(03-05-2017 05:11 PM)UofMstateU Wrote: [ -> ] (03-05-2017 05:05 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe I'm naive or just don't understand how phone tapping works, but if President Obama tapped Trump's phones wouldn't they still be tapped? And he could produce the phones as evidence they were tapped?
Or alternatively, he could produce video of agents entering Trump Tower to install (or take down) the tapping devices? Surely Trump Tower had pretty detailed security back in October? I've heard it's a fortress now and has pretty much brought neighboring businesses around it to a crawl in NYC right now.
If this was 1970, then yes. Believe it or not, our intelligence groups can tap a wire without using a radio shack phone jack splitter and cassette player these days.
Yes, but the agents involved are probably still on the payroll, and can be called to explain the directive, and who ordered it. Plus, simply applying for the taps create a paper trail. I'm sure Obama didn't personally send the order, but someone within his administration would have been told to get it done. I have a feeling this thing is far from over.
Eventually the liberal media will have to cover it, or they will continue to lose credibility with the average American. They need to understand that the people are watching what is happening around our country. Slanting the reports, or just flat out ignoring major events, only hurts whatever credibility they may still retain.
This is so ******* un-American, it undermines the whole democratic republic. A sitting president wiretapping the opposing party's presidential candidate. I am not surprised that this was done under oblunder. What a ******* joke of a president he was.
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Comey is requesting the DOJ to reject Trump's request for an investigation into the wiretaps.
And James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence up until November, also categorically denied any order of a tap.
Of course another very realistic possibility is Trump (and many of the folks here who support him) are crazy than bat you-know-what.
(03-05-2017 06:28 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]And James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence up until November, also categorically denied any order of a tap.
Of course another very realistic possibility is Trump (and many of the folks here who support him) are crazy than bat you-know-what.
Clapper is the ultimate partisan. He has no credibility on the issue.
We'll see. The basic story that a request was placed in May and then again in October has been repeated in the liberal press as well.
(03-05-2017 06:23 PM)gdunn Wrote: [ -> ]Comey is requesting the DOJ to reject Trump's request for an investigation into the wiretaps.
I bet he is.
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(03-05-2017 06:28 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]And James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence up until November, also categorically denied any order of a tap.
Of course another very realistic possibility is Trump (and many of the folks here who support him) are crazy than bat you-know-what.
What Clapper actually said was "his group" did not order it. He could not say if anyone else did.
This lays it out for you about as well as it can be.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-levin-br...24780.html
Mark Levin is not partisan? Please.
(03-05-2017 06:43 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]Mark Levin is not partisan? Please.
Who said he wasn't? Politico has had quotes saying it happened.
Think NYT had the story on the requests for wiretaps.
FBI says they had nothing to do with it. DOJ is silent so far.
(03-05-2017 06:43 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]Mark Levin is not partisan? Please.
I couldn't tell you a right from a left when it comes to news outlets other than the MSM. Other words I don't go looking for things that fits my thinking.
But does it matter which way he leans if he explains it in a way that makes sense? I watched it and from my opinion the things he said made sense and he got those ideals from the newspapers.
(03-05-2017 06:43 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]Mark Levin is not partisan? Please.
really? all the stuff hereferences is publicly available.
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(03-05-2017 01:06 PM)ODU BLUE Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:When Todd asked him whether he could confirm or deny if a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Act) order for this existed, Clapper declared, "I can deny it."
Asked again whether there was a FISA Court order to monitor Trump Tower, Clapper said, "Not to my knowledge."
Clapper said that if any wiretap like that occurred, he would "certainly hope" that he would be aware of it.
"I can't speak for other authorized entities in the government or a state or local entity," he added.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics...er-n729261
I starting to think the AG used a other (authorized entities in the government or a state or local entity) to do the tapping.
(03-05-2017 06:28 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]And James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence up until November, also categorically denied any order of a tap.
The guy who said under oath that the government didnt wittingly collect surveillance on all americans, right before we found out his agency was collecting information on all americans? That clapper?
(03-05-2017 07:05 PM)UofMstateU Wrote: [ -> ] (03-05-2017 06:28 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]And James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence up until November, also categorically denied any order of a tap.
The guy who said under oath that the government didnt wittingly collect surveillance on all americans, right before we found out his agency was collecting information on all americans? That clapper?
Yeah that one, the admitted former communist sympathizer. You can't make this ish up
I'm going to withhold too much judgment until we see more brought to the light.
That said, this has the feeling of one of the biggest scandals in US political history.
We are exiting one of the worst periods of institutional corruption in American history and the leftovers are fighting for their lives.
FBI and Comey said that the wiretapping story is false. So, Trump is lying about it as much.
(03-05-2017 06:49 PM)ODU BLUE Wrote: [ -> ]FBI says they had nothing to do with it. DOJ is silent so far.
That tells you that none of the spy agencies did not do it? Then, there is no way a wiretapping could happen. I do think Trump is senile and paranoid.