Kellyann Con(nut)way suggests Obama could have monitored Trump through a microwave

[Grooveriding]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ve-been-monitored-through-tvs-and-microwaves/

In an interview with the Bergen Record, Conway muses about the possibility that such surveillance could be conducted through phones, TVs and even microwaves. Here's the exchange with columnist Mike Kelly:

KELLY: Let me ask you about one of the things that seems to be dogging, at least this past week, is the wiretaps — the allegation that Trump Tower was wiretapped. What can you say about that? Do you know whether Trump Tower was wiretapped?

CONWAY: What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately.

KELLY: Do you believe that was …

CONWAY: There was an article that week that talked about how you can surveil people through their phones, through their — certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. We know that is just a fact of modern life.

Conway's reference is apparently to a trove of alleged CIA hacking documents that were released by WikiLeaks last week. One of the tools described how Internet-connected Samsung TVs could effectively be turned into microphones — a tool dubbed “Weeping Angel.”

(For what it's worth, the former head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, denied last week that such tools were being used against Americans: “I can tell you that these tools would not be used against an American.")

So Conway wasn't totally freelancing here, and she seemed to be riffing off something she had read in the news. But her decision to invoke these kinds of surveillance techniques when asked about alleged monitoring of Trump Tower by the Obama administration is only going to breathe life into the story going forward. The question now becomes whether the Trump team believes these techniques were used against them. And Conway's decision to invoke them in that context makes that an entirely fair question.

Conway took to Twitter on Monday morning to argue that her comments to the Record were taken out of context.

2/2: response to Bergen Record was about surveillance articles in news & techniques generally, not about campaign. Headline just wrong.

— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) March 13, 2017

But as you can see above, that's just not true. She was asked directly about the campaign and the alleged Trump Tower wiretapping when she volunteered these techniques. The question had nothing to do with techniques.

Update: Now Conway says she doesn't believe Trump Tower was monitored through microwaves. "I'm not inspector gadget," she said on CNN later Monday morning. "I don't believe people are using the microwave to spy on the campaign."

Conway also appeared on the morning shows Monday, and she clarified that she doesn't actually have any evidence of the claim Trump made or the suggestions she's making.

“The answer is I don’t have any evidence, and I’m very happy that the House intelligence committee are investigating,” Conway said on ABC's “Good Morning America.”

Hehe These people are just nuts. Trump made up a conspiracy he read on Breitbart and they're still out there trying to defend his madness. What an embarrassment. Sad!

More interesting is that the heads of the intelligence committee expressed no interest in being taken down Trump's rabbit hole of madness and gave a deadline of today for Trump/White House to provide evidence of his crazy rant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...d3afa0f7e2a_story.html?utm_term=.ff78264ec04f

The Justice Department faces a Monday deadline to provide lawmakers some evidence of President Donald Trump’s unproven assertion that his predecessor wiretapped his New York skyscraper, a claim that has left Trump increasingly isolated within his own administration.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer tried to soften Trump’s assertions on Monday, saying the president “doesn’t really think that President Obama went up and tapped his phone personally.” He also said the president wasn’t using the term wiretapping literally in his provocative March 4 tweets and was instead broadly referring to surveillance.

I guess there are limits to how far even his own party are willing to go to carry his crazy water. Surely his fanatical supporters will take up the bucket after they get their talking points from the state news of Reichbart, daily caller etc.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

bannon: "Quick kellyanne, go out-crazy the boss"
kellyanne: "no problem"

 

[JMC2000]

*channels Jim Joe-Bob once more*

See, I toldya them thar mikerowaves were evil. Not only do they nuke food, which causes brain damage, they also allow the corrupt libruls to monitor us with cameras. Thanks, Obama!

*goes back to normal*

I swear, I've spent FAR to much of my lifespan living in, working in, stopping in and driving through Red states...

 

[MomentsofSanity]

*channels Jim Joe-Bob once more*

See, I toldya them thar mikerowaves were evil. Not only do they irradiate food, which causes brain damage, they also allow the corrupt libruls to monitor us with cameras. Thanks, Obama!

