During the period of Nov 2015 to April 2016, the Obama administration, through the FBI under James Comey and Andrew McCabe, was conducting a political spying operation against all Republican presidential primary candidates using the power of their offices.
The intent was two-fold. (1) Tracking the candidates to identify activity; and (2) conducting opposition research to be fed to the campaign of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton.
This surveillance activity was happening in concert with Comey, McCabe and a small group inside the FBI, running a defensive operation for the issues surrounding Hillary Clinton’s prior use of private email servers -which included classified information transmission- during her tenure as Secretary of State. SOURCE: DNI
Documentary evidence of the Obama spying operation surfaced as an outcome of the NSA compliance officer discovering the FBI activity.
The compliance officer reported the activity to National Security Agency Director, Admiral Mike Rogers.
The spying operation is not an issue of FISA-702, or any FISA system or process. However, the availability of FBI access to the NSA database is what triggered the discovery of the spy operation.
That FBI access is created under the auspices of FISA, but FISA-702, or any aspect therein, was not the issue. The issue was the spying operation.
FISA, and using the NSA database to conduct the electronic surveillance, was simply the tool to exploit the electronic communication (metadata) of the targets.
The Obama administration was spying on their political opposition and telling the Clinton team the results of their surveillance.
Put another way, the United States government was spying on political candidates for office, in order to control the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
After Director Mike Rogers was made aware of the operation, and the exploitation of the NSA database, the NSA Director blocked the FBI from access and began an investigation.
That investigation culminated in Director Mike Rogers informing the regulatory body in charge of protecting the database from exploitation.
FISC SIDEBAR: With the NSA now collecting the private electronic communication of Americans, the FISA Court was assigned the responsibility of oversight; it was intended to protect the growing metadata library and ensure the 4th Amendment provisions to the constitution were maintained.
The FISC oversight was intended to stop the government from reviewing the private records of Americans, the NSA database, without a warrant.
Because the NSA database was used by the Obama administration, the FBI, to conduct political spying operations, the only normal compliance venue Director Mike Rogers had to reveal the spying, was to inform the FISA court (FISC).
NSA Director Mike Rogers was a cabinet member working for President Obama at the time the Obama administration was exploiting the NSA database.
Director Mike Rogers does not appear to have informed congressional oversight. That would have violated the chain-of-command, and the President held absolute power.
Director Rogers could have chosen to inform the congressional Gang-of-Eight of the issue. He did not.
[This is an issue Director Rogers would later address by moving custodial control of the NSA database to Cyber Command (a DoD agency)].
NSA Director Mike Rogers informed the FISA Court of the issue, by detailing who the people were who were searched within the database, and what the results were over the timeframe of Nov ’15 to April ’16.
The compliance officer provided the audit-trail, audit logs showing who was being spied on, who was being searched (queried), how often and how many times. The audit-trail also showed who was logging in to conduct the spy operations, and what FBI authorized workstations they were using.
Director Rogers informed the court he had blocked FBI access and removed part of the functionality for how the system could be exploited.
The internal investigation by the NSA compliance officer and Rogers was completed and sent to the FISA Court in October 2016, with additional information sent in March 2017.
The FISA Court then responded in April 2017, where Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer outlined the events in a heavily redacted 99-page opinion. Citation HERE.
President Obama conducting political spying operations, through a politically weaponized FBI, against the Republican opposition elements is colloquially called “Spygate.”
Hillary Clinton manufacturing a political dirty trick against Donald Trump, accusing him of a Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy, is called “Russiagate.”
President Obama and every member of his cabinet, that was involved in the spying operations, used Clinton’s “Russiagate” to cover up Obama’s “Spygate.”
The two controversies are distinct and separate.
Within the evidence trail, that documents the Obama spying operation exists: (1) the NSA audit-trail, and, more importantly, (2) the specific document where the NSA notified the FISA Court. Those have never been seen.
