Surprise: At the End, Obama Administration Gave NSA Broad New Powers

PJ Media ^ | February 15, 2017 | Michael Walsh

[jazusamo]

0bama didn't miss a trick, this was his departing gift to President Trump and the new administration.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Where’s Trump’s Executive Order ROLLING BACK these broad powers bequeathed by 0dungsh*t?

[SpaceBar]

Anything Omoeba could do by edict, Trump can undo.

[jazusamo]

Trump should rescind that “greater latitude” handed to the NSA by 0bama.

[loveliberty2]

"While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Leesburg Citizens, 1809.

"[Montesquieu wrote in his Spirit of the Laws XII,c.12:] 'Words carried into action assume the nature of that action. Thus a man who goes into a public market-place to incite the subject to revolt incurs the guilt of high treason, because the words are joined to the action, and partake of its nature. It is not the words that are punished, but an action in which words are employed. They do not become criminal, but when they are annexed to a criminal action: everything is confounded if words are construed into a capital crime, instead of considering them only as a mark of that crime.'" --Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book.

[Terry Mross]

If Obama had the power to give more power to the NSA, then Trump has the power to take it away.

[kiryandil]

0bama should be arrested for sedition.

[ptsal]

Reductions in force are coming soon. (Hopefully)

[SteveH]

Flynn still should have been aware imho

[jazusamo]

Go, President Trump!

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[marstegreg]

The new heads of the NSA FBI CIA now have a license to monitor Hillary, Soros, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Blumenthal, NYT, WaPo etc. with very little oversight. I hope they take the opportunity, under these new rules, to send a few of these people to jail or at least expose them.

[winner3000]

Maybe Trump should use those powers against Democrats and see how they like it! How about opening investigations against the usual suspects from the prior administration, then have the NSA spy on them and share what they learn with the people doing the investigating! Then leak that info to the press!

[TBP]

Big Brother.

[Ann Archy]

President Trump.....ROLL THIS BACK!!!

[JudgemAll]

No doubt some CIA activist shthead f@got leaked it.

The CIa is rotten and puéril. Bunch of idiots working there. The only two CIA I ever met were either flaming liberals or ex cops sucking liberal antigun antimen clits at the DA office

[jsanders2001]

Latitude as in giving access to former Muslim traitor presidents remotely? As in NSA communications of every type where there’s no logs of any kind activity kept?

[Paladin2]

I remember outrage at the time.

[madison10]

President Trump really has to get his cabinet in place. He is good, but needs advisors on some of this stuff and we all know how the cabinet thing is going.

[backwoods-engineer]

Yeah, I bet they were given these powers to “GET TRUMP”.

[bankwalker]

President Trump really has to get his cabinet in place.

He should start appointing czars ... there is precedent.