who :shrug:
Flynn ?
has been cleared by the FBI ...
... his dealings with Pence - a problem to be handled internally by the administration
Of Course the FBI is a Government agency, Now what is it you are seeking for me to say that you can hang me with LMAO.
What I'm getting at is the blatant hypocrisy.
Trump, and his voters, LOVED the leaks when it was Clinton's server involved and jumped up and down when Comey didn't agree to charge her with anything.
Now, the right and Trump are losing their collective minds over a leak. Trump claims leaks "are a big problem in Washington" and that "low-life leakers...will be caught".
I know, I know, it's somehow different with Trump, but this shouldn't have been such an unexpected thing considering the leaks that came out during the campaign.
I think the main issue here is being lost in the smoke and mirrors of politics.
The FISA court in America is a secret court with essentially no one to answer to (and a 99.97% compliance rate of surveillance requests). To get a wiretap via the FISA court, all they have to do is show probable cause that the wiretap target is an "agent of foreign power". A majority of Americans supported, and continue to support this because "if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be worried". There's reports that the FBI turned down a request to monitor Trump's aids because they believed they were in talks with Russia and that Russia was "cultivating, supporting, and assisting" Trump during the election. There's reports that this request specifically named Trump and was denied back in June (during the heat of the campaign, no less), but then narrowed a bit, removing Trump's name. This request was approved back in October. They were allegedly looking into a server of Trump's which may have contained information on Russian banks and communication/documents between Trump and Russia, if any.
What we're seeing, if true, is our intelligence community actively spying on American citizens without probable cause of any crime because FISA allows them not to under the guise of Trump and/or his aids communicating with an "agent of foreign power". Think about it, if you're a politician or businessman what are the chances you are talking with a foreign person? Pretty high right? Well, we know the NSA is vacuuming up all the data they can on these conversations and if revealed they are using this data as political fodder, THAT is an huge problem because otherwise innocent American's conversations and data is being stored by the intelligence community often shrouded in secrecy even though they are not the subject of the investigation.
We, as Americans, deserve this. A majority of us truly don't give a #### because we have nothing to hide. If you didn't care then, you shouldn't care now. If you enjoyed and praised the leaks on Clinton, you should be doing the same in this case,
