Posted on 03/02/2017 2:21:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump’s claims that the Obama administration sought to undermine his presidency received some support on Wednesday from a New York Times report on the Obama White House’s activities in the weeks before the inauguration.
According to The Times, Obama White House officials waged a campaign to procure, save and disperse classified intelligence regarding Trump associates’ contacts with Russians.
The campaign also involved curtailing the Trump team’s access to highly classified information and of lowering classification ratings on other information about the ongoing Russia investigation so that it could be more widely shared across the government.
According to The Times’ sources, the Obama officials waged the campaign out of fear that the Trump administration would cover up or destroy some of the information.
The campaign was multifaceted but was not directed by Obama himself, the Times sources claimed.
The wide-ranging report also includes some information that is not positive for Trump, including that federal investigators were given intelligence from foreign services that some Trump associates met with Russians in the Netherlands and Britain.
That detail adds new information to a report from The Times last month that U.S. investigators had evidence that some Trump campaign advisers communicated with Russian government officials before the election.
That report noted that U.S. officials do not yet have evidence of any coordination between Trump advisers and the Russian government to influence the election. The White House strongly denied the claims made in that report, and asserted the FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe told Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, that the story was “bullshit.”
The Obama administration’s intelligence-sharing effort involved the White House, intelligence agencies and State Department, The Times reports.
According to the newspaper, some Obama White House officials asked specific questions in intelligence briefings because they knew the questions and answers would be documented and saved for future review.
Intelligence agencies ramped up efforts to convert raw intelligence gathered on Trump advisers into information that could be used by analysts. The intelligence was also classified at relatively low levels “to ensure as wide a readership as possible across the government,” according to The Times.
The State Department, then led by John Kerry, also took part in the intelligence-sharing campaign. The agency sent a batch of documents classified as “Secret” to Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, just before the election.
The Obama officials also moved to cap the number of incoming Trump officials who could view extremely sensitive information, “including the names of sources and the identities of foreigners who were regularly monitored.”
The scheme would seem to lend support to Trump’s claims that the Obama White House sought to undermine his presidency by leaking classified information.
“I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it. And some of the leaks possibly come from that group, which are really serious because they are very bad in terms of national security. But I also understand that is politics. In terms of him being behind things, that’s politics. And it will probably continue,” Trump told Fox & Friends in an interview this week.
Trump has alleged that Obama appointees still working in the government have leaked information about some of his phone calls with foreign leaders and about Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who resigned last month because of phone calls he had with Russia’s ambassador in December.
The Times report provides new details about the information being reviewed as part of the expansive investigation into Russia’s attempts to influence the election.
The newspaper’s sources said that in late summer, American intelligence officials began picking up discussions in which Russian officials mentioned contacts with Trump associates. European intelligence services also began providing information “about people close to Mr. Trump meeting with Russians in the Netherlands, Britain and other countries.”
The Times notes that the nature of the meetings was not clear to the intelligence officials. The intercepted communications also provided little useful information.
Notably, The Times did not report the names of the Trump advisers and Russians who were allegedly involved in the discussions. It is unclear whether the Times’ sources provided the names, and if so, why they withheld the information.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer dismissed the claims in a statement to The Times.
“The only new piece of information that has come to light is that political appointees in the Obama administration have sought to create a false narrative to make an excuse for their own defeat in the election. There continues to be no there, there,” he told the newspaper.
The Russians have massive amounts of material on Obama: murders, homosexuality, payoffs from Muslim nations (including Iran), drug usage, corruption, and more.
It would not be just Obama; they probably know as much about John McCain as John McCain does, and I suspect that dossier would have more than mere footnotes about The Merry Bachelor (who is himself a dangerous player, not merely comic relief).
Mr. niteowl77
Jarrett has moved into Obama’s new crib. Stated purpose is to force Trump to resign or have him impeached. These people need to be dealt with once and for all and with finality.
Okay. Even if true, it is just Dems being Dems.
This should be relegated to a third-level issue, and must not drain energy from the effort to free the country from the Fed Government.
Stay on mission.
Any thoughts of where the WaaaaaPo got whispers about how Senator Sessions spoke with Russians twice during the campaign (and they’re trying to twist is into him lying under oath even though he wasn’t part of the campaign)?
CONSERVATIVES BE ON GUARD---the hate-filled OBAMA/OFA types will stop at nothing. Evil Obama will be avenged. Obama's vengeful Alinsky tactics consist of harassing, protesting and pressuring pols w/ paid rent-a crowds.
In FLA, they actually held a townhall in Marco Rubio's district---BUT HE WAS NOT INVITED. OFA's whined to the media..... insinuating they had frightened him off. They actually staged an empty chair w/ a suit coat draped over it to heighten the deception.They must be stopped.
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CALL CONGRESS---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Demand OFA's non-profit status be removed.
DEMAND CONGRESS MOBILIZE THESE AGENCIES AT ONCE:
<><> FBI -- Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ's Criminal Division-- Public Integrity Section
Well, now they’ve moved Iranian ValJar into their house. They openly admit they’re plotting to take down the President of the United States. I think they’re working their way into a sedition charge.
