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obama did wiretap Trump
Flopping Aces ^ | 09-19-17 | DrJohn

Posted on 09/20/2017 11:23:11 AM PDT by Starman417

It's not called "blind hatred" for nothing. A while back I wrote that democrats were opening Pandora's box.  It is now open and they're really, really not going to like what's coming.

Last week, we learned that Susan Rice lied through her teeth:

On the same day, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice was interviewed by PBS’s Judy Woodruff and asked to respond to Nunes’ accusation that she had unmasked those Trump officials in the waning days of the Obama administration. Here is the exchange:

Woodruff: We’ve been following a disclosure by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence, during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition, after President Trump had been elected, that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals in that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?

Rice: I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.

As we now know, Rice wasn’t surprised. At all.

Remember when James Comey denied that Trump was being wiretapped?
The FBI is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with a covert Russian operation to interfere with the election, FBI Director James Comey told Congress Monday — and he refuted the president’s baseless claim that his predecessor wiretapped his communications.

Comey’s confirmation in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the Trump campaign was the subject of a U.S. counterintelligence investigationwas a revelation that could shadow the Trump presidency.

The FBI director also dealt the president’s credibility a blow when he said he "has no information that supports" Trump’s allegation from two weeks ago that President Obama ordered surveillance of his communications in Trump Tower during the campaign.

Only courts grant permission for electronic surveillance, Comey told lawmakers, and "no individual in the United States can direct electronic surveillance of anyone."

Comey's reputation is in tatters now.

Remember when James Clapper denied that Trump was being wiretapped?

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied on Monday that there were any wiretaps on Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, and also revealed that the president-elect had asked him to publicly disavow a private investigator's un-corroborated dossier on Trump circulating among journalists.

Clapper was responding today to a weekend tweet tirade by the President, who made unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the election campaign.

"There was no wiretap against Trump Tower during the campaign conducted by any part of the National Intelligence Community," Clapper, America's top spy until January 20, told ABC News' Brian Ross in an interview in Washington, D.C., “none at all...including the FBI”.

It's important to pay close attention to what Clapper said:

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: clapper; dni; jamescomey; obama; susanrice; susanricejamescomey; trump; trumptower; wiretap; wiretapping

1 posted on 09/20/2017 11:23:12 AM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417
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Nah, you can post it right here.

2 posted on 09/20/2017 11:27:17 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Starman417

What is going on here?

When exactly did this plan to crush Trump with Russia accusations begin?

We need a timeline of when Russia was first brought up in the campaign and who brought it up.


3 posted on 09/20/2017 11:27:30 AM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: Starman417

It would seem with President Trump at the top of the executive, and Jeff Sessions, his man, as Attorney General that something would come of this.

I don’t think there will be any action taken. The swamp is strong beyond measure.


4 posted on 09/20/2017 11:32:00 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Starman417

Didn’t Nixon wiretap his political enemies? What did the Dems think of that?


5 posted on 09/20/2017 11:32:37 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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PBS' Judy Woodruff:" We’ve been following a disclosure by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that during the final days of the Obama administration....during the transition, after Pres Trump had been elected.....that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals in that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?

Rice: "I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today. "

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Taxpayers demand this frickin' liar Susan Rice answer questions....and they want answers now:

1. When did you request the unmasking, and from which agency?

2. Who in that agency actually did the unmasking? Please provide the written requests you submitted.

3. Once the names were unmasked, did you still believe there was a threat to national security from the named US persons?

4. If so, with whom did you share the information, and what actions were taken to protect America and American citizens?

5. If you did not, then you should not have shared the names with anyone else, so how did the names become known?

6. Why was any of the info detailed here deliberately withheld on the FISA application? (it's a felony to willfully withhold information when applying for a FISA).

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(HAT TIP OMEGATOO)

<><> If the information found in the ‘incidental’ involvement of any US Person was threatening US Security, and America citizens' safety, why did US security agencies wait for Rice’s request to unmask?

<><> Did Obama issue a secret stand down order?

<><> Why did Rice on PBS initially deny responsibility for the unmasking...then come clean later?

<><> Why was this threat not unveiled at the time or since? Why now?

Alarmingly, the supposed ‘threat’ identified by Rice was about to be inaugurated as President of the US. Shouldn’t Congress have been notified? Why did Rice keep it a secret? Maybe she planned to collude w/ the Clintons to sell the intel to a foreign country?

The NSA didn’t unmask the information initially, plus later investigations found NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Seems to be proof-positive that whatever suspicions Obama/Rice/Brennan may have had to justify the unmasking were absolutely wrong, or more likely non-existent.

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Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

Contact your Reps and Senators; demand Susan Rice answer these questions immediately.

