January 02, 2020 "
Information
Clearing House" -
Former US President Barack
Obama is now in severe legal jeopardy, because the
Russiagate investigation has turned 180 degrees; and
he, instead of the current President, Donald Trump,
is in its cross-hairs.
The biggest crime that a US
President can commit is to try to defeat American
democracy (the Constitutional functioning of the US
Government) itself, either by working with foreign
powers to take it over, or else by working
internally within America to sabotage democracy for
his or her own personal reasons. Either way, it’s
treason (crime that is intended to, and does,
endanger the continued functioning of the
Constitution itself*), and Mr. Obama is now being
actively investigated, as possibly having done this.
The Russiagate investigation, which had formerly
focused against the current US President, has
reversed direction and now targets the prior
President. Although he, of course, cannot be removed
from office (since he is no longer in office), he is
liable under criminal laws, the same as any other
American would be, if he committed any crime while
he was in office.
A
December 17th order by the FISA (Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court severely
condemned the performance by the FBI under Obama,
for having obtained, on
19 October 2016 (even prior to the US
Presidential election), from that Court, under false
pretenses, an authorization for the FBI to commence
investigating Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign,
as being possibly in collusion with Russia’s
Government. The Court’s ruling said:
In order to appreciate the seriousness of
that misconduct and its implications, it is
useful to understand certain procedural and
substantive requirements that apply to the
government’s conduct of electronic surveillance
for foreign intelligence purposes. Title I of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA
), codified as amended at 50 USC. 1801-1813,
governs such electronic surveillance. It
requires the government to apply for and receive
an order from the FISC approving a proposed
electronic surveillance. When deciding whether
to grant such an application, a FISC judge must
determine among other things, whether it
provides probable cause to believe that the
proposed surveillance target is a “foreign
power” or an agent a foreign power. …
The government has a heightened duty of
candor to the FISC in ex parte proceedings, that is,
ones in which the government does not face an
adverse party, such as proceedings on electronic
surveillance applications. The FISC expects the
government to comply with its heightened duty of
candor in ex parte proceedings at all times. Candor
is fundamental to this Court’s effective operation.
…
On December 9, 2019, the government filed,
with the FISC, public and classified versions of the
OIG Report. … It documents troubling instances in
which FBI personnel provided information to NSD[National
Security Division of the Department of Justice]
which was unsupported or contradicted by information
in their possession. It also describes several
instances in which FBI personnel withheld from NSD
information in their possession which was
detrimental to their case for believing that Mr.
[Carter] Page was acting as an agent of a
foreign power…
