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As the 4th of July holiday approached, [[Pentagon Papers]] and [[Watergate]] hero [[Daniel Ellsberg]] called for a Congressional probe of “abuses of American intelligence agencies” and to “restore the protections in the [[Bill of Rights]]."<ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/01/daniel-ellsberg-issues-call-for-a-new-church-committee-to-probe-nsa.html</ref>
As the 4th of July holiday approached, [[Pentagon Papers]] and [[Watergate]] hero [[Daniel Ellsberg]] called for a Congressional probe of “abuses of American intelligence agencies” and to “restore the protections in the [[Bill of Rights]]."<ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/01/daniel-ellsberg-issues-call-for-a-new-church-committee-to-probe-nsa.html</ref>
====James Clapper====
On March 12, 2013 in public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee [[Democrat]]ic Sen. [[Ron Wyden]] asked Obama Director of National Intelligence ([[DNI]]) James Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" Clapper replied, “No sir. Not wittingly."<ref>https://youtu.be/nsmo0hUWJ08</ref> One month later the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly approved the latest FBI request to continue obtaining daily telephone records of millions of [[Verizon]] customers.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order</ref> The judge ordered Verizon to turn over the information to the National Security Agency (NSA).<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order</ref> This directly contradicted Clapper’s sworn testimony to Congress. Obama defended the wiretapping.<ref>https://usnews.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/07/18824941-obama-nobody-is-listening-to-your-telephone-calls?lite</ref>
Asked at a hearing if the Justice Dept. spies on members of Congress, Attn. Gen. Holder refuses to answer.<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/asked-if-justice-department-is-spying-on-congress-holder-refuses-to-answer/</ref>
A letter in late July from Clapper posted on Sen. Wyden's website, Clapper acknowledged that NSA analysts have exceeded even [[legal]] limits as interpreted by the NSA in domestic surveillance.<ref name="wyden.senate.gov"/> Sen. Wyden responded on the Senate floor: "These violations are more serious than those stated by the [[intelligence community]], and are troubling."
In mid 2014 Clapper fired [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] Chief [[Mike Flynn]].<ref>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagon-intelligence-agency-forced-out-officials-say/2014/04/30/ec15a366-d09d-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html?utm_term=.45a637102303</ref><ref>http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/michael-flynn-isis-memoir/2016/07/10/id/737937/</ref> Flynn opposed Obama's support for the [[Islamic State]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170216061621/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/obama-secret-syria-order_n_1730712.html?tw_p=twt</ref><ref>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41943.htm </ref><ref>https://archive.org/stream/10ALQAEDATRAININGMANUELOperationCyclone1979179/U.S.%20MILITARY%20ARMS%p20SYRIAN%20REBELS,%20CREATING%20ISIS%20-%20Al%20Qaeda%20Iraq%20Syria%20ISIS%20-%20DOCUMENTS%20-7_djvu.txt </ref> A US Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan with a new generation of US Stinger missile procured by the [[Taliban]] from [[Qatar]]. A serial number from the missile casing was recovered, tracing the Stinger's origin to a lot disbursed to the CIA which the CIA delivered to Qatar, intended for Libya and Syria durng the Libyan war. Hillary Clinton's State Dept. and John Brennan's CIA jointly ran a covert weapons supply program (Operation Zero Footprint).<ref>http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/</ref> Flynn was outraged at the findings of the DIA investigation, that US weapons supplied by Obama/Hillary/Brennan's covert assistance to [[jihad]]is were used to kill Americans.
Dir. James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee that Barack Obama, James Clapper's, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, [[Susan Rice]], and John Brennan all had access to sensitive wiretap information which contained the name of Gen. Mike Flynn. Leaking to the press the identity of Flynn was a [[felony]] because the information was part of a confidential intelligence gathering operation and the information had been “masked” to protect Flynn's identity.<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/20/while-questioning-fbis-comey-gowdy-accuses-obama-team-leaks-no-proof/99412100/</ref>
An attorney for Freedom Watch representing a whistleblower<ref>http://www.aim.org/special-report/a-watergate-style-threat-to-the-democratic-process/</ref> allegd his client has evidence that "spy agencies were engaged for years in systematic illegal surveillance on prominent Americans, including the chief justice of the [[Supreme Court]], other justices, 156 judges, prominent businessmen such as Donald Trump... Working side by side with Obama's former Director of National Intelligence (DNI), James Clapper, and Obama's former Director of the CIA, John Brennan," his client "witnessed 'up close and personal' this 'Orwellian Big Brother' intrusion on privacy, likely for potential coercion, blackmail or other nefarious purposes."<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/bombshell-cia-whistleblower-leaked-proof-trump-under-systematic-illegal-government-s</ref> Evidence has been made public by a federal judge that [[SCOTUS]] Chief Justice [[John Roberts]] was hacked in an operation overseen by John Brennan and James Clapper.<ref>http://bigleaguepolitics.com/evidence-supreme-court-justice-john-roberts-hacked-obama-officials/</ref>
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