Can someone explain to me what treasonous "scandle" Obama committed...

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60. Here's a summary as I understand the allegations:

It starts with the hacks or leaks of Hillary's emails. Her campaign maintained that the emails were made public through Russian hacking and not through a leak from within Hillary's campaign (Seth Rich being a suspected leaker) or through Hillary's negligence in using an inadequately-secured, non-State Dept. server in her basement for emails connected with her employment, instead of sticking with the federally-secured State Dept. email system.

After the 2016 election, the CIA & FBI initially assessed that the Russian government had not engaged in any significant hacking of the election, or at least not to an extent sufficient to affect the outcome. As part of their investigation, the CIA &/or FBI had reviewed the Steele dossier, which had been paid for by the Hillary campaign and which purported to show collusion between Trump and the Russians to rig the election in Trump's favor (and I guess the outing of Hillary's emails was supposedly part of that effort?). The intelligence agencies initially assessed that the dossier was from a source known to be unreliable and that, for that & other reasons, should not be relied on. (Part of the idea is that the Hillary campaign initially paid for the Steele dossier in order to divert attention from their contents, which were potentially embarrassing to her campaign, and as well as blame for the leak/hacking, among other motives.)

The documents released by Gabbard appear to show that when the conclusion reached by the agencies that there was no evidence of significant Russian election rigging and/or collusion was communicated to Pres. Obama, he sent the agencies back to try to reach a different conclusion.

At that point, the story goes, the agencies had already noted that there was little or nothing to support the collusion theory except the Steele dossier, so they resurrected that; in addition, they and/or other Dems tried to imply that there was also other evidence of collusion that could not be revealed for reasons of national security.

The Steele dossier was supposedly the principal evidence relied on in obtaining a warrant to spy on Carter Page, a member of Trump's campaign &/or admin., in order to try to dig up more evidence re- collusion.

The feds' reliance on the Steele dossier is at the core of the argument that Russiagate was a hoax; the claim is that the feds knew that it was bogus but hid their own doubts about it & basically lied about it to a federal court in order to get a warrant, initiating an extended fishing expedition and providing an opening for all kinds of "where there's smoke, there must be fire" slurs, as well as violating the Constitutional rights of Trump & his staff.

I believe Tulsi's documents are also claimed to suggest that the agencies never really did have any additional, "secret" evidence of significant hacking or collusion, as some officials had suggested; and in any case, unfortunately, the Mueller investigation never turned up enough further evidence to bring charges against Trump.