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Obama White House Committed Impeachable Offenses by Encouraging Leaks Against Trump and Russia
The Real News Network
05 Apr 2017
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The Ford Report on the Real News Network

Glen Ford on The Real News Network In its last months in office, the Obama administration facilitated massive leaks of Trump team members’ telephone conversations and other raw intelligence. The operation succeeded in creating great clouds of innuendo intended to buttress the totally unproven allegation that Russia and Trump operatives collaborated to meddle in the election process. In deliberately encouraging leaks, former president Obama probably committed impeachable offenses –- that may still be indictable.

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