Posted on 01/23/2018 9:45:03 AM PST by Starman417
We should have listened to crazy Maxine. She warned us about it.
Earlier this year, in an interview with TV One, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) praised President Barack Obama for putting together a campaign database that "will have information about everything on every individual."And that's largely what happened. Not long after taking office, Obama set things in motion:“And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before,” Waters told “Washington Watch” host Roland, referring to Obama’s “Organizing for America,” which was changed from a campaign organization to a 501(c)(4) called Organizing for Action.
Martin had asked her about Obama’s agenda in his last term.
“The inauguration represented the beginning of his second term, but it also represented the countdown to the end of his presidency. And the reality is, like anything else, you better get what you can while he’s there because, look, come 2016, that’s it,” Martin said.
“I don’t know, and I think some people are missing something here,” Waters said.
“The president has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” she added. “That’s going to be very, very powerful.”
Martin asked if Waters if she was referring to “Organizing for America.”
“That’s right, that’s right,” Waters said. “And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.”
Waters said the database would also serve future Democratic candidates seeking the presidency.
“He’s been very smart,” Waters said of Obama. “I mean it’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.”
In a stunning defense of President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, President Barack Obama has broadened the government's legal argument for immunizing his Administration and government agencies from lawsuits surrounding the National Security Agency's eavesdropping efforts.Problem is, it wasn't about keeping the country safe. Using government resources to visit damage on political opponents became standard fare for Barack Obama. And so is spying, which actually started back in 2011, with the 2012 election looming:In fact, a close read of a government filing last Friday reveals that the Obama Administration has gone beyond any previous legal claims put forth by former President Bush.
Responding to a lawsuit filed by a civil liberties group, the Justice Department argued that the government was protected by "sovereign immunity" from lawsuits because of a little-noticed clause in the Patriot Act. The government's legal filing can be read here (PDF).
For the first time, the Obama Administration's brief contends that government agencies cannot be sued for wiretapping American citizens even if there was intentional violation of U.S. law. They maintain that the government can only be sued if the wiretaps involve "willful disclosure" -- a higher legal bar.
"A 'willful violation' in Section 223(c(1) refers to the 'willful disclosure' of intelligence information by government agents, as described in Section 223(a)(3) and (b)(3), and such disclosures by the Government are the only actions that create liability against the United States," Obama Assistant Attorney General Michael Hertz wrote (page 5).
Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing the government over the warrantless wiretapping program, notes that the government has previously argued that changes to the Patriot Act protected the government from lawsuits surrounding eavesdropping. But he says that this is the first time that they've made the case that the Patriot Act protects the government from all surveillance statutes.
The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.There was an uproar when Trump lashed out at Steve Bannon, but the media conveniently forgot when Barack Obama called out Romney donors by name, and publicized private information on them during his campaign. Call them out is not all he did. He put the IRS to work on Romney donors by painting targets on their backs:In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinionby U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban — at the government’s request — on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used.
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That he did but it's going to be short lived if we don't stop the endless investigating and start putting people in jail.
Sessions is trying to run out the clock on the statute of limitations. If these criminals walk the republic is doomed.
Say it again!!
Maxine needs to be put under oath to explain exactly when she meant...
Maxine needs to be put under oath to explain exactly when she meant... and what she knew and when...
Thank God for affirmative action with regards to Congressional office.
Trump has weaponized the Democrats’ stupidity against them.
There was an uproar when Trump lashed out at Steve Bannon, but the media conveniently forgot when Barack Obama called out Romney donors by name, and publicized private information on them during his campaign. Call them out is not all he did. He put the IRS to work on Romney donors by painting targets on their backs:One thing to say that Trump won despite ruthless Obama tactics. What about the fact that Romney lost the 2012 election after Obama cheated to get reelected.Nixon’s private “enemies list” was bad. Barack Obama’s public “enemies list” was arguably worse. Obama had used 2010 to alert and sic the IRS on Tea Party groups. But by calling out private citizens by name on his website, he was alerting and siccing every part of his government on Republican donors. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict people), the SEC (which can fine people), and the IRS (which can audit people) was clear: Donate money to Romney, and you are fair government game. The posting was also an APB to every liberal group and activist in the country to target those donors.One donor was audited three times. Obama made a joke about using the IRS in 2009.The legitimacy of everything Obama did as POTUS after Inauguration Day 2013 is cast under a deep cloud.
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