New revelations have surfaced that the Obama administration abused intelligence during the election by launching a massive domestic-spy campaign that included snooping on Trump officials.
The irony is mind-boggling: Targeting political opposition is long a technique of police states like Russia, which Team Obama has loudly condemned for allegedly using its own intelligence agencies to hack into our election.
The revelations, as well as testimony this week from former Obama intel officials, show the extent to which the Obama administration politicized and weaponized intelligence against Americans.
Thanks to Circa News, we now know the National Security Agency under President Barack Obama routinely violated privacy protections while snooping through foreign intercepts involving US citizens — and failed to disclose the breaches, prompting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court a month before the election to rebuke administration officials. (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ..
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Approves New Targeting and Minimization Procedures: A Summary - Lawfare - May 15, 2017
IC On the Record - May 11, 2017
Today the ODNI, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is releasing three sets of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 documents in redacted form. First, we are releasing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's (FISC) Memorandum and Opinion approving the 2016 Section 702 Certifications (dated April 26, 2017, and hereafter the April 2017 Opinion). We are releasing this Opinion in keeping with the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community.Second, we are releasing National Security Agency's (NSA) updated Section 702 targeting and minimization procedures that were approved as part of the FISC's April 2017 Opinion. Note that targeting procedures have not previously been released. We are releasing these procedures also in keeping with the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community. Finally, we are publicly posting two separate tranches of Section 702 documents that are being released pursuant to a Freedom of Information (FOIA) case filed in the Southern District of New York, ACLU v. National Security Agency, et al. (hereafter the ACLU FOIA release April 11, 2017, and the ACLU FOIA release May 10, 2017).
ODNI notes that, separately, NSA decided to make public today a report by its Inspector General about compliance with Section 702. This release - even with several important national-security redactions - is intended to add to the public's understanding of NSA's changes to Section 702 foreign intelligence collection. NSA's January 7, 2016 Inspector General Report.