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Peter1469
01-14-2019, 12:37 PM
The FBI’s Investigation of Trump as a “National Security Threat” is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic
(https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the-fbis-investigation-of-trump-as-a-national-security-threat-is-itself-a-serious-danger-but-j-edgar-hoover-pioneered-the-tactic/)
Glenn Greenwald weighs in on the FBI counterintelligence probe into Trump.

CNN devoted much of its weekend and this morning's "news" to this revelation from the New York Times.


Last week, the New York Times reported that (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur) the FBI, in 2017, launched an investigation of President Trump “to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security” and specifically “whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests.” The story was predictably treated as the latest in an endless line of Beginning-of-the-End (https://twitter.com/RobertOryx754/status/1084558218444107778) disasters for the Trump presidency, though – as usual – this melodrama was accomplished by steadfastly ignoring the now-standard, always-buried paragraph pointing out the boring fact that no actual evidence of guilt has yet emerged:

https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/01/nov1-1547465834.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&w=1024&h=183 (https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/01/nov1-1547465834.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90)

The lack of any evidence of guilt has never dampered the excitement over Trump/Russia innuendo, and it certainly did not do so here. Beyond being construed as some sort of vindication for the most deranged version of Manchurian Candidate fantasies (https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1083908124296339456) – because, after all, the FBI would never investigate anyone (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/us/politics/comey-book-clinton-emails.html) unless they were guilty – the FBI’s investigation of the President as a national security threat was also treated as some sort of unprecedented event in U.S. history. “This is, without exception, the worst scandal in the history of the United States,” pronounced NBC News’ resident ex-CIA operative (https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1084199320272855040), who – along with a large staple of former security state agents employed by that network – is now paid to “analyze” and shape the news (https://theintercept.com/2019/01/03/veteran-nbcmsnbc-journalist-blasts-the-network-for-being-captive-to-the-national-security-state-and-reflexively-pro-war-to-stop-trump/).

The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of Trump is far from the first time that the FBI has monitored, surveilled and investigated U.S. elected officials who the agency had decided haroberd suspect loyalties and were harming national security. The FBI specialized in such conduct for decades under J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the agency for 48 years and whose name the agency’s Washington headquarters continues to feature in its name (see photo above).

Read the rest of Glenn's article at the link.

MisterVeritis
01-14-2019, 12:39 PM
This is substantial evidence supporting the coup attempt. This will not end until the coup plotters are tried, convicted, and executed.

Peter1469
01-14-2019, 12:53 PM
I was watching CNN while making breakfast this morning and I saw something where Trump said more people in the FBI were going to be fired. Didn't catch the context.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 02:05 PM
He’s a Russian spy. Lol. You can’t make this stuff up.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 02:09 PM
I was watching CNN while making breakfast this morning and I saw something where Trump said more people in the FBI were going to be fired. Didn't catch the context.

Clean house.

MisterVeritis
01-14-2019, 02:11 PM
He’s a Russian spy. Lol. You can’t make this stuff up.
We have the Obama regime's FBI to make it up.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 02:15 PM
The resistance movement is getting desperate. I believe most people are ignoring it at this point.

stjames1_53
01-14-2019, 02:16 PM
and still nothing .............as it was said, there is no "there" there

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 02:20 PM
The Democrats better be cautious. They might shoot themselves in the foot by being focused on Trump instead of ideas.

alexa
01-14-2019, 03:20 PM
He’s a Russian spy. Lol. You can’t make this stuff up.

He's too stupid to be a spy, but like you, he's the perfect useful idiot.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 03:26 PM
If he’s too stupid to be a spy, what does that say about our left wing media which is trying to promote that fantasy?

suds00
01-14-2019, 03:46 PM
we are in the process of seeing our government fall apart.it started around 2016

suds00
01-14-2019, 03:50 PM
The resistance movement is getting desperate. I believe most people are ignoring it at this point.there's a
resistance movement?against whom?

midcan5
01-14-2019, 04:19 PM
Trump, "They've got nothing."

"The 192 criminal counts, 36 people and entities charged, seven people who have pleaded guilty, the four people sentenced to prison and the one person convicted at trial as a result of the Mueller probe make clear, of course, that Trump is wrong."

And "Why did Trump go out of his way to ensure that no records of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin exist?""

MisterVeritis
01-14-2019, 04:22 PM
Trump, "They've got nothing."

"The 192 criminal counts, 36 people and entities charged, seven people who have pleaded guilty, the four people sentenced to prison and the one person convicted at trial as a result of the Mueller probe make clear, of course, that Trump is wrong."

And "Why did Trump go out of his way to ensure that no records of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin exist?""
Ah yes, investigate. Create crimes as one goes. Process crimes. Indict many people unavailable for trial. Find a few crimes and try them to rack up a count. Harm innocent people all in the name of the coup attempt.

Peter1469
01-14-2019, 04:40 PM
TDS is strong here.

:shocked:

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 04:51 PM
Trump, "They've got nothing."

"The 192 criminal counts, 36 people and entities charged, seven people who have pleaded guilty, the four people sentenced to prison and the one person convicted at trial as a result of the Mueller probe make clear, of course, that Trump is wrong."

