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2018-05-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Federal Investigators Put Wiretap On Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I don’t think so, not if they want to stay out of jail.

Jail is for enemies of the ruling bureaucracy, not it's loyal members.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-04 02:16|| 2018-05-04 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 A misrepresentation by the state controlled media, either through stupidity or a willful act of subterfuge.

Label everything a "wiretap" (term used in Tweet and statements by Trump following the Trump Tower campaign incident), and everything labeled "wiretap" is discredited.

Reader comment from last Refuge: IMPORTANT – Michael Caputo Explains How Clinton-Mueller Legal Attack Dogs Used the FISA Title-One Surveillance Warrant…

Tom R says:
May 4, 2018 at 1:25 am
The Trump administration freely turned over 1.4 million pages of documents from the campaign to Mueller several months ago. Those are the documents Caputo was almost certainly referring to. How would Mueller be able to successfully spy on Trump using the original Carter Page FISA warrant while Trump is the sitting President of the United States? That would require the assistance of the NSA and we already know ADM Rogers is the one who likely informed Trump that Obama was spying on him back in November 2016.
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-04 04:26|| 2018-05-04 04:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Corrections issued: NBC, ABC Correct Story That Cohen's Phone Was Wiretapped

NBC and ABC News both issued corrections Thursday evening after reporting earlier in the day that President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen had his phone wiretapped by federal investigators. The networks clarified that Cohen had not been wiretapped.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-04 04:36|| 2018-05-04 04:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I wouldn't be surprised in the future, it is discovered that there really was a wiretap. Such behavior would be consistent with previous abuse of power.

Posted by jvalentour 2018-05-04 08:30|| 2018-05-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 It wasn't a wiretap, it was a pen register, logging the phone numbers called into Cohen's phones.

Posted by Raj 2018-05-04 08:38|| 2018-05-04 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 It probably was a pen register serving as the fig leaf for the illegal wire tap.

They wouldn't have to actually use anything gained from the wiretap in any sort of legal proceeding. They would "just" learn all the possible hooks on which to hang their made up stories that could be used in proceedings.

Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.

Posted by AlanC 2018-05-04 12:50|| 2018-05-04 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Yuuuge Mistake!

Judge just raked Mueller prosecuter at a Manafort hearing.

Judges used to be lawyers.

Raiding lawyers offices will NOT help Muellers future hearings before judges. Bone head move by Mueller, again.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-04 13:10|| 2018-05-04 13:10|| Front Page Top

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