If you watch any of the testimony given under oath from both Yates and Clapper, see how they squirm when asked by Lindsey Graham about the unmasking of Gen. Flynn. (LINK)
This is the crux of the REAL scandal, as Dan Bongino has been pointing out on his show and did today as well.
The question is: How did the Obama Administration have access to the conversation with the Russian Ambassador that Gen. Flynn was prosecuted for making false statements on? (They 100% had a transcript of Gen. Flynn's conversation, otherwise...how could they know there was a disparity?)
The Obama personnel have INSISTED that the conversation was recorded as a part of incidental monitoring. That is what they have maintained. This all started because they read a press account of a discussion between VP Pence and Gen. Flynn that, according to the scummy professional liar Sally Yates, "they knew not to be the truth".
Fair enough. If we take them at their word, the transcript of the recording, to protect Gen. Flynn as an American Citizen with rights, would have looked something like this:
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR KISLYAK: Hello [REDACTED], how are you? Congratulations on your new position.
AMERICAN CITIZEN: Thank you. We are looking forward to getting to work.
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR KISLYAK: I have a few things to discuss with you before the inauguration of Mr. Trump.
AMERICAN CITIZEN: Of course. What is on your mind?
And so on. Gen. Flynn would have never been identified in the database. To find out who was talking to the Russian Ambassador, there would have to be a formal 702 request to "unmask" that AMERICAN CITIZEN and reveal his identity. They wouldn't have known.
So, the question is...and the question Lindsey Graham posed to both Yates and Clapper was...would there be a record of this formal request to unmask the identity of the American Citizen speaking with the Russian Ambassador?
A very good question indeed. There would HAVE to be a formal "unmasking request" so as not to break the law.
Then, watch after Graham asks that very pointed question...Yates pompously hides behind the veil of security. Clapper, who is more of a dimwit, stumbles and dissembles, then has to admit, if it were a 702 request...yes, there would be a record of it.
So. The point is...when that news report with Flynn statements to Pence that the POS Yates says that "They knew not to be the truth"...how indeed did they know that not to be the truth? Did they read that transcript of the conversation before the Press report of Pence's conversation with Flynn?
Really?
That is the nut of the issue. WHO ASKED FOR THE "UNMASKING" OF THAT ANONYMIZED "AMERICAN CITIZEN", WHEN DID THEY ASK FOR IT, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY...WHY DID THEY ASK FOR IT?
Because if they asked for it up front, someone was mining the database for a purpose. And the real scandal is...that is going to be the TIP of the iceberg. There was a LOT of intelligence gathering on a wide variety of "American Citizens" from contractors mining the NSA database (prompting Admiral Rogers to shut off NSA Contractor access to the database in April 2016), couple with RECORD volumes of 702 "unmasking requests by the Obama Administration (from NSA statistics): 
That is the real scandal. And the tap-dance around this by both Yates and Clapper (not to mention Susan Rice outside this venue) is very telling.