IF THE FEDS DID WIRETAP TRUMP TOWER, ITS NOT OBAMA WHO SHOULD WORRY

[orangecrush]

from WIRED magazine -


IT STARTED, LIKE so many eruptions these days, with a tweet.

Early Saturday morning, President Trump fired off a series of tweets accusing, without evidence, former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in the month before the election. Trump compared the alleged snooping to “Nixon/Watergate,” and intimated legal action....

“You can’t tap the phones of a political candidate for political purposes,” says Doss.

What you could you tap them for? Acting as a foreign power, or as an agent of a foreign power. In other words, spying against US interests with both knowledge and intent....

If federal authorities did have cause to listen in on Trump Tower, though, and they provided enough evidence for a FISA court to approve the snooping, Obama is not the one who ought to worry.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2017/03/feds-wiretap-trump-tower-not-obama-worry/amp/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Trump really didn't think this through

did he?

What a pathetic shithead.

[orangecrush]

2. Putin must be frustrated

Good help is hard to find these days...

[HipChick]

4. LMAO!

Don't make me laugh, I'm supposed to in bed recuperating..

[orangecrush]

14. Hope

You recover fully and quickly!

[HipChick]

21. It's all good...

Just resting up after minor surgery...

[flygal]

6. .....

[orangecrush]

17. ...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Putin's idiot is useful even while going down in flames. Putin wants to destabilize USA & NATO. nt

[Rex]

18. DUzy!

[orangecrush]

20. Thank you

This is hopefully a sign the country can be saved.

[global1]

5. Is He Sure That The Russians Weren't Doing The Tapping?....nt

[C_U_L8R]

7. Or the Brits or the French or the Germans or...

Democracy still has a lot of friends, just sayin'

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. He didn't think it through from when he began LAUNDERING Russian money through his casinos

Nor when he went into debt with the Russian oligarchs after US sources of credit dried up.

Nor when he okayed or went along with stealing the election with Russian help.

Nor when he publicly called for Russian hacking during the election campaign.

tRump doesn't think much at all. He's reactive.

[ffr]

3. That's basically what normally that POS Sen. Graham said at his town hall today.

CNN video is only like 2 mins long. His closing proposition shares the meat of what he (says he) feels about the matter.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141720135

[orangecrush]

15. Thanks

For posting that!

[tblue37]

23. Would you summarize the main point for us deafies? nt

[meadowlark5]

8. Obama learned early on in his presidency that every move he made was under the rethug microscope

They were watching for the tiniest of misstep making Obama smart and methodical - he made sure he had a lot of great legal counsel and advisors. They didn't anything to open themselves up for repukelican hearings and investigations.

No way on earth would Obama have had a lapse in judgement on the way out the door and do something careless. If this wiretap was ordered, it was done through the proper channels, and yes if true, Trump is the one that needs to worry, not Obama.

[Takket]

9. something that bothers me about this.........

the tapping happened in October. it is now March.

if they had found some damning evidence from the tapping, wouldn't we know about it by now???

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Comey and the NY cabal within the FBI . . . . . . . . nt

[orangecrush]

16. Don't know for sure

But ir looka like we ars gonna find out.

[TexasProgresive]

13. Let's keep in in the pertinent language, Кремльшлюз or Kermlin gate, the gate being a water gate,

[orangecrush]

19. The Slavic languages

At least for me, are difficult.

[TexasProgresive]

22. I wouldn't know. I just used an online translator to get gate, sluice and

wikipedia to get the Cyrillic spelling for Kremlin.