Behind the Obama administration’s shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign
by
Andrew C. McCarthy
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/16/2019 5:43:41 AM
In Senate testimony last week, Attorney General William Barr used the word “spying” to refer to the Obama administration, um, spying on the Trump campaign. Of course, fainting spells ensued, with the media-Democrat complex in meltdown. Former FBI Director Jim Comey tut-tutted that he was confused by Barr’s comments, since the FBI’s “surveillance” had been authorized by a court. (Needless to say, the former director neglected to mention that the court was not informed that the bureau’s “evidence” for the warrants was unverified hearsay paid for by the Clinton campaign.)
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/16/2019 6:50:03 AM (No. 35320)
What occurred with the Trump campaign makes Watergate look legal. To make matters even worse, the democrats insisted on a special council and got one because Jeff Sessions did not have the stomach to investigate what really happened and recused himself. This is where Mueller was born and this man destroyed innocent people´s lives. I say "SUE".
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/16/2019 7:26:20 AM (No. 35334)
Nicely laid out, especially the clarity of calling spying, spying, even though it is causing great discomfort to the dems. Hopefully that is only a preview of MUCH greater discomfort to come.
It is also a clear point that TRUMP was the target of the investigation and counterintelligence actions and nudge nudge, wink wink, everyone KNEW it, all the way up to BO. When Hillary lost, there must have been panic over exposure. They decided to fortify and push the false narrative to hound Trump from office, and cover up their illegal actions.
Unfortunately for them, it didn´t work and a REAL investigation is going to uncover the slime all the way to the top.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pearson365 4/16/2019 7:57:18 AM (No. 35327)
Article does an excellent job of explaining Obama’s corrupt use of the FBI, DoJ and CIA to undermine both the Trump campaign and presidency. An undermining that Mueller and his Dem loyalists extended 2 years beyond the election by investigating Obama’s vicious lie.
But overshadowed by the spying/undermining scandal are several more Obama scandals, including:
A. Illegal use of IRS to stop the Tea Party groups.
B. Approval of the Uranium One sale to Russia in exchange for $145 million to the Clintons.
C. Hillary’s violations of our espionage laws by using an unsecured private email system for her pay to play schemes as Secretary of State
One hopes that these other scandals are not forgotten by AG Barr.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/16/2019 8:01:06 AM (No. 35318)
An attempted coup d´etat based on false information, doesn´t excuse the useful idiots who participated in it. Meanwhile the directors of it, are still spinning with impunity. Real cops work their way up the chain to get the leaders.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 4/16/2019 8:12:52 AM (No. 35316)
Absolutely nothing new here. This is the same article written by different authors about events that happened and characters we all already know.
When you get something new like maybe an arrest of one of the cohorts write about it. I will read it. Don´t need to read the same thing over and over again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/16/2019 8:55:12 AM (No. 35328)
This was a plot to permanently destroy the Republican party. The establishment Republicans were onboard with the plot because they "uni-party" members first and are Republicans only for convenience.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Casper27 4/16/2019 9:15:16 AM (No. 35322)
A little odd that there are some similarities to Watergate.
CIA agents robbed the DNC at Watergate and made a mess of it resulting in discovery.
Former FBI agents also worked on the robbery and voila conviction and ousted President Nixon.
Perhaps the Watergate was an intelligence operation as well. Possibly.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gone2pot 4/16/2019 9:39:12 AM (No. 35331)
When the data is released, it will help seal a win for Carter Page´s civil law suit against a whole bunch of named entities and individuals and also seal a win for his tort case against Uncle Sugums. However, NOT ONE criminal involved in all of these felonies will be held accountable in a federal trial regardless of the amount of physical evidence, videos, emails, texts proving the case against them, not one. They might go as far as Strzok and Lisa Page but no DC jury will ever find them guilty and no DC appellate judge will uphold the jury´s verdict if a next-to-impossible guilty verdict is found by a DC jury.
And Andy, who FINALLY figures out what most of us have known for over two years.
FTA:To be sure, no sensible person argues that the government should refrain from investigating if, based on compelling evidence, the FBI suspects individuals — even campaign officials, even a party’s nominee — of acting as clandestine agents of a hostile foreign power.
Sorry Big A, but NOW a sensible person should ALWAYS argue that the FBI should refrain from investigating a paper cut. The ONLY thing that will change my mind is if ALL involved in this coup, including Hillary and Obama are tried, found guilty, are sentenced and serve their sentences, period. Until then, the FBI made itself an incompetent joke; to be thrown out with the bath water.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Krause 4/16/2019 10:08:30 AM (No. 35315)
I wonder if some of the money the Clinton´s received as part of the uranium deal ended up in Obama´s domain as part of a pre-conceived deal. Also, the ´by the book´ Obama directive to his people at the end of his term was obviously a phony attempt to cover his tracks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
joew9 4/16/2019 10:45:49 AM (No. 35319)
I see two aspects of this scandal.
1. We already know for sure the Clinton campaign worked with the Obama government to try to frame innocent people and their political opponent for crimes. That is very bad and WTW(Worse Than Watergate).
2. Is there evidence that the spying was used to gather campaign strategy information and pass it along to the Clinton campaign? Definitely WTW.
