US Politics Mega-thread - Page 7040

On March 04 2017 21:21 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
And this is where Paranoia becomes potentially dangerous:

On March 04 2017 21:57 Plansix wrote:

And the White House is still short like 1000 staff.

Turns out there's only so many billionaires you can assign

On March 04 2017 21:51 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Whatever it is he just reminded people that a FISA court approved warrants against his campaign on espionage suspicion.

As Michael Walsh later notes, and as the New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration “expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.” The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked.

On March 05 2017 00:37 Danglars wrote:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/838016045222854656
Brand maintenance while in office. The key word is "winning." This guy lol.

On March 04 2017 22:18 Biff The Understudy wrote:
It's a bit distressing that none of his bullshit seems to have any consequences. I mean it's such a circus at that point that no one even know how to react anymore. The NYT seems to think that the watergate tweets are not worth their time, and haven't covered any it at all yet. They might have a point.

My first reaction would be to say "maybe that's true, has he got proof?" but this kind of line of repsoning implies that facts and speech still matter a little bit.

I still somewhat hope that we, one day, get to know what made him think that Obama spied on him and have substance to discuss and evaluate. But then again, we live in strange times, where the POTUS can throw a very serious accusation on twitter, call his predecessor a sick guy, and probably never back any of it with anything.

Let wait and see.

On March 05 2017 01:15 Mohdoo wrote:
Looking at those Tweets, I wonder what kinda news we're in for next week. He's doing anything he can to create a distraction.

On March 05 2017 01:07 Tien wrote:


There was a FISA request back in June by the Obama administration but that was rejected.

There was another FISA request in October, but it narrowed it down to a story about how a Trump server was "communicating" with Russian banks. That was granted.

These two requests were already reported upon before.

That entire Trump server story turned out to be bogus. So a FISA request to wire tap Trump was granted in October. So now the question is, how much wiretapping did Obama do on Trump and with which kinds of methods.


This could end up being a huge Obama scandal. Obama "watergated" Trump to fish as much information as he could, then a few days before the inaugaration Obama expanded deep state powers to transfer information between departments to leak information easier.

This is nefarious.

On March 05 2017 01:22 Gorsameth wrote:

If nothing was found and he purely did it to fight Trump then yes.

If it ends up that Trump is compromised the story turns around and hes a hero.

Their first application, in June, was rejected outright by the judge. They returned with a more narrowly drawn order in July and were rejected again. Finally, before a new judge, the order was granted, on 15 October, three weeks before election day.