BigGovernment: The mainstream media have been doing a victory lap since the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) confirmed on Monday in testimony before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee that President Barack Obama did not wiretap Trump Tower. But that was already known.
There was only one new revelation at the hearing, and it was a bombshell: senior Obama administration officials could have known the identities of surveillance targets.
One of those targets, retired General Michael Flynn, lost his job after it was revealed that his conversation with the Russian ambassador had been monitored, and that he had discussed sanctions relief, contrary to his early private and public claims.
Yet Flynn’s identity was never supposed to have been revealed. The surveillance of the Russian ambassador, routine though it may have been, yielded classified information, and the identity of any U.S. citizen swept up in it should have been redacted.
But Flynn’s name was unmasked and leaked to the media. Moreover, the New York Times reported on Jan. 19 — with a front-page, top-of-the-fold headline on Inauguration Day — that “intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.” And the Times also reported in February that surveillance of Trump aides suspected of ties with Russia had been disseminated widely throughout the government, without privacy protections, by order of the lame duck Obama administration under newly-relaxed NSA rules, which the Times had already reported earlier in January.
Monday’s hearing “debunked” Trump’s wiretapping tweets, but left his underlying claim intact: that there was surveillance of the Trump campaign; that the results were shared throughout the government — even possibly reaching the Obama White House; and that intelligence was leaked, illegally, to the mainstream media.
In an extraordinary exchange with FBI Director James Comey on Monday, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) explored what that meant — that Obama aides could have broken the law: MORE HERE
I guess Barky is having David Geffen is steer the yacht to the nearest South Pacific island with no extradition treaty. Out of an abundance of caution.
It is a shame that Obama’s picture is overlapped with Nixon-I remember Richard saying on television– I AM NOT A CROOK- now I guess Obama will be saying the same thing.
Poor Dick even had spies in his office– not is safe…
What the heck, most of us have been highly suspicious of Obama for at least the last eight years!
I predict that Comey will resign before the end of the week!
Question: Mr. Comey is the FBI investigating President Trump? Comey: “You better believe that we are investigating Trump and his team and will continue to do so with all our power”! Question: Mr. Comey is the FBI investigating the various criminal leaks of classified information concerning President Trump? Comey: “I can’t comment on investigations”!
Comey/FBI alone have not responded to Nunes letter 3/15 re: unmasking info. Comey alone was not reachable by phone today when Nunes received proof of Obama spying.
Russia was just a cover story. Obama is stupid. Trump is lightyears ahead.
My President is playing these Washington buffoons and their Media bitches like an old pair of Bongos
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