Posted on 04/06/2017 6:40:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
On Tuesday, Obamas National Security Advisor Susan Rice admitted that she used the intelligence community to spy on members of the Trump team, but this type of behavior isnt anything new.
In fact, it appears the Obama White House had been spying on its political opponents and leaking classified information about them long before Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, Lee Smith of Tablet Magazine writes.
Remember the Iran Deal negotiations? In December 2015, The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Obama administration used the NSA to cast a wide net of surveillance around not just Israeli officials and diplomats, but American lawmakers who were friendly towards Israel as well as Jewish-American groups.
White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Mr. Netanyahus campaign. They also recognized that asking for it was politically risky. So, wary of a paper trail stemming from a request, the White House let the NSA decide what to share and what to withhold, officials said. We didnt say, Do it, a senior U.S. official said. We didnt say, Dont do it.In other words, the Obama White House used Israel as an excuse to collect classified information on its political opponents via the NSA and then leak bits of this information to the news media in an effort to intimidate them. Smith writes.Stepped-up NSA eavesdropping revealed to the White House how Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers had leaked details of the U.S.-Iran negotiationslearned through Israeli spying operationsto undermine the talks; coordinated talking points with Jewish-American groups against the deal; and asked undecided lawmakers what it would take to win their votes, according to current and former officials familiar with the intercepts.
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It’s not a bombshell if no one does anything about it. The largely leftwing media doesn’t care, Congressional Republicans are eunuchs (or female equivalent), and the public is too divided and jaded to effectively push for honest answers.
I think MOST intelligent people KNEW spying was going on and being blatantly used for coercion, blackmail, and anything else that struck the regime's fancy. Susan Rice's casual unmasking of potential political enemies also blows the hell out of the argument that the NSA, while spying on American Citizens, is only collecting "metadata".
Who was it spying on the Senate that got the dems in such a tizzy? Bowbama, that’s who!
Of course Obama spied on his political enemies.
Just ask John Roberts.
Neither will anyone who is spied upon who spent time with Jeffrey Epstein. Discovery that they slept with a minor isn’t worth it. Speaker Denny Hastert didn’t sue or speak up even when blackmailed.
They were using the IRS to target political opponents early on in the Obama Administration. I fail to see how that’s any different than using the Intel community to harm and gather info on the Right.
Bttt.
5.56mm
It started in 2009 when he took office.
I think we´re at the tip of the iceberg and the Dems and MSM are freaking out and trying to kill this "unmasking" story before we learn things that will absolutely kill them if the truth is widely disseminated.
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