I am aware that NSA casts a wide net. Looking at sections 2.3 and 2.4 of that executive order 12333, though, it looks like mostly foreign stuff. I'll have to look at it more closely.
My main point, though is that when you say
are you saying that Trump is part of the everyone that knows that by now, or no?Of course Obama didn't order a wiretap on Trump.
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I thought everyone knew that by now.
Are you saying that all the newspapers that report the allegations of a wiretap are part of the everyone that knows that by now or no?
Because that is how it is being phrased: Obama wiretapping Trump. Not, Obama is seeking to collect Trump info that has already been recorded.
I do remember Thinthread and read about it when its abuses came to light.
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I found it interesting hearing, maybe 3 weeks ago, that intelligence agencies in the U.S. were warning their foreign counterparts not to share too much with the Trump administration. I know these agencies' members can befriend each other to a degree, but when the U.S. agencies blab to their counterparts in Israel not to share, that doesn't suggest some nefarious conspiracy to me. Rather, it suggests that they think Trump is an incredible dunderhead. Which he is showing himself to be, quite clearly.