Posted on 03/31/2018 6:05:29 AM PDT by MNDude
The other storyline is simply fantastical. Congressional Republicans have uniformly run away from Trump's Obama-wiretap accusation. Clapper denies it. FBI Director James Comey denies it. Not a single member of Trump's own administration is willing to say it's true.
Loopier still is to demand that Congress find the truth when the president could just pick up the phone and instruct the FBI, CIA and DNI to declare on the record whether this ever occurred. And if there really was an October 2016 FISA court order to wiretap Trump, the president could unilaterally declassify the information yesterday.
The bugging story is less plausible than a zombie invasion. Nevertheless, one could spin a milder — and more plausible — scenario of executive abuse. It goes like this:
The intelligence agencies are allowed to listen in on foreigners. But if any Americans are swept up in the conversation, their part of it is supposed to be redacted or concealed to protect their identity. According to The New York Times, however, the Obama administration appears to have gone out of its way to make sure that information picked up about Trump associates' contacts with Russians was as widely disseminated as possible.
Under Obama, did the agencies deliberately abuse the right to listen in on foreigners as a way to listen in, improperly, on Americans?
If they did, we will find out. But for now, all of this is mere conjuring. There is no evidence for either the collusion or the wiretap charge. We are headed down a rabbit hole. An enormous amount of heat and energy will be expended, ending — my guess — roughly where we started.
What a waste. There is a major national agenda waiting to be debated and enacted.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
No Charles....we are heading down the right path for a change....sorry that this makes you uncomfortable....but you can expect more
Trump would not have said he was being tapped if he didn’t have proof.
“All this is mere conjuring”
Seriously? If he says “conjecture” that’s fine because it is not yet proven. But he says “conjuring”. A magician’s trick? An illusion? A lie? That’s a pretty biased view.
Hasn’t Hammer been silent for a year or so?
I used to respect him.
However, he has done a fine job of showing that, just perhaps, there was a lot of plastic with a fake chrome coating there.
And, just like Detroit, our respect has faded.
Wow, I just realized I haven’t seen Charles for several months. Just found out he underwent some kind of surgery......Hope he recovers soon
Under Obama, did the agencies deliberately abuse the right to listen in on foreigners as a way to listen in, improperly, on Americans? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
PDJT was likely informed by patriots in the FBI that his campaign was under illegal FISA surveillance.
Obama and his Alinsky racketeering crime syndicate broke the law.
And they need to PAY! Or else the shooting will eventually start. The entire matter needs to be handed to a special prosecutor, not to Huber, an Obama appointee located in the hinterlands of Utah.The matter is serious enough to spark civil war with government liberal fascist racketeers of the Obama crime syndicate.Everyomne knows who they are now.John Bolton will flush them out.
Catch them or kill them?
Sessions actions have so far made sure these Obama crime syndicate racketeers will be killed instead of tried in a court of law. And If that happened, I can’t say I would blame PDJT at all, nor would the voter majority at this point in time.
Sessions really has earned a royal kick in the ass.
Read more at Google.... Yeah right. :)
This is the day I stopped following Krauthammer.
Ah, the Neo-con, imperialist, globalist, Charles Krauthammer, graces us with his pen once again.
This is from March of last year. Sour Kraut was and is a Never Trumper. This proves he was wrong yet again.
The title says this is from 2017, so a snarky comment implying it was recent is so clever. Thanks!
The title says this is from 2017, so a snarky comment implying it was recent is so clever. Thanks!
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Your right...I should be more careful when insulting your hero.
had to get a crow surgically removed from his mouth.
There was once, a long time ago, I had some respect for Charles Krauthammer. But that was long, long, ago.
This is the new approach to all this. In successon (and I fully recognize I missed some):
Trump peed on mattresses.
Trump colluded.
Obstruction of justice.
Stormy Daniels.
And now we are on to: It is all a Giant Conspiracy Theory without a hint of proof of any of it. The is what Jeffrey Toobin said the other day.
Problem for the Leftists is: The wheels are already turning. The proof is there and they won’t be able to get it shoved under a carpet.
Go to www.danbonginio.com and listen to the podcast from Friday 3/30. (Yesterday).
It’s coming folks. Mark my words.
The Neo-Con mouthpiece for the Deep State - spit -
March 11, 2017 article. Why now?
Krauhammer still alive?
Too bad.
Pseudoconservative.
Anybody heard from Bill Priestap lately?
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