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Originally Posted by Steve Rupe
You are also misstating what Nunes said. He stated that he did not have any evidence to show that the Donald had been directly or indirectly surveilled and that all of the surveillance that he knows about was perfectly legal. He is concerned that names were unmasked that should not have been unmasked during a perfectly legal surveillance of others and he wants to investigate to learn who did the unmasking. There is zero proof or indication that the Donald or any of his team were directly or indirectly surveilled. There is proof that names were unmasked that maybe should not have been unmasked and that is the concern of Nunes.
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You might be hearing it the way you want to. What I heard him say was that the Trump team was caught up in "incidental surveillance" that had nothing to do with the supposed "Russian" investigation and that surveillance ended up with names ILLEGALLY "unmasked" and THEN disseminated to 16 different agency's as Pres. Obama made a change in the way information is handled during the last few days of his administration.
The obvious question is: Who ordered the surveillance? And who unmasked those names. And who's decision was it to put those conversations that were "wire tapped" into official intelligence reports even though they had no reason to be there based on their value to national security, and what was the motive for Pres. Obama to change the regulations and allow that kind of raw data to be distributed to EVERY agency?
That's a whole lot of moving parts there to make sure that info was leaked with Trump and his team to make them look really bad.
There's a reason that all of the anti-Trump media outlets were able to get all of this intel that is supposed to be classified.
I do believe that Pres. Obama was looking for a little payback on Trump.
Why else would he decide to change the rules right before he left office? And why would he decide in his last few days to put sanctions on Russia?
I would ask you this: Do you think he would have done either of those things if Hillary had won?
I don't. That's why he waited until the last minute for the sanctions when he claimed he had intel saying that the Russians were trying to influence the election (you know, like they do EVERY election) way back last summer.
He didn't do anything because he didn't want to saddle Hillary with hyped up tensions between the U.S. and Russia for her presumed Presidency.
I'd say Obama stuck it to Trump hard.
But in this intel stuff...his underlings may have went too far. I think there will be jail time for several of them...and Pres. Obama had better hope that James Rosen is wrong and the "bombshell" he is saying he is about to finish up investigating doesn't put HIM in jail too.
That would be a nightmare.
But these days with politics? Nothing would surprise me.