Posted on 05/08/2017 7:05:55 AM PDT by Rockitz
Sen. Rand Paul, the former Republican presidential candidate and vocal champion of civil liberties, has received allegations that the Obama administration sought intercepted intelligence from the National Security Agency on him and other members of Congress and has asked President Donald Trump to conduct a formal investigation, Circa has learned.
Paul quietly asked for the probe nearly a month ago in a letter to Trump that was obtained by Circa.
"An anonymous source recently alleged to me that my name, as well as the names of other Members of Congress, were unmasked, queried or both, in intelligence reports of intercepts during the prior administration," Paul wrote Trump in a letter dated April 10.
"In light of the revelations that the names of persons associated with the Trump campaign were unmasked, I believe the allegations that myself and other elected members of the legislative branch may have also been unmasked or caught in intelligence gathering warrants investigation."
The emergence of the letter, which also was copied to White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and senior Trump adviser Steve Bannon, comes after Circa recently reported that members of Congress and their staffs have been unmasked in NSA intelligence reports as frequently as once a month since President Obama loosened privacy protections back in 2011.
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If Trump was under surveillance, all of the rest of the GOP candidates were under surveillance.
Uncle Ted and Sister Linda are not going to take this well...
People in power use the tools at their disposal to stay in power.
Once the NSA data vacuuming system was in place, it was inevitable that it would be used to spy on political opponents.
“may have”?
If Maxine Waters is to be believed, she spilled in 2013 that Obama had a huge database on everyone. That most certainly included most politicians and public figures.
Surely Trump will not fail to send Jeff Sessions on the trail of this unconstitutional conspiracy to use the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. government to support (if not insure) the election of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Or will he? A huge mistake if he fails to do so. Potentially a mammoth Obama-Clinton scandal if he goes for it.
Do it Donald. Do it.
And almost EVERYBODY has a skeleton.
I have 50!
PEOPLE NEED TO START BEING LOCKED UP OR WE WILL NEVER COME BACK FROM THE ABYSS!!
From Congress inaction the past 8 years I thought this was assumed
Humans are fallible creatures.
All have sinned.
Yes, everyone has skeletons, especially politicians at the federal level.
We live in especially dangerous times for the Republic.
I sure hope someone finds a smoking gun that sends the Big Zero to court in an orange jumpsuit.
yes we do. Very dangerous times.
That makes at least two of us. LOL!
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