Posted on 03/04/2017 2:36:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson
The Federal Information Surveillance Act has been a hotly debated piece of legislation, but nobody could have conceived that a sitting president or administration would use it to spy on a candidate from the opposing party, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said Saturday.
"There is no question under the law that you can do surveillance of private citizens when they are talking to foreign powers," Bennett told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" after President Donald Trump, in a series of early Saturday morning tweets, accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower in October, just before the election.
However, said Bennett, who could have conceived that Obama, or his FBI or Justice Department, would have used the act to watch Trump. Bennett does not blame the president for being "hot on this one, as he should be. What will the American people think of this?"
In February, author James Hirson reported that days before Trump's inauguration, Obama issued an executive order allowing the National Security Agency to share raw communications with other intelligence agencies including the FBI, the DEA, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Further, the Justice Department and the FBI under Obama had been seeking FISA warrants against Trump's campaign insiders and Trump in the last months of the 2016 campaign, mere days before then-president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, former President Barack Obama expanded the ability of intelligence agencies to share unfiltered telephone surveillance information.
The Obama administration issued Executive Order 12333, which allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to share raw intercepted communications with agencies that include the FBI, DEA and Department of Homeland Security — among others.
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Inconceivable!
Obozo had a FISA court approve all sorts of wiretaps on citizens....not inconceivable to me
“...unexpectedly!”
Trump should invite Obama over for a drink and lace one glass with Iocane.
You can bet that President has all the evidence he needs. The documents at the FISA court will back him up. Trump has Obama by the short hairs.
Not a surprise considering Obama’s actions the last eight years....
Considering all of the lawlessness the jug-eared, Marxist, anti-America POS got away with over the last eight years? Anyone with a brain you ignoramus...
One more thing. Did not Linda Graham laugh and mock President Trump on this story this morning? Looks like the joke is on Linda.
Thanks to that witch, Gorelick, intelligence agencies couldn’t share info concerning muslim terrorists but no problem for them to all share info on an opposing presidential candidate!
Unthinkable? Almost as bad as a news agency sharing debate questions in advance with one of the candidates!
who could have conceived that Obama, or his FBI or Justice Department, would have used the act to watch Trump
I can conceive it.
‘Watergate’ was a tempest in a teapot.
This Obama wiretapping scheme has all the earmarks of a large scale investigation and the jailing of Obama and all who assisted in this sinister usurpation of power.
All should be speedily arraigned, tried and sentenced to long terms in the Guantanamo facilities. The benefit to the criminals will be that no snow has to be shoveled.
What an excellent crowning and legacy for the phony who slept ate and sh-t in the White Hut when they weren’t out spending millions on their filthy vacations.
Obama’s library would be properly housed in an old-fashioned outdoor privy.
“Inconceivable!”
You keep using that word. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
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For a sitting president to do this... hell for that president to continue being active to the point of seditious after leaving office... is so unprecedented that it almost defies credulity.
And if this bears up under scrutiny, it well could be the end of the Obamas, the Clintons, the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and progressivism in general.
Obama ordering the taps would be the single greatest FUBAR in American political history. He would have bet EVERYTHING on defeating Trump. And he lost. And the potential for blowback is incalculable.
Trump is now poised to alter the landscape as no elected official has before. And he'd better be damned careful. About his strategy. And about his personal safety.
Fascist dictators do it all of the time. I’m not surprised that Idi Amin Obama did it.
A comprehensive listing would be very long.
I guess you can't have "fundamental change" without doing a bunch of things that are — or were — "inconceivable."
Obama did all kinds of things that were inconceivable.
A comprehensive listing would be very long.
I guess you can’t have “fundamental change” without doing a bunch of things that are — or were — “inconceivable.”
I have been thinking this might happen since he got into office. One can easily tell a leftist totalitarian fascist dictator. He is that dictator.
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