Posted on 03/03/2017 2:46:40 PM PST by dpetty121263
Gathering evidence? Putting together a team? He hasn’t been in office very long.
The same goes for being elected and being charged and threatened with being impeached upon entering office.
Well, my opinion won’t be popular but here goes.
1. Ivanka is friends with Chelsea and President Trump has thanked Hillary publicly several times and called the Clinton’s good people - so I’m not sure he will allow her to be prosecuted.
2. Trump is taking the high road so far where previous President’s are concerned. He hasn’t said much about Obama at all. I am hoping he gets enough SOON and goes after him.
Just my two cents.
They need to be investigating the House Rats computer hacking scandal.
I would invite Obama to the Oval Office. I would provide a police escort and a pat down before letting him enter. Then we’ll start talking about coming to Jesus. Then send home.
Who says they haven't started it?
Drawing on sources including the New York Times and the Washington Post, Levin described the case against Obama so far, based on what is already publicly known. The following is an expanded version of that case, including events that Levin did not mention specifically but are important to the overall timeline.
1. June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.
2. July: Russia joke. Wikileaks releases emails from the Democratic National Committee that show an effort to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from winning the presidential nomination. In a press conference, Donald Trump refers to Hillary Clintons own missing emails, joking: Russia, if youre listening, I hope youre able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. That remark becomes the basis for accusations by Clinton and the media that Trump invited further hacking.
3. October: Podesta emails. In October, Wikileaks releases the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. The Clinton campaign blames Trump and the Russians.
4. October: FISA request. The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes. The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.
5. January 2017: Buzzfeed/CNN dossier. Buzzfeed releases, and CNN reports, a supposed intelligence dossier compiled by a foreign former spy. It purports to show continuous contact between Russia and the Trump campaign, and says that the Russians have compromising information about Trump. None of the allegations can be verified and some are proven false. Several media outlets claim that they had been aware of the dossier for months and that it had been circulating in Washington.
6. January: Obama expands NSA sharing. As Michael Walsh later notes, and as the New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the governments 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections. The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked.
7. January: Times report. The New York Times reports, on the eve of Inauguration Day, that several agencies the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Treasury Department are monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign suspected of Russian ties. Other news outlets also report the exisentence of a multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government, though it is unclear how they found out, since the investigations would have been secret and involved classified information.
8. February: Mike Flynn scandal. Reports emerge that the FBI intercepted a conversation in 2016 between future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn then a private citizen and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The intercept supposedly was part of routine spying on the ambassador, not monitoring of the Trump campaign. The FBI transcripts reportedly show the two discussing Obamas newly-imposed sanctions on Russia, though Flynn earlier denied discussing them. Sally Yates, whom Trump would later fire as acting Attorney General for insubordination, is involved in the investigation. In the end, Flynn resigns over having misled Vice President Mike Pence (perhaps inadvertently) about the content of the conversation.
9. February: Times claims extensive Russian contacts. The New York Times cites four current and former American officials in reporting that the Trump campaign had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials. The Trump campaign denies the claims and the Times admits that there is no evidence of coordination between the campaign and the Russians. The White House and some congressional Republicans begin to raise questions about illegal intelligence leaks.
10. March: the Washington Post targets Jeff Sessions. The Washington Postreports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact twice with the Russian ambassador during the campaign once at a Heritage Foundation event and once at a meeting in Sessionss Senate office. The Post suggests that the two meetings contradict Sessionss testimony at his confirmation hearings that he had no contacts with the Russians, though in context (not presented by the Post) it was clear he meant in his capacity as a campaign surrogate, and that he was responding to claims in the dossier of ongoing contacts. The New York Times, in covering the story, adds that the Obama White House rushed to preserve intelligence related to alleged Russian links with the Trump campaign. By preserve it really means disseminate: officials spread evidence throughout other government agencies to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators and perhaps the media as well.
In summary: the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.
Sedition?
He has to get full control of the DOJ first. That will take some time. Be patirnt.
That the many cold case murders, suicides, unusual fatal accidents and “medical” deaths that follow the Clintons, Obamas, and other highly ranked Democrats will be fully investigated, prosecuted, and punished.
I like how you think!
He may not have time to spare....
Bah humbug! President Trump’s not going anywhere.
Har!
NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers didnt want to participate in the spying scheme (Clapper, Brennan, Etc.), which was the baseline for President Obamas post presidency efforts to undermine Donald Trump and keep Trump from digging into the Obama labyrinth underlying his remaining loyalists. After the October spying operation went into effect, Rogers unknown loyalty was a risk to the Obama objective. 10 Days after the election Rogers travels to President-Elect Trump without notifying those who were involved in the intel scheme.
Did NSA Director Mike Rogers wait for a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) to be set up in Trump Tower, and then notify the President-elect he was being monitored by President Obama?
Things have priority and in good time things will happen. First let’s put this
country on the right path, make the corrections needed and then as things progress
the past transactions/activities can be explored and adjuticated if need be.
I agree. Thanking Hillary was a real affront...what the hell for di he thank her? The Clinton’s are not “good people”, so where is that coming from? Hillary has been found dishonest since she was in Arkansas.... Now I understand Chelsea is being groomed to be a minimehillary.
I’m beginning to think I raised my kids absolutely to become loosers because they are ethical, moral and honest. I think they may not survive if our leadership continues to decay into a morass of moral and ethick drek.
IMHO, it’s already secretly started..
Trump should shred everything obutthole has ever written or signed, recycle it and turn it into Trump toilet paper.
Obamacare alone would provide him with enough asswipe for the 8 years he is in the White House
bfl
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