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The Obama FISA Memo and Post-Truth Politics
from Searching For Bobby Fischer · #81
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3 minTim and Ray dig into the Nunes/Obama-era FISA memo controversy, comparing it to Watergate, Trump's wiretapping claims being vindicated, and how partisan hysteria on both sides (Alex Jones/Roger Stone vs. Rachel Maddow) has erased any shared sense of facts.
- 10:00Tim asks if the guest has read anything about the Obama FISA memo.
- 10:23Tim notes that people don't realize how bad Watergate really was, with CIA cronies running roughshod.
- 10:48People in the past had balls and got things done, unlike now.
- 11:12Tim explains the memo details abuse of a FISA warrant used to illegally wiretap Trump.
- 11:27Tim gives credit to Trump for claiming he was being wiretapped, which turned out to be true.
- 11:50Republicans claim Hillary and Loretta Lynch are going to jail, but Tim wants a sober analysis.
- 12:02If the wiretapping abuse was that bad, wouldn't they have hard proof of it?
- 12:40The real problem is there are no facts anymore, just a week of conjecture about the memo.
- 12:59The memo's been around for a while, but Republicans should have released it before failing at Obamacare.
- 13:16Tim's conclusion: the media on all sides is ideologically corrupt and driven by emotion.
WatergateDonald TrumpRoger StoneFISA warrantHillary ClintonObamacareCIAAlex JonesLoretta LynchBrookings InstituteBarack Obama