Adam Kredo at the Free Beacon continues his stellar reporting.
In one instance, Trump administration officials found evidence that the administration's executive order banning travel from certain Muslim-majority nations had been selectively altered to bring it more in line with Obama-era talking points.
Several hours before the orders were set to be signed by Trump, officials noticed that language concerning "radical Islamic terrorism" had been stripped from the order and replaced with Obama-era language about countering violent extremism.
West Wing staffers quickly scrambled to rewrite the order to bring it back in line with Trump's rhetoric, sources told the Free Beacon. The alteration of these directives is said to have spooked some senior officials working on the issue.
This is what happens when you have the Obama Anonymous network of people who have been there for eight years and know exactly how the system works and what buttons to push and levers to pull. Kredo also lists another example.
Additionally, the previous administration permitted staff to accrue substantial amounts of vacation time in its last year in office. As soon as team Trump entered the White House, it was obligated to pay out all of these hours. White House sources say the cost was in the millions of dollars.
The payout prevented the Trump White House from hiring key staff in its opening days due to insufficient funds, according to those familiar with the situation. Flynn, for instance, was able to hire only 22 people to work on the White House National Security Council, which topped around 420 staffers under Obama.
"They put landmines everywhere," according to one senior administration official.
This is a lot nastier than merely removing the W keys from the keyboard the way the Clinton people did. This is a deliberate effort to cripple an incoming administration.
As I wrote before, Obama is running a shadow anti-government that is actively fighting the sitting legal government.
A few weeks after the election, I warned that Obama was planning to run the country from outside the White House. And that the “Obama Anonymous” network of staffers embedded in the government was the real threat. Since then Obama’s Kalorama mansion has become a shadow White House. And the Obama Anonymous network is doing everything it can to bring down an elected government.
This amounts to a covert civil war.