Seth - before you start shooting your mouth - make sure you can actually back it up. As far as I know there is ZERO evidence that Obama tried to hide communications with foreign leaders. He might have had a moment or two alone with a few of them but he wasn't hiding it. That means one of two things... Either he didn't or if he did, it didn't involve any concern that would cause anyone to blow a whistle.

Maybe you just wish Obama was as bad as Trump. Well, this is going to piss off the racists on this site but he isn't. In fact, Obama is ten times the man Trump could ever be. The vast majority of the people in the world admire and respect Obama while they look at Trump with utter disgust. I know you know this seth.

Don't you get tired of always trying to justify what Trump does by pretending that Obama did it too in an effort to pull the hypocrisy card on liberals? It's such and old and ineffective stunt. As my mom used to say... "I don't care of so-and-so does it too." The moral there is to stop pushing blame on others.

Trump lies, cheats and steals and even if Obama did those things too, it still wouldn't validate the behavior or lessen the consequences and besides, Obama isn't the sitting president right now - Trump is.

The topic has come up, that there are protocols for presidential discussions with foreign entities, especially adversaries. When Trump was criticized early on for insisting on secrecy, the only defense in his favor was that Obama talked to Putin alone for a few minutes so it was okay.

There are dozens of good reasons why every minute of discussions between the president and adversarial leaders need to be 100% monitored and transcribed, which they are supposed to be. This prevents a foreign leader from claiming our president said something he did not, promises, commitments, threats, bribes, whatever, he needs witnesses.

Trump has had multiple conversations with Putin that he didn't even disclose, we have no idea what was said. Then we have found out about them through Russian press, which is Putin's propaganda machine, Putin says what he wants to say. Trump says conversations were meaningless when we find out about one, then the Russian press makes claims about conversations and involvements that are definitely more than nothing. We can assume that conversations with dictators are conversations with liars who could easily be believed to lie about what the president says. But then we have a president that quite frankly can't be believed for a second when he tries to relay his side of a conversation, which leaves us with a dire need for 100% monitored conversations.

Now we have a whistle blower complaint that is marked urgent, must be dealt with as soon as possible. National security is not a time for obstructing serious complaints that involve national security, disturbing promises made. It is ridiculous to think someone is going to jeopardize their career over something silly, and impossible to believe that the Intelligence Inspector General is going to validate something as urgent that is not. Laws are there for a reason, and those involving national security and the intelligence community are more serious than most.

It would appear that some here on OPP live in a much more action packed, fiction filled world from the everyday, "Gosh, I have a pretty good life" world that MOST of us live in. It's no wonder they bay at the moon and scream, "The sky is falling"!!!!

It's a good thing drug prices are coming down because they're going to need some strong psych meds to get thru the next 5 years of "winning". The rest of us will just go about our daily routines enjoying life and all that we have. I think I'll add coloring books and crayons to my winning stock portfolio just in case their meds don't help them....