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Thought provoking article written by Tom Shattuck, Boston Herald.

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March 6, 2017
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For Obama, Spying is Nothing New

March 6, 2017 at 6:55 am 9Fresh Ink, Lead Stories

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“In what has already been a historically bad year for Democrats, it just may be that they’re about to lose again to Donald Trump, this time in a high-stakes game of Russian roulette.

The Dems’ Putin smear was supposed to paint President Trump as a friend of the tyrant and beneficiary of Russian meddling in the election. Instead, it is the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, former President Barack Obama, who may take the fall.

Snooping on a presidential candidate is serious business.

The Democrats want you to think this is a crazy conspiracy theory for an unhinged tweeting president.

But Obama has a rich legacy of using the federal government as a political weapon and it would be foolish to think he suddenly started restraining himself, when he was never held to account by either the media or Democrats in power.

Remember, Obama’s Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the private phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters. It was pure spying.

Fox News reporter James Rosen and his family were wiretapped.

Former CBS news reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was hacked by the government.

Add to these incidents the harassment of conservative 501(c)(4) organizations by Obama’s IRS, and the mercenary nature of the Obama administration reveals itself.

We’re told Obama administration officials went to the FISA Court twice last year for warrants to conduct electronic surveillance on candidate Trump. Why?

The DNC leaks show that DNC staffers were formulating “Russia” attacks on Trump as far back as last April, with one email between two committee members reading “the pro-Russia stuff ties in pretty well to idea that Trump is too friendly with Putin/weak on Russia.”

Related Story: Why Trump might suspect Obama bugged Trump Tower

Then there is the infamous “dossier” — anonymous reports that Trump campaign members were speaking to Russian officials with some frequency last year and the existence of wiretapped audio.

Obama’s spokesman issued a statement this weekend, declaring, “Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen.” A sentence carefully crafted with the precision of someone battening down the legal hatches.

The left wants to play the Russia game and President Trump should oblige.

There should be an immediate investigation, and we’ll see where the espionage trail leads.

But for those who want you to think this is all just a crazy middle-of-the-night conspiracy theory by an unhinged president that should be ignored, we just spent eight years watching far too many presidential abuses of executive power get swept under the rug not to take a very close look at this one.”

This editorial appeared earlier today in The Boston Hearald.

Discussion
62 Comments
      Mar 06, 2017 06:02 AM

      Yes, but then again why should he?

    AJ
    Mar 06, 2017 06:43 AM

    Analysis: The quiet response to President Trump’s explosive claim
    http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/05/analysis-the-quiet-response-to-president-trumps-explosive-claim.html

      Mar 06, 2017 06:07 AM

      That is an interesting article, thank you.

      My take is that is that the Administration should sit tight until something can be factually determined. If, in fact, he was spied upon then simply go from there because I guarantee you that it would really hit the fan then.

      Mar 06, 2017 06:31 AM

      AJ:

      Actually there was a lot of evidence that the FISA court was used and notice that Obama didn’t say a word about the DOJ tapping Trump, he just said the WH didn’t tap him.

      Of course he was tapped. That’s why days before Jan 20 Obama gave permission to all Federal agencies to use the raw data from the NSA.

      The NSA is the most powerful agency in world history. They can blackmail anyone. Now all the other agencies can do the same. I think Trump is surrounded by fools and he’s a bully but much of what he says is more or less correct. He was wrong only in saying the WH tapped him.

        Mar 06, 2017 06:33 AM

        great followup……BOB

        CFS
        Mar 06, 2017 06:49 AM

        Remember they once admitted to monitoring Merkel’s cell phone?

        My guess, and it is just a guess, they are blackmailing Merkel into not stopping all the refugees. Her behavior otherwise does not make sense. She has nothing to gain and much to lose politically from her actions.

          Mar 06, 2017 06:15 PM

          Obama wiretaps are up to 15…….zerohedge

        Mar 06, 2017 06:01 PM

        Getting interesting, huh Bob!

    AJ
    Mar 06, 2017 06:46 AM
    Mar 06, 2017 06:47 AM

    MSN……..still painting the picture they want………

      Mar 06, 2017 06:48 AM

      NYT…..WAPO………included

        Mar 06, 2017 06:51 AM

        The majority of congress does not know the law……..

