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DemocratSinceBirth

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Mon Mar 13, 2017, 01:58 AM Mar 2017

For The Love Of Money









Dennis Kucinich: I'm no fan of Trump's but he's got a point about wiretapping

President Trump’s assertion that his phones at Trump Tower were tapped last year has been treated as hilarious—and in some circles as beyond contempt. But I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, regardless of whether it is officially approved. I was wiretapped in 2011 after taking a phone call in my congressional office from a foreign leader.

That a secret recording had been made of this call was revealed to me by the Washington Times in 2015, a full two years after I left office.

The newspaper’s investigative reporters called me, saying they had obtained a tape of a sensitive telephone conversation that they wanted me to verify.

When I met them at a Chinese restaurant in Washington, they played back audio of a call I had taken in my D.C. congressional office four years earlier...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/03/10/dennis-kucinich-im-no-fan-trumps-but-hes-got-point-about-wiretapping.html



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For The Love Of Money (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 OP
More Trump bootlicking from a sellout. dalton99a Mar 2017 #1
Sad guy, huh. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #4
What??? question everything Mar 2017 #2
... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #3
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