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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Shaffer: Trump Wiretap Case 'Worse Than Watergate'
[INSIDER.FOXNEWS] Former CIA officer Col. Tony Shaffer said the basics of President Trump's claim to have been "wiretapped" are likely true, and that the incident is "worse than Watergate."

Noting it has been exactly two weeks since Trump tweeted that President B.O. wiretapped his namesake tower, Shaffer said the "basic fundamental idea and claim is true."

He said that Trump was not physically wiretapped, with a wire into his phone, and it may not have physically been Trump Tower, but his campaign apparatus instead.

Shaffer said that due to the simplicity required to "mask" an American's name during an incidental wiretap, that the leak of Gen. Michael Flynn's name was "accidental on purpose."

"Clearly they were after gossip because it was political," Shaffer said, maintaining that the alleged wiretap had nothing to do with Russia.

The "political appointees" in the intelligence community knew exactly what they were surveilling for, Shaffer said, adding that the case is "much worse than Watergate by an order of magnitude."

He said that even if the surveillance was done legally, the "unmasking" of Americans' names and the leaking of the information are felones.

Shaffer added that Trump's references to battling the "intelligence community" likely meant those political appointees involved in the alleged surveillance, and not the CIA or NSA writ large.
Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course it's worse - Nixon didn't use state agencies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/27/2017 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  It speaks volumes that here - two weeks later - someone is trying to explain what the media wouldn't.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/27/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  And our third-world, tin pot Afrikan dictator is now on vaca on a Pacific island setting up the logistics of his residence in exile.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Besoeker - which one of these?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/27/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Holiday After - Writing one's memoirs does take a bit of isolation and privacy. There really are plenty of suitable locations in Oceania:

Islam in Oceania refers to Islam and Muslims in Oceania. By current estimates, there are 620,156 Muslims in Oceania, 476,600 in Australia, 48,151 in New Zealand, 86,162 in Fiji, 6,352 in New Caledonia, 2,200 in Papua New Guinea, 360 in Solomon Islands, 221 in Vanuatu, 110 in Tonga and tiny numbers in Kiribati and Samoa.[1]

According to a 2007 article in Pacific Magazine, entitled 'Green Moon Rising', Islam has seen a substantial increase in adherents amongst the peoples of Vanuatu, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia. There have been thousands of indigenous converts to Islam in Melanesia.[2][3]

There are also approximately 400 Muslims in Palau, whose government recently allowed a few Uyghurs detained in Guantanamo Bay to settle in the island nation.[4]

Wiki
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#6  The most suitable choice would be Pitcairn's Island.
Posted by: Matt || 03/27/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||

#7  At some time, Trump is going to have address the deep state and Obama's and the Clinton's shadow government. The FBI, American people and Trump don't seem to be well-served by the current appointment.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/27/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Please remember many local campaign offices are simply rented strip mall shops. These rarely have private circuits rather using the easy enough to tag and track unsecured strip mall pbx for phone services.

Ivanhoe TX may not have much in the way of political strategists but when they join a daily conference call there is quite a bit of exposure.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/27/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Witches To Cast Spell On Trump -- Again!
[WND] Among the angry liberals who refuse to accept the 2016 presidential election results that put Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
in the Oval Office are witches who will be gathering at midnight on Sunday to cast spells.

Again.

They already tried last month to conjure up magic to remove him from office.
Maybe that's why the ObamaCare repeal failed?
Witches, exorcists and occultists say they again will cast a "binding spell" designed to "bind Donald Trump and all who abet him."

Anti-Trump occultists performed the "mass spell" against the president last month under the hashtag #BindTrump. Witches nationwide shared photos and videos on Twitter of them placing their hex on Trump.

They say they will repeat the ritual on March 26 and on every crescent moon "until Donald Trump is removed from office," according to the group’s Facebook page.
Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Witches spells used to work but then they went from the big black kettle to the micro-wave.
Posted by: Sheba Bluetooth9663 || 03/27/2017 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Cognitive elites, eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/27/2017 2:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Witches spells used to work but then they went from the big black kettle to the micro-wave.
Posted by Sheba Bluetooth9663


Microwave 'incidental monitoring?'
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  The casting of spells has been going on for some time now. The country was under such a spell for the past 8 years. This popped up at Rantburg yesterday as more evidence of spell-casting.

Posted by: JohnQC || 03/27/2017 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  They've self-banned themselves from travelling to Saudi at least.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/27/2017 9:47 Comments || Top||

#6  It is SPO in Pentecostal circles to just nullify the curse in Jesus' name, and not give in to the temptation to make it go back to the caste "seven times worse", since ex witches and warloks have said that, for the REAL witches and warlocks, that causes immense pain and suffering.

For THESE, I am tempted to make an exception....
Posted by: Ptah || 03/27/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#7  argh... SOP. and "caster"

and double argh... I missed the window to give in to my temptation....

