FISA Warrant? That would be huge

I love the way he makes it sound like Barack Obama himself put the "tapps" on the phones. I guess Michelle acted as lookout?

Lol!!!

Shit is gonna hit the fan and I, for one am completely okay with this taking it's time and getting all it's ducks in a row. When that lunatic goes down, I want it to be in complete and total flames and take a few of his buddies down with him.

After reading the NYT article this week about how WH officials within the Obama administration since after the election and up to days before the inauguration due to intelligence they received from both the Dutch and the Brits have been purposely documenting, archiving, even going so far as asking certain questions within transition meetings to have the responses on official record and then safekeeping them because they were concerned said intelligence and documentation would some how turn up missing and they wanted to make sure that didn't happen, I'm more and more convinced that we are all in for epic political history soon.

This is the best response yet!!

I agree 100% @fred, the tangled web of deceit just keeps getting bigger by the day. When he finally does go down, I won't be surprised to watch much of the swamp go down the drain along with him.

I'm not sure of comey- it may well turn out that he has been keeping things on the down low so he has ironclad evidence.

I think that is the $50,000 question. Although from what I understand the FISA warrant was pretty narrow in it's focus and centered on a server in Trump Tower they suspected of being tied to a Russian bank. I admit I just briefly skimmed the article so there is probably much I missed. And I believe it was announced they had found no suspicious transactions.

So I'm not sure if Trump just learned of this FISA warrant now despite it being reported in several major newspapers or if his tweets are referencing something completely different.

It's probably an ongoing investigation. Now that he's announced it to the world, I have read it's now declassified and should be available through FOIA requests. I'm sure they are being written at this moment.

I also read that the WH Counsel Don McGahn is in DC scrambling to find the order. 

I actually feel bad for Comey at the moment.  I know that I was at one point in a situation where I knew some information about something that would have changed everyone's opinion about a certain incident, but I was told to please not talk about it on social media, etc. because the person in charge was taking care of it and didn't want the rumor mill getting ramped up.  I was seen as the bad guy for something where I most definitely was not.  Eventually, the truth came out.  I'm still waiting on apologies from some people who said some very unkind things about me, and I know I'll never get them.  This was for some stupid little thing, not a huge thing where everyone in the US is watching and judging you.  I tried not to care, but knowing that there were people spreading lies and saying horrible things that had no basis in reality was definitely not fun.  That's OK, the people who said it got a bit of a reputation as being shit-stirrers and I became more of the zen person who just let it slide off my back.

In the end, when everything comes out, I have a feeling that some people are going to change their opinions on Comey.  The ones who thought he was a great patriot for releasing the info on the Hillary e-mails will all of a sudden determine that he's an awful person, totally unreliable, and obviously partisan and against Trump.  Others who thought he was a horrible guy for releasing the info will (maybe) revise their opinion if it turns out he was pressured to do so and was trying to keep ahead of threats of leaks. 

If it turns out that he was a patriotic hero who was willing to put country first (unlike almost every GOP congressman so far), his name will be fondly remembered in the history books.

The horrible thing is that if it comes out that there was complicit cooperation with the Russians - how deep does this go?  Who is compromised?  I would say certainly those on the top as well as some in the cabinet.  McConnell?  He definitely was willing to overlook this back before the election.  And if Trump and Pence are gone, we're left with Ryan.  Do we trust him?  And should the party that colluded with a foreign power to steal an election be allowed to stay in office?  Our constitution doesn't allow for a do-over, but I can't imagine that the majority who did not vote for Trump would be OK with allowing that party to stay in office.  It will get very, very messy and there will be a lot of very angry people.  Watergate would be just a mild ripple in the pond, this would be more like a huge asteroid crash landing in the ocean.
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Your posts always impress me and give me something to think about.

I would agree with your first paragraph except that he very publicly came out with a statement about Hillary Clinton that threw the election. If it were simply about not releasing info, that would be one thing, but purposefully releasing information because he was "pressured" means that he was completely incompetent to be head of the FBI.  

The head of the FBI shouldn't cave to pressure from anyone.  That should be in the job description, if it isn't there already.  

I think that the difference between Comey and your situation is that he is the boss, the top dog, the person in charge of the FBI - literally.  If we were talking about an agent under him, that would be analogous to your situation, but he was the top of the chain of command, which you, apparenrly weren't. (I'm sorry such a crappy thing happened to you, btw).

You're welcome.