In 2008 Barack Obama won the election during an economic meltdown. The cause of the meltdown is not pertinent to what happened after Obama took office. In the 2010 midterms, the Democratic Party got wiped out. They went from a supermajority in Congress to being the minority party.
This really stung. The question for the Democrats was how to ensure their victories in coming elections. One thing they decided to do was weaponize the government against any and all opposition.
From Sundance:
Following the midterm “shellacking” of 2010, President Obama and Eric Holder began the “secret research project” targeting political opposition using the IRS. DOJ asked the IRS for the donor data of all supporters to conservative groups. [Schedule B’s of 501c(3)(4)].
The IRS was used to identify targets 2011 and 2012, until discovered April ’12. President Obama has a problem. President Obama then sends his Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, to run the IRS and block discoveries around the IRS weaponization.
Lois Lerner, who had led the IRS when the scandal occurred, was protected and moved out of the way to another department. Lerner later retired on a very hefty pension from the US taxpayers.
The scandal was not limited to just mining donor lists that the IRS had. It extended to sabotaging the applications of Tea Party 501c’s. The Tea Party groups were a true grassroots uprising against government overreach. In this the Democrats were aided by the likes of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan who saw the Tea Party groups as a threat to the UniParty’s hold on Washington politics.
With the IRS closed down to them, the Democrats needed another source of leverage.
From 2012 through April 2016, the Obama administration then began spying on political opposition, using the FBI to conduct surveillance through their access to the NSA database.
In April 2016, NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers was alerted by the NSA compliance officer who noted the uptick in database access activity by the FBI searching the Republican Primary Candidate field.
This was known as Spygate. It was full spectrum political surveillance by the Obama administration conducted on political opposition using government access to the NSA database. It was a violation of the Fourth Amendment on a level heretofore unseen in American politics.
After Super Tuesday in March 2016, it became obvious Donald Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. With the knowledge that Trump was going to be the candidate, “FBI contractors” narrowed their spying focus in the NSA data base to do political surveillance of the Trump campaign. This intel was then sent to the Clinton team. All of that intel was in the metadata captured by the NSA and searched by the “FBI contractors.”
Post April 2016 the Obama administration again had a problem. Enter FBI operation “Crossfire Hurricane,” July 2016, in an effort to remove the political risk.
October 2016, the FBI rushes a FISA application through the FISC, circumventing the missing ‘Woods File’, with the Chris Steele dossier as evidence.
October 2016, NSA Director Rogers sends the first official notification of the FBI, using the NSA database to the oversight body, the FISA Court.
The Woods files were part of the procedures for the FISA court which is a secret court. The whole idea of a secret court is the opposite of what American jurisprudence is supposed to be about. The Woods files were designed to ensure that factual statements in FISA applications are accurate. As has been proven many times over, the Steele Dossier was anything but.
This is known as Russiagate and while despicable, was not as widespread as Spygate.
December 2016, worried about Trump now discovering the NSA database spying, the Obama administration wraps the Clinton smear into official policy, blaming the Russians and validating Crossfire Hurricane.
May 2017, needing to extend the coverup of the FBI activity, special counsel Robert Mueller then takes over Crossfire Hurricane. All FBI evidence and personnel transfers to Mueller.
April 2019, Robert Mueller operation wraps up, and prior activity coverup shifts to Impeachment process.
While this was known as the Mueller probe, in fact, Andrew Weissman, chief of the DOJ criminal division’s Fraud sector, ran the so-called investigation. Mueller was a figurehead designed to mollify people who wanted an impartial investigation not a politically tainted one. This was revealed to the public when Mueller was unable to answer even simple questions about the probe to Congress.
July 2019, John Durham kicks in extending DOJ/FBI control through 2020 election.
Fall 2020, mail-in ballots triggered to facilitate 2020 election outcome. Install Joe Biden, shift to autopen administration, maintain Obama team influence and coverup objective.
January 2021, FBI triggers Operation Arctic Frost, targeting Trump supporters and 2020 election researchers. FBI again using NSA database search queries to identify targeting.
March 2021, FBI operation ‘Arctic Frost’ – results are fed to J6 Committee and DHS. TSA triggers “quiet skies” targeting via results from Arctic Frost.
An internal investigation uncovered widespread abuses committed by Biden administration officials, who used “Quiet Skies” to weaponize the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) against innocent American citizens. These include at least one member of Trump’s upper echelon of officials, Tulsi Gabbard.
In an unprecedented act, the Biden TSA used the January 6, 2021, protests as an excuse to target several dozen U.S. citizens. These Americans were placed on watchlists and harassed despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing or illegal behavior.
It’s one long continuum of coverup activity within Main Justice and the FBI, supported by all other various agencies who operate in support. What are they covering up?
The 2012 through 2016 political spying operation within the Obama administration, as carried out by the same Main Justice and FBI operations.
This is clearly a RICO operation. As such, the statute of limitations on much of this illegal activity does not apply. This arc of corruption started with Obama and Holder. I would call this the Reader’s Digest version of what happened.
All Watergate did was burglarize one office. Obama set up a permanent spying operation in office and out.
When will there be indictments? This list can be where we keep score.
Sources listed below.
2010 – 2012
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-irs-documents-show-lerner-need-conservative-group-donor-lists-emails-mention-secret-research-project-top-irs-official/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/irs-send-massive-database-of-tax-exempt-groups-to-fbi-weeks-before-election/article/2549479?custom_click=rss
https://ktar.com/story/714867/justice-dept-no-criminal-charges-for-ex-irs-official/
https://www.reuters.com/article/legal/justice-department-settles-with-conservative-groups-over-irs-scrutiny-idUSKBN1CV1TX/
2012 – 2016
Click to access 2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf
Click to access durhamreport.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-justice-departments-national-security-division-to-step-down/2016/09/27/59cb95c4-84e6-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?utm_term=.d0f31600c908
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/management-advisory-notification-concerns-identified-federal-bureau-investigations-contract
https://oig.justice.gov/news/testimony/statement-michael-e-horowitz-inspector-general-us-department-justice-us-house-3
2016 -2020
Click to access durhamreport.pdf
2020 – 2025
Click to access arctic_frost_bank_record_subpoenas.pdf
https://oig.justice.gov/news/testimony/statement-michael-e-horowitz-inspector-general-us-department-justice-us-house-3
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/09/30/dhs-and-tsa-expose-targeting-political-opponents-former-biden