I am going to reserve judgement on this until more facts come out. If there was indeed a FISA court warrant for monitoring a Trump Towers server, that will be quite a story. The left will say, "Aha! There was something there to obtain a warrant!" And the right will say, "Aha! We knew Obama was colluding with Hillary before the election!"
IF his emails, etc were indeed being monitored (under the flimsiest of FISA reasoning), it would be a clear partisan attack by the former administration. Remember, that administration had plenty of abuse of power going after political opponents. Remember the IRS? Remember the Dept of Int? Remember the press investigations?
We are pretty sure there was a failed FISA wiretap warrant in June, and an okayed FISA electronic surveillance warrant in October.
I would like to see documentation of this. I would also like to see the warrant sworn out and the evidence presented for said warrant. I would like to know what relevant information was gathered, and why there has been no further action.
lastly, my political spidey sense is telling me that there is SOMETHING there. Could it be that Sen Coons on the Foreign Relations Committee is the canary in the coalmine? He starts off last week by stating,
"I think it’s important that the outcome of that counter-intelligence investigation be fully shared with the intelligence committees, both in the House and the Senate. There are transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into whether or not Russian intelligence and senior Russian political leaders, including Vladimir Putin, were cooperating, were colluding with the Trump campaign at the highest levels to influence the outcome of our election... I believe such transcripts exist."
I find myself wondering where they got transcripts from the Trump campaign conversations (if any) with various Russian actors. Certainly the Trump campaign did not release them. That would mean they came from either surveillance by the FBI, or NSA monitoring.
Trump then drops the bombshell that he was "wiretapped." An inaccurate term for the ok'ed electronic surveillance, but generally right.
Suddenly, Sen Coons is saying,
"What I was trying to make clear, Chris, and I appreciate a chance to restate this, is that I don't have -- and I don't know of -- any conclusive proof, one way or the other."
Why the walkback? Could it be that Trump WAS under surveillance, nothing incriminating was found and now it would be more damaging to Dems than Trump if that information came out? Makes one wonder....
On the other hand, it could just be Trump sending the media into a frenzy the day before he relaunches Immigration control 2.0.
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