Pressure mounts to investigate top Obama aides Rhodes, Rice, Power, and others for leaking highly classified national security information against Trump

Criminal abuse of power.

The party of treason secretly staged a silent coup against Trump aided and abetted by their hatchet men in  enemedia. They covered their own dirty tracks obfuscating Americans with a Russia/Trump cock and bull story of their own making. Rumpelstiltskin has nothing on that fairy tale. I’m surprised they didn’t throw him into the mix too.  They they the American people will buy anything.

For eight torturous years we suffered under a President who unconstitutionally granted himself enormous powers in unprecedented in  peace time America. And his people followed suit.

We are in power now. No more power without accountability. These top Obama Dems “weaponized”” classified intelligence information. No one is being held accountable and Congress has done no oversight.”  It’s time to right the ship and make what’s wrong right.

Congress Could Halt Spy Authorization Over Obama Aides’ Anti-Trump Leaks Pressure mounts to investigate top Obama aides Rhodes, Rice, Power, and others

By Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, July 26, 2017:

Key lawmakers are threatening to cancel the authorization of sensitive U.S. spy operations until congressional leaders investigate efforts by former top Obama administration officials to leak highly classified national security information in what many believe was a targeted campaign to undermine the Trump administration, according to senior congressional sources familiar with the situation.

Key Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee are pressuring Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) to investigate former senior Obama administration officials believed to be responsible for these anti-Trump leaks, including former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and National Security Council official Ben Rhodes, according to sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about mounting frustration over Congress’s failure to adequately investigate these leaks.

Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are prepared to halt key spy operations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, until Congress performs a full investigation into how damaging classified surveillance information targeting the Trump campaign and administration officials was leaked to the press.

The House Intelligence Committee is engaged in a separate but related probe into efforts by Obama officials to “unmask,” or formally identify individuals named in classified intelligence community reports related to Trump and his presidential transition team. That investigation is currently focussed on Power, Rice, and former CIA Director John Brennan.

Sources in the Trump administration and Congress believe the classified intelligence information was “weaponized” and later leaked to the press in order to handicap the Trump administration’s credibility and national security priorities.

Still, senior Republican members of Congress do not feel that enough is being done to hold those responsible for the leaks accountable.

By threatening to withhold the reauthorization of section 702 of the FISA Act—which permits the U.S. intelligence community to intercept communications outside of America—lawmakers believe they can force a thorough investigation into these Obama aides, who are suspected of exploiting FISA laws to gather and later leak sensitive intelligence damaging to Trump allies.

Congress is “not going to reauthorize a program if no one is held accountable for breaking the law,” said one senior congressional source familiar with the situation. “No one is being held accountable and Congress has done no oversight.”

Goodlatte is said to have initially been “really taken aback” by the stiff opposition to reauthorizing section 702, but is now making moves to examine the former administration’s role in classified leaks and potential opportunities to question these officials.

Republican members on the committee are said to be “all united” in their desire to investigate former Obama officials such as Rhodes, Rice, and Power, sources said.

These lawmakers “want answers on these Obama officials in order to continue [spy] authorizations they may have abused,” one congressional source said. “The members in the conference and these committees have reached a boiling point.”

Senior Trump administration officials, as well as those in Congress, have named former Obama administration officials such as Rice and Rhodes as key suspects in the dissemination of classified national security information.