Posted on 02/07/2018 10:48:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Newly revealed text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page may directly implicate President Barack Obama in the Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) surveillance scandal.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Obama's administration sought multiple FISA warrants to snoop on members of the Donald Trump campaign — and may have even listened in on conversations involving Trump in Trump Tower. Interestingly, the FISA court denied an FBI request in June 2016 — a remarkable act, as 99.97 percent of FISA requests are eventually granted. The warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign was approved in October.
The relevant text, from Page to Strzok, revealed that "potus wants to know everything we're doing." Page sent this message on September 2, 2016, announcing to her lover that she had a meeting to discuss "TPs for D" — talking points for the director, i.e. James Comey, director of the FBI — because of Obama's interest.
POTUS is the acronym for "President of the United States," and in this case it referred to President Barack Obama, who seemed interested in knowing the FBI's inner workings at this time. Fox News reported the text Wednesday, also highlighting text messages regarding the laptop of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the husband of Hillary Clinton's closest aide Huma Abedin.
Previous text messages from Page and Strzok revealed that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew — before Hillary Clinton testified — that Clinton would be exonerated in the email scandal, and that senior FBI officials suspected there would be "no there, there" in the Russia collusion investigation.
Obama's interest in the FBI at this time seems critical, since the Obama administration's first FISA request was rejected a few months before and the successful surveillance request would be granted one month later. This text also came in the midst of a crucial delay in processing Weiner's laptop, which had carried classified information.
Just how involved was Obama personally in the FISA requests? Did he mastermind the entire process, or did he become more involved after September 2, and help to make the October FISA request successful where the June FISA request was not?
According to testimony given by former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, the October FISA request relied on the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. The Clinton campaign paid a firm called Fusion GPS for this dossier, through the mediation of the law firm Perkins Coie.
To make matters worse, the Obama administration, in its final days, expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government's 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.
Evelyn Farkas, Obama's former assistant deputy secretary of defense, seemed to explain the rationale behind this surveillance change. "I was urging my former colleagues and — and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed — aimed at telling the Hill people, 'Get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration.' Because, I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left," she told MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski.
"So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy that the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. So I became very worried, because not enough was coming out into the open, and I knew that there was more," Farkas added.
Evelyn Farkas Says Obama Was Spying on Trump
Wow. Did a senior Obama official admit that the previous administration used underhanded methods to spy on the Trump team? These remarks suggest that a kind of "deep state" of Obama officials intended to sabotage Trump from within the administration — something America saw happen again and again last year.
This FISA scandal seems particularly damning, and as more evidence comes to light, Farkas' words make more and more sense. Now Americans are coming to find out "how [the Obama administration] knew what [it] knew," and it doesn't look pretty.
This text message seems to suggest Barack Obama may have been in the loop, directly.
They have all said it is much worse than Watergate. Well, duh... It must involve a president then.
May?
The entirety of the Kenyanesian Usurpation dwarfs Watergate, Teapot Dome and every other scandal combined.
The thought of the ‘know it all’ condescending Kenyan getting caught up legally in all this, does give one a reason to smile.
Has imho.
It sure does.
My my my
This text was about the Hillary emails not the FISA warrants
Which country will the obamas be visiting in the near future with all their household furnishings in the near future that doesn’t have a extradition treaty?
...Did he mastermind the entire process, or did he become more involved after September 2...
Looks like President Zer0 may be getting a new “legacy.”
What’s even funnier is imagining Holder telling him ‘don’t worry, nothing of this will ever track back to you.’
My fear is they will prosecute a small number of small fish and hope that we will be satisfied, I SAY HELL NO! HE TARNISHED THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY AND NOW THE PRESIDENCY WILL TARNISH HIS A## FOR HIM!
Obviously.
However, if a tree falls in the forest.....
The MSM will be slower to report on this than they were when Monica’s blue dress came to light....no pun intended.
What about the thin black line?
NOTHING was done by the FBI, DOJ, State Department, IRS, etc. WITHOUT the expressed authority and approval of then President Obama-idiot, PERIOD! These SOBS know this yet act like they in disbelief..........
The linch pins in the FISA fraud are Bruce and Nellie Ohr. She’s working for the company that pushes the fake dossier on the FBI, with direct contract between hubby and the head of GPS. No way that this wasn’t all pillow talk between the Ohr’s, and no way that Comey and McCable weren’t fully aware of all of this prior to the FISA applications. Everyone from the FBI agents, to the FBI leadership, to the DOJ leadership, to the recused judge were part of this conspiracy.
Anyone who doesn’t know that Obama had to be involved in this is either stupid or is just lying to themselves. Obama’s up to his eyeballs in this just like he was with all the other scandals around him.
The right should just start screaming his name every time this scandal is brought up. What did he know and when did he know it? How much of this did he orchestrate or sign off on? If it was done by an R admin then the left would go nuts with accusations all the way to the top. Why can’t our side be persistent like they always are?
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