90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Obama Administration Was Using Russian Spies To Monitor Trump Campaign?

That was the suggested scenario offered up today by Fox Business contributor, Charlie Gasparino during a segment with Neil Cavuto. (awaiting video)

It is an interesting and plausible premise. The Obama government needs no court approval to monitor communications of foreign agents. One or more Russian operatives who were already being monitored, were then instructed to repeatedly communicate to Trump campaign associates. Those communications could then be monitored and none would require court approval.

Might this scenario be the origination of all the Trump-related “wiretapped” information cited earlier by such publications as the New York Times? (It is believed this was the method used to push General Michael Flynn into resigning his position as Trump National Security Adviser and might also be the same tool used against current Trump Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. Remember, it was the Obama White House that actually set up the first of two meetings between...

A student Conservative society has been banned from social media after criticizing the hostile attitude towards free speech on its campus.

The University of Lincoln Conservative Society vanished from Facebook and announced a two-month Twitter hiatus yesterday in mysterious circumstances.

Claims later emerged that bosses at Lincoln University’s students’ union revoked the Conservatives’ social media access as punishment for highlighting their poor record on free speech.

A sister Conservative society at nearby Hull University said the Lincoln chapter was accused of bringing the university “into disrepute” by tweeting about its dismal performance in an annual free speech ranking.

The image on the upper right appears to be the post in question:

The message – a screeengrab from the website spiked – was sent the day after its annual free speech rankings was published, awarding Lincoln a red card – the worst possible score.

The page goes on to say:

Monday, March 6, 2017

Girls With Guns

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has opened an inquiry into allegations the FBI worked with the British spy who authored a controversial opposition research dossier on President Trump during the 2016 election.

In a Monday letter to FBI Director James Comey, Grassley asked for records pertaining to any agreements the agency may have had with Christopher Steele. The MI6 agent wrote an explosive memo on behalf of Trump’s political enemies alleging that the Russians had compromising information on the president.

Comey briefed Trump on the existence of the memo in a private meeting in January.

Shortly after, several news organizations published the unverified allegations, which the White House denied.

In late February, The Washington Post reported that the FBI reached an agreement with Steele whereby the British spy would continue his investigation on behalf of the bureau.

“While Trump has derided the dossier as ‘fake news’ compiled by his political opponents, the FBI’s arrangement with Steele shows that the bureau considered him credible and found his information, while unproved, to be worthy of further investigation,” the Post reported at the time.

 Grassley is pushing back and demanding the FBI provide information pertaining to its use of the British spy, whose salacious allegations have...