House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has announced that there is evidence that Trump transition team officials were monitored under the Obama Administration.
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When major media outlets mocked at Trump’s “wiretap” tweet, it turns out that Trump was right to accuse a misuse of surveillance. Now, leftist media is insisting that the “facts are changing” just because Trump used the word “wiretap,” and they actually took the word literally.
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Jonathan Turley of the Hill comments:
One of the most telling examples of media mania was the insistence that Trump was referring only to wiretapping and no other form of surveillance. From the earliest days of the scandal, I balked at that narrow reading. As someone who has written and litigated in the surveillance field for over three decades, the narrow reading is absurd.
“Wiretap” has often been used as a generality for surveillance, particularly among those of Trump’s generation. It is the same colloquial meaning as when the Supreme Court commonly used “eavesdropping” to refer to surveillance.It was not limiting decisions like Katz v. United States to circumstances where people hid in the eaves of homes and listened to conversations within.
So “wiretap,” for those who deny Trump’s allegations, can mean nothing but a bug in a phone.
Liars in the media love it when they can deceive the public without technically lying to them, as far as semantics and literal interpretations allow.
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The Hill continues:
Now, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (who previously said he knew of no evidence to support the allegation) has disclosed that he has seen evidence that Trump presidential transition officials had their communications monitored during the Obama administration (though Nunes later suggested that he might not have actually seen the evidence of the surveillance).
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He also said that the inadvertent interceptions were then subject to “unmasking” where intelligence officials actively and knowingly attached the names of the parties to transcripts and then circulated the information widely within the intelligence community. If true, that would clearly support a part of the president’s allegations and raise very serious questions about the improper use of surveillance.
The media hates it when Trump is right. When they’ve worked so hard to paint him as a buffoon, it’s hard to admit when he has a point.
That’s why they feel comfortable deceiving people, so long as they can justify themselves with absurd interpretations of what is obviously true.
