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Federal surveillance laws put in place after Nixon were supposed to protect U.S. citizens. The Obama administration used them to spy on political opponents. The drip-drip-drip of newly declassified documents related to the Trump-Russia investigation, together with recent reports that a classified leak against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn might not have come from an unmasking request, leaves little doubt that the Obama administration weaponized federal surveillance laws to target Trump associates and undermine the incoming administration.The story thus far is complex, but it reveals a disturbing abuse of power by the Obama administration that suggests congressional reform of...

Last week, President Trump triggered the left when he tweeted a Photoshopped picture that portrayed former President Barack Obama perched midair outside Trump Tower, binoculars and listening device in hand.The liberal outlet Vox condemned the president for his “increasingly bad tweets,” before declaring “there’s no evidence the Obama administration spied on Trump.” Vox then regurgitated the false narrative that, while the FBI did surveil former Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page, “that didn’t happen until after Page left the campaign.” For years, conservatives tried to correct the record, noting that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) order gave the...

Usually we can expect two things when the guilty are about to be exposed: 1. Deflections and/or excuses from friends and allies of the perps, AND 2. Outright, flat denials from the perps themselves. So, when it comes to the growing body of information about FISA abuse in surveillance of political opponents, has anyone noticed that while we’ve been hearing a growing swell of deflections from friends and the corrupt MSM, we’re just not hearing the usual flat out denials from the perps themselves? There has been no such barking of clear, flat denials from the Core group of Democrat...