SO, if it wasn’t done for political purposes, then why is it that only Trump and his staff were ‘unmasked’ ?
All that’s left to be determined is what was passed onto the Clinton campaign and the national security meme is blown to hell.
Bingo. It’s purely politically partisan. And now we’re learning this unmasking possibly dates to 2015. Watch the spin: Libs will start claiming all Rice did was “request” unmasking, not officially “order” it. Legalisms are the last resort of scoundrels
If they were spying on Trump a year before the election, most likely they were spying on many more people as well.
“SO, if it wasn’t done for political purposes, then why is it that only Trump and his staff were ‘unmasked’ ?”
There’s a darn good circumstantial case to be made that it was an illegal abuse of the system. It appears the Trump team was singled out and targeted. Certainly it will be hard to explain “dozens” of documented requests.
But without somebody on the inside turning against their co-conspirators...prosecution is very unlikely.
They need to catch the LEAKER and turn the screws up the line.