Obama Used National Security to Spy on Americans Opposed to Islamic Terrorists
Obamagate redefined opposition to Islamic terrorism as a national security threat.
Mon Jun 8, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
Obama Used National Security to Spy on Americans Opposed to Islamic Terrorists | Frontpagemag
We know when Obamagate ended, but we don't know when the policy of spying on Americans began. The tangled roots of the domestic surveillance of political opponents by the NSA
predate the alarmism about Russia. Tracing them back into the fetid swamp takes us not toward Moscow, but to
Tehran.
The first public revelation that the White House was spying on high level members of the political opposition came in
2015.
Members of Congress had been eavesdropped on as part of an operation to
sabotage Prime Minister Netanyahu's campaign against the Iran Deal.
The Israeli leader and his entire country had earlier been targeted by a massive spy campaign to stop Israel from taking out Iran's nukes.
But the new wave of surveillance was no longer just against a potential Israeli attack on Iran, but was
part of a political campaign to win the domestic argument to aid Iran and legalize its nuclear program.
The Wall Street Journal reported that
by 2013, surveillance of
Netanyahu was focused on protecting the Iran nuclear negotiations. Netanyahu's invitation to address Congress caught the White House by surprise and the
surveillance was not only directed at Israelis or even pro-Israel Americans, but members of Congress who were skeptical that the Islamic terror regime would ever scuttle its nukes.
The Iran Deal ushered in a surveillance shift from monitoring the former allies that Obama wanted to toss overboard, to monitoring Americans who were friendly to those governments, and then leading members of the political opposition, and finally members of an incoming administration. Obama and his associates had redefined national security as the pursuit of his dangerous foreign policy, and the new national security threats were administration critics who were surveilled in order to entrap them.
Surveillance had morphed from spying on Obama's political opponents to conspiring to lock them up.
General Flynn had been a key opponent of the Iran policy, as detailed by Lee Smith in
How Russiagate Began With Obama's Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign. Flynn's arrival
not only threatened the Iran Deal, but the
politicized intelligence agencies that had been covering for Iran even during the Bush days.
Beyond protecting the Iran Deal and Obama's legacy, the fake intelligence machine was defending itself.
Flynn had already been forced out once. His return wasn't supposed to happen and was seen as a threat....