Tuesday, May 29, 2018

He and his administration remain an ongoing scandal, no matter how much he brags about being Mr. Clean.

Last week, former president Barack Obama said, "I didn't have scandals, which seems like it shouldn't be something you brag about." He added, "If you look at the history of the modern presidency, coming out of the modern presidency without anybody going to jail is really good. It's a big deal."

Obama's eight years in office, from January 2009 to January 2017, was a period of time in which democracy-threatening scandals were overlooked by a comprehensively politicized Justice Department and the media which served, in the words of former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, as an "Echo chamber" for the administration's spin.

The scandalous conduct of Obama and his team, from Obama himself to Hillary Clinton to Lois Lerner, always had the purpose of serving Obama's agenda and was often illegal or unconstitutional or - as occurred during and after the 2016 election - a combination of the two that constituted the greatest threat to our democratic system of government since the Civil War.

There is neither time or space enough to analyze all the Obama scandals in one column, so let's concentrate on the ones in which he was personally involved.

At that point, Obama intervened with a claim of executive privilege, protecting Holder and preventing congressional investigators from discovering who had directed the program - Holder? Obama himself? - and burying the matter.

Before Obama signed the Iran nuclear weapons deal, he reportedly killed an FBI investigation into the drug trafficking and smuggling operations of Hizballah, the terrorist network and Iranian proxy operating from Lebanon.

Obama went ahead with it, at the strong urging of his then secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

We come, at last, to the two Obama scandals that were the greatest threat to our democracy.

There are no higher levels of classification our government uses to protect secrets than SITK and SAP. Top-secret information - under an executive order signed by Obama - is defined as information the disclosure of which can severely damage the security of the United States.

Obama told the FBI what the conclusions of its investigation of the Clinton email system should be.

The spy operation on the Trump campaign in 2016 was planned, conducted and covered up by high-level officials of the Obama administration abusing their powers of law enforcement and intelligence gathering to influence the election and, if necessary, nullify its result.

https://spectator.org/obamas-guilty-contentment/ 

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