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Today's trending topic is the FISA warrant that President Obama sought in June 2016 to wiretap Trump Tower in New York. A FISA judge denied that request, so Obama had it amended, and it was eventually granted in October.   By that time, Carter Page and Paul Manafort were no longer with the Trump campaign.

So this was nothing more than a fishing expedition.

It immediately reminded me of the Act 10 shame that progressives visited upon Wisconsin. If you've never heard of this before, it's because the targets were conservatives like Cindy Archer, who helped draft Wisconsin's Budget Repair Bill, or Act 10. This law altered collective-bargaining rules for public-employee unions.

For her trouble, Archer's house was raided by a dozen police officers in the middle of the night on September 14, 2011. This was part of a "John Doe" investigation, but it bears resemblance to the tactics of Lavrentiy ("show me the man, I'll show you the crime") Beria.

 A fishing expedition, based not on any probable cause, but rather mere suspicion. Even if it didn't yield a single prosecution or conviction, it sent a powerful message: don't exercise your freedom of speech or association, or you will get a knock on the door in the middle of the night.

 Can you imagine if this had happened to a progressive group? If Scott Walker had directed the FBI and police to raid the home of a public employee union member, Keith Olbermann would still be talking about it.

So the wiretapping story comes out today, and it comes on the heels of a steady drip, drip, drip of information being released on a daily basis, all orchestrated from Kalorama, all with the purpose of driving Donald Trump from office.

 And I just want to cite a recent story from the New York Times, entitled Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking.

This use of the word, "preserve," is very curious in this case. I don't think that the information belongs to Obama operatives to disseminate. I think it belongs to the American people. But they decided to "spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election," over every level of government.

 These government officials "needed to ensure that as many people as possible inside government could see it, even if people without security clearances could not." Including "among European allies." Were these government officials removing classified or secret markings from documents in order to share them? 

This is evidence not of Trump collusion with Russia to influence the election. This is evidence that every single agency had and still has Obama loyalists embedded and entrusted with the mission. 

There has been no peaceful transition of power, because they have no intention of relinquishing the administrative state, where real, unelected, unaccountable power resides. At this point, I don't know why Republicans continue to apologize and play by the rules of the last century. A few deep state operatives lined up against a wall would be a very good starting point.