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Thread: Obama’s spying scandal is starting to look a lot like Watergate

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    Conservative snowflakes are so easily played. Sure thing, looks like Watergate? Has Trump talk made everyone as dumb as he is? Seems so. What a waste for America that the right has become so submissive under Donnie. MAGA Is really MAER, Make America's Elite Richer, note only how little is said about wages under Donnie and the dark money elite. And the right just follows along, sad. "The swamp is never drained; it just gets taken over by different reptiles." Karen Tumultyhttps://deanbaker.net/books/the-cons...anny-state.htm"If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief." Franz KafkaUnderstand America today:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...lyover-countryhttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...their-own-landhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-handshttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    So..... @midcan5 you are ok if the Trump DOJ spies on the next D candidate? I am not, by the way, just like I wouldnt be ok if the Trump IRS silenced D pac’s. It is the egregiousness of what was done, not who it was done against. Yes, yes, yes — I know, you hate him. I get it. But they’ll turn on you too eventually.
    Good God. Even Nunes has even quit calling it spy this or that. Because he found out in that briefing just what a crook your Supreme Leader really is.

    If there was spying, he would have been before the cameras screaming like a banshee in seconds.
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    The only people talking about spying anymore are silly old internet fools too ignorant to realize that the realm of their Supreme Leader is soon to be over.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims,” read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. “The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016,” read a story in the May 21 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

    So much for those who dismissed charges of Obama administration infiltration of Donald Trump’s campaign as paranoid fantasy. Defenders of the Obama intelligence and law enforcement apparat have had to fall back on the argument that this infiltration was for Trump’s — and the nation’s — own good.


    It’s an argument that evidently didn’t occur to Richard Nixon’s defenders when it became clear that Nixon operatives had burglarized and wiretapped the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in June 1972.


    Until 2016, just about everyone agreed that it was a bad thing for government intelligence or law enforcement agencies to spy — er, use informants — on a political campaign, especially one of the opposition party. Liberals were especially suspicious of the FBI and the CIA. Nowadays they say that anyone questioning their good faith is unpatriotic.


    The crime at the root of Watergate was an attempt at surveillance of the DNC after George McGovern seemed about to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, just as the government misconduct in Russiagate was an attempt at surveillance of the Republican Party’s national campaign after Trump clinched its nomination.


    In both cases, the incumbent administration regarded the opposition’s unorthodox nominee as undermining the nation’s long-standing foreign policy and therefore dangerous to the country. McGovern renounced the Democrats’ traditional Cold War policy. Trump expressed skepticism about George W. Bush and Obama administration policies on NATO, Mexico, Iran and (forgetting Barack Obama’s ridicule of Mitt Romney on the subject) Russia.


    https://nypost.com/2018/05/27/obamas...ike-watergate/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Zero View Post
    Good God. Even Nunes has even quit calling it spy this or that. Because he found out in that briefing just what a crook your Supreme Leader really is.

    If there was spying, he would have been before the cameras screaming like a banshee in seconds.
    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Zero View Post
    The only people talking about spying anymore are silly old internet fools too ignorant to realize that the realm of their Supreme Leader is soon to be over.
    What is this “Supreme Leader” nonsense?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    Sorry dude, but it's just another smoke screen. Another attempt to distract you from the deepening Mueller investigation.

    Don’t you ever get tired of repeating the same tired lines over and over? I think you guys are just getting demoralized.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Zero View Post
    The only people talking about spying anymore are silly old internet fools too ignorant to realize that the realm of their Supreme Leader is soon to be over.
    So you're OK with the FBI placing an "informant" inside a campaign ??
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    Quote Originally Posted by hanger4 View Post
    So you're OK with the FBI placing an "informant" inside a campaign ??
    No. He's ok with the FBI placing an informant inside the Trump campaign.

    Had the FBI planted an informant in Hillary's campaign and that's who had come up with the email server abuse scandal......Agent Zero would be screaming constitutional crisis. He's one way. Like the street.

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    Conservative snowflakes are so easily played. Sure thing, looks like Watergate? Has Trump talk made everyone as dumb as he is? Seems so. What a waste for America that the right has become so submissive under Donnie. MAGA Is really MAER, Make America's Elite Richer, note only how little is said about wages under Donnie and the dark money elite. And the right just follows along, sad.

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    We obviously got played, the FBI right under our noses spied on our Candidate's campaign. We're just making sure it doesn't happen again.

    You know the old saying. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, call me a Dem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dangermouse View Post
    Trump's tenure is indeed unprecedented, though it might well be business as usual for him.
    It is true that never have we had a president like Trump. He's caused the establishment and it's supporters to completely melt down.

    However, that doesn't justify the blatant corruption of the previous administration.

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