March 6, 2017
Obama, president of 'historic firsts'...and not in a good way
Now that the #Obamagate wiretapping scandal is on us, with
voters wondering "did he or didn't he" bug the presidential candidacy
of Donald Trump, as the latter charged Saturday, it's worth it to look at the
president's style of governing. The estimable Doug Ross of Director Blue
has a list of historic "firsts" of the Obama presidency,
most of which show abuse of power in a pattern so repetitive it's impossible
not to think this could go farther.
You can be the judge of whether or not Obama had it in him to bug
the candidacy of Trump. But check out Doug's list to see what Obama's leadership
character pattern amounts to.
As an old journalist buddy of mine from the foreign correspondent
front in Africa said upon his return to the states: "I spent 20 years in
the jungles here, serving my country in a way ... only to return home to an African
dictator." He saw the pattern then. Ross's list might show the pattern to many
more.
President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts
[Updated]
Yes, he's historic,
alright (new items denoted
by ••• prefix). You can
bookmark this link
Law and Justice
•
First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American
Military Operations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time
Period - Source: Huffington Post)
•
First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
•
First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being
Associated With Terrorism Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No
Indictment. No Judge or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an Indefinite Jail
Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source:
Business Insider)
•
First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight (8) Hours
After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a
Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)
•
First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it
on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al
Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)
•
First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About
the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a
Scapegoat (Source: CNN)
•
First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies"
as Well as pro-Catholic and pro-Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)
•
First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100
Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)
•
First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act
Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)
•
First President to Systematically Release Detained Illegal Aliens Charged With
Homicide Into the U.S. Population (Source: USA Today)
• First President to Release 40,000 Illegal Aliens with Serious and/or Violent Criminal Records Inside the U.S. (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Create Secret Police Units Inside Government Agencies to Block Lawful Investigations by Inspectors General (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Release 40,000 Illegal Aliens with Serious and/or Violent Criminal Records Inside the U.S. (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Create Secret Police Units Inside Government Agencies to Block Lawful Investigations by Inspectors General (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Personally Lobby Senators to Violate
Senate Rules and Destroy the Filibuster Through "The Nuclear Option"
to Consolidate More Executive Power (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to create his own propaganda news network and "bypass journalists ... [having] developed [his] own network of websites, social media and even created an online newscast to dispense favorable information and images" (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Barricade Open-Air Government Monuments During a Partial Government Shutdown (Source: Rep. Steve Stockman)
• First President to create his own propaganda news network and "bypass journalists ... [having] developed [his] own network of websites, social media and even created an online newscast to dispense favorable information and images" (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Barricade Open-Air Government Monuments During a Partial Government Shutdown (Source: Rep. Steve Stockman)
•
First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation
Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)
• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney
General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence
from lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)
•
First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long
Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice
Department - Source:
United States Court of Appeals)
•
First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One
of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)
•
First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the
Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With
Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered
by Judicial Watch)
•
First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements,
Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court (Source: CNN)
•
First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at
Polling Places (the
New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)
•
First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee
Subpoena (Source:
Heritage Foundation)
•
First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and
Refuse to Enforce It (Defense
of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)
•
First President to Increase Surveillance of American Citizen Under the
Patriot Act by 1,000 Percent in Four Years (Source: NBC News)
• First president to
appoint a convicted cop killer's advocate to the Department of Justice (Source: Investor's Business Daily)
• First Administration to Be Ruled by a Federal Judge as Aiding and Abetting Human Trafficking (Source: Federal District Court Judge Andrew S. Hanen)
• First Administration to Be Ruled by a Federal Judge as Aiding and Abetting Human Trafficking (Source: Federal District Court Judge Andrew S. Hanen)
•
First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His
Political Appointees (BP
Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source:
Fox News)
•
First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being
"Present" (Source: The New York Times)
Scandals
••• First President to wiretap the opposing party's presidential campaign - Source:
Herman Cain
• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)
•
First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by
Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The
Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)
•
First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit
donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)
•
First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign
bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)
•
First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose
Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts (Source: Wall Street Journal)
•
First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice
System", a system that tries to achieve "racially
equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)
•
First President to Leak Confidential IRS Tax Records to Groups Aligned
Politically With Him for Partisan Advantage (Source: The Hill Newspaper)
•
First President to Use the EPA to Punish Political Enemies and Reward Political
Allies (Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute)
•
First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former
Employer (Source:
White House Dossier)
• First President to Openly Use the Department of Justice
to Intimidate Political Opponents and Threaten Companies to Donate to His
Campaign (Source:
Peter Schweizer, Extortion)
• First President to Direct His Census Dept. to Make Up Favorable Employment Data In Run-Up to His Reelection Campaign (Source: New York Post)
• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground (Source: National Review)
• First President to Direct His Census Dept. to Make Up Favorable Employment Data In Run-Up to His Reelection Campaign (Source: New York Post)
• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground (Source: National Review)
• First President to have the EPA conduct hazardous experiments on the ill, infirm and elederly to push a radical environmental agenda, in a manner not dissimilar to the Third Reich's inhuman medical experiments (Source: The EPA Office of the Inspector General).