And "Why did Trump go out of his way to ensure that no records of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin exist?""
They’ve even indicted entities which don’t exist.

stjames1_53
01-14-2019, 05:00 PM
we are in the process of seeing our government fall apart.it started around 2016

it fell apart in 2008

stjames1_53
01-14-2019, 05:01 PM
Trump, "They've got nothing."

"The 192 criminal counts, 36 people and entities charged, seven people who have pleaded guilty, the four people sentenced to prison and the one person convicted at trial as a result of the Mueller probe make clear, of course, that Trump is wrong."

And "Why did Trump go out of his way to ensure that no records of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin exist?""

leaders often have meeting where you're not invited to know what goes on.......and there is no requirement to do so

countryboy
01-14-2019, 05:12 PM
leaders often have meeting where you're not invited to know what goes on.......and there is no requirement to do so

Yeah, I guess foreign policy decisions are now the purview of the FBI? Libs certainy have a penchant for Soviet style police state tactics.

stjames1_53
01-14-2019, 05:22 PM
there's a
resistance movement?against whom?

ohhhhhhhhh, pu-lease

hanger4
01-14-2019, 06:02 PM
Who authorized this investigation ?? Did the FBI go on it's own ?? Comey ??

stjames1_53
01-14-2019, 06:05 PM
Who authorized this investigation ?? Did the FBI go on it's own ?? Comey ??

you forgot two.....
Obama and Hillary

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 06:12 PM
TDS is strong here.

:shocked:


It's always been strong. These people have no ability nor do they have the desire to address the individual issues.

hanger4
01-14-2019, 06:20 PM
you forgot two..... Obama and HillaryThis investigation started after Comey was fired, Obama had no authority and HRC never did.

Captdon
01-14-2019, 06:39 PM
Every person in management need to be fired. The FBI is out of control. Maybe they should be shutdown and their responsibilities parceled out to others.

The FBI has gone from dangerous to a threat to our country. The investigation was an attempt to overthrow the duly elected government. The ones behind it need to be put in prison. The ones who knew about it should be imprisoned as well if there is a law covering it.

Captdon
01-14-2019, 06:39 PM
This is substantial evidence supporting the coup attempt. This will not end until the coup plotters are tried, convicted, and executed.

There may have to be some violence done after all.

Captdon
01-14-2019, 06:41 PM
The resistance movement is getting desperate. I believe most people are ignoring it at this point.

Watch CNN before saying that. "He didn't say it wasn't true."- CNN

Captdon
01-14-2019, 06:43 PM
He's too stupid to be a spy, but like you, he's the perfect useful idiot.

You're too dumb to be on this forum but here you are. You aren't even useful as the village idiot.

Ethereal
01-14-2019, 06:44 PM
Who authorized this investigation ?? Did the FBI go on it's own ?? Comey ??
The deep state doesn't concern itself with things like law, protocol, or even basic ethics. They've been operating with impunity for decades.

It's time for Americans to wake up. The US government has been infiltrated by criminals and traitors and foreigners. America is an occupied country.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 06:46 PM
we are in the process of seeing our government fall apart.it started around 2016

No. We are watching the Democratic Party crack up.

stjames1_53
01-14-2019, 07:01 PM
This investigation started after Comey was fired, Obama had no authority and HRC never did.

doesn't mean they didn't have any influence.................it just smacks of dem leadership

Ethereal
01-14-2019, 07:08 PM
The FBI’s Investigation of Trump as a “National Security Threat” is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic
(https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the-fbis-investigation-of-trump-as-a-national-security-threat-is-itself-a-serious-danger-but-j-edgar-hoover-pioneered-the-tactic/)
Glenn Greenwald weighs in on the FBI counterintelligence probe into Trump.

CNN devoted much of its weekend and this morning's "news" to this revelation from the New York Times.



Read the rest of Glenn's article at the link.
Greenwald is a genuine liberal. I have so much respect for that guy, even if I disagree with him on some economic issues. He has remained true to liberal principles in the face of gigantic pressure from fake liberals to jump on the "national security" state bandwagon. Another liberal who has remained true and deserves a lot of respect is Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone. He's written some truly excellent articles taking down the Russian "collusion" and "interference" nonsense.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 07:10 PM
This investigation started after Comey was fired, Obama had no authority and HRC never did.

The Democrats were nearly unanimous in that they wanted Comey fired. That is until Trump fired him. Then he became their cause.

hanger4
01-14-2019, 07:21 PM
doesn't mean they didn't have any influence.................it just smacks of dem leadershipRight now I'll stick with a rogue FBI

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 07:24 PM
it fell apart in 2008
When the founding fathers created our system of government, they knew it was eventually going to fall apart. They were intelligent men. They knew human nature.

alexa
01-14-2019, 07:26 PM
TDS is strong here.

:shocked:

True, you guys would defend him if he took a shit in your mouth and then ask for more.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 07:27 PM
True, you guys would defend him if he took a $#@! in your mouth and then ask for more.
Trolls like you are destroying this forum.

