More to the point- White House staff admits to actively breaking the law on governmental records and communications.
They’re deliberately deleting and scrubbing everything.
incidental
Hopefully Schiff can work around Lumpy…
Wait a minute… I recall that it’s been divulged certain targets of US intelligence were eavesdropped on during conversation with Trump people… you can see this spin coming from miles away.
It’s an environment of fear that has hamstrung the routine functioning of the executive branch. Senior advisers are spending much of their time trying to protect turf, key positions have remained vacant due to a reluctance to hire people deemed insufficiently loyal, and Trump’s ambitious agenda has been eclipsed by headlines
LOL…
This worry stems from the Washington Post’s explosive report on former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s phone calls with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the transition, which ultimately led to Flynn’s resignation. The intelligence community said Flynn’s calls were recorded through “incidental collection,” an explanation Nunes has challenged.
“Several crimes have been committed here,” he told reporters about the details of Flynn’s phone calls being leaked to the press.
“Google or Fanduel, Google or Fanduel, Google or Fanduel”
So were there the Trump staffers who were in phone contact with their Russian friends?
I actually look forward to 1600 rolling with that story. Now that trick won’t/shouldn’t work, but…shrug
staffers have become almost obsessed by daily news accounts of palace intrigue and spend hours in the office dissecting them in hopes of deciphering who is dishing
Where’s my Diet Coke?!?!?
So why was the intel community looking at Trump’s ties to Russia, Mr. Nunes? Let’s talk about that. Let’s also talk about the fact that collecting data on foreign nationals interactions with US citizens is allowed under FISA, while collecting data on US citizens communicating with other US citizens is not. See the difference or do you need a diagram to understand that basic concept?
And how about doing your job instead of running cover for a traitor?
this fuckin guy, i swear. first of all, he shouldn’t be leading any of these investigations, given the public information that he agreed to shill for the administration on various alleged misconduct.
second of all, he spends all of his time focusing on whether someone vandalized the arsonist’s getaway car, rather than on the arson and arsonist. because, of course, and as noted, he’s already agreed to be a shill for the arsonist.
taking additional steps to protect himself, such as keeping his office door closed during the day. He has used his off-time to catalogue the Twitter and Facebook postings of co-workers who he suspects harbor anti-Trump views and could be a threat.
As John Schindler said the other day, “your civil liberties as an American do not include the right to communicate with foreign bad guys without possible monitoring.”
Nunes is truly a moron. Why is this Trump guy still sitting in the position of Intel Chair?
I really, really, really want the end result to be that Trump was intercepting his own staffers’ calls to ensure loyalty. It would be the crown jewel of all his projection issues.
***“Several crimes have been committed here,***” he told reporters about the details of Flynn’s phone calls being leaked to the press.
Hmmm, I must have missed the handing down of indictments, discovery phase, trial, counsel summations, jury deliberations and final verdicts. I need a link.Couldn’t find the clip on Youtube, but this guy Nunes reminds me of the scene in The Fugitive, when they’re walking out of the One Armed Man’s apartment & Tommy Lee Jones says “This guy’s dirty, Cosmo”
Louise Mensch, if you find her credible, has been asserting that British intelligence has been the source of a lot of the data held by the US intelligence community. If so, it’s not really a crime
I don’t know if she’s credible. She is such an attention-seeker, and so vindictive towards critics, that I doubt her mental stability, to say nothing of her accuracy. Besides that, she is a radical conservative. She is not our friend.
I believe this move is called a “Reverse Benghazi” — Nunes is not doubting that these folks were communicating secretly with foreign contacts, but saying that the intelligence services were acting incorrectly by monitoring those foreign entities because, as a byproduct, Drumpfie’s Stormtroopers were caught in the surveillance.
This is pretty Machiavellian — has Bannon’s fingerprints all over it.
Aside from her credibility though, it’s totally plausible ICs of our allies have offered us a great deal of information.