If Tweety's phone were wire tapped to "coup" the Tweety Presidency, why is Obama on vacation having fun when he could bring the evidence found forward? Why did Obama let Tweety win? OK, maybe nothing was found, but judge had ot think something might be wrong for them to authorize the wire tap.
I see what Tweety does, tweets, and I wonder how I do not succumb to Tweety's "magic," his distracting tweets. Tweety tells me what to believe, "Believe me.," "My sources have informed me . . .," and I feel I should believe him He tweets and he sends out surrogates to tell almost believable stories of why we should believe him. Why am I hesitant? Why can't I go for his stories and his accusations?
Tweety supports Jeff Sessions even tho a fifth grader can see Sessions lied about his contacts with the Russian government as a Trump campaign surrogate? This support actually gives me reason to doubt Tweety's honesty, and believe he KNEW of his people working with the Russians to win the election.
Tweety accusation of a wire tap suggest HE was suspected of committing a CRIME because that is the only way a judge would approve a wire tap. I think Tweety messed up "bigly."
"Franken: Sessions Was 'Extremely Misleading' About Russian Contacts During Confirmation Hearing"
Leah Barkoukis
Posted: Mar 02, 2017
Franken seems way to PC and being way to careful I think, but I am not a politician. What do I know?
"White House Rejects Comey’s Assertion That Wiretapping Claim Is False"
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMARCH 6, 2017
No surprise here, so why can't I go with Tweety on denying Comey? Didn't Comey help Tweety get elected?
Maybe this is why?
"Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates"
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATTHEW ROSENBERG, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZOJAN. 19, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html
Is Tweety nuts? Read this. Why didn't Tweety just go for the "kill" if he had facts? He only needs HIS FBI and HIS Justice Department to pull the files on these wire taps to go forward.
"Fact-Checking Trump’s Defenses of His Wiretapping Claim"
By LINDA QIUMARCH 6, 2017
"Mr. Trump offered no evidence to support his claims that Mr. Obama wiretapped his phones and rejected the assertion by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, that the wiretapping claim was false, according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman.
Here is an assessment.
Sean Spicer, White House press secretary, complained of news outlets using anonymous sources that did not produce credible stories
“There’s been a malalignment for so many months and yet not a shred of single truth has actually come that shows any evidence has existed except anonymous source after anonymous source after anonymous source.”
False. The White House has criticized the use of anonymous sources in reporting, yet has offered its own anonymous sources to support claims or policies. Mr. Spicer’s suggestion that articles citing unnamed officials have turned up nothing is wrong.
In recent weeks, Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser after news reports with unnamed sources revealed he had been in contact with Sergey I. Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States. Similarly, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigations into Russia after journalists found he had also spoken with Mr. Kislyak, based on conversations with anonymous sources.
Ms. Sanders said that wiretapping had been widely reported
“This is a story line that has been reported pretty widely by quite a few outlets. The wiretapping has been discussed in The New York Times, BBC, Fox News.”
This is misleading. The White House forwarded The New York Times several articles about investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia that include the word “wiretapping.” None contend, as Mr. Trump did, that Mr. Obama personally ordered the surveillance of Trump Tower phones.
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The BBC reported, based on anonymous sources, that intelligence agencies obtained a FISA warrant in October 2016 to intercept electronic records from two Russian banks. HeatStreet, a libertarian-leaning blog, also cited unnamed sources claiming that the warrant covered a computer server at Trump Tower. Neither claimed Mr. Obama was responsible.
The White House also cited two Times articles, one about the National Security Agency’s expanded authority to share its data and the other on the continuing investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russian officials. Neither article claimed that Mr. Trump or his associates were the target of wiretapping.
Ms. Sanders characterized Mr. Trump’s claims on Twitter as asking an open-ended question
“He’s talking about could this have happened? Did this happen?”
False. While the White House is calling for a congressional inquiry, Mr. Trump did not merely raise the possibility on Twitter but was emphatic that the incident did occur.
Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor, pointed to remarks from former attorney general Michael Mukasey to validate Mr. Trump’s point
“I saw what former Attorney General Mukasey said yesterday on a different network, that he thinks it’s probably right or correct.”
Needs context. Ms. Conway is cherry-picking remarks from Mr. Mukasey, who led the Justice Department under President George W. Bush, as proof that Mr. Trump was right.
“I think the president was not correct certainly in saying that President Obama ordered a tap on a server in Trump Tower,” he said on ABC. “However, I think he’s right in that there was surveillance and that it was conducted at the behest of the attorney — of the Justice Department through the FISA court.”
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Mr. Mukasey later added that this conclusion was based on the same news reports that the White House has cited and said that he does not believe a special inquiry or prosecutor is necessary to look into Mr. Trump’s claims.
Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, suggested the Obama administration also surveilled a journalist, conservatives and himself
“Let’s remember what they did with James Rosen. Let’s remember that the IRS did target Americans based on their political beliefs. And in my own personal case, I had more than 40 Secret Service agents illegally tap into my records and dive into my background. So, this stuff does happen, and it’s not necessarily done the legal, lawful way.”
This is misleading. Mr. Chaffetz said he is not aware of evidence backing up Mr. Trump’s claims, but noted that the Obama administration is “notorious” for similar behavior. None of the incidents he mentioned, however, are parallel to Mr. Trump’s accusations of illegal wiretapping ordered by Mr. Obama.
The Justice Department’s 2013 investigation of Mr. Rosen, a journalist at Fox News, was authorized by a court order and included scanning his emails. Mr. Rosen himself clarified on Fox News that he was not wiretapped.
The Internal Revenue Service was accused of singling out conservative groups applying for nonprofit status between 2010 and 2013. Investigations by the FBI, Senate and Justice Department were divided over whether the agency acted in politically motivated ways but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
And in 2015, 45 Secret Service agents read, without authorization, Mr. Chaffetz’s records at the agency where his application had been rejected more than a decade earlier. Mr. Chaffetz was one of the most outspoken critics of the Secret Service after a series of security breaches."
