The current problems plaguing the Trump administration seem to be coming from some key moves from Obama and his followers in key positions. To dig deeper, take a look at two articles from last month:
On January 12th, the NY Times printed this story: “N.S.A. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications”
In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.
The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.
Now, other intelligence agencies will be able to search directly through raw repositories of communications intercepted by the N.S.A.
Patrick Toomey, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, called the move an erosion of rules intended to protect the privacy of Americans when their messages are caught by the N.S.A.’s powerful global collection methods.
Always nice to relax the rules on the way out, to perhaps impact the next guy. Just an interesting move, don’t you think? Especially with how the Intelligence Agencies are acting, currently.
Continuing, on January 31st the Washington Post printed this: “Resistance from within: Federal workers push back against Trump”
Less than two weeks into Trump’s administration, federal workers are in regular consultation with recently departed Obama-era political appointees about what they can do to push back against the new president’s initiatives. Some federal employees have set up social media accounts to anonymously leak word of changes that Trump appointees are trying to make.
At a church in Columbia Heights last weekend, dozens of federal workers attended a support group for civil servants seeking a forum to discuss their opposition to the Trump administration. And 180 federal employees have signed up for a workshop next weekend, where experts will offer advice on workers’ rights and how they can express civil disobedience.
Asked whether federal workers are dissenting in ways that go beyond previous party changes in the White House, Tom Malinowski, who was President Barack Obama’s assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, said, sarcastically: “Is it unusual? . . . There’s nothing unusual about the entire national security bureaucracy of the United States feeling like their commander in chief is a threat to U.S. national security. That happens all the time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry about.”
So you have these factions of Obama worshipers who are still inside the system, working to leak anything they can, obstruct, disrupt, and let the media think everything is chaos and the wheels are falling off. And if the media thinks so, they can make the public think so.
This is what we’re in for, people. Stay educated.
