{"id":5673,"date":"2017-02-24T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:44:53","slug":"the-orange-one-has-awakened-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"The Orange One has awakened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security &quot;leakers&quot; that have permeated our government for a long time. They can&#39;t even&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/835104946034991106\">February 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/835106143462703104\">February 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is probably a reaction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/23\/politics\/fbi-refused-white-house-request-to-knock-down-recent-trump-russia-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>, which reports that Reince Priebus tried to inveigle the FBI into dismissing news reports that the Trump campaign was in constant contact with Russian intelligence agencies during the campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump&#8217;s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s unlikely that the Trump administration would have told the story of their attempted meddling, we&#8217;re safe to suppose that the source of the story was the <i>other<\/i> half of the conversation, the FBI itself.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>If Trump is innocent of wrongdoing, his attitude would be something along the lines of, &#8220;The investigation is a bother when I&#8217;m trying to get my administration set up, but there is only one possible outcome and I&#8217;ll be happy to hear Director Comey affirm what we&#8217;ve said all along: We did nothing wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>All those phone calls with Russian intelligence operatives were not about soybean futures.  There is no (publicly available) proof yet that the campaign colluded with Russian intelligence&#8217;s hacking of the Clinton e-mails &#8212; but there is no reasonable expectation but that&#8217;s what the FBI will find if it keeps digging.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security &quot;leakers&quot; that have permeated our government for a long time. They can&#39;t even&#8230;&#8230; &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017 find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5673\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}