‘Even Beyond Nixon’: Pelosi Swipes At Trump-Era Leak Probe Into Lawmakers | Talking Points Memo

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday decried the Trump administration’s secret seizing of Apple data records of House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) as going “even beyond Richard Nixon.”


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And, like Watergate, the thing is metastasizing.

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What Madam Secretary (quite strategically) “hopes” is that those fuckers delay until around October 2022.

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This one is not surprising. McGahn kept his mouth shut: he was neither for nor against, and that’s not good enough for fat donnie.

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Why isn’t Pelosi’s photo appearing on the front page? There’s never been any problem getting tRump’s to appear.

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Okay. But let’s deal with this once and for all. Let’s make it illegal for law enforcement and intelligence agencies at all levels to collect communications data or metadata without a warrant won in open, not FISA, court.

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Could the AG/DoJ, or FBI subpoena one’s phone records from Ma Bell?

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So Fat Nixon is heading for Fattest Nixon?

Oh, the huge manatee…

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The reason that Trump was complaining that Obama was spying on his campaign was that he was spying on Congress and knew how easy it was.

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I just hope it has that many legs! But what will happen with the Republican side of Congress co-complicit? It’s depressing to think about how intractably awful they are.

Still, if the media keeps ringing the bell…who knows? It took a long time for the Republicans to get on board back in Nixon time too.

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It’s never not projection.

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Holy shit, that is amazeballs.

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You can always count on projection from the MFWWNBN. His is flawless.

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“I have all the best projection.”

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No, not very surprising. His cardinal sin was doing his job by occasionally saying no, you really can’t do that. But what I love is how likely it is to make even his former enablers wonder what he knows about them. He’s one treacherous SOB and if they didn’t really get that before this’ll give them something to think about.

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He thinks everyone is as stupid, shallow, and petty as he is.

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The Republicans were never in thrall to Nixon the way the are now to Trump.

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No they weren’t. And they were a different breed entirely. But they still did hold out a long time on Nixon, kept up a front as long they possibly could.

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