WSJ Columnist: This Is Why The 'FBI Spying On Trump Campaign' Story All Of A Sudden Has More Leaks Than The Iraqi Navy WSJ Columnist: This Is Why The 'FBI Spying On Trump Campaign' Story All Of A Sudden Has More Leaks Than The Iraqi Navy https://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2019/116/c9b278ae-d6d2-4b7b-8ffb-4f51aa9f094a.png It’s a word that Democrats don’t like to hear when it comes to the 2016 Trump campaign. For starters, it could place a lot of their allies in the legal crosshairs. Second, it would be yet another time they would have to eat crap for dismissing another claim by President Trump as whacko-doodle talk. Yeah, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Trump says his tower was tapped. It was dismissed as psycho-talk…and then we learned that Paul Manafort, who lived in Trump Tower, has his phones tapped by the FBI. Then, there’s this whole allegation about spying. Spygate is what the president calls it—and once again these claims were dismissed as a whackjob theory. That was until last year when it was revealed that Stefan Halper was the person the FBI was trying to use to infiltrate the Trump campaign. This wasn’t hard to figure out; most of the breadcrumbs leading to Halper were public knowledge. Oh, and these attempts continued after the 2016 election as well. Sam Clovis, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page were the alleged targets.  The New York Times has tried to spin this whole operation as something that was everything, but spying. Then again, Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said it would have been a good thing if intelligence operative had been “observing” the campaign due to the threats the Russian allegations posed to the integrity of our electoral system or something. And that’s what a lot of liberals are saying to excuse the Trump campaign spy operation. It was a national security priority. Friendly reminder, the Trump campaign, and the Russians did not collude, nor was there any conspiracy to collude during the 2016 election per the Mueller report.  Larry O'Connor ✔  @LarryOConnor He wasn't a spy.... he was hired by the FBI to secretly engage in conversations under false pretenses and then report back whatever he learned in those conversations.    But he wasn't a spy.  🤔 Sebastian Gorka DrG ✔  @SebGorka Orwell was not writing fiction.  For over a year @realDonaldTrump told us he was spied on.  The “Elite” laughed at him. Now we know is was all true and even have the codename of the Operation: #CrossfireHurricane.  But the @nytimes and its coconspirators still lie to America: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ddwk52JVQAAXU4j?format=jpg This is the new pivot because it looks pretty clear that some sort of secret surveillance took place. Also, the American people aren’t going to buy that this was a ‘non-spy’ operation given the objectives and methods executed by the FBI in this case [UPDATE: Papadopoulos says Ms. Turk was CIA]. The New York Times’ story relating to this all but confirmed what many of us had known for years (via NYT) [emphasis mine]: ( YOU CAN READ FULL STORY IN LINK BELOW ) https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/05/03/sorry-democrats-it-looks-like-the-obama-doj-was-spying-on-the-trump-campaign-n2545762