Posted on 01/11/2016 1:27:28 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
It is far from clear why senior Obama administration officials told The Wall Street Journal that under President Barack Obama, the National Security Agency has been aggressively spying not only on Israeli officials but on US citizens and lawmakers who communicate with Israeli officials. Perhaps they were trying to make Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look like a fool. After all, the article concludes that the NSA intercepts of these communications "revealed one surprise." "Mr. Netanyahu and some of his allies voiced confidence they could win enough votes" in Congress to scuttle Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. Ha ha. What dummies!
If their goal was simply to show that the White House has more leverage over Democratic lawmakers than the Israeli government does, then the article overshot the mark. Beyond expressing the administration's contempt for Netanyahu, the Journal's article showed that Netanyahu isn’t the only one the administration sneers at. It sneers at the American public and at members of Congress as well. And in so doing, it sneers at and deliberately breaks US law and tramples the US Constitution.
Under US law, American intelligence gathering agencies, including the NSA, are only permitted to spy on US citizens in order to protect US national security. Under the US Constitution, the administration is arguably prohibited from spying on US lawmakers. And yet, according to the Journal report, to advance its diplomatic opening to Iran, the administration has knowingly and deliberately spied on both law-abiding US citizens who posed no risk to US national security and on US lawmakers engaged in their lawful, constitutional duties.
As the criminal activity was characterized by the report, to protect Obama’s nuclear talks with the Iranians, Netanyahu was marked as a top intelligence target for the NSA...
(Excerpt) Read more at breakingisraelnews.com ...
FUBO!!
Obama trying to kill the Jews should be no surprise to anybody....
he’s such an obvious IslamoNazi its beyond discussion
BUT Obama spying on the American Congress!?
only a Nazi (or commie, almost same thing) dictator would do that...or.... yes, a Calife-wannabe
what the HELL is Congress gonna do about it being rendered into a mere, silly rubber-stamp for the Illegal-Immigrant-in-Chief’s dictatorship/ Caliphate?
just a few years ago, before Congress was so terribly compromised (sold out and blackmailed, etc)... Congress would have pursued articles of impeachment against ANY president....D or R...that DARED spy on a single CongressCritter’s telephone call or personal meeting with ANYBODY
Thank you for referencing that article Jan_Sobieski. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
Patriots, please note the Oval Office cannot be a persistent problem under the Constitution like Obama is. In other words, regardless that the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, wants everybody to think that the Oval Office is the most powerful office in the land, Congress is actually the most constitutionally powerful office in the land.
More specifically, Congress has constitutional authority to not only override presidential vetoes (1.7.2), but also to impeach and remove bad-apple presidents like Obama from office.
So the real problem is that we have a corrupt Congress is that is refusing to do its duty to remove lawless Obama from office for such things as indicated by this thread.
Remember in November !
I agree with everything you have said. We have elected a congress that is derelict in their duties!
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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It is a bit odd that neither the House nor the Senate seems particularly concerned about this.
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