Jon Hall – Back in March, President Trump ignited a firestorm by accusing the Obama administration of having tapped his phones at Trump Tower. Mainstream media outlets were quick to call Trump’s accusation “baseless” and backed by “no evidence”. Top leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties even went so far as to reject Trump’s wiretapping claim completely.

However, recent reporting by circa detail the reality behind the gross abuses perpetuated by Obama’s NSA.

Declassified memos obtained by Circa not only show that the FBI illegally shared spy data on Americans with private parties; but also that the NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years. 

The declassified FBI memo shows that the FBI shared raw intel on Americans with third parties and depicts the numerous violations and abuses overreached by the FBI under former Director Comey. Although the FBI is normally forbidden from surveilling Americans without warrants, an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2008 allowed the NSA to share spy data collected without cause that includes the communications of Americans with “foreign targets”. Continue reading →