I'm wondering if Donald has been monitored?

[SHRED]

Not just this election cycle but during his world wide "investment" travels to questionable interests in questionable countries years ongoing.

Does our intelligence community have more on this moron then they are letting on?

[JI7]

1. i think he was by the russians , but not the US intelligence

[roamer65]

2. Yes.

Anyone doing business with the Russians is monitored. I would say both the US and UK have info on him.

I would say the question is to what level he has been "monitored".

[SHRED]

5. Well they better wake up

When will they out him?

I suspect if Donny tries to cut departments and slim down the force then that would trigger some shit to hit the fan.

[roamer65]

6. We will find out soon...IMO.

[SHRED]

7. Especially considering his continued assault...

...against the USA and cuddling up with Putin's Russia.

[roamer65]

13. Remember that a lot of his communication...

has to traverse the fiber optic cables running across the Atlantic. Those cables are routed through the joint NSA/GCHQ listening post at Menwith Hill in the UK.

[radical noodle]

3. My husband and I were discussing this a few days ago

I wouldn't be surprised. There were several in the intelligence community who urged people to vote for Hillary, and that's quite unusual.

[SHRED]

8. I'd think a report could be generated...

...shining a light into the dark places of Donald's life.
Incriminating events.

[putitinD]

4. without a doubt

[TDale313]

9. Yes, almost certainly.

And I will say this. Even Presidents of the United States would be wise not to cross the intelligence community.

[roamer65]

10. Two presidents have done such a thing.

It didn't turn out well.

[SHRED]

11. He also wants his own private security

That won't work out well for him either.

[roamer65]

12. I agree.

[2naSalit]

14. We shouldn't be paying for anything

other than Secret Service protection and he cannot have his dogs hanging around getting in the way.

[2naSalit]

15. Without a doubt.

[Mr.Bill]

16. If they have anything on him

they won't go public with it. They will use it to blackmail and control him. We can only imagine how many politicians this happens to.

[mopinko]

25. this

lots. remember murdoch's phone hacks?

[kentuck]

17. I found it interesting that the former CIA Director, Woolsey...

abruptly dropped out of his transition team the other day.


????????

[lanlady]

23. Woolsey is a weird fringe character in his own right

And the fact that Tramp/Flynn were too much even for Woolsey is just plain frightening.

[Cha]

18. I would hope so.. and they should still be monitoring him

[octoberlib]

21. Isn't there an NSA listening facility

In Manhattan? I bet they're zeroing in on all those phone calls he's been making on unsecured lines.

[lanlady]

22. Bet my bottom ruble

That Russian intel has tons of kompromat on PE Tramp from his days fondling Russian beauty queens, his financial dealings with sinister Russian & Central Asian mobsters, and so on.

(Trump is spelled Трамп in Russian, which coming back into the Latin alphabet spells out as Tramp, lol)

[no_hypocrisy]

24. In the tradition of J. Edgar, I'm certain Trump's been monitored since the early Eighties.

And there's a file in the CIA as well.

This is what they do and they accelerated the information gathering once he declared his candidacy. They aren't going to tip their hands until they need to.

[many a good man]

26. Going public is a greater threat to national security

You can bet the intelligence agencies know all about Trump's financial ties to the Russian oligarchs and the connections to the campaign. So does Obama. And now Trump.

Obama launched a major initiative to identify all the tentacles of Putin's kleptocratic empire. This would have easily included investments and loans to Trump's enterprises as well as Tillerson's ties.

A Russian agent in the White House is obviously a major national security concern. Despite this knowledge and all the powers of the national security establishment Trump is still scheduled to take the oath January 20th. There must be some reason they are allowing this to proceed.

[SHRED]

27. That is the perplexing part