- It is undeniable Obama administration surveilled American citizens
- Yes Obama can order it, he certainly had to know about it
- Obama’s people leaked information to favorable news agencies
- Obama/Democrats lie and destroy evidence and plead the fifth again and again — why would anyone automatically believe their denials of wrongdoing?
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So Obama and his flacks, proven in the past willing to lie and mislead, flatly denied wiretapping Trump, say Obama does not have the power to do so, in spite of a track record of tapping into phones and emails of private citizens
Judge Napolitano: Any President Can Wiretap Any American
Here’s the List: More Than a Dozen Proven Victims of Obama’s Many Wiretaps
Via Gateway Pundit: It is not unfounded that former President Obama would wire tap President Trump during the election process. This is because he has done this before. Here is a list of individuals who were wire tapped by the Obama Administration.
WikiLeaks released the following list on February 23rd (see link here) of Obama Administration wire taps:
* The US National Security Agency bugged a private climate change strategy meeting; between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin;
* Obama bugged Chief of Staff of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for long term interception targetting his Swiss phone;
* Obama singled out the Director of the Rules Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Johann Human, and targetted his Swiss phone for long term interception;
* Obama stole sensitive Italian diplomatic cables detailing how Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to help patch up his relationship with US President Barack Obama, who was refusing to talk to Netanyahu;
* Obama intercepted top EU and Japanese trade ministers discussing their secret strategy and red lines to stop the US “extort[ing]” them at the WTO Doha arounds (the talks subsequently collapsed);
* Obama explicitly targeted five other top EU economic officials for long term interception, including their French, Austrian and Belgium phone numbers;
* Obama explicitly targetted the phones of Italy’s ambassador to NATO and other top Italian officials for long term interception; and
* Obama intercepted details of a critical private meeting between then French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel and Berluscon, where the latter was told the Italian banking system was ready to “pop like a cork”.
In addition to the above list we also know now that Obama wire tapped various individuals in the US media that were reporting information not flattering to the Obama Administration. It is widely known that Obama’s Justice Department targeted journalists with wiretaps in 2013:
* In 2013 the liberal Washington Post expressed outrage after the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the newsgathering activities of a Fox News reporter as a potential crime in a probe of classified leaks. The reporter, Fox News’ James Rosen and his family, were part of an investigation into government officials anonymously leaking information to journalists. Rosen was not charged but his movements and actions were tracked.
* Also in 2013, members of the Associated Press were also a target of the surveillance. The ultra liberal New Yorker even noted that “In moderate and liberal circles, at least, the phone-records scandal, partly because it involves the dear old A.P. and partly because it raises anew the specter of Big Brother, may well present the most serious threat to Obama’s reputation.”
* Reporter Sharyl Attkisson said in 2014 that her personal computer and CBS laptop were hacked after she began filing stories about Benghazi that were unflattering to the Obama administration. A source who checked her laptop said the hacker used spyware “proprietary to a government agency,” according to an article in the New York Post.
Update – WikiLeaks tweeted overnight that the Obama Administration spied on their journalists as well:
Intel Community Has Lied Before About Use of Domestic Surveillance Programs
Ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Sunday denied that former President Obama ordered the FBI or any other agency to wiretap President Trump during the election season.
“Not to my knowledge, no,” Clapper told NBC News on Sunday.
However, it was Clapper who in March of 2013 testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that the intelligence community (IC) did not collect data on U.S. citizens.
Just three months later, Edward Snowden turned Clapper’s answer into one of the monumental deceptions of all time when he leaked information that detailed how the National Security Agency had been collecting metadata from the phone companies on calls made by U.S. citizens.
Chaffetz: House Will Take ‘Hard Look’ at Trump’s Wiretap Allegations …
Republican Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of House Oversight committee * reminds Fox New listeners: (words to the effect) well let’s remember what they did to James Rosen (v’pac – and the AP) they targeted Americans for their political beliefs (the IRS scandal involving the TEA party* and that more than 40 Secret Service agents illegally tap into my records (veritaspac – in a probable attempt to find dirt on him in order to embarrass his investigation of wrongdoing by Secret Service agents).
Obama flaks having flatly denied out of one side of their mouths, hedge their denials out the other
Josh Earnest Won’t Deny Trump Tower Was Surveilled By Obama Administration
President Obama’s former press secretary opened his interview by calling reports that “President Obama ordered a wiretap” false, yet backpedaled when the “This Week” guest host asked him to “categorically deny” that President Trump’s campaign headquarters was under surveillance.
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*The same Republican congressman who enjoyed a flirtation with fame and approval from the MSM for pulling his support for Trump’s election because of Trump’s foul talk 15 years ago, but who had nothing to say at the same time about the Obamas’ choice of even more foul rap music for themselves and their daughters — that congressman Chaffetz. See v’pac documentation of the Obamas taste in music, here, here, here and here.
