Top Obama Adviser Susan Rice Sought Names of Trump Associates By Using The Intelligence Services.

One U.S. official familiar with the reports Rice ordered said they contained valuable political information on the Trump transition such as whom the Trump team was meeting, the views of Trump associates on foreign policy matters and plans for the incoming administration. See The Bloomberg Report HERE. 
Even the extreme Left-wing Bloomberg reported: “Ever since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed top-secret documents to the Guardian and the Washington Post, civil liberties advocates, progressives and libertarians have raised alarms about the ability of U.S. eavesdroppers to circumvent the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This is through what is known as “incidental collection,” when a U.S. person is on the other end of a communication that is legally monitored by the U.S. government.

Until now, that issue has not had much traction in Congress. Republicans and Democrats — with few exceptions — have voted to reauthorize the law without making it harder to collect and disseminate the names of U.S. persons caught up in this surveillance.

National security experts and the U.S. government have defended these FISA programs as critical tools for tracking terrorists and detecting plots in the U.S. But like most government activities that are shrouded in secrecy therefore this snooping is prone to inevitable abuse as we see with Susan Rice.

There are the stories about how Obama’s White House sought to preserve and disseminate intelligence collected on ties between Trump’s associates and Russia in the final days of the presidency. Now Nunes says he has seen intelligence reports that contained details about Trump’s transition that were distributed widely inside the government, including to the White House.

Democrats should have a keen interest in all of this. After all, if Obama can keep tabs on his political opposition, there is nothing to stop Trump from doing the same.

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