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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 21s21 seconds ago
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
That can NOT be a legal wire-tap. Obama needs to be arrested right now. Today!!
LOCK 'EM UP!!
LOCK 'EM UP!!
LOCK 'EM UP!!
Obama did a lot of things while he was President that were illegal, they need to look into all of that for prosecution.
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 26s26 seconds ago
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 4m4 minutes ago
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
TRUMP IS PISSED and rightly so!! Hell yes, call a lawyer. Call a US Attorney and have them prosecute for this. This can not be legal!!
I always knew Obama was a thug. Hey Oprah, what do you think of your Obama Man now??!! You like this? How about you Meryl? Madonna? Clooney? DeNiro? Schumer? Pelosi? Jake Tapper? Don Lemon? New York Times? Washington Post?
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 1m1 minute ago
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
And THIS is how the media is covering it. Graham has once again jumped on the Democrats bandwagon. I don't believe that he would say it if he didn't have some proof, he has a better track record on the truth than Obama, some RINOs and the Democrats have.
Without evidence, Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him
CNN - 1 hour agoFormer Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes tweeted in response that presidents can't order wiretapping. "No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you," he said in his ...
Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to wiretap Trump Tower
Washington Post - 2 hours agoPresident Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election. Citing no evidence to support his explosive ...
Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him, but offers no evidence
USA TODAY - 31 minutes agoPresident Trump, in a Saturday morning tweetstorm, responded to the mounting questions over his ties to Russia by accusing then-President Obama of wiretapping him at Trump Tower just before the November election -- an accusation an Obama spokesman ...
Trump accuses Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower phones
Fox News - 50 minutes agoPresident Trump made a startling claim Saturday that former President Obama had Trump Tower phones tapped in the weeks before the November 2016 election. In early Saturday tweets that began at 6:35 a.m., the president said the alleged wiretapping was ...
Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower
The Hill - 6 hours agoPresident Trump on Saturday claimed President Obama had his “wires tapped” in Trump Tower before Election Day, tweeting the accusation without offering evidence. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the ...
President Trump Accuses Barack Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower, Without Evidence
Fortune - 3 hours agoPresident Donald Trump claimed that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City prior to the presidential election. In a trademark early-morning series of tweets on Saturday, Trump said: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires ...
President Trump Accuses Obama Of 'Wire Tapping,' Provides No Evidence
NPR - 4 hours agoIn a string of tweets posted early Saturday morning, President Trump let loose a barrage of accusations at his predecessor. He alleged that former President Obama had his "wires tapped" in Trump Tower before Election Day last year, accusing Obama of ...
Trump blasts Obama for 'wiretap' of Trump Tower during campaign
Washington Times - 3 hours agoIn this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump listens as he is introduced during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has thrown Washington into a state of anxious uncertainty.
Trump Says Obama Wiretapped Him During Campaign
Fox Business - 2 hours ago
The White House also did not respond to a request to elaborate on Trump's accusations. Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes strongly denied Trump's allegations. "No president can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from ...
Trump's evidence-free wiretap claim follows rightwing Obama 'coup' stories
The Guardian - 25 minutes ago
A US official told the Guardian there was “no evidence to support that claim” of Obama ordering Trump to be wiretapped. Just before last November's election, however, the British former MP and novelist Louise Mensch reported that the Foreign ...
Obama strongly denies Trump accusation that he wiretapped phones in Trump Tower
ABC News - 14 minutes ago
A spokesman for former President Obama issued a strong denial to President Trump's accusation that the former commander-in-chief wiretapped Trump Tower phones during the election campaign. "A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no ...
Trump Ends 'Presidential' Phase By Claiming, Without Evidence, That Obama Wiretapped Him
New York Magazine - 2 hours agoThen, in a trademark early-morning Twitter rant on Saturday, Trump went a big step further and claimed — without citing any evidence — that President Obama had ordered a wiretap of him during the campaign: Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ...
President Says Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower During Campaign
NBCNews.com - 3 hours agoPresident Donald Trump alleged in a tweet storm early Saturday that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower before his election victory. Trump did not provide any evidence for the claims, which followed an interview on Fox News in ...
Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the election
Washington Examiner - 5 hours ago
"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!", Trump first tweeted. Then the president sent out a tweet about the 22 times the Russian ambassador reportedly ...
In Series of Tweets, Trump Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower Before Election
KTLA - 2 hours agoPresident Donald Trump made a stunning claim Saturday, alleging without offering evidence that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump ...
Dems tear into Trump over Obama wiretapping claims
The Hill (blog) - 1 hour ago
Democratic lawmakers on Saturday lined up to slam President Trump for accusing President Obama of having Trump Tower's "wires tapped" before Election Day without offering evidence. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump ...
Graham: 'I'm very worried' about Trump's wiretapping accusationThe Hill - 1 hour agoTrump early Saturday wrote on Twitter that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election, but did not provide any evidence. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is ...
Trump Goes on Bizarre Twitter Rant, Accuses Obama of Wiretapping His PhonesSlate Magazine (blog) - 3 hours agoPresident Donald Trump got up bright and early Saturday morning and tried to change the story. On a day when front pages around the country (including the New York Times and Washington Post) featured pieces on the possible ties between his campaign ...
Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of wiretapping phoneDeutsche Welle - 2 hours agoObama's camp did not immediately respond to the accusations. But one of his top adviser's, Ben Rhodes, tweeted a scathing reply. "No President can order a wiretap," Rhodes wrote. "Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people ...
Trump Repeats Talk Radio Rumor That Obama Wiretapped Him During ElectionBuzzFeed News - 2 hours agoWithout offering a scintilla of evidence, President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama of spying on him by ordering the wiretapping of phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign — a charge the former leader ...
Trump visits golf course after tweeting Obama wiretap accusations
Washington Examiner - 2 hours ago
Hours after President Trump tweeted out an allegation that former President Barack Obama tapped Trump Tower during the election, the president might be hitting the golf course. According to a press pool report at 9:26 a.m. on Saturday, Trump, who is in ...
Trump Accuses Obama of Pre-election WiretappingVoice of America - 3 hours agoPresident Donald Trump speaks on the phone in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Jan. 28, 2017. Trump on Saturday accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of wiretapping his offices at Trump Tower in New York City before the November ...
Trump has accused Obama of wire tapping his phones at Trump Tower on Twitter
Daily Mail - 29 minutes ago
Ben Rhodes, the former policy advisor for Obama, also blasted Trump's accusations on Twitter: 'No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.' Rhodes shot back at another Trump tweet ...
Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him at Trump Tower before electionMarketWatch - 1 hour agoPresident Trump made a stunning, unsubstantiated claim on Twitter early Saturday, alleging that former President Barack Obama had initiated a plot to tap the phones at Trump Tower in the months leading up to Election Day. In a string of tweets that ...
Lindsey Graham while speaking at his town hall today did talk about the wire tapping issue. He also said to attendees, like many of you, I did not vote for President Trump.
Donald Trump Questions ‘Sick Guy’ Barack Obama for ‘Wire Tapping’ His Campaign
Charles Spiering
March 4, 2017
President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his campaign headquarters during the election in a series of messages on Twitter.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” he wrote on Twitter. “Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
Trump questioned whether it was legal for Obama to be wiretapping a presidential candidate while he was still in office.
“How low has President Obama gone to tapp (sic) my phones during the very sacred election process,” he wrote. “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!”
Trump is likely referring to calls from talk radio hosts Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh to investigate the nature of the Obama administration’s investigations of his campaign aides for their communications with Russia, as Breitbart News editor Joel Pollak reported.
As former Heat Street editor Louise Mensch reported the day before the election, “sources with links to the counter-intelligence community” confirmed that a FISA court had granted a FISA court warrant in October to monitor activities in Trump tower. They were previously denied a request in June, according to the report as well as a report in the Guardian.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the Obama team classified the investigation at the lowest possible level, allowing the data gathered from the investigation to be shared and leaked widely within the administration.
In January, The New York Times reported that intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the Obama White House even though there was “no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing” between Russian officials and associates of Trump.
On Twitter, Trump suggested that he might even have legal options against the former president.
“I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” he wrote.
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Obama Birth Certificate Investigator: “We Were Aware of the Spying”
“DEEP AND DARK” EXPLAINED
by Sharon Rondeau
(Mar. 4, 2017) — Following revelations made by President Trump early on Saturday morning that he believes his phones were “wiretapped” by the Obama regime, The Post & Email spoke with Mike Zullo, who led the 5+-year criminal probe into the image posted on the White House website on April 27, 2011 purported to be a scan of a certified copy of Barack Hussein Obama’s long-form birth certificate.
Launched in August 2011 at the commissioning of then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the birth certificate investigation was virtually ignoredby the mainstream press and Congress, including two 2012 press conferences in which evidence was made public of investigators’ conclusions that the birth certificate image is a “computer-generated forgery.”
Also found to be fraudulent was Obama’s Selective Service registration form, a claim which then-Selective Service Director Lawrence Romo declined to investigate.
In a third and final press conference held in December, Zullo revealed that two forensics analysts examined the image using two different approaches and reached the same conclusion that the image cannot possibly be authentic.
The Obama White House offered no comment on any of the three press conferences, maintaining its silence until its final days, when then-White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest assured the White House Press Corps that the release of the image was its best effort to dispel rumors that Obama was born outside of the country.
Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires the president and commander-in-chief to be a “natural born Citizen.” As a result of news reports published before Obama sought the presidency stating that he was born in either Indonesia or Kenya, many Americans were concerned that he did not meet the constitutional requirements to serve.
During Obama’s occupation of the White House, anyone expressing such doubts was labeled “racist,” “seditionist,” or said to be lying.
In late 2013, Zullo had told radio host Carl Gallups that a third press conference would take place in early 2014, most likely in the month of March. However, with the passage of March and April of that year, Zullo and Arpaio went quiet, and many believed that the investigation had reached its end.
As was revealed later, during that time frame, former NSA/CIA contractor Dennis Montgomery approached Arpaio with the claim that more than150,000 Maricopa County residents were victims of bank-account breaches conducted by a government entity.
Later, it was alleged that federal judges, Donald Trump, Zullo, Atty. Larry Klayman and others were victims of data-harvesting by the federal government.
