GOP rep: 'Rogue intel operation' could have wiretapped Trump

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Alleged efforts to wiretap President Trump's phone lines during his campaign could have been conducted as part of a "rogue intel operation," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Monday.

King's remarks come days after Trump claimed over the weekend, without offering any evidence, that former President Barack Obama had ordered Trump's phones tapped.

King's remarks amounted to a defense of Trump's allegations over the weekend that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of the real estate mogul's 2016 presidential bid.

"That doesn't necessarily prove that there wasn't a rogue intel operation going on that wasn't encumbered by, or just decided not to be encumbered by, the legalities," King said in an interview with Iowa's Sioux City Journal.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/322680-gop-rep-wiretapping-trumps-campaign-may-have-been-rogue-intel

[Renew Deal]

1. Did they ask King if he was in on it?

It makes just as much sense as the rest of it.

[CincyDem]

2. As predicted, right on cue.

Trump + Wikileaks = "it's all BHO's fault"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8759437

[mpcamb]

25. I'm gettin' dizzy from all the spin.

[George II]

3. So he's accusing Obama of violating the law?

[Archae]

4. How about we make it simpler...

There never *WAS* this wiretapping of Trump's people, this was entirely made up by a wack job talk radio host, (Mark Levin) and got tossed around the far-right echo chamber.

[SHRED]

5. Appealing to the GOP base

So they need to go psycho conspiracy.

The republican base lives in a National Enquirer mindset.

[PRETZEL]

6. And the dog whistle to the Trump people

is that this "rogue" operation was authorized by none other than President Obama.

(I'll bet on this one)

[Marcuse]

22. He must mean The Impossible Mission Force.

Good evening, Mr Phelps. If you or any member of your team is caught or killed, the President will deny any knowledge of your actions.

[MineralMan]

7. Sure, and Santa may have delivered my Christmas presents

in fake Amazon boxes. Anything is possible...

[mac56]

8. There are so many "negatives" in this sentence.

"That doesn't necessarily prove that there wasn't a rogue intel operation going on that wasn't encumbered by, or just decided not to be encumbered by, the legalities."

"It wasn't not impossible!"

[Eyeball_Kid]

9. Steve King: Ambassador to the US from Dumbfuckistan.

We should all thank Ambassador King for his tireless and fruitful work in educating the brightest among us to the clever and underhanded work of nefarious do-gooders in the intelligence community.

But I digress...

No, Stevie. It wasn't a rogue element of the IC, and you know it. It was a REAL FISA WARRANT that was granted to investigate Russian corroboration with the Trumpy campaign. Just stop your fucking lying. The fact that you're providing cover for a fascist coup is spreading. No one can possibly believe you, except for Ben Carson. If Carson believes that slave marketing was just another path to immigration, he'll believe anything.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Projection once again

just a guess

Who's really listening at Trump Tower?

[Paladin]

11. Got any proof of that, shit-for-brains?

No, of course you don't.

Steve King deserves to be one of trump's desperate apologists.

[DK504]

12. Is there anyone more ignorant than S. King?

Besides Rubio, Gomer, Cruz, Palazzo, Ryan, you know where I'm going with this.

I'd love to know why the media doesn't drop kick this idiot the moment he opens his insane maw.

[Nitram]

13. More BS. More likely Russians were wiretapped and Trump campaign got caught in the net.

[Chakaconcarne]

14. Yes and in doing so, the Trump campaign can spin it and say it was a rogue operation

targeting Trump. BINGO!

[Nitram]

15. They can and do say anything the want, and have lost all credibility in the process.

The wiretapping agency, and the FISA Court that approve the wiretapping, can and will provide ironclad evidence against Trump's claims to protect their own asses.

[jpak]

16. More bull fucking shit from Asshole (R- Iowa)

yup

[yellowcanine]

17. I can't necessarily prove that Steve King isn't a unicorn. He COULD be one.

[emulatorloo]

19. Sounds more like a Loon, imho

[IronLionZion]

18. And the president doesn't know how to get the evidence from the intel agencies?

or he forgot that Trump is the president?

Because some congressman from Iowa is apparently not powerful enough to get the evidence. It's great that they are trashing the intel community though. Make as many enemies as possible.

[KingCharlemagne]

20. Could-a, would-a, should-a: the three most popular phrases

you hear in Vegas.

What a contemptible tool this King is.

[Solly Mack]

21. Oh, do shut up, you blithering idiot.

[rickford66]

23. It coulda been aliens.

They could be pouring in from outer space.

[StevieM]

24. And the birth certificate has gone missing. (eom)

[C_U_L8R]

26. Republicans need to stop masturbating

to all their rightwing media nonsense. Ick.

[muntrv]

27. I thought he was talking about Star Wars.

[Beartracks]

28. Why would they suggest who might be responsible before....

... even proving that wiretapping or bugging even happened?

Oh, yeah. Because #Republicans.

I like how as it becomes obvious no one (in the real world) believes the Obama angle, they just come up with a different angle.

It's like one of Maxwell Smart's "would you believe....?" schticks.

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[NCjack]

29. Probably a Russian monitoring team, just

making sure the money and info Russia gives to #45 keeps him loyal to Putin.

[dalton99a]

30. Aliens did it.

Could have been illegal aliens.

Definitely illegal aliens.

[duncang]

31. Dipshit donnie probably forgot he ordered the taps

To insure his lackies kept in line.

[randome]

32. "But, Mr. King, who could have thought up such an enormous scheme?"

"They might be giants."
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[PaulRevere08]

33. This is what we are up against - "Just because there is no evidence, does not mean it is not true."

[UT_democrat]

34. Ethan Hunt

Many of the best people are saying it could have been an impossible mission...

[Docreed2003]

35. It's amazing the lengths these assholes will go to support one of their own

They will completely debase themselves with any and every shameless lie, all the while standing their with a straight face. They do it and they are enboldended by the media who never ever calls them out as the liars they are. "LIAR....you are lying and you are a liar!!!!" Nothing will change until they face those words.

[Kimchijeon]

36. Oh brother. What nonsense.