re: Definitive #Obamagate Timeline (8PM 3/17 Update)

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Tom Cotton confirmed the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Trump not to declassify any documents instead allowing Congress to investigate.

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Please show me the quote where this was said. Do you mean this?

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Bill O’Reilly: OK. You know who did it. OK. And I understand if it’s classified and you know President Trump could make it unclassified like that. Boom.

Senator Cotton: So the president does have that kind of declassification authority. I have suggested that some leaders of the intelligence community might want to make some kind of public statement. But I understand the reluctance of them and potentially President Trump as well.

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Because that doesn't confirm what you're saying.

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He also confirmed Flynn was wiretapped in Trump Tower

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Did he? What did he say exactly? That he was aware of actions in the intelligence community or that Michael Flynn was wiretapped in Trump Tower. I think you and many others are twisting a lot of that interview to fit whatever narrative you want.

So did he really confirm all of this or did you just hear what you wanted to hear?

I watched the video twice. So why don't you quote me where he confirmed those things. Why is that so hard since you're claiming he did it.

By you saying i can't read his quotes and get the information you claimed he confirmed tells me he didn't actually say that. Maybe he hinted or insinuated it but he didn't confirm anything to my knowledge.

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Well, your knowledge is limited

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What a lame fricking response. I ask you for proof of him confirming those things and instead you tell me my knowledge is limited.

How sad.

More fake news from Joshua

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I gave you proof, it's in the video linked. I can lead you to water, but I can't force you to drink

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I watched the video twice and read the transcript. I think you might be the one who is in need of not drinking the water/kool-aid.

So is this whole thread something you can just jerk off to every morning when you get up, or do you actually give a shite if Obama is guilty or Trump is a liar.

You just made up something to fit your narrative and then said a senator confirmed it. I asked for the text where he said that. Hell i will make it even easier tell me the time in the video where he confirms it. Csn you do that, or maybe just maybe he didn't confirm anything.

PoliticsUSA a very left leaning site, is even admitting this in twisting the Cotton interview: saying Cotton screwed Trump.

Tom Cotton and Fox News Accidentally Screw Trump By Confirming Russia Transcripts Exist

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Senator Cotton pointed to partisan political appointees in the FBI as the intelligence leakers.

Senator Tom Cotton: our inquiry and review on the Intelligence Committee is moving forward at a good pace. We just got access to a lot of very important documents that otherwise would be very closely restricted. Let me point out that it was the Trump administration that gave us that access not the Obama administration. So, so far the level of cooperation we’ve received has been very thorough…

Bill O’Reilly: I want to know who ordered the wiretap on the Russian ambassador that picked up General Flynn at, we think the Trump Tower, we’re not 100% sure. I want to know what agency authorized that. Do you know? Can you tell me tonight?

Senator Cotton: Bill I prefer not to speak about what surveilance orders may or may not have been in place because it is a classified matter.

Bill O’Reilly: Do you know who ordered it?

Senator Cotton: Bill as a member of the Intelligence Committee I am aware of and follow closely what the agencies do…

Bill O’Reilly: OK. You know who did it. OK. And I understand if it’s classified and you know President Trump could make it unclassified like that. Boom.

Senator Cotton: So the president does have that kind of declassification authority. I have suggested that some leaders of the intelligence community might want to make some kind of public statement. But I understand the reluctance of them and potentially President Trump as well. Because those kind of methods…

Bill O’Reilly: Now let me take the next step. You know who did it. What agency did it. So you know who had the transcript made of it. Because the agency who tapped had to make the transcript. Then the transcript is leaked. So you know which agency has to be investigated to find the leaker. Correct?

Senator Cotton: Bill, I make two points about that. First I’ve seen media reports suggested Obama officials intentionally spread intelligence information widely to include just raising it in meetings when it was inappropriate to do so. They claim it was trying to preserve intelligence. I suspect it was more likely they were trying to get it to leak. Secondly the FBI is not just a law enforcement service, it’s also our main counter-intelligence service. The FBI is part of the Department of Justice. The FBI until January 20th was run by Obama political appointees. And the mains consumer of intelligence is the White House and National Security Council. So you have many partisan Democrats who are receiving this information. And I think it there might be a good chance you want to look at some of those partisan Democrats who left office on January 20th and now are being identified as former US officials if you want to know where some of these leaks are coming from.

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I think it is significant that the wikileaks drop yesterday mentioned that the CIA could make a hacking attempt by the CIA appear to be done by someone else (eg, Russia)...

Much like Kelly's speculation about all this, Cotton doesn't know jackshit about whats going on in trump's head/world

"Embracing Trump’s wiretapping story requires belief in a a concatenating chain of ever-more ridiculous assertions to be true.
First, it requires a chain of command in the intelligence community and federal law enforcement that doesn’t exist. There is no secret channel that magically makes wiretaps, surveillance, and massive national security investigations appear full-blown from the brow of the President. As General Mike Hayden noted, “That’s not how the plumbing works.” Otherwise smart people who know electronic surveillance coverage warrants are issued either under Title 3 (typical for criminal investigations) or under FISC now believe that Barack Obama could instantly order the might of the entire intelligence community to target Donald Trump at a political whim.
Second, they have to believe the FISC court would approve a FISA warrant without specific, detailed probable cause that directly illustrated imminent risks to our national security. FISA warrants are issued in major terrorism and espionage cases based on information that typically comes up from the intelligence community, not down the chain in the form of a White House order, despite the fever-swamp rantings of the Trumpbart media. FISA targets those who are “agents of a foreign power.”

Third, they have to believe that the FBI, CIA, and NSA et al would illegally implement electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen for purely political reasons in the heat of a contested Presidential race. It would mean that dozens of senior and likely hundreds of less-senior intelligence and law enforcement personnel would have to agree to commit continuous, multiple felonies.
Fourth, you have to simultaneously believe Barack Obama is both the evil mastermind of the anti-Trump strategy in the 2016 election and a moron who engaged in a set of wildly illegal and ineffective actions with a massive paper trail. If Obama controlled the entire intelligence and law enforcement process, how did James Comey’s finger-on-the-scale actions in the closing days damage Clinton so consistently and ignore Trump so thoroughly?
Finally, you have to believe that despite being hellbent on destroying Trump even at the cost of breaking the law, he never whispered in the ear of the appropriate minion to have Trump’s tax returns appear somewhere, WikiLeaks-style. Trump’s obsessive lying about his tax returns, his utter stonewalling of their release, and the manic reaction to any mention of them tells us there’s something there that he’d kill a puppy to protect."

Lindsey Graham has asked the DOJ to provide all warrant applications related to any surveillance of Trump and related entities.