Fake news

[connor17]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...-fake-news

“I accuse the media in the United States of treason.”
“Your tactics only aid terrorists – for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve.”
“The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead – and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”

[joew771]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...-fake-news

“I accuse the media in the United States of treason.”
“Your tactics only aid terrorists – for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve.”
“The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead – and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”

All of those quotes are 15 years old or more, and so is the vast majority of the subjects of that article. None of which have anything to do with Trump, if that's what you were implying.

What's your point?

[connor17]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/trum...h_20170314

"Schumer’s comments appeared to be a not-so-veiled threat to Trump that if he took on the dark forces of America’s intelligence services, he would be doing so at his own risk. Ten days later, this threat became reality when an unnamed “senior U.S. government official” leaked intelligence information to The Washington Post, alleging that Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, on Dec. 29, 2016"

"Trump upped the ante by accusing former President Barack Obama, via tweet, of personally ordering wiretaps against Trump and his campaign. The fallout from Trump’s assertion has been explosive, with many pointing to the unsubstantiated nature of his accusation as evidence of the new president’s lack of fitness for office. Lost in the noise and confusion of the outrage among Democrats and Obama-era intelligence officials (and some Republicans) that followed Trump’s incendiary charge, however, is that the existence of the Flynn transcript sustains the general premise, if not the precise specifics, of the Trump wiretap claim."

"The mere fact that a transcript of Flynn’s phone conversations exists represents a violation of U.S. law. That U.S. government officials accessed these transcripts and acted on them in an official capacity expands the scope and scale of this legal transgression by an order of magnitude. The leaking of the existence and contents of the Flynn transcript to the media by U.S. government officials for political purposes is as reprehensible as it is illegal, and represents a frontal assault on the very foundation of American society, grounded as it is in the principle of protecting individual civil liberties."

"If Hannigan had turned this transcript over through official channels, it would have been subjected to mandatory minimization under U.S. law and, as such, could not have been the basis of the Yates intervention on Jan. 26. This eliminates the FBI, the Department of Justice and the NSA as viable conduits for any Flynn-related intelligence sourced to GCHQ. If, however, Hannigan provided the Flynn transcript to the CIA using back channels, then John Brennan, CIA director under Obama, emerges as the leading culprit behind the leak"

[joew771]

Of course Trump's phones etc. were bugged. As were the people in his election campaign.The NY Times has been denying that for weeks now, but they wrote an article that explicitly states that there were wiretaps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/po...ation.html

To quote that article:

"American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump..."

I wonder what those 'intercepted communications' may be.

Also,

"The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A., and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House."

So Obama knew about it, whether he ordered it or not isn't clear, but it obviously happened. So says the NY Times. And anyone with a brain.

Wiretapping and surveillance happened, no question. Anyone who denies it goes not only against what Trump says, but also what the NY Times says.

I may add that there were no connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians found in all of those investigations.

[connor17]