Posted on 02/19/2017 6:34:43 AM PST by davikkm
In light of the recent flurry of leaks by the so-called "deep state", which includes such agencies as the NSA and FBI and which last week lead to the resignation of Mike Flynn after a phone recording of his phone conversation with the Russian ambassador was leaked to the WaPo and other anti-Trump publications, an article published on January 12 by the NYT has generated renewed interest. One month ago, the NYT reported that "In its final days, the Obama administration 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."
The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches. The change means that far more officials will be searching through raw data. Essentially, the government is reducing the risk that the N.S.A. will fail to recognize that a piece of information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the risk that officials will see private information about innocent people. While previously the N.S.A. filtered information before sharing intercepted communications with another agency, like the C.I.A. or the intelligence branches of the F.B.I. and the Drug Enforcement Administration, and furthermore N.S.A.’s analysts passed on only information they deemed pertinent, screening out the identities of innocent people and irrelevant personal information, following passage of Obama's 11th hour rule, "other intelligence agencies will be able to search directly through raw repositories of communications intercepted by the N.S.A. and then apply such rules for “minimizing” privacy intrusions."
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
I like this guy, Jay. he has more balls then 99% of the limp-wristed Repugnicans in DC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sekulow
Obama is still “anything to hurt America”
My sense is that Trump has Republican enemies like Lindsey Graham and John McCain.
Obama and the Democrats are aligned with them.
The GOP Establishment wants to take out Trump and undermine his policies while passing the buck off on the Democrats.
I says its the whole Corporatist Uniparty Establishment that has the long knives out for DJT.
The problem is Jay, no one wants to tackle the task of actually getting him behind bars due to those who would scream “racist”. I could care less what color or religion odumbo is, he definitely belongs behind bars or better, at the end of a rope. He has committed more real “war crimes” against this country that others would already have been punished for.
There has not been anything in the news about the actual recording being leaked.
...as well as held accountable to the treason he orchestrated against the Republic.
This guy, he’s a used car salesman type activist. His radio show is one long pandering call for donations.
When all the truths behind Zero are exposed, no one will even think the word racist. IMO, traitor will be the word used for all RATs including the RAT God.
And we thought it was horrible when the Clinton Clan pulled the W off keyboards before they left the White House to George W.
well the “ the whole Corporatist Uniparty Establishment”, is accustomed to sucking from the public teat forever.
Ya gots to know they ain’t going away silently.
Go Jay Go!!!
Peter Hitchens, no fan of Trump, wrote a blurb in his lengthy Sunday column at the end saying the thinks DJT may hold a press conference one day and walk out the door.
“One of his forerunners, Harry Truman, said of cruel, merciless Washington D.C. that ‘if you want a friend here, get a dog.’ Mr. Trump has only just begun to discover the many ways DC has of tripping him up in public”
The whole blurb and the column on other topics is at
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/
The Congressional Research Service reports that for requests for both 2016 and 2017 fiscal years, Obama's proposed federal budget would expand funding through the Former Presidents Act. In 2017 alone, Obama wants nearly an 18% hike in expenditures… $588,000. That means $3.865,000 in appropriations will be available to spend on former Presidents! The 2016 proposed budget includes an additional $25,000 increase.
The Former Presidents Act, enacted in 1958, provides living former presidents with a pension, office staff and support, funds for travel, Secret Service protection, and mailing privileges. It also provides benefits for presidential spouses. Currently, former presidents are awarded a pension equal to the salary of cabinet secretaries, which totaled $203,700 for the 2015 calendar year and was boosted by $2,000 for the current calendar year.
Critics of the act argue that it financially supports former presidents who are not struggling. Many of them, alternatively, have gone on to profit from writing books about their time in the White House or delivering paid speaking engagements.
Former President Bill Clinton, for example, earned $132 million for delivering paid speeches between February 2001 and March 2015, according to an analysis from CNN. Clinton received $924,000 in taxpayer dollars last year by way of the Former Presidents Act.
Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would cap annual pensions for former presidents at $200,000. Additionally, the bills would cut each pension by a dollar for every dollar the former president earns over $400,000 in the private sector in a given year. The measure was approved by the House in January with bipartisan support.
"It's pretty simple. You want a retirement and pension, it's there. But if you're going to go out and make enormous sums of money, then you don't need taxpayer subsidies," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), who introduced the bill in the House, told ABC News in an interview. "The former presidents are making gobs of money speaking and writing books, more power to them, but that doesn’t mean they need more taxpayer dollars on top of that," Chaffetz added. "It's embarrassing that they take that money."
