President Obama’s administration conducted one of the most serious abuses of American civil liberties in the history of the republic. However, you’d never know it from the mainstream media.
On Wednesday, Circa broke the story that the National Security Agency (NSA) under Obama regularly spied on Americans, violating their Fourth Amendment rights. More than five percent of all the data collected by the NSA violated the safeguards set up by the President in 2011.
“There was a three-fold increase in NSA data about Americans and a rise in the unmasking of U.S. person’s identities in intelligence reports after Obama loosened the privacy rules in 2011,” the report stated.
“Since 2011, NSA’s minimization procedures have prohibited use of U.S.-person identifiers to query the results of upstream Internet collections under Section 702,” the unsealed FISA court documents declared. “The Oct. 26, 2016 notice informed the court that NSA analysts had been conducting such queries in violation of that prohibition, with much greater frequency than had been previously disclosed to the Court.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) did not mince words. He declared it to be “an enormous abuse of power” and the American Civil Liberties Union said that it was some of the most serious violations of civil liberties ever to be documented.
The mainstream media must have been consumed with something else besides exposing Obama’s assault on Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights because almost no outlets reported on the story. The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway tweeted the search results for some of the most prominent mainstream news sources but came up empty.
Can you share best examples of news stories covering FISA court condemning Obama admin for illegal spying on US citizens?
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 24, 2017
CNN: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/v7Tak3pMOX
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
WP: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/RxX6yqOg2D
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
NBC News: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/CiS6ALBIYW
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
ABC News: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/Z31v6Fun4n
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
CBS News: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/nldN5IZCI2
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
POLITICO: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/lKQnjwZan2
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
NYT: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/kGRwzCSCaL
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
LA Times: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/TRhEvK4AfJ
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
Chicago Trib: Zero stories on news Obama intel agencies secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/9gn7iTKf0q
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
Chicago Sun-Times: Zero stories on news Obama intel secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years https://t.co/oZ1Bo6LR73
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
FOX is covering. Example from @BretBaier and @JamesRosenTV https://t.co/UASqghhFYH
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
@BretBaier @JamesRosenTV And be sure to read the original report from John Solomon and @SaraCarterDC. https://t.co/gvO3fU2lDQ
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
@BretBaier @JamesRosenTV @SaraCarterDC Alert! This NYT/Charlie Savage story from 5/11 doesn’t mention ‘Obama’ but is clearly about issue at hand. https://t.co/Tica2h1Hjf
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
For whatever reason, the same news outlets that have obsessed about collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia that has absolutely no evidence couldn’t manage to tell the American public what their favorite President had been doing to their privacy rights.
