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Paul Manafort Was Wiretapped and Threatened With Indictment

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Former Trump Campaign Chairman and Russian mob bagman Paul Manafort contemplates spending his declining years fetching Bubba sammiches from the prison canteen. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

So, after a hiatus, the leaks are again flowing from the Mueller investigation. Two new bits of information popped today.

Paul Manafort was wiretapped.

Hopefully, the people who bashed Devin Nunes as a crank will not be so smug now–but it is doubtful because smug is mostly what they are.

If you’re interested, “at least into early this year” means that well after Trump was president-elect…and quite possibly while he was president, because January 20 is pretty damned early in the year…Manafort’s communications were being intercepted under FISA. And, by the way, “wiretap” is a very inaccurate term. FISA warrants allow surveillance of communications. Period. Full stop. In the only governing case of its type, the courts have ruled that FISA does not prohibit the use of video surveillance. So Manafort’s emails were being monitored, his landline was under surveillance, his smartphone was under surveillance and quite possibly his smart phone had been compromised to allow video surveillance.

This is nonsense. If he was targeted under FISA, he was under surveillance no matter where he was. There are no “safe zones.”

Mueller’s prosecutors threatened Manafort with indictment.

Like the CNN story, this one is anonymously sourced.

My level of sympathy for Manafort approaches zero. Manafort epitomizes P. J. O’Rourke’s observation: “When you looked at the Republicans you saw the scum off the top of business. When you looked at the Democrats you saw the scum off the top of politics.” He is basically a wholly owned entity of the Russian mob. His indictment was a foregone conclusion if the scope of Mueller’s inquiry ever went beyond investigating “collusion” with Russia and took in his business dealings. Likewise, I have no sympathy or respect for people who throw their weight around just because they can. Mueller and his posse fit squarely in this. They are obviously out for scalps to hang on towel dispenser in the rest room or wherever prosecutors keep their trophies and they are going to do it one way or another.

We can bet, however, when he is indicted it will be on garden variety money laundering and tax evasion charges and not on anything to do with Russia. And then the question will be will Trump allow the prosecution to proceed?

Ben Shapiro summarizes nicely

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Source: https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/09/18/breaking.-paul-manafort-wiretapped-threatened-indictment/


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    • unidentified

      wiretaps or hidden recording devices were discontinued after nixon was thrown out of the white house weren’t they? :twisted:

      • Rockledge

        Take it from a guy old enough to remember the Nixon regime, Nixon was the dude that made america aware that there even were recordings of presidential activities.

        My point being that, no doubt Nixons bumbling bullshit no doubt made wiretapping technology grow like a weed.

        It would be hard to imagine that , in a world where the police catch criminals because almost nothing happens that is not under the careful eye of big brother, who also records everything that goes on, wiretapping is anything but rampant.
        We are living in Ira Levins “This Perfect Day”.

        Which is the most prophetic dystopian novel ever written.

    • Don - 1

      Now we sorta know why he was fired from the Trump Campaign. Trump must have found out this guy was in deep doodoo.

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