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A SHOE DROPS: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SPIED ON CARTER PAGE [UPDATED]
powerline ^ | 04/11/17 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 04/12/2017 6:25:01 AM PDT by pgkdan

I assume this Washington Post story is true: “FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page.” It confirms what has been sporadically reported since late last year, that the Obama administration sought and ultimately received a FISA order to spy on at least one associate of Donald Trump. So Trump’s famous tweets were, in substance, true.

***SNIP***

UPDATE: We are now starting to get a picture of how sinister this whole Democratic Party misinformation campaign is. Through the last half of 2016, the Obama administration was desperately searching for evidence of some link between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia. They went to the length of seeking (twice, reportedly) and finally obtaining a FISA order that allowed them to spy on at least one insignificant Trump associate.

In addition, we now know that Susan Rice headed up an operation whereby raw NSA intelligence was sifted for names of Trump associates, no doubt in hopes of uncovering dirt of some sort.* And we also know that these efforts came up dry. The Obama administration found no compromising information about Trump or any of his associates.

Nevertheless, ever since the Inauguration the Democratic Party, especially its press wing in Washington and New York, has relentlessly pushed the Trump/Russia story. What story? There isn’t one. But that hasn’t stopped Democrats in the press from talking about little else for the last three months.

And yet, all along, the Democrats have known that their spying produced nothing. This whole story is almost unbelievably sordid. The relevant Congressional committees should investigate thoroughly, and criminal prosecutions should follow where laws have been broken.

It is time to get to the bottom of the Obama spy scandal.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; carterpage; fisa; fisacourt; obamaspies; susanrice; trumpteam; trumpwiretaps
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* All of this is reminiscent of Watergate, in this sense: after the fact, no one could figure out why the Plumbers bugged the Democratic National Committee, given that President Nixon was obviously going to be re-elected anyway. (The answer to that question may still be unknown, but that is another story.) Similarly, Barack Obama and his minion Susan Rice no doubt were confident that Hillary Clinton would win the election and serve Obama’s third term. Yet, they weren’t taking any chances.

Curioser and curioser.

1 posted on 04/12/2017 6:25:01 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: pgkdan

We knew..........................


2 posted on 04/12/2017 6:26:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: pgkdan

From what I understand Carter Page never was with the campaign or the transition team. The Carter Page thing is another imaginary strawman.


3 posted on 04/12/2017 6:29:02 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Red Badger

Even though Obama and minions knew Clinton would be elected, they could not help themselves in spying on Trump...

It is the nature of liberal democrats....


4 posted on 04/12/2017 6:29:14 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: pgkdan

Did they pick Carter Page because they thought he was the Mist likely conduit to the “Russians” or because they wanted someone the FISA court wouldn’t recognize and be able to tap any communications he might have, including Trump himself? If they had asked to tap Trump or someone well known in his inner circle they might have not gotten the usual FISA rubber stamp.


5 posted on 04/12/2017 6:31:03 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: pgkdan

They claimed he was an agent of a foreign power to get that warrant.

Someone should be looking at the info that used to go on that fishing expedition.


6 posted on 04/12/2017 6:31:08 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: JBW1949

Perhaps they knew she wouldn’t, is why......................


7 posted on 04/12/2017 6:31:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: pgkdan

They will continue to lie. Comey will continue to side with them and do nothing, which signals the left the lies are to be believed. The media will continue to believe the lies. The dems will not stop and Trump is getting a lesson on how to survive in a hostile world. He needs support and prayers!


8 posted on 04/12/2017 6:33:14 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: dynoman
From what I understand Carter Page never was with the campaign or the transition team. The Carter Page thing is another imaginary strawman.

No but he was an informal economic advisor. He probably spoke with various members of the Trump team during the campaign and transition. He was low enough on the totem pole to not raise too many red flags but by monitoring his communications who knows who else they'd be able to listen in on.

This whole damned thing stinks to high heaven and I pray we see justice here.

9 posted on 04/12/2017 6:39:07 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Red Badger

Oh now. This is big, CNN says. Justified because the FBI was investigating his ties as a spy for Russia, trying to impact the campaign.


10 posted on 04/12/2017 6:39:31 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: KarlInOhio
or because they wanted someone the FISA court wouldn’t recognize and be able to tap any communications he might have, including Trump himself? If they had asked to tap Trump or someone well known in his inner circle they might have not gotten the usual FISA rubber stamp.

This is exactly what I'm thinking.

11 posted on 04/12/2017 6:40:09 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pgkdan

There will be more shoes than in Imelda Marco’s closet before this is over...


12 posted on 04/12/2017 6:41:26 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Luke21

They make an unfounded accusation in order to get a FISA warrant, then use the same pretext to monitor everybody he knows.............


13 posted on 04/12/2017 6:41:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: RummyChick

I agree...Let’s see the FISA warrant.


14 posted on 04/12/2017 6:44:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: frnewsjunkie

I agree with you. Nothing will be done about this. Obama never appointed anyone who was not a fellow traveler. He appointed Comey. As for Congressional investigations, they are almost universally useless, meant more for Congressional posturing than anything else. Once in a long while they may produce something of genuine value, but more by accident than design. It would take an honest and fair FBI to investigate, and in a timely manner. We haven’t had an honest, fair FBI in decades, if ever.


15 posted on 04/12/2017 6:44:51 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Compromise is NOT a dirty word. It's how human society functions every day.)
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To: pgkdan

This is exactly why Sessions should not have recused himself.

Now he can’t order the FBI to cough up their evidence.


16 posted on 04/12/2017 6:46:24 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: pgkdan

People need to be convicted and sentenced to lifetime or worse for these crimes against the people of the United States.


17 posted on 04/12/2017 6:46:37 AM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: Red Badger

These type tactics may have been used to obtain compromising information used to blackmail Chief Justice John Roberts when his ruling saved Obamacare. Obama has no moral compass.


18 posted on 04/12/2017 7:03:32 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: bigbob
Don't you just know,... many snowflake's & millennials are staying “Who's Imelda Marcos and What's with the connection to her shoes?
19 posted on 04/12/2017 7:05:56 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: pgkdan
Sessions just keeps building a case.

Did the FISA warrant include EVERYONE he was in contact with?

20 posted on 04/12/2017 7:06:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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