Abuser-in-chief: Obama’s politicization of intel agencies led to illegal spying on Americans for YEARS
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, May 25, 2017
During the Bush presidency, then-Sen. Barack Obama regularly criticized the administration for its privacy abuses, utilizing the National Security Agency to scoop up terabytes of data on virtually every Americans’ electronic communications, in the name of combating terrorism.
In 2004, while running for the U.S. Senate, Obama lashed out at the USA Patriot Act, saying it violates “our fundamental notions of privacy.” The following year, he joined fellow Democrats in claiming the law “seriously jeopardizes the rights of all Americans and the ideals America stands for.”
As he geared up for his White House run in 2007, he said he would ensure that U.S. intelligence agencies had all the tools they needed to protect the country — while honoring the Constitution.
“That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime … No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.”
Then, of course, Obama won the presidency. And all of that sanctimonious preaching proved little more than political posturing.
As reported by Circa, it turns out that Obama committed more serial abuses of Americans’ constitutional rights to privacy and due process than any president before him, and even more so than Bush’s violations that he so blithely dismissed. (RELATED: Obama admin spied on THOUSANDS of Americans in months leading up to 2016 election)
The site noted that, according to top secret documents that have been declassified, the NSA, under Obama, “routinely violated American privacy protections” as the agency combed through intercepts of subjects overseas. The NSA then “failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall,” activity that amounts to “some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.”
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