At approximately 12:00 noon EST on Saturday, Zullo told The Post & Email of Trump’s revelations:
This is information that I had obtained in the initial meetings with Dennis Montgomery. Investigators were aware of the spying on Trump and others back in 2013 as well as possible illegal wiretaps. Sheriff Arpaio and I were aware of this information. The quandary we found ourselves in was that there was nowhere to turn in the normal course of investigative protocol. Concerns were that the DOJ and the FBI were compromised, which necessitated the bringing-forth of Dennis Montgomery to a federal judge, which was accomplished.
Remember when I said back in 2014 that this was “deep and dark?” That’s what I was referring to. This is deep and dark, and now it’s emerging as the “deep state” in the public’s eye.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2017/03/...-aware-spying/
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Later an Obama spokesman, Kevin Lewis, issued a statement that did not deny there was a wiretapping but did deny that Obama ordered one. “A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” the statement said.
Trump should have said under obama's watch by one of his agencies...
obama denied tapping merkel too...
Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
President Barack Obama was told about monitoring of German Chancellor in 2010 and allowed it to continue, says German newspaper
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...a_2715128b.jpg Mr Obama was told of the secret monitoring of Mrs Merkel by General Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, in 2010, according to Bild am Sonntag, a German newspaper. Photo: AFP/GETTY
By Philip Sherwell, New York and Louise Barnett in Berlin
6:18PM GMT 27 Oct 2013
President Barack Obama was dragged into the trans-Atlantic spying row after it was claimed he personally authorised the monitoring of Angela Merkel’s phone three years ago.
The president allegedly allowed US intelligence to listen to calls from the German Chancellor’s mobile phone after he was briefed on the operation by Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), in 2010.
The latest claim, reported in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, followed reports in Der Spiegel that the surveillance of Mrs Merkel’s phone began as long ago as 2002, when she was still the opposition leader, three years before being elected Chancellor. That monitoring only ended in the weeks before Mr Obama visited Berlin in June this year, the magazine added.
Citing leaked US intelligence documents, it also reported that America conducted eavesdropping operations on the German government from a listening post at its embassy beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, one of more than 80 such centres worldwide.
Mr Obama’s European allies will now ask him to say what he personally knew about the NSA’s global eavesdropping operation and its targeting of world leaders, including those from friendly states. The White House declined to comment on the German media reports.
Last week, however, Mr Obama assured Mrs Merkel that her phone is not being monitored now – and will not be in future. But the US has pointedly declined to discuss the NSA’s actions in the past.
Its surveillance operations raises questions about whether US officials breached domestic laws. Hans-Peter Friedrich, the German interior minister, said: “If the Americans intercepted cellphones in Germany, they broke German law on German soil”. He noted that wiretapping was a crime in Germany and “those responsible must be held accountable”.
Even before the latest reports, German intelligence chiefs were preparing to travel to Washington this week to demand answers from the NSA about the alleged surveillance of Mrs Merkel.
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, received a dose of European fury this weekend when he visited Paris and Rome. The trip was arranged to discuss the Middle East peace process, the Syrian civil war and Iran’s nuclear programme. Instead, he was confronted by outrage over the scale of US surveillance operations.
“The magnitude of the eavesdropping is what shocked us,” said Bernard Kouchner, a former French foreign minister, in a radio interview. “Let’s be honest, we eavesdrop too. Everyone is listening to everyone else. But we don’t have the same means as the United States, which makes us jealous.”
According to the leaked documents in Spiegel, NSA officials acknowledged that any disclosure of the existence of the foreign listening posts would lead to “grave damage” for US relations with other governments.
Such posts exist in 19 European cities, including Paris, Madrid, Rome and Frankfurt, according to the magazine, which has based its reports on documents provided by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor.
Mr Obama did not comment, but Republican supporters of the US intelligence community began a fightback on the political talk-shows.
Mike Rogers, the chairman of the intelligence committee in the House of Representatives, said that America’s allies should be grateful for surveillance operations which targeted terrorist threats. “I would argue by the way, if the French citizens knew exactly what that was about, they would be applauding and popping champagne corks,” he told CNN’s State of the Union.
“It’s a good thing. it keeps the French safe. It keeps the US safe. It keeps our European allies safe.”
Peter King, a fellow Republican congressman, said that Mr Obama should not apologise for NSA operations in Europe. “The president should stop apologising, stop being defensive,” he said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe. Quite frankly, the NSA has done so much for our country and so much for the president, he’s the commander in chief. He should stand with the NSA.”
John Schindler, a former NSA official, noted that planning for the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001 had taken place in Hamburg.
“If 9/11 had happened to Germany and been planned in NY not Hamburg, I’d expect [German] intel to monitor USA top 2 bottom,” he wrote on Twitter.
A German intelligence official, quoted by Die Welt, said: “The Americans did not want to rely exclusively on us after September 11th. That is understandable.”
Another told the newspaper: “Without information from the Americans, there would have been successful terrorist attacks in Germany in the past years.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...years-ago.html
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WaPo: Trump "Cites no Evidence." "Cites No Evidence" is also WaPo's new slogan.
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NYT: Trump gives no evidence Obama tapped phone. Who does he think he is? The NYT?
