tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post6038457059758233622..comments2024-03-29T01:18:48.058-04:00Comments on The Brooklyn & Staten Island Independent GOP Fountainhead: Don’t be fooled --- Tomorrow’s Congressional testimony by FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers might be a >>> DOG-AND-PONY-SHOW >> President Trump’s charges that former President Obama had Trump’s and/or the Trump Campaign’s lines “wiretapped”Galewyn Masseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-46111441822351728872017-03-21T11:14:15.746-04:002017-03-21T11:14:15.746-04:00UPDATE: THE "COMEY'S NOT TRANSPARENT"...UPDATE: THE "COMEY'S NOT TRANSPARENT" EDITION<br /><br />SENATE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN NOT HAPPY WITH WHAT COMEY HAD TO SAY OR HOW HE SAID IT --- SENATOR REFUSES TO SAY TRUMP NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE<br /><br /><br />Newsmax reports that -- "FBI Director James Comey could have been more transparent with his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday, Sen. Chuck Grassley said Tuesday morning, while insisting there is more Comey could have said without violating national security or revealing details about an agency investigation.... '"There's so many accusations out there that the more that can be said, the better," the Iowa Republican, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNN's 'New Day' anchor Chris Cuomo. 'It will bring some more confidence, and so [I'm] basically calling for more transparency.'..." (See "Sen. Chuck Grassley: Comey Could Have Been More Transparent" by Sandy Fitzgerald, 3/21/17, Newsmax/ Home/ Politics [http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Chuck-Grassley-Comey-Transparent/2017/03/21/id/779867/]).<br /><br />This part of the Newsmax article is very Interesting: ".... Grassley, though, said he couldn't get into whether he thinks President Donald Trump should apologize for his tweets accusing former President Barack Obama of being behind wiretapping at Trump Tower, as the question was based on the testimony offered from Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers.... 'I can't answer your question, because I didn't have one eye on the television set all day yesterday in regard to the Comey investigation, so I can't go into any anything about that, that you're asking me about," said Grassley...."Galewyn Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-3918268338304070982017-03-21T03:37:16.559-04:002017-03-21T03:37:16.559-04:00FURTHER UPDATE: THE "SENATOR JOE MC CARTHY --...FURTHER UPDATE: THE "SENATOR JOE MC CARTHY -- SENATOR SAM ERVIN" EDITION<br /><br />DEMOCRATS OPENED THE DOOR TO A DISCUSSION OF SO-CALLED "MC CARTHYISM" BY ASKING FBI DIRECTOR COMEY IF THIS-THAT-OR-THE-OTHER-THING FIT THE DEFINITION OF "MC CARTHYISM"<br /><br />Needless to say, James Comey, himself, couldn't have channeled the 1950's U.S. Senator from Wisconsin any better than he did during his testimony to the Congressional Committee on Monday, unless he had begun some of his answers with the clause, "I have a list..." <br /><br />Maybe, there should have been more congressional questioners asking this far more relevant and important question, over and over again, "What did President Obama know about the intelligence gathered on Trump and his folks, and when did he know it ? ? ?" You know, sort of the way Senator Sam Ervin & Co. did back in the Watergate days.<br /><br />The way Comey was playing the keeper of the Obama flame in his first round of congressional testimony shows that he is a worthy successor to L. Patrick Gray. BTW, has anybody asked if Comey might have thrown any briefcases into the Potomac or burned any documents in his fireplace ?<br /><br /> Galewyn Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-79766891960036911482017-03-20T16:07:30.331-04:002017-03-20T16:07:30.331-04:00UPDATE: THE "COMEY IS REALLY SAYING -- I WO...UPDATE: THE "COMEY IS REALLY SAYING -- I WON'T TALK" EDITION<br /><br />SO FAR, FBI DIRECTOR HAS GIVEN VERY LIMITED TESTIMONY -- HE SPECIFICALLY WON'T GO NEAR "WHAT OBAMA KNEW AND WHEN HE KNEW IT..." ABOUT THE TRUMP-RELATED "INTELLIGENCE" ROLLING ROUND AND ROUND INSIDE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION<br /><br />So far things are going pretty much as predicted at today's House Intelligence Committee hearing. The Republicans questions are sticking to their talking points about the non-proof of the Trump-Russia collusion thing; and the Democrats are pitching their opposing spin on that topic. Comey was clear, however, that even though there has been no evidence of collusion or specific hacking of vote results, those investigations are open and ongoing, and that no final conclusions have been reached..... <br /><br />There seemed to be broad agreement between both questioners and witnesses that President Obama's "ordering" any "wiretaps" or "surveillance" of Trump or at Trump Tower by any U.S. agencies or specific foreign agents like GCHQ is "ridiculous" and completely without factual support. So far, that's what the MSM is looking at and using as the peg for almost all of their coverage.<br /><br />However, at least one exchange between Trey Gowdy and FBI Director Comey showed where one of the clear boundaries of the Committee's questioning is during this hearing: Comey refused to answer in any way >>> WHAT INFORMATION <<< about Trump, his campaign and his campaign advisers was passed-on from the FBI and security agencies to the White House or actually involved briefings to President Obama. Although, it was clear from many of the answers that several of Obama's key operators DID RECEIVE SUCH INFORMATION derived from various FBI, intelligence and/or security agencies <br /><br />Galewyn Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.com