Can Obama And His Friends Keep Their Lie Alive On Trumpgate?

  

Obama's Wiretap Story Falling Apart

• 03/06/2017 
• Source: American Action News 
• by: Remington Strelivo

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After Donald Trump’s bombshell tweet this weekend, accusing the Obama 

Administration of bugging Trump Tower, former Obama officials have been 

quick to downplay the story. But now, their story seems to be unraveling.

So far, three Obama Administration have refused to outright deny that Trump

 was wiretapped—instead answering allegations with ultra-specific, legally-

sanitized language.

Kevin Lewis, Obama’s spokesman, released a statement over the weekend

 saying that "neither President Obama nor any White House official ever

 ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen.” But he refused to confirm or 

deny whether the Department of Justice—which reports to the President, 

and would be responsible for conducting wiretaps—did.

Similarly, Obama’s former press secretary, Josh Earnest, refused to deny 

that Trump was wiretapped.

In an interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, Earnest repeated Lewis’s 

statement: that the White House had not ordered a wiretap on Trump, 

“categorically” denying that "the White House was at all involved in 

directing or interfering or influencing an FBI investigation of any sort.”

But Raddatz continued to push, telling Earnest: “That’s not what I’m asking.

 What I’m asking is, can you deny that the Obama Justice Department did
not seek and obtain a FISA court-ordered wiretap of the Trump campaign?”

Apparently unwilling to lie on national TV, Earnest was backed into a corner—

admitting to Raddatz: "Here’s the simple answer to that question, is, 

Martha, I don’t know."

The Obama Administration’s deflection and half-truths didn’t go unnoticed.

 Even Obama’s former speechwriter, Jon Favreau, pointed out to the media

 on Twitter: "I'd be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no 

wiretapping. Statement just said that neither he nor the [White House] 

ordered it.”

Jim Hanson, a national security expert on Fox News, said the evidence

 that wiretapping did occur was overwhelming—due to the Obama

 Administration’s legal maneuvering before the election.

“[The Obama Administration] asked for that warrant [to bug Trump Tower] 

and were denied, went back again [and] got the warrant, found out nothing

 was happening and went ahead and continued monitoring it,” he said.

"They did get a FISA warrant, so [Trump] doesn’t have to prove that they

 wiretapped him. They did wiretap him.”

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This Time Islamist Tactics Did Not Work! However, We Should Not Celebrate As Other Lawsuits Are Coming, That Is Guaranteed!

Clock Boy's Attempt to Sue Fox News & Glenn Beck Implodes

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 JAMES BARRETT

JANUARY 11, 2017

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On Tuesday, a district court judge in Texas slammed the door shut on a defamation lawsuit filed on behalf of "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed by his father against a host of people and companies, including a local Fox News affiliate, Glenn Beck, TheBlaze, and the mayor of Irving, Texas.   

Mohamed rose to fame about a year ago when he brought a clock that looked a whole lot more like a bomb than a clock to his high school in Irving. When Mohamed began acting strangely, the police came in and briefly detained him, after which he was suspended for three days for what school authorities suspected was a "hoax bomb" stunt. Clock Boy's family and the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pushed the incident as a textbook example of "Islamophobia" and the then-14-year-old became the darling of the Left, endearing himself to none other than President Barack Obama, who praised the clock he "invented" (he actually just took the outer casing off an already working clock and put it in a sketchy looking case) as a "cool" and invited him to the White House.

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His father sued Center for Security Policy's Jim Hanson and Beck because of statements made by Hanson on Beck's show about "the connection between the Clock Boy hoax bomb affair, the attendant media frenzy created in large part by his father Mohamed, civilization jihad, and the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group in the United States that promotes civilization jihad."

According to the American Freedom Law Center's account of the trial, the attorney for Clock Boy did not have her best day in court: 

During the lengthy hearing, Judge [Maricela] Moore pressed Mohamed’s lawyer, Fort Worth attorney Susan Hutchison, to provide any facts that would suggest that Hanson and the other defendants had said anything false or defamatory about Mohamed or his son during the television broadcasts. After spending a painfully embarrassing 15 minutes flipping through reams of paper, Mohamed’s lawyer was unable to provide any such evidence.

While Mohamed's attorney seemed to find it difficult to come up with much to say, the lawyers with AFLC , which filed the motion to dismiss the groundless charges on behalf of two of the people accused by Clock Boy, apparently did not have a hard time making their arguments.

During the hearing, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel David Yerushalmi explained to Judge Moore that the purpose of the lawfare-driven lawsuit was to intimidate into silence those who might comment publicly on the connection between jihad, terrorism, sharia, and Islam. As such, Yerushalmi argued, "this case is a classic Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation or ‘SLAPP’ case and should be dismissed.” 

Judge Moore issued her ruling the same day, dismissing the lawsuit with prejudice. 

After he left the courtroom, Yerushalmi offered some more thoughts on the attempts of Islamists to silence critics. "This lawsuit filed by Clock Boy’s father is yet another example of Islamist lawfare, which is a component of the Muslim Brotherhood’s civilization jihad," he said, adding, "The Islamists employ the progressive mainstream media to label any public criticism of a sharia-centric, jihad-driven Islam as 'Islamophobic,' and they add fear and financial ruin to the equation by utilizing the legal system to file SLAPP actions."

The AFLC is now actively seeking sanctions against Mohamed's father and asking for the court to cover legal fees. 

H/T PJ Media