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NYT: Trump gives no evidence Obama tapped phone. You know, like the NYT has given no evidence Trump colluded with Russians.
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The Alt Left Propaganda media will run with every leak to help distract from Obamas & Co's role in spying on @POTUS @realDonaldTrump twitter.com/valeriejarrett…
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On radio I have discussed the "Shadow Government" "Deep state swamp of Obama holdovers and DC lifers" watch for Tons of leaks this week!!!!! twitter.com/valeriejarrett…
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Attention Irredeemable Deplorable twitter peeps. Should we start a pool on when @LindseyGrahamSC officially becomes a democrat? twitter.com/mediaite/statu…
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That's what I was saying!! twitter.com/pallamus/statu…
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Why with only 14 days left did OBAMA expand the power of the NSA to share intercepted personal communications with 16 other agencies? twitter.com/valeriejarrett…
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After a FISA request is first denied, then a second one is filed and no evidence is found, why did the Government of BHO keep surveillance? twitter.com/valeriejarrett…
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That July request was denied. Then another FISA request was filed in October, no evidence was found but the wiretaps continued. Why Valerie? twitter.com/valeriejarrett…
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June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request with the FISA court to monitor communications involving Donald Trump-- Y? twitter.com/valeriejarrett…
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FISA and the Trump Team
The idea that FISA could be used against political enemies always seemed far-fetched. Now it might not be.
By Andrew C. McCarthy — January 11, 2017
Remember the great debate over “the Wall” following the 9/11 attacks? “The Wall” was a set of internal guidelines that had been issued by the Clinton Justice Department in the mid 1990s. In a nutshell, the Wall made it legally difficult and practically impossible for agents in the FBI’s Foreign Counter-Intelligence Division (essentially, our domestic-security service, now known as the National Security Division) to share intelligence with the criminal-investigation side of the FBI’s house. Those of us who were critics of the Wall — and I was a strenuous one, beginning in my days as a terrorism prosecutor who personally experienced its suicidal applications — made several arguments against it.
My favorite argument, which I have repeated countless times, centered on how preposterous were the underlying assumptions of the Wall. This was far easier for prosecutors than journalists, academics, and the public to grasp, because we dealt with the Justice Department’s different chains of command for criminal and national-security investigations.
Alas, after 20 years, I may have to revise my thinking.
The theory of the Clinton DOJ brass in imposing the Wall was the potential that a rogue criminal investigator, lacking sufficient evidence to obtain a traditional wiretap, would manufacture a national-security angle in order to get a wiretap under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). A traditional wiretap requires evidence amounting to probable cause of commission of a crime. A FISA wiretap requires no showing of a crime, just evidence amounting to probable cause that the target of the wiretap is an agent of a foreign power. (A foreign power can be another country or a foreign terrorist organization.)
The reason the Wall theory was absurd was that a rogue agent would surely manufacture evidence of a crime before he’d manufacture a national-security angle. The process of getting a traditional wiretap is straightforward: FBI crim-div agents and a district assistant U.S. attorney (AUSA) write the supporting affidavit; it gets approved by the AUSA’s supervisors; then it is submitted to the Justice Department’s electronic-surveillance unit; after that unit’s approval, the attorney general’s designee signs off; then the AUSA and the FBI present the application to a district judge. FISA wiretaps, by contrast, go through a completely different, more difficult and remote chain of command. In it, the district AUSA and FBI crim-div agents who started the investigation get cut out of the process, which is taken over by Main Justice’s National Security Division and the FBI’s national-security agents. In other words, if we assume an agent is inclined to be a rogue, it would be far easier (and less likely of detection) to trump up evidence of a crime in order to satisfy the probable-cause standard for a traditional wiretap than to manufacture a national-security threat in order to get a FISA wiretap. No rational rogue would do it.
But now, let’s consider the press reports — excerpted in David French’s Corner post — that claim that the Obama Justice Department and the FBI sought FISA warrants against Trump insiders, and potentially against Donald Trump himself, during the last months and weeks of the presidential campaign. It’s an interesting revelation, particularly in light of last fall’s media consternation over “banana republic” tactics against political adversaries, triggered by Trump’s vow to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate serious allegations of criminal misconduct against Hillary Clinton — consternation echoed by Senate Democrats during Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for attorney-general nominee Jeff Sessions.
From the three reports, from the Guardian, Heat Street, and the New York Times, it appears the FBI had concerns about a private server in Trump Tower that was connected to one or two Russian banks. Heat Street describes these concerns as centering on “possible financial and banking offenses.” I italicize the word “offenses” because it denotes crimes. Ordinarily, when crimes are suspected, there is a criminal investigation, not a national-security investigation.
According to the New York Times (based on FBI sources), the FBI initially determined that the Trump Tower server did not have “any nefarious purpose.” But then, Heat Street says, “the FBI’s counter-intelligence arm, sources say, re-drew an earlier FISA court request around possible financial and banking offenses related to the server.”
Again, agents do not ordinarily draw FISA requests around possible crimes. Possible crimes prompt applications for regular criminal wiretaps because the objective is to prosecute any such crimes in court. (It is rare and controversial to use FISA wiretaps in criminal prosecutions.) FISA applications, to the contrary, are drawn around people suspected of being operatives of a (usually hostile) foreign power.
