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The Brits did it....

Mar 16, 2017 1:01PM PDT

wiretap Trump Towers that is....

Pass it on....

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Well, well, well...isn't this a hoot....
Mar 17, 2017 7:16AM PDT
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Kinda like BO having to personally
Mar 18, 2017 10:40AM PDT

apologize to Merkel for tapping HER cellphone? Well, well, well........Trump pointed THAT out during their press conference, too. Which only proves again how many times BO's WH surveilled others they wanted to WITHOUT WARRANTS.

Here's a list of just a few that became public:

James Rosen (a journalist for FoxNews) and his parents (Holder said he was an 'enemy of the State')
The Associated Press
Sharyl Attkisson (a news correspondent)....her computer was hacked in real time as she watched what she was typing being deleted remotely
Dennis Kucinich, a Senator who found out two years later
Congressional Committee members during the Benghazi investigation
Angela Merkel...head of Germany

Now, add in the fact that BO and Israel created Stuxnet to hack into the Iranian nuke facilities and disrupt their abilities for a while (and that was 'leaked' as well). And with all the phony outrage over the "Russians interfered with our elections", still without any absolute proof they did since our own country's intelligence agencies have the software to spoof a hack that points it at another country, I can't help but wonder where all that outrage was when BO took DOJ money and sent some of his own advisors to actively campaign in Israel against BiBi during THEIR election.

But you still are convinced that BO's WH wouldn't EVER use other countries to help accomplish his goals, especially during a time when Britain was 'campaigning' against Trump becoming President.

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RE:became public:
Mar 18, 2017 1:14PM PDT

became public?

via "tweets"?...... from POTUS?

U.S. apologizes for claiming UK intelligence agency helped spy on Trump. The president blamed Fox New

The U.S. Friday apologized to Britain after the White House repeated claims that GCHQ helped Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump in the run-up to the election.

Sean Spicer, Trump’s press secretary, repeated allegations by an analyst on Fox News that the British intelligence agency was used by Obama to spy on Trump Tower.

McMaster apologized after being contacted by Sir Mark Lyall Grant, Prime Minister Theresa May’s national security adviser, while Spicer conveyed his apology through Sir Kim Darroch, Britain’s U.S. ambassador.

May’s spokesman said: “We have made clear to the administration that these claims are ridiculous and that they should be ignored


TheRUMP raves about FAKE NEWS....then uses FAKE NEWS as HIS sources....

He's a pathological liar....

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So if Trump
Mar 18, 2017 3:35PM PDT

surveils people/countries without warrants and doesn't announce it via Twitter, you'll be OK with that? Including news media and/or their families? How about Congressional officials? How about Trump sending some of his advisors and stealing from the DOJ budget to campaign against a foreign leader IN THEIR COUNTRY during an election that he want in office? Evidently you're ok with that when a liberal president does it.....will you still be ok with Trump repeating the actions?

No comment about BO having to publicly apologize to Merkel?

You're such a hypocrite, JP.........

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RE: So if Trump
Mar 18, 2017 8:13PM PDT
So if Trump doesn't announce it via Twitter, you'll be OK with that?

OK with that?...I could live with that....I certainly wouldn't die because of it...

BUT

I love it when the twit tweets....It just shows he is a loose cannon....

There is NO hypocrisy in THIS post.
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So, again
Mar 19, 2017 4:37AM PDT

I ask....AS LONG AS TRUMP DOESN'T ANNOUNCE IT VIA TWITTER, HE CAN DO ANY SURVIEILLANCE AGAINST ANYONE OR ANY COUNTRY, LIKE BO DID, YOU ARE OK WITH THAT, RIGHT?

That's what you just said, I believe.........."OK with that?....I could live with that....I certainly wouldn't die because of it..."

Do it in secret, and you would accept it......but let that surveilled information 'leak' out when it's beneficial to your side, and you can rail against the other side AND NOT ABOUT HOW YOU GOT THAT INFO IN THE FIRST PLACE. And when that leaked information is actually going AGAINST your side, immediately ACCUSE AN ILLEGAL HACK BY ANOTHER, DEMAND INVESTIGATIONS, AND SAY THE INFO WAS "EDITED" (Donna Brazile).

