Obama used Fusion GPS in 2012 against Romney...there is a pattern here.

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"In 2012, then-President Obama had an 'enemies list' on his campaign website with the names of Mitt Romney's biggest donors,"

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That enemies list was placed on the Obama campaign's Orwellian "Truth Team" web site. The site called them a "group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the expense of so many Americans..."

That kind of vilification of decent, law-abiding, successful Americans is bad enough. But to drive home the intimidation, each of the names on the list was subsequently tweeted out from the @TruthTeam2012 twitter feed, along with their supposed misdeeds, most of which really amounted merely to tough or unpopular business decisions they had to make.

Obama "relied on a vast grassroots network to coerce, bully, boycott and vilify individuals lawfully taking part in the political process, just as his own donors and supporter are freely allowed to engage," wrote the Daily Signal back in 2012.

Imagine for a moment the chilling effect that would have on a political foe's campaign — calling those who fund another campaign's candidate "enemies," with all that entails. The IRS, the SEC, the FBI, the Justice Department, all with active prosecution arms, all headed by Obama loyalists. To say it's an act of political and personal intimidation is an understatement.

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One of the names on the list was Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman who had contributed to a group supporting Mitt Romney in 2011.

Mr. VanderSloot soon learned what it meant to be on a presidential enemies list.

Just 12 days after the [Obama campaign] attack, the Idahoan found an investigator digging to unearth his divorce records," Strassel wrote in "Obama's Enemies List Part II." "This bloodhound—a recent employee of Senate Democrats—worked for a for-hire opposition research firm."

That oppo-research firm was -- you guessed it --Fusion GPS.

It wasn't long before VanderSloot was targeted by the federal government. In a letter dated June 21, 2012, the Internal Revenue Service informed him that his tax records had been “selected for examination.” The audit also encompassed VanderSloot’s wife, "and not one, but two years of past filings (2008 and 2009)."

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