The Heat Street report continues:
The first [FISA] request, which, sources say, named Trump, was denied back in June, but the second was drawn more narrowly and was granted in October after evidence was presented of a server, possibly related to the Trump campaign, and its alleged links to two banks; [sic] SVB Bank and Russia’s Alfa Bank. While the Times story speaks of metadata, sources suggest that a FISA warrant was granted to look at the full content of emails and other related documents that may concern US persons.
(A “US person” is a citizen or lawful permanent resident alien. Such people normally may not be subjected to searches or electronic eavesdropping absent probable cause of a crime; an exception is FISA, which — to repeat — allows such investigative tactics if there is probable cause that they are agents of a foreign power.)
Obviously, we haven’t seen the FBI affidavits (assuming they actually exist), and we do not know lots of other relevant facts. What we have, however, suggests that someone at the FBI initially had concerns that banking laws were being violated, but when the Bureau looked into it, investigators found no crimes were being committed. Rather than drop the matter for lack of evidence of criminal offenses, the Justice Department and FBI pursued it as a national-security investigation.
In June, an initial FISA affidavit (obviously prepared by the FBI and the Justice Department’s National Security Division) was submitted to the FISA court. It is said to have “named Trump” — but we don’t know whether that means (a) his name merely came up somewhere in the text of the affidavit or (b) he was an actual target whom the government wanted to investigate under FISA (meaning eavesdrop, read e-mail, and the like).
Even though the FISA standard is generally thought to be less demanding than the traditional wiretap standard (it is easier to show that someone may be colluding in some way with a foreign government than that he has committed a crime), the FISA court rejected the application that “named Trump.”
Five months later, the Justice Department and FBI submitted a second, more “narrowly” drawn affidavit to the FISA court. The way the Heat Street report is written intimates that Trump is not named in this October application for FISA surveillance. The tie to Trump also appears weak: Heat Street says the FISA court was presented with evidence of a server “possibly related” to the Trump campaign and its “alleged links” to two Russian banks.
To summarize, it appears there were no grounds for a criminal investigation of banking violations against Trump. Presumably based on the fact that the bank or banks at issue were Russian, the Justice Department and the FBI decided to continue investigating on national-security grounds. A FISA application in which Trump was “named” was rejected by the FISA court as overbroad, notwithstanding that the FISA court usually looks kindly on government surveillance requests. A second, more narrow application, apparently not naming Trump, may have been granted five months later; the best the media can say about it, however, is that the server on which the application centers is “possibly” related to the Trump campaign’s “alleged” links to two Russian banks — under circumstances in which the FBI has previously found no “nefarious purpose” in some (undescribed) connection between Trump Tower and at least one Russian bank (whose connection to Putin’s regime is not described).
That is tissue-thin indeed. It’s a good example of why investigations properly proceed in secret and are not publicly announced unless and until the government is ready to put its money where its mouth is by charging someone. It’s a good example of why FISA surveillance is done in secret and its results are virtually never publicized — the problem is not just the possibility of tipping off the hostile foreign power; there is also the potential of tainting U.S. persons who may have done nothing wrong. While it’s too early to say for sure, it may also be an example of what I thought would never actually happen: the government pretextually using its national-security authority to continue a criminal investigation after determining it lacked evidence of crimes.
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Trump and His Team are INNOCENT!!
Obama and His Obmaites are GUILTY AS SIN!!
TRUMP: 'SICK' OBAMA HAD MY 'PHONES TAPPED IN TRUMP TOWER'
Ex-president denies, but NSA doesn't need FISA approval to wiretap
March 4, 2017
President Donald Trump shattered Saturday morning’s news cycle with a series of tweets accusing former-President Obama with tapping his phones in Trump Tower prior to the election.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism,” Trump tweeted.
“Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!” he said later.
Trump tweeted that a “good lawyer could make a great case of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
“How low has President Obama gone to tap (sic) my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergage. Bad (or sick) guy!” Trump charged.
While Trump did not provide a source for his claim, Fox News pointed to a Friday Breitbart story that said the Obama administration made two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) requests in 2016 to monitor Trump communications and a computer server in Trump Tower in connection with claims of the Republican candidate’s links to Russia and Russian banks, in particular.
Spokesmen for Obama were quick to respond.
“Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false,” said Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for Obama.
“A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” he added.
Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser for Obama, also took issue with Trump’s charge, tweeting, “No president can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.”
However, earlier evidence of NSA spying on American citizens calls into question the Obama spokesmen’s protestations, even if technically correct.
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WND reported in 2013 on congressional hearings where then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper apologized for lying to Congress over his agency’s surveillance of American citizens.
Technically, a FISA warrant is required to intentionally target the communications of American citizens or people inside the U.S.
When the NSA does get a warrant from the FISA court it can resemble a blank check.
In the case of a 2010 warrant obtained by the London Guardian, the warrant was only one-paragraph long and did not contain detailed legal rulings or explanations.
Signed by a FISA judge, it simply declared “the procedures submitted by the attorney general on behalf of the NSA are consistent with U.S. law and the fourth amendment.”
