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Although the beltway elite and their Chia pets in the media will split hairs about whether or not it was Obama who explicitly ordered the surveillance, it is beginning to be clear that there was an effort to surveil candidate and then President Trump — and many parties lied about it.

A few months ago, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said that if true, Trump’s wiretapping claims would be the “biggest political scandal since Watergate.”

Brace for impact, swamp.

1 posted on 09/19/2017 3:16:31 AM PDT by calvincaspian
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If the GOP actually opposed the Left, this would be huge. They don’t, so nothing will come of it. Trump is alone in the swamp.


2 posted on 09/19/2017 3:25:17 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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Of course it is true. It has already been confirmed with warrants issued by the unAmerican FISA court. Clapper is in it up to his bald crown.


3 posted on 09/19/2017 3:29:10 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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We’re way past “swamp” and well into cesspool territory. Turds all.


4 posted on 09/19/2017 3:30:36 AM PDT by paulcissa (Democrats want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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The swamp is not bracing for impact. The law does not apply to them. They can do whatever they want to President Trump.


5 posted on 09/19/2017 3:35:28 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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Has swampass Sessions recused himself or is he still in his safe space because Trump yelled at him for sucking?


8 posted on 09/19/2017 3:52:17 AM PDT by mindburglar
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I hate it when people cannot properly excerpt an article. Instead of the garbage, you should have excerpted the moneyquote:

Last night, Tapper’s colleagues at CNN broke blockbuster news: “US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election.”

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According to CNN, “The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.”

We really don't need the he said she saids.

9 posted on 09/19/2017 4:02:47 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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A SECRET COURT?


12 posted on 09/19/2017 4:08:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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Breitbart today recalls one of Comey's many very lawyerly lies about wiretapping Trump:

“With respect to the president’s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI,” he told the committee, according to the BBC.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/18/james-comey-tried-to-discredit-trumps-wiretapping-assertions-that-proved-true/

13 posted on 09/19/2017 4:17:36 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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So how are we going to use this information? Are we going to call our local talk shows and make sure the listeners know about it? Are we going to write letters to the editor of our local papers? Are we going to picket outside the local TV stations, demanding they report the truth, instead of an endless stream of anti-Trump, anti-American fake news?

Or will we do what we usually do...thump our chests on FReep and talk about how the Leftist media are hateful liars, then go back to doing whatever we were doing before? The truth is a weapon, people, but only if we use it.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

17 posted on 09/19/2017 4:35:52 AM PDT by wku man
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This will not be allowed to become a big scandal because the media and the Republicans won’t allow it to become one. It will, however, become a shield against the next few attacks and another straw that will eventually break the back of the fake Mueller investigation. On balance this is a plus.


20 posted on 09/19/2017 4:53:10 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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It’s a little bit like Waco and I’ll explain:

The feds wanted to raid Waco after the civilian ATF cops got military training.

the legal problem to that goal was Posse Comitatus; with only a few narrow legal exceptions US law forbids civilian law enforcement from working with the military:

The framers wanted to avoid scenarios that wore then common in Europe or today like much of Latin America, where you have 16 year old soldiers walking around civilian road checkpoints with machine guns.

so they lied and said that the Waco Davidians were dealing drugs and robbing banks; these legal exceptions to Posse Comitatus would provide the cops legal cover for receiving that military training.

this is the same reason why The Swamp lied about “Muh Russians”:

the Trump campaign was full of Americans, of course, and you can’t use American spy gear against them for just any casual reason.

it was never really a legit suspicion it was just legal cover, just like the Waco lies.


22 posted on 09/19/2017 5:11:35 AM PDT by gaijin
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‘Wish Trump hadn’t used “McCarthyism!”.


23 posted on 09/19/2017 5:42:50 AM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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This alone justifies and warrants a full investigation of Obama, Clinton, Rice, Lynch and her predecessor.........

Sessions? You there?????? WAKE UP!!!!


28 posted on 09/19/2017 6:25:38 AM PDT by Arlis
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btt


31 posted on 09/19/2017 7:43:05 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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At least some time hero, some time buffoon President Truman had the courage to say, “The buck stops here”.

soebarkah as President: “Huh. I din’t do nuffin’.” Shocked at his subordinate’s conduct.

Man, I wish we could see this cretin’s Occidental College records. That would be the end of him.


32 posted on 09/19/2017 9:04:58 AM PDT by onedoug
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