Obama ordered surveillance of Fox News’s James Rosen and his parents! — with no legal authority that I know of. He bugged Sharyl Atkisson (then of CBS.) He secretly subpoenaed the phone records of several Associated Press reporters.
He illegally used the IRS to punish political opponents.
He illegally used an executive order to give amnesty to “Dreamers” — a power even he admitted he didn’t have.
He and Eric Holder intervened ion the ongoing case against the New Black panthers to end the prosecution — after the Bush Administration had essentially gotten them convicted. (And they ran guns to the Mexican gun cartels.)
So why wouldn’t he wiretap Trump, with or without a warrant?
But that’s not even the primary issue. I don’t care if it’s President Bush, President Obama, President Trump, the next president, or the one after that. NO President should have such powers. We need to repeal the Patriot Act and the FISA act, which are the sources of this power.
That is not to minimize what Obama apparently did. But we need to pull this up by the roots rather than focusing completely on just one individual president.
Good post, dittoes.
DACA has to be ended.
Yes, but no...it's much more insidious. He used several agencies to include the IRS in an effort to silence the opposition party with then end game of altering the outcome of an American election.
There are multiple felonies all over these attacks...and they all went unpunished.
IRS as a weapon...who’da thunk it.
Sorry; but the technology is there.
Someone IS going to do it!
We'd better figger out the 'legality' of it before it REALLY gets out of hand!