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<\/a>\nCongress is being urged to criminally investigate Barack Obama for attempting a silent coup against the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
According to<\/a> Radio host Mark Levin, a mountain of evidence proves that the former President tried to undermine Trump\u2019s presidential campaign in the final months of the US election last year, which then developed\u00a0into \u201cpolice state\u201d tactics in order to sabotage Trump\u2019s transition to the White House when he won.<\/p>\n Breitbart.com<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n Drawing on sources including the\u00a0New York Times and\u00a0the\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0Levin described\u00a0the case against Obama so far, based on what is already publicly known. The following is an expanded version of that case, including events that Levin did not mention specifically but are important to the overall timeline.<\/p>\n 1. June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request<\/a> with the\u00a0Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.<\/p>\n 2. July: Russia joke. Wikileaks releases emails from the Democratic National Committee that show an effort to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from winning the presidential nomination. In a press conference, Donald Trump refers to Hillary Clinton\u2019s own missing emails, joking: \u201cRussia, if you\u2019re listening, I hope you\u2019re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.\u201d That remark becomes the basis for accusations by Clinton and the media that Trump invited further hacking.<\/p>\n 3. October: Podesta emails. In October, Wikileaks releases the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. The Clinton campaign blames Trump and the Russians.<\/p>\n 4. October: FISA request.\u00a0The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found \u2014 but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at\u00a0National Review\u00a0later\u00a0notes<\/a>.\u00a0The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.<\/p>\n 5. January 2017: Buzzfeed\/CNN dossier.\u00a0Buzzfeed releases, and CNN reports, a supposed intelligence \u201cdossier\u201d compiled by a foreign former spy. It purports to show continuous contact between Russia\u00a0and the Trump campaign, and says that the Russians have compromising information about Trump. None of the allegations can be verified and some are proven false. Several media outlets claim\u00a0that they had been aware of the dossier for months and that it had been circulating in Washington.<\/p>\n 6. January: Obama expands NSA sharing.\u00a0As Michael Walsh later notes<\/a>, and as the\u00a0New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration\u00a0\u201cexpanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government\u2019s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.\u201d\u00a0The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked.<\/p>\n 7. January:\u00a0Times report.\u00a0The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0reports<\/a>, on the eve of Inauguration Day, that several agencies \u2014 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Treasury Department are monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign suspected of Russian ties. Other news outlets also report the exisentence of \u201ca multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government,\u201d though\u00a0it is unclear how they found out, since the investigations would have been secret and\u00a0involved classified information.<\/p>\n 8. February: Mike Flynn scandal.\u00a0Reports emerge that the FBI intercepted a conversation in 2016 between future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn \u2014 then a private citizen \u2014 and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The intercept supposedly was \u00a0part of routine spying on the ambassador, not monitoring of the Trump campaign. The FBI transcripts reportedly show the two discussing Obama\u2019s newly-imposed sanctions on Russia, though Flynn earlier denied discussing them. Sally Yates, whom Trump would later fire as acting Attorney General for insubordination, is involved in the investigation. In the end, Flynn resigns over having misled Vice President Mike Pence (perhaps inadvertently) about the content of the conversation.<\/p>\n 9. February:\u00a0Times claims extensive Russian contacts.\u00a0The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0cites<\/a> \u201cfour current and former American officials\u201d in reporting that the Trump campaign had \u201crepeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials. The Trump campaign denies the claims \u2014 and the Times admits that there is \u201cno evidence\u201d of coordination between the campaign and the Russians. The White House and some congressional Republicans begin to raise questions about illegal intelligence leaks.<\/p>\n 10. March: the\u00a0Washington Post targets Jeff Sessions. The\u00a0Washington Post reports<\/a> that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact twice with the Russian ambassador during the campaign \u2014 once at a Heritage Foundation event and once at a meeting in Sessions\u2019s Senate office. The\u00a0Post suggests that the two meetings contradict Sessions\u2019s testimony at his confirmation hearings that he had no contacts with the Russians, though in context (not presented by the Post)\u00a0it was clear he meant in his capacity as a campaign surrogate, and that he was responding to claims in the \u201cdossier\u201d of ongoing\u00a0contacts. The\u00a0New York Times, in covering<\/a> the story, adds that the Obama\u00a0White House \u201crushed to preserve\u201d intelligence related to alleged Russian links with the Trump campaign.\u00a0By\u00a0\u201cpreserve\u201d it really means \u201cdisseminate\u201d: officials spread evidence throughout other government agencies \u201cto leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators\u201d and perhaps the media as well.<\/p>\n In summary: the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.<\/p>\n Levin called the effort a \u201csilent coup\u201d by the Obama administration and demanded that it be investigated.<\/p>\n In addition, Levin castigated Republicans in Congress\u00a0for focusing their attention on\u00a0Trump and Attorney General Sessions rather than Obama.<\/p>\n