UPDATED NYT: Obama Undermined The Trump Administration In Final Days

It wasn't long ago a poster called me a conspiracy theorist for saying the NSA would eventually spy on and manipulate politicians with incriminating information. We already went down this road with J Edgar Hoover. Among a million other examples.

Obama is such a piece of shit. A literal demon.
A sneaky one at that. He plays the long game and his little progressive fanboys like a fiddle.
 
If they can do this to the president of the United States, what's stopping them from doing the same to American citizens?
 
If they can do this to the president of the United States, what's stopping them from doing the same to American citizens?
Yeah and now the NSA will have proof that all the conservatives in the War Room actually Google tranny porn
 
What's sad is Obama wasnt willing subjugate his own presidency with the same standards.

More leftist double standards. It's not fascism when they do it!
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/...to-share-intercepted-communications.html?_r=0

Seeing as how the deep state, which includes the NSA and FBI, appear to be leaking all of Trump’s private phone calls with foreign leaders and took down General Michael Flynn by spying on his calls and leaking them to their friends in The Washington Post and The New York Times, the story is being looked at in a completely new light.

As the The New York Times reported on January 12th:

In its final days, the Obama administration has 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 rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.

The change means that far more officials will be searching through raw data. Essentially, the government is reducing the risk that the N.S.A. will fail to recognize that a piece of information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the risk that officials will see private information about innocent people.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch signed the new rules, permitting the N.S.A. to disseminate “raw signals intelligence information,” on Jan. 3, after the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., signed them on Dec. 15, according to a 23-page, largely declassified copy of the procedures.

Previously, the N.S.A. filtered information before sharing intercepted communications with another agency, like the C.I.A. or the intelligence branches of the F.B.I. and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The N.S.A.’s analysts passed on only information they deemed pertinent, screening out the identities of innocent people and irrelevant personal information.

Now, other intelligence agencies will be able to search directly through raw repositories of communications intercepted by the N.S.A. and then apply such rules for “minimizing” privacy intrusions.

“This is not expanding the substantive ability of law enforcement to get access to signals intelligence,” said Robert S. Litt, the general counsel to Mr. Clapper. “It is simply widening the aperture for a larger number of analysts, who will be bound by the existing rules.”

But Patrick Toomey, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, called the move an erosion of rules intended to protect the privacy of Americans when their messages are caught by the N.S.A.’s powerful global collection methods. He noted that domestic internet data was often routed or stored abroad, where it may get vacuumed up without court oversight.

“Rather than dramatically expanding government access to so much personal data, we need much stronger rules to protect the privacy of Americans,” Mr. Toomey said. “Seventeen different government agencies shouldn’t be rooting through Americans’ emails with family members, friends and colleagues, all without ever obtaining a warrant.”




This rule has been around since the Reagan administration and Obama didn't change it until days before he left office. Is this what happened to Flynn?I s this why Trump’s calls with foreign leaders are being illegally leaked to the press in order to sabotage his presidency?
Your thread title is actual fake news. You have it written as though the NYT headline says,
"Obama Expanded NSA In Final Days, Possible Cause of Trump Leaks". It doesn't say that, and he didn't expand the NSA.

He eased restrictions on how they share information with other agencies. It actually gives the other intelligence agencies more power by giving them access to more raw data.


 
I don't like that he did that at all, but your thread is still disingenuous nonsense.
 
Your thread title is actual fake news. You have it written as though the NYT headline says,
"Obama Expanded NSA In Final Days, Possible Cause of Trump Leaks". It doesn't say that, and he didn't expand the NSA.

He eased restrictions on how they share information with other agencies. It actually gives the other intelligence agencies more power by giving them access to more raw data.




Reread the OP, it's addresses the change in Wiretapping directed not to mention they had infomation on Flynn BEFORE the change.
 
I don't like that he did that at all, but your thread is still disingenuous nonsense.


No, it's actually pretty clear, Obama putting sentive infomation at greater risk of a leaks days before leaving office to sabtoage the next president. Something that hasn't been done since the Reagan adminstraion and he does it at the final hour.
 
their personal wikileaks, this will get ugly
 
I can picture Obama hosting Trump in his final days in the White House, having a polite and productive conversation, giving a sincere goodbye that leaves Trump feeling great about himself, and then the second Obama walks out of the room, he turns to his team and says "Make sure that fuckin' guy can't have any secrets."
 
I can picture Obama hosting Trump in his final days in the White House, having a polite and productive conversation, giving a sincere goodbye that leaves Trump feeling great about himself, and then the second Obama walks out of the room, he turns to his team and says "Make sure that fuckin' guy can't have any secrets."

Spot on. Sadly. LOL.
 
I can picture Obama hosting Trump in his final days in the White House, having a polite and productive conversation, giving a sincere goodbye that leaves Trump feeling great about himself, and then the second Obama walks out of the room, he turns to his team and says "Make sure that fuckin' guy can't have any secrets."

Only Obama can have secrets!
 
the expanded NSA during his presidency that snowden blew the whistle on... is one of the reasons i think obama was a terrible president

the founding fathers wouldve demanded a revolt
 
the expanded NSA during his presidency that snowden blew the whistle on... is one of the reasons i think obama was a terrible president

the founding fathers wouldve demanded a revolt

This is the number one reason I lost all respect for Obama. Closely followed by his big fuck you to the Iraqis.
 
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