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    Default Ignoring the Samantha Power bombshell

    One of the challenges of Spygate is that it's such a sprawling, complicated tale, filled with competing narratives and motives open to interpretation. We understand that this is a serious situation – possibly the biggest scandal in U.S. history. But how can one get the message across to the average American without his eyes glazing over?

    To cut through the complexity, it helps to focus on specific actions by individuals that we all can agree are suspect. This brings us to Samantha Power.

    Of all the political stories from 2017, surely the most curious is this: why is everyone ignoring the bombshell revelations from Samantha Power?

    As you recall, Power was caught using her security clearance as a U.N. ambassador to review private conversations by U.S. citizens. According to official records, she requested the unmasking of these private citizens over 260 times in 2016 (this was an election year). She was brought before the House Intelligence Committee to explain her actions.

    Her defense? It wasn't me. Someone else in the Obama White House did this, using her security clearance.

    There are two possibilities: that she is telling the truth, in which case someone else in the Obama administration is lying. Or she is lying herself.

    Let's consider the implications if she's lying. Power, a supposed human rights activist and darling of the left, came into her office every day – Monday through Friday, 52 weeks a year – and did some reading. But instead of the New York Times, or her favorite blog, she was reading the transcripts of private conversations of her fellow Americans, wiretapped by federal agents. And not only that, but she made a request each day on average to unmask a U.S. citizen in those transcripts.

    Why are our supposed human rights activists not horrified? Why is this not a daily banner headline in every major newspaper in the country? I could see the MSM attempting to hide this damning evidence of Obama administration malfeasance, but why are the conservative news outlets not clamoring for answers?

    Perhaps 2017 just saw too many revelations of government abuse? But this one does not deserve to be forgotten. And if we don't act soon, it will go down the memory hole.

    Here's how Power's Wiki page spins it: "On May 31, 2017, Power's testimony and relevant records were subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into the unmasking of Americans whose conversations were inadvertently captured during intelligence surveillance."

    There is nothing "inadvertent" about a White House official making over 260 unmasking requests during an election year. And lying about it.


    No one, it seems, is asking even the most basic questions: who was this mysterious, nameless Obama administration official? Why would he use Samantha Power's security clearance to unmask U.S. citizens? What did he have to hide? And if he was researching something that was purely legal, why the necessity for such subterfuge and deceit?

    The only answer that makes sense is that this official was using Power's security clearance for reasons that would not stand up to legal scrutiny, most likely for political or possibly illegal ends – such as spying on the Trump campaign.

    A final thought: Why is Samantha Power herself so seemingly unconcerned about this violation of public trust? Wouldn't you expect this brave journalist, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the champion of the people, to be at least a little bit curious as to exactly who it was in the Obama administration who stole her passwords and used her security clearance in such a blatantly undemocratic and unlawful manner?

    And wouldn't you expect her to speak up about it?
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...bombshell.html

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    American Thinker is a terribly poor source... consistently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    American Thinker is a terribly poor source... consistently.
    Maybe, maybe not.

    What do you think of Samantha Powers’ story?
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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    American Thinker is a terribly poor source... consistently.
    Yes shooting the messenger is a constant from you, saves having to actually address the message.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Yes shooting the messenger is a constant from you, saves having to actually the message.
    American Thinker rarely deals in facts.. They are very much like WND.. I am surprised that you would use them for a source.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    American Thinker rarely deals in facts.. They are very much like WND.. I am surprised that you would use them for a source.
    I didn't use them!! I would be more impressed if you'd castigate people for using Raw Story or Alternet, but that won't happen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    American Thinker rarely deals in facts.. They are very much like WND.. I am surprised that you would use them for a source.
    I’ll grant that WND is out there. AT, not so much.

    What do you think of Powers’ story?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    I didn't use them!! I would be more impressed if you castigate people for using Raw Story or Alternet, but that won't happen.
    Here is an interesting article about the malicious aims of BDS, no doubt you will hate it.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...osing_bds.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    I didn't use them!! I would be more impressed if you castigate people for using Raw Story or Alternet, but that won't happen.
    You probably know this, but Michael Mann loathed American Thinker because AT had the temerity to question his work.

    He referred to them as the American Stinker lol. When lefties are trying real hard to marginalize a source it’s a clue the source is onto something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    You probably know this, but Michael Mann loathed American Thinker because AT had the temerity to question his work.

    He referred to them as the American Stinker lol. When lefties are trying real hard to marginalize a source it’s a clue the source is onto something.
    Yes Mann is a loathsome slug, I hope Curry and co. make mincemeat of him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    American Thinker rarely deals in facts.. They are very much like WND.. I am surprised that you would use them for a source.
    Not in your sort of facts, I grant you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    most likely for political or possibly illegal ends – such as spying on the Trump campaign.
    IF that's what happened, what was the purpose? What did Samantha Power or anyone else do with the information? Did they pass it to the Clinton campaign to use against Trump? Is there any evidence for that?

    I keep asking these questions but get no answers. Partisan hacks seem to think that saying "spying" and "election year" in the same article covers it - but it doesn't, not by a long way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    IF that's what happened, what was the purpose? What did Samantha Power or anyone else do with the information? Did they pass it to the Clinton campaign to use against Trump? Is there any evidence for that?

    I keep asking these questions but get no answers. Partisan hacks seem to think that saying "spying" and "election year" in the same article covers it - but it doesn't, not by a long way.
    Those are great questions but why is the media so uninterested in them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Those are great questions but why is the media so uninterested in them?

    If the questions are worth asking, one might expect "respectable" RW media such as the WSJ etc. to pose them and try to find answers, if there are any.

    As far as I know, they don't. Does that tell you anything?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    If the questions are worth asking, one might expect "respectable" RW media such as the WSJ etc. to pose them and try to find answers, if there are any.

    As far as I know, they don't. Does that tell you anything?
    For the sake of discussion, suppose the IC—the IC under Trump, sends informants/spies into the Democrats campaign in 2020.

    Do you think the ‘respectable’ media will be as supine about it? I don’t recall the media so blithely accepting such explanations as ‘we did it to protect them’ before.

    These certainly aren’t the days of Bob Woodward.
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