Why Did Obama Tell The FBI To Hide Its Activities From The Trump Administration?

[mystery-ak]

 Why Did Obama Tell The FBI To Hide Its Activities From The Trump Administration?
Even after Barack Obama had left office and James Comey had a new commander-in-chief to report to, Comey obeyed Obama by withholding intel from President Trump.

By Margot Cleveland
May 11, 2020

In 1980, 15-year-old Amy Carter left a burnt cake in the oven of the White House’s family quarters in a reflex of childish revenge for her father’s landslide loss to Ronald Reagan. In 2017, Barack Obama and Joe Biden avenged Donald Trump’s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton by leaving what they claim was a Russian agent in the West Wing.

That conclusion inevitably follows if one accepts as credible the FBI’s supposed predicates for launching the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign and the four related probes into George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn.

On July 31, 2016, the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, purportedly to learn if members of the Trump team were “coordinating or cooperating” with the Russian government to influence or interfere with the 2016 elections. By August 16, 2016, the FBI had opened four subsidiary investigations on individuals connected to the campaign, claiming their connections to Russian businesses, pro-Russian factions, or Russian-owned entities “reasonably indicated” they “may wittingly or unwittingly be involved in activity on behalf of the Russian Federation which may constitute a federal crime or threat to the national security.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/11/why-did-obama-tell-the-fbi-to-hide-its-activities-from-the-trump-administration/

[skeeter]

Its a shame we'll never get to see if Obama actually can lead the 'thug life' he pretended on occasion inside a federal pen.

[goatprairie]

Occam's razor: because Obama is a crook?

[mountaineer]

... At the time Obama suggested to Yates and Comey—who were to keep their posts under the Trump administration—that the hold-overs consider withholding information from the incoming administration, Obama knew that President Trump had named Flynn to serve as national security advisor. Obama also knew there was an ongoing FBI investigation into Flynn premised on Flynn being a Russian agent.

Yet, rather than direct his team to provide the president-elect a briefing on the Russia investigation as it related to Flynn, Obama suggested it would be appropriate to withhold such information from the Trump administration.

That is just what Comey did.  ...

Even after Obama had left office and Comey had a new commander-in-chief to report to, Comey continued to follow Obama’s prompt by withholding intel from Trump.   ...

It sure would be nice to see Comey behind bars. He and Obama could play pickup basketball in the prison yard.

[txradioguy]

The answer is simple.  They didn't want the incoming administration (which wasn't supposed to win) to know the extent of the spying and illegal activities they'd conducted against them.

I mean imagine if on day one LTG Flynn and Jeff Sessions had been able to access info on everything that's just now coming to light...names, dates, times, sources etc.

The Obama administration fully expected Hillary to win and make sure none of this ever reached the light of day.