According to Housley, it was done at the direction of those very high up and was done so for a significant amount of time, which he described as unprecedented and blockbuster.
Transcript as follows:
We dont know who spoke to Devin Nunes. We know its not someone at the White House. We dont know who spoke to the White House about this other than what Nunes has said in front of press conferences. The sources we are talking to are separate from both of those entities. They dont really have a horse in this game. They are frustrated with the way they say the agencies are being politicized more than they have seen before in their careers. And one reason they are speaking out is because of that. The second reason is because Nunes came out in front of the cameras and has his finger on it, they say and want to make sure it is done correctly.
What weve learned is this from multiple sources is that its all about intelligence-gathering methods. The fact is, a lot of these men and women in the intelligence communities did not want to speak about whats going on because they were concerned about those methods being known. But now they figure they might as well at least clarify things since Nunes has been leaked to by someone they dont know or at least they tell me they dont know. We know that there was this there was surveillance of Trump and people close to Donald Trump including some supporters for up to a year before inauguration. That information was disseminated were told through NSA channels. Its unprecedented the way this was done. The mention of U.S. citizens is supposed to be masked. That means basically taken out of the report.
So for example, if I call somebody in Bulgaria, and thats picked up somehow by our agencies and theres nothing there involving national security, theres nothing there involving a crime, that report would come out and it would say American number one or my name would not be there. What Im told now is that when these reports came out, names were there and that is unprecedented. Basically, they say the information thats unmasking, these names of Americans who had done nothing wrong was disseminated to all of NSC, some at DoD, Clapper, Brennan basically the people at the top.
They also say Im told Rice knew about this possibly as well. Now, I know there are some reports out there that she was the one who ordered this. We do not know who reported this because we have not spoken to Devin Nunes about it. He has not at least told us these things. So, we dont know what papers he saw. Our sources dont know what papers he saw. They just tell us about the information about unmasking names from Donald Trump and his team and his family was disseminated to a very select few at the top and was done so for a significant amount of time. And that is blockbuster, guys. As far as we know hasnt been done at least in modern times when it comes to this type of thing. Also, as we look down at some of my notes here going through this, that there were also additional unmasking as well and, again, as far as we can tell, none of this had anything to do with national security.
Clapper, Brennan, Rice, Comey, McCabe, Lynch, ValJar....
It is a major crime to “unmask” the US persons incidentally captured in foreign intel surveillance. Where is our beloved FBI on this?
Annnnnd like the dems Russia ruse, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence besides here say that this is true, sadly
Name names. Not “someone high up”... name them.
Looks like it was Susan Rice...
What the heck was she doing even looking at this info? And when did BO know?
The “Surveillance was for a YEAR. Even Trump ‘Supporters’ were survailed and their names unmasked.
I’d bet $1000 Obammy first started surveillance on Trump back when Trump was going after Obammy’s birth certificate.
“***So for example, if I call somebody in Bulgaria, and thats picked up somehow by our agencies and theres nothing there involving national security, theres nothing there involving a crime, that report would come out and it would say American number one or my name would not be there. What Im told now is that when these reports came out, names were there and that is unprecedented. Basically, they say the information thats unmasking, these names of Americans who had done nothing wrong was disseminated to all of NSC, some at DoD, Clapper, Brennan basically the people at the top.***”
1. They should be running a trawler which catches anything and everything in its net.
2. They should destroy any records not Germain and particular to a warrant which would contain the names of the individuals who the givernment has “Probable” Cause to believe they committed a particular crime .
What the givernment does is akin to obtaining a warrant of probable cause and searching every room in a building for their suspect and the evidence to support their allegation.
Never mind that the suspect likely did not have access to every area of the building.
They will sweep up huge swaths of information they don’t need and just keep it.