Mark Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama’s ‘Silent Coup’ vs. Trump

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Mark Levin FACT BLASTS Truth on Obama Administration Spying on Trump Campaign/Transition
by Conservative Views952 , Published on Mar 5, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w80TIsyASjw


The Associated Press

Mark Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama's 'Silent Coup' vs. Trump
by JOEL B. POLLAK | 3 Mar 2017 | 19,287
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/03/mark-levin-obama-used-police-state-tactics-undermine-trump/

  "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.
   
   Drawing on sources including the New York Times and the Washington
   Post, Levin described the case against Obama so far, based on what is
   already publicly known. The following is an expanded version of that
   case, including events that Levin did not mention specifically but are
   important to the overall timeline.
   
   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 been
      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 exisentence 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.
   
   8. February: Mike Flynn scandal. Reports emerge that the FBI
      intercepted a conversation in 2016 between future National Security
      Adviser Michael Flynn — then a private citizen — and Russian Ambassador
      Sergey Kislyak. The intercept supposedly was part of routine spying on
      the ambassador, not monitoring of the Trump campaign. The FBI
      transcripts reportedly show the two discussing Obama's newly-imposed
      sanctions on Russia, though Flynn earlier denied discussing them. Sally
      Yates, whom Trump would later fire as acting Attorney General for
      insubordination, is involved in the investigation. In the end, Flynn
      resigns over having misled Vice President Mike Pence (perhaps
      inadvertently) about the content of the conversation.
   
   9. February: Times claims extensive Russian contacts. The New York
      Times cites "four current and former American officials" in reporting
      that the Trump campaign had "repeated contacts with senior Russian
      intelligence officials. The Trump campaign denies the claims — and the
      Times admits that there is "no evidence" of coordination between the
      campaign and the Russians. The White House and some congressional
      Republicans begin to raise questions about illegal intelligence leaks.
     
   10. March: the Washington Post targets Jeff Sessions. The Washington
      Post reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact twice with
      the Russian ambassador during the campaign — once at a Heritage
      Foundation event and once at a meeting in Sessions's Senate office. The
      Post suggests that the two meetings contradict Sessions's testimony at
      his confirmation hearings that he had no contacts with the Russians,
      though in context (not presented by the Post) it was clear he meant in
      his capacity as a campaign surrogate, and that he was responding to
      claims in the "dossier" of ongoing contacts. The New York Times, in
      covering the story, adds that the Obama White House "rushed to
      preserve" intelligence related to alleged Russian links with the Trump
      campaign. By "preserve" it really means "disseminate": officials spread
      evidence throughout other government agencies "to leave a clear trail
      of intelligence for government investigators" and perhaps the media as
      well.
   
   In summary: the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained,
   authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring
   the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then
   relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the
   government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the
   conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.
   
   Levin called the effort a "silent coup" by the Obama administration and
   demanded that it be investigated.
   
   In addition, Levin castigated Republicans in Congress for focusing
   their attention on Trump and Attorney General Sessions rather than
   Obama.
   
   Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was
   named one of the "most influential" people in news media in 2016. His
   new book, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available
   from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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links mentioned by Mark Levin :

https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisa-warrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/
http://archive.is/pI5UV

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts
http://archive.is/VDnym

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html
http://archive.is/V4Aql

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
http://archive.is/DHZ59

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/15/surprise-at-the-end-obama-administration-gave-nsa-broad-new-powers/
http://archive.is/MXOEu

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more-latitude-to-share-intercepted-communications.html
http://archive.is/j6DwM

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html?_r=0
http://archive.is/akEWT

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html?_r=0
http://archive.is/glzoy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html
http://archive.is/NBeeE

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html
http://archive.is/6kXgy

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap
http://archive.is/faBSB

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427
http://archive.is/XzrGi

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445499/trump-deep-state-battle-fighting-bureaucrats-bitter-democrats-lost
http://archive.is/8eHjr

youtube :
Mark Levin: Jeff Sessions recuses himself from investigation of Donald Trump's alleged Russian ties : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugO5tlPPNWk
Mark Levin FACT BLASTS Truth on Obama Administration Spying on Trump Campaign/Transition : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w80TIsyASjw
"He DOES have evidence." ex-CIA agent, on Obama wiretapping Trump : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9M5HlzCulc
Lt. Col. Shaffer: Potential Obama Wiretapping Is 'Soviet-Level Wrongdoing' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-up99Gl9aE