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. | 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. |