During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.
Among those whose names were unmasked in 2016 or early 2017 were campaign or transition associates of President Trump as well as members of Congress and their staffers, according to sources with direct knowledge.
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In all, government officials conducted 30,355 searches in 2016 seeking information about Americans in NSA intercept metadata, which include telephone numbers and email addresses. The activity amounted to a 27.5 percent increase over the prior year and more than triple the 9,500 such searches that occurred in 2013, the first year such data was kept.
The government in 2016 also scoured the actual contents of NSA intercepted calls and emails for 5,288 Americans, an increase of 13 percent over the prior year and a massive spike from the 198 names searched in 2013.
OttRob
On a related note…
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he has asked the intelligence community and White House for any evidence that he was surveilled by former President Barack Obama.
Paul and many civil libertarians argue that, since foreign surveillance requires no warrant, Americans caught up in that surveillance are being observed without a warrant.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/332084-rand-paul-requests-info-on-whether-obama-surveilled-him
Any bets if Susan Rice is compelled to testify that she’ll take the 5th? Losing control of the DOJ is the Dem’s achilles and I think it will bite them. There’s too much evidence of power abuse and not nearly enough kitty litter to cover it all up.
Why can’t I find anything about this in the MSM? Of course there is a headline news story about a dog that was adopted.
Obama and his hardcore leftist Cabal were THE most FASCIST administration in the history of America. From ignoring the Constitution, to weaponizing the IRS, to illegally spying on political opponents … the Obama Admin behaved like a rogue dictatorship occupying the White House. It’s time to start JAILING these CRIMINALS for obstructing justice.
The muslim who previously occupied the white house should be arrested for treason and appropriate punishment administered.
A little off topic but since it concerns the Liberal Party of Canada it fits right in here with the Democrats in America. With the Democrats subverting the IRS in with-holding TEA party conformation for charitable organizations we have the Liberal government getting rid of the Harper plan to prevent charitable organizations from becoming political.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-revenue-agency-political-activity-diane-lebouthillier-audits-panel-report-suspension-1.4099184?cmp=rss
Funny how these Libs/Dems accomplish their ends from different approaches.
In March the talking points were that the Russian election hacking was `worse than Watergate’. Nixon was a piker compared to these criminals.
Let us all hope that said action is actually completed….That would provide Excellent precedent to jail the Muslim Brotherhood Operative currently occupying the PMO.
Nothing in the remainder of my life would give me greater abject pleasure than to see that two bit MoFo thrown into jail on Treason charges.
If you google the names on the panel you see two from the Suzuki Foundation, another from a charity umbrella group, a charity lawyer etc. Basically the charities being audited saying nothing to see here. So much for basing decisions on facts and being transparent. Sunni ways
“US House votes to replace Obamacare ”
It is now up to the Senate to get real…The stupid Canadian News have been hi-lighting Trumps statement about Australia having better Health Care….They think Trump is Dim,…but he is just telling the self dealing Republicans in the Senate what will happen if they screw around.. In 2018 the Trump could swing his support to the Democrats “Single payer”
The Senate has been warned! Govern or be gone
Such is the earmark of Kleptocracy…Too big to fail..Too corrupt to jail.
Unless the rule of law is demonstrated to apply to all, social distrust will continue to grow.
If Trump and Sessions fail to act, with respect to the Blatant criminality of Obama and Clinton, then the citizen can rightly declare all agencies criminal.
Which most of them are.
Currently crime pays well as society is wilfully destroyed.
Short term gains guaranteeing long term pain.
I suspect there is no nonviolent way to reform Kleptocracy.
For when Fools and Bandits govern, none may call their actions crimes,for they write these laws.