Was Samantha Power illegally spying for Obama?

American Thinker.com ^ | September 21, 2017 | Monica Showalter

[Kaslin]

With little need for intelligence reports to do her job, former Obama United Nations ambassador Samantha Power had an abnormally ravenous appetite for spying, especially when it came to Americans.

According to Fox News:

Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was 'unmasking' at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources close to the matter told Fox News.

Two sources, who were not authorized to speak on the record, said the requests to identify Americans whose names surfaced in foreign intelligence reporting, known as unmasking, exceeded 260 last year. One source indicated this occurred in the final days of the Obama White House.

It's baffling stuff, because it was so unprecedented. To request the unmasking of an American is supposed to be done only in exceptional circumstances, given the potential for Stasi-like abuse of power. Power made it her daily preoccupation even as she was supposed to be doing her United Nations job.

That raises questions of what it was for. Apparently, it was the Trump campaign she was spying on. Yet she never came off as a typical slimy political operative such as was commonly seen hanging around the Obama administration. Sure, she was a troglodyte lefty, but she never came off as a campaign expert.

[Liz]

cont

Hillary lost, then Obama's paranoia took over. Trump would hold all the secrets of Obama's dirty presidency

The heinous "legacy" of the Obama presidency is writ large.....so much damage inflicted in the little time the citizenry allotted him.

Obama and his Democrat fellators, ValJar, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and the rest of the knee-padders, turned every federal agency into a political weapon: the FBI, the IRS, NSA, CIA, the UN, even the FISA court.

Obama and his factotums weaponized and corrupted everything for their insatiable thirst for power, for their despicable "progressive" ideology, their obsession w/ a permanent Democrat majority, and for their twisted political ambitions.

[Liz]

Keep in mind that the Obama syndicate incessantly going to the FISA trough could prove very instructive. B/c not only is it a no-no to LIE to a FISA court.....it is a felony to WITHHOLD info from the FISA court.

<><>Did Obama/Rice/Power's request for a FISA warrant stipulate that Obama and Susan Rice wire-tapped Trump Tower......while Trump was a candidate?

<><> Did Obama/Rice/Power's request for a FISA warrant stipulate that Obama's CIA director Brennan used phony foreign intel as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into candidate Trump?

<><> Did the request for a FISA warrant stipulate that phony foreign intel led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to candidate Trump residing and conducting business in Trump Tower?

<><> Did the request for a FISA warrant stipulate that foreign intel gave cover to Susan Rice's sifting/unmasking operations?

I didn't think so.

[Alberta's Child]

Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions were almost certainly two of the people who were victimized by the Obama administration's surveillance and unmasking.

Why don't you just stop the ranting about what is or isn't being done? It makes no sense to complain that they "aren't doing anything" about it when they are perfectly capable of dealing with this however they see fit.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Why don’t you just stop the ranting about what is or isn’t being done?”

Sure; sounds like a plan. I’ll eat some bon-bons, go for a mani-pedi, and not worry my little head about the fact that America has become a banana republic. Thank you so much for the excellent advice. Appreciate it.

[Neidermeyer]

Much ado about nothing! If Trump/Sessionswill not prosecute then the matter goes away.
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Sessions needs to be moved to another position.

[eyedigress]

What is your media telling you?

It would seem to me that Trump is holding 4 aces and they know it.

Tell me why Chuck Schumer hasn’t said a damn thing and Pelosi gets whacked by her own party?

Bitch all you want but I see Trump holding all the cards and upping the ante.

Continue on with your irrelevance but just because Sessions doesn’t ask your opinion doesn’t mean squat to the real world.

[Alberta's Child]

I don't know if it's pathetic or funny, but I do find it interesting that some people here on FreeRepublic seem to be more outraged over this whole thing than the people who were victimized by it.

LOL.

P.S. -- Enjoy the bon-bons and the mani-pedi. :-)

[miniTAX]

“What is your media telling you?”

Err, no. There are many signs that Sessions has failed miserably to act, or at least to send strong signals : he recuses himself on anything Russia, he let Rosenstein appoint Mueller, he let Mueller go rogue, Trump was unhappy with him and said so publicly (without him waking up out of his nap), all the Obama’s or Clinton’s scandals have been revealed by everybody accept the DOJ, etc...
8 months of inaction are largely enough to have an opinion. Given his snail pace so far, anyone hopoing indictments will rain on the deep state in the next months before 2018 elections is being delusional.
You were right about Trump winning though, but he wins despite Sessions who has been an absolute drag so far.

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[DrDude]

You know nothing about me. I have 38 years in the legal profession but am not a lawyer. I have filmed many TV shows about real crimes. Regardless, I really don’t care about Sessions except that he does nothing. As far as calling Trump a Dictator, never! I hate the Clintons and Obamas so bad I wouldn’t mind if Trump had them executed before a trial.
I have followed much of your writings since I joined here. I actually was on here as a guest for a few years before signing up. I usually agree with you but I think you are missing something big regarding Sessions. Eight months is a lifetime in the criminal/political systems. Is it too much for some of us to want a little more action? Regards!

[eyedigress]

I disagree.

The Deep State is in trouble. Sessions is doing his job and just because CNN cannot pin him down is not my problem.

[Kaslin]

Well good for you, but don’t expect me to go gaga, as I am not impressed.

[doug from upland]

[Paladin2]

Is Cass Sunstein a flaming marxist?

[HangThemHigh]

"By Trump/Sessions ignoring so many crimes by so many people, there is no deterrent..."

^This. If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Or in chemical terms, 'if you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate'.

[Maverick68]

We live in an electronic world and I would hope some enterprising young Conservatives would doxx this b-word to the ends of the Earth.