• First President to be Accused by His Own Party of Ordering the CIA to Spy on Congress (Source: Washington Post)
•
First President to allow deadly Ebola disease-ridden patients to enter the
U.S., refusing to restrict travel from infected countries like other Western
allies (Source: New York Daily News)
•
First president to order his EPA to unilaterally overturn a Federal Statute
(changing the borders of Wyoming established by an act of Congress, Source: Casper Star-Tribune).
• First president to systematically delay enacting a wide variety of controversial rules until after a presidential election (Source: Washington Post)
• First president to have Politifact designate one of his statements "Lie of the Year" (Source: Politifact)
• First President to Strip Inspectors General of Ability to Investigate Corruption and Fraud in the Federal Government (Source: Washington Times).
• First President to Create a Secret Racial Database of Americans in Order to Determine "Inequities" in Housing, Employment, Banking, etc. (Source: New York Post).
• First President to Intentionally Release Thousands of Illegal Alien Rapists and Child Molesters into the U.S. Instead of Deporting Them (Source: Boston Globe
••• First President to Tell Killers 'They Are Product of Racist Criminal Justice System' (Source: Sheriff David Clarke)
• First President to be Named by the Associated Press to Have Operated the Least Transparent Administration in History (since the advent of the Freedom of Information Act; Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Have Its Own Watchdogs Report That More Than $125 Billion in Fraudulent/Improper Payments Were Made by the Federal Government (Source: Associated Press)
• First president to systematically delay enacting a wide variety of controversial rules until after a presidential election (Source: Washington Post)
• First president to have Politifact designate one of his statements "Lie of the Year" (Source: Politifact)
• First President to Strip Inspectors General of Ability to Investigate Corruption and Fraud in the Federal Government (Source: Washington Times).
• First President to Create a Secret Racial Database of Americans in Order to Determine "Inequities" in Housing, Employment, Banking, etc. (Source: New York Post).
