“For the pro-business think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute, however, the vote marked an important removal of unneeded regulations.
“Not every hypothetical scenario involving unseemly corporate conduct justifies a federal regulatory response,” research fellow Ryan Radia said in a statement. “We know that firms generally must compete to attract and retain customers, and the same holds true in the market for Internet service, despite increasing regulatory barriers.”
The leading trade group for major telecommunications companies, US Telecom, said consumers could look to the Federal Trade Commission for privacy protection.
Congressional action to block the FCC rules “would simply maintain the status quo on privacy protections by removing the misguided rules adopted last year,” Jonathan Spalter, the group’s CEO, said in a statement. “We continue to support the FTC privacy framework and look forward to working on a more uniform air-tight approach to privacy that doesn’t advance a balkanized regulatory structure.”
I understand your advice is sincerely meant but I think his tweets are the reason he was elected and the tool he will use to destroy the deep state. I worry much less about him looking stately and much more about MAGA.
I hesitate to say this but the polls are totally a media/liberal weapon. They structure the questions to get the results they want. When you are drawing flak(ie bad polls) you are over the target. The Establishment is desperate to avoid sunshine and Trump is tweeting it to them
And who the heck do you think should vet him? A committee?>
Now you have put the lid on your absurdity.
Take a look at Sargon’s excellent previous post. He sent it to me, but he quoted your great words.
These gangsters were sifting the virtually limitless amount of SIGINT just sitting around in NSA databases, specifically with the goal of getting “dirt” on political opponents to use against them in a Presidential election (and then a Presidential transition).
I agree with you: ENOUUGH IS ENOUGH. President Trump needs to put a major stop to this police state sickness. He will lose all support if he doesn’t stop it or die trying (praying it doesn’t come to that). The Constitution is less than a gum wrapper to these people running the country.
I think ValJar made sure to have something on each one of the main players in congress. Pence looks more prescient every day.
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