Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Former US attorney: FBI officials will likely face charges" video.
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Actually, they used FISA warrants to put a wire on a server in Trump Tower, didn't they? It's not exactly a wiretap.
You're quibbling over the difference between using a Mason jar or a juice class to listen to somebody's conversation through the wall. Snooping is snooping. Eavesdropping is eavesdropping, whether you're tapping a phone or tapping a server. That's mighty fine hair-splitting from a mighty well-spoken demagogue, right thar.
Hannity definitely beats the partisan drums, and keeps pushing the dossier as the primary basis for the FISA warrants, which isn't at all clear without more facts, and the DOJ and FBI ARE trying to keep the facts out of view. We need to hear from the FISA judges and keep a close eye on that front. FISC is notorious for rubber-stamping anything DOJ/FBI puts in front of them.
For the judges' part, they've generally taken DOJ/FBI at their word, and it sounds like DOJ/FBI have been scamming the system to go after anybody they want, including using incidental NSA materials to target drug dealers, for example. I can see a lot of law-enforcement types LOVIN' that shit, even though it violates the U.S. Constitution.
As for Mueller. It's hard to imagine a billionaire real-estate developer in the Big Apple not having skeletons in his closet. If Mueller keeps poking around long enough, and can flip or otherwise induce a witness to say bad things about Trump, he can definitely cause Trump problems.
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Last I checked the pot shops are still open and doing business in Colorado.
Then again, Sanctuary-City-and-Staters remain in office.
Interesting times we live in. The midterms could go either way. Dems hoping for the traditional die-back for the president's party in the first midterm after election. 30-some Republicans retiring from congress to 17 Democrats. Ominous signs for the Trump platform.
And yet, Trump, himself, is at an amazing 50% approval, now.
As for the retiring Republicans, it doesn't look like they're retiring because of a tide of anti-Trump or anti-Republican sentiment. It's a mixed bag. Some octogenarians, some Rinos, but also some solid conservatives, like Hensarling. One or two of the Rinos face tough challenges from more Trumpster-type upstarts in their own party primaries.
The toughest Democrat challengers are triangulating like Bill Clinton, taking centrist positions on many issues. Those are the contests that will be interesting to watch in November.
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The facts just keep trickling in. Criminal referrals is a whole new level of escalation. Meanwhile the investigation that's gotten most of the attention remains a nothing-burger.
More and more it's looking like "He who smell't it dealt it," and there was partisan overzealousness in FBI and DOJ, and probably a few insiders at or near the top intelligence and national security. I'm not sure how close this comes to Obama. More like Iran-Contra, where a cadre of insiders believed in something so strongly that they put the law in the back seat and let their feelings drive the bus.
I think there's a history of mutual back-scratching and winks and nods by individuals across the upper echelons that created a culture of "We work these levers as we please or as our friends wish." Situations such as "Here's these drugs, and there's our buddies trying to rebel against a bad guy, but they don't have enough arms to win. So we'll use the proceeds from seized assets to buy weapons, because WIN."
Reaganers did it in the '80s. Obamers did it, later. It's scarier in the present day, because of the powers taken by Bush II in the Patriot Act, but which weren't used to the extent that they were used by is successor's administration. Bush COULD, but he mostly DIDN'T. Can't say the same for Obama.
But who's to say what Bush II actually got away with, given the low evidence bar in the FISA courts. Prosecutors didn't apply the same standards for exculpatory evidence. Just present all the clues (including hints and rumors) that make somebody look bad, as if it has as much weight as real evidence, and withhold anything that exculpates (clears) the target of any wrongdoing.
But you know that the FISA setup is seriously flawed, whether any of these Obama clowns go to jail or not. Any power created for gov't use will be abused, eventually. Just a matter of time until somebody corrupt comes along and grabs those levers.
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