The procedures let analysts decide for themselves if a person is located overseas, if the agency has no specific information on the target’s location.
The NSA is supposed to use a variety of resources including IP addresses, public information and information from other agencies to determine if the potential target is located outside the U.S.
But, even if it later turns out the target was located in the U.S., analysts are still permitted to listen to calls and look at messages to verify the location.
And warrants aren’t even used to obtain the bulk of the data collected.
ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE: “Big Brother is watching” in ways Orwell never dreamed
The reason the discretion of the NSA analysts is so broad seems to stem from Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which was renewed for five years last December.
It allows the NSA to collect large scale data from any country, as long as the target is believed to be overseas.
Former NSA contractor James Snowden, who revealed the data-collection program, claims even low-level analysts at the NSA can access the content of Americans’ phone calls and emails whenever they want without a warrant.
His claims appear to be backed up by documents obtained by the London Guardian and the Washington Post.
The papers reported two documents submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) court by Attorney General Eric Holder on July 29, 2009, detailed the procedures the NSA is to follow to minimize the collection of data on U.S. citizens.
But it showed loopholes so broad the NSA could still collect domestic communications and use them for any number of reasons.
The documents reportedly show the NSA’s own analysts have the power to decide who to target for surveillance without going to the courts or even their superiors.
The guidelines are supposed to provide procedures for guarding Americans’ privacy but they also give the NSA the latitude to keep information obtained by surveillance under certain conditions.
That includes when the information contains “significant foreign intelligence”, evidence of a crime, a threat to harm people or property or is believed be relevant to cybersecurity.
The classified documents also show the NSA’s own guidelines allow analysts to collect and keep the contents of phone calls and emails of American citizens and legal residents under a “wide range of circumstances,” according to the Washington Post.
President Obama has also claimed the NSA does not look at the contents of emails and phone calls unless it goes to a FISA judge and obtains a warrant.
He said the NSA activities “do not involve listening to people’s phone calls, do not involve reading the emails of U.S. citizens or U.S. residents, absent further action by a federal court, that is entirely consistent with what we would do, for example, in a criminal investigation.”
But, as WND reported in June 2013, a key Democrat revealed the president’s account is not accurate.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said he was “startled” to learn NSA analysts can decide for themselves whether to access the content of a domestic phone call.
Nadler emerged from a secret briefing for members of Congress and said the NSA allows analysts to listen to calls without court authorization.
He said the NSA accesses the contents of phone calls “simply based on an analyst deciding that.”
The legal standards for monitoring phone calls also apply to emails, text messages and instant messages, which means the NSA also may be accessing the content of those communications without court authorization.
Declan McCullagh of CNET broke the story and observed, “[I]t also suggests the Justice Department has secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low-ranking analysts to eavesdrop on phone calls.”
Additionally, the Post disclosed the existence of NUCLEON, a top-secret NSA program which “intercepts telephone calls and routes the spoken words” to a database.
The paper reported top intelligence officials in Obama administration “have resolutely refused to offer an estimate of the number of Americans whose calls or e-mails have thus made their way into content databases such as NUCLEON”.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/trump-sic...n-trump-tower/
Oh my God, they've all been lying to US all this time.
Obama Staffers Decline to Rule Out Trump Tower Wiretap
Posted By Kathryn Blackhurst On March 4, 2017
A spokesman for former President Barack Obama responded to President Donald Trump’s accusations of wiretapping in a statement Saturday, saying that “neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen.”
The statement failed to indicate whether or not there could be any truth to Department of Justice or FBI wiretaps on communications to and from Trump Tower during the 2016 election — an omission that left the political world ablaze with speculation Saturday.
“How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
The speculation was fueled further when a former speechwriter for Obama warned the media not to suggest the former president was denying the existence of election-time surveillance on Trump.
“I’d be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping. Statement just said that neither he nor the WH ordered it,” tweeted former Obama communications staffer Jon Favreau Saturday.
I'd be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping. Statement just said that neither he nor the WH ordered it.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 4, 2017 [1]
Trump first made waves in the early hours of the morning Saturday morning by firing off a series of tweets alleging his predecessor "had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower" during the presidential campaign.
"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" Trump tweeted. "Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!"
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 [2]
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 [3]
"I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!" Trump added. "How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!"
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 [4]
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 [5]
In response to Trump's allegations, Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis released a statement Saturday saying, "A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."
In addition, Ben Rhodes, a former foreign policy adviser to Obama, tweeted earlier in the day, "No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you."
No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. https://t.co/lEVscjkzSw [6]
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017 [7]
Although Lewis claimed that neither Obama nor any White House officials under him ordered a wiretap on Trump, his statement neither explicitly confirmed nor denied whether or not Trump was under surveillance at any time.
"Obama spox: Trump’s allegation that Obama had him wiretapped is 'simply false' (Doesn't deny wiretapping happened—denies Obama ordered it)," Bradd Jaffy, a senior news editor and writer for NBC News, tweeted Saturday.
