January 02, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Many of the critical tools employed in
the coup to paint Donald Trump as a tool
of the Russians and to manufacture a
pretext for removing him from office,
were created more than twenty years ago.
I am talking about the surveillance
state that the American electorate has
ignorantly accepted as necessary in
order to keep us safe from terrorists.
Despite previous warning from
whistleblowers like Russ Tice, Bill
Binney, Ed Loomis and Kird Wiebe, no
action to rein in the surveillance
monster was taken until Edward Snowden
absconded with the documents exposing
the vast amount spying that the U.S.
Government is doing to its own citizens.
But even those weak efforts to
supposedly rein in the NSA proved to be
nothing more than mere window dressing.
The spying got worse. Just ask Donald
Trump and the members of his campaign
that were targeted first by the CIA and
NSA and then by the FBI. Fundamental
civil rights were trampled.
The real irony in all of this is that
Barack Obama, as President, took credit
for helping revise the laws in order to
prevent the spying exposed by Edward
Snowden. But under the Obama
Administration, spying on political
opponents--both real and
perceived--escalated. We know for a fact
that journalists, such as James Rosen
and Sheryl Atkinson, were targets and
their communications and computers
attacked by the U.S. Government.
We know, thanks to a memo released by
Judge Rosemary Collyer, that "FBI
consultants" were making illegal
searches of NSA material using the names
of Donald Trump, his family and members
of his campaign staff.