    AJ
    Mar 06, 2017 06:48 AM
      Mar 06, 2017 06:52 AM

      I think there is a bit of info in the article which is not correct…….time will tell…..

      Mar 06, 2017 06:14 AM

      AJ,

      I have to say that my opinion is that he should have let sleeping dogs lie and then when the the dust lifted and there were substantiable actions along the lines that he tweeted out at that point he could have truly “made hay”. Now I think that nothing positive was gained by is actions. I do feel that “tweeting” is a bit unpresidential.

    Mar 06, 2017 06:10 AM

    Still Trump not filling hundereds of vacancys in his sub cabinet . He is being paid to be president but he doesnt seem to care to fill the 300 vacant federal judgeships that are currently open. he couldmake a deal tueaday to give the Dems 100 of the judgeships , and he can have 200,and do it all in a few weeks . Lazy Trump loves to weekend in Fla but wont do his job. !!! S

      Mar 06, 2017 06:17 AM

      Mr. Hamilton,

      Being the type of person that I am, I do appreciate your input on these political issues. There is a lot of “food for thought” out there on both sides and on important issues like these we certainly cannot be myopic.

      Thank you

    Mar 06, 2017 06:12 AM

    Govt is to large already…….think of all the money he is saving the country

      Mar 06, 2017 06:28 AM

      besides he might be waiting till the 15th. of March…….to see where the money is coming from to pay all these employees…….

    b
    Mar 06, 2017 06:45 AM

    I wonder if all this is simply to cover up what the military is doing.
    American special forces murdering women and children in Yeman is pretty special.
    Its another american genocide, all the while people talk of wiretaps.

    american troops in syria now, well, I can see they would be there to help assad…no worries.

    If ya take into account many pieces of the puzzle as opposed to just the Trump pcs, things really havnt changed.

    Be nice if Trumps people expose the pedophilia, we have had some arrests, but Im waiting for the congress members.

    b
    Mar 06, 2017 06:48 AM

    And aprox 800 dead children burried at a catholic church in Ireland.
    I just dont see much changed yet.

      Mar 06, 2017 06:10 PM

      b…Have you got a link to what you just posted above…Thanks.

        b
        Mar 06, 2017 06:33 PM

        sry tony, read it a day or 2 ago sgt report, zerohedge or silver doc.

        Mar 06, 2017 06:38 PM

        google it………I think it is old news……….

        b
        Mar 06, 2017 06:44 PM

        Mass grave discovered at ex-Catholic orphanage in Ireland | Toronto …
        https://www.thestar.com › News › World
        3 days ago – Historians have long thought that some 800 children died at the orphanage, … Mass grave discovered at ex-Catholic orphanage in Ireland …. She called on the Catholic Church to provide more assistance to investigators.

        a google search

          Mar 06, 2017 06:08 PM

          PleaSe provide a bit more background.

      Mar 06, 2017 06:06 PM

      What is the context?

        CFS
        Mar 07, 2017 07:06 AM

        This gives enough explicit info for google-type searches:

        Location of Orphanage/ unmarried mother home: Tuam.
        (DUBLIN) The remains of babies, ranging from new-born to three-years-old, have been found in the sewers of a former Church-run home for unmarried mothers in Ireland, the government said on Friday.

        A report from an inquiry the government ordered in 2014 backed up a historian’s claim that up to 800 children may lie in an unmarked grave at the home. It said: “significant quantities of human remains have been discovered in at least 17 of the 20 underground chambers which were examined”.
        Radiocarbon dating found the remains, which ranged from 35-week-old fetuses to 3-year-olds, dated from between 1925 and 1961, when the home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters.
        The inquiry was launched after a local historian said there was evidence of an unmarked graveyard at the home, where records showed almost 800 children died between 1925 and 1961.
        The Church ran many of Ireland’s social services in the 20th century, including mother-and-baby homes where tens of thousands of unmarried pregnant women, including rape victims, were sent to give birth.
        Unmarried mothers and their children were seen as a stain on Ireland’s image as a devout Catholic nation. They were also a problem for some of the fathers, particularly powerful figures such as priests and wealthy, married men.

