Here's an NPR conception of "wire tap".
Posted on 03/16/2017 12:24:55 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
President Trump discussed his tweeted accusation that President Obama ordered "wires" at Trump Tower tapped during last year's presidential campaign in an exclusive interview with Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Wednesday.
Trump told host Tucker Carlson that the administration "will be submitting things" to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence "very soon." The president added that he "will be, perhaps speaking about this next week" and predicted that "you’re going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next 2 weeks."
When asked by Carlson why he tweeted about the alleged phone tap before producing evidence, Trump said his definition of wiretapping "covers a lot of different things."
"That really covers surveillance and many other things," he said. "Nobody ever talks about the fact that [the words 'wires tapped'] was in quotes [in the tweet], but that’s a very important thing."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
And Trump said he will furnish evidence soon?
Who do you believe?
Me? Not Congress critters.
I hope he delivers it with spoons.
Here's an NPR conception of "wire tap".
Has he been wrong yet?
Mr. President has YET to be wrong. (except maybe for his trust in a few congress-turds)
Why aren’t we requiring the left to live by their standards?
where is the evidence that Russia hacked the election? There is none
We should call on them to retract and apologize.
Go, Trump!
June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.
October 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons.
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The Obama wire-tapping gang WILL have 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. (excerpt)
He’s waiting for more Dims to walk into the trap.
Where is the evidence that Rand Paul is a Russian agent, as McCain said yesterday?
I just looked at the original tweet. He did put “wires tapped” in quotes—ROFL!
Admiral Rogers (head of the NSA) went to see Trump immediately after the election. This was an “off the books” visit. Clapper tried to get him fired immediately after this. Rogers is still there but Clapper is gone.
This will be very brutal in the near future. There will be no compromise. Either Trump wins or the deep state wins. If the NSA under Rogers is really on Trumps side, Trump will win.
I’d love to see him dump a big box of bug microphones on a table, like in an old Hogan’s Heroes episode.
Yep, as he said, in quotation marks
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
6:35 AM - 4 Mar 2017
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The MSM will continue to flog this matter on behalf of their masters, splitting hairs over the meaning of the word “wiretap” and President Trump will produce the evidence showing that Clinton, per alios—following Bill’s meeting with Lynch to discuss grandchildren, cabbages and sealing wax—burgled his communications.
Then as usual nothing will come of illegal, Watergate-type snooping and the MSM will receive new marching orders and move on to beating their drums over some other BS `rat claim or denial.
Remove the foreign invaders, kill Obamacare, permanent furloughs to non-essential federal employees, defund the EPA, Dept. of Edumacation & NPR/PBS/more money to ICE and the military, last but not least, boycott the shadow govt’s Ministry of Truth.
IMO, to win Trump needs to start airing some of his opponents' dirty laundry and start exposing some of the corruption--hit the previous administration with a Watergate-type scandal (the current wiretap controversy could open that up; there are other ways to do it), hit Congress with a Koreagate/ABSCAM type of sting, hit the liberal judges with an Operation Greylord-style sting.
Wiretap bump for later......
Spicer was addressing this all moments ago at the presser.
Spicer is GREAT! I love this guy! He does not take any crap!
This reminds me of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. The information is coming the the UN inspectors haven’t found anything but they aren’t through yet. Bush says “tell them to leave, we are going to bomb. Let’s don’t get all the evidence before we reach our conclusion . Besides the fact the the evodense is obvios — let’s all say there is no evidence “ BEFORE the evidence is in showing the obvious” These are rino - GOPe republicrats that are still trying to win the primary. WAIT FOR THE DAMNED EVIDENCE BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR FINDING!! Where do they think the transcripts were of the wiretapped telephone conversation were from? potato salad?
Is anyone watching the WH presser? Sean is reading the MSM the riot act.
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