Quote (Goomshill @ May 17 2018 11:22am)

same source (WSJ, NYPost, Fox, Investors Business Daily and author- he's clear conservative bias, but not a wackjob):

https://i.imgur.com/DzdKEha.jpg

the scope of the spying on the trump campaign just keeps getting wider and wider

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Quote (inkanddagger @ May 17 2018 01:25pm)

That's incredibly concerning. Federal law enforcement agencies don't embed and spy unless there is obvious criminal activity going on.

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Quote (inkanddagger @ May 17 2018 10:25am)

That's incredibly concerning. Federal law enforcement agencies don't embed and spy unless there is obvious criminal activity going on.

Quote (inkanddagger @ May 17 2018 02:25pm)

That's incredibly concerning. Federal law enforcement agencies don't embed and spy unless there is obvious criminal activity going on.

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Hoover leaves a bipolar legacy. For better or worse, he built the FBI into a modern, national organization stressing professionalism and scientific crime-fighting. For most of his life, Americans considered him a hero. He made the G-Man brand so popular that, at its height, it was harder to become an FBI agent than to be accepted into an Ivy League college.

But he also stands as a reminder that 48 years of power concentrated in one person is a recipe for abuse. It was mostly after his death that Hoover’s dark side became common knowledge — the covert black-bag jobs, the warrantless surveillance of civil rights leaders and Vietnam-era peace activists, the use of secret files to bully government officials, the snooping on movie stars and senators, and the rest. Hoover’s name, carved in stone at the FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, should serve as a caution to the public and the dedicated professionals who work inside. The FBI’s license to intrude into people’s lives gives it a special public trust. If the daily reminder of Hoover’s excesses can help impart that message, it will be the best safeguard for the positive side of his legacy: a modern, professional, science-based and accountable detective force serving the public interest.

Quote (EndlessSky @ May 17 2018 03:15pm)

Jesus this is getting out of hand. The white house under Obama could have taken a dump on the oval office desk and the media would be praising him.

Thank god he can't run again and has no successor.

Quote (EndlessSky @ May 17 2018 12:15pm)

Jesus this is getting out of hand. The white house under Obama could have taken a dump on the oval office desk and the media would be praising him.

Thank god he can't run again and has no successor.

Quote (inkanddagger @ May 17 2018 03:40pm)

You mean like when the media raked him over the coals for eating Dijon mustard on a hot dog, smoking a cigarette, or wearing a tan suit?

If he took a shit on the oval office desk the South would have risen again.

Quote (Ghot @ May 17 2018 12:43pm)

yeah, that's comparable with a witch hunt for collusion with Russia. :/