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Home Front: Politix
Oops! CNN accidentally confirms story that Brit intell passed along Trump communications to Obama admin
2017-03-20
[American Thinker] Lawyers are trained never to ask a question of a witness if they don’t already know the answer. But it is quite different in journalism ‐ at least in principle, if the principle is getting at the truth. But alas, in these days of fake news and fanatical dead-ender opposition to President Trump, those MSM TV networks committed to driving Trump from office might want to consider retraining for their talking heads. Make them more like lawyers and avoid embarrassnents like that suffered by CNN’s Brian Stelter.

Courtesy of Grabien, here is a disastrous interview in which the guest, Larry Johnson, confirmed the story that Judge Andrew Napolitano told on-air about British intelligence passing along surveillance data involving the Trump administration.

Here is the rush transcript:
STELTER: "Let me ask you about this thing."
JOHNSON: "Sure."
STELTER: "So my sense is that on Monday, Napolitano says this on TV, he says he has Intel sources who believe this is true. You’re saying you were one of those sources, but you didn’t know Napolitano was going to use you like that?"
JOHNSON: "What happened was I communicated, when Donald Trump tweeted what he did Saturday two weeks ago, the next day I was interviewed on Russia today. I had known about the fact that the British, through ghcq were information back channel, this was not at the behest of Barack Obama, let’s be clear about that. But it was done with the full knowledge of people like John Brennan and Jake clapper. Two people I flow within the intelligence community in January, they were very concerned about this because they saw it as an unfair meddling in the politics, but it was a way to get around the issue of American intelligence agencies not collecting."
STELTER: "To be clear, you have this secondhand? So you didn’t get this information directly, you’re hearing from others.
JOHNSON: "I’m hearing it from people who are in a position to know, that’s correct.
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#4  Brennan is on the CryptoSecurity CIO lecture circuit. Shows you what a sorry state automation security is in.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-20 22:10  

#3  POTUS is sticking with his 'wiretap' story. This from a Salon 21 Nov 16 story. Emphasis added:

My new paramilitary pal fit in perfectly with the armed-camp aesthetic that’s blossomed around Trump Tower. The addition of fences and concrete barriers to already clogged holiday season sidewalks has brought all the joys of the airport security line to Fifth Avenue. The scores of police officers now stationed around the skyscraper give it the air of a military outpost in a hostile land. (All at a bargain basement price of $1 million-plus per day for the city of New York.) Police Commissioner James O’Neill recently reeled off the forces which — in addition to traffic cops, beat cops, and bomb-sniffing dogs — now occupy this posh portion of the city: “specialized units, the critical response command, and the strategic response group, as well as plainclothes officers and counter-surveillance teams working hand-in-hand with our intelligence bureau and our partners in the federal government, specifically the Secret Service.” The armed man in tactical gear who had joined me belonged to the latter agency.

Salon link here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-20 17:18  

#2  Yeah, he's been pretty quiet, Mr. B.

Probably touring the Everglades or something.

Interesting that Johnson states it 'was not at the behest' of anyone in particular but not further stating that the action was unknown by the 'particular'.

Supposedly O was 'incensed' that he was directly named in this and really began to start a rant. Something a true narcissist would feel and do when found out. Then he'd be invited to go on vacation or something and let the cooler heads brush the tracks away.

Normal folks would just go 'huh?' and say something like "He's nuts!" and get on with their lives.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-03-20 16:51  

#1  And whom have we not heard much from of late? Yes, that would be former Director John Brennan.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-20 14:20  

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