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Posted on 09/28/2025 4:59:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the final days of the Obama presidency — while Americans were focused on inaugurating a new president and turning the page on a divisive era — President Barack Obama signed a quiet but sweeping executive order that many now see as a ticking time bomb planted in the heart of our Intelligence Community.
On January 3, 2017, just 17 days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Obama signed a modification to Executive Order 12333, authorizing the National Security Agency (NSA) to share raw signals intelligence (SIGINT) with all 16 other intelligence agencies — including the FBI, the CIA, and even obscure agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration’s intel wing.
At face value, the stated purpose was to “streamline intelligence sharing” and “improve coordination” in the age of global terrorism. But conservatives saw something else: a calculated move to weaponize the intelligence apparatus against a political outsider — Donald J. Trump — before he could even take the oath of office.
From Terrorism to Trump? The Convenient Shift
Prior to this change, the NSA — which vacuumed up massive amounts of phone calls, emails, texts, and metadata — could share only filtered, “minimized” intelligence with other agencies. That meant masking the names of American citizens incidentally caught up in foreign surveillance.
But Obama’s executive order reversed that policy, allowing raw, unredacted data — including conversations of U.S. citizens — to be freely distributed across the Intelligence Community. In short, the firewalls were gone. The surveillance spigot was opened.
Why now? Why not during his eight years in office?
These are the questions conservatives have been asking ever since.
A Leak Pipeline Disguised as Reform
Within weeks of the order, classified leaks about members of Trump’s incoming administration began flowing.
The most prominent example? Lt. General Michael Flynn.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Now it President Trump’s duty to defuse the weaponized government.
“When we’re done he’ll claim Kenyan citizenship as a way to escape.”
Where is that meme of jug ears listening to Trump on his super secret headphones? They bugged Emporer Trump!
Well turn it on! Turn it on the Antifa in Portland. Turn it on the Mayor in Chicago, turn it on those NGO’s and their funders like Soto and lastly turn it on a few select Democrats. After all Omaba did the same and worst so no complaints boys and girls!
Trump is just following the law!
Fine by me if they can permanently deport him there.
Fine by me if they can permanently deport him there.
Wouldn’t Pres. Trump be allowed to nail Obama’s hide to the barn door if possible? Obama was a sneaky underhanded individual if there ever was one, it seems.....masquerading as a president. If he ever did anything good for this country,I don’t know what it was.
Barekeh Hussein Obama covered his tracks well but apparently, not enough.
The Faker and Chief thought he was immune from a critical eye and review.
Now his only concerns are his luxurious properties, his so-called “Presidential Library” (which looks like something out of “Blade Runner” and how not to anger Michelle Obama who would easily put the metrosexual Barekeh in a full Nelson and snap his spine.
There were reports in the press bragging about the land mines Obama planted to destroy the incoming Trump admin. Nothing was secret. We knew the details of the Obama coup for years. It’s sad that after all these years we have only an indictment of Comey.
Forty years ago, while in the
police academy, our class was addressed by an F B.I. agent
Who informed us of the toxic
hubris of many his fellow agents, especially, the supervisors, generally.
The disease is common among
supervising climbers in those kinds of vocations.
I was 37 years on the trade...
Same as it always has been.
No surprise: ego kills honesty and rational perspective.
Some people simply just suck.
Forty years ago, while in the
police academy, our class was addressed by an F B.I. agent
Who informed us of the toxic
hubris of many his fellow agents, especially, the supervisors, generally.
The disease is common among
supervising climbers in those kinds of vocations.
I was 37 years on the trade...
Same as it always has been.
No surprise: ego kills honesty and rational perspective.
Some people simply just suck.
Forty years ago, while in the
police academy, our class was addressed by an F B.I. agent
Who informed us of the toxic
hubris of many his fellow agents, especially, the supervisors, generally.
The disease is common among
supervising climbers in those kinds of vocations.
I was 37 years on the trade...
Same as it always has been.
No surprise: ego kills honesty and rational perspective.
Some people simply just suck.
Forty years ago, while in the
police academy, our class was addressed by an F B.I. agent
Who informed us of the toxic
hubris of many his fellow agents, especially, the supervisors, generally.
The disease is common among
supervising climbers in those kinds of vocations.
I was 37 years on the trade...
Same as it always has been.
No surprise: ego kills honesty and rational perspective.
Some people simply just suck.
.
“President Trump’s duty to defuse the weaponized government.”
Getting himself free must be a priority since he is POTUS and leader of MAGA.
Yet there was a time many on FR advocated for removing the firewalls between law enforcement and intelligence agencies so as to prevent terrorism. Even with a Trump EO had do you put the surveillance genie back in the bottle given the Patriot Act is still in the books.
I wonder who created the document for Barry Soetero to sign?
On January 3, 2017, just 17 days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Obama signed a modification to Executive Order 12333, authorizing the National Security Agency to “share raw signals intelligence” (SIGINT) with all 16 other intelligence agencies — including the FBI, the CIA, and even obscure agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration’s intel wing.......
Obama’s stated purpose was to “streamline intelligence sharing” and “improve coordination” in the age of global terrorism.
But conservatives saw a calculated Obama move to “weaponize” the intelligence apparatus against Donald J. Trump — before he could even take the oath of office.
We should not forget George W. Bush’s Patriot Act, which preceded Barack Obama, was a major factor in the weaponization of federal power against US citizens. The secret courts created in the name of counter terrorism were a major violation of the Bill of Rights. The Patriot Act allowed the government to trample on due process rights guaranteed by the Constitution. This was the product of a Republican president who claimed to be a conservative.
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