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How Are All These Intel Leaks Happening? Look At One Of The Last Things Obama Did Before Leaving Office
"Former President Barack Obama made a last-minute change to the way wiretapped intelligence is shared Jan. 12, which may have contributed to the proliferation of leaks plaguing the Trump administration.
Obama changed the way National Security Agency intelligence is shared 8 days before leaving office, which allows globally intercepted communications to be disseminated across the entire intelligence community.
The change was part of a post-9/11 push by the executive branch to increase intelligence sharing, to ensure that NSA analysts do not miss critically important information. The change is “simply widening the aperture for a larger number of analysts, who will be bound by the existing rules,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said at the time.
Obama administration officials also scrambled to spread classified intelligence related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election to as many people within the U.S. government as possible. These officials said they spread the intelligence around to ensure Trump administration officials would not be able to quash the investigation. The officials also fought to keep the related intelligence at a low-classified level, giving more officers access to the raw information."
1. I am all for what Obama did in regards to Intel Agencies being able to share information to fight our nation's enemies together. Unfortunately Obama immediately exposed the dangers of this as he and his hold-overs in the intel agencies abused this power - using it for partisan political attacks by illegally leaking the information.
2. "...to ensure Trump administration officials would not be able to quash the investigation."
No investigation was quashed. They showed the ONLY illegal acts perpetrated were by the very agencies who illegally leaked the data in a failed political attack on Trump. The investigation results were as follows:
- Russians did NOT 'hack the election'
--- Obama diduse this lie to conduct his own Watergate, though, during the election
- The FBI found NO COLLUSION between Trump and Russia
- Flynn did nothing illegal
--- Dems were able to successfully Politically Assassinate Flynn just the same
- Sessions did nothing illegal
Obama fulfilled a recommendation made after 9/11/01 to help make the country more safe; however, he immediately abused his power by using it POLITICALLY against the GOP Presidential candidate and his eventual successor!
"Former President Barack Obama made a last-minute change to the way wiretapped intelligence is shared Jan. 12, which may have contributed to the proliferation of leaks plaguing the Trump administration.
Obama changed the way National Security Agency intelligence is shared 8 days before leaving office, which allows globally intercepted communications to be disseminated across the entire intelligence community.
The change was part of a post-9/11 push by the executive branch to increase intelligence sharing, to ensure that NSA analysts do not miss critically important information. The change is “simply widening the aperture for a larger number of analysts, who will be bound by the existing rules,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said at the time.
Obama administration officials also scrambled to spread classified intelligence related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election to as many people within the U.S. government as possible. These officials said they spread the intelligence around to ensure Trump administration officials would not be able to quash the investigation. The officials also fought to keep the related intelligence at a low-classified level, giving more officers access to the raw information."
1. I am all for what Obama did in regards to Intel Agencies being able to share information to fight our nation's enemies together. Unfortunately Obama immediately exposed the dangers of this as he and his hold-overs in the intel agencies abused this power - using it for partisan political attacks by illegally leaking the information.
2. "...to ensure Trump administration officials would not be able to quash the investigation."
No investigation was quashed. They showed the ONLY illegal acts perpetrated were by the very agencies who illegally leaked the data in a failed political attack on Trump. The investigation results were as follows:
- Russians did NOT 'hack the election'
--- Obama diduse this lie to conduct his own Watergate, though, during the election
- The FBI found NO COLLUSION between Trump and Russia
- Flynn did nothing illegal
--- Dems were able to successfully Politically Assassinate Flynn just the same
- Sessions did nothing illegal
Obama fulfilled a recommendation made after 9/11/01 to help make the country more safe; however, he immediately abused his power by using it POLITICALLY against the GOP Presidential candidate and his eventual successor!
