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"I have formally requested from the WH and the Intel Committees info on whether I was surveilled by Obama admin and or the Intel community!"
"Did the Obama admin go after presidential candidates, members of Congress, journalists, clergy, lawyers, fed judges?"
"Did the Obama admin use warrantless "wiretapping" on other candidates besides @realDonaldTrump?" http://circa.com/politics/circa-asks...g-on-americans …
Hey Mr. President, tear down the veil of secrecy surrounding unmasked NSA intercepts
by Circa News - May 5, 2017
Circa has formally requested that the Trump administration declassify records showing how often government officials have searched National Security Agency intercepts for intelligence on U.S. presidential candidates, members of Congress, journalists, clergy, lawyers, federal judges and doctors and how often such Americans had their identities unmasked by the intelligence community after Barack Obama made it easier to do so in 2011....
(also a video) http://circa.com/politics/circa-asks...g-on-americansRand Paul wants to know if the Obama administration ever spied on him
by Alex Pappas | May 5, 2017, 9:57 AM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ra...rticle/2622218on drudge now...President Obama's team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election
by John Solomon - May 4, 2017
During his final year in office, President Obama's team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.
The data, made available this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provides the clearest evidence to date of how information accidentally collected by the NSA overseas about Americans was subsequently searched and disseminated after President Obama loosened privacy protections to make such sharing easier in 2011 in the name of national security. A court affirmed his order.
The revelations are particularly sensitive since the NSA is legally forbidden from directly spying on Americans and its authority to conduct warrantless searches on foreigners is up for renewal in Congress later this year. And it comes as lawmakers investigate President Trump's own claims that his privacy was violated by his predecessor during the 2016 election.
In all, government officials conducted 30,355 searches in 2016 seeking information about Americans in NSA intercept metadata, which include telephone numbers and email addresses. The activity amounted to a 27.5 percent increase over the prior year and more than triple the 9,500 such searches that occurred in 2013, the first year such data was kept.
The government in 2016 also scoured the actual contents of NSA intercepted calls and emails for 5,288 Americans, an increase of 13 percent over the prior year and a massive spike from the 198 names searched in 2013.
The searches ultimately resulted in 3,134 NSA intelligence reports with unredacted U.S. names being distributed across government in 2016, and another 3,354 reports in 2015. About half the time, U.S. identities were unredacted in the original reports while the other half were unmasked after the fact by special request of Obama administration officials.
Among those whose names were unmasked in 2016 or early 2017 were campaign or transition associates of President Trump as well as members of Congress and their staffers, according to sources with direct knowledge.
The data kept by ODNI is missing some information from one of the largest consumers of NSA intelligence, the FBI, and officials acknowledge the numbers are likely much higher when the FBI’s activity is added.
(more, video) http://circa.com/politics/president-...-2016-election
Rand Paul requests info on whether Obama surveilled him
BY JOE UCHILL - 05/05/17 11:21 AM EDT
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he has asked the intelligence community and White House for any evidence that he was surveilled by former President Barack Obama.
"I have formally requested from the WH and the Intel Committees info on whether I was surveilled by Obama admin and or the Intel community!" Paul tweeted Friday.
The tweet appears to build off of President Trump's claim, presented without evidence, that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during last year's presidential race.
FBI Director James Comey has flatly denied any direct surveillance of the Trump campaign....
(The Hill) http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecur...surveilled-him
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