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How Obama's White House weaponized media


Posted: Mar 29, 2017

Senator Chuck Schumer Schumer and Adam Schiff have both castigated Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, for his handling of the inquiry into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. They should think twice. The issue that has recently seized Nunes is of vital importance to anyone who cares about fundamental civil liberties. The trail that Nunes is following will inevitably lead back to a particularly significant leak. On Jan. 12, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported that “according to a senior U.S. government official, (General Mike) Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29.” From Nunes’s statements, it’s clear that he suspects that this information came from NSA intercepts of Kislyak’s phone. An Obama official, probably in the White House, “unmasked” Flynn’s name and passed it on to Ignatius. Regardless of how the government collected on Flynn, the leak was a felony and a violation of his civil rights. But it was also a severe breach of the public trust. When I worked as an NSC staffer in the White House, 2005-2007, I read dozens of NSA surveillance reports every day. On the basis of my familiarity with this system, I strongly suspect that someone in the Obama White House blew a hole in the thin wall that prevents the government from using information collected from surveillance to destroy the lives of the citizens whose privacy it is pledged to protect. The leaking of Flynn’s name was part of what can only be described as a White House campaign to hype the Russian threat and, at the same time, to depict Trump as Vladimir Putin’s Manchurian candidate. On Dec. 29, Obama announced sanctions against Russia as retribution for its hacking activities. From that date until Trump’s inauguration, the White House aggressively pumped into the media two streams of information: one about Russian hacking; the other about Trump’s Russia connection. In the hands of sympathetic reporters, the two streams blended into one. A report that appeared the day after Obama announced the sanctions shows how. On Dec. 30, the Washington Post reported on a Russian effort to penetrate the electricity grid by hacking into a Vermont utility, Burlington Electric Department. After noting the breach, the reporters offered a senior administration official to speculate on the Russians’ motives. Did they seek to crash the system, or just to probe it? This infrastructure hack, the story continued, was part of a broader hacking campaign that included intervention in the election. The story then moved to Trump: “He…has spoken highly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite President Obama’s suggestion that the approval for hacking came from the highest levels of the Kremlin.” The national media mimicked the Post’s reporting. But there was a problem: the hack never happened. It was a false alarm — triggered, it eventually became clear, by Obama’s hype. On Dec. 29, the DHS and FBI published a report on Russian hacking, which showed the telltale signs of having been rushed to publication. “At every level this report is a failure,” said cyber security expert Robert M. Lee. “It didn’t do what it set out to do, and it didn’t provide useful data. They’re handing out bad information.” Especially damaging were the hundreds of Internet addresses, supposedly linked to Russian hacking, that the report contained. The FBI and DHS urged network administrators to load the addresses into their system defenses. Some of the addresses, however, belong to platforms that are widely used by the public, including Yahoo servers. At Burlington Electric, an unsuspecting network administrator dutifully loaded the addresses into the monitoring system of the utility’s network. When an employee checked his email, it registered on the system as if Russian hackers were trying to break in. While the White House was hyping the Russia threat, elements of the press showed a sudden interest in the infamous Steele dossier, which claimed that Russian intelligence services had caught Trump in Moscow in highly compromising situations. The dossier was opposition research paid for by Trump’s political opponents, and it had circulated for months among reporters covering the election. Because it was based on anonymous sources and entirely unverifiable, however, no reputable news organization had dared to touch it. With a little help from the Obama White House, the dossier became fair game for reporters. A government leak let it be known that the intelligence community had briefed Trump on the dossier. If the president-elect was discussing it with his intelligence briefers, so the reasoning went, perhaps there was something to it after all. By turning the dossier into hard news, that leak weaponized malicious gossip. The same is true of the Flynn-Kislyak leak. Ignatius used the leak to deepen speculation about collusion between Putin and Trump: “What did Flynn say (to Kislyak),” Ignatius asked, “and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions?” The mere fact that Flynn’s conversations were being monitored deepened his appearance of guilt. If he was innocent, why was the government monitoring him? It should not have been. He had the right to talk to in private — even to a Russian ambassador. Regardless of what one thinks about him or Trump or Putin, this leak should concern anyone who believes that we must erect a firewall between the national security state and our domestic politics. The system that allowed it to happen must be reformed. At stake is a core principle of our democracy: that elected representatives control the government, and not vice versa. ;

I remember Maxine Waters making reference to - stuff like this years ago. I remember her

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bragging that Obama was arranging information to use to defeat opposition.

