Posted on 03/03/2017 6:32:16 AM PST by BlackAdderess
On Thursday, the Obama administration finalized new rules that allow the National Security Agency to share information it gleans from its vast international surveillance apparatus with the 16 other agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community.
With the new changes, which were long in the works, those agencies can apply for access to various feeds of raw, undoctored NSA intelligence. Analysts will then be able to sift through the contents of those feeds as they see fit, before implementing required privacy protections. Previously, the NSA applied those privacy protections itself, before forwarding select pieces of information to agencies that might need to see them.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Just a little front loaded insurance for the upcoming coup.
Political weaponization of illegal wiretapping.
Mark Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama’s ‘Silent Coup’ vs. Trump
(IMHO the best explanation of the game now afoot. See point 6 for why the intel sharing, it was to facilitate illegal leaks.)
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.
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.
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 ben 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.
(More points at the Breitbart link)
Once you’ve allowed the entire intel community to share everything, its much harder to trace leaks.
Global Communists.
The whole Russian thing is to keep Trump from governing. It was, is orchestrated.
Why doesn’t Trump reverse this?
btt
Using the NSA to spy on domestic political,opponents
Authorizing agencies that font collect raw COMINT to get it from NSA
Downgrading the classification so the raw COMINT gets into more hands
Enhancing thr likelihood that raw COMINT will be compromised .... Er, leaked
Having the secondary benefit of helping Russia China Iran Pakistan and every other hostile foreign donor.... errr power .... operating vs America to figure out our sources and methods and take countermeasures
What a shame Nixon never lived to see this day
Why Is...
It happened in the past, so the headline should have past tense in it:
Why Did...
Frikkin state of writing today
Just mobilizing the Deep State.
You would think, that a government in exile would actually GO into exile.
But no, they seem to be running in place, from the Shadow Presidential Hut right across town.
Why didn’t Trump shut this down immediately?
The article is dated January 13.
Because Obama and the Democrats still own the bureaucracy and have access to that surveillance. Obama is already using his surveillance powers to tap the Republican’s phones, for example- Flynn.
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