Check these blog posts out (Larry Johnson @ No Quarter) regarding the probability that intelligence was gathered by the Brits (GHCQ) & Dutch that would have been illegal for the US to collect, & that info was passed on to US intelligence officials.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/79626/barack-obamas-lawyer-lies-spying-trump/
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/79631/clapper-brennan-end-run/
As a followup, I saw somewhere (didn’t save the link - drats!) that when this sort of thing happens .... US gets foreign intelligence of this sort, that FISA warrants are obtained/used to cover butts.
But all that UK and Dutch data would have been useless if Trump won. Only FISA-approved evidence can be used on this soil. The only data that could be doctored up to use against DJT would have to come from Zero, or ValJar if she forged it and ‘forgot’ to tell him.
Oh, I get it now. That 2hr secret meeting Comey held with all those senators that came out ‘ashen’ a few weeks ago? He was telling them all in info the were weaponizing for use was unusable and they were open to RICO charges for conspiracy. Maybe he then said ‘now: if you have any data legally captured with a FISA warrant, you can use that in your attacks. But you better have transcripts.’
Then Chris Coons blurted out ‘I haven’t seen the transcripts!’ which he two days later ‘corrected’ to mean he meant something else. If there ARE legal transcripts, they’d only cover data from Oct. on. Either way, DJT has zero/Valjar in a vise: why did you tap me days before the election?
“Did Barack Obama give the greenlight for this material to be used in ways that fall outside the legal boundaries?”
Bending the rules can be outright illegal.
“Did Barack Obama or any members of his senior team ever discuss how to take steps to prevent Donald Trump from taking the oath of office?”
There’s a specific name for this particular crime.