OBAMA SHOULD COME CLEAN ON SPYING ON TRUMP TEAM

In a block buster piece in the Wall Street Journal, (March 30, 2017) entitled: "What Devin Nunes Knows", Kimberly Strassel seems to support the accusation made by President Trump  some weeks ago--that the was "wiretapped".  Mr. Trump was viciously vilified and called a "liar" and worse.  But we all suspected he was right.  In the above  WSJ piece Ms Stossel flatly states:   "Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration". Perhaps it is now time that those who criticized the President should apologize.  And Nobel Laureate, Constitutional scholar and past-president Obama should come clean and admit that his team was caught undermining the vital process of transition from one administration to the other and in fact breaking the law.


What does Mr. Nunes know?  He knows he has seen proof that the Obama White House broadly spied on the incoming administration.  His proof supports the fact that the spying had nothing to do with Russia. He indicates that the surveillance conducted was politically motivated.  And he is apprised of the fact that the Obama team purposely "unmasked" transition officials (a felonious act) and that this information was widely circulated at the highest levels of the Obama government.


The method used to conduct this politically motivated spying on the incoming White House team Strassel terms: "reverse monitoring" or putative tracking the communications of a wide array of foreign officials with the underlying actual purpose of spying on the Trump team.  This is a sinister misuse of the legal and necessary foreign information gathering conducted by our CIA, NSA, and others.  It undermines confidence in our government.  The perpetrators would need no FISA court approval.  This explains  the apparent lack of knowledge (or will) to reveal it by our official intelligence community spokespersons.


 The facts that Congressman Nunes knows about the Obama team spying Strassel calls "more than a scandal---but a potential crime".

Perhaps Mr. Obama could make amends for the mess he left us with and his team's attempted sabotage of the nation's legitimately elected government. The election made manifest the will of the people. He should at least come clean on his team's perfidy so that the new tin Washington team can get back to working for the betterment of the nation as they were elected to do.