        Government records show that in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, the mortality rate for “illegitimate” children was often more than five times that of those born to married parents. On average, more than one in four children born out of wedlock died.

        In 2014, the Archbishop of Dublin said that “if something happened in Tuam, it probably happened in other mother-and-baby homes around the country.” The commission is investigating 17 other church-run institutions.

        Ireland’s Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone said Friday’s news was “sad and disturbing”, adding that the commission of inquiry would work with local authorities to investigate further and decide what should happen to the remains.

        The commission did not say how many babies’ remains were recovered or how many might still be buried in what are believed to be the home’s sewage and/or waste water treatment system.

        Ireland’s once powerful Catholic Church has been rocked by a series of scandals over the abuse and neglect of children. The Archbishop of Tuam said in 2014 he was horrified and saddened by the historian’s discovery.

    Mar 06, 2017 06:29 AM

    Judicial Watch …….files lawsuit….against CIA,DOJ and Treasury……. for freedom of information

      Mar 06, 2017 06:30 AM

      things just got more interesting…….

        Mar 06, 2017 06:30 AM

        see at zerohedge

    Mar 06, 2017 06:07 PM

    Obama’s WIRETAP Victims at zerohedge……..15 and counting.

    Mar 06, 2017 06:49 PM

    No one mentions that the Russian trail leads to democratic lobbyists. This is an inconvenient truth.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/02/18/no-one-mentions-that-the-russian-trail-leads-to-democratic-lobbyists/amp

      Mar 06, 2017 06:57 PM

      Demos are neck high in swamp water……..and they all know it……

        Mar 06, 2017 06:59 PM

        noticed they are still promoting Frank G…..billionaire for his brilliance……more like a little con man…………jmho

    Mar 06, 2017 06:49 PM

    CNN spycam……..spying on oval office……..zerohedge

    Mar 06, 2017 06:00 PM

    Jerry OOTB Trump goesbalistic rumors fly that Trump may fire rence prebus. Also full scale verbal assult by Trump on his own FBI chief . No pres in history has ever smeared his own intel and FBI people . He acts like he is outside his own administration ??? No way Trump is saving USA any money, his strange restless travel plans , an dexciessive use of air force one. He frequently critcs Obama for his use of air force One. but he wi more abusive himself. Shouting at Prebus on friday night before he takes off for FLA. Prebus was a fool to throw in his lot with Trump. pray for sanity . S

      Mar 07, 2017 07:57 AM

      rsh………Pray for sanity, truth and liberty.

      Mar 07, 2017 07:18 AM

      as I said the other day….
      ….You need to do some more homework, see Steele’s article below………From Martin Armstrong.
      The system is corrupt,,,stop living in a dream world……….

      Mar 07, 2017 07:12 AM

      FBI…..first director of the fbi……..Hoover……check out his background

      Mar 07, 2017 07:05 PM

      check out………Vault 7………for a good up date on the CIA…….

    Mar 06, 2017 06:40 PM
      Mar 07, 2017 07:06 AM

      Very interesting……….pieces keep coming together…….Obama is neck deep in this mess

        Mar 07, 2017 07:58 AM

        Carter, Clapper, Comey…………CCC…….a lot to c here……..

          Mar 07, 2017 07:59 AM

          What a crew………..

    CFS
    Mar 06, 2017 06:27 PM

    Here is something the MainStreamNewsMedia never told you.

    KENYA: Once again, Obama’s first cousin, radical Muslim Raila Odinga, is refusing to accept Presidential election results that declared him the loser
    The last time this happened, in 2007, Odinga staged a coup against the Christian majority in Kenya, resulting in thousands of deaths, after which, he was appeased by being named Prime Minister.

    The Devil Incarnate was on the phone repeatedly to try to start a civil war in Kenya to cause a Marxist revolution and make his cousin President.
    There is thus a precedent for trying to start a civil war.
    This time I believe he is working behind the scenes in the US to stir up civil unrest, possibly to create Civil War.

      Mar 07, 2017 07:59 AM

      Obama did sign a bill funding arms in the amount of $400 million to Kenya