Nope....NO HYPOCRICY HERE TO SEE.....

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RE:That's what you just said, I believe..........
Mar 19, 2017 6:20AM PDT
That's what you just said, I believe.........."OK with that?....I could live with that....I certainly wouldn't die because of it..."

YOU didn't "die" because of what you CLAIM Obama did....

Do it in secret, and you would accept it.

In secret?....What's "to accept"?...I don't know about it.

Let's see what was "done in secret" tmr when Comey speaks.

When they get caught...they fess up....

YOU claim Obama 'got caught"....YOU claim he publicly apologized.....

TheRUMP "got caught".....TheRUMP points the finger at FOX News....

Is that considered a "public apology"?

AND I'm the hypocrite?
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BO publicly apologized to Merkel
Mar 19, 2017 3:45PM PDT

But to NOBODY else.........and he got caught many times over.

Where has Trump surveilled ANYBODY that he has to apologize to?

The WH....not Trump himself...gave a half-hearted 'apology' to Britain for repeating what was said on FoxNews. The original statement didn't come from Trump or his administration which is why the 'apology' was only for repeating it. However the way Britain or the liberal media wants to spin that is up to them, AND the statement was against BO's Administration....NOT TRUMP'S....in the first place. It STILL doesn't compare to the outright PUBLIC apology BO was forced to make to Merkel for his ACTUAL surveillance of her cellphone by HIS administration's intelligence community.

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RE: It STILL doesn't compare to the outright PUBLIC apology
Mar 19, 2017 7:37PM PDT
It STILL doesn't compare to the outright PUBLIC apology BO was forced to make

Again with the PUBLIC apology....

PUBLIC? Like Obama stood on Fifth Ave in New Jack City with a megaphone in hand....Oh Yea, Oh Yea, be it know by all persons present that....blah, blah blah?

I googled Obama public apology Merkel

In May, Obama said that Snowden’s disclosures about spying on an ally had “created strains” in America’s relationship with Germany. Merkel had called him on the phone—probably on a landline—to seek clarification, and Obama had apologized

What is PUBLIC about calling someone on the phone and apologizing?

STOP with the PUBLIC apology....

Some think it takes a REAL man/woman to apologize when they have made a mistake/offended someone unnecessarily .

No fear of THAT with President Donald (it's the other guy's fault) Trump..

There are worse ways to "lose face" on the world stage than apologizing, as Donnie is finding out.
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There are videos available
Mar 20, 2017 5:43AM PDT

from BO's press secretary (Jay Carney) stating that BO apologized to Merkel during that phone conversation, which makes it PUBLIC, JP. But statements were also made by BO during that conversation where he said 'if I known about it I would have stopped it' which was an outright lie because he'd known from one of his NSA advisors since 2010 and that he ordered it to continue. He just didn't think he would get caught at it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-usa-spying-idUSBRE99Q09F20131028

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/17/22340505-obamas-nsa-speech-five-burning-questions?lite

"4. How will foreign leaders and countries react?
 A significant portion of Obama’s remarks addressed the complaints of foreign leaders – like Germany’s Angela Merkel and Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff – about the NSA’s international spying."

For all the fake outrage from the left about how Trump should publicly apologize to BO, why should he? BO's reputation and past history proves that BO spied on everybody so why should he stop short when it comes to spying on a presidential candidate he hates and didn't want to win..........and because as you want to constantly repeat "BO didn't publicly apologize to a world leader" either. Maybe Trump should just wait for BO to call him like BO waited for Merkel to call HIM.

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RE:The original statement didn't come from Trump
Mar 19, 2017 8:12PM PDT
The original statement didn't come from Trump or his administration which is why the 'apology' was only for repeating it.

The "statement" that got the attention of American Intelligence, AND the people that don't watch FOX News, is the "statement" made by POTUS....

WHEN does HE speak for himself? Take responsibility for HIS actions? When he grows up?