Obama spox: Trump’s allegation that Obama had him wiretapped is “simply false”
(Doesn't deny wiretapping happened—denies Obama ordered it) pic.twitter.com/0YyxhL1Twd [8]
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 4, 2017 [9]
Errol Barnett, a Washington correspondent for CBS News, also questioned the omission, tweeting, "Note that the statement does not deny a wiretapping of Trump tower, only that Pres. Obama didn't order it."
Note that the statement does not deny a wiretapping of Trump tower, only that Pres. Obama didn't order it.
— errol barnett (@errolbarnett) March 4, 2017 [10]
Trump's Saturday morning tweets came several days after the president said during an interview on "Fox & Friends" that he believed Obama and his officials potentially were behind the string of protests that have unfurled across the country in the wake of Trump's inauguration, as well as the recent onslaught of leaks that have been dogging the administration.
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"I think that President Obama’s behind it because his people are certainly behind it," Trump said Tuesday. "And some of the leaks possibly come from that group, you know, some of the leaks – which are very serious leaks, because they’re very bad in terms of national security."
"But I also understand that’s politics," Trump added. "And in terms of him being behind things, that’s politics. And it will probably continue ... I’m not really surprised because I understand the way the world works. It’s politics. I mean I’m changing things that he’s wanted to do."
Although it is unclear exactly what transpired to prompt Trump to accuse his predecessor of monitoring him Saturday morning, the president may have been referring to an article published Friday by Breitbart analyzing a claim from conservative radio host Mark Levin alleging that the Obama administration applied for two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) requests in 2016 -- the vague purpose of those requests was reportedly to monitor Trump.
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/...ampaign=buffer
Everyone is jumping on this like white on rice, but I've yet to see any real evidence that Obama had any knowledge or was directly responsible for tapping Trump's phone. Someone please help me out here, what am I missing? Trust me, I'm not one to defend Obama but the truth and facts do matter. Has any real proof, not talking about anonymous source hearsay, been provided? :confused:
We will stay tuned to hear more. Many people say Obama had to know. The FISA requests went through his justice department. We do not know the name of the particular person yet to submit FISA requests. Then we are reminded that the NSA can surveil on their own, monitoring data. Mr. Clapper lied about that but it was found to be true even to the dismay of democrats.Quote:
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Maybe we will find out more next week.
Okay, just wanted to see if I missed something because some folks seem adamant that this was a known fact. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach
Obama Speechwriter: Funny How Obama Hasn’t Denied Trump Was Wiretapped
March 4, 2017 by streiff
A little earlier today Obama’s spokesman responded to Trump’s assertion that Obama had ordered the wiretapping of Trump and/or Trump Tower.
Spokesman for Obama responds to Trump's assertion, without evidence, that Obama ordered Trump's phone tapped pic.twitter.com/1hnrO82FTH
— Mark Berman (@markberman) March 4, 2017
It is curiously similar to the the tweet released by Iran’s agent-of-influence in the Obama White House, Ben Rhodes.
No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. https://t.co/lEVscjkzSw
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017
What both of these tweets do is deny something that no sane person is actually alleging, that is, that Obama, himself, ordered a wiretap. What most people mean when they say “Obama” did something, is that his administration carried out the action. (Seriously, when people say Bush invaded Iraq or Osama bin Laden destroyed the Twin Towers do they actually mean the men, themselves, did it. I understand not liking Trump but I don’t understand beclowning oneself to further the hate.) What neither of the tweets deny is that a wiretap was ordered by the Obama administration and that it was carried out. This point is made by former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau:
I'd be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping. Statement just said that neither he nor the WH ordered it.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 4, 2017
At this point I am of the opinion that a wiretap was ordered, that most likely it was a FISA order, and it was directed at the banking communications that were reported in October. If you recall, that story was shopped to many news outlets who all declined it because of sketchy sourcing (ah, for the good old days when journalists and editors and publishers actually worried about the reliability of sources) except for Slate. Trump more than likely was not the specific target. The Democrats had better hope that is the case because if it comes to pass that a presidential candidate was under surveillance by the other party and nothing material was uncovered things are going to get ugly very, very fast. And they should.
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017...mp-wiretapped/
One of the guests on with Judge Jeanine, Maryanne Marsh, a democrat, believes that President Trump did the tweeting this morning because something else is coming out. Again, we will see where this all goes.
@JudgeJeanine
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"What I think Trump did this morning was disclose this because he believes other information is coming out." - @maryannemarsh #Justice
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Kellyanne Conway was listed as a guest of the Judge to discuss the wiretap situation but she was not on this evening.
Obama didn't physically draw the paperwork and submit it to the FISA Judge, but he ordered the investigation that led to it. Mary Ann, the blond woman that's always on Judge Jeanine said they started the investigation on Trump in the spring of 2015, before he even announced he was running for President.
On another Fox Show, the lawyer with the big dark hair, can't think of her name, she had a former Bush official, a female, who spoke to an Obama Administration former official who worked in the White House for 7.5 years and she confirmed the FISA warrant, Obama knew all about the wire tap, they discussed it in the White House. Her source didn't know the name of the actual lawyer or FBI agent in DOJ who drafted it and submitted it to the FISA Judge, but it was done.