While a redacted 99-page response from the court has been reviewed in granular detail, the missing piece of the puzzle; -the evidence that proves the operation beyond any reasonable doubt – is the NSA investigative outcome, the notification to the FISC given by NSA Director Mike Rogers to the FISA Court.
The NSA report to the FISA Court is a specific, actionable, discoverable document. I have been on the hunt for that notification report for 8 years.
Now you know why this position is so important.
Just as ODNI Tulsi G prepares president Trump’s Presidential Daily (INTEL) Briefs (PDB), James Clapper was President Obama’s ODNI and he prepared Obama’s PDB.
It was a PDB, prepared by ODNI Clapper for Obama that was “found” by Devin Nunes in the White House Security Safe that exposed the involvement of Obama and others of his Cabinet and Executive Branch in operations vs President Elect and President Trump. The PDB’s written by Clapper were giving summaries of the spying activities on the Republicans …. a direct paper trail to Obama and that contradicts the 2017 “By the Book” CYA memo by Susan Rice.
The “unseen” NSA Reports, we all would like to see, would be the final proof that Obama knew what was happening, was directing use of US Government assets to spy and was receiving UPDATES via his PDB.
A note on Admiral Mike Rogers:
I admit I like him as one of the good guys from that time, because he did what was right …. but as one would expect of a Flag Officer maximizing on his “Work Experience and Contacts” … He is known to be on the Advisory Board of at least 2 x Cyber Security Businesses … Claroty and the Israeli Owned Talon Cyber.
“BIG IF” Obama is ever prosecuted the interesting irony is that violations of the Provisions of Patriot ACT (Including FISA/FISC) will be among those used to charge him and his co-conspirators.
THAT would be sweet. However I’m not holding my breath.
This one seems obvious but systems Engineering 101 says it never hurts to say the obvious …. Besides the “unseen” reports and supporting evidence from NSA Admiral Rogers, ODNI Tulsi G also needs to pull up ALL of James Clapper’s Presidential Daily Briefs sent to Obama.
Sundance,
I think you should consider asking PT directly to consider declassifying this document and ask Tulsi to go get it. It proves everything.
Maybe post this specific request on Truth Social and tag PT if that is doable?
Richman for memorandum of understanding.. foot note
The contractors aren’t identified. Most likely perkins, gps fusion
This is a great summary. Please share this article.
The “Russia Collusion” story masks the real crimes: the illegal spying by the Obama administration. That’s what the public still needs to absorb.
Obama divided the country, knowing full well his team was persecuting President Trump under false claims.
Let the blind have sight.
MAGA.
You will never make me believe that another covert Islamic Marxist can’t be prosecuted for what Osama himself ordered and directed.
I’d step out on the feather and say he has DNA on Butler Mar A Lago and Charlie.
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton set up private servers on which she placed Top Secret Classified documents she made available to various international heads of state on a pay to play basis.
Comey (who was a Clinton fixer from way back, he let the Clintons off 4 times in total) said he would not prosecute (he acted as both prosecutor and investigator) because a DC jury would not find her guilty. By that definition, not one single democrat would ever be found guilty of anything if they were before a DC jury. This happened just before the election of 2016.
This is over.
She had Obama’s email on her server. Owned him from that point.
Found via Benghazi investigation.
Comey did cover, changed it to senior gov official
This was when the plan was to stop Hillary and insurance PDJT
Who is the NSA compliance officer? Where is that officer and Adm. Rogers now? They work(ed) for the president, not Obama per se. I don’t understand why Trump cannot summon them and AG Bondi to sit together the same room.
Trying to prosecute without looking like the prosecutor
I believe Admiral Rogers is dead.
After he wrote “The Memo”
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The entire Obama regime was corrupt to the core. This corruption by the Obama administration should make us question a secret court system or FISC along with the FISA 702 NSA database. These courts and tools can only lead us to tyranny when in the hands of evil people and schemes.
http://4thamendmentrestored.com
Helps get to some of CTH’s articles on this
Especially the footnote section
Something that has always frankly puzzled me is “the obsession.” The need to know everything(!) about a political opponent by means of (entirely unconstitutional, BTW …) high-grade government surveillance. What possessed Obama to do that, and to do so for so long? 🤷♂️
Money and power.