• First President to Intentionally Release Thousands of Illegal Alien Rapists and Child Molesters into the U.S. Instead of Deporting Them (Source: Boston Globe
••• First President to Tell Killers 'They Are Product of Racist Criminal Justice System' (Source: Sheriff David Clarke)
• First President to be Named by the Associated Press to Have Operated the Least Transparent Administration in History (since the advent of the Freedom of Information Act; Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Have Its Own Watchdogs Report That More Than $125 Billion in Fraudulent/Improper Payments Were Made by the Federal Government (Source: Associated Press)
Economy
•
First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United
States Government (Source: Reuters)
•
First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through
Executive Fiat (Source: Christian Science Monitor)
•
First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source: Center for Individual
Freedom)
••• First President "who did not deliver a single year of 3.0 percent-plus
economic growth" (Source: Louis Woodhill,
RealClearMarkets.com)
••• First President to See U.S. Economic Growth Downgraded to Largest 1-Year Drop Ever for an Advanced Economy (Source: Washington Free Beacon)
••• First President to See U.S. Economic Growth Downgraded to Largest 1-Year Drop Ever for an Advanced Economy (Source: Washington Free Beacon)
•
First President to Increase Food Stamp Spending By More Than 100% in Less
Than Four Years (Source:
Sen. Jeff Sessions)
•
First President to Spend
a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such
Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs (Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs
Council')
•
First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke
out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases (Source: The Hill)
•
First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies
to His Union Supporters (Source: Wall Street Journal)
•
First President to Propose Budgets So Unreasonable That Not a Single
Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor (Sources: The Hill, Open Market)
•
First President Whose Economic Policies Have the Number of Americans on Disability Exceed the
Population of New York (Source: CNS News)
•
First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product
From a Third Party (Source:
Wall Street Journal)
•
First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws Passed by
Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)
•
First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson
Institute)
•
First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his
union supporters in the UAW (Source:
Heritage Foundation)
•
First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked
Bailouts of GM and Chrysler (Source: Detroit News)
• First President to Run a Record 5 Straight Years of Deficits for the Disability Trust Fund (Source: CNS News)
• First President to Run a Record 5 Straight Years of Deficits for the Disability Trust Fund (Source: CNS News)
•
First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing Company Into Not
Opening a Factory in a Right-to-Work State (Boeing's facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President Since 1872 to See the U.S. Economy Sink From 1st to 2nd Largest in the World (Source: Financial Times).
• First President to Conceal Food Stamp Data From Public Scrutiny (Source: Judicial Watch: "8th Circuit Says USDA Can’t Keep Hiding Food Stamp Data")
• First President to Leave the American Middle Class No Longer the World’s Richest (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Retaliate Against a Rating Agency for Downgrading the United States Debt (Source: Investor's Business Daily)
• First President to Expand the Regulatory State to an Unprecedented Degree ("New record: Feds issued 56 regs for every new law, 3,659 in 2013", Source: Washington Examiner)
• First President Since 1872 to See the U.S. Economy Sink From 1st to 2nd Largest in the World (Source: Financial Times).
• First President to Conceal Food Stamp Data From Public Scrutiny (Source: Judicial Watch: "8th Circuit Says USDA Can’t Keep Hiding Food Stamp Data")
• First President to Leave the American Middle Class No Longer the World’s Richest (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Retaliate Against a Rating Agency for Downgrading the United States Debt (Source: Investor's Business Daily)
• First President to Expand the Regulatory State to an Unprecedented Degree ("New record: Feds issued 56 regs for every new law, 3,659 in 2013", Source: Washington Examiner)
Energy Policy
•
First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down
Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National
Electric Reliability Corporation -
PDF)
•
First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge for
"Overstepping Its Powers" When They Attempted to Shut Down Coal
Operations in Appalachia (Source: Huffington Post)
•
First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing
Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source:
Politico)
National Security and World Affairs
•
First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About the Murder of
a U.S. Ambassador and Three Other Diplomatic Personnel for Purely Political
Reasons, Rewriting a "Talking Points" Memo No Fewer Than a Dozen
Times to Avoid Referencing a Pre-Planned Terror Attack (Source: ABC News)
•
First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense
Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)
•
First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets
to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection
Campaign (Source:
Judicial Watch)
• First President to Renounce the Monroe Doctrine of National Security in the Western Hemisphere (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First Nobel Peace Prize Winner to State "I'm Really Good At Killing People" (Regarding His Drone Strikes) (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Snub the Vatican by Closing U.S. Embassy (Source: Washington Times, "Obama’s call to close Vatican embassy is ‘slap in the face’ to Roman Catholics")
• First President to Directly Violate the Law Regarding Prisoner Swaps with the Taliban, Bypassing Congressional Review (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Invite a Leader of the Terrorist Group the Muslim Brotherhood to a Meeting in the White House (Source: Washington Free Beacon)
• First President to Out a CIA Station Chief in an Active Military Zone (Source: CBS News)
••• First President to Spy on Congress and its Communications With Israel to Ensure its Political Effort to Fund and Arm the Terror State of Iran Would Continue Unimpeded (Source: Rep. Pete Hoekstra)
••• First President to stop a defense authorization bill as leverage to further his domestic spending agenda (Source: Wall Street Journal)
••• First President to install black screens on the windows of the White House to prevent a visiting foreign dictator from seeing protesters (Source: Marion Smith)
••• First President to have a complaint filed against him by over 50 CentCom intelligence analysts for falsifying data around Islamic terror groups for political purposes (Source: Daily Beast)
• First President to Negotiate a Deal to Transfer $150 Billion to the World's Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism (Source: Gatestone Institute)
• First President to Operate His National Security Infrastructure So Incompetently That an Enemy of the United States was Able to Steal the Personnel Records of all Four Million Government Employees (Source: CNN).
