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| Daniel Higdon (OP) User ID: 69657566 United States05/04/2017 09:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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 in the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election. The data, made available this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provides the clearest evidence to date of how information accidentally collected by the NSA overseas about Americans was subsequently searched and disseminated after President Obama loosened privacy protections to make such sharing easier in 2011 in the name of national security. A court affirmed his order. The revelations are particularly sensitive since the NSA is legally forbidden from directly spying on Americans and its authority to conduct warrantless searches on foreigners is up for renewal in Congress later this year. And it comes as lawmakers investigate President Trump's own claims that his privacy was violated by his predecessor during the 2016 election. 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. [link to www.zerohedge.com] |
| Daniel Higdon (OP) User ID: 69657566 United States05/04/2017 09:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Republicans are angry, but not surprised that the NSA collected data on Americans Issa said it is up to American's to pressure their representatives for change to surveillance rules. "I think Americans, through their Congress, are going to have to tighten up the rules," the California Republican said. He added that Americans should call on Congress to change the rules "in a way that codifies for all time that Americans are not to be spied on and that unmasking should be extremely limited and must be justified in far greater ways than it has in the past." Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) another member of the Judiciary Committee said he and some of his colleagues had suspected the searches were increasing. [link to circa.com] |
| Daniel Higdon (OP) User ID: 69657566 United States05/04/2017 09:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Did Obama give government agencies the power to harass the unredacted? Calling on Judicial Watch: Detailed research is needed on how NSA intelligence with the unredacted names of thousands of US citizens during the 2016 election campaign may have been put to use. Follow-up is needed to see what happened to thousands of citizens whose names were distributed throughout government agencies under the orders of the President Barack Hussein Obama administration—in effect giving them the power of harassment. Were any of them subject to IRS audits? Did any face overnight harassment from government agencies such as the BLM or EPA and other alphabet government agencies? What was the Obama team’s intention in passing on a thousands-person-strong list to a bevy of government agencies? <snip> Why are so few in the mainstream media reporting on the story that CIRCA broke yesterday? Talk Show radio host Mark Levin reported on the Circa blockbuster last night, which was likely why KNSS Radio followed suit. The story is posted in the middle column of Drudge, but at the time this story is being written, no FoxNews or much MSM. Are the missing MSM headlines because the MSM does not want readers to know that it was the Obama team and not Vladimir Putin on spy duty during the 2016 presidential election? Judicial Watch, demand a list of the names of all of the unredacted. President Trump, do everything possible to make sure none of these people come to any harm. [link to canadafreepress.com] Last Edited by Daniel Higdon on 05/04/2017 09:35 PM |
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| Daniel Higdon (OP) User ID: 69657566 United States05/05/2017 07:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “The data kept by ODNI is missing some information from one of the largest consumers of NSA intelligence, the FBI,” Circa noted. “And officials acknowledge the numbers are likely much higher when the FBI’s activity is added.” This week, it was reported that the NSA ignored a law change and continued to collect phone records from U.S. citizens, while in April, it was revealed that the agency had eavesdropped on citizens using a blimp over Maryland. [link to www.breitbart.com] |
| Daniel Higdon (OP) User ID: 69657566 United States05/05/2017 08:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | INTELLIGENCE REPORTS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SURVEILLANCE The data in these two reports cry out for witness testimony. Only witnesses familiar with the processes described in the reports, and who know which Obama officials requested “unmasking” of American citizens, and why, can shed meaningful light. Will such witnesses ever testify? Don’t hold your breath. First on that list is Susan Rice, but she has already refused to appear before the Senate subcommittee investigating this matter. That is no surprise; stonewalling was the Obama administration’s invariable response to scandal. Obama and his minions stonewalled successfully for two terms, and there is no reason to doubt that they can keep it up for two more terms–Trump’s. Congressional committees are the world’s worst investigators, and that fact, combined with the Democrats’ intransigence, may prevent us from ever finding out what the Democrats were up to during the 2016 presidential campaign and the months that led up to it. [link to www.powerlineblog.com] |
| Daniel Higdon (OP) User ID: 69657566 United States05/05/2017 08:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Obama-era Surveillance Timeline You can find many timelines that follow allegations of Russia tampering in the U.S. election and alleged involvement of Trump officials. But I couldn’t find any comprehensive timelines cross-referencing Obama-era surveillance of whistleblowers, journalists and other U.S. citizens with Russia surveillance allegations. So I built one. Please note: temporal proximity of events doesn’t necessarily imply a connection. [link to sharylattkisson.com (secure)] |