6 posted on 09/20/2017 11:32:44 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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You don’t say?????....

??????


7 posted on 09/20/2017 11:33:49 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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We are starting to get a good picture of how sinister the Obama-Rice Police State really is (its still functioning via OFA)-----and the genesis of the Democrats' "win at any cost" odious misinformation campaign is suddenly clearer.

BACKSTORY 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 great lengths, falsifying requests, twice seeking, then finally obtaining, a court-ordered FISA, that allowed them to spy on at least one Trump associate.

<><> In addition, we now know that Susan "The Sifter" Rice had an operation wherein raw NSA intelligence was sifted through for names of Trump associates, in hopes of uncovering dirt of some sort.

<><> These efforts came up dry. The Obama administration found no compromising information about Trump or any of his associates.

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Not surprisingly, ever since the Trump Inauguration, the Democratic Party, especially its NY/DC press wing, has relentlessly pushed the Trump/Russia story. But that hasn’t stopped Democrat factotums in the press from talking about little else for the last three months.

This is the kicker----- all along, the Democrats have known that their spying produced nothing.

This whole Obama/Rice/Comey/Mueller/Democrat spy apparat is almost unbelievably sordid. The relevant Congressional committees should investigate thoroughly, and criminal prosecutions should follow where laws have been broken.

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It's high time the Obama/Rice Police State and its spying apparat be investigated.

ACTION NOW-—CONTACT CONGRESS: Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414

8 posted on 09/20/2017 11:35:26 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: Starman417
The White House had to undergo a complete wall re-plastering. And then they had to paint everything, inside and out.

I wonder why they did that?

9 posted on 09/20/2017 11:36:39 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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The heinous "legacy" of the Obama presidency is writ large..... so much damage inflicted in the little time the citizenry allotted him.

Obama and his Democrat fellators, ValJar, Susan Rice, and the rest of the knee-padders, turned every federal agency into a political weapon: the FBI, the IRS, NSA, CIA, even the FISA court.

Obama and his factotums weaponized and corrupted everything for their insatiable thirst for power, for their despicable "progressive" ideology, their obsession w/ a permanent Democrat majority, and for their twisted political ambitions.

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CASE IN POINT---MSM news anchors were happy as clams speculating that the court-authorized FISA wiretap MUST mean that political operative Paul Manafort was probably guilty. The newsboys happily speculated that perhaps Trump, himself, was implicated.

Now that's very interesting. B/c not only is it a no-no to LIE to a FISA court.....it is a felony to WITHHOLD info from the FISA court.

<><>Did Obama/Rice's request for a FISA warrant stipulate that Obama and Susan Rice wire-tapped Trump Tower......while Trump was a candidate?

<><> Did Obama/Rice's request for a FISA warrant stipulate that Obama's CIA director Brennan used phony foreign intel as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into candidate Trump?

<><> Did the request for a FISA warrant stipulate that phony foreign intel led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to candidate Trump residing and conducting business in Trump Tower?

<><> Did the request for a FISA warrant stipulate that foreign intel gave cover to Susan Rice's sifting/unmasking operations?

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I didn't think so.

10 posted on 09/20/2017 11:41:27 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; stephenjohnbanker; ...

PING


11 posted on 09/20/2017 11:42:21 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; stephenjohnbanker; ...

PING


12 posted on 09/20/2017 11:42:26 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: Liz

Of course he did. For political purposes. Using the resources available
on a Presidental candidate to affect the election.
Put all responsible in jail.


13 posted on 09/20/2017 11:46:44 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee)
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To: humblegunner; Starman417
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Nah, you can post it right here.

Click bait.

14 posted on 09/20/2017 11:54:56 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: roses of sharon

JANUARY 2016 : (CHALUPA GETS “A FEEELING” -— See 2016ELECTION, RUSSIA) Alexandra Chalupa is a veteran Democratic National Committee staffer and consultant, former Bill Clinton administration official, and a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign advisor.
In January 2016 Chalupa told a senior DNC official that, when it came to Trump’s campaign, “I felt there was a Russia connection”. That “feeling” set in motion the Russia Narrative.
Chalupa said the embassy (the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington) also worked directly with reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia to point them in the right directions. Andrii Telizhenko, who worked as a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy said, “They were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa ... the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa. - http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446


15 posted on 09/20/2017 12:34:10 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Liz

PING


16 posted on 09/20/2017 12:36:08 PM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa; roses of sharon; Liz
See the Russia section in this December 2015 document, "Donald Trump Report, Democratic National Committee, Submitted 12/19/15", pp. 96-97: Here’s the leaked opposition research document on Donald Trump that’s circulating the web
17 posted on 09/20/2017 1:25:57 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Nice find.


18 posted on 09/20/2017 3:00:26 PM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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