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Dick Morris: Obama Ordered Wiretaps on Trump Before Election
Dick Morris in Commentary On April 19, 2018
According to GOP Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a member of the House Oversight Committee, “The text messages that I’ve had the privilege of reviewing and some of the other correlating information” suggest that the Obama administration — and the president himself — were “involved in the whole narrative of investigating Donald Trump” during the election.
He also said the Obama administration was involved in “drafting some of the action of the Department of Justice and the FBI” during the election to surveil Trump.
Moreover, Meadows said, not only was former President Barack Obama aware of the surveillance of Trump during the election, but he was personally involved in ordering it.
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So when Trump said during his transition that Obama was wiretapping him, he was, in effect, quite right.
Meadows stressed that the justification for the surveillance was rooted in the Fusion GPS fake dossier, filled as it was with lies and false leads.
The progress of events is becoming clear:
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The dossier, funded by a $12 million contract with the Clinton campaign, developed dirt — notional and fictitious as it was — that became the basis for surveillance of Trump and his staff.
This information was used to justify FISA warrants for further surveillance and to unmask the the names of Americans whose calls the NSA had intercepted.
Then, the resulting information was leaked to the media and came to dominate the headlines throughout the first half of 2017.
(My wife, Eileen, and I laid all this out in our book “Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump.”)
Each day, more of the story we unfolded and exposed is proving to be true and, if anything, somewhat understated.
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As we discover that there was no collusion between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump, the key revelation that comes from this entire post-election investigation is that Obama and his intelligence agencies used government spying to try to defeat Trump during the election and discredit him afterward.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is like an artifact of that effort, now searching for a new crime to prosecute, after failing to prove any of the previous allegations against Trump.
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It reveals many believe national pride is on the wane, with the younger generations placing less importance on patriotism than ever before.
One in four believe we are living in the least patriotic decade ever.
In contrast, the 1940s were overwhelmingly named as the decade when patriotism was at its height, with the nation brought together by the Second World War.
According to the report, 79 per cent of people consider themselves patriotic and almost 90 per cent say they are proud of their birthplace.
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Swaziland is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, neighboured by Mozambique and South Africa and part of the Commonwealth since 1968.
Yet any travellers wanting to visit the country may be in for a shock as the leader of the country, King Mswati III has changed the name of it.
The country, which was named Swaziland after King Mswati II, is to now be called eSwatini.
It was announced yesterday at the 50th anniversary of independence from Britain.
The country is one of the few places with an absolute monarch who has complete control over the country which is why the king is able to make the change to the country’s name.
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A sex gang who sexually abused vulnerable girls have been jailed and banned from using Snapchat after a court heard they treated their victims like 'trophies'.
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Taiyab Hussain, Shaheem Ratyal and Sohail Ali, all aged 19, and 18-year-old Mohammed Rizwan, were arrested when a teenager realised she had been groomed after watching a sex education video.
A judge took the unusual step of banning them from using the Snapchat messaging app for eight years as he jailed them for between four and five years each today.
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Incredible text that appeared above Phoenix has left onlookers confused as to how it was created.
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The messages, including 'cisco #collabsummit', are a form of skywriting which has the appearance of digitally typed text.
Skytyping, or digital skywriting, is a technique whereby smoke is emitted in a series of bursts, each of which can be the length of a skyscraper.
These appear like the text produced by old fashioned dot matrix printers, in which characters are formed on the page by printing rows and columns of ink dots.
In skytyping, a computer generates a master plan and electronic signals control the smoke output once aircraft are in the air.
Multiple planes usually take to the sky, so that the entire text of longer messages is visible at once.
They are often equipped with onboard Wifi or other communications relays, which allow their computers to synchronise the release of smoke between them.
Five jets worked to write a number of messages in the sky, according to news reports from AZ Family.
Other text produced by the planes included 'the future of work is here' and '#futureofwork.'
The writing, which appeared yesterday, was designed to attract attention to computer networking firm Cisco.
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O'Connor told investigators from the Carver County Sheriff's Office that the singer put several women in hospital and claimed she had suffered the abuse first-hand.
The Irish singer also alleged that Prince was 'into devil worship', telling them: 'It's not just drugs he was into, it was darkness.'
O'Connor spoke to police on May 2, 2016, two weeks after 57-year-old Prince was found dead from a drug overdose at his Paisley Park mansion, and a tape of the interview was released on Thursday.
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