MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

Obama Administration Spied On Americans For Years

The news continues to get worse for members of the Obama administration’s national security apparatus.

The news gets worse for them by the day.

Attorney General William Barr announced that the Justice Department had launched an investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation.

It has already been reported in The New York Times that the FBI had deployed two spies to London to entrap Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos.

The entire Russia investigation was launched based on a FISA warrant that was obtained using the discredited dossier obtained by British Intelligence Agent Christopher Steele. Steele was hired by Fusion GPS, who was funded by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign. Their goal was to obtain opposition research on the Trump campaign.

An inspector general’s report is also expected to be released within the next few weeks.

That brings us to today’s shocking report: The Obama administration had been spying on Americans since 2012.

The Obama national security team had been spying on Americans well before Donald Trump declared his intention to seek the presidency of the United States.

Obama National Security Team Spied on Americans Beginning in 2012

Journalist Sara Carter published a great piece of journalism on her website, detailing the Obama administration’s spying efforts. The article is titled, “AG Barr Battles Intel Community and FBI.

Illegal Surveillance Had Been Going on for Years.”

Her report begins by detailing the battles Attorney General Barr has had with the FBI, CIA and other agencies.

Barr has been trying to elicit top-secret documents from the intelligence agencies for his investigation. However, they are not cooperating. That puts him in a difficult position. He is having to do battle with Trump’s own FBI director who is helping to stonewall the investigators.

The stonewalling has forced President Trump to declassify any documents related to Barr’s investigation. The premise of the article is that the national intelligence agencies are afraid that the investigation will find them complicit in violating the law, which will hamper their abilities to spy on Americans in the future, given the likely response from the public and Congress.

Joe DiGenova, former U.S. attorney said, “We are heading toward a gigantic, gigantic flight. The intelligence community, which includes the FBI, is in full resistance to disclosing what they did during the p**********l campaign.”

They should be afraid, very afraid.

Sara Carter then dropped this bombshell:

This isn’t just about Trump. It’s about nearly a decade of abuse inside the intelligence community and bureau regarding foreign intelligence-collection authority. Why? Because it was carried out to monitor communications of Americans inside the United States and the procedures meant to protect Americans either swept up in the calls or targeted were not followed. The Fourth Amendment was under attack and abused for political purposes, say several retired intelligence sources.

Bet you didn’t see that in any detail on CNN or MSNBC.

This has the potential to be the political scandal of the century. It would be an unprecedented attack on our individual liberties. The implications of the executive branch spying on political opponents would have long term consequences for the power of intelligence agencies to conduct investigations into American citizens — not to mention the visual of high ranking administration officials being tried in a court of law.

Arguably the most perplexing part of the report highlighted the “unmasking” done of American citizens by former UN Ambassador Samantha Power and National Security Advisor, Susan Rice.

Unmasking is the act of collecting intelligence of foreign nationals who are in contact with American citizens. The name of the American citizen is supposed to be redacted from any intelligence report. Only in rare circumstances are these names allowed to be unmasked. That is why it is odd that Power and Rice used this authority so many times. For example, Power requested over 20 names to be redacted. What does the UN ambassador need classified information for? And who gave her that power?

This is a story that is getting juicier by the day. Could the Obama administration be about to face a day of reckoning? WELL ONLY IF THE GOP GROWS A SET!

tommsteyer

love the toon. But how was Comedy involved? That rat has been mobbed up in the swamp for quite a while.
Who appointed a dyk like Comey to such an important position? How many people has he burned to get to the point where he was actively and/implicitly blackmailing a sitting and then former president, their likely successor! and then the surprise successor who sussed him out right away and outright demanded loyalty because by then Comey's style was readily apparent : assert his own virtue by signalling wrongdoing on someone else's part.
Mueller's act seemed familiar. He took a page from the Mueller playbook.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

The spying was begun by George W. Bush. Remember the Patriot Act? Remember the NSA's meta data collection? Obama tried to stop some of that......................but the GOP Congress refused to allow it.

Got anymore cute things to say?

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Obama new of Russian interference and did nothing. That's an undisputed fact. He may or may not be involved in the ridiculous Russian dossier that started this ridiculous collusion nonsense. People tied to the DNC and or deep state have lied constantly (by omission) about the FISA information given to get a warrant.
The Patriot Act is why I can not stand Bush. Give up freedom for security.

MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

I sure do! The Patriot Act was for monitoring foreigners, but Your Nigro supercharged it up. Yeah, you people never miss an opportunity, do you?

Big Kahuna

Ovommit was a weak kneed, self absorbed child brat who was abetted by the weak willed demorat party and corrupt major media types who couldn't tell little brat Barry, NO!

Big Kahuna

Bush started it and ovommit escalated it to a point of spying on 360 million Americans. Ovommit was the J Edgar Hoover of the White House. Ovommit wanted to put the Enquire out of business with his juicy gossip that he was gathering on everyone. Now , he got caught with his hands, legs and body in the cookie jar and it is all going to come out. Ovommit is in some deep $hit!!

Big Kahuna

How very true.

Lonewolf

Bush started it

Alber

Bush started it to fight against terrorism. BO did it to destroy his political opponents, who have nothing to do with terrorism.

roy

And you dont believe the trump adminstration is not spying on you,probably worse than you think.

woodguru

Spying on americans went into full gear with the patriot act. Remember what went on there?

We had a chance to hold an administration accountable for huge breaches of constitutional privacy, the evidence was there to show that the constitution had been violated to a huge degree as information on every citizen was being gathered and filed illegally through communications companies. The Patriot Act retroactively legalized spying so that the current president would not be held accountable.

woodguru

An administration can spin illegal spying on the people however it wants and people will believe their party's spin.

Obama actually got the heat turned up under him when dems tried to bring some of what was in the patriot act up in order to try to eliminate some of the worst elements. The GOP used it as an OMG look what is going on under Obama when it was going on before he took office.

People do not realize or understand what blew the cover off of illegal spying, It had been going on, the right wouldn't believe it and used "prove it" as their rhetorical response lines, it being next to impossible to prove highly classified secret programs the government is doing....

Snowden blew the lid off and gave us proof of the government spying on us.

woodguru

You ran with and still subscribe to the GOP line, that was the bill of goods, the reality was every phone call and electronic communication was intercepted and stored.

Foreigners were already monitored, everything. The upgrade was for full domestic spying capability.

Rose42

Obama tried to stop it. Thats funny.

Got news for you. Their data collection began years before Bush. There were fewer loose lips then.