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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Trump Was Spied On!

Trump Is 100% Vindicated On Wiretapping, and 7 Other Things You Should Know

SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
BY:
 JOHN NOLTE
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1. Yes, Trump Is 100% Vindicated On Wiretapping
Yeppers, I said 100% vindicated, and those who disagree are either being
stubbornly hyper-literal about the word "wiretap," or the placing of a
"physical wiretap," or Obama himself placing the wiretap, or standing by
 the point Ben Shapiro makes that Trump is still wrong because
 the surveillance was "incidental."
I'll touch on the "incidental" issue at length in the points below, but to
 immediately address Ben's argument, even if the collection was
incidental, once the unmasking and dissemination of that "incidental"
information occurs, that is the Obama administration illegally targeting
Trump using surveillance, and that is the exact same thing as outright
spying. And being illegally spied on was, of course, Trump's overall claim.
As far as the THIS WASN'T A WIRETAP nonsense, it reminds me of
 someone accusing a 70-year-old (Trump's age) of lying when he claims
 someone stole his record collection after the bad guy is found only
 with the old man's iPod.  You said records! Where's the vinyl! Where's
 the vinyl! Where's the vinyl!


Not for a second did I imagine Trump meant an actual physical phone tap --
you know, like you'd see Mike Connors do on "Mannix." Welcome to the
21st Century, pedants!
Anyway, if we're going to obsess over definitions, this is an excerpt from
 a 2010 MIT book called "Privacy On The Line," which clearly shows
 that the word "wiretap" fits the exact definition we are talking about:
Wiretapping is the traditional term for interception of telephone conversations. This should not be taken too literally. The word is no longer restricted to communications traveling by wire, and contemporary wiretaps are more commonly placed on radio links [ed. cell phones] or inside telephone offices. The meaning has also broadened in that the thing being tapped need no longer be a telephone call in the classic sense; it may be some other form of electronic communication, such as a fax or data.
Compared with the more precise but more general phrase "communications interception," the word "wiretapping" has two connotations. Much the strong of these is that a wiretap is aimed at a particular target, in sharp contrast to the "vacuum cleaner" interception widely practiced by national intelligence agencies. The weaker connotation is that it is being done by the police.  [ed. Big hat tip to Stuart Dean]
And that is precisely what the Obama administration did. I'll make this point
clearer below, but for now put yourself in Trump's shoes…
1) The leaking is everywhere, including Mike Flynn's telephone calls and
 the President's own calls with foreign leaders.
2) The media knows about all the palace intrigue.
3) Media report after media report actually reveal that the Obama
administration obtained surveillance warrants on you and/or your team.
The New York Times reports that the Obama White House is looking at
your "wiretap intel."
So, yes, unless you want to argue with MIT or become so painfully literal
 we all have to talk like a Vulcan, Trump was 100% correct about Obama
 "tapping his wires." Incidentally or not, his wires were tapped, and then
the surveillance was intentionally made not-so incidental through the
 illegal act of unmasking, disseminating, and worst of all, the horrific act
 of leaking classified information to the media for purely partisan purposes.
And according to no less than CNN, it was Trump's transition team that
was "picked up," and where was his transition team?
Trump Tower.
Surveilled.
Wiretapped.
Potato.
Potatoh.
2. "Incidental," My Aunt Fanny
Sorry, no.
Not for a moment do I believe the Obama administration "inadvertently" or
 "incidentally captured" Team Trump communications.
What? -- and then they "inadvertently" (and illegally) "unmasked" the Trump
staffer not named on the surveillance warrant; and then "inadvertently"
 disseminated information (that had nothing to do with Russia) throughout
 the intelligence community; and then "inadvertently" leaked to the media
 information coming from Trump's transition team, information that included
 communications about Trump's own family, and almost certainly
included game-planning the first 100 days?
I don't believe that anymore than I believe the IRS "inadvertently swept up"
 conservative groups for crippling, Kafka-esque persecution while Hail
Satan high school clubs sailed through the same tax-exempt process.
Let's not be stupid.
3. Obama's Creepy History of Manipulating the FISA System
In order to spy on James Rosen of Fox News, Obama's Attorney General
 Eric Holder named him as a criminal co-conspirator and, quite incredibly,
a flight risk. This gave the Obama administration "legal" access not only to
 Rosen's emails but Rosen's parents' phone records.
According to numerous media reports, going back to last summer,
the Obama administration applied for a warrant to "monitor" members of
 Trump's team. They were turned down. In October, however, while the
