John R. Houk
© May 26, 2017
The Left Stream Media is still hysterically chasing Fake
News or more essentially anti-Trump propaganda, desperately trying to impugn
the Administration that voters in a majority of States elected to Office.
AND YET this same Leftist MSM is suspiciously silent
on the ever-increasing information that treasonous President Barack Hussein
Obama had spying on the American people he considered enemies before his
reelection to President in 2012.
I found a Legal Insurrection news piece that displays
declassified FISA documents about FISA Court rebuking Obama a mere two-weeks
before the 2012 election cycle for spying on Americans via the National
Security Agency (NSA).
You and I should wonder if the Obama domestic spying coupled
with his Administration’s open lies about the Benghazi attacks would have
changed that election victory toward Mitt Romney.
Obama has lied his way to every one of his election
victories AND the MSM has been in – wait for it – in collusion
with those lies that gullible voters were ensnared to favor Obama.
JRH 5/26/17
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FISA
Court Reveal: NSA under Obama Illegally Spied on Americans
Posted by Fuzzy Slippers
May 25, 2017 at 8:35pm
A Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) Court ruling was declassified and released this week.
The ruling reveals that the
Obama administration engaged in widespread violation of NSA surveillance rules.
The Obama administration was reprimanded by the FISA court for illegal searches
that constitute “very serious Fourth Amendment issue.”
According to previously classified
documents, this admission of methodical and long-term violations of Americans’
Constitutional rights was made on October 26th of 2016.
[Circa Tweet on Obama NSA Spying: https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/867439792979681280]
This seems newsworthy: friendly FISA court sounds alarm about Obama spying practices, 4th amendment violations, https://t.co/gvO3fU2lDQ— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 24, 2017
The
National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated
American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and
failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before
Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents
that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the
U.S. intelligence community.
More
than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data
on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the
safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according
to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.
The
Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct.
26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that set off alarm. Trump
was elected less than two weeks later.
The FISA court sanctioned
administration officials and ruled that the searches constitute a “very serious
Fourth Amendment issue.”
Circa continues:
The
normally supportive court censured administration officials, saying the failure
to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an “institutional
lack of candor” and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious
Fourth Amendment issue,” according to a recently unsealed court document dated
April 26, 2017.
From the FISA Court ruling:
Upstream collections refers
to data routes between computer networks as opposed to those communications
intercepted by Internet service providers. Even these collections
and the distribution of collected and unmasked data, however, are not permitted
to be handled in a manner that violates Americans’ Fourth Amendment privacy
rights.
As
the FISA court explains, upstream collection refers to the interception of
communications “as they transit the facilities of an Internet backbone
carrier.” These are the data routes between computer networks. The routes are
hosted by government, academic, commercial, and similar high-capacity network
centers, and they facilitate the global, international exchange of Internet
traffic. Upstream collection from the Internet’s “backbone,” which accounts for
about 9 percent of the NSA’s collection haul (a massive amount of
communications), is distinguished from interception of communications from more
familiar Internet service providers.
Upstream
collection is a vital tool for gathering intelligence against foreign threats
to the United States. It is, of course, on foreign intelligence
targets — non-U.S. persons situated outside the U.S. — that
the NSA and CIA are supposed to focus. Foreign agents operating inside the
U.S. are mainly the purview of the FBI, which conducts surveillance of their
communications through warrants from the FISA court — individualized warrants
based on probable cause that a specific person is acting as an agent of a
foreign power.
. .
. . In a nutshell, it is not possible to capture a single e-mail related to a
single target as it transits the backbone routes (or “switches”) that connect
networks. The NSA must instead capture packets of e-mail data — which include
lots of e-mails beside the targeted e-mail. It sifts through these packets,
finds and assembles the components of the email it was looking for, and then
discards the rest. (A New York Times report by Charlie Savage
earlier this week, in connection with a different FISA issue, provides a good
explanation of this process.
By
contrast, the relevant discussion in the FISA court opinion of “multiple
communications transactions,” or MCTs, is brief and heavily redacted — see the
opinion at 15–16.) Even if the NSA does exactly what it is supposed to do
(i.e., sift and discard), this means American communications are being seized
and subjected to an inspection — however cursory — in the absence of any
warrant, probable cause, or foreign-intelligence relevance.
According to Circa, the ACLU responds to the “appalling lack of
oversight” in our nation’s intelligence agencies.
The
American Civil Liberties Union said the newly disclosed violations are some of
the most serious to ever be documented and strongly call into question the U.S.
intelligence community’s ability to police itself and safeguard American’s
privacy as guaranteed by the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections
against unlawful search and seizure.
“I
think what this emphasizes is the shocking lack of oversight of these
programs,” said Neema Singh Guliani, the ACLU’s legislative counsel in
Washington.
Watch the report:
Posted
by Fox News
Published
on May 24, 2017
Documents
show NSA systematically violated rights of countless Americans; chief
Washington correspondent James Rosen reports
If you’ve noted that this is
not being covered by the mainstream media, you’re not alone.
The
lack of coverage by the Big Three, and the liberal media in general shows their
bias against Trump and their favoritism to Obama. They rather focus on alleged
accusations that so far have bared little fruit, instead of the legal opinion
of federal judges exposing the highly illegal actions of a segment of President
Obama’s administration.
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Is Trump/Russia Fake News
More Important than Obama Spying?
John R. Houk
© May 26, 2017
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FISA Court Reveal: NSA under Obama Illegally Spied on
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