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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (197574)

2/15/2017 9:50:12 PM

From: FJB

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Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust Flynn

Washington Free Beacon, by Adam Kredo

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Posted By: KarenJ1, 2/14/2017 4:33:53 PM

The abrupt resignation Monday evening of White House national security adviser Michael Flynn is the culmination of a secret, months-long campaign by former Obama administration confidantes to handicap President Donald Trump´s national security apparatus and preserve the nuclear deal with Iran, according to multiple sources in and out of the White House who described to the Washington Free Beacon a behind-the-scenes effort by these officials to plant a series of damaging stories about Flynn in the national media. The effort, said to include former Obama administration adviser Ben Rhodes—the architect of a separate White House effort to create what he described ...

To: TideGlider who wrote (197574)

2/15/2017 9:52:18 PM

From: FJB

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Surprise: At the End, Obama Administration Gave NSA Broad New Powers

PJ Media, by Michael Walsh

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Posted By: KarenJ1, 2/15/2017 3:45:38 PM

This story, from the Jan. 12, 2017, edition of the New York Times, was little-remarked upon at the time, but suddenly has taken on far greater significance in light of current events: In its final days, the Obama administration has 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 rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite ...

To: TideGlider who wrote (197574)

2/15/2017 9:54:36 PM

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EXCLUSIVE – NSA Whistleblower: Agency ‘Absolutely’ Tapping Trump’s Calls

Breitbart, by Aaron Klein

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Posted By: Drive, 2/15/2017 1:34:55 PM

William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official turned whistleblower, contended in an exclusive interview today that the National Security Agency (NSA) is “absolutely” monitoring the phone calls of President Donald Trump. Binney was an architect of the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001 after spending more than 30 years with the agency. Asked whether he believes the NSA is tapping Trump, Binney replied: “Absolutely. How did they get the phone call between the president and the president of Australia? Or the one that he made with Mexico? Those are not targeted ...