Posted on 08/21/2019 7:22:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
'The only reason' for spying was to 'inform the president'
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy pointed out that counterintelligence operations by the FBI, Justice Department and are carried out for the president.
So it would have been the responsibility of the Obama administration's counterintelligence investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign to make sure Barack Obama knew what was going on, he said in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday night.
"What I'm saying is not that the president sits there and directs that there be counterintelligence investigations, McCarthy explained, according to BizPacReview. "What I'm saying is that unlike criminal investigations, counterintelligence investigations are done for the president."
He said the "only reason to do them is to inform the president with the information he needs to protect the United States from foreign threats."
"And here we know at various junctures we have actual factual information that this investigation was well-known to President Obama," McCarthy said.
"If things were working properly, the president should have been alerted about it and informed about it it was a very important investigation," McCarthy said. "If they actually believed what they were telling the court, that it was a possibility that Donald Trump was actually a plant of the Kremlin, it would have been derelict on their part not to keep the president informed."
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I’m sort of amused that McCarthy is trying to justify the whole spying, and later coup attempt, as though it was Obama’s DUTY to do it. When every last one of them, including Obloviate, knew the evil scheme was a hit job to prevent Trump’s election. And failing that, to drum up a phony case to remove him from office. To MY mind, this makes McCarthy a post facto ENABLER, assisting in the cover-up. His mealy-mouthed book be damned!
exactly
...and there isn't a single rat bastard, scumbag Congresscritter or Senator, R or D, who is willing to do a damned thing about it.
May they ALL die and rot in hell!
That POS Barry belongs in prison. He did what he wanted because he was half black and nobody would dare touch the black president even today. Clinton is doing what she is doing because nobody will touch a Clinton or a Biden for that matter. The government is a swamp infested mafia. It’s disgusting.
...and it likely started within 24 hours of Trump questioning The Little Kenyan Boys birth certificate.
There was no doubt a lot of stompy feet going on in the WH the day that happened
with the collusion of his international friends and the FakeNewsMSM.
which is why they have all kept up the PR for the Obamas since Trump became President, instead of ignoring him like they usually do when it comes to ex-presidents.
time for all the investigations to end and all the evidence to be laid out. it’s already been dragged out through the mid-term elections, with the Dems taking the House, at least partly due to all the fake Russian allegations.
get it over with NOW. indict the co-conspirators.
Was Obama a Kenyan plant? Why didn’t Bushie investigate that?
McCarthy is not trying to justify anything. He is pointing out that since the coup attempt took the form of a counterintelligence operation, Obama almost had to be in the loop. So far he has avoided scrutiny.
Telling.
The Bushes have their own ineligible they want to run.
George P. Bush
Born a Mexican national from his Mexican national mother.
Precedent Obama was to clear the way.
Obama and his minions should be publicly humiliated and hopefully jailed for interfering in the Presidential election process.
More like Hoover.
Surely, a search of the presidential records would reveal the answer. Where is 44s library?
It is nice that the former Federal Attorney from DC caught up with non-lawyers in hickville.
I saw the interview with McCarthy, and he was NOT in any way trying to justify Obamas’s role in Spygate. He was simply pointing out that ANY counter-intelligence operation involving foreign entities has to be authorized by the president.
McCarthy was making the case that Spygate WAS a counter-intelligence operation, undertaken to first prevent Trump from getting elected, and then get him removed from office.
IOW, its WAS an attempted coup, handled primarily Brennan!
Yes And all he did was play golf and party as president much to our benefit
Hes never given a shit about anything except self aggrandizement
Why do posters regularly denigrate the perfectly decent Wookis by comparing them to Her Uglyness?
I see putz McCarthy is now the expert on what he denied for months his buddies at DOJ and the FBI were doing. Once a putz, always a putz.
Until, jOkeass and jOkeass’ clowns are frog marching in orange jump suits, Trump is a failure.
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