by V Saxena
Though special counsel Robert Mueller has thus far uncovered zero evidence
that President Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to affect the
outcome of the 2016 presidential election, a far more shocking
revelation regarding former President Barack Obama has made its way to
the surface.
“US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election,
sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking
campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe,” CNN revealed in a bombshell scoop last week.
Obama administration investigators also reportedly wiretapped Trump advisers Carter Page, Michael Flynn and others. While it remains unclear how this information was unearthed, CNN’s
sources claim Mueller’s team “has been provided details of these
communications.”
But the more pressing point are the implications of this discovery.
“If these reports are accurate, it means U.S. intelligence agencies
secretly surveilled at least a half dozen Trump associates,” veteran
journalist Sharyl Attkisson explained in a column for The Hill. “And those are just the ones we know about.”
In other words, “(i)t looks like Obama did spy on Trump, just as he
apparently did to me,” she added, referencing an allegation she made
several years back that Obama’s Justice Department had attempted to hack
into her personal and work computers in 2013. What remains unknown is
whether any of this sketchy behavior was actually legal. Attkisson
noted, however, that even if these hacks and wiretaps were legal, that
doesn’t take away from the shadiness of it all.
The truth is, the revelation shows Obama and his administration were
actively engaged in surveillance of American citizens that would have
been unthinkable not all that long ago. As Attkisson writes: “It
seems that government monitoring of journalists, members of Congress and
political enemies — under multiple administrations — has become more
common than anyone would have imagined two decades ago … So has the
unmasking of sensitive and highly protected names by political officials.”
Agreed.
From targeting conservative organizations
via the IRS to trying to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay
for abortifacients, the Obama administration waged a relentless assault
on the American people’s constitutionally guaranteed rights and
liberties.
Will Mueller look into this new information and act accordingly, though? Considering his decision to line his team with leftists, I think the answer is likely a resounding “no.”
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