Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Jon Schwarz — Congressman’s Trump Surveillance Claims Have an Obvious, Mundane Explanation


It's complicated. Jon Schwarz unpacks it for us.

11 comments:

Ryan Harris said...
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Penguin pop said...

Tom, lots of spam coming through with the above moron.

Tom Hickey said...

lots of spam coming through with the above moron.

There is no way to block users on Blogger. Spam has to be flushed manually.

lastgreek said...
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lastgreek said...

Tom, not sure if you picked this up from AP's tweet this morning:

The Associated Press‏@AP 2h
Israeli police arrest a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats in U.S.

https://apnews.com/a6a67fb761304e3cae7497faa32dcdc9?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Btw, Trump last month had suggested that the US Jewish Community Center bombing threats were the acts of provocateurs and not acts of anti-Semitism.

(via https://twitter.com/emptywheel)

Tom Hickey said...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is going to have a challenging time at its annual policy conference this weekend persuading attendees and those watching at home that it has healed the partisan rift it opened by investing millions of dollars in opposing the Iran nuclear deal. Following Trump’s election, partisanship in Washington had reached an all-time high, making AIPAC’s role in currying bipartisan support for new Iran sanctions, opposing the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and securing billions in military aid for Israel all the more difficult.

That partisan rift may now run even deeper. During the 2015-16 battle over the Iran nuclear agreement, the organization appears to have contributed financially to the production and/or airing of a factually inaccurate attack-ad on J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group that increasingly threatens AIPAC’s historic hold on Democratic lawmakers and office-holders.


LobeLog
Did AIPAC Help Fund Attack-Ad by Islamophobic Group on J Street?
Eli Clifton

Matt Franko said...

Nunes statements contradict the Rogers/Comey statements from Monday...

Matt Franko said...

I think Woodward is right:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/woodward-obama-officials-possibly-facing-criminal-charges/article/2618185

Comey and Rogers said it was no one at their agencies...

Btw does anyone realize Obama has left the US?

Malmo's Ghost said...

Mundane my arse:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-23/nsa-provide-smoking-gun-proof-obama-spied-trump

Noah Way said...

@Matt, stop believing what you read, especially when it agrees with your world view.

Matt Franko said...

Noah you have to assume the tool is a network enabled application so every access is logged at the system administration level... they can go back and look at what was going on and who was doing it via the system admin where ever that is ... looks like perhaps NSA as they are "cooperating"...

They are not technical people and didn't understand this...

They have all lawyered up and the whole "Russia!" thing is a pre emptive defense for all of these illegalities... they are going to say they were investigating "Russia!" meddling blah blah...

They're in big trouble...