… and Obama was also a puppet … he was told to support Hillary until Plan B was developed by the Puppet Masters.
And insecurity.
I believe they also tracked Dr. Ben Carson, who was a real threat, especially if he won 25%, 30% of the Black vote.
FWIW, George Papadopolous first worked for Dr. Carson.
GP was supposed to do a public reveal of the $10,000 in cash he was given abroad, money the FBI believed he would bring into the country undeclared. Which therefore would set him up for several illegal acts, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent. GP smartly didn’t bring the money, the FBI did a face plant at the airport, and he was convicted of making false statements.
Backtrack: what happened to the public reveal of $10,000?
That’s up there w Monica’s blue dress.
All roads lead to Langley and UK.
So do the Shadows.
The government gave itself power it was never intended to have. The probable cause comes FIRST, then request through a judge under oath, THEN the surveillance begins.
This power is to surveil first and then ask permission to see what was recorded?
I don’t have to remind anyone that if they planted devices is a little girl’s bathroom, they wouldn’t be arrested for LOOKING at it, they would be arrested for RECORDING IT. And I will add that the specific power they have is very much akin to spying on little girls as they also have conversations which include things they probably shouldn’t be doing and the government PEOPLE, known pedos, have access to all of that too.
“The FISC oversight was intended to stop the government from reviewing the private records of Americans, the NSA database, without a warrant.”
Right… the government is supposed to police itself? NOT GOOD ENOUGH. How well have they been doing historically? Not well. The structure of our constitution is such that this kind of crap doesn’t happen. It is not a function of “government watches itself… investigates itself.” Anyone, including Sundace, is a FOOL if they believe anything like that ever happens.
Instead the founders had set explicit limits on what government can do and the requirements of how it can be done.
The requirements were VIOLATED and spackled over with language that looks like “trust us, we’re the government! It’s patriotic to trust the government!” No it isn’t. This government was founded on the principle that government can never be trusted. THAT is patriotic. Patriot. It means FATHER. A man who watches over his family.
I can hardly stand the anticipation. This has been such a long, long wait. I honestly cannot read the recaps of the original research done by CTH because I remember almost all of it.
I have resigned myself to waiting as well. But I go from zero-to-sixty every time I read the criminal acts of Obama and his choom gang of sociopaths and narcisistic criminals. Obama’s empire includes the Mexican Cartels. We all remember Fast and Furious and Comey on the Board of HSBC bank which laundered Cartel drug money. SOS Clinton gave HSBC a pass and Comey became the FBI Director.
“ALL enemies foreign and domestic” includes the Bush/Cheney/Clinton/Gore/Obama/Biden world-wide money laundering operations. We want justice for crimes against the American people and all these criminal ill-gotten gains. ALL OF IT 🙂
Donna, thank you. My position is your position. I just didn’t know how to say it.😊
Didn’t Obama leave the country after PDJT won the 2016 election, perhaps to a place in the Pacific without an extradition treaty?
No, wherever did you hear such a stupid lie? Obama and Valerie Jarrett lived together in a mansion in Washington DC during President Trump’s first term.
Go Gabby Go!!
Ms. Gabbard, please unredact more of the 99-page Judge Collyer judicial finding.
I would propose a slight addition to the Spygate scandal and that it was not just spying on the GOP candidates with intention to hand off to Hillary. The rift between Hillary and Obama camps is well known and while it was assumed she would be ushered into office, I contend that there was not a plan to simply hand over the reigns. Communists do not give up power easily.
Rather I suspect that the spying was on ALL political candidates including Hillary herself. Anyone in the field since 2015 had the Eye of Sauron on them, and FISA was the edifice for it.
