I don't have any proof to support or deny the claim. I think to begin to answer that we should look at the history of the Obama Administration. We have to remember we are talking about an Administration who used the IRS to target Conservative groups. Spied on people in the media, and members of Congress. For even the most loyal Obama supporters to deny this could happen amazes me. A little history:
WASHINGTON — In an extraordinary public accusation, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee declared on Tuesday that the CIA interfered with and then tried to intimidate a congressional investigation into the agency’s possible use of torture in terror probes during the Bush administration.
The CIA clandestinely removed documents and searched a computer network set up for lawmakers, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein in a long and biting speech on the Senate floor. In an escalating dispute with an agency she has long supported, she said the CIA may well have violated criminal laws and the U.S. Constitution.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/11/sen-feinstein-claims-cia-spied-on-congress/
A Fox News correspondent was accused in a Justice Department affidavit of being a possible criminal "co-conspirator" for his alleged role in publishing sensitive security information -- in a leak case that takes the highly unusual step of claiming a journalist broke the law.
According to court documents, the Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about Fox News' James Rosen's conversations and visits to the State Department. This included a search warrant for his personal emails.
The effort follows that by the department to secretly obtain two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a separate leak probe. The department in this case, though, went a step further -- as an FBI agent claimed there's evidence the Fox News correspondent broke the law, "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator."
Michael Clemente, Fox News' executive vice president of news, defended Rosen in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
"We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Clemente said. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/justice-department-obtained-records-fox-news-journalist.html
May 14, 2013 — The Society of Environmental Journalists strongly condemns the Department of Justice’s overly broad investigation of the Associated Press’ newsgathering operations as an infringement of First Amendment press freedoms.
By secretly seizing telephone records for more than 20 phone lines used by AP journalists and offices, including cell and home phone lines, DOJ has unjustifiably targeted facilities and phones used by more than 100 journalists, and obtained the names of sources and confidential information about the newsgathering operations.
The Obama administration has been aggressive in seeking to stop leaks and control the flow of information. Its investigation into a leak that led to stories about a failed terrorist plot to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day 2011 was known from public testimony by administration officials. But the government’s collection of information from AP phone lines in New York, Washington, Hartford, Conn., and the AP’s main House of Representatives Press Gallery number far exceeded the scope of any justifiable investigation.
The Associated Press says it regards the Justice Department’s secret investigation as a serious interference with its constitutional rights to gather and report the news, and SEJ agrees. As requested by the AP, DOJ should fully explain its actions, return all records of conversations and calls to the AP and destroy all copies of those call records.
Beth Parke
Executive Director
Society of Environmental Journalists
Joseph A. Davis
Director, FOI WatchDog Project
Society of Environmental Journalists
See also:
http://www.sej.org/sej-condemns-doj-ap-phone-records-grab
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe
http://www.ap.org/Images/Letter-to-Eric-Holder_tcm28-12896.pdf
So we have an Administration who has demonstrated a willingness to spy on sitting members of Congress, and members of the press. Do you think they would be reluctant to spy on Donald Trump?
Then look at the denials from the Obama Administration Officials. They have not denied President Trump was spied on. They have only denied President Obama ordered it.
Then there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91fNfGjZdM0&feature=share
I can't say beyond a shadow of a doubt if the spying occurred or not. What I can say is looking at the history of the Obama Administration, and what we do know,any reasonably objective person should at least admit there is a good chance it happened.
The American people deserve to know the truth. If it is true this would be much bigger than Watergate, Monicagate, or the Iran/Contra affair.
The CIA clandestinely removed documents and searched a computer network set up for lawmakers, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein in a long and biting speech on the Senate floor. In an escalating dispute with an agency she has long supported, she said the CIA may well have violated criminal laws and the U.S. Constitution.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/11/sen-feinstein-claims-cia-spied-on-congress/
A Fox News correspondent was accused in a Justice Department affidavit of being a possible criminal "co-conspirator" for his alleged role in publishing sensitive security information -- in a leak case that takes the highly unusual step of claiming a journalist broke the law.
According to court documents, the Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about Fox News' James Rosen's conversations and visits to the State Department. This included a search warrant for his personal emails.
The effort follows that by the department to secretly obtain two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a separate leak probe. The department in this case, though, went a step further -- as an FBI agent claimed there's evidence the Fox News correspondent broke the law, "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator."
Michael Clemente, Fox News' executive vice president of news, defended Rosen in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
"We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Clemente said. "In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/justice-department-obtained-records-fox-news-journalist.html
May 14, 2013 — The Society of Environmental Journalists strongly condemns the Department of Justice’s overly broad investigation of the Associated Press’ newsgathering operations as an infringement of First Amendment press freedoms.
By secretly seizing telephone records for more than 20 phone lines used by AP journalists and offices, including cell and home phone lines, DOJ has unjustifiably targeted facilities and phones used by more than 100 journalists, and obtained the names of sources and confidential information about the newsgathering operations.
The Obama administration has been aggressive in seeking to stop leaks and control the flow of information. Its investigation into a leak that led to stories about a failed terrorist plot to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day 2011 was known from public testimony by administration officials. But the government’s collection of information from AP phone lines in New York, Washington, Hartford, Conn., and the AP’s main House of Representatives Press Gallery number far exceeded the scope of any justifiable investigation.
The Associated Press says it regards the Justice Department’s secret investigation as a serious interference with its constitutional rights to gather and report the news, and SEJ agrees. As requested by the AP, DOJ should fully explain its actions, return all records of conversations and calls to the AP and destroy all copies of those call records.
Beth Parke
Executive Director
Society of Environmental Journalists
Joseph A. Davis
Director, FOI WatchDog Project
Society of Environmental Journalists
See also:
http://www.sej.org/sej-condemns-doj-ap-phone-records-grab
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe
http://www.ap.org/Images/Letter-to-Eric-Holder_tcm28-12896.pdf
So we have an Administration who has demonstrated a willingness to spy on sitting members of Congress, and members of the press. Do you think they would be reluctant to spy on Donald Trump?
Then look at the denials from the Obama Administration Officials. They have not denied President Trump was spied on. They have only denied President Obama ordered it.
Then there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91fNfGjZdM0&feature=share
I can't say beyond a shadow of a doubt if the spying occurred or not. What I can say is looking at the history of the Obama Administration, and what we do know,any reasonably objective person should at least admit there is a good chance it happened.
The American people deserve to know the truth. If it is true this would be much bigger than Watergate, Monicagate, or the Iran/Contra affair.
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