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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Jon Schwarz — Congressman’s Trump Surveillance Claims Have an Obvious, Mundane Explanation
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is going to have a challenging time at its annual policy conference this weekend persuading attendees and those watching at home that it has healed the partisan rift it opened by investing millions of dollars in opposing the Iran nuclear deal. Following Trump’s election, partisanship in Washington had reached an all-time high, making AIPAC’s role in currying bipartisan support for new Iran sanctions, opposing the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and securing billions in military aid for Israel all the more difficult.
That partisan rift may now run even deeper. During the 2015-16 battle over the Iran nuclear agreement, the organization appears to have contributed financially to the production and/or airing of a factually inaccurate attack-ad on J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group that increasingly threatens AIPAC’s historic hold on Democratic lawmakers and office-holders.
Noah you have to assume the tool is a network enabled application so every access is logged at the system administration level... they can go back and look at what was going on and who was doing it via the system admin where ever that is ... looks like perhaps NSA as they are "cooperating"...
They are not technical people and didn't understand this...
They have all lawyered up and the whole "Russia!" thing is a pre emptive defense for all of these illegalities... they are going to say they were investigating "Russia!" meddling blah blah...
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ReplyDeletelots of spam coming through with the above moron.
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ReplyDeleteTom, not sure if you picked this up from AP's tweet this morning:
ReplyDeleteThe Associated Press@AP 2h
Israeli police arrest a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats in U.S.
https://apnews.com/a6a67fb761304e3cae7497faa32dcdc9?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Btw, Trump last month had suggested that the US Jewish Community Center bombing threats were the acts of provocateurs and not acts of anti-Semitism.
(via https://twitter.com/emptywheel)
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is going to have a challenging time at its annual policy conference this weekend persuading attendees and those watching at home that it has healed the partisan rift it opened by investing millions of dollars in opposing the Iran nuclear deal. Following Trump’s election, partisanship in Washington had reached an all-time high, making AIPAC’s role in currying bipartisan support for new Iran sanctions, opposing the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and securing billions in military aid for Israel all the more difficult.
ReplyDeleteThat partisan rift may now run even deeper. During the 2015-16 battle over the Iran nuclear agreement, the organization appears to have contributed financially to the production and/or airing of a factually inaccurate attack-ad on J Street, the liberal pro-Israel group that increasingly threatens AIPAC’s historic hold on Democratic lawmakers and office-holders.
LobeLog
Did AIPAC Help Fund Attack-Ad by Islamophobic Group on J Street?
Eli Clifton
Nunes statements contradict the Rogers/Comey statements from Monday...
ReplyDeleteI think Woodward is right:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/woodward-obama-officials-possibly-facing-criminal-charges/article/2618185
Comey and Rogers said it was no one at their agencies...
Btw does anyone realize Obama has left the US?
Mundane my arse:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-23/nsa-provide-smoking-gun-proof-obama-spied-trump
@Matt, stop believing what you read, especially when it agrees with your world view.
ReplyDeleteNoah you have to assume the tool is a network enabled application so every access is logged at the system administration level... they can go back and look at what was going on and who was doing it via the system admin where ever that is ... looks like perhaps NSA as they are "cooperating"...
ReplyDeleteThey are not technical people and didn't understand this...
They have all lawyered up and the whole "Russia!" thing is a pre emptive defense for all of these illegalities... they are going to say they were investigating "Russia!" meddling blah blah...
They're in big trouble...