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Did the Obama Admin use FISA to Spy on Trump?

<p>This weekend&comma; President Donald Trump claimed that the Obama Administration <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;obama-wire-tapping-the-trump-campaign-if-true-biggest-scandal-in-american-history&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"><strong>wiretapped Trump Tower<&sol;strong><&sol;a> during the election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;This is McCarthyism&excl;&rdquo&semi; he tweeted on Saturday&comma; later comparing the alleged wiretapping to Nixon&rsquo&semi;s Watergate scandal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is little evidence to support Trump&&num;8217&semi;s wiretapping claim&comma; but there&&num;8217&semi;s no shortage of evidence to prove that the Obama Administration tried to undermine Trump&rsquo&semi;s presidential campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Radio host Mark Levin calls it &ldquo&semi;Obama&rsquo&semi;s silent coup&rdquo&semi; and has criticized lawmakers for focusing on Trump and Sessions when they should be concentrating on Obama&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Levin laid out a detailed timeline in describing the case against Obama&period; The timeline was later expanded by <em>Breitbart<&sol;em> and published on March 3rd&colon;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>June 2016&colon;<&sol;strong> Obama Administration files a FISA request to monitor four Trump advisers for suspected connections with Russia&period; The request is denied&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>July 2016&colon;<&sol;strong> Trump makes an off-color joke about Russia that spurs Clinton and media to claim that he invited further hacking&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>October 2016&colon;<&sol;strong> WikiLeaks releases hacked John Podesta emails that mortally wound Clinton campaign&period; The Dems say Trump is working with Russia&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>October 2016&colon;<&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi;Obama Administration obtains FISA warrant&period; As reported by <em>Heat Street&colon;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;The FBI&rsquo&semi;s counter-intelligence arm&comma; resources say&comma; re-drew an earlier FISA court request around possible financial and banking offenses related to the server &hellip&semi; the second &lpar;request&rpar; was drawn more narrowly and was granted in October after evidence was presented of a server&comma; possibly related to the Trump campaign&comma; and its alleged links to two banks&semi; SVB Bank and Russia&rsquo&semi;s Alfa Bank&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The FBI finds no evidence of criminal behavior&period; &ldquo&semi;Rather than drop the matter for lack of evidence of criminal offenses&comma; the Justice Department and FBI pursued it as a national-security investigation&comma;&rdquo&semi; reports&nbsp&semi;<em>National Review&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As <em>Breitbart<&sol;em> points out&comma; &ldquo&semi;The Obama Administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>January 2017&colon;<&sol;strong> A former British intel operative compiles an outlandish dossier full of unverifiable rumors about Trump and Russia&period; <em>Buzzfeed<&sol;em> publishes the entire document&comma; admitting that it is &ldquo&semi;unverified and potentially unverifiable&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>January 2017&colon;<&sol;strong> Obama Administration expands NSA sharing&comma; making it far easier for intel on private citizens to be shared or leaked&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>January 19th&comma; 2017&colon;<&sol;strong> As reported by the <em>New York Times<&sol;em>&comma; the FBI&comma; the NSA and CIA&comma; and the Treasury Department are all spying on Trump associates in order to find Russian ties&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>February 2017&colon;<&sol;strong> Michael Flynn accused of discussing sanctions with Russian envoy Sergey Kislyak and of misleading VP Mike Pence&period; Flynn resigns&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>February 2017&colon;<&sol;strong> The <em>NY Times<&sol;em> insists Trump campaign had &ldquo&semi;repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials&period;&rdquo&semi; Trump denies these claims&semi; the <em>Times<&sol;em> admits it has no real evidence&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>March 2017&colon;<&sol;strong> <em>The Washington Post<&sol;em> lambasts AG Jeff Sessions &nbsp&semi;for speaking with Sergey during Trump campaign after previously saying he had no contact with the Russians&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This timeline suggests that the Obama Administration knowingly spied on the Trump campaign and continued to monitor it despite a lack of evidence of anything illegal&period; NSA rules were relaxed so that evidence &lpar;including conversations between private citizens&rpar; could be shared in such a way that the media would inevitably gain access to it&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s Note&colon;<&sol;strong> This entire situation is disturbing in the extreme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Are there officials who dislike Trump so much that they are willing to spead a story that will lead to widespread public fear that the President of the United States is compromised by Russia&period; Yes&period; Are there officials who are so afriad of Trump&&num;8217&semi;s potential connections to Russia that they are willing to risk a public firestorm just to get an invesitgation underway&quest; Probably&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Does the media hate Trump so much that it is willing to&nbsp&semi;print unverified claims just to mock him&quest; Definitely&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s Note&colon;<&sol;strong> If this had happened to Obama it would have been headlines for a year&period; But the liberal media is invested in long running stories with no proof behind them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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