Posted on 05/27/2017 8:07:51 AM PDT by darkwing104
Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) routinely collected communications of American citizens since 2001 yet failed to disclose the extent of White House spying; spying which continued unabated until a few days before Donald Trump was elected President. Circa.com's Sara Carter reviewed once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.
In declassified documents made public by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), Obama’s NSA admitted that its analysts were violating surveillance rules on a regular basis. This pattern of Executive branch overreach, coupled with the timing of the government’s disclosure, resulted in an unusually harsh rebuke of the Obama administration’s practices and principles.
Upstream surveillance was first disclosed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden and “involves the NSA’s bulk interception and searching of Americans’ international internet communications — including emails, chats, and web-browsing traffic.
The once dependably friendly FISA Court censured administration officials, saying “… the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an “institutional lack of candor.” “The improper searches constituted a very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” continued the Court in an unsealed document dated April 26, 2017.
From a report by the NSA’s Inspector General: “Since 2011, NSA’s minimization procedures have prohibited use of U.S.-person identifiers to query the results of upstream Internet collections under Section 702.” “The Oct. 26, 2016 notice informed the court that NSA analysts had been conducting such queries in violation of that prohibition, with much greater frequency than had been previously disclosed to the Court.”
Circa reported that since Obama loosened the Intelligence collection privacy rules in 2011, the Intelligence Agency increased data searches of Americans and revealed the identities of those American targets in intelligence reports.
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The troubling part is that Congress doesn’t even make a sound, unless it’s one of their own being monitored.
Obama wasn’t president in 2001. The other quasi fascist, open borders guy was.
Fake SS#: "Those were terrifically useful intercepts you obtained
which we spread far and wide about our stupid law-abiding (American) competition.
The Clinton Foundation payments to you and your brother
have been well worth their weight in rubies and gold."
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
Flashback to pRes_ _ent "No SS#"
He did that right around the time of the 2012 election campaign. When I first heard about this, I thought that he did it to spy on Romney.
This is scary stuff. The left holds fewer elected positions than ever, but it seems to be consolidating its dictatorial reach. Meanwhile, the left’s footsoldiers/useful idiots are becoming more violent, more bold in their attempts to shut down conservatives. How much longer until they begin insisting on the elimination of anyone who stands against socialism?
Gee, if only there was a guy in the White House who could tell his Attorney General to get on this.
This reminds me of the Clinton Administration when several hundred FBI files on Republican politicians were found in the residential section of the White House. Hillary obtained the files to get dirt on her political opposition..
Kind of ironic - they follow all the illegal orders, vigorously, then “rebuke” the practices......
That the irritating part of it. Those Government Agencies are no longer trustworthy. I doubt they will ever earn it again.
So taking it in the back door is the ticket to being a DC Elite. Who’d a thunk it. No wonder they give it to us.
It appears, if this is true, that the Attorney General who is not pursuing Hillary is busy not pursuing this matter.
A so-called rebuke by a FISA court is meaningless to someone like Obama; he can reject it as little more than a wrong opinion, the product of a republican administration. Something a little more forceful, and life-changing for him is called for.
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