If someone handed me a dollar today for every time I heard the straw man argument that President Trump “presented no evidence” to back up his Twitter accusations that the Obama administration wiretapped him during the election, I’d have just as many dollars as I’d have if I collected one for every time I heard James Clapper lie about the National Security Agency spying on the American people during his tenure as the director of national intelligence. Either way I’d be rich.
Then something funny happened to Clapper in the mainstream media. As soon as Wikileaks proved that the NSA actually did spy on American citizens, all of my imaginary dollars went away. I couldn’t find footage of Clapper lying to the American people anywhere in the mainstream! Flash forward to the present where MSNBC’s Chuck Todd had Clapper come on his “news” show to say there was no Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act order to investigate the Trump campaign, so it might as well be case closed, right?
Now as the Left tries to demonize the president for his claims, we can look back on a paper trail of the very same stone throwers setting the table for the destruction of their own glass house. By laying out seven “exhibits”, Mark Levin proves that the mainstream media already reported on exactly what they are denying exists now. In doing so, Levin asserts that it is not a matter of whether there was spying going on, but a matter of exactly who was doing it, exactly who the target was, and to exactly what extent the spying was being done. So let’s get into it.
Exhibit One: Evidence from the center-right, libertarian sect – FBI granted FISA warrant
Heat Street confirms from two separate sources with links to the counterintelligence community that there was a succession of two Foreign Intelligence Act Court requests made by the FBI in June and October of 2016. The first FISA request, which named Trump personally, was denied by the court for insufficient probable cause. The second was granted four months later to allow the FBI to examine and investigate members of “US persons in Donald Trump’s campaign with ties to Russia,” after evidence of a server possibly related to the Trump campaign and two banks was presented. With the target being a server, does it matter whether or not Trump was wiretapped, as he stated, or if the spying was done by infiltrating the server to look into emails and documents? Spying is spying.
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T.B. Lefever is an OpsLens Contributor and active police officer in the metro Atlanta area.
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