Saturday, March 4, 2017

Let's proceed with an inquisitive yet open mind

John Hinderaker at Power Line, in the course of a post about the Associated Press soft-pedaling the previous administration's application for a FISA order to snoop on DJT team people, succinctly states how this should progress at this juncture:

This scandal cries out for aggressive investigation. Let’s see the initial FISA application, and the court order denying it. Then let’s see the second application, and the order that approved it. Let’s put the Obama administration officials who signed the applications under oath, and find out who put them up to it. Let’s find out what judges denied the first application, and what judges granted the second one. Let’s get the details on the Obama administration’s spying. Did they tap the Trump campaign’s telephones? If so, which lines? Did they hack into the Trump campaign’s servers? If so, which ones?
Obviously, as President Trump said, the Obama administration learned nothing of significance from its spying on the Trump campaign. But it now appears that the election of 2016 may have been hacked after all, in a far more meaningful way than an intrusion into Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s email account. It may have been hacked by the Obama administration. We need to find out what happened. Congress should give top priority to this investigation.
Yes, Squirrel-Hair once again made the most bone-headed use of Twitter he possibly could have in chiming in on this. Nonetheless, the goings-on of last summer and fall merit the closest scrutiny.

You don't shrug and move on - which is, from the perspective of a thirst for truth, tantamount to caving - despite the ratcheted-up-to-the-maximum tension in the national air that is undeniably the norm of our times.

The essential truth of what has gone down here most be brought into the light.

8 comments:

  1. If it quacks like a duck , looks like a duck, it's a duck.

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  2. Yep, Trump's tweeting. About as presidential as patting himself on the back from his pulpit over the alleged record applause during his tear jerker moment celebrating his first body bag last week.

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  4. know you love his peeps and all, and above all, their principles, if not immutable, they're so conservatively Republican, and I'm certain Trump will get a lot of mileage out his mouth again, and you again with your pen:

    "...the president’s remarks alleging his phones were “tapped” are simply preposterous and reflect his complete ignorance of how the various surveillance authorities retained by the government over which he now presides actually work. The president cannot, on his own, authorize surveillance of a U.S. citizen. Whether for domestic criminal purposes or foreign intelligence purposes, a court order is required, either through a standard Article III court or the FISC. There is no indication in any of the reporting that a FISA warrant was issued targeting Trump specifically."

    http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trumps-wiretap-rant-betrays-ignorance-of-the-law-214870?cmpid=sf

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  5. But bring it on, all the investigation you want. Again. And again and again. If the law was followed, you got nuthin, but your nut in the WH.

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  6. Not your nut? Well call Teddy Cruz who's on board, after all the personal insults, like most of the rest of your crazy party.

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  7. Not sayin' the Dems aren't crazed and crazy too. It's crazy, its so very crazy weather, every day it gets late in the day, then the sun rises, and the cycle of seasons will indeed some long day hence perhaps return us to springtime. Hopefully not after a nuclear winter.

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  8. Yes, hopefully we can be pulled back from that precipice.

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