Bombshell report from WSJ : NSA Spying For Obama

 NSA spied on Congress, Netanyahu, and Jewish organizations to push Iran deal

For some reason, the editors of the Wall Street Journal chose to unveil a major investigative report on the NSA’s spying on Congress in the black hole for news that is the run-up to New Year’s Eve. The piece by Adam Entous and Danny Yadron alleges:

President Barack Obama announced two years ago he would curtail eavesdropping on friendly heads of state after the world learned the reach of long-secret U.S. surveillance programs.

But behind the scenes, the White House decided to keep certain allies under close watch, current and former U.S. officials said. Topping the list was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The U.S., pursuing a nuclear arms agreement with Iran at the time, captured communications between Mr. Netanyahu and his aides that inflamed mistrust between the two countries and planted a political minefield at home when Mr. Netanyahu later took his campaign against the deal to Capitol Hill.

The National Security Agency’s targeting of Israeli leaders and officials also swept up the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups. That raised fears—an “Oh-s— moment,” one senior U.S. official said—that the executive branch would be accused of spying on Congress.

The Obama administration played cute with statutory prohibitions on spying on Americans (including especially co-equal branches of the federal government):

White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign [to convince Congress to reject the Iran deal]. They also recognized that asking for it was politically risky. So, wary of a paper trail stemming from a request, the White House let the NSA decide what to share and what to withhold, officials said. “We didn’t say, ‘Do it,’ ” a senior U.S. official said. “We didn’t say, ‘Don’t do it.’ ”

Let that sink in for a moment. In a manner similar to the famous line from Beckett (Will no one rid me of this troublesome bishop?”), White House officials back-handedly authorized spying on Congress over an impending vote in order to defeat a bill it didn’t like.

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