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Nunes: Court-authorized surveillance of foreign agents picked up Trump talk.
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Kid Kamikaze10
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I knew Nunes' last questions at the FBI/NSA hearing was sus as fuck.
plagiarize
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Do share.
You're confused about the content of the posts in this particular discussion. Nunes' clearance was not the subject, his authority to disclose was.
dynamitejim
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"I was caught calling some shady people who were under surveillance...VINDICATED!"
plagiarize
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Trust me, the only people that will think this vindicates Trump are people who already believe the ridiculous wiretapping claim in the first place.
Nothing is out of the question at this rate.
Which is super depressing IMO.
balladofwindfishes
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Seriously, haha
The story now is why did Nunes immediately go to Trump with this information and what the heck was Trump doing to get his data collected like this?
Joe Shlabotnik
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Even Trump's response sounds like "I appreciate the effort but wtf are you doing"
Netherscourge
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So Nunes goes public and runs off to Trump, without any pre-discussions with his own committee, possibly breaking the law in the process, just to tell Trump he was kinda-sorta-indirectly surveilled during an unrelated investigation.
-all just to make Trump feel good about his wiretapping accusation against Obama, which is still confirmed to be a lie.
He's working the broken clock/twice a day angle?
Well for one, he was apparently hosting an illegal gambling ring in his building.
George Washington
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Not surprising given the mass surveillance by all of the government agencies in the digital age of big data.
This does not vindicate Trump; Obama ordered no such thing. He still owes an apology.
This does not vindicate Trump; Obama ordered no such thing. He still owes an apology.
It's really not that complicated to see what just happened.
TheOfficeMut
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So Nunes is on an investigative panel and with information he learned concerning an investigation into Trump, he went to Trump himself to tell him what he learned?
Is that right?
Is that right?
Outdoor Miner
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The only people who care about such claims are those in his ever-shrinking base. I'm not even sure what this accomplishes given the fact that the "tapp" was of a foreign national (incidental), completely legal, and confirmed not to be ordered by Obama?
Nunes comes out looking real bad here and it might cost him his seat on this investigation.
He has record breaking low approval for the first 60 days much less first 100.
LookAtMeGo
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Im no law expert but this sounds like it would be pretty illegal.
RPGCrazied
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Nunes should be in some hot water right now. He should resign. Can you impeach senators/congressmen?
still reading up on stuff.. but still. Sure, it gives Trump some ammo for his wiretapping claims, but this should put only more pressure on the whole thing.
It's basically a mirror of Watergate. It got set off when the investigation was speaking directly to Nixon about the case itself.
Netherscourge
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Joe Biden this morning told Trump to apologize to Obama.
Biden said, "that's what a gentleman would do."
So, that's not happening. lol
Biden said, "that's what a gentleman would do."
So, that's not happening. lol
I do get caught up looking at this through the lens of someone who wants that base to eventually see the light. This doesn't accomplish that, true. But it might be enough to keep outlets like CNN parroting this defense as a legitimate "side" to take on the issue, which frustrates me.
I take comfort in knowing this doesn't change what the FBI is doing one bit.
StopMakingSense
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Impeachment is only for executive and judicial branch. Not sure on the procedures for congresspeople.
Who would this even convince? The base follows Trump regardless of what he says or does, and Nunes' schizophrenic statement won't change anyone elss's mind.
balladofwindfishes
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???
Trump wanted people to think he's connected to foreign agents who had warrants against them to be tapped??
That doesn't really seem like a very good smokescreen
Lol worked? How? No one is buying the "I told you so."
The question... Did he just illegally disclose information possibly incriminating Trump to vindicate his previous statements? Not only is that possibly illegal, it's outright insane! Incidental collection means he wasn't the source of the wire taps as he insinuated.
Fucking lunacy.
Fucking lunacy.
Somehow? It's already confirmed he owns a vineyard with a distributor closely linked to Putin.
He did this so Trump could win a small victory.
Cesare Borgia
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Meh. Trump still lied, and his base still believes him. Nothing changed.
It's pretty simple. If Obama "Wire tapped" he's going to jail. If Trump is compromised by Russia and committed treason he's going to jail. So which endgame are you betting on?
Netherscourge
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Sounds like Nunes is the original leaker on whole the wiretapping claim in the first place. The one Trump conveniently used to make the false accusation against Obama.
This sounds like a big setup job that fell short. I think they were expecting to catch Obama, but then Comey shut them all down and now they're doing damage control.
This sounds like a big setup job that fell short. I think they were expecting to catch Obama, but then Comey shut them all down and now they're doing damage control.
plagiarize
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Yup. He's a lapdog.
Would have been genius if he hadn't gone and held this circus today.
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