Liberals don't want to think about that, do they, Ms. Stretch?
8 signs pointing to a counterintelligence operation deployed against Trump's campaign
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Liberals don't want to think about that, do they, Ms. Stretch?
The Real Origination Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation
The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Carter Page or George Papadopoulos.
It originated with the Obama administration.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-russia-investigation-obama-administration-origins/
Carter Page and Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign in early spring, and the FBI was concerned about their possible ties to Russia. These were not trifling concerns, but they did not come close to suggesting a Trump-Russia espionage conspiracy against the 2016 election.
These FBI concerns resulted in a briefing of the Obama NSC by the FBI sometime in “late spring.” I suspect the “late spring” may turn out to be an earlier part of spring than most people might suppose — like maybe shortly after Page joined the Trump campaign.
There are many different ways the Obama administration could have reacted to the news that Page and Manafort had joined the Trump campaign. It could have given the campaign a defensive briefing. It could have continued interviewing Page, with whom the FBI had longstanding lines of communication. It could have interviewed Manafort. It could have conducted a formal interview with George Papadopoulos rather than approaching him with a spy who asked him loaded questions about Russia’s possession of Democratic-party emails.
Instead of doing some or all of those things, the Obama administration chose to look at the Trump campaign as a likely co-conspirator of Russia — either because Obama officials inflated the flimsy evidence, or because they thought it could be an effective political attack on the opposition party’s likely candidate.
From the “late spring” on, every report of Trump-Russia ties, no matter how unlikely and uncorroborated, was presumed to be proof of a traitorous arrangement. And every detail that could be spun into Trump-campaign awareness of Russian hacking, no matter how tenuous, was viewed in the worst possible light.
The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Page or Papadopoulos. It originated with the Obama administration.
(more at link)
The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Carter Page or George Papadopoulos.
It originated with the Obama administration.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-russia-investigation-obama-administration-origins/
Carter Page and Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign in early spring, and the FBI was concerned about their possible ties to Russia. These were not trifling concerns, but they did not come close to suggesting a Trump-Russia espionage conspiracy against the 2016 election.
These FBI concerns resulted in a briefing of the Obama NSC by the FBI sometime in “late spring.” I suspect the “late spring” may turn out to be an earlier part of spring than most people might suppose — like maybe shortly after Page joined the Trump campaign.
There are many different ways the Obama administration could have reacted to the news that Page and Manafort had joined the Trump campaign. It could have given the campaign a defensive briefing. It could have continued interviewing Page, with whom the FBI had longstanding lines of communication. It could have interviewed Manafort. It could have conducted a formal interview with George Papadopoulos rather than approaching him with a spy who asked him loaded questions about Russia’s possession of Democratic-party emails.
Instead of doing some or all of those things, the Obama administration chose to look at the Trump campaign as a likely co-conspirator of Russia — either because Obama officials inflated the flimsy evidence, or because they thought it could be an effective political attack on the opposition party’s likely candidate.
From the “late spring” on, every report of Trump-Russia ties, no matter how unlikely and uncorroborated, was presumed to be proof of a traitorous arrangement. And every detail that could be spun into Trump-campaign awareness of Russian hacking, no matter how tenuous, was viewed in the worst possible light.
The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Page or Papadopoulos. It originated with the Obama administration.
(more at link)
hvilleherb
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And now Dems will grasp at anything hoping they can overturn the results of the 2016 election.
They think Trump is going to be impeached, don't they?
I heard that Mueller just asked the Court for another delay.
hvilleherb
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Clinton has an affair and Dems say don't impeach him. Trump has an affair and Dems now want Trump impeached.
Darth Omar
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Meh, the IC was leaking like the Titanic at the time.
Apparently, they’re kind of selective about what they leak.
Trump had an affair?
hvilleherb
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Before he was president, with women who were attractive, unlike the women Bill assaulted.
Sexist.
hvilleherb
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Spygate has caught up to Obama.
Spygate: More Vindication for Breitbart, Mark Levin, Donald Trump .....Obama administration conducted surveillance of the opposition in an attempt to monitor, defeat, and delegitimize it.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...cation-for-breitbart-mark-levin-donald-trump/
A liberal will attack the source soon, I suppose.
From that link.................
"Far from a “conspiracy theory,” as claimed by CNN and others, the accusation that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign is now widely admitted. And the public has just begun to learn how far that effort went."
And, from a 2013 WaPo article while Obama was in Sweden answering a reporter's question..............
Q: As you might know, the NSA surveillance affair has stirred up quite a few angry reactions, even here in Sweden. What do you want to say to those upset?
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
And what I can say with confidence is that when it comes to our domestic operations, the concerns that people have back home in the United States of America, that we do not surveil the American people or persons within the United States, that there are a lot of checks and balances in place designed to avoid a surveillance state.
Worse yet is that they don't believe they need one.
DEMOCRATS apparently believe the end justifies the means because they are the only ones who know what's good for the world, Ms. Stretch.
hvilleherb
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Republicans and independents believe our elections are sacred, but Democrats want to overturn the 2016 election results any way they can.
Of course they do. They have clamored for the impeachment every single GOP president since Dwight Eisenhower. When that fails, they legislate through the judiciary.