Have to take with a grain of salt, but believe Patrick Bryne had testimony and accounts to the FBI using him as honeypot to entrap her with bribery scheme just as they did with him via Maria Butina, the Russian gal that they pretended was some super spy to justify FISA on folks on the GOP side. In any case, would make sense that the sunsetting Obama admin fully intended to never “leave” and ensure they had enough dirt on the next puppet, assuming Hillary, to remain embedded as shadow brokers/deep state/5th estate/whatever you want to call. Pretty much what they got 4 years later with Biden.
Minor context change, but the shift is vast. The US Government was spying on EVERYONE to stay in control- not even Hillary was “same side” just the corruptible vassal they could put up front while the grand viziers remained the power behind the throne. The complete shock to losing this with the Trump election in 2016 was all the more reason for the cover up using Hillary teams of RussiaGate scandal… and really everything since.
And the indictments are … where? Again, if all this slides then it’s essentially over. Only the time and date of the collapse is unknown.
“Barry glaring at the reader” in the lead to the essay is disturbing.
From an editorial perspective, I suggest leaving such images until the end of an article. Allow the reader to focus on the ‘headline” and content.
Such images inspire hate and worse (The “1,000 words” may not be those intended.).
Isn’t the purpose of such essays (as this “NSA Report”), summarizing extensive ongoing, historical, analysis, to educate (perhaps remind) the reader.
Such pictures evoke a visceral reaction which undermines the objective analysis presented.
[To the CTH team: don’t undermine the depth of your substantive analysis with images which evoke emotion. All readers need to maintain rational perspectives, lest one lose their inhibitions.]
If I have not stated my case well, then I ask others to state the case in their own words.
Who has Anthony Weiner’s (sp) laptop that had some large number of Hillary’s emails sent to it as Huma’s insurance policy? Wouldn’t that stack of emails help tie this together?
The NSA report to the FISA Court is a specific, actionable, discoverable document.
I have been on the hunt for that notification report for 8 years.
Sundance has just tasked Tulsi with a deliverable
I reckon
In and around Obama’s 2008 pre-election and election I started anonymously writing on PBS comments sections, mainly the NewsHour. I’ve written extensively on this and how it led to a media-IC illegal surveillance op on me still ongoing. Part of what was happening was various members of the media and public officials repeated what I wrote both in broadcast media, i.e., NewHour, Charlie Rose Show, Washington Week, and spread to major news outlets such as ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT and Wapo. It was very apparent. One aspect that relates to the above article is what I believe was covertly happening. This was happening at high levels of government including with Ben Rhodes when he was a speech writer and deputy Nat Sec Advisor to Obama. He repeated my comments word for word in his speeches (early 2013). I also saw that if I wrote something but left it on the computer but did not send it it would sometimes be repeated both orally or in newspaper articles even though I did not actually post it. This means that I was being key logged in 2013. There is no possible way that they knew anything about me to cause this. Me, a SAHM, married to a doctor, a recent empty-nester with my youngest in college. I had no FaceBook, no criminal record. I used my husband’s desk top and I only had a flip phone. It was not until summer 2013 that I wrote about Snowden and Operation Timber Sycamore that they MADE UP some BS reason to use NON THREATENING , though it was political hyperbole which is protected speech, to hack my husband’s computer, our taxes, med records and leak everything to corporate media. My point here is that I am a planned target of the deep state which was orchestrated at the highest levels of the govt without probable cause.
you’re lucky they didn’t plant ch1ld pron on your husband’s computer
and then come knocking
with assault inflatables up the backyard canal
and a CNN news crew
with lights and cameras
I suspect the NSA audit report will surface before the midterms.
Would be great!
Real the @#$%, “Patriot Act”!!!
Is Tulsi safe? Or are we thinking she will be Clintonized?
The word is ” Arkincided “.
These types of programs need to cease immediately. If argued for continuation then ironclad safeguards including loss of job, pension and jail time must be in place. Don’t restart them without guarantees against abuse.
“I have been on the hunt for that notification report for 8 years.”
Calling on all who pray with faith to let your prayers for truth to be made manifest be encouraged and informed by this from II Kings chapter 6:4-7…
So he [Elisha] went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
But it happened that as one of them was cutting down a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Oh, my master! It was borrowed!” Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float. Then he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his hand and took it.
