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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 07, 2019, 05:55:53 pm
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James Clapper admits FBI's actions 'meet the dictionary definition' of 'spying'
by Jerry Dunleavy
| May 07, 2019 12:45 PM
Following revelations that the FBI sent an undercover agent to meet with George Papadopoulos in London in 2016, James Clapper was forced to backtrack on his prior comments and admit that this was “spying.â€
Earlier in April, Attorney General William Barr had told Congress that “I think spying on a political campaign is a big dealâ€, and Clapper had immediately slammed the suggestion that the Trump campaign may have been spied on as “stunning and scary.†But last Friday, Clapper, who’d been the director of national intelligence under President Obama, conceded that what the FBI had been doing “meets the dictionary definition†of "spying."
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-clapper-admits-fbis-actions-meet-the-dictionary-definition-of-spying (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-clapper-admits-fbis-actions-meet-the-dictionary-definition-of-spying)
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The Dems want to downplay it, but we are talking about spying done by a current admin on a POTUS candidate in the oppo party, while colluding with the POTUS candidate of the friendly party. All based on flimsy logic, and in some places, downright fraud.
It makes Nixon look like a Sunday school picnic.