Obama White House received foreign intelligence that included discussions by Trump and aides

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The Saboteur-In-Chief was listening in, just as President Trump has charged. “What I’ve read seems to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but I don’t know that it’s right and I don’t know if the American people would be comfortable with what I’ve read,” said Nunes. The American people shouldn’t be comfortable with this, and those responsible should be prosecuted. But the Democrats will do everything they can to keep that from happening.

“Intelligence Reports Reveal Improper Political Surveillance of Trump, Transition Team,” by Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon, March 23, 2017:

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A House intelligence committee investigation took a dramatic shift this week after newly disclosed intelligence reports suggested the Obama administration improperly gathered and disseminated secret electronic communications from President Trump and his transition team prior to inauguration.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, indicated that the administration used its foreign intelligence gathering authority to spy on the discussions of Trump and his transition team by improperly unmasking the identity of Americans who were swept up in foreign electronic spying.

“What I’ve read seems to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but I don’t know that it’s right and I don’t know if the American people would be comfortable with what I’ve read,” said Nunes, who uncovered the reports.

Nunes announced the committee would seek to determine who knew about the classified reports, why they were not disclosed to Congress, and who requested and authorized the disclosure of the Americans’ identities in the reports.

The panel also will try to find out whether the intelligence community was ordered to spy on Trump associates and if laws or regulations were violated.

Nunes said he was alarmed by what he saw in several dozen intelligence reports that include transcripts of communications, including communications directly from Trump. The reports were based on a foreign electronic spying operation between November and January. They were revealed by an intelligence community insider who alerted Nunes.

Nunes said on CNN that after reading the reports he was confident the Obama White House and numerous agencies “had a pretty good idea of what President-elect Trump was up to and what his transition team was up to and who they were meeting with.”

The full extent of the improper spying—including the improper unmasking of Americans whose identities were to be hidden in reports of foreign communications intercepts—is expected to be disclosed Friday, Nunes said.

The National Security Agency has agreed to provide additional reports, although Nunes said the FBI has not yet agreed to his request to turn over additional sensitive intelligence reports on the Trump transition team.

“This is information that was brought to me that I thought the president needed to know about incidental collection, where the president himself and others in the Trump transition team were clearly put into intelligence reports that ended up at this White House and across a whole bunch of other agencies,” Nunes said after meeting Trump on Wednesday.

The intelligence reports, which number in the dozens, suggest that the names of Trump and his advisers were not properly “minimized” in the foreign intelligence reports, as required under intelligence rules protecting the privacy rights of Americans.

“We don’t have the full scope of all the intelligence reports that were produced, or who ordered the unmasking of additional names, and we’re hoping to get that,” Nunes said.

The transcripts appeared to be the result of legal intelligence collection against a foreign target. The problem, Nunes said, was that someone in government ordered the names of the Americans to be unmasked and the reports to be distributed to government agencies.

Normal intelligence procedures limit the unmasking of Americans caught up in foreign electronic surveillance.

The committee is already investigating how the name of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was improperly unmasked in a foreign intelligence report of Flynn’s phone conversation with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.

The intelligence report was disclosed to the press and led to Flynn’s resignation as national security adviser after he misled the vice president about the contents of his conversation with the ambassador.

Nunes said the new information he has seen “has nothing to do with Russia or the Russia investigation.”…

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JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
7 years ago

Nunes says, he thinks it was legal. OK, then fair being fair, Trump should be able to legally have NSA do Surveillance on Brack Obama and his 250 anti American “Organize for Action” offices scattered out throughout America. These scum are the one’s that are causing destructive property damage, bodily attacking conservatives, demonstrations, and chaos at town hall meetings. This just for starters.

Next, have Obama indicted, and have him produce ALL records on himself. Let’s find out who this rotten SOB really is?

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Reply to  JacksonPearson

The requires a determined effort by fearless men, not half-hearted, RINO-inspired bunch of spineless, vain degenerates who worry more about their next election than what is best for the nation.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Talk is the most reasonably price commodity around, where are Republicans going to act on all this criminal activity of democrats?

Speak the Truth
Speak the Truth
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

The FBI/Comey, and CIA/Brennan had to have known about, as well as reviewed these transcripts. Yet, like Obama, they continually denied, denied, denied.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Nothing is done, crimes are discovered, evidence obtained, with the net result being indignant discussions over coffee. The girls in the local book club can do as well at considerably less cost.

Lia
Lia
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

And can read more uplifting texts?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Lia

Definitely.

Lia
Lia
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Good for the girls in the local book club!!!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Lia

They do try, from what is seen they are as effective as the powers that be, in Washington. Good morning.

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Mam you may have to settle for white asparagus with my
Homemade Hollandaise Sauce (HHS).

