SailorSam wrote:
Duffy wrote:
sphere wrote:
I don't believe that particular question was asked. He answered the wiretap questions devoid of context. I take that to mean it didn't happen, and so any investigation related to Russia didn't involve surveillance of Trump Tower.
Interesting.
If you were investigating Russian influence into an election with possible collusion from the Trump campaign wouldn't tapping Trump campaign phones be a good idea?
Probably...but you'd need a court issued warrant for that. Maybe not for tapping a foreign national's phone and catching the campaign from the other side. More elegant I'd think.
Who the hell really knows, though? It's all wild speculation at this point. The only tangible thing I'm taking away from this is that the FBI thought something was up if they started spending time on this last summer. Where there's smoke...
And if they really had reason to believe that, they had better eventually come up with a clear and transparent report without shit redacted all over the place to hide investigative techniques under the guise of national security. Because at this point, it sounds like it could be manufactured by democrats, acted on by Obama, investigation of an opposing party candidate openly hostile to the current president by the FBI and intelligence agencies, parsed to minute details that can be denied, while the big picture remains unanswered, leaving no real answers. I also think there was a certain atmosphere that felt free to do so because they though Trump stood no chance of winning and it would never be a thing.
Our gov't does have a history of this shit, the FBI under Hoover was notorious for monitoring innocent people and even infiltrating benign groups with the intent of making them public enemies.
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