What Did Obama Know About Hillary Spying on Trump’s Campaign?

Part of the allegations from the Durham investigation indictments last week were concerned with Hillary Clinton’s campaign hiring tech workers to infiltrate and spy on Donald Trump’s private servers in Trump Tower before he was elected President. The other part alleges, however, that the spying continued even after Trump was elected, while he was in the White House.

The question now becomes how did this happen, and who allowed the spying to continue on Trump inside the White House?

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says to expect many more indictments from Durham, and alleges that it’s impossible for former President Obama, and Joe Biden as his Vice President, to not have known what as going on as information was being fed to their own Justice Department from Hillary’s campaign:

Ratcliffe also revealed that he’d seen intelligence that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign “was creating a plan to vilify Donald Trump [and] to falsely accuse him of ties to Russia,” and further alleged that the intelligence community, the FBI — as well as then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden — were all briefed on the matter.

“[Then-Attorney General] Bill Barr, John Durham, and I, all looking at this intelligence, agreed there was not a proper predicate to open a criminal investigation into the Trump campaign, yet that happened,” Ratcliffe said.

“So, those are the issues that John Durham is looking at, and I think there’ll be many more — I would expect there to be quite a few more indictments because of that. There was not a proper predicate to begin that investigation. John Durham has said that publicly already.”

What did Obama and Biden know and when did they know it? It likely was not just Hillary Clinton using the power of the federal government to spy on her political opponents, Obama was approvingly in on the action as well.

The tech workers in question, operating under a contract from the federal government, had access to sensitive data coming in and out of the White House, and exploited this to funnel information to the Clinton campaign and other sources even after the election:

In a court filing submitted Friday, Durham’s office said that the executive, who is referred to in legal filings only as “Tech Executive-1” but has been identified in news reports as Rodney Joffe, used his company’s access to nonpublic government domain name system (DNS) data through a pending cybersecurity contract as he was analyzing supposed links between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank.

“Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP,” Durham’s office wrote, using an acronym for the White House’s Executive Office of the President.

“Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.”

So, not only was Trump correct when he alleged that he was being spied on by various entities during the 2016 presidential campaign, but he was also correct about being spied on during his early days in the White House as well.

This worse-than-Watergate scandal continues to grow and clearly, there are many more hands in the pot than just Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, Michael Sussman.

Ratcliffe during his time as DNI had released several previously-classified documents, one of which is of particular interest now because it directly implicates former President Obama, and Biden as well:

Among the documents Ratcliffe released were handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan, who briefed President Barack Obama of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

“He [Brennan] briefed President Obama and Vice President Biden and other members of the national security team about this specific intelligence, that John Durham now has, about a Hillary Clinton plan to falsely accuse and vilify Donald Trump with a scandal, and the discussion around that and whether or not it was good intelligence,” Ratcliffe said. “So everything that happened after that … is one of the reasons that John Durham is investigating.

Obama and Biden were both briefed on Hillary’s plan to spy on Trump and vilify him as a Russian asset and create the Russian collusion hoax in July of 2016. It would seem like it’s “old news” since many of these events happened six years ago now, but they’re extremely pertinent today since the indictments and charges are finally coming to light.

It’s getting pretty safe to say that Hillary Clinton was directly involved with a Watergate-type scandal of attempting to spy on Donald Trump, her political opponent, as a means to sway a presidential election and eventually try to get him removed from office. That sounds… eerily like an insurrection.

The biggest threat to democracy of the last six years has been the workings and doings of the Democratic Party attempting to overthrow Donald Trump’s 2016 victory.


Nate Ashworth

The Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Election Central. He's been blogging elections and politics for over a decade. He started covering the 2008 Presidential Election which turned into a full-time political blog in 2012 and 2016 that continues today.

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