{"id":70552,"date":"2017-04-05T06:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70552"},"modified":"2017-04-05T06:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:47:49","slug":"obama-should-testify-under-oath-on-trump-campaign-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70552","title":{"rendered":"Obama Should Testify Under Oath on Trump Campaign Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by PENNY STARR<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h3>Using the hashtag #PutObamaUnderOath, best-selling author and political pundit Ann Coulter tweeted that while knowing the truth about Barack Obama\u2019s National Security Advisor Susan Rice allegedly ordering surveillance of President Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign aides, Obama should also testify before Congress on the matter.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Susan Rice testimony now essential, but insufficient,<\/strong>\u201d Coulter tweeted on Tuesday. \u201c<strong>Must hear from Obama<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Susan Rice testimony now essential, but insufficient.  Must hear from Obama. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PutObamaUnderOath?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PutObamaUnderOath<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnCoulter\/status\/849347613329682434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coulter also suggested in another tweet that Michelle Obama may be able to shed some light on the White House surveillance activities during her husband\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I don\u2019t know if what she knows is privileged, but we need to hear from Michelle too,<\/strong>\u201d Coulter tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t know if what she knows is privileged, but we need to hear from Michelle, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PutObamaUnderOath?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PutObamaUnderOath<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnCoulter\/status\/849348506674499584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rice allegedly ordered surveillance of Donald Trump\u2019s campaign aides during the 2016 presidential election, and maintained spreadsheets of their telephone calls, the Daily Caller reported.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged spreadsheets add a new dimension to reports on Sunday and Monday by blogger Mike Cernovich and Eli Lake of Bloomberg News that Rice had asked for Trump aides\u2019 names to be \u201cunmasked\u201d in intelligence reports.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged \u201cunmasking\u201d may have been legal, but may also have been part of an alleged political intelligence operation to disseminate reports on the Trump campaign widely throughout government with the aim of leaking them to the press.<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance and spreadsheet operation were allegedly \u201c<strong>ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election<\/strong>.\u201d According to a Fox News report on Monday, former White House aide Ben Rhodes was also involved.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/04\/04\/ann-coulter-obama-should-testify-under-oath-on-trump-campaign-surveillance\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/04\/04\/ann-coulter-obama-should-testify-under-oath-on-trump-campaign-surveillance\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}