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Former intel officer confirms to CNN that US IC was using Brits to get around US law

Posted on 4/15/17 at 3:04 am
Posted by League Champs
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 3:04 am
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He claims to be one of the 3 sources Napolitano used in accusing the Brits of spying on Trump. Napolitano gave the NYT permission to contact him about his Brits involvement statement. The intel officer said that he knew about it before Trump tweeted about it. And that statements made by the IC weren't typical, unless they are playing politics with what they had

CNN's host kept trying to say his info was only second hand, but the intel officer said his info was solid.

He also said, he wouldn't have used the word wiretap to describe what occurred, but that the IC was using Brits as a back channel to get info to Obama. He clarifies that he wasn't accusing BHO of ordering it, but that it was happening
Posted by skinny domino
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 3:16 am to
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He clarifies that he wasn't accusing BHO of ordering it, but that it was happening
So, basically throwing shite up against the wall and hoping it would stick.
Posted by NC_Tigah
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 3:44 am to
3/19/1017

So CNN has had this story since mid-March
Posted by TheCheshireHog
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 3:45 am to
Can't wait to see how the Progs will spin this one. It's always a treat to see their mental gymnastics take place.
Posted by TJGator1215
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 4:04 am to
Just like Benghazi another Republican CT witch hunt.
Posted by Kickadawgitfeelsgood
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 4:58 am to
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He clarifies that he wasn't accusing BHO of ordering it,


Why not? His information is "solid" and every LCD on the right has reminded us for months that Obama ordered the "wiretapping".
Posted by themunch
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 6:14 am to
#ONlyonesthatmatterRussians.
Posted by Doc Fenton
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 8:50 am to
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Former intel officer confirms to CNN that US IC was using Brits to get around US law


bullshite. It's the standard story--other nations began noticing strange things about the Trump campaign in 2015, and the CIA & FBI didn't want to act on this knowledge because they thought the politics looked back. Thus, they didn't start an official investigation until July 2016, and even then, they refused to go public about it.

In no way whatsoever does this back up Napolitano's assertion that the Obama Administration requested surveillance of the Trump campaign from foreign agencies. Every indication is that the higher-ups in the Obama Administration wanted nothing to do with this, and hoped it would go away, whereas the lower officers were the ones who were more concerned (and rightly so). Common sense would tell you that the Obama Administration wasn't the one pushing for or requesting these investigations, because if they did, the final stretch of the election in October 2016 would have played out COMPLETELY differently than it did.

If anything, Barack Obama was complicit in tacitly backing Comey's judgment to hurt Hillary and help Trump, most likely because Obama thought Hillary was going to win anyway, and he didn't care enough about her to help her.
Posted by mmcgrath
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 8:54 am to
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Former intel officer confirms to CNN that US IC was using Brits to get around US law
More like the Trump people thought they were sneaky by meeting with Russians in Western Europe, not realizing that they have spy agencies too.
Posted by KCT
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:08 am to
Judge Napolitano has always hit me as a solid guy. In fact, that's an understatement; He's always impressed me as being a very SUBSTANTIAL person with character & integrity.

So when it appeared that he had been guilty of "overreaching" on a story, it seemed highly out-of-character, imo, that JN would've done something like that. Regardless of what anybody thinks of FOX News, pro or con, I was surprised & disappointed that this had happened to HIM.

Turns out, ol' Judge had his ducks in a row the whole time.


PS - I don't watch CNN, but I wonder if Don Lemon is STILL telling his small audience that he won't insult their intelligence by reporting on Obamagate?
Posted by jb4
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:57 am to
Who is going to jail?
Posted by Tigerdev
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:10 am to
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He clarifies that he wasn't accusing BHO of ordering it,
Posted by Decatur
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:45 am to
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He claims to be one of the 3 sources Napolitano used in accusing the Brits of spying on Trump.


Larry Johnson was the Whitey Tape guy.

I don't know why anyone would listen to him.
Posted by Cromulent
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:47 am to
CNN is fake news, I thought. But not when it fits the narrative?
Posted by KCT
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 3:38 pm to
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Former intel officer confirms to CNN that US IC was using Brits to get around US law




What's really shocking is that CNN reported this.


Little Donnie Lemon said he wouldn't insult our intelligence by talking about it.
Posted by choke
Member since Dec 2015
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:26 pm to
Lest we forget the GCHQ denied spying on Trump no less than a month ago. Here is their direct quote.....
“Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then-president-elect are nonsense,” a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement. “They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”

Obama Spied, GCHQ lied....
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