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The Trump administration is twisting itself into knots attempting to prove or justify the Presidents tweets about Barack Obama and his former administration officials wiretapping Trump Tower between November and Inauguration Day, while some of those high ranking Obama officials are once again using their twitter accounts to fire back at Trump.

When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story? Trump fired off from Twitter early Saturday morning. Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, fired back, as he is prone to do with little self awareness, There is no Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL even when you capitalize the words.

As the facts about who surveilled whom during the transition get sorted out, it is useful to remember whyTrumps team and his supporters have reason to be suspicious, thanks to a long documented history of Obama using shady surveillance tactics on both political opponents and international allies. Rhodes himself knows this historybut that doesnt seem to matter as he once again attempts to make people believe he fell out of the sky and onto Twitter on January 21st, 2017.

To help jog Rhodes memory, below are all the documented instances of the Obama administration using and in some cases abusing surveillance.

1.Fox News reporter James Rosen

In 2013 the news broke that Eric Holders Justice Departmenthad spied on James Rosen. Obamas DOJ collected Rosens telephone records as well as tracked his movements to and from the State Department from where he reported. Rosen was named as a possible co-conspirator in a Justice Department affidavit. Rosen claims thathis parents phone linewas also swept up in the collection of his records and DOJrecords seem to confirm that. Despite the targeting of Rosen, there were no brave calls to boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner.

2. Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA

CIA officerspenetrated a networkused to share information by Senate Intel committee members, including Sen. Diane Feinstein, the committees Democrat chair. The bombshell New York Times report went on to disclose:

The C.I.A. officials penetrated the computer network when they came to suspect that the committees staff had gained unauthorized access to an internal C.I.A. review of the detention program that the spy agency never intended to give to Congress. A C.I.A. lawyer then referred the agencys suspicions to the Justice Department to determine whether the committee staff broke the law when it obtained that document. The inspector general report said that there was no factual basis for this referral, which the Justice Department has declined to investigate, because the lawyer had been provided inaccurate information. The report said that the three information technology officers demonstrated a lack of candor about their activities during interviews with the inspector general.

The Obama White House defended CIA director John Brennans actions and response. Imagine that.

3. Associated Press Phone Records

Much like James Rosen and his shady al Qaeda looking parents, Obamas Justice Departmentsecretly obtained months of phone recordsbelonging to AP journalists while investigating a failed terror attack. And much like the Rosen spying, this was personally approved by Attorney General Holder.

Mass surveillance and expansion of such under the Patriot Act is one of the most historically prevalent things about the Obama administration. Theres even a Wikipedia pagededicated to that alone. So why do the media and former administration officials act shocked and surprised when someone points the finger in their direction and asksif targeting an incoming President is possible?

There is a long, decorated history of questionableeven unconstitutionalsurveillance from the Obama administration none of which proves Trumps twitter ravings to be true. But it certainly is enough to raise suspicions among Trumpssupporters and even some of this critics that he could be perfectly correct.

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