The '''Obama Administration''' was the executive branch of the federal government under [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Presidents of the United States|President]] [[Barack Hussein Obama|Barack Obama]] and Vice President [[Joe Biden]]. It began on January 20, 2009, for a term of four years, and then for a second four-year term that ended on January 20, 2017. Throughout its entirety, the Obama administration attempted to [[criminal]]ize political opposition,<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbasile/2014/01/31/obamas-weaponization-of-government/#41198a711b92</ref><ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273552/lefts-march-one-party-state-frontpagemagcom</ref> first by an illegal misuse of the [[IRS]] targeting conservative groups, and when they were caught began misusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act database in 2012 to spy on American citizens.<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/23/the-obama-use-of-fisa-702-as-a-domestic-political-surveillance-program/ The Obama Use of FISA-702 as a Domestic Political Surveillance Program], Posted on April 23, 2019 by sundance. theconsevativetreehouse.com </ref><ref>[https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Memorandum Opinion and Order], April 26, 2017, p. 82.</ref>
By 2015 and 2016, the Obama administration interfered in American elections. It refused to prosecute [[Hillary Clinton]] for [[felon]]ious violations of the National Records Act and Espionage Act,<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook/</ref> paving the way for her nomination as the [[Democratic party]] presidential candidate, while conducting illegal spying on Republican presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]],<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/fbi-government-investigator-trump.htmlF.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016], By Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti, ''The New York Times, May 2, 2019</ref><ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/02/new-york-times-admits-multiple-spies-deployed-against-trump-campaign/</ref> falsely accusing him of colluding with [[Russia]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/01/barr-trump-russia-treason-agent/</ref> In doing so, the Obama administration colluded with foreign actors in an effort to [[subversion|subvert]] American [[democracy]].<ref>https://spectator.org/confirmed-john-brennan-colluded-with-foreign-spies-to-defeat-trump/</ref>
==2009–2013: First term==