Who would have access to this sort of unmasking ability? Why, Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes. And-with the help of certain journalists whose stories (and thus careers) depend on high-level access-terrorize them. The administration got the drop on its opponents by using classified information, which it then used to draw up its own game plan to block and freeze those on the other side. This is what systematic abuse of foreign-intelligence collection for domestic political purposes looks like: Intelligence collected on Americans, lawmakers, and figures in the pro-Israel community was fed back to the Obama White House as part of its political operations.
After a while, it simply became our working assumption that we were being spied on.”
At first, we thought it was a coincidence being amplified by our own paranoia. We began to notice the White House was responding immediately, sometimes within 24 hours, to specific conversations we were having. “The NSA’s collections of foreigners became a means of gathering real-time intelligence on Americans engaged in perfectly legitimate political activism-activism, due to the nature of the issue, that naturally involved conversations with foreigners. “At some point, the administration weaponized the NSA’s legitimate monitoring of communications of foreign officials to stay one step ahead of domestic political opponents,” says a pro-Israel political operative who was deeply involved in the day-to-day fight over the Iran Deal. I believe the spying was real and that it was done not in an effort to keep the country safe from threats-but in order to help the White House fight their domestic political opponents. Increasingly, I believe that my conclusion in that piece was wrong. Did the Obama administration misuse and abuse NSA intercepts to blackmail members of the Senate and House into supporting the Iran deal? Lee Smith writes that he thinks so:
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