MisterVeritis
01-14-2019, 07:28 PM
True, you guys would defend him if he took a shit in your mouth and then ask for more.
You are a foul, loathsome, disgusting creature.

DGUtley
01-14-2019, 07:34 PM
He's too stupid to be a spy, but like you, he's the perfect useful idiot.

NOTICE alexa THREADBANNED for insults and bad faith posting

Peter1469
01-14-2019, 08:05 PM
True, you guys would defend him if he took a shit in your mouth and then ask for more.

Never Trumpers are as bad as always Trumpers.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 08:18 PM
OK, now I get it. Trump is an agent for Russia because he campaigned on developing better relations with Russia?

Was Hillary Clinton an agent for Russia when she came out with that idiotic reset button?

Was Obama an agent for Russia when he told Medvedev to tell Putin that he (Obama) would have more flexibility after the election when he doesn't need to face reelection?

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 08:45 PM
Never Trumpers are as bad as always Trumpers.

Is there such a thing as an "always Trumper"? The most zealous Trump supporter I've seen anywhere is MisterVeritis and he's called for Trump's impeachment on more than one occasion.

MisterVeritis
01-14-2019, 08:59 PM
Is there such a thing as an "always Trumper"? The most zealous Trump supporter I've seen anywhere is @MisterVeritis (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=1287) and he's called for Trump's impeachment on more than one occasion.
Yep. Twice.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 09:04 PM
The FBI’s Investigation of Trump as a “National Security Threat” is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic
(https://theintercept.com/2019/01/14/the-fbis-investigation-of-trump-as-a-national-security-threat-is-itself-a-serious-danger-but-j-edgar-hoover-pioneered-the-tactic/)
Glenn Greenwald weighs in on the FBI counterintelligence probe into Trump...


Greenwald is possibly the most thought provoking opinion journalist out there.

MisterVeritis
01-14-2019, 09:05 PM
This attack on Trump was a coup attempt. We need to identify, try and kill every damned coup plotter. We need to identify ever coup supporter. Put them in prison. Take all of their property. Ruin them. And we need to identify every coup cheerleader and find ways to ruin them.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 09:12 PM
Is there such a thing as an "always Trumper"? The most zealous Trump supporter I've seen anywhere is @MisterVeritis (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=1287) and he's called for Trump's impeachment on more than one occasion.


Yep. Twice.

Well, seeing that you are the most zealous Trump supporter out there, that would suggest there's no such thing as an "always Trumper".


To me it looks like the people who zealously support Trump, support him for specific reasons and if he doesn't remain loyal to those reasons, they will abandon him.
The media doesn't get it. They think they can erode Trump's support by continually attacking him. They don't understand that the only one who can cause the support to evaporate is Trump himself. If he remains true to the issues he campaigned on, his support will stick with him. Period.


The only thing these irrational attacks on Trump are doing is turning many of his skeptics into supporters. Some of those people are Democrats and so called independents.

MisterVeritis
01-14-2019, 09:18 PM
The fbi needs to be broken. Fire everybody. Try everyone who was in the top leadership.

Peter1469
01-14-2019, 09:43 PM
Is there such a thing as an "always Trumper"? The most zealous Trump supporter I've seen anywhere is @MisterVeritis (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=1287) and he's called for Trump's impeachment on more than one occasion.
Yes, there are always Trumpers.

Peter1469
01-14-2019, 09:45 PM
Greenwald is possibly the most thought provoking opinion journalist out there.

He and his organization also do a lot of quality investigative reporting.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 10:04 PM
He and his organization also do a lot of quality investigative reporting.


He also seems to go where the facts lead. Not the other way around.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 10:08 PM
Yes, there are always Trumpers.

I don't think so. Those "always Trumpers" will abandon him in a heartbeat if he compromises the ideas / promises he ran on.

The Xl
01-14-2019, 11:06 PM
Hope this proves to people that the government isn't as honest and well meaning as many seem to think that they are.

Tahuyaman
01-14-2019, 11:39 PM
Hope this proves to people that the government isn't as honest and well meaning as many seem to think that they are.


Who's claiming government is always honest and well meaning? Most people think that there are both honest and dishonest elements within government.

Tahuyaman
01-15-2019, 03:11 AM
The latest outrage is that the conversation in Helsinki between Trump and Putin wasn't leaked to the media. Now the media is suddenly upset that Trump stopped the leaks that the media was so critical of during the early days of the administration.


You can't make this stuff up.

stjames1_53
01-15-2019, 07:23 AM
They tried this same crap when Trump visited NOKO..................

Captdon
01-15-2019, 09:18 AM
Yes, there are always Trumpers.

But, not here.

stjames1_53
01-15-2019, 09:31 AM
When the founding fathers created our system of government, they knew it was eventually going to fall apart. They were intelligent men. They knew human nature.
Franklin's last speech says the same thing.

...and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

https://www.usconstitution.net/franklin.html

The Xl
01-15-2019, 11:53 AM
Who's claiming government is always honest and well meaning? Most people think that there are both honest and dishonest elements within government.
Most of the big players are dishonest.