NEW: Systemic Surveillance Abuse by Obama Administration Re: Iran Deal?

american spectator ^ | Melissa Mackenzie

[RoosterRedux]

Here’s where the press collusion comes in. Remember Ben Rhodes quote about “clueless journalists”? How easily he manipulated them. Read the New Yorker profile to understand him. This quote is particularly damning for the President:

One day, when Rhodes and I were sitting in his boiler-room office, he confessed, with a touch of bafflement, “I don’t know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.”

So, if Rhodes was involved and Susan Rice was involved (which she had to be), the unmasking strategy was right at the top and used over and over. Just a bit more on how close Rhodes was to the President:

Part of what accounts for Rhodes’s influence is his “mind meld” with the president. Nearly everyone I spoke to about Rhodes used the phrase “mind meld” verbatim, some with casual assurance and others in the hushed tones that are usually reserved for special insights. He doesn’t think for the president, but he knows what the president is thinking, which is a source of tremendous power.

Ben Rhodes has been particularly vociferous on Twitter. Proclaiming that focusing on Susan Rice or the Obama administration is focusing on the wrong crime. Trump, of course, is the scary guy (who neither Brennen nor Comey have accused with any sort of collusion with Putin) who Rhodes and others have smeared with innuendo but no facts. Seems rather like the implications made against the pro-Israel opponents of the Iran deal. Back to Lee Smith:

To make its case for the Iran Deal, the Obama administration redefined America’s pro-Israel community as agents of Israel. They did something similar with Trump and the Russians—whereby every Russian with money was defined as an agent of the state.

[SSS Two]

Bad link. It doesn’t go where you intended.

[RoosterRedux]

Ping.

I don’t think this article introduces any new evidence. But it knits together some existing evidence to present a new way of looking at this story.

The surveillance of U.S. citizens is a very big deal.

We wuz robbed.

[RoosterRedux]

Sorry 'bout that.

Try this...CORRECTED LINK

I didn't do any thing wrong. It's those danged Russians. They're hacking me again.;-)

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[pax_et_bonum]

Good article.

Thanks for posting.

bttt

[Tucker39]

I just read the whole article. Scenes from the televised Watergate hearings flooded back into my mind. Sen. Sam Irvin conducting a show trial; nailing hides to the wall. If only we had some Repubs with balls and a spine.