Obama used "The Hammer" to put together the database that he is now using with OFA. This, of course, would be highly illegal, but that is how Obama Crime Inc. rolls.

Maxine Waters belongs in a nursing home. - What a double-talking nutcase.

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And people continue to vote for her. One of the great mysteries of the political game.

The real issue is Trump and his administrations - ties with Russia

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For me and many others. Are you at all interested in that?

There are no ties. The real story is the Deep State - and surveillance. This gets befogged by

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politics.

Perception is reality. They are just keeping this story - alive to try and delegitimize

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Trump.

How do you - know?

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There is an investigation going on.
Tell me how the poster that made the "ties with Russia" comment - Truthhurts
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knows? They don't know either. This is a case of jumping to conclusions without evidence, which is par on course with the people who hate Trump and everyone in his administration.

Only time will tell and they need to do their investigations to the end.

As to the investigation, didn't a couple agencies come out and say there were NO TIES? If so, why they are still investigating? Because the Dems aren't satisfied with the answers and they won't be satisfied until they take Trump down and get the rest of his administration out of office. Sore losers.
The dems believe they own the government - mt
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I guess they do. They don't feel they should relinquish their power. They are elite globalists. That is what Obama and Soros are. They own this country and the world. I hope somehow they are taken down, but I don't see how.

You do realize - sm

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that saying it or typing it won't make it go away right. Ongoing investigation by the FBI into trump and his cronies is the real story. Nothing you do or say will make it go away or untrue. Sorry.
At the beginning of the investigations, at least 8 people were - asked if there was any evidence of Trump and Russi
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collusion. They all said no. Even Clapper said no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycZj5-5KJwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSuNThsjV9g

Attend a few classified briefings and even Dems start to recognize that the only 2016 Russia collusion involved Dems.
The only thing anyone knows right now - sm
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is that there is an ongoing FBI investigation into Russia/Trump/administration ties. I'll wait until the FBI concludes their investigation. All this means nothing.
Clapper just admitted - hawtmk
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he had not seen all of the evidence at the time he made that statement. A lot of intel has come in since December.

You are absolutely right!! nm - mt

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Deep State MSM is pushing this but ignored Hillary and - Benghazi, so pardon my skepticism.

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I have been following this but still nothing untoward has been found.

No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing a crisis. - We seem split into different

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camps in the country. We have more people than ever who trust the FBI and CIA, they have been politicized, plus disunity of Americans and the politic elites feed on this and continue expanding regardless of who is in power.

This is why we bought our rural KY farm in 2008 and moved there from Seattle in 2011. Second smartest move I made in my entire life. First smartest was marrying my husband. I’ve said for years that our problems have crossed a line. There is no human solution. It’s way too late for that.

I very much enjoy discussing politics, but at the end of the day, I just see it as something interesting to discuss as it all tumbles down, Trump, Hillary, or whoever is in charge.
Should be don't trust the FBI and CIA - correction
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xx

No we ae not. Not interested in fictitous stories with absoluntely - nothing to back it up - sm

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Even the investigating agencies said there is nothing, no proof, nothing. These are fake news stories.

To be interested in that would be like saying the real issue here is Obama's green hair. Are you interested in that?

Since there is nothing there, there cannot be anything to be interested in.

So you know more than - sm

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the FBI then? Maybe you should call them and tell them to stop the investigation since you said so. Did you say the same thing about Hilary when she was investigated?

I will believe a tie when I see a tie. For now - it is Democrat propaganda

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Meant to deflate their losses and deflect from Trump's win and why he won.

Maybe Democrats should focus on issues of why they lost the election and part of the problem was they appealed to the elite and did not hear the middle class or feel the pain of the middle class.

If I tell you I did a report in high school on Russia - Truthhurts

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in the 60s when we were still in the cold war with them, does that mean I admire Russia and have ties to them?

I must admit the Life Magazine they sent for my report had some beautiful pictures in it along with some stories about how great the country is....but all the time I was doing the article, I was worried my family would be targeted by the CIA, FBI and any other agency that was trying to weed out Communists liks McCarthy. I was only 13 at the time and the only reason I had to do that report was because I was in the hospital and all the good countries were taken.

Mazine Waters: "Obama has put in place secret database with - everything on everyone."

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"The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday.

"That's going to be very, very powerful," Waters said. "That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it's never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They're going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can't get around it. And he's [President Obama] been very smart. It's very powerful what he's leaving in place."

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