Bilge_Rat |
03-06-17 08:28 AM |
the plot thickens. Hard to figure out what is going on. The NY Times is now reporting there is no truth to allegations that the Obama admin was wiretapping the Trump campaign, but a jan. 19 article by the NY Times expressly said there was wiretapping:
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Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides
WASHINGTON — American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said.
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The counterintelligence investigation centers at least in part on the business dealings that some of the president-elect’s past and present advisers have had with Russia. Mr. Manafort has done business in Ukraine and Russia. Some of his contacts there were under surveillance by the National Security Agency for suspected links to Russia’s Federal Security Service, one of the officials said.
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The FBI was leading the investigation and summaries of the wiretapping were provided to the Obama administration:
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The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/u...tion.html?_r=1
However, the NY Times is now claiming that that there was no wiretapping of the Trump campaign:
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Comey Asks Justice Dept. to Reject Trump’s Wiretapping Claim
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/u...T.nav=top-news
so, let me see if I understand this correctly, when the aim was to show that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, there was wiretapping going on, but now that said wiretapping might embarrass the Democrats, it turns out there was no wiretapping. :doh:
The only real question is was the NY Times lying then, is it lying now or does it lie all the time?
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