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Well, they could have been suspecting Trump's campaign of being dodgy, made some excuse to tap the Russians and then got the info on Flynn that was leaked. I can buy that. And why wouldn't they be suspicious if Manafort was already shown to be taking payoffs?

That could all happen, yet it wouldn't get leaked. It would be a part of an investigation to build a case. They would never tip off Flynn, the ambassador, Trump, the public, or anybody by leaking it. The fact that this was a leak against Flynn confirms that this is a political hunt against Flynn at the least and probably ultimately against Trump. If this was an intel investigation, the information never gets leaked.

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That could all happen, yet it wouldn't get leaked.

There's lots of ways it could be a legit investigation and the info gets leaked. Flynn could have been tipped off to stop talking to the Russians and the IC could have decided it was better to put out what they had rather than wait till it was old news, for example.

What's surprising is that Trump is always praisiing Putin, hires a foreign secretary who has ties to Putin, and so is clearly going to be under suspicion; and yet people on his team keep talking to Russians like no-one will notice.

The real truth is that so much smoke is being blown up the public's ass by both sides we'll probably never really know what's going on.

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There's lots of ways it could be a legit investigation

Categorically false

Flynn could have been tipped off to stop talking to the Russians

Tipped off to what? I thought those of us who suspected the surveillance occurred were "misinformed"?? Isn't that what you said?

and the IC could have decided it was better to put out what they had

Why on earth would the IC "decide to put out" anything? That's not even close to their job. Why would they "decide" to do that, if their goal was something other than to smear Trump?

What's surprising is that Trump is always praisiing Putin,

A handful of quotes maybe. And they are hardly 'gushing'. Besides, what would it prove if he spent all his time shitting on Putin? Trump spends alot of time shitting on 'radical islamic terrorists', and he gets called a racist for it. One major argument his detractors make is that Trump goes around pissing off foreign leaders. He talks tough on the phone with Nieto, and he gets lambasted for it. He takes the opposite approach with Putin, and gets shit for that too. Typical liberal double-standard.

hires a foreign secretary who has ties to Putin,

What "ties"? Tillerson was the leader of a humongous global corporation. He has ties to every foreign leader. That's probably a big reason why he got this job!! God you're fucking dumb.

and so is clearly going to be under suspicion;

Clearly huh? Why? Cause that fits an infantile political narrative that your puny shit-coated brain can understand?

and yet people on his team keep talking to Russians like no-one will notice.

huh? It's very typical for political campaigns to have contact with foreign officials. Session's dealings with teh Russian amassador were innocuous at best. Did you see how democratic senators (McCaskill for example) claimed that they were on the same committee as Sessions and never had to meet with the Russian Ambassador.

If you watch Fox, and not CNN, you would have seen that she tweeted "On my way to meet Russian Ambassador" like three separate times over the past couple years.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ussian-ambass/

The real truth is that so much smoke is being blown up the public's ass by both sides we'll probably never really know what's going on.

How can you be so colossally retarded to not see that the "real truth" is that this is all a political hitjob carefully coordinated by Democrats and the media.

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Wow that's a lot of words I'm never going to read.

[BananaStand]

Wow that's a lot of words I'm never going to read.

Don't get discouraged. never say "never".

Anyone can learn, even an empty-skulled lib-tard who has taken one too many hockey pucks to the forehead.

https://www.hookedonphonics.com/

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I'm not listening but he keeps talking.