WSJ’s Strassel: Barr ‘Right’ to Say ‘Spying’ Occurred on Trump Campaign
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Trent Baker
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Posted By: earlybird,
4/12/2019 11:39:44 PM
Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel went on Fox News Channel Friday to discuss her op-ed about Attorney General William Barr bringing accountability to questions surrounding the FBI’s behavior in 2016, (Snip)“[Barr] was right to call this what it is. It is spying,” Strassel stated. “This was a party of one persuasion running an administration that was looking at a campaign the other party and that definitely merits the word ‘spying.´” “There’s still some things in the FBI’s timeline that do not add up. It did not start its counter-intelligence investigation until July 31st, but we know that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 4/13/2019 7:55:15 AM (No. 32316)
The WSJ consistently ran headlines supporting the collusion narrative until it collapsed, then the headlines stopped. Strassel is close to the only journalist that wsj runs who has integrity. I am surprised that she is still on their pages.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 4/13/2019 8:42:31 AM (No. 32315)
It is not uncommon for opposing political campaigns to spy on each other and I see no problem with that.
HOWEVER, that spying should not ever under any circumstance involve using resources of the federal government or any of its agencies. And that! is what we have here. They used the FBI, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies as weapons against Donald Trump´s campaign and there should be serious consequences for all those involved as high up in the chain of command as it goes!!
I am hoping Barr is working behind the scenes along with Horowitz and out of no where hits the miscreants with a couple indictments.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
grampus 4/13/2019 10:05:21 AM (No. 32319)
Remember: Admiral Rogers, head of NSA, went personally to Trump and told him that he was being spied on, that the office was bugged. Trump and staff immediately moved to a different location. (And Rogers didn´t suggest that the Russians were involved.)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/13/2019 10:37:07 AM (No. 32312)
Strassel is a good reporter, often more right-wing than the rest of the pack at the WSJ, but she was not the leader of the pack when it came to the Russia thing, although some give her credit. Everything she wrote about was derivative, coming from investigative work already done by Conservative Treehouse, John Solomon (not Sara Carter), Chuck Ross at Daily Caller, and more recently Paul Sperry at RCInvestigations. CTH was the forerunner.
It is good, however, to see someone at a news outlet that caters to the Establishment break ranks a bit. Kimberly Strassel was one of the few on Fox who seemed to be able to voice her own independent opinions, and her thinking was usually quite clear.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Faldo 4/13/2019 11:09:55 AM (No. 32317)
If Ms. Strassel is interested in ´accountability´ still being asked of open questions that linger, then how about a real review of the News Corp emails that were seized in New York as part of the UK hacking scandal by the FBI...?
Strassel steers the outrage so as to keep Thompson & Murdoch safe from exposure. Same with Breitbart--it´s one dirty club.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Franz 4/13/2019 12:00:17 PM (No. 32309)
Kimberly Strassel is an excellent reporter. She may not be the first out the door with a story, but she makes sure to verify the validity of what she reports.
This cannot be said of the MSM who parroted the slanderous propaganda spoon fed to them with out even trying to determine if it was the truth or a pack of lies.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe 4/13/2019 12:15:46 PM (No. 32310)
The article suggests that everything that occurred after the ´counter-intelligence´ operation began was OK. It was not. Grabbing some perverted fictional stories from the iCNN rumor site where anyone in the world is allowed to make up any story does not constitute grounds for implying that PDT is a Russian spy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Arby 4/13/2019 12:34:39 PM (No. 32314)
Of course. Go, Kim.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jorgecito 4/13/2019 2:04:59 PM (No. 32313)
I think I remember that, #3. Trump Tower in Manhattan WAS ´bugged,´ i.e. under FBI/CIA surveillance, just as Trump had claimed (though the MSM tried to ridicule his claim as preposterous).
Iirc after Rogers´s warning, the Trump team promptly decamped to his golf club in Bedminster, NJ.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2019 2:22:51 PM (No. 32311)
And I think that Adm. Rogers is pretty much the ONLY white hat in the entire leadership of the US intelligence apparatus - perhaps DIA is still clean, too. They never have joined in on this, AFAIK.
So, the military intel and a recent USN Admiral were the ONLY honest players left in the Obama administration. The Zero was a traitor, and hired the same.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Talega 4/13/2019 6:51:09 PM (No. 32318)
Wow. A reporter reporting the facts. Shocker.
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