IMPORTANT: Clapper throwing Obama under the bus is an extremely important development.

1. IMPORTANT: Clapper throwing Obama under the bus is an extremely important development.

Remember, though: he ISN'T referring to the FISA fraud being exposed 24/7, or the Mueller clownshow.

2. The FISA fraud being exposed is, without a doubt, the most shocking abuse of power in US history. The FBI/DOJ used unvetted info, by-passing strict Woods verification, to illegally obtain a Title I FISA warrant on an innocent US citizen.

Why would they need to get a FISA TI, when they'd already been spying on Team Trump (and other GOP candidates, not to mention Sanders), since 2015?

They wouldn't, right? Unless, of course, the aim was to use the FISA to legitimize EXISTING illegal spying. 4. Don't get me wrong.

This FISA fraud on @carterwpage is illegal, may end up destroying the FBI and will result in jail terms for those involved.

BUT it's important not to keep our eyes off the larger scandal, that birthed it.

BARACK OBAMA. 5. Many forget that under the FISA Act, the Executive is given power to order WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE, with no judicial or Congressional oversight.

This power is restricted to targets OUTSIDE the US, communicating with persons INSIDE the US.

washingtonpost.com/world/national… 6. The FISA Act (2008), esp s 702, is no more than the legislative coding of an NSA program called 'Stellar Wind', a warrantless spying project, started by Dubya under The Patriot Act.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_W… 7. Obama expanded the power of the Executive under FISA, in 2012.

Stellar Wind went totally out of control, turbo-charged by NSAs PRISM Program, allowing the NSA to hoover up the explosion of data held by Google, Facebook & Yahoo (and others).

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(su… 8. We only know about PRISM due to Edward Snowden's 2013 leaks.He also revealed the existence of the crown in the NSA surveillance jewel, a Division called 'Special Source Operations'.

Consider this. The SSO capability allowed it to collect data the equivalent of one Library of Congress - every 14.4 seconds.

Snowden delivered a chilling warning, as well. 10. 'The extent of mass data collection was far greater than the public knew and included what he characterized as "dangerous" and "criminal" activities.'

NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: Washington Snoopers are Criminals Former NSA contractor denies treason with claim he did not give away military secrets. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-479709 11. I've always been intrigued by this terrifying interview of the execrable Maxine Waters on Feb 11, 2013. In it she describes a secret database that Obama had built that's 'very, very powerful.'

Interviewer: 'In terms of the ‘Organizing for America’ that he’s now shifting to become a 501C4 ?'

Waters: 'That’s right..that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.' 13. Obama LOVED spying on people.

A malign narcissist, the feeling of power, as well as the ability it gave him to manipulate and terrorize American citizens, would have been IRRESISTIBLE. 14. We KNOW that Obama was illegally spying on domestic targets (aka innocent Americans who disagreed with, or opposed him) from at least 2009.

The Obama Administration Allegedly Spied on Pro-Israel Activists. Did They Do the Same to Trump? The accusation that the Obama administration used information gleaned from classified foreign surveillance to smear and blackmail its political opponents at home has gained new traction in recent day… https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/229062/did-the-obama-administrations-abuse-of-foreign-intelligence-collection-start-before-trump 15. Obama was illegally spying on reporters, too, including James Rosen (FOX), Sharyl Attkisson, Sean Hannity, Sara Carter and no doubt hundreds of others.

When all is revealed (it needs to be), we could be talking about many THOUSANDS of US citizens, inc members of Congress. 16. Among them would be Donald J Trump.

There's absolutely no doubt about it. Trump and Obama LOATHE each other. Obama would have been keen to target and if possible, destroy Trump.

The 2016 election would be a perfect opportunity. 17. Another thing - NSA's SSO team were PAYING Google, FB etc for their data.

I'm sure that Obama was paying friendly reporters to use the information he had, against Trump. BTW is Maggie Haberman back on twitter yet? Just askin'. 18. Back to the main argument.

IMO, Clapper is NOT talking about FISA abuse of Carter Page. He's talking about Obama's illegal abuse of exec power under FISA, to order warrantless surveillance, away from any oversight, to frame Trump.

If I go down, Obama, YOU go down too.' 19. The MO is becoming clear : use FISA to illegally unmask the ID of US citizens from overseas-sourced communications, then use those comms by leaking it to media slaves (many paid), as well as to frame political opponents.

THREE examples: 20. Papadopoulos - his main international with Mifsud, Millian, Halper and others? ALL overseas.

Connecting dots? 21. So you have Obama's warrantless surveillance being unmasked by his key apparatchiks (Rice, Power etc), shared with the Clinton campaign, funnelled via Fusion GPS into the Steele memos & leaked to media slaves. 22. Then legitimized AND augmented via Brennan's CIA imprimatur & illegally obtained FISA warrants, engineered by a corrupt DOJ/FBI cabal.

The greatest crime in American history. 23. A conspiracy to frame & destroy an innocent citizen, designed and executed by evil, corrupt criminals.

It's an ONGOING effort. One that is dangerous, but IS collapsing. 24. See, under FISA, POTUS can order warrantless spying on the recommendation of his AG & ODNI.

Who is now DIRECTLY implicating one Barack Hussein Obama. 25. #SpyGate is REAL, folks, but it's MUCH worse than this despicable FISA application.

Trump's POTUS now. And he's going to take down these crooks, starting with the FBI/DOJ gang.

cont

When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a CYA memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.

CYA memos are rarely a good idea. Most often, they reveal things the author never intended——ala Susan Rice’s now-infamous email to herself.
powerlineblog.com

WHY SUSAN RICE WROTE AN EMAIL TO HERSELF........the extraordinary email Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017........within minutes of President Trump’s inauguration must have been her last act, more or less, before she vacated the White House. So obviously the email was important to her. But why would it be important to send an email to herself (the only person copied was one of her aides)?

If you read the email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?

Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier. The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:

Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
This is pure boilerplate. It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)

The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.

CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.

Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.

Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.

If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.

What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.

There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.

The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything. And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.

Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.

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