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re: Daily Caller: Rice ordered detailed spreadsheets of Trump team contacts in 2015

Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:40 am to
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:40 am to
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There was probably minimum targeting of all persons considering a presidential run.

THAT would be strong

keeping it isolated to just Trump leaves a lot of plausible deniability and may not be political. nobody thought he was going to win
Posted by Sentrius
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:48 am to
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keeping it isolated to just Trump leaves a lot of plausible deniability and may not be political. nobody thought he was going to win



They likely collectively shat their pants once Trump won knowing full well it was too late to actually start acting like a lame duck and they had no way of knowing if the incoming Trump administration was just going to leave their spying alone once they discovered it so they had to invent the great and elaborate Russian hoax to cover up their spying and bog them down in bullshite to to claim that Trump is trying to deflect from the Russian narrative.
Posted by Damone
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:50 am to
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they had no way of knowing if the incoming Trump administration was just going to leave their spying alone once they discovered it so they had to invent the great and elaborate Russian hoax to cover up their spying and bog them down in bullshite to to claim that Trump is trying to deflect from the Russian narrative.

Had the entire Democratic party not tried to discredit him at every turn with RUSSIANS! propaganda, I don't think this would even be a story. They couldn't leave well enough alone.
Posted by TJGator1215
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:50 am to
So reading phone records is surveillance??? Lol you guys are so retarded
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:50 am to
i don't know which theory is more interesting

1. the Russian spying allegations are a manufactured hoax to delegitimize Trump

2. Trump's team (via Flynn) found out they were being spied on (out of Russian connections) and they had no real way to get the information out
Posted by Bareknuckles
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:51 am to
And the bomb goes BOOM!
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:51 am to
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So reading phone records is surveillance?


Ummm..... yeah?
Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:52 am to
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So reading phone records is surveillance


Reading phone records? Maintain a database of phone records is surveillance
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477180 posts
Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:52 am to
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So reading phone records is surveillance???

is this really the hill you're willing to die on?

this reminds me of when the Obama spying network was uncovered and his sycophants REALLY tried to make the "meta data isn't really spying" arguments.
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:54 am to
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sycophants


You can just say Decatur
Posted by wickowick
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:54 am to
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So reading phone records is surveillance??? Lol you guys are so retarded


How did they get those records?
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:55 am to
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So reading phone records is surveillance???


are you serious?
Posted by TJGator1215
FL/TN
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:56 am to
Lol at this witch hunt. The only source is the DC taking the word of an attorney. Lol
Posted by Sentrius
Fort Rozz
Member since Jun 2011
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:56 am to
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1. the Russian spying allegations are a manufactured hoax to delegitimize Trump

2. Trump's team (via Flynn) found out they were being spied on (out of Russian connections) and they had no real way to get the information out


Both work pretty well together and are interchangeable.

Btw, Obama himself said before the election that Russians interfering in election was nothing new as they've been interfering in american elections for generations and there was little to be concerned about.
Posted by GeauxxxTigers23
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Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 8:58 am to
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Btw, Obama himself said before the election that Russians interfering in election was nothing new as they've been interfering in american elections for generations and there was little to be concerned about.
They interfered in the 2012 election to help Obama
Posted by Sentrius
Fort Rozz
Member since Jun 2011
64757 posts
Posted on 4/4/17 at 9:00 am to
Funny thing is that Hillary 2016 basically ran the same campaign as Romney 2012 and indeed lost like him too.

Both were anti russia.
This post was edited on 4/4/17 at 9:01 am
Posted by AUsteriskPride
Albuquerque, NM
Member since Feb 2011
18385 posts
Posted on 4/4/17 at 9:00 am to
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How is this not direct surveillance



They keep moving the goal posts. Thanks Bush, and frick what The Patriot Act spawned.

People should have listened to the kook libertarians.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477180 posts
Posted on 4/4/17 at 9:01 am to
the ABSOLUTE WEIRDEST part of this puzzle is the quotes from Obama to Russia around 2012 about having "more flexibility", which came right around him going to bat for Russia to mock Romney.
Posted by GeauxxxTigers23
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Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 4/4/17 at 9:02 am to
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the ABSOLUTE WEIRDEST part of this puzzle is the quotes from Obama to Russia around 2012 about having "more flexibility", which came right around him going to bat for Russia to mock Romney.
I've been wondering why this hasn't gotten more play lately.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477180 posts
Posted on 4/4/17 at 9:03 am to
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The only source is the DC taking the word of an attorney. Lol

well i will say this...at least it's a named source
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