@hightor,
hightor wrote:Nope. Intelligence agencies discovered the contacts and thought it might pose a security risk. Obama would have been lax not to allow them to investigate further.
Are you referring to contacts by Mr. Manafort?
Or are you referring to contacts by Mr. Trump's relatives and close associates?
If you are referring to contacts by Mr. Trump's relatives and close associates, Mr. Obama knew that there was no security risk, and he deliberately misconstrued the contacts in order to make it falsely look like a possible security risk.
Mr. Obama did this in order to conduct an illegal investigation into his political rivals.