Otters and Science News: OBAMA'S SILENT COUP AGAINST TRUMP? - THIS IS WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR - A STASI-style abuse of power that threatens the country's foundations

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UPDATE #2 - MARCH 4: Obama officials appear to confirm existence of wiretaps against Trump's team - A number of former Obama administration officials do not deny that such a wiretap existed. They just deny that the White House or Obama himself would have approved it or ordered it, and say that the Department of Justice would have sought it in consultation with a foreign intelligence surveillance, or FISA, court.

Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted that he would warn reporters against saying there was no wiretap. And Favreau endorsed a Twitter feed that laid out the reporting about the existence of the wiretaps, which cited reporting from Louise Mensch, formerly of Heat Street, and The Guardian that the Obama DOJ had sought a FISA court approved surveillance warrant for Trump Tower back in the summer of 2016 that was denied but received a narrower focused warrant in October.

A non-denial 'denial' - Presidential plausible deniability. On Saturday, former President Obama’s spokesman Kevin Lewis denied that the former White House or the former President himself would have given such an order to wiretap Trump Tower—or any other type of surveillance in any case—but that such an order would have come from an “independent investigation led by the Department of Justice.”

Valerie Jarrett, another close Obama aide, also tweeted the statement from former President Obama’s spokesman, Lewis. Jarrett is, according to the U.K. Daily Mail, now living in the Obamas’ multimillion dollar Washington, D.C. mansion. From there, the Daily Mail reports, the former president and Jarrett will be running a “nerve center for their plan to mastermind the insurgency against President Trump.” "Check out statement from Kevin Lewis, spokesperson to former President Obama. Enough said", she tweeted. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/04/non-denial-denial-obama-response-trump-wiretap-claim-raises-questions/

UPDATE #1 - MARCH 4: President Trump on the offensive: He accuses the Obama administration of wiretapping his team at Trump Tower. MSM had already reported on this for months.

Breitbart: As former Heat Street editor Louise Mensch reported the day before the election, “sources with links to the counter-intelligence community” confirmed that a FISA court had granted a FISA court warrant in October to monitor activities in Trump tower. They were previously denied a request in June, according to the report as well as a report in the Guardian.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the Obama team classified the investigation at the lowest possible level, allowing the data gathered from the investigation to be shared and leaked widely within the administration.

In January, The New York Times reported that intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the Obama White House even though there was “no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing” between Russian officials and associates of Trump. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/04/donald-trump-questions-sick-guy-barack-obama-wire-tapping-campaign/

You will notice that the mainstream media's reaction today is one of shock at how Trump could lay such accusations "without evidence". However, Trump's adversaries in government and the media have been charging President Trump with all kinds of accusations without providing any evidence whatsoever. Government intelligence agencies have plenty of resources at their disposal but have been unable to present any evidence that Trump and his team conspired in any way with the Russians to influence the election. So far this has been nothing but a Democrat psychological operation to seed confusion and to bring disrepute into the Trump administration.

MARCH 3: The best defense is to go on the offensive, but the Trump administration is not doing that. It is being worn down while squandering time and effort fighting off a series of individual attacks by Obama allies in the media and in both political parties. Trump is failing miserably to expose the deep conspiracy aimed at bringing down the elected government of the USA.

Whether Americans are pro-Trump or not, they should be extremely alarmed at how Obama's allies continue to misuse US intelligence and other government agencies for the purpose of undermining the democratic foundations of the United States.

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How much did the Russians know about this Obama administration effort to frame Trump and his team in what could be construed as an illicit collaboration with the Russian government?

The Russian government wanted Hillary Clinton to win. Obama had been very generous by releasing billions of dollars to Iran, an ally of Russia in Syria. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sold the Russians 20% of the USA supply of uranium.

This American uranium is now making its way from Russia to Iran. So the Obama administration released billions of dollars to Iran so that it could buy uranium, and provided that material indirectly through Russia. It all makes sense now.

Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20189

And here: With Obama’s Approval, Russia Selling 130 Tons of Uranium to Iran The agreements had been kept secret for almost a year, and were publicized only because the Trump administration indicated it was planning to go public with them. http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/with-obamas-approval-russia-selling-130-tons-of-uranium-to-iran/2017/01/10/

Iran is an enemy of the USA and of its Mideast ally, Israel. For the Obama administration to go through such lengths to ensure that Iran has the money and the uranium to build nuclear bombs that can kill millions of Americans is a stunning betrayal of the country.

VIDEO: The Deep State War on Trump

Paul Joseph Watson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBTMKLmdpho

Breitbart reports: Radio host Mark Levin used his Thursday evening show to outline the known steps taken by President Barack Obama’s administration in its last months to undermine Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and, later, his new administration.

Mark Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama’s ‘Silent Coup’ vs. Trump

The Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.

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.

Drawing on sources including the New York Times and the Washington Post, Levin described the case against Obama so far, based on what is already publicly known. The following is an expanded version of that case, including events that Levin did not mention specifically but are important to the overall timeline.

Continue reading and see time outline of Obama's actions to undermine and eventually bring down the Trump administration. Also listen to Mark Levin podcast of March 2, 2017 radio show

1. June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.

2. July: Russia joke. Wikileaks releases emails from the Democratic National Committee that show an effort to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from winning the presidential nomination. In a press conference, Donald Trump refers to Hillary Clinton’s own missing emails, joking: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.” That remark becomes the basis for accusations by Clinton and the media that Trump invited further hacking.

3. October: Podesta emails. In October, Wikileaks releases the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. The Clinton campaign blames Trump and the Russians.

4. October: FISA request. The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes.

The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.

5. January 2017: Buzzfeed/CNN dossier. Buzzfeed releases, and CNN reports, a supposed intelligence “dossier” compiled by a foreign former spy. It purports to show continuous contact between Russia and the Trump campaign, and says that the Russians have compromising information about Trump.

None of the allegations can be verified and some are proven false. Several media outlets claim that they had been aware of the dossier for months and that it had been circulating in Washington.

6. January: Obama expands NSA sharing. As Michael Walsh later notes, and as the New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration “expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.” The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked.

7. January: Times report. The New York Times reports, on the eve of Inauguration Day, that several agencies — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Treasury Department are monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign suspected of Russian ties.

Other news outlets also report the existence of “a multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government,” though it is unclear how they found out, since the investigations would have been secret and involved classified information.

8. February: Mike Flynn scandal. Reports emerge that the FBI intercepted a conversation in 2016 between future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — then a private citizen — and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

The intercept supposedly was part of routine spying on the ambassador, not monitoring of the Trump campaign. The FBI transcripts reportedly show the two discussing Obama’s newly-imposed sanctions on Russia, though Flynn earlier denied discussing them.

Sally Yates, whom Trump would later fire as acting Attorney General for insubordination, is involved in the investigation. In the end, Flynn resigns over having misled Vice President Mike Pence (perhaps inadvertently) about the content of the conversation.

9. February: Times claims extensive Russian contacts. The New York Times cites “four current and former American officials” in reporting that the Trump campaign had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials. The Trump campaign denies the claims — and the Times admits that there is “no evidence” of coordination between the campaign and the Russians. The White House and some congressional Republicans begin to raise questions about illegal intelligence leaks.

10. March: the Washington Post targets Jeff Sessions. The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact twice with the Russian ambassador during the campaign — once at a Heritage Foundation event and once at a meeting in Sessions’s Senate office.

The Post suggests that the two meetings contradict Sessions’s testimony at his confirmation hearings that he had no contacts with the Russians, though in context (not presented by the Post) it was clear he meant in his capacity as a campaign surrogate, and that he was responding to claims in the “dossier” of ongoing contacts.

The New York Times, in covering the story, adds that the Obama White House “rushed to preserve” intelligence related to alleged Russian links with the Trump campaign. By “preserve” it really means “disseminate”: officials spread evidence throughout other government agencies “to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators” and perhaps the media as well.

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In summary: the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.

SOURCE
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/03/mark-levin-obama-used-police-state-tactics-undermine-trump/

VIDEO PODCAST by MARK LEVIN