Judge Jeanine had Mike Mukasey on and he said the probable cause for a FISA warrant is different than for a criminal investigation, it can just be evidence that someone is just talking to someone DOJ thinks is a foreign spy or an operative, whether they are or not and whether or not the person being tapped even knows the person they're meeting with or talking to or whatever is a suspected spy or an operative. In the case of a FISA warrant, there is no insinuation of guilt of any wrong-doing,and according to the former Bush official, her source said it was doing "due diligence" to see what the suspected spy or operative is up to and if there's some collusion to tip the election.
This is going to be big. Trump's got this. He's going to nail their butts.
Up to this point I'm still not hearing anything beyond accusation, hearsay, speculation, and opinion. Somebody needs to produce some hard cold facts that can be substantiated with actual evidence that Obama was personally involved in wiretapping Trump's residence or office. I pray Trump has some actual proof because if he doesn't, he's going to come out looking like a fool at best. At worst he could find himself on the wrong side of a lawsuit for libel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy
That would be quite the double-standard.Quote:
Originally Posted by MW
Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of that going around these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy
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Obama Intel Chief Clapper: Denies Wire Tap Claim, 'No Evidence of Collusion' Between Trump, Russians
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Sunday, 05 Mar 2017 10:20 AM
Ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Sunday vehemently denied that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on Donald Trump during his presidential campaign last year.
In an interview with NBC News' "Meet The Press," Clapper asserted "I would know this… something like this, absolutely" had the FBI obtained a court order for a wiretap of Trump Tower, as Trump has alleged.
Pressed by host Chuck Todd whether there was no Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court order to bug Trump Tower, Clapper replied: "Not to my knowledge, no."
He also said there was nothing included in a DNI report of data from the National Security Agency, FBI and CIA about alleged improper contacts between Russia and Trump campaign officials.
"We did not include evidence in our report … that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign…" he said, but added such evidence "could have unfolded or become available in the time since I left the government."
"At the time, we had no evidence of collusion," he declared..
Clapper said what's need now is "to get to the bottom of all of this because it's such a distraction."
Clapper also pushed back at la New York Times report last week that the intelligence community in the last days of the Obama administration lowered the classification of intel in order to spread it throughout the government after the Trump administration moved into the White House.
Clapper said "our actual effort was to protect [the intel], and not to spread it around and certainly not to dumb it down, if I can use that phrase, in order to disseminate it more widely," he insisted.
"We were under a preservation order from both our oversight committees to preserve and protect all of the information related to that report in any event."
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So, after an exhaustive INTEL investigation of Russian hacking and collusion with the Trump campaign for almost 2 years, Clapper announces today that there was absolutely NO EVIDENCE of "collusion between the Russians and the Trump Campaign" as of the date he left government, which was on the day President Trump was inaugurated, January 20, 2017.
So why was Senator Sessions being asked about campaign contacts with the Russians in his Senate hearing? Why is Carter Page's name being bounced around like a ball on a beach during a storm about ties with Russia? Why was Paul Manafort accused last summer of taking bribes and illegal payments from the Russians through his work in Ukraine? Why is Jared Kushner under some type of suspicion because he and Mike Flynn met at Trump Tower with the Ambassador of Russia after the election? Why was Mike Flynn's name released for having a phone call with the Ambassador of Russia during the transition that was monitored by NSA?
As of January 20, 2017, there was absolutely NO EVIDENCE of collusion between the Russians and Trump campaign staff to tip the election. Yet, the US Congress Democrats are calling for investigations, some even calling for impeachment, some calling Trump guilty of espionage. And where are Republicans? Well, some are out there calling FOUL and WRONG!! While others "want more answers", "more information."
It's to me like asking scientists "how big is planet Zutibird?" And when they reply "There is no planet Zutibird." only to have Democrats attack them for DENIALS of even the existence of a planet Zutibird while Republicans decide to investigate whether or not there is a planet Zutibird somewhere, using US taxpayers to underwrite the complete absurdity.
Kevin Lewis' statement only denies obama ordered it......Was not a denial of the wiretap happening - many ways to avoid being on record as the orderer too like having DOJ do it as "part of an investigation".
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Obama Admin Source Confirms Wiretapping Was Conducted (VIDEO)
Cristina Laila Mar 4th, 2017 9:18 pm 524 Comments
Obama officials caught lying AGAIN.
A source inside the Obama administration acknowledged that wiretapping was conducted to spy on Trump during the 2016 Presidential election.
http://16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.ne...05-575x328.jpgDemocrat Kathy Arue: “My sources from the White House told me, she thinks it’s all true. She said, um there were concerns that Trump-and this is from the White House and the administration inside the White House…there were concerns that Trump and his surrogates may have been colluding with the Russians and a possible bargaining chip to influence the election, therefore a wiretap was conducted.”That’s a load of crap.
The Obama administration knew there were no Trump ties to Russia that is just the excuse they are using now to try to cover for their illegal activity.
Lock him up!EXPLOSIVEHere is the full video from Watters’ World
Obama LIED again. White House sources acknowledge wiretapping is TRUE. Disgusting. Fight back @POTUS pic.twitter.com/xXJGJ8mMDV
— TruthMatters (@JeffMontes5) March 5, 2017
https://youtu.be/-wgv-M4g_nc
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...nducted-video/