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2020-05-13 Home Front: Politix

[National Review] There’s no reason to ignore the mounting evidence that Obama administration officials were corrupt in their handling of the Trump—Russia investigation.

Those sharing #Obamagate hashtags on Twitter would do best to avoid the hysterics we saw from Russian-collusion believers, but they have no reason to ignore the mounting evidence that suggests the Obama administration engaged in serious corruption.

Democrats and their allies, who like to pretend that President Obama’s only scandalous act was wearing a tan suit, are going spend the next few months gaslighting the public by focusing on the most feverish accusations against Obama. But the fact is that we already have more compelling evidence that the Obama administration engaged in misconduct than we ever did for opening the Russian-collusion investigation.

It is not conspiracy-mongering to note that the investigation into Trump was predicated on an opposition-research document filled with fabulism and, most likely, Russian disinformation. We know the DOJ withheld contradictory evidence when it began spying on those in Trump’s orbit. We have proof that many of the relevant FISA-warrant applications — almost every one of them, actually — were based on "fabricated" evidence or riddled with errors. We know that members of the Obama administration, who had no genuine role in counterintelligence operations, repeatedly unmasked Trump’s allies. And we now know that, despite a dearth of evidence, the FBI railroaded Michael Flynn into a guilty plea so it could keep the investigation going.

What’s more, the larger context only makes all of these facts more damning. By 2016, the Obama administration’s intelligence community had normalized domestic spying. Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, famously lied about snooping on American citizens to Congress. His CIA director, John Brennan, oversaw an agency that felt comfortable spying on the Senate, with at least five of his underlings breaking into congressional computer files. His attorney general, Eric Holder, invoked the Espionage Act to spy on a Fox News journalist, shopping his case to three judges until he found one who let him name the reporter as a co-conspirator. The Obama administration also spied on Associated Press reporters, which the news organization called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion." And though it’s been long forgotten, Obama officials were caught monitoring the conversations of members of Congress who opposed the Iran nuclear deal.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-13 08:12|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 This is Watergate x100.

A president and the heads of FBI, CIA and NSA engaged in a massive, multi-year, multi-pronged approach to spy on, harass, and railroad the president's political opponents.

When those efforts failed, the outgoing president set a series of traps that would undermine his newly-elected successor and prevent him from governing.

There is no scandal in this nation's history that even comes close to what Obama and his conspirators did. It's not quite accurate to say that they seized power or expanded their power. Their goal was not to govern but to prevent others from governing.

They nullified the people's choice. They did their level best, through every trick and ruse and lever at their disposal, and to destroy self-government in America.

We're not at war yet, but this crisis is certainly as big as the crisis the nation faced in the winter of 1860-61. Thus cannot be allowed to stand.

Obama and his fellow conspirators need to go to prison for their efforts to destroy American self-government. This is treason by any other name.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-13 13:39|| 2020-05-13 13:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Sometimes I think every 10 years, every single government employee with more than 5 years 'service' needs to be fired. No pension, nothing.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-05-13 16:15|| 2020-05-13 16:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, I understand the sentiment, but in my situation I put in 36 years, retiring as Senior Bridge Engineer/Deputy City Engineer. You want a new hire taking my place after my first five years? Good luck with that.

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-13 16:48|| 2020-05-13 16:48|| Front Page Top

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