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CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Demand Congress stop lavishing tax dollars on rich ex-presidents.
homobama is just a monkey on a leash. Soros holds the leash.
There is a Coup that is happening right now. And the Feds under Obama have facilitated the movements of ISIS and Al Qaeda into the US. I would not be surprised to find out the past Obama Administration armed them and prepared them to overthrow Trump
On his final days in office, Obama appointed senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and National Security Adviser Susan Rice to the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. Deputy Ntl Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was appointed to the tax-funded US Holocaust Memorial Council. (Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
NEED TO KNOW: How many staffers and advisors did Obama put on US govt payrolls? A much-used corrupt pol trick involves hand-picking people, putting then on govt payrolls long after you think they're gone.
<><>How many pensions and checks are Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice getting?
<><>Are Rice and Jarrett on the payrolls of other US govt agencies?
<><> Are they collecting as no-show govt contractors?
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REFERENCE--- Valerie Jarrett in the White House also pocketed
a $36K Annual Pension For Part-Time Chicago Transit job
dailycaller.com ^ | 2/17/2016 | Chuck Ross / FR Posted by rktman
Chicago is known for its L-train. But it's the gravy train that White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett prefers to ride.
In addition to the $173,922 Jarrett earns per annum as President Obama's senior adviser, she is also paid an annual pension of $35,660 for the eight years she served as chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority, according to a Chicago Sun Times investigation.
Jarrett was appointed to chairman of the agency - a part-time position - in 1995 by then-mayor Richard Daley, whose brother, William Daley, served as Obama's chief of staff. Jarrett served as the former mayor's deputy chief of staff and was appointed to numerous other positions during his term. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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REFERENCE----Wonder how many transportation bonds were issued while Jarrett was at Chicago Transit? Her pension payout would pale against her hidden income from lucrative Chicago bond deals.
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CONTACT CONGRESS--DEMAND THESE AGENCIES COMMENCE INVESTIGATIONS AT ONCE:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
<><> FBI -- Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ's Criminal Division-- Public Integrity Section
For most Democrats, holding Obama accountable will include a lot of high-fives and back-slapping.
An Obama-tied activist group training tens of thousands of agitators to protest President Trump’s policies plans to hit Republican lawmakers supporting those policies even harder this week, when they return home for the congressional recess and hold town hall meetings and other functions.
Organizing for Action, a group founded by Obama and featured prominently on his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations, and building a border wall.
In a new Facebook post, OFA calls on activists to mobilize against Republicans from now until Feb. 26, when “representatives are going to be in their home districts.”
The protesters disrupted town halls earlier this month, including one held in Utah by House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who was confronted by hundreds of angry demonstrators claiming to be his constituents.
The manual, published with OFA partner “Indivisible,” advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and “grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together.” Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions. “This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus.” It also urges them to ask “hostile” questions — while keeping “a firm hold on the mic” — and loudly boo the the GOP politician if he isn’t “giving you real answers.”
“Express your concern [to the event’s hosts] they are giving a platform to pro-Trump authoritarianism, racism, and corruption,” it says.
The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts, second-guess their support for the Trump agenda, and to prime “the ground for the 2018 midterms when Democrats retake power.”
“Even the safest [Republican] will be deeply alarmed by signs of organized opposition,” the Obama document states, “because these actions create the impression that they’re not connected to their district and not listening to their constituents.”
“Unfavorable exchanges caught on video can be devastating” for Republican lawmakers, it says, when “shared through social media and picked up by local and national media.” After protesters gave MSNBC, CNN and the networks footage of their dust-up with Chaffetz, for example, the outlets ran them continuously, forcing Chaffetz to issue statements defending himself.
--SNIP-- Michelle and I are going to be with you. I’ve got all kinds of thoughts and ideas about it, but this isn’t the best time to share them. “Point is," Obama says, " I’m still fired up and ready to go, and I hope that all of you are, as well.”
MORE HERE--- https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/notmypresident.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=664&h=441&crop=1
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CALL CONGRESS---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Demand to know where Obama is getting all the money to target Trump.
DEMAND CONGRESS MOBOLIZE THESE AGENCIES AT ONCE:
<><> FBI -- Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ's Criminal Division-- Public Integrity Section
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