Posted on 09/20/2017 4:29:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
In my mind, Trey letting Hillary off the hook...allowing her to testify publicly before his committee.....is his most egregious error.
Too bad we don’t have laws on that (smirk).
It was a maniacal feeding frenzy of "can you top this" reports naming various Trump associates who had any contacts with Russians. It was guilt by association, all based on leaks of classified secrets that originated either in law enforcement or intelligence agencies, or Obama and his henchmen in the White House.
At least six people from the Trump campaign, including Trump himself, were identified in various reports as having been picked up in intercepted communications by the Susan Rice MO.
Always, the reports insisted that the Americans were not the targets of the surveillance, that they were “incidentally” picked up while talking to targets.....(a Susan Rice specialty).
Those six included Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, then-Senator (now Attorney General) Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner.....Manafort.... and Carter Page, briefly a Trump adviser.
So the opposition uses all this tech to deliberately compromise those who would investigate them. Sessions knowing he did nothing obliged them? This is a stretch and shows sessions priorities are backwards. This is another reason for him to resign
Jeff Sessions was taped also. Wow. He won’t even defend himself. He is so deep he may be invisible. Will Trump fire
Mueller? will he order Mueller to look into this wiretapping? Will he appoint a Special Counsel? Who knows.
Looks like Trump may be the only clean one here. Everyone else stays out of the discussion. Must be very illegal actions. Purge them all.
Perhaps those records have mysteriously surfaced,
I have not seen any comment by PDJT on this revelation.
Only CNN has pushed this story.
Wonder if CNN is trying to bait Trump and he is not biting.
Seems fishy to me.
BTTT
It's not a question of whether he did anything or not. He didn't recuse himself to cover his own ass. He recused himself because he may be both a witness and a victim in this matter, depending on what legal proceedings may come from this.
This is a stretch and shows sessions priorities are backwards.
What SHOULD his priorities be? What are your priorities here?
They were tapping Sessions too ... going back to reports from 2016 it appears they were doing it in the spring and summer of 2016...meaning, by June.
An Attorney General who encourages the oppression/intimidation of law-abiding citizens, and does nothing about the lawlessness and corruption that is glaringly evident among the DC political class, is NOT a "nice guy."
Such a man is disgustingly inept at best, and a corrupt, sleazy, piece of garbage criminal at worst.
Take your pick. But Jeff Sessions has proven to America that, at heart, he is not a "nice guy."
Don’t be stupid. Since he was surveilled by the prev admin and one of its leaker’s earliest smear targets he’s got more reason to detest these people than you do.
Unless you are a pothead...
“Read the weasel wording. They denied that they ‘had any records’ of wiretapping (aka electronic surveillance)”
“Weasel wording” = Clinton-speak.
In both legal and practical terms it's important to distinguish between someone who is a surveillance target and someone whose conversations are recorded because they're talking with someone else who is the actual target.
Then he shouldn’t have taken the job. My priorities are irrelevant. He took job knowing he couldn’t perform fully. He is gelded and comprised nice situation Jeff we don’t need a victim for AG. Face it we’ve been had with sessions. Protecting the executive branch from Coup would rank high on my list for Jeff. Not assisting it
If everyone whose conversations were caught up in pre-election surveillance by the NSA or CIA (and it's important to remember that Manafort may have been a legitimate surveillance target) was precluded from serving as the U.S. Attorney General, you'd probably have a list of potential AGs with nobody's name on it that had any connection to the campaign.
If there is ever to be any prosecution of these corrupt officials then Sessions will be needed as a witness and victim. Same as Flynn, etc.
I am not sure what you mean. Sessions may be a witness or Victim! No one knows this occurred until recently. Sessions has shown he will not get involved. He knows the worm rules and how to manipulate the Senate. everyone in power is protected. As AG he has no one to help. He is on his own and realized he is way out of his league. He is most likely complict in the Swamps actions. He is biding his time. He knows he is done when this matter is concluded. No guts No glory.
True, it is an important distinction.
No, I don’t think he was an official target, at least not in any FISA request. Even if he was a target I don’t think they’d put it on paper. They were surveilling the Russian ambassador and thus, anyone who conversed with him.
This is where it gets fishy.
They targeted the Russian amb because the press implied, as I recall, that he was more than a typical ambassador - the implication was he was a station chief for all practical purposes. Snarky reporters played it as if he was recruiting. Of course that has to be taken with a grain of salt as the press is biased.
Yet the Kerry State Dept did arrange at least one of the events where Sessions had contact with the ambassador... and this fact was omitted by the leakers and reporters when the smearing of Sessions was hottest in early March 2017.
Then the Dems, who by this time were aware of “Amb Superspy”
had no problem hanging with him at the SOTU speech even though the press was reporting as suspicious anyone who so much as shook his hand... so long as they were not Democrats. Weird.
Question remains, was there really any particular reason to spy more closely than usual on a Russian diplomat? Was surveilling him was just a routine and nonpartisan national security matter that Trump associates just happened to get caught up in...or was the surveillance of the Russian amb unique or unusually intensive because he was a convenient excuse for surveilling or smearing Trump advisors and potential nominees?
Did the State Dept deliberately arrange the event that included the Ambassador and Sessions hoping to get something useful... or was that invitation just a routine courtesy for a candidate’s advisor? If it was just routine why not come out and say so rather than let someone be smeared over it?
This has been known at least since it was made known the Obama admin unmasked large numbers of people. So no, it’s not recent at all.
You have no evidence to support this claim. Funny how the same people claiming Trump is brilliant also have to simultaneously accept that he is a moron when it comes to making nominations.
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