Even the American Center for Law and Justice
(ACLJ) is sensing the existence of a Shadow Government within the American
government. The shadow is being cast from the Leftist Democratic Party.
JRH 2/25/17
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ACLJ Requests Records from DOJ and Intelligence Agencies
on Obama Administration’s Last Minute Expansion of Access to Intelligence
Information
By ACLJ.org
February 24, 2017
Today we delivered Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requests to the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of the Director of National Security
(ODNI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) to find out why the Obama
Administration waited until mere days before a new Administration took over to
implement a significant change in intelligence policy.
As we’ve stated before,
this significant policy change appears to have a direct correlation to the
exponentially increased number of intel leaks the Trump Administration has been
dealing with.
By greatly expanding access
to classified information by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, the Obama
Administration paved the way for a shadow government to leak that classified
information, endangering our national security, in an attempt to undermine President
Trump.
While sharing information
among intelligence agencies is not a new concept, and this isn’t the first time
an Administration has made amendments to intelligence policy, the timing is
suspect.
According to the New York Times,
“[i]n 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.” On December 15, 2016, Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper executed a document entitled
“Procedures for the Availability or Dissemination of Raw Signals Intelligence
Information by the National Security Agency Under Section 2.3 of Executive
Order 12333.” In turn, on January 3, 2017, then-Attorney General Lynch approved
these new procedures.
The significance of the Obama
Administration’s new rules is a relaxation of previously established “limits on
what the N.S.A. may do with information gathered by its most powerful
surveillance operations.” What is also not clear, and what the ACLJ seeks to
determine through its FOIA request, is why, after having the
opportunity to expand the policy during its 8 years in power, the Obama
Administration waited to change the policy just days before a new
administration was set to begin.
We submitted our FOIA
requests so that we can get to the bottom of this significant intelligence
policy change and expose whether this last minute move of an outgoing
Administration was meant to facilitate leaks detrimental to the incoming
President – by dramatically expanding the raw information that career
intelligence agency employees can access.
Among other things, our FOIAs
request any records or communications among and between government agencies and
officials
referencing,
connected to, or regarding in any way their approval of the procedures set
forth in the document entitled “Procedures for the Availability or
Dissemination of Raw Signals Intelligence Information by the National Security
Agency Under Section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333,” which Director of National
Intelligence Clapper executed on December 15, 2016, and which then-Attorney
General Lynch approved on January 3, 2017.
The American people deserve to
know the truth about how their government operates and the true reasons for the
decisions it makes.
We will hold our government
accountable by obtaining and examining authentic and authoritative sources for
what actually happened, who was involved, and the reasons underlying these
governmental activities.
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