election was still on (another claim of Trump's was that the spying occurred
during the election), a surveillance warrant was granted.
Another trick the Obama Administration could have played was to ask for
 surveillance warrants of those who they believed Team Trump might be
 speaking with. Using this end-run, they could then still monitor Trump
 and enjoy "plausible deniability" when the truth was revealed.
Regardless of how it was collected, once Team Trump communications
were "unmasked" and disseminated, that is when the illegal spying began.
The leaks to the public through the media (which was almost certainly done
by Obama appointees and partisans) are just icing on the felonious cake.
4. This Was Political Spying; This Was a Successful Watergate Bugging
The whole point behind the Watergate break-in was to bug the headquarters
 of the Democrat National Committee simply for the sake of political advantage
 -- to find out what the other side was up to.
That is exactly what happened here, and there is little doubt in my mind that
 was the Obama administration's intent all along, especially after Trump won,
which would explain why the bulk of the spying appears to have occurred
 during the transition.  
5. The National Media Knew All of This and Covered It Up
The media knew!
Say it loud, say it proud!
The media knew!
Of course the media knew what the Obama administration had done.
First off, when they thought the news would hurt Trump, the national media
 publicly reported on the fact that the Obama administration
 had spied on Team Trump. It was only after that knowledge became
 a liability for Precious Barry that the media pretended otherwise. In other
words, they LIED.
Why do you think I was such a dog with a bone with that story? Because
 the media knew the Obama administration had spied on Trump and then
 tried to pretend otherwise.  
Secondly, who do you think most benefited from all of this surveillance intel?
Of course it was the media. They are the ones who got the intel, reported it
out (unnamed sources), including transcripts of phone calls that could have
 only come from -- wait for it, wait for it -- wiretaps!
While the national media was receiving information that could have only
 come from surveillance; while the media was drinking white wine with their
Deep State Source and chortling over the illegally obtained communications
about Trump's family; while the media was using this Intel to plot its own
 strategy to undermine Trump's agenda -- THEY WERE SMEARING
TRUMP AS A LIAR WHEN THEY KNEW HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH.
6. Devin Nunes Handled This Exactly Right
We don’t live in Candyland. We live in a hard, cold world where leaks, illegal
surveillance, and the entire infrastructure of the national media are coordinating
to destroy and remove a duly elected American president.
You want to play by some idealized version of The Rules while CNN's
Jake Tapper is stopping the world from turning using BREAKING FAKE
 NEWS based on what he knows are lies?
I'm sorry, but losing like a gentleman when your country is at stake is
 no virtue.
By breaking the news about the Obama Administration's 
surveillance on members of Trump's transition team, and
 doing so in the most dramatic and disruptive way imaginable, Nunes
 beat these evil bastards at their own evil game.
We all know what would have happened had Nunes gone through proper
 channels -- the truth would have been smothered like an unloved stepchild
 until it was dead.
7. CNN Is a Deep State Propaganda Arm
It is no coincidence that just hours after Nunes dropped his bombshell
 that we all saw left-wing CNN try to change the subject by turning 
Nothingburger into a Somethingburger.
CNN's breathless, BREAKING NON-NEWS report last night about
 possibly, perhaps, maybe this kinda mighta happened, was not only an
 embarrassment to CNN, but whoever their likely F.B.I. sources are.
Here is CNN's idea of news, with my emphasis:
The FBI has information that indicates associates of

President Donald Trump communicated with suspected 

Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.
The Nunes bombshell might have just outed F.B.I. director James Comey as
a liar, maybe even a perjurer. In response, working hand-in-hand with the
 most unethical news outlet in America, the Deep State fired off a sad,
 little *squeak* squirrel.
Whether it is through a phony scandal  or outright assassination, CNN
 wants Trump gone, and in order to achieve that, The Least Trusted
Name In News is willing to conspire with Deep State disinformation
 propaganda or create an outright climate of hate.
8. The F.B.I. Investigation Into RussiaGate Is Now Tainted
If Nunes is correct, we'll know more on Friday, then it appears as though
 the F.B.I. director lied about the Trump surveillance. At best, he was highly
 and intentionally deceptive.
We are also being told that the F.B.I. is now refusing to cooperate in
 this matter.
When you combine this with the Nothingburger CNN leak that likely came
 from the F.B.I. last night, there is no question the entire F.B.I. is politicized,
which means its entire investigation into RussiGate is already compromised.

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