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The question is a falsehood.VERIFY: Did Obama fail at freeing Americans imprisoned in North Korea?This is an interview with the State Department on 5–10–2019.We then took a closer look at Obama's record. Government officials confirmed ten Americans were released from North Korea during his administration. You might have seen the number eleven floating around, but the State Department has no record of that 11th person ever being detained in the first place.Government officials confirmed the following US Citizens were released by North Korea under the Obama Administration: Laura Ling, Euna Lee, Aijalon Gomes, Eddie Yong Su Jun, Jeffrey Fowley, Kenneth Bae, Matthew Miller, Sandra Suh, Merrill Newman, Robert Park.Two of the prisoners released today from North Korea were detained during the Trump administration.Kim Hak Song was detained 5–6–2017 (Trump).Tony Kim, detained 4–22–2017 (Trump)Kim Dong Chul, detailed 10–2015. “South Korea-born Kim Dong Chul, 62, was arrested in Oct. 2015 on charges of espionage and other undisclosed crimes. Kim is a naturalized U.S. citizen and resident of Fairfax, Va., who ran a trade and hotel services firm in the special administrative zone between China and the DPRK. His secretive detention was only brought to public attention about three months later, when authorities decided to introduce the prisoner to a CNN crew visiting Pyongyang. He was convicted in March 2016 and sentenced to 10 years hard labor, about a week after Warmbier’s conviction — both sentences were handed down shortly after the U.S. had levied steeper sanctions against North Korea in response to missile testing.”So I do not know where you received your information (actually, I can guess), but it’s incorrect.Who Are the 3 Americans Freed From North Korean Prison?Lots of hypocrisy here. While Obama was negotiating for the release of prisoners, John Bolton argued against those efforts. Then turns himself around and upside down to support the same tactics during Trump’s administration

The original question is: People who have seen the FISA Memo are visibly shaken after reading it. If Obama never used governmental assets to target those he disagreed with, why is the left resisting the release of the memo? Shouldn’t people know what’s in it?There are a number of flaws with the premise of the question.Currently, nobody on Teh Left™ has resisted the release of the memo that Nunes is waving around. They haven’t even read it.Nunes is the one saying he can’t release it. To anyone (except a bunch of people in the House Republican Caucus.) The FBI and the Department of Justice have asked to see it. Nunes denied them. The Senate has requested to see it. Nope. Nunes claims he can’t release it because it’s loaded with “classified information.” His words.Author Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station, a former Naval Chief Warrant Officer and a veteran who worked for years in military intelligence, had some great insights into Nunes’ nutty behavior here.[1][1][1][1] I want to stress that these are Jim’s insights, not mine. He gets his work stolen a lot, and he deserves every ounce of credit.Under Federal law, the only person who gets to declare intelligence classified or declassified is the President or his authorized agent. The executive branch. Guess what department is under the executive branch? The Department of Justice. And the FBI is a part of the Department of Justice. All of these work for the President. Who has the sole power to classify or declassify information.So… where did Nunes get it, and why is he refusing to hand it over to the people who make the classification call? More importantly, why don’t they already have a copy? Nunes can’t classify information.Nunes says it’s based on “classified information.” Where did he get it? In what way was the material gathered? How was it analyzed? Confirmed?What agency produced it? And more importantly, what agency is currently doing espionage on US citizens and US governmental agencies? If it’s a US agency that’s doing this, that violates about a dozen provisions of federal law regarding domestic espionage.The only agency that’s tasked with investigating the FBI is the Department of Justice’s Inspector General. Who answers to the Attorney General, who answers to the President.So, ask yourself - if the agency tasked with investigating the FBI produced this information, why doesn’t the Department of Justice have it? If they didn’t, then who did?If it was a FISA warrant, it would be NSA. FISA stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, handled by a court established by that act. Americans sometimes get swept up in it, but only if they’re communicating with foreign individuals. NSA is the only one authorized to do FISA surveillance.Why is NSA spying on the FBI? Who requested it? Who authorized it?It takes a Senate-confirmed position to get a FISA warrant, the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney General. Remember Sally Yates? When she was fired, until someone was confirmed by the Senate to replace her, which ended up being Jeff Sessions, we didn’t have anyone in the DOJ who was legally allowed to go get a FISA warrant. That’s right, from January 31st to Feb 8th of 2017, over a week, you had nobody in the Federal government allowed to go get a FISA warrant. Makes you feel all manner of safer, doesn’t it?It wasn’t the President, or he (and his successor) would know about it.And if NSA is spying on the FBI, who else in the Federal government are they spying on? What other agencies? That’s a pretty scary thought, now isn’t it?And remember: only the President or his delegated agents are allowed to classify or declassify intelligence. Why is Devin Nunes waving it around to other members of the Freedom Caucus? He doesn’t have authority to decide security clearances. He doesn’t have the power to classify or declassify information. None.18 U.S. Code § 798 makes it a Federal crime to release classified information to unauthorized persons. Punishable up to ten years in Federal prison.If Devin Nunes really has classified information in his hand, he just committed a Federal felony by showing it to people who do not have authorization to view it, and we know that specifically because the executive branch has not authorized it.Shouldn’t people be allowed to see it? Oh, yes. Yes, they should.Edit 1/30/2018: Apparently they’re going to release the memo after the State of the Union.They aren’t going to release the underlying classified information. Think about that for a moment. This is entirely Devin Nunes’ opinion about things. You’re not going to get a shred of the actual information. You’re going to get his interpretation of it and nothing more.Nothing, nothing that will confirm his interpretation. Not the counterpoint memo that comes to entirely different conclusions. (Yes, there is one.) Nothing that can invalidate his interpretation, either.Nunes’ expertise is in agriculture. Cows, to be precise. Devin Nunes is not an expert in intelligence. He is an expert, as Jim Wright points out, in literal bullshit.People dedicate their lives to this kind of analysis. People get advanced degrees in this kind of work, and Devin Nunes is not one of them. Those experts will tell you that it’s usually about educated guesswork and probabilities, and that coming to conclusions is a difficult thing. Reasonable minds in the intelligence community routinely disagree over what the intelligence shows.Nunes is not allowing you access to those experts, instead pretending to be one himself. That’s all you’re going to get: his opinion.How do you know that Nunes is right? How will you verify his claims? What evidence do you have for any of it? That’s right. You don’t. Because it’s classified and you are not allowed to see it. Any of it. You’re going to have to take Nunes’ word for it.A man who is an expert in bovine excrement.I’m sure there’s all sorts of salacious information on that memorandum. I don’t doubt it’s “visibly shaken” the people who have read it. I’m sure there is every manner of bombshell after bombshell in it.But I am 100% positive that it is Grade A Prime Bullshit.I highly recommend you go check out Jim Wright’s article, and indeed his essays in general. He’s an outstanding writer who can use the traffic.Footnotes[1] Dirty Tricks[1] Dirty Tricks[1] Dirty Tricks[1] Dirty Tricks

I have to differ with those who respond that the abuses were unknown. Research is increasingly showing the extent to which the threats were publicized. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/what-did-americans-know-as-the-holocaust-unfolded-quite-a-lot-it-turns-out/2016/04/12/ff4f0ec2-fcec-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html?utm_term=.0cca752af0baThe extermination of European Jewry began when the German army invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Nazis attempted to keep the Holocaust a secret, but in August 1942, Dr. Gerhart Riegner, the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, learned what was going on from a German source. Riegner asked American diplomats in Switzerland to inform Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, one of America’s most prominent Jewish leaders, of the mass murder plan. But the State Department, characteristically insensitive and influenced by anti-Semitism, decided not to inform Wise.The rabbi nevertheless learned of Riegner’s terrible message from Jewish leaders in Great Britain. He immediately approached Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who asked Wise to keep the information confidential until the government had time to verify it. Wise agreed and it was not until November 1942 that Welles authorized the release of Riegner’s message.Source: American Response to the Holocaust - World War II - HISTORY.comBy December 13, 1942, Edward R. Murrow of the CBS radio network reported:What is happening is this. Millions of human beings, most of them Jews, are being gathered up with ruthless efficiency and murdered. The phrase ‘concentration camps’ is obsolete, as out of date as economic sanctions or non-recognition. It is now possible only to speak of extermination camps.An honest look at the American response would require confronting the antisemitism of the time. This is uncomfortable ground for many.