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After reading it, how can anyone accuse Trump of anything given the scope of this power to spy. This is something that I was somewhat familiar with. But the article shows it goes even further than I thought.
If people knew this, then they would have known that the Russian collusion accusation and obstruction accusation are pure garbage. For if anything existed, it would have leaked. The existence of anything that would have been fatal to Trump would have been known before the election. But this went on for months after the election, as the Mueller probe started more than six months later.
If the IG reports are holding up everything, then how long can they do it? Until election day 2020?
That's because they are slow-walking this thing.
Now Steele's testimony is blamed for further delays. Perhaps that is why Steele decided to testify. He is anti-Trump, so if he can slow down the counter-investigations, the slow-walking can get even slower.
Mueller should have been interested in that, if it was an honest investigation. Same is true for Mifsud. If Mifsud was a Russian agent, same problem as for KK. Mifsud was UK intel.
Incidentally, Page would make 3 sources that were used as an excuse for this investigation. They were labelled as foreign agents, when they weren't. These sources were Page, Mifsud, and Kilimnik.
This Mueller investigation was not an honest investigation. They should have been investigating some real problems with State and with our allies, provided that what was said in the Mueller report about these people being Russian agents was true.
The NSA 702 "about queries" abuse is probably what they are hiding, per CTH link above. This abuse was already documented by the FISA court investigation even before Trump was nominated and elected.
There was an 85% noncompliance rate on the audit conducted of "about queries" by the FISA court. It was most likely these noncompliant "about queries" were being used to spy on Obama's political opponents. It was political and abusive, as well as illegal.
Will there ever be accountability for the abuses that have already occurred? In my opinion, this thing is being slow-walked so that a phony obstruction accusation ( as phony as Russian collusion ) will be a political issue in 2020 election. The Democrats hope to exploit this politically.
Well, I've looked at this closely. There's probably not a whole lot of anything new. For instance, I expected that the NSA had "everything" on "everybody". The thing that is problematical is the FISA 702 about queries. This is the stuff that NSA collects and stores, and somebody was accessing that information without proper authorization.
It is suspected that this was the way the previous administration kept tabs on opponents. If they did, and if it can be proven, then there should be some accountability. Actually, enough has already been established that should result in criminal investigation of many high officials in the Obama administration.
However, given the 95% Democrat partisan advantage in DC, any public official is probably not accountable. That too is a big, big problem.
6:41 pm:
This guy is the same guy that disputes that the emails were hacked. ( if memory serves ) The wikipedia entry on him is not unfavorable, because he sounds like the Democrats used to sound during the Bush administration.
So, let's get this straight. Democrats and the majority elect a guy ( Obama ) , partly because of perceived abuses in warrantless searches. But Obama doesn't clean it up, but makes it a lot worse.
By the way, it is not only Trump being surveilled, it is all of us.
If they can do this, what can stop them? Do you really wish for anybody in the government to have such power? This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
4:23 pm:
These are the whistleblower tapes. They are recordings that you can listen to if you are interested.
I have listened to one of several, and part of another one. Basically, what is in the American Report is in the whistleblower tapes.
Of course, these are most likely dead on accurate and true. Yet, it will mostly be greeted by indifference. Or, it may be considered partisan, because that is how everything is seen today.
If everything partisan is justified, then where does it end? It cannot have a happy ending. There is just no way that it could.
Whistleblower Tapes: Trump Wiretapped "A Zillion Times" By 'The Hammer,' Brennan’s and Clapper's Secret Computer System - The American Report - https://t.co/0A9W3n097U via @shareaholic
Just completed a deeper dive into the source "The American Report". It was about the "hammer". According to this report, spying on Americans has been going on for "years". Long before Trump ran for POTUS.
Some of the notes taken: ( keep in mind this is very preliminary and not well presented )
3 part series on "The Hammer" by the American Report dot org
notes:
using wikipedia to see what they have on the names used on the American Report
1. American Report not readily found on wikipedia
2. authors Fanning and Jones also not found
3. Denis Montgomery found: , seems critical
4. "The Hammer": not found either. However, article states that it is out there
there is indirect reference found on Montgomery (3) above:
Vault 7 document dump from Wikileaks does mention HAMR
5. Judge G. Murray Snow, US District Court for Arizona--- no reference to release of tapes
on wikipedia, but here it is: Did find Snow on a different pathway search on wikipedia
6. I blogged about Evelyn Farkas, and her youtube video was taken down shortly afterward
7. USAF Gen. McInerney connection to Hammer not on Wikipedia, critical entry of him Fox interview prior to Comey firing
8. Admiral Lyons: Nothing found about hammer in relation to Ace Lyons, Lyons died last year.
9. dr. dave janda: Not on wikipedia, but a link from wikipedia
10. Whistleblower tapes: nothing much on search engine, nothing on wikipedia
Big question at this moment is what is on the "Whistleblower tapes"? Supposed to be proof of the spying.
This spying should not be confused with the FISA 702 about queries investigation. This is a whole new ballgame.
5.13.19:
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What is stunning to me is that these facts have been known for years now, and the Russian collusion ( conspiracy theory ) has run amok all this time.
It will crystallize it all in one report why Sundance at CTH calls the Russian collusion myth to be a cover story, and this is what they are covering up.
Spying? Of course there was spying on Trump. The evidence has existed for years. Wikileaks exposed it. Read this for the skinny.
COMEY LAUNCHED TRUMP RUSSIA INVESTIGATION DAY AFTER GENERAL EXPOSED ‘THE HAMMER’ - The American Report - https://t.co/G4crbDrZLx via @shareaholic
Rasmussen had a poll ( not linked to here ) in which Mueller was said to have done a fair job. Evidently, people buy into the hype about Mueller's "integrity" and so forth.
Why do they buy in to this? There are more problems with that investigation than you could shake a stick at, yet these people think the investigation was fair?
When I think of Mueller, I don't see integrity, nor fairness. I'm not even sure of basic competence.
How to explain the sharp divide? Lots of people don't trust Mueller.
The explanation could be explained in two reasons.
People believe what they wish to believe.
The stories being told are different, most likely. The stories favorable to Mueller are told to people who want to believe Mueller, and vice versa.
