LOL. Still sticking by what i said, there isnt proof of anything yet, dont get too excited, there has been alot of disinformation coming from the media on both sides on this thing so far.
It seems it would. I would think since it deals with past events as well as current, that the NSA communications collections would be a virtual treasure trove of revealing information if, indeed, anything is there. The FBI investigation has to do with whether there was illegal collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives. The FBI would go through FISA. Trumps accusation re Obama is a different matter. That matter seems to be resolved already. Snowden told us that the NSA collects virtually all of certain kinds of communications as a routine matter. Do we know what rules have to be followed. I don't think we do know that. And that's wrong. We should at least be given a clear picture of the protections in place. Until Snowden, it was a highly secret operation. Apparently it got its start under Bush after 9/11. I see an awful lot of strained logic being applied in these forums. It is rather ridiculous.
I suspect what happened is Obama's people used surveillance of supposed foreign agents as a pretext to poke into the Trump campaign, hoping they would find something to destroy him with. They apparently came up empty handed but still pushed the story through the democrat media. Nevertrumpers like McCain were only too happy to assist. Trump is not George Bush or Richard Nixon however. He doesn't play by the usual political rules. He could care less what the media say about him. He dramatically upped the stakes, going all in with his claim that Obama tapped him. This had the effect of forcing the congressional committees to get into an area they hoped to avoid. They wanted to rummage around and come up with damaging material on Trump and his associates, not get into a public look at what the Deep State was up to. Now it seems unavoidable. Intell Comm. Chairman Nunes' journey to the WH this week could be seen as a last ditch effort to negotiate a truce, but democrats on his committee are having none of it. For them, it is win-win. Bring Trump down or clip the CIA's wings. They seem unable to fathom that Obama and his loyal drones like John Brennan might actually have weaponized the intell agencies for political purposes.
I believe the "smoking gun" is this... https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/616ypb/mail1trumpemailcom_meet_tealeaves_and_his_forged/ It's a little confusing, but the gist of it(i believe) is that some computer logs were faked to make it look like Trump Tower was communicating with a Russian bank. There are 6...not 1...but 6 indicators that this is true. Apparently some liberal anti-trump nut job college professor fucked around to make it look like Trump was communicating with a Russian bank, then "leaked" this info to all the news agencies. This also allowed the Obama administration enough evidence to get a warrant to spy on Trump Tower. Liberal media sources never bothered to vet the guy giving them all this info or even ask "why/how the hell do you even have this info" The IT guy working on this now is trying to put the other 5 indicators together so it's packaged nice and neat. Long story short...liberals were duped again.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-suggests-fbi-travel-business-151848236.html Report suggests FBI has travel, business, and phone records that could tie Trump's campaign to Russia Veronika Bondarenko Business InsiderMarch 23, 2017 An FBI official claims to have information that suggests collaboration between President Donald Trump's associates and Russian intelligence officials during the 2016 election, CNN reported Wednesday night. The anonymous law enforcement official told the news outlet that FBI evidence shows "people connected to the campaign were in contact and it appeared they were giving the thumbs up to release information" in order to promote Trump and erode trust in Hillary Clinton's campaign. Still, other agents said that the evidence in question was almost all circumstantial, which means that it cannot be used to make any conclusive suppositions. FBI Director James Comey confirmed before Congress on Monday that the agency was investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. This investigation includes reviewing travel, business, and phone, and in-person meeting records between Trump's inner circle and Russian intelligence officials, according to CNN. US lawmakers or the intelligence community hadn't previously acknowledged having concrete evidence tying Trump or his associates to collusion with the Kremlin. Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who is a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which is also investigating the Trump-Russia connection, echoed the CNN report in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday. "There is more than circumstantial evidence now," Schiff said, declining to get into specifics. "I will say there is evidence that is not circumstantial, and it is very much worthy of investigation." Read the full CNN report here »
So let's see first CNN & the liberal media claimed that Trump's lawyer flew over to Europe to meet Russian operatives. The lawyer produces his passport and other information to prove he never left the country. After this the media claims he flew under an alias. The person with the "alias" name pops up and says "no I'm not the lawyer". At what point do we stop paying attention to stories on CNN sourced by an "anonymous law enforcement official" because CNN has lost all credibility in this matter.
So obviously fake and contrived to counter the recent beatdown they're receiving that nobody but yahoonews is dumb enough to repeat it. Not on memeorandum.com Not on mobile.businessinsider.com/politics at least not anywhere near where it can be seen without a microscopic search #joke #fakenews #veryfakenews
Unless you have forgotten The head of The FBI just stated a Trump/Russia investigation is underway and most government leaks about Trump has been correct.Trump is more likely to be the next Nixon than anything happening to Obama.