The [[Edward Snowden|Snowden revelations]] about U.S. surveillance capabilities, together with the [[Lois Lerner|IRS abuses]] targeting Obama's "enemies", were a harbinger of the illegal undemocratic, and anti-democratic weaponization of America's foreign intelligence gathering apparatus against U.S. citizens and political opponents, to interfere in elections.
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The [[Edward Snowden|Snowden revelations]] about U.S. surveillance capabilities, together with the [[Lois Lerner|IRS abuses]] targeting Obama's "enemies", were a harbinger of the illegal undemocratic, and anti-democratic weaponization of America's foreign intelligence gathering apparatus against U.S. citizens and political opponents, to interfere in elections.
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What [[Nixon]] contemplated - misuse of the FBI and CIA against domestic opponents - but failed to accomplish yet was nevertheless forced from office, Obama achieved beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The post-[[Watergate]] reform [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] to supervise [[Executive Branch]] power was systematically and wantonly circumvented to harass political opponents in an attempt to dictate the outcome of the [[2016 presidential election]], and [[blackmail]] the winner with illegally gathered evidence should the Obama coterie of conspirators fail.
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To paraphrase [[Adam Schiff]], the American people are too stupid to understand. According to the FISA court, Obama's illegal domestic surveillance, FISA abuse, and intimidation of journalists critical of Obama has been occurring since at least 2011.<ref>A September 21, 2010 internal email entitled “Obama Leak Investigations” at “global intelligence” company Stratfor claims Obama’s then-White House adviser [[John Brennan]] is targeting journalists.<br>https://web.archive.org/web/20120925054433/http://wikileaks.org:80/gifiles/docs/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html<br>https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2013/05/22/wikileaks-stratfor-e-mail-brennan-behind-witch-hunt-of-journalists-reporting-leaks/<br>"Brennan is behind the [[witch hunt]]s of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources,” writes one Stratfor official to another. The email continues: “Note — '''There is specific tasker from the [White House] to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda''' (oh my.) Even the FBI is shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode…”<br>"The Wonder Boys” refers to the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA).<br>Credit:[[Sharyl Attkisson]]. https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1210665_obama-leak-investigations-internal-use-only-pls-do-not.html</ref>