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Originally Posted by Catfish
When will you just come down from your (Trump-initiated) conspiracy tree and look at facts or evidence?
"Spygate" or "Obamagate" are Trump's own inventions.
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Evidence.
2017 interview on PBS’s News Hour between Judy Woodruff and Susan Rice U.S. National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration.
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“We’ve been following a disclosure by [Chairman Nunes] that in essence, during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected, that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?” anchor Judy Woodruff asked Rice.
“I know nothing about this,” Rice answered. “I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.”
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From the recently declassified email that Rice sent to herself on January 20, 2017.
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On January 5, following a briefing by IC leadership on Russian hacking during the 2016 Presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation with FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval Office. Vice President Biden and I were also present.
From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.
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We now know that they did gather evidence on Trump campaign people. Four FISA warrents on Carter Page. Rice is one of many Obama officials who have lied in public.
And here we have an outgoing administration discussing keeping intelligence secrets from an incoming administration. And there is pretty good evidence that they did just that. Comey's meeting with Trump about the Steele dossier is an example.
If this kind of stuff doesn't disturb your sensibilities about political abuse of power I don't know what to say. This is banana republic kind of behavior, not the stuff of a Republic like the USA. I know that some people on the political left are not at all disturbed by this. In fact they encourage it if it fulfills their OrangeManBad fantasies. You know it is possible to be a critic of both sides of the political divide.
I didn't write that email. Donald Trump didn't write that email. Susan Rice the U.S. National Security Advisor wrote it. It is a matter of public record.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Susan...E-mail_to_Self