GOP rep: 'Rogue intel operation' could have wiretapped Trump
Source: The Hill
Alleged efforts to wiretap President Trump's phone lines during his campaign could have been conducted as part of a "rogue intel operation," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Monday.
King's remarks come days after Trump claimed over the weekend, without offering any evidence, that former President Barack Obama had ordered Trump's phones tapped.
King's remarks amounted to a defense of Trump's allegations over the weekend that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of the real estate mogul's 2016 presidential bid.
"That doesn't necessarily prove that there wasn't a rogue intel operation going on that wasn't encumbered by, or just decided not to be encumbered by, the legalities," King said in an interview with Iowa's Sioux City Journal.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/322680-gop-rep-wiretapping-trumps-campaign-may-have-been-rogue-intel
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)It makes just as much sense as the rest of it.
CincyDem
(6,385 posts)Trump + Wikileaks = "it's all BHO's fault"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8759437
mpcamb
(2,875 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)There never *WAS* this wiretapping of Trump's people, this was entirely made up by a wack job talk radio host, (Mark Levin) and got tossed around the far-right echo chamber.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)So they need to go psycho conspiracy.
The republican base lives in a National Enquirer mindset.
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)is that this "rogue" operation was authorized by none other than President Obama.
(I'll bet on this one)
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)Good evening, Mr Phelps. If you or any member of your team is caught or killed, the President will deny any knowledge of your actions.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)in fake Amazon boxes. Anything is possible...
mac56
(17,574 posts)"That doesn't necessarily prove that there wasn't a rogue intel operation going on that wasn't encumbered by, or just decided not to be encumbered by, the legalities."
"It wasn't not impossible!"
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)We should all thank Ambassador King for his tireless and fruitful work in educating the brightest among us to the clever and underhanded work of nefarious do-gooders in the intelligence community.
But I digress...
No, Stevie. It wasn't a rogue element of the IC, and you know it. It was a REAL FISA WARRANT that was granted to investigate Russian corroboration with the Trumpy campaign. Just stop your fucking lying. The fact that you're providing cover for a fascist coup is spreading. No one can possibly believe you, except for Ben Carson. If Carson believes that slave marketing was just another path to immigration, he'll believe anything.
bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)just a guess
Who's really listening at Trump Tower?
Paladin
(28,272 posts)No, of course you don't.
Steve King deserves to be one of trump's desperate apologists.
DK504
(3,847 posts)Besides Rubio, Gomer, Cruz, Palazzo, Ryan, you know where I'm going with this.
I'd love to know why the media doesn't drop kick this idiot the moment he opens his insane maw.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,462 posts)targeting Trump. BINGO!
Nitram
(22,877 posts)The wiretapping agency, and the FISA Court that approve the wiretapping, can and will provide ironclad evidence against Trump's claims to protect their own asses.
jpak
(41,759 posts)yup
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)or he forgot that Trump is the president?
Because some congressman from Iowa is apparently not powerful enough to get the evidence. It's great that they are trashing the intel community though. Make as many enemies as possible.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)you hear in Vegas.
What a contemptible tool this King is.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)rickford66
(5,528 posts)They could be pouring in from outer space.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)to all their rightwing media nonsense. Ick.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)... even proving that wiretapping or bugging even happened?
Oh, yeah. Because #Republicans.
I like how as it becomes obvious no one (in the real world) believes the Obama angle, they just come up with a different angle.
It's like one of Maxwell Smart's "would you believe....?" schticks.
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NCjack
(10,279 posts)making sure the money and info Russia gives to #45 keeps him loyal to Putin.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Could have been illegal aliens.
Definitely illegal aliens.
duncang
(1,907 posts)To insure his lackies kept in line.
randome
(34,845 posts)"They might be giants."
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PaulRevere08
(449 posts)UT_democrat
(143 posts)Many of the best people are saying it could have been an impossible mission...
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)They will completely debase themselves with any and every shameless lie, all the while standing their with a straight face. They do it and they are enboldended by the media who never ever calls them out as the liars they are. "LIAR....you are lying and you are a liar!!!!" Nothing will change until they face those words.