Israel, not Congress, was Spied On
Published at 07:36 on 31 December 2015
So why did Obama “spy on Congress?” The short answer is he really didn’t.
He spied on Israel (for good reason; see the post immediately below), and in the process of spying on Israel caught Israeli officials communicating with Congressmen in an attempt to influence them to oppose the nuclear deal with Iran. In some cases, Israel passed classified information to Congress in an attempt to influence it.
So while this is a scandal involving a national leader, the scandalized national leader is Benjamin Netanyahu, not Barack Obama.