Don´t forget the history leading up to Watergate and how it played a part in the wire tap. Watergate was a phone tap on just one phone at the Democrat campaign headquarters. Just 20 years earlier Nixon and others had uncovered the scandal that there were Soviet spies in the FDR White House and they were influencing policy. There was a real fear that the Dems were once again heavily infiltrated with Soviet spies, especially since the Dems and the MSM had never really admitted to the overwhelming evidence of the spies. And in 1972 McGovern was such a goofy peachnik that the campaign just reeked of Soviet influence. The one phone tap was on a clerk that booked travel plans for out of town visitors. And since she had previously been busted as a madam it was assumed she was booking more than just airplanes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/16/2019 11:50:22 AM (No. 35332)
And what about their sending spies into the campaign to act as FBI informants? Who were they and where are they today?? I want names and addresses!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 4/16/2019 12:46:00 PM (No. 35329)
#7 - Let us also remember that Deep Throat turned out to be an assistant director of the FBI leaking info to a compliant press that was damaging to a president hated by the Left. I doubt Mark Felt was acting alone.
Trump isn´t the first president the Uniparty´s Deep State worked against. Nixon was easy to vilify, Donald Trump not so much.
MAGA - The truth will set us free. Praise God.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/16/2019 1:57:45 PM (No. 35317)
It’s as sure a thing as the leftist and liberal Democrats engaged in politically based spying, using the “deep state” federal government law enforcement and intelligence agencies, against President Trump, his family, his campaign and his Administration, that the leftist and liberal Democrats will now attempt to shut down the wimpy establishment Republicans, as they have done so many times in the past, to get away with their clearly illegal spying. If the Democrats succeed, the illegal politically based spying will be much worse next time around.
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Has the word "TREASON" been removed from today´s lexicon??
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/16/2019 4:24:15 PM (No. 35333)
NeverTrumper Andy is many days late - - and many, many dollars short.
Anyone who has visited The Conservative Treehouse in the last 2+ years has known all of this - - and much, much more - - in more excruciating detail.
Andy has seen the train roaring through the station - - and he´s now trying to latch on to the caboose - - and pretend to be the engineer.
Sorry, Andy Boy - - you have zero credibility here.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trapper 4/16/2019 4:55:31 PM (No. 35326)
And this is where we run up against Mr. McCarthy´s constricted view of this. We already know, from the redacted FISC opinion of April 2017, that the illegal NSA database searches by FBI "contractors" reached back well into 2015. You cannot pretend to “un-know” that. This was BEFORE Trump was the nominee. BEFORE Trump was in the lead. BEFORE the primaries had even begun. There is no reason to assume that those searches were limited to Trump and his associates. Indeed, why would they have been? No, there is EVERY REASON to suspect that those searches were done on every Republican running for president, possibly plus Bernie Sanders.
Of course, once there was a front runner they focused on him. But the breadth of this scandal, this corruption of the FBI and other national security groups, should immediately become clear to anyone who ponders the implications of the information revealed in even the redacted FISC opinion. All information points to the national security apparatus having been weaponized against all possible challengers to the presumptive Democrat nominee.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/16/2019 5:47:54 PM (No. 35325)
It’s no secret that #NeverTrumper Andy dragged along, snaillike, until he got to the point where he had to read those pesky texts between Strzok and Page. Kaboom!
By then a fair number of LDotters, who regularly visit CTH as well as LCom, had buckets of details under their belts, gleaned from an investigator who manages to outstrip Andy at every turn.
Andy is painful to read and to watch. Trying to bury readers now in masses of words. As a number have noticed and said, he is now running to catch a train that has been barreling along for more than a few years now… Rather pathetic.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
weejun 4/16/2019 6:21:10 PM (No. 35323)
when the real, HONEST history of these times is written, it will have to conclude it was by far the worst era for the complicit US media; moreover, it will comment on the mind-boggling willingness of politicians, opinion writers, and the press to completely ignore facts and things that real patriots on the web uncovered and put before them.
Some of the ignorers can be explained; e.g., demonrats in Congress and the usual liberal suspects in the media that are solely driven to ignore the truth/facts by their hatred of Trump; others, unfortunately, appear simply to be stupid. Regardless, it is a dark moment in our history as a nation.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
CountryDoc 4/16/2019 9:10:51 PM (No. 35321)
Andy,
You NeverTrumper -- now pretending to be the wise one. You knew all this before, but were part of the cover-up complicit media. Now that the tide is swinging, you can pretend you were always here, in the know, and appalled like the rest of us.
You are not a true patriot Andy. When the British came (and spies and traitors from many of our allies) and there was a larger Trojan Horse in our midst, you continued to whistle while you worked and perpetuate the doubt of our president.
If war breaks out, know there will be many watching you. Your tracks speak volumes more than your words.
Start behaving like a true journalist, or a real prosecutor and seek the truth above all else, and maybe in another decade, you will have some real credibility.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/21/2019 12:07:04 PM (No. 35324)
The article forgets a key point: It makes it look as if Comey´s meeting with Trump in January, before the inauguration, was the first time Trump had heard of the Spying.
Actually, he was informed by that NSA guy (can´t remember the name) in the Fall. Remember when Trump immediately closed up his Trump Tower offices and decamped to one of his nearby properties? He was getting away from the bugs and taps.
It wasn´t the official notification... but he was told.
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