So the Democrats got General Flynn, and now they are going after Sessions. Trump has had enough and he is firing back.
According to a New York Times article, the FBI already investigated Trump relating to Russian ties and found no link. James Clapper just stated on NBC that there was no link. The Russian hacking conspiracy theory was based on highly confident intel from the CIA and moderately confident intel from the NSA - which is not evidence or fact. WikiLeaks denies it. The DHS and FBI report does not even mention Assange or WikiLeaks - who play a pivotal role in this narrative. And the DNC never gave its servers to the FBI, nobody has analyzed them.
The FISA court rubber-stamps more than 99% of all the warrants it is asked to grant, which means basically no oversight or requirement to show probable cause. However last summer one of the very few cases that got denied was an open-ended warrant to conduct surveillance on Trump Tower. They then tried again and according to a Fortune article got the warrant. Then just before Obama leaves, he signs off on the concept of having the NSA share its material with other intel agencies.
So the question is: if the Obama administration (and unverifiably yet undoubtedly the Clinton campaign) had all this juicy and scandalous dirt on Trump and his associates, why didn't they release it all during the election? Clinton would have won, and they would never have gotten caught.
Also does this count as election-tampering by the Democrats? During the election the DNC engineered the Russian propaganda narrative in an attempt to disable the Trump campaign, when they knew that there was no link (if they had evidence it would've dropped). Obama definitely knew about the wiretapping as his AG was involved. The MSM also reported on it so it was not exactly a secret. So it seems that the outgoing administration conducted espionage and surveillance on an incoming administration for no apparent reason, failed to find any dirt so they then disseminated the information.
If Trump's claims are baseless, then the entire Russian hacking narrative is baseless. This is the problem with McCarthyism. The Democrats overplayed their hand and now it is going to turn on them. When you accuse people based on no evidence then you yourself can be accused. Claire McCaskill, along with 6 other Senate Democrats met with the same Russian ambassador.
What the Obama administration has done here is break protocol, and they have apparently subverted the USA's longstanding tradition of a smooth transfer of power.