I need to make an entry in my appointment calendar.
Posted by: Ptah || 03/27/2017 9:58 Comments || Top||

#8  designed to "bind Donald Trump and all who abet him"

Fantasy projection
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/27/2017 11:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Did the spell work last time or not? It did look like someone turned Carvelle into a Newt so I guessed they misaimed, but then my wife showed me old pictures of Carvelle and he's always looked like that.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/27/2017 17:48 Comments || Top||

#10  No you fools! Dark energy only makes him stronger!!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2017 19:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
McCain: I’ve Yet to Meet President Trump Since He Took Office
[THEDAILYBEAST]
What on earth does the honourable Senator have to say to President Trump's face that he has not already said, with adjectives, to anyone who will listen?
I'd be shocked if POTUS had any time for this fellow.
Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is because no one wants to meet a shit stain like yourself.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2017 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  It makes me wonder about you Senator. You screw with him every day.
Posted by: newc || 03/27/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah well the secret service is just doing their job to keep the riff-raff away.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/27/2017 0:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe he REALLY doesn't like people who surrender?
Posted by: Sheba Bluetooth9663 || 03/27/2017 1:36 Comments || Top||

#5  So, basically, all McCain's trouble making is "notice me"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/27/2017 2:21 Comments || Top||

#6  So, basically, all McCain's trouble making is "notice me"? Posted by: g(r)omgoru

Well, he was a fighter pilot.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2017 7:18 Comments || Top||

#7  The Senator has six years before he again has to face the voters. If he really wanted to meet president Trump he would make a show of good faith. Since he hasn't done so he is not serious.

Perhaps he should consider switching parties.
Posted by: Sneasing Peacock2391 || 03/27/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||

#8  McCain prefers to talk to the media. He has shown no message discipline or party loyalty.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/27/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#9  McCain prefers to talk complain about his itch of the day to the lefty media.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/27/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Well, he was a fighter pilot.

AAAAHHHAAAA...grunt, gasp, fart, snort....wheeze!

Excellent start to my day! Thanks, B.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/27/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Keating 5 Savings and Loan Scandal. He's been tainted shit for a looong time
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Retire. Maybe Trump will throw you a good bye party.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/27/2017 15:31 Comments || Top||

#13  "McCain: I’ve Yet to Meet President Trump Since He Took Office"

Lucky Trump. Obviously he's is smarter than the average bear. Or Senator.
Posted by: Barbara || 03/27/2017 18:15 Comments || Top||

#14  McCain isn't a Republican. He is a McCainian, a political party of one egomaniac who, for some reason, gets a pass because he was a POW.

My Congressman, Sam Johnson of Texas, was a POW but he doesn't criticize Republicans and conservatives so he gets no publicity.
Posted by: Creling Pelosi3622 || 03/27/2017 18:19 Comments || Top||

#15  McCain then threatened to yank Trump's pigtails.
Posted by: charger || 03/27/2017 18:56 Comments || Top||

#16  So did you get hailed on last night CP3622?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/27/2017 19:12 Comments || Top||

#17  Well, he was a fighter pilot.

He was NOT a fighter pilot. He flew in the Light Attack community. A-4's and then A-7's.
Posted by: Eohippus Cheamp5121 || 03/27/2017 20:39 Comments || Top||

#18  Sorry fella, A-4 pilots considered themselves fighter pilots, just as Air Force F-4 pilots and F-105 pilots were fighter pilots. They did on occasion engage in MIG dogfights as I recall.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2017 23:44 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2017-03-27
  Leading member of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis killed in North Sinai raid: Egyptian army
Sun 2017-03-26
  Police clash with anti-Christian mob in southern Egypt
Sat 2017-03-25
  ISIL withdrawing fighters from southern Syria to concentrate on Raqqa
Fri 2017-03-24
  Helmand’s Sangin district has reportedly fallen to Taliban
Thu 2017-03-23
  It's worse: Jewish Israeli-American, 19, arrested in Ashkelon for phoning in dozens of JCC bomb threats
Wed 2017-03-22
  Jihadi car and knife attack: Parliament in lockdown
Tue 2017-03-21
  U.S. Bans Laptops, Tablets from Cabins on Flights from Middle East
Mon 2017-03-20
  Syrian regulars gain control of regions near Palmyra
Sun 2017-03-19
  Four wanted Maute militants nabbed in Lanao
Sat 2017-03-18
  Man shot dead at Paris Orly airport this morning after taking soldier's gun: official
Fri 2017-03-17
  Four Killed as Bangladesh Police Storm Islamist Hideout
Thu 2017-03-16
  Kommander Abdullah, 10 others die in airstrike in Paktika
Wed 2017-03-15
  Dozens killed in suicide bombing at Damascus "Palace of Justice" courthouse
Tue 2017-03-14
  Suspected ISIS gas attack hits Iraqi forces in west Mosul
Mon 2017-03-13
  Kenyan police nab 6 terror suspects in coastal town


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