I will leave the bourbon out of yours.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Ron Cole

That will be acceptable.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Other than in Canada where have you seen more neutered men?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Rob Porter

Western europe.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

You’re probably right, but just remember this, Canada has not yet really been put to the test.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

And lied, lied, lied…

Hardrock
Hardrock
7 years ago

Comey and Brennan (The Muslim Convert) are both Traitors. Why can’t Trump just say “You’re Fired.”

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

lol, good one, never heard it put that way before 🙂

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

One must comparison shop these days.

Dwight
Dwight
7 years ago

More legacy from the Boy King.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
7 years ago

I saw some of the footage on the hearing concerning this surveillance, wiretapping (?) thing and I see them asking the FBI director questions and it seems to me it’s scripted. Neighbor, have you noticed they read the question and the FBI Director reads out his answers? I believe they pulled another fast one and many Americans are falling for it.

Mindy Robinson
Mindy Robinson
7 years ago

This was directed at President Trump and they damn well know it! obama , rice, clinton and the rest of the lib cartel should have been sitting in prison 4 years ago. This nation is now lawless, those in gov are nothing more then a cartel and the problem with that is that we , the people, allow them to govern and we are beginning to rethink that.

Steve
Steve
7 years ago

Comey’s been the willingly compromised surrogate of the past traitor in chief and is apparently carrying on the work in the present shadow government. Here’s an article a few years ago and his tendency to use surveillance illegally among other things.

https://jonathanturley.org/2013/06/03/the-one-eyed-man-in-the-land-of-the-blind-james-comey-set-to-be-next-fbi-director-despite-past-controversies-involving-warrantless-surveillance-torture-and-denial-of-due-process/

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

Obhammud and his cronies make Nixon’s Watergate scandal look like some innocuous teenage prank. Where are the federal indictments now when they are most appropriate?

Henry
Henry
7 years ago

So, Judge Napolitano was right when he said the British agency was giving obama intel on Pres. Trump ? Bad news for this country.

Brianroysinputvideo .
Brianroysinputvideo .
7 years ago

NO ONE IS REPORTING THAT THIS SURVEILLANCE ON TRUMP WAS AUTHORIZED BY OBAMA ON MAY 6,2016, BY EXECUTIVE ORDER. THERE IS A CLEAR DIRECT DOCUMENT THAT OBAMA AUTHORIZED SPYING ON TRUMP AND PUT HIS OWN FRIGGIN’ NAME TO IT, AND PUBLICLY PUBLISHED IT.

Look it up. Good grief! Read it.

The electronic surveillance of Donald Trump and his aides
was coordinated by the White House Transition Coordination Council (WHTCC)

–(be it representatives of the Director of national Intelligence planted on the Trump Transition team who would access Trump Towers and use their computers there or whosoever) —

and any and all information they deemed relevant
to be communicated directly with the Executive Office of the President
(where Obama clearly would be briefed) …
and as for anything prohibited by law,
well, the WHTCC probably claimed “executive privilege”.

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 06, 2016
Executive Order — Facilitation of a Presidential Transition
EXECUTIVE ORDER
– – – – – – –
FACILITATION OF A PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United States Code, and the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, as amended, and to assist the Presidential transition, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. The peaceful transition of power has long been a hallmark of American democracy. It is the policy of the United States to undertake all reasonable efforts to ensure that Presidential transitions are well-coordinated and effective, without regard to party affiliation.
Sec. 2. Establishment of the White House Transition Coordinating Council. (a) To facilitate the Presidential transition, including assisting and supporting the transition efforts of the transition teams of eligible candidates, there is established a White House Transition Coordinating Council.
(b) The White House Transition Coordinating Council shall be composed of the following officials or their designees:
(i) Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, who shall serve as Chair;
(ii) Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, who shall serve as Vice Chair;
(iii) Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Implementation;
(iv) Counsel to the President;
(v) Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel;
(vi) Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;
(vii) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism;
(viii) Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director, National Economic Council;
(ix) Director of National Intelligence;
(x) Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
(xi) Administrator of General Services;
(xii) Federal Transition Coordinator;
(xiii) the transition representative for each eligible candidate, who shall serve in an advisory capacity; and
(xiv) any other executive branch official the President determines appropriate.
(c) The White House Transition Coordinating Council shall:
(i) provide guidance to executive departments and agencies (agencies) and the Federal Transition Coordinator regarding preparations for the Presidential transition, including succession planning and preparation of briefing materials;
(ii) facilitate communication and information sharing between the transition representatives of eligible candidates and senior employees in agencies and the Executive Office of the President, including the provision of information relevant to facilitating the personnel aspects of a Presidential transition and such other information that, in the Council’s judgment, is useful and appropriate…”

darrel lichte
darrel lichte
7 years ago

I disagree with the premise that Obama didn’t do anything illegal. He unmask and opened files on Americans, and shared that info with 17 intel agencies. The info he obtained became illegal as soon as Americans were identified, with out a fisa order.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
7 years ago

Please impanel a Federal Grand Jury, once he is Indicted his travel will be limited.

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