The Russia collusion hoax was not just an attempted coup but a diversionary tactic to divert attention away from the high crimes and treasonous acts at the highest echelons of the Democrat party. It’s time for real rule of law. The Democrat elite must face justice.
WSJ: Time for Obama Admin to Account for ‘Historic Abuse of Government Surveillance Powers’
Wall Street Journal assistant editor James Freeman and Sen. Rand Paul are on the same page: the Mueller report confirms it is now time for the Obama administration to account for its flagrant abuse of the surveillance powers of the federal government.
While Democrats and other members of the “Resistance” flail about in the wake of news the Robert Mueller investigation did not find evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election, Freeman observed Monday the report confirms it is former President Barack Obama who “owes the country an explanation” for his administration’s “historic abuse of government surveillance powers.”
Freeman wrote:
The Mueller report confirms that the Obama administration, without evidence, turned the surveillance powers of the federal government against the presidential campaign of the party out of power. This historic abuse of executive authority was either approved by President Barack Obama or it was not. It’s time for Mr. Obama, who oddly receives few mentions in stories about his government’s spying on associates of the 2016 Trump campaign, to say what he knew and did not know about the targeting of his party’s opponents.
Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, similarly tweeted it is “time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!”
Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!
Freeman elaborated that it is difficult to imagine, if aware of the scheme, Obama would not have been interested in his Justice Department’s plans to seek information obtained through wiretaps on the Trump campaign.
“Going all the way back to his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, Mr. Obama had aggressively advocated for preventing federal abuse of surveillance powers,” he explained, noting that Obama had decried the USA Patriot Act in 2004 for using the war against terrorism to violate U.S. citizens’ civil liberties.
“It’s time for this lawyer and alleged passionate defender of the Bill of Rights to explain the actions of his overzealous and overreaching executive branch,” Freeman asserted. “If he didn’t find out about the wiretapping until after the fact, when exactly did he learn about it and how did he respond?”
Suggesting that Obama has never shown indication of having bought into the Trump collusion conspiracy theory, Freeman wrote the question “is why he endorsed or allowed the use of federal surveillance tools against the party out of power – a direct threat to the democratic process that is at the heart of our country’s greatness.”
“Mr. Obama might have room to deny any knowledge of the details of the surveillance abuses, given the story his FBI director told Congress—if anybody could believe that story,” Freeman doubted, and ultimately drew the conclusion that “the absolute bare minimum that Mr. Obama owes this country is an explanation of the actions of his government in spying on a presidential campaign.”
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felix1999
5 years ago
That would be nice. Obama didn’t make up the dossier. Someone else did with his blessing. Obama knew exactly what was going on. They knew without asking he would be okay with undermining Trump in what ever way they could. HE did’t have to explicitly okay it or direct them. That’s where the problem lies.
I suspect based on the subject matter of the dossier the writer was a homosexual. They are very attracted to potty talk, potty humor and things of that nature. The entire thing was like something you might hear toddlers or slightly older giggling about. I also think it was a male or a couple of males that came up with this ridiculous scenario.
Tilt
5 years ago
A rock solid / untouchable special counsel which is given a broad scope to investigate (Just like Mueller had) must be appointed to turn all the rocks in the swampy marshlands of DC and uncover the rot
Once an investigation like that begins the appointed special counsel will pit the suspect criminals on each other with carrots & sticks (plea bargains v loooong time in prison), soon enough (by the end of 2019 at most!) the DC establishment ‘House of Cards’ (“Deep State’ / The DNC & The RINO contingent of the GOP ) will crumble into political dust, for all to see!!
By then, Obama and his top administration staff + Killery and her top campaign staff, will in Extreme legal jeopardy
Right on the mark. B.O. was/illegal, never vetted, the illegal occupier of the WH. To me, this country did not have a president for eight years. That was a REAL Constitutional crisis and the damage that illegal b*****d did.
Remember when Obhammud, at the height of the scandal of weaponizing the IRS against conservatives, asserted there was “not one smidgen of corruption” involved?
In my book, there is your “smoking gun.”
sodacrackers2
5 years ago
My two favorite pictures of Obama.
Norbus
5 years ago
That finger under the nose should be dipped in spanish fly with meth crystals and shoved up his arse; He was the genius who dictated Obamacare, who divided the Nation , who honoured traitors, who falsified Benghazi, who spoiled chances of peace asking Israel to withdraw to 67 borders, who empowered Morsi.. The Bastard, he actually is a bastard biologically should be hanged, after a trial, for treason
If my memory serves me, that photo was taken at an obamacare meeting when a Republican was speaking out against the bill. In reality, the progs are flipping us all off, we dirt people.
John Acord
5 years ago
What’s new is that even after Edward Snowden revealed the massive invasion of privacy and the multiple crimes of the CIA, NSA and their ilk Obama did NOTHING about it and in fact encouraged its expansion. Nothing new here, but it’s encouraging to finally find the WSJ and a few Republicans getting the message.
Stephen Honig
5 years ago
I hope this queer anti American Muslim titular POTUS winds up in prison.
Ludlow Porch
5 years ago
Everyone wants explanations from the criminal Democrats! FINE! Let them explain under oath, while they are being prosecuted under indictment for their CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS! Then Allow A Grand jury to do their duty! Put the “M’F**kers” in Prison!
Ludlow Porch
5 years ago
YEP! The WSJ got that RIGHT!
Carl
5 years ago
Ya, well, I’ve got the “fickle-finger” for you, too, Mr. X…! . . . . Nobody in that “What” House took a “dump” without O’s knowledge and permission! . . . The black hand behind the curtain & the puppet-master were always there. . . Juicy-Smollet, anyone??? . . How’dya think he’s getting off. .. Your-day, will come, too, Mr. X. . . . And that right soon. . . .
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Trump MUST call for Barry’s records to be unsealed so the multitude of MORONS who voted for that Kenyan will finally know the error or their stinking ways!
RiverFred
5 years ago
I am sure Obozo read about the surveillance in the newspaper and knew nothing about it, after all he is a pathological lier.
Mrs. Patriot
5 years ago
It was the obama admin that colluded with the russians to try to set Trump up!! It’s so obvious I don’t understand why it isn’t proclaimed from the rooftops!!
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