[OpsLens] "It had to be a scary thought--the thought of a special prosecutor with strong investigative powers looking under the hood of the Obama and Clinton getaway car..."As I’m writing this, the news is reporting possible bombshell evidence being released in the next few days regarding the Obama administration spying on Donald J. Trump and his transition team. If the roles were switched and the Republicans were to blame (think Richard Nixon), Washington would be in flames. Instead, we have casual avoidance of the subject by the media, who continues to scream "the Russians!" whenever any derogatory evidence is brought up against our previous Dear Leader Obama.
But this is not the first time, is it? There has been a long string of evidence implicating the Obama administration in abusing the power of the state he was given by the American people.
The IRS first comes to mind. Using the tax agency of the federal government against political opposition is something straight out of Moscow; it’s ironic that the Democrats are the ones screaming, "the Russians are coming!" Vladimir Putin regularly ransacks offices and homes of his foes on trumped up (pardon the pun) tax evasion charges.
The Obama IRS famously prevented conservative groups from getting tax-exempt status prior to the 2012 election, and then his smug IRS commissioner lied to Congress about it. The woman in charge of the issue at the IRS pleaded the Fifth. Recent reports say the IRS is still slow-rolling conservative non-profit applications. This is corruption, pure and simple--using the agencies of the federal government against your adversaries. It’s right out of the handbook any totalitarian regime or banana republic dictator. It’s not supposed to happen here, but it did. And it is still going on.