Spying by the Obama Administration on the Trump Campaign was a new low for American government. Obama got some splainin’ to do. In the Wall Street Journal: “Like the special prosecutor, Representative Devin Nunes and his committee have been investigating the 2016 presidential campaign. Unlike the special prosecutor, Mr. Nunes has unearthed hard evidence about . . . domestic spying (by Obama’s FBI) on Trump campaign officials.

On two fronts, Rep. Devin Nunes has shifted the Russia debate in Washington further away from President Trump and closer to Democrats.

1. He exposed the practice of “unmasking” by Obama aides and 2, flushed out the source of payments for the scandalous anti-Trump dossier that drove the Russia collusion narrative.

What has Mr. Nunes’s committee found so far? Turns out that in the Obama years, especially in 2016, Obama officials made many requests to unmask the identities of Americans, including Trump campaign officials, who were caught up in foreign surveillance. 

When asked about it by PBS’s Judy Woodruff back in March, Obama national security adviser Susan (Benghazi Video Pusher) Rice claimed she was “surprised” and told Ms. Woodruff “I know nothing about this.” Under oath before Mr. Nunes’s committee, Ms. Rice’s memory returned, and she admitted of unmasking senior figures in the Trump campaign.

Meanwhile the committee learned that Ms. Rice’s colleague at the United Nations, Ambassador Samantha Power, had made hundreds of unmasking requests. During Ms. Power’s appearance before the committee, she oddly claimed others were doing much of the asking – even though her name was on these requests. Did anyone outside the House committee think to ask why a Democratic White House was so free with such sensitive info in an election year?
The unmasking of Trump aides could amount to use of the NSA’s universal telecom surveillance capability to spy on the rival party’s campaign, a scandal unprecedented in the history of the Republic. Former Trump campaign official Michael Caputo avers that he has been told by intelligence sources that hundreds of Trump campaign figures were unmasked in this espionage effort. The Steele dossier seems to be at the heart of the FISA Court reversing itself and permitting the unmasking, a request it had earlier denied, prior to the production of the Steele dossier.

And if the Nunes committee gets the documents it has been demanding for months about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI ) handling of the salacious Christopher Steele dossier, this week may end even more explosively than it’s begun.” 


a much more combustible question: whether a presidential campaign was able to leverage opposition research based on Russian disinformation to bring about an FBI investigation into its rival’s campaign.. . That’s a Police State’s tactic and it’s what the Obama Administration did. It really did!!
 

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