After a year of continuous and alarming revelations, the media are still more interested in proving the Trump campaign treasonously colluded with Russia than wrestling with the fact that the FBI spied on a presidential campaign, and used dubious partisan political research to justify their surveillance.
The Times headline was - hand to God - "F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims." CNN contributor and Obama director of national intelligence James Clapper told the viewing audience that actually "It was a good thing" that Trump's campaign was spied on.
If you go back to last year, CNN's Jake Tapper mocked and derided Republican voters who told pollsters they thought the Obama administration had spied on the Trump campaign.
32 percent of the public thinks President Obama intentionally spied on Donald Trump and members of his campaign and 52 percent of Republicans believe this charge.
In January 2017, days before Trump's inauguration, high-level intelligence officials leaked to CNN the news that "Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him." The Hillary Clinton campaign had latched onto "Russia" as an explanation for her loss, encouraging a largely compliant media to hype up reports of Russian meddling in the election.
Trump critics say that since Page wasn't on the Trump campaign at the time of the wiretap, it wasn't really surveillance of the campaign.
If the FBI genuinely believed that Russians were trying to illegally infiltrate the Trump campaign, the proper course of action would be to give the Trump campaign a defensive briefing warning them of the efforts.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/26/media-gaslighting-cant-hide-fact-trump-campaign-was-spied-on/
The Times headline was - hand to God - "F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims." CNN contributor and Obama director of national intelligence James Clapper told the viewing audience that actually "It was a good thing" that Trump's campaign was spied on.
If you go back to last year, CNN's Jake Tapper mocked and derided Republican voters who told pollsters they thought the Obama administration had spied on the Trump campaign.
32 percent of the public thinks President Obama intentionally spied on Donald Trump and members of his campaign and 52 percent of Republicans believe this charge.
In January 2017, days before Trump's inauguration, high-level intelligence officials leaked to CNN the news that "Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him." The Hillary Clinton campaign had latched onto "Russia" as an explanation for her loss, encouraging a largely compliant media to hype up reports of Russian meddling in the election.
Trump critics say that since Page wasn't on the Trump campaign at the time of the wiretap, it wasn't really surveillance of the campaign.
If the FBI genuinely believed that Russians were trying to illegally infiltrate the Trump campaign, the proper course of action would be to give the Trump campaign a defensive briefing warning them of the efforts.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/26/media-gaslighting-cant-hide-fact-trump-campaign-was-spied-on/
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