• First President to Operate His National Security Infrastructure So Incompetently That His Secretary of State Created Her Own Private Email Servers to Evade Public Open Records Laws (Source: The Verge)
• First President to Renounce the Monroe Doctrine of National Security in the Western Hemisphere (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First Nobel Peace Prize Winner to State "I'm Really Good At Killing People" (Regarding His Drone Strikes) (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Snub the Vatican by Closing U.S. Embassy (Source: Washington Times, "Obama’s call to close Vatican embassy is ‘slap in the face’ to Roman Catholics")
• First President to Directly Violate the Law Regarding Prisoner Swaps with the Taliban, Bypassing Congressional Review (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Invite a Leader of the Terrorist Group the Muslim Brotherhood to a Meeting in the White House (Source: Washington Free Beacon)
• First President to Out a CIA Station Chief in an Active Military Zone (Source: CBS News)
••• First President to Spy on Congress and its Communications With Israel to Ensure its Political Effort to Fund and Arm the Terror State of Iran Would Continue Unimpeded (Source: Rep. Pete Hoekstra)
••• First President to stop a defense authorization bill as leverage to further his domestic spending agenda (Source: Wall Street Journal)
••• First President to install black screens on the windows of the White House to prevent a visiting foreign dictator from seeing protesters (Source: Marion Smith)
••• First President to have a complaint filed against him by over 50 CentCom intelligence analysts for falsifying data around Islamic terror groups for political purposes (Source: Daily Beast)
• First President to Negotiate a Deal to Transfer $150 Billion to the World's Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism (Source: Gatestone Institute)
• First President to Operate His National Security Infrastructure So Incompetently That an Enemy of the United States was Able to Steal the Personnel Records of all Four Million Government Employees (Source: CNN).
• First President to Operate His National Security Infrastructure So Incompetently That His Secretary of State Created Her Own Private Email Servers to Evade Public Open Records Laws (Source: The Verge)
• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)
•
First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power
over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil
revenue" (The Law
Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to force Israel and Saudi Arabia to admit secret diplomacy for the first time in Order to Protect Themselves from the Policies of the United States (Source: Jerusalem Post)
• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The Independent [UK])
Miscellania
•
First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies of Past
Presidents (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Secretly Party With Known Domestic Terrorists (Source: Gawker)
• First President to so inflame racial tensions that the first major league baseball game in U.S. history had to be cancelled due to riots (Source: Baltimore Sun).
• First President to Secretly Party With Known Domestic Terrorists (Source: Gawker)
• First President to so inflame racial tensions that the first major league baseball game in U.S. history had to be cancelled due to riots (Source: Baltimore Sun).
••• First President to feature a drag queen performance at
the White House (Source:
Out.com)
••• First President to Have a White House Staffer Resign After Being Charged For Shooting at a Police Officer (Source: WMAL)
••• First President to complete 333 rounds of golf during his time in office (Source: Mark Knoller, CBS News)
••• First President to Have a White House Staffer Resign After Being Charged For Shooting at a Police Officer (Source: WMAL)
••• First President to complete 333 rounds of golf during his time in office (Source: Mark Knoller, CBS News)
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.
PUTIN or BARACK OBAMA?
The Obama’s Lay the Grounds for a
third-world Muslim-style dictatorship funded by open borders advocate George
Soros.