“Put another way, the United States government was spying on political candidates for office, in order to control the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
Use the above statement as a backdrop to Obama’s famous remark (OCT 2016) on the Kimmel show; “At least I’ll go down as a President.”
Once the DC D(eath)C(ity) onion is completely peeled, no onion remains. Peel the onion: https://eko.substack.com/p/the-investigation-trap
Blessings and Godspeed, Sundance.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
His and Biden’s tenure in office, and all the EOs issued and laws signed must be declared null and void. Unless that happens, no prosecutions will ever occur. It’s pretty sickening!
Reading the Article Haze fbi file there is a section on Richman.
This passage peaked my interest.
Page 59:
“In
2015, Comey instructed the FBI to hire Richman as a Special Government
Employee (“SGE”) and to grant him a Top Secret clearance with access to
Sensitive Compartmented Information (“SCI”). FBI records indicated
Richman was hired to work on “Going Dark” matters.”
What could going dark mean.
Many redacted sections related to Richman interviews.
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-08/Arctic%20Haze%20and%20Daniel%20Richman.pdf
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/chicago-barack-obama-presidential-library-costs-delay-taxpayers/
The comments at this link are hysterical.
I guess if Tulsi all of a sudden releases this document, we’ll know Sundance has had at least one meeting with a “high level Administration official”.
Another reason why I keep praying for Tulsi Gabbard every day for her discernment for safety and her deeper conversion. I may add she’s both beautiful body and mind. Go Tulsi.
“Within the evidence trail, that documents the Obama spying operation exists: (1) the NSA audit-trail, and, more importantly, (2) the specific document where the NSA notified the FISA Court. Those have never been seen.”
Given the support of FISA by the Uniparty, do you think they will EVER be seen?
The overarching reality is that the Klinton Krime Kartel has remained in power through their masterful manipulation of the bureaucracy, aka deep state. They weren’t out of power during Shrub’s term, they were systematically reinforcing their positions by recruiting fellow travelers and advancing them to key positions. Shrub didn’t fire anyone, not even the thieves and saboteurs who stole and damaged Whitehouse property as the Klinton Klown Kar was leaving the center ring. Same on steroids during <0bunghole's reign of error. And 45 was so naive and patriotic, he believed the bs about the great, non-partisan rank and file. That rank and file virtually emasculated the 45th presidency. Bribem restored "KKK" control. But 47 has learned a thing or 20. He's using every tool he can to get rid of the KKK fellow travelers. May God guide and guard him and all who're working with him. May God curse and bring low those who mean ill for our great nation.
Obama is very bad person,only thing he know lie and hate,
Obama was the worst person as president this country has ever seen. Should have never been president. Hopefully the day is coming where he will be stripped of that, judged and labeled a traitor along with his administration, which should and hopefully WILL destroy the democrat party and end their tenure here on Earth.
And THAT’S the goal…..to destroy and end the Democrat( demonrat) party once and for all. Then……we can single out the rat rhinos and begin the extinction process of them as well!
The Swamp will not be drained until both sides of the party who are in and part of the establishment….are gone!
Does Chief Justice Roberts have any oversight responsibility in this case? I would think that he would since he oversees the FISC, correct?
Obama and his minions need to be arrested.
Back in late 2015 I was living in Auckland NZ and making plans for my vote at the USA Embassy and while doing so I told myself an epiphany = “The USA my own government is the worst enemy I have ever had” and I didn’t know even 1-2-3% of all the illegal crap I now know of. I was making serious plans to renounce my USA citizenship if Hillary won and well that didn’t happen. And yes it is stories like this one that reminds me that our own weaponized government can be evil and we should all not at all be surprised when we discover more and more evidence that is has been and still is.
That’s a beautiful photo of Tulsi. Hope she looks into these questions and concerns outlined in the article.
Only factual point of contention here is that NSA is also a DoD org. USCC is outside of the IC is the point I think you were trying to make.