Federal abuses on Obama's watch represent a growing blight on his legacy
By Monica Crowley, opinion contributor — 02/12/18
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-hou...-obamas-legacy
In all of the discussions about the political weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI, alleged corruption at the highest echelons of those agencies and serial abuse of the secret FISA process surrounding the 2016 election,
one name has been conspicuously absent: President Barack Obama.
High-ranking officials and other major players in those agencies —
which Obama oversaw — are increasingly embroiled in the growing scandal:
James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weissmann, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr.
Given the tight control Obama exercised over every part of his administration and agenda, the idea that any of these appointees and loyalists freelanced their activities without at least his tacit approval or that of his White House strains credulity.
These kinds of abuses of power were nothing new, given the
Obama team’s long history of this type of misconduct on everything from the Benghazi terror attack to the political misuse of the IRS. They
weaponized the most fearsome government agencies to target, monitor and presumably illegally unmask political opponents, including members of Congress, journalists reporting unfavorable stories, Trump allies and average Americans....
.....Obama created a climate in which the potentially criminal misuse of the DOJ and the FBI, as currently being unraveled, was not just acceptable but perhaps encouraged, thereby giving rise to
what could be the most dangerous scandal in American history.
It’s increasingly apparent that these recently exposed abuses of power served
two ostensible purposes: to secure Hillary Clinton’s candidacy by shielding her from prosecution stemming from the use of her unauthorized private server,
and to derail the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump.
But something else, something more profound, drove their efforts: their
urgency to preserve what
Obama once called “the fundamental transformation of the nation” —
a grand project much bigger than Obama himself or any other single figure.
He largely fulfilled the
long-held progressive ambition of changing the nation’s course, only to see Trump threaten to change it once again:
not to return it to where it was pre-Obama,
but to smash the corrupt existing order that had made their progressive advances possible.
Obama and the leftist movement over which he has presided could not tolerate a reversal of their gains (by Trump, no less!), so they got to work....
...On the defensive side, Herculean efforts were made by the Obama DOJ and FBI to stonewall the Clinton investigation,
not out of any real love for Hillary but because they needed to ensure a Democratic win and
the continuance of their “transformative” agenda. Further, with Clinton at the helm,
evidence of all of their previous abuses would never see the light of day.
Thus, the forward march to safeguard her....
....As the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy has reported,
Obama knowingly and repeatedly sent communications to Clinton via her non-government, unsecured email and server. One assumes those emails involved classified information, not yoga schedules.
That meant if Clinton were guilty of committing felonies, so was Obama. Because they were
joined at the hip over this and other toxic controversies, such as Benghazi,
she required protection in order to protect him. To this day, they survive or fall together. Hence, Obama’s support of her candidacy over his preferred choice, Joe Biden,
and the necessity of the email cover-up....
.....Restoring the progressive revolution is also why loyal Obama soldiers such as Biden and Eric Holder are considering White House runs. In the meantime, they
must try to destroy Trump, his agenda, and the investigations that are
quickly turning against them. After all, if Trump doesn’t just endure but succeeds,
Obama, Clinton, their brigades and the larger decades-long radical movement have everything to lose.
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Thank you Lord Jesus!
II Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.