Obama admin left intelligence trail on Trump/Russia contacts

She was also behind the decision to include sweeping contraceptive coverage for women under the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature legislation, which ruffled a number of centrist feathers in the administration, from people who sought to minimize controversy among religious and conservative enclaves.

The report comes on the heels of former Attorney General Eric Holder saying that Obama is ready to re-enter the political fray. Enjoy your retirement, play some golf, work on your new book. He also spoke to at least 20 other foreign ambassadors.

Members of former president Barack Obama’s staff worked hard to preserve any and all evidence of Russian involvement in the last presidential election as well as Russian meetings with members of Donald Trump’s staff.

As Trump’s inauguration neared, White House officials became convinced that the intelligence was damaging so they set out to distribute the information. Obama did call for a full report on Russian efforts, a declassified version of which was released near the end of his presidency.

With the continually growing scope of Russian interference, the information left behind by the Obama team is surely invaluable to investigators and allies alike.

Obama has not done that, however.

Whether it was the intent or not, the spreading of information would have expanded the universe of possible leakers.

First, the Obama holdovers and their sympathizers used leaks to successfully bring down former National Security Director Michael Flynn.

The revelations have come in the wake of new questions being raised concerning the ties of the Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions, to Russians connected to Putin.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the House, demanded that Sessions to resign, Tweeting that “he is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country”.

So what! That was part of his job!

On Thursday, lawmakers and administration officials scrambled to address the Sessions story.

But a flood of reporting and leaks from inside the White House have raised serious questions about the president’s relationship with Russian Federation, and it’s increasingly clear that an independent investigation will be necessary.