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Fifth Column
Why is Obama Panicking Now? – The Importance of Understanding Political Surveillance In The Era of President Obama…
2020-05-11
[Conservative Tree House] Why is former President Obama calling forth all his defensive resources now? Why did former national security advisor Susan Rice write her cya letter? Why have republicans in congress not been willing to investigate the true origins of political surveillance? What is the reason for so much anger, desperation and opposition from a variety of interests?

With the release of recent transcripts and the declassification of material from within the IG report, the Carter Page FISA and Flynn documents showing FBI activity, there is a common misconception about why the intelligence apparatus began investigating the Trump campaign in the first place. Why was Donald Trump considered a threat?

In this outline we hope to provide some fully cited deep source material that will explain the origin; and specifically why those inside the Intelligence Community began targeting Trump and using Confidential Human Sources against campaign officials.

During the time-frame of December 2015 through April 2016 the NSA database was being exploited by contractors within the intelligence community doing unauthorized searches.

On March 9, 2016, oversight personnel doing a review of FBI system access were alerted to thousands of unauthorized search queries of specific U.S. persons within the NSA database.

NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers was made aware.

Subsequently NSA Director Rogers initiated a full compliance review of the system to identify who was doing the searches; & what searches were being conducted.

On April 18, 2016, following the preliminary audit results, Director Rogers shut down all FBI contractor access to the database after he learned FISA-702 “about”(17) and “to/from”(16) search queries were being done without authorization. Thus begins the first discovery of a much bigger background story.

When you compile the timeline with the people involved; and the specific wording of the resulting review, which was then delivered to the FISA court; and overlay the activity that was taking place in the GOP primary; what we discover is a process where the metadata collected by the NSA was being searched for political opposition research and surveillance.
Posted by:Lex

#15  I just hope all those folks who could be witnesses for the prosecution have their life insurance paid up - or else the Trump administration has reliable people protecting them, because the Clinton gang and the rest of the deep state tend to have a lot of their opponents and targets involved in fatal accidents or suddently commit suicide..
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566   2020-05-11 18:32  

#14  Remember when O couldn't find any precedent for dismissing Flynn's case? I found another one, courtesy of the Ay-Pee "Today in History" (May 11) -
1973 The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the Pentagon Papers case came to an end as Judge William N. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-05-11 14:00  

#13  Luckily Obama has a get out of jail free card with a memo indicating all shenanigans were to be by the book. /s

Posted by: Airandee   2020-05-11 11:40  

#12  And that f'in kurva Lois Lerner.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-11 10:36  

#11  Don't forget at the IRS crap. That's Deep State too.
Posted by: 3dc   2020-05-11 10:00  

#10  @lex #5

Remember Sharyl Attkisson found she was hacked in 2013. And the evidence of that hacking went back to 2012. Same actors were involved.
Posted by: mossomo   2020-05-11 09:55  

#9  "...Justice must be seen to be done..." Otherwise private parties will take action.
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163   2020-05-11 08:22  

#8  Obama has visited the cell of political idol and hero Mandela. He knows full well what can happen to fallen communists.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-11 08:11  

#7  Baker has reportedly flipped and is talking
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-11 07:56  

#6  It is my belief that the global Clinton Foundation and associated tentacles provided a valuable intelligence community money laundering mechanism and cover for action. What better method of hiding a money creating and distribution machine than hiding it behind the Green Door, a Green Door with a secret and unlimited budget. Pretty shrewd of the Clinton's I'd reckon. Might not have worked so well for Jeffrey Epstein however.

Remember how angry she became, refusing to concede the election defeat, refusing to appear on stage as the election results rolled in? She had been made a promise. The promise was not kept.

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-11 07:53  

#5  Interestingly, the Montgomery-Klaan revelations indicate the domestic spying / political surveillance operation predates Trump's candidacy by a few years.

So it would appear that this effort had been field-tested -- QA'd as it were -- and was this ready to be ramped up and put in high gear on March 9, 2016, after it became clear (given the results of Super Tuesday on March 8) that OrangeMan was the presumptive GOP nominee.

Nothing haphazard or ad how about it. This smacks of a top-down, centrally-managed conspiracy. Zero needs to go to prison for this.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-11 07:44  

#4  The Hildebeeste was the selected replacement for the sock puppet and useful idiot Obama. The populist candidate Donald Trump got in the way. He had to be stopped. All the assets of the Deep State were marshalled to prevent Trump from being elected.

Many of the same Deep State forces are actively attempting to prevent Donald Trump from gaining a second term.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-11 07:37  

#3  That's stunning, Besoeker.

The Montgomery-Klayman revelations are stunning. The key figure in the cover-up-- whom we've heard little about so far -- is Comey-Mueller hatchet man and FBI General Counsel Janes Baker. Where is Baker now?

Key excerpt from the analysis linked above:

In August 2015, FBI General Counsel James Baker, who reported directly to FBI Director James Comey, took possession of Dennis Montgomery’s physical evidence.
Montgomery says that the evidence he provided to the FBI proves the existence of an illegal, Orwellian surveillance system weaponized to take down Obama’s political enemies.

FBI General Counsel Baker played one of the most important roles in Mueller’s operation to take down Trump.

It was Baker who met with Mother Jones investigative reporter David Corn weeks before the 2016 election, just before Corn broke the story of the now-discredited Trump Dossier.
The dossier was attributed to former British spy Christopher Steele.

Baker managed Comey’s FBI whistleblower investigation of Montgomery’s claim that Obama’s intelligence chiefs Mueller, Brennan, and Clapper put together a surveillance system that spied on Trump. Both Baker and Lisa Page worked as FBI legal analysts for Comey. Lisa Page resigned from the FBI on the same day as FBI General Counsel James Baker according to the New York Times.

Klayman accuses Baker, who handled the day-to-day aspects of the Montgomery whistleblower investigation for Comey, of “burying” the Montgomery case.
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Posted by: Lex   2020-05-11 07:30  

#2  Harvested from the comments section of the above article:

COUP D’ÉTAT: DOJ, FBI OFFICIALS ON MUELLER’S RUSSIA TEAM IN COVER UP OF MUELLER’S, CLAPPER’S, AND BRENNAN’S SURVEILLANCE ‘HAMMER’ THAT SPIED ON TRUMP, STRZOK-PAGE TEXT SHOWS
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-11 07:15  

#1  The tens of 000s of unauthorized searches by NSA plumbers, er, contractors, are the real smoking gun here.

This is prima favor evidence of spying on a political opponent -- not by a few wetworks characters breaking into a hotel room but a highly coordinated, centralized digital operation executed on a vast scale.

Far bigger and more disturbing than Watergate.

Obama, Brennan, Clapper et al. need to go to prison for this.

We can never allow this to happen again in this Republic -- if we wish to keep it.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-11 07:15  

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