BHO was never a good lawyer. Even if he was, he’s too arrogant to believe the law applies to him.
We now have an actual DOJ. Is it any wonder the Dems are flinging all the poo they can muster at AG Sessions? They’re terrified of him.
Sedition network in the Civil service..
Also exists in the military, but Mattis will take care of it.He can post the traitors at the tip of the spear in Afghan istan. A lot of Obama queerios will have the opportunity to prove their loyalty.
And what defines a Russian? The Donald lived in NYC which is full of rich Russians. They probably live in Trump Tower. Did he say “hi” to one in the hallway?
El Duce’s gate house? Won’t survive an RPG.A lot of then have gone missing in Libya.
Barack Obama is turning his new home in the posh Kalorama section of the nation's capital - just two miles away from the White House - into the nerve center of the mounting insurgency against his successor.
Obama's goal, according to a close family friend, is to oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment.
Obama is being aided in his political crusade by his longtime consigliere, Valerie Jarrett, who has moved into the mansion with the former president and Michelle Obama, long time best friends. Jarrett played a vital - if at times low-key - role in the Obama presidency. She lived in the White House, dined with the Obamas, and help shape his domestic and foreign policies.
According to the family source, Obama was at first reluctant to assume the role of leader of the opposition. 'No longer the most powerful man in the world, he was just observing Trump and not liking what he saw,' said the source. 'He was weary and burned out after eight years in office. But Valerie convinced him that he didn't have any choice if he wanted to save his legacy. And, as usual, he bowed to Valerie's advice.'
After Obama left office, Jarrett moved all her White House belonging into the Kalorama mansion. 'There was never any doubt that Valerie would have a suite of rooms in the house that the Obama's are renting,' said the source. 'Obama trusts her judgment more than any other person on the planet, as does Michelle.
Obama doesn't make a decision without her.' Spurred on by Jarrett and Michelle, the ex-president has come to embrace his role as the leader of the opposition against Trump, whose policies he loathes and whose presidency he considers illegitimate.(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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President Trump knows this as does his team. On Drudge, Jarrett moved into the Obama house in DC they bought.
Rush is/was right.
Let’s be honest here:
He is also an ass, leading from behind.
Amen!
Obama and the media know the goods could be spilled, and they have been laboring 24/7 for months to inoculate themselves against any Russian intelligence disclosure of their crimes. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Agreed 100%. No more traitorous political movement has ever existed in the USA. Traitors and thugs. They want what is now Chicago all across the country.
Look at whats left of Libya, a former US ally. A whole nation in rubble and the 8th wonder of the world, the Great River desert aquifer project destroyed.......thousands dying of thirst but not a peep about it from anyone? A,erica has an obligatiopn to rebuild that country, a nd if we do not, The Russians will.
I hope one day Obama will turn around to meet a Libyan who will give him his last few seconds on this Earth.He’s earned it.
so where did the white house computers go that Hussien’s people took? There could be all sorts of treasonous things happening there, particularly if the computers ended up in the Obama house.
Be interesting to see what info they walked away with.
And what sort of tracking garbage was placed on the new computers they left for the Trump White House
We are seeing a slow coup. And we will need to fight it hard and quick.
I hope the Trump admin does it mostly under cover.
Hmm. I wonder if our intelligence services got “hacked” with a disinformation campaign and became a tool of the Russians. Certainly the MSM has. Neither could not likely pass up the bait offered.
Was it not obvious who the adults were in the room Tuesday night at the Joint Session?
With that said, chill because the master 3D chess player is at the board and has been since June 16, 2015 when it comes to setting the battlefield. Anyone who does not understand this has not the patience to play Straego much less than the ultimate strategy game being parlayed.
He always gives his adversaries more than enough rope to hang themselves and the rope is still coming off the reel, one inch at a time. Once he knows the noose is set and tightened on them all, the drag will be set to zero and the necks will start to be stretched according to the length of rope they took out. In this case, each rope is daisy chained to the other with the little ones being the first to snatch and each subsequent rope tightening will result in the next bigger neck cinched.
Then we will start to see the critical mass implosions of the likes we just started to see so very clearly by all of those dolts dressing up in their symbolic angel suits unwittingly causing any view of the hall instantly drawing focus because they stood out so clearly, being purulent and unresponsive to any rational common good.
In a larger sense the show promoter will wain and we will start to see more of the strict businessman which will further gain the confidence of the people and all that is left of the left will be the epitaphs written not by Trump but by We The People. This is all being propagated for a virtual bloodbath come the 2018 mid-terms where I say there will be several primaried in both houses. The entire power structure on Capital Hill will change dramatically and then the real purge of an overly oppressive establishment will be on.
So, continue to be the impatient vulture sharing the branch with the symbolic Trump vulture when the one without patience says; “Patience my ass, I’m gonna kill something” before the table is even set.
I won’t be surprised if the half breed declares his compound a separate nation and claim diplomatic immunity.
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