“Mark
Levin called Obama’s effort “police state” tactics, and suggested that Obama’s
actions, rather than conspiracy theories about alleged Russian interference in
the presidential election to help Trump, should be the target of congressional
investigation.”
*
Daniel
Greenfield, the award-winning Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center,
believes (OBAMA'S POLITICAL PARTY) “OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild
than the Clinton Foundation ever was.”
THE OBAMA WAR ON AMERICA: His OFA Party is Dedicated to Destroying
American and Building the Obama Muslim-style dictatorship funded by crony
banksters.
Daniel
Greenfield, the award-winning Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center,
believes (OBAMA'S POLITICAL PARTY) “OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild
than the Clinton Foundation ever was.”
*
"Obama is no
fool and he understands -- having encouraged Black Lives Matter and the war on
police and law enforcement, having facilitated ballooning welfare rolls and
doubling student debt to $1.35 trillion, having presided over a flood of
immigrants illegally crossing the southern border, and having pushed
unprecedented deficit spending that added nearly a trillion dollars annually to
the federal debt and doubling that debt in eight years to $20 trillion -- that
the U.S. is nearer collapse than at any previous time. And every Marxist knows
that socialist transformation first requires collapse of the old order."
*
PSYCHOPATH!
THE LEGACY of BARACK OBAMA: MUSLIM
PSYCHOPATH AND BANKSTER RENT BOY WHO CAME NEAR TO CREATING A MUSLIM-STYLE
DICTATORSHIP BY SABOTAGING AMERICA’S HOMELAND SECURITY AND FUNDING THE MEXICAN
FASCIST RACIST PARTY of LA RAZA.
The WSWS has reported several
times that during Obama’s administration the wealth of the richest 400
Americans grew from $1.57 trillion to $2.4 trillion and the stock market
enjoyed one of its most successful runs in history.
THE
TRUMP AMNESTY…. Yes, he lied again!
"If true, it
shows Trump being the ultimate cynic and not having the courage to state his
true beliefs to the American public who elected him. That's always been
my biggest problem with Trump: his lack of integrity and consistent belief
system." ----- ED STRAKER
MEXICO PLANS INVASION TO
EXPAND LA RAZA OCCUPATION!
“More significant still, a
former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash
Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal
immigrants and the construction of a border wall. “
Judicial Watch: Only Crimes in Russia Scandal Are from ‘Obama Gang’
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Government transparency activist group Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of the Treasury (DOT) seeking records related to the investigation of retired United States Army Lieutenant General Michel Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Breitbart News spoke exclusively to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who said, “We’ve been looking into this story for months now and the only crimes connected to this Russian scandal we’ve been able to find so far are the illegal leaks of information and the violations of privacy by the Obama gang.”
Judicial Watch filed a FOIA on January 25, 2017 and only filed the lawsuit after the agencies failed to respond. The FOIA request was for “Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the investigation of retired Gen. Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak between October 1, 2016 and the present.”
The suit claims that “Defendants are violating FOIA by failing to search for and produce all records responsive to Plaintiff’s requests or demonstrate that the requested records are lawfully exempt from production.”
In a prepared statement, Tom Fitton commented:
President Trump is on to something. The Obama-connected wiretapping and illegal leaks of classified material concerning President Trump and General Flynn are a scandal. Judicial Watch aims to get to the truth about these crimes and we hope the Trump administration stands with us in the fight for transparency.
The lawsuit points out that on January 23, 2017, CNN reported that the government was investigating Flynn, former national security adviser to President Trump, and said:
The calls were captured by routine US eavesdropping targeting the Russian diplomats, according to the intelligence and law enforcement officials. But the officials said some of the content of the conversation raised enough potential concerns that investigators are still looking into the discussions, amid a broader concern about Russian intelligence-gathering activities in the United States.
The officials all stressed that so far there has been no determination of any wrongdoing.
Radio host Mark Levin has outlined a sequence of events — expanded on by Breitbart News — that shows how, starting in June 2016, the Obama administration filed requests with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications targeting Donald Trump and several advisers. Just prior’s to CNN’s report cited by Judicial Watch, theNew York Times reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the CIA, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Treasury Department were monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign.
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