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Posted on 03/16/2017 8:00:43 PM PDT by TBP
Since a lot of folks seem certain that the Obama administration would never, ever do anything that came close to breaking the law… I mean other than killing people during Fast & Furious and siccing the IRS on political opponents… it is useful to take a quick look back to the time when the Iran nuclear deal was being discussed in Congress. Via NRO:
"According to a bombshell Wall Street Journal article by Adam Entous and Danny Yadron, published online late Monday, the National Security Agency provided the White House with intercepted Israeli communications containing details of private discussions between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. lawmakers and American Jewish groups on the Iran nuclear deal. If true, this could be the biggest scandal of the Obama presidency.
The Journal article explains that President Obama decided to stop NSA collection against certain foreign leaders after the backlash against Edward Snowden’s disclosure that the NSA had eavesdropped on German chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone and monitored communications of the heads of state of other close U.S. allies.
According to the Journal story, President Obama did not halt NSA spying against Netanyahu. This is not a surprise, given the president’s chilly relations with the Israeli leader and Israel’s aggressive spying against the United States. It’s also not a surprise that the Obama administration sought intelligence on Netanyahu’s efforts to undermine the nuclear deal. But it is stunning to learn that NSA sent the White House intelligence on private discussions with U.S. congressmen on a major policy dispute between the White House and Congress.
According to the Journal article, to avoid a paper trail that would show that they wanted the NSA to report on Netanyahu’s interactions with Congress, Obama officials decided to let the agency decide how much of this intelligence to provide and what to withhold. The article cited an unnamed U.S. official who explained, “We didn’t say, ‘Do it.’ We didn’t say, ‘Don’t do it.’”
This suggests major misconduct by the NSA and the White House of a sort not seen since Watergate. This suggests major misconduct by the NSA and the White House of a sort not seen since Watergate. First, intercepts of congressmen’s communications regarding a dispute between Congress and the White House should have been destroyed and never left the NSA building. The Journal article said a 2011 NSA directive requires direct communications between foreign intelligence targets and members of Congress to be destroyed, but gives the NSA director the authority to waive this requirement if he determines the communications contain "significant foreign intelligence."
I’m sure the similarities to today are purely coincidental. The casual use of electronic surveillance of political opponents. The plausible deniability.
I’ve got a phone, a pen and The NSA....
“Obama has the biggest database in history on everyone and the political system is going to have to learn how to deal with that...”
“Obama has the biggest database in history on everyone and the political system is going to have to learn how to deal with that...”
Hey 0bama, add this to my file in your database
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A it happens, the owner of the “Russian Alfa Bank” is a dual citizen of Israel and Russia with ties to the guy Obama hates most, Netanyahu.
ttp://www.breitbart.com/video/2013/06/09/breitbart-flashback-maxine-waters-reveals-obams-secret-data-base-filled-with-voters-private-info/
“Obama has the biggest database in history on everyone and the political system is going to have to learn how to deal with that...”>>>> george soros has the biggest database in history on everyone and the political system is going to have to learn how to deal with that...
ANYTHING that odumbo has possessed needs to be taken back and burned. WHO in their right minds trusts that fool?
Dianne Feinstein and Dennis Kucinich said they were spied on. What evidence did they have? Where is the investigation?
Good point.
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