Bulls***! Clapper was DNI. He was over both the FBI and the CIA. He wasn't forbidden from knowing the FBI was spying on USPers as opposed to the CIA being prohibited from doing that.GCP12 said:
Pretty sure the final narrative is as follows...blindey said:
So we're at "it wasn't a big deal" today, eh?
Lot Y Tailgate said:Wendy 1990 said:
I think the real end game is Obama's spied on A LOT of people. John Roberts comes readily to mind.
It would make way more sense to release whatever blackmail information he had on Roberts and get him to resign than try and manipulate his votes...
You could say the pace has become "Fast & Furious".FriscoKid said:
It really does feel like the figurative "flood gates" are open at this point.
Clapper wil definitely pull the senile card...OneNightW said:
Clapper's pants are pulled down and everyone is getting a good look at his chubby pasty ass. Dude is scum and will pull the senile grandpa card soon.
Cohen was never on the Trump Campaign. Only reason he was targeted was because of the Steele dossier.Quote:
Secret surveillance was conducted on no fewer than seven Trump associates: chief strategist Stephen Bannon; lawyer Michael Cohen; national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn; adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner; campaign chairman Paul Manafort; and campaign foreign policy advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
The FBI reportedly applied for a secret warrant in June 2016 to monitor Manafort, Page, Papadopoulos and Flynn. If true, it means the FBI targeted Flynn six months before his much-debated conversation with Russia's ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.
The FBI applied four times to wiretap Page after he became a Trump campaign adviser starting in July 2016. Page's office is connected to Trump Tower and he reports having spent "many hours in Trump Tower."
CNN reported that Manafort was wiretapped before and after the election "including during a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Trump." Manafort reportedly has a residence in Trump Tower.
THISaggiehawg said:
McCarthy's latest.READ THE RESTQuote:
The two investigations must not be compartmentalized. Manifestly, the FBI saw them as inseparably linked: Trump's victory in the primaries, the opening of his path to the Oval Office, meant first and foremost that the Hillary investigation had to be brought to a close.
RoscoePColtrane said:
He's way low on this number
At this point, Team Mueller should consider themselves lucky if they are allowed to slink away with most of their law licenses intact.Quote:
All that surveillance and still no collusion. Schiff has said all of the evidence is in the public domain. Swallowswell called Trump's joke about emails evidence. Combine this with Kusher getting his clearance and "we don't know what Mueller has uncovered" holds no water. They have nothing and will never get anything.
I don't care if they were sure Hillary would win, that is just idiotic. With the full force of the American and British ICs arraigned against Trump they couldn't pull off a simple frame job? With a target rich environment of Trump's life for the last 40 years they had to resort to pee-pee showers?drcrinum said:
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"Of course the Russian effort affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point,"
And here in 2017 he says thisQuote:
"Less than 80,000 votes in three key states swung the election, I have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the Russians."
They definitely surprised themselves. The Democrat meltdown and pursuit of Trump is more than they could have hoped for in their wildest dreams. As far as actually affecting the election, not so much.RoscoePColtrane said:
Clapper is going to plead insanity, it's the only answer to this logic.
From his new book, "Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence,"Quote:
"Of course the Russian effort affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point,"
Influencing 80,000 votes with $1,000 or so on Facebook ads with much of it spent after the election is impressive, indeed. Need to try to copy their techniques, we'd never lose. /sarcasmQuote:
"Less than 80,000 votes in three key states swung the election, I have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the Russians."
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And here in 2017 he says this