*goes back to normal*

I swear, I've spent FAR to much of my lifespan living in, working in, stopping in and driving through Red states...

And yet you think one of them would use the word irradiate? Nuke dammit!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ve-been-monitored-through-tvs-and-microwaves/



Hehe These people are just nuts. Trump made up a conspiracy he read on Breitbart and they're still out there trying to defend his madness. What an embarrassment. Sad!

Oh -- I agree 100%.

Here's an "objective analysis," or so I will call it.

Part of the reason behind backing for Trump could be a subliminal hatred on the part of some supporter-cohort who bristled with rage for eight years at Obama's presidency. He's black -- he can't support me! Or -- This is a disaster for history -- a Black man who weathered eight years in office! So they sought revenge by electing the Disgusting-Filth-in-Chief.

After a Cold War that has really continued after 1992 which lasted officially some 45 years before that, your average Trumper will speak with glowing admiration for Putin -- because their Dream-Leader has done so consistently from before the campaign.

Throw in the history with Snowden and everything since. Consider both the actual information revealed and the likely sieve of possibilities that include the Russians getting everything from the weasel's hard drive.

Add what we know about American psy-war between 1947 and 1975 (Senate Intelligence Committee hearings), all the published literature including CIA's training manuals, and Russian motivations. As a strategy of the Cold War, we attempted to drive a wedge between the Chinese and Russians, and now the Chinese are rich.

Everything that has happened since the election has benefited the Russians, excluding the news-revelations they haven't counted upon.

SO! Maybe with newer TV sets connected via twisted-pair or wireless to the internet, somebody can see me pick my nose. But I would already have need to get their attention with my nose-nugget finger-delicacies.

CIA was very coy and careful in their side-step response to the story, sticking to their mission statement, and avoiding any indication of what is true or false about this "fake news."

The rest of it is misinformation coming from a Kremlin source. And the first to make use of it?

The disgusting little B**** I'd like to see in the road-kill scene of "The Devil's Rejects."

SIC SEMPER MENDAX!!

And the Trumpers who choose to fret about their TV sets and microwaves? Like Trump's worries about his "wire-tap," they must be the most disgusting nose-pickers of all time.

 

[justoh]

Why wouldn't they have monitored him? Seems like a pretty dangerous guy...

 

[Grooveriding]

Why wouldn't they have monitored him? Seems like a pretty dangerous guy...

Because they're busy monitoring you. Tonight when you heat up that hotpocket, Obama will be watching. Also, when you put on the coffee maker in the morning ? Yup, you guessed it, Obama is watching through the coffee pot, that's a lens.

 

[JMC2000]

And yet you think one of them would use the word irradiate? Nuke dammit!

Oops!

 

[cbrunny]

People that believe this nonsense are the same that believe you can charge and iPhone by putting it in the microwave.

 

[sandorski]

Microwave Surveillance is a widely known Super Power of Obama.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Why wouldn't they have monitored him? Seems like a pretty dangerous guy...

If you mean Putin? I'm sure they've got every trick of the trade-craft focused on him.

Are they supposed to let you -- or him! -- know about it? Or the how, when, where? Or the blind-spot limitations?

Why not just send Osama bin Laden a note in advance of the Seal Team?

But here's how the misinformation spurs confusion and doubt. If you believe the Wiki-leaks assertions, then you might infer that neither FBI, NSA or CIA "have anything on" Trump, since -- somehow -- the connecting dots would be a lot bigger. That, by itself, is a naïve assumption and useless.

Instead, there is a reason for FISA courts, certain types of restricted classifications, congressional oversight committees with privileged access to information.

Otherwise, some hayseed might be getting his knob polished by Anna Chapman, and spill more beans than she can simply swallow.

 

[Homerboy]

Oh -- I agree 100%.
<snip>

SO! Maybe with newer TV sets connected via twisted-pair or wireless to the internet, somebody can see me pick my nose. But I would already have need to get their attention with my nose-nugget finger-delicacies.

<snip>

Hey, if somebody wants to watch what I do in front of the television, all the power to them. Fair warning though, it is NOT pretty and probably rated "M" for mature audiences.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Hey, if somebody wants to watch what I do in front of the television, all the power to them. Fair warning though, it is NOT pretty and probably rated "M" for mature audiences.

