Targeting Trump and his campaign for surveillance:
New York Times 19 January 2017:
Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates
Quote:
American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said.
[...]
It is not clear whether the intercepted communications had anything to do with Mr. Trump’s campaign, or Mr. Trump himself.
New York Times 14 February 2017:
Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian IntelligenceQuote:
Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.
American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications ...
Obama administration spreading the information on Trump and his associates;
New York Times 12 January 2017:
N.S.A. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted CommunicationsQuote:
In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.
New York Times 1 March 2017:
Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election HackingQuote:
In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information [...] about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Russians — across the government [...] to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.
Near as I can tell, the
New York Times is supporting Trump's claim that the Obama administration was listening in to his communications and the communications of his campaign and associates.
Or do you just write off the
New York Times — the paper of record — as another "fake news" outlet?
01 May 2017, 2:40 pm