Hmm. I had a theory about a culture of narcissism, and the dimension of paranoia confuses it. Your run-of-the-mill narcissist thinks they are the most important person on the planet. Thus, one could be important enough to warrant the surveillance. Or imagine "Who needs a warrant, anyway?!"

Or -- one could simply be paranoid.

But that's why I get my TV from my computer, in addition to integrating the visuals and audio with my mail-order Vac-U-Jac. Nothing to worry about except for the stale spooge.

Oh no!! They're watching me through my computer!

Spread that one around. The dim-wits won't even allow themselves to read fake-news anymore.

 

[justoh]

I guess it's more likely that they'd use their vast surveillance capabilities to spy just on random americans rather than also on people they see as a known threat, and actually exclude from surveillance those most dangerous, because...

 

[Homerboy]

Hmm. I had a theory about a culture of narcissism, and the dimension of paranoia confuses it. Your run-of-the-mill narcissist thinks they are the most important person on the planet. Thus, one could be important enough to warrant the surveillance. Or imagine "Who needs a warrant, anyway?!"

Or -- one could simply be paranoid.

But that's why I get my TV from my computer, in addition to integrating the visuals and audio with my mail-order Vac-U-Jac. Nothing to worry about except for the stale spooge.

Oh no!! They're watching me through my computer!

Spread that one around. The dim-wits won't even allow themselves to read fake-news anymore.

Ummm I was just referring to eating extra-cheesy nachos and a glass of Coke-a-Cola.

 

[outriding]

This is why i am againts MSM...


Main Stream Microwaves

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Microwave Surveillance is a widely known Super Power of Obama.

But can he keep a crispy crust on a reheated slice of pizza?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ummm I was just referring to eating extra-cheesy nachos and a glass of Coke-a-Cola.

Nachos! Now I understand! I LOVE Nachos! But they are SOOOO disgusting! Yet they're not rated "M" for mature audiences. Some would call it "baby-food." At least -- after they get soggy.

 

[sandorski]

But can he keep a crispy crust on a reheated slice of pizza?

Certain details remain Classified.

 

[JEDI]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ve-been-monitored-through-tvs-and-microwaves/



Hehe These people are just nuts. Trump made up a conspiracy he read on Breitbart and they're still out there trying to defend his madness. What an embarrassment. Sad!

More interesting is that the heads of the intelligence committee expressed no interest in being taken down Trump's rabbit hole of madness and gave a deadline of today for Trump/White House to provide evidence of his crazy rant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...d3afa0f7e2a_story.html?utm_term=.ff78264ec04f



I guess there are limits to how far even his own party are willing to go to carry his crazy water. Surely his fanatical supporters will take up the bucket after they get their talking points from the state news of Reichbart, daily caller etc.

I predict Saturday Night Live will have a field day with this for their 3/18 show

 

[sdifox]

Did she say microwave or microwave oven? Cuz you could spy with a microwave emitter and receiver.

 

[Jhhnn]

I guess it's more likely that they'd use their vast surveillance capabilities to spy just on random americans rather than also on people they see as a known threat, and actually exclude from surveillance those most dangerous, because...

There's not a shred of evidence that Trump's phones were tapped. Zero. Zip. Nothing. Nada. Nyet. If there were, the Trump team would have extracted the information from the record & the agency responsible & be screaming it from the rooftops

Instead we get Kellyanne going on about cameras in microwaves, playing the chumps as usual.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

There's not a shred of evidence that Trump's phones were tapped. Zero. Zip. Nothing. Nada. Nyet. If there were, the Trump team would have extracted the information from the record & the agency responsible & be screaming it from the rooftops

Instead we get Kellyanne going on about cameras in microwaves, playing the chumps as usual.

I'm just trying to figure out what their game plan is, ordering the DOJ to request a "delay."

The So-Called President and his staff cannot be that temporally myopic.

Or can they?

 

[agent00f]

Certain details remain Classified.

The trick is to reheat in an oven, which actually produces a double-crisp crust.

 

[feralkid]

Don't put metal in the science oven.