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UPDATE: Susan Rice Confirms Her “Unmasking Requests” Were for President Obama
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | April 4, 2017 | Sundance

Posted on 04/04/2017 3:21:30 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

UPDATE: Susan Rice Confirms Her “Unmasking Requests” Were for President Obama’s Daily Briefing (PDB)…

With a general set of narrative ‘talking points’ in hand President Obama’s Former National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, appeared this morning on MSNBC for an interview with Andrea Mitchell. This is the ‘We-Have-To-Respond-phase‘, which necessitates the optic.

Andrea Mitchell is considered a trustworthy ally of the Clinton/Obama political networks; as such, it is not a surprise to see Mitchell selected as the interviewer. Mitchell’s use of wording carefully guides Susan Rice through the narrow path of self-incrimination by providing plausible deniability for verbal missteps.

You already know the routine. MSNBC is the favorable proprietary venue. Mitchell plays the role of media-legal-adviser, her client is Susan Rice. Live interviews are always the greatest risk (see: Evelyn Farkas) The full interview is below:

However, that said, there are some interesting aspects to the interview:

Susan Rice @00:51 – …”Let me explain how this works. I was a National Security Adviser, my job is to protect the American people and the security of our country. That’s the same as the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director.; and every morning, to enable us to do that, we receive – from the intelligence community – a compilation of intelligence reports that the IC, the intelligence community, has selected for us –on a daily basis– to give us the best information as to what’s going on around the world.”

[Note, Susan Rice is describing the PDB]

“I received those reports, as did other officials, and there were occasions when I would receive a report in which, uh, a ‘U.S Person’ was referred to. Name, uh, not provided, just ‘U.S. Person’.

And sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance in the report – and assess it’s significance, it was necessary to find out or request, who that U.S. official was.”

OK, so right there, in the very beginning of the forward narrative, Susan Rice is confirming the “unmasking” request(s) which can be pinned upon her, are directly related to her need to understand -on behalf of President Obama- intelligence for the President’s Daily Briefing (the PDB). This was a previous question now answered.

This is EXPLOSIVE, and here’s why.

Remember, the President’s Daily Brief under President Obama went to almost everyone at top levels in his administration. Regarding the Obama PDB:

[…] But while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who was dual-hatted as national security adviser and secretary of state.

In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers.

By 2013, Obama’s PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deepstate; deepstategate; nationalsecurity; obama; pdb; rice; sundance; trump; trumpwasright; wiretapping
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1 posted on 04/04/2017 3:21:30 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

This just confirms that Obama was indeed involved. He wanted a report and a compilation.


2 posted on 04/04/2017 3:24:19 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: COUNTrecount

yes. very good.

thanx for expanding


3 posted on 04/04/2017 3:25:18 PM PDT by thinden
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To: COUNTrecount

0bama was a dictator wannabe.


4 posted on 04/04/2017 3:25:26 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: COUNTrecount
By 2013, Obama’s PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments.

Hell, by last December it probably went to F Chuck Todd.

5 posted on 04/04/2017 3:26:46 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: COUNTrecount

If the trail leads to Obama, then it leads to the puppetmaster, Jarrett.


6 posted on 04/04/2017 3:27:45 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Funny, Obama rarely got his PDB. I believe this subject was discussed on FR. I am sure he got these because someone had to pass them on to Hillary. Fix the problem. indict them all.


7 posted on 04/04/2017 3:28:06 PM PDT by DrDude (To the Victor go the spoils! Kick A$$ Trump.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I wonder when and if Sessions will bring charges against her and Obama.


8 posted on 04/04/2017 3:28:46 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Now the question is, did it go to Hillary?


9 posted on 04/04/2017 3:28:54 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: COUNTrecount
Name, uh, not provided

The thing with these Obama people is that they're so lawyerly, everything they do is just inside the law, not necessarily within ethics, but the LSM will give them a pass on that and claim they did "nothing wrong". They know what they're doing and how to cover their tracks.

10 posted on 04/04/2017 3:29:34 PM PDT by scottinoc ("DC is too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged"-Anne Gorsuch)
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To: COBOL2Java

...and Hillary Clinton...


11 posted on 04/04/2017 3:29:45 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: DrDude

Excellent point. Hussein only wanted PDB a few times a year. Hillary was the logical recipient of the data. Lock her up!


12 posted on 04/04/2017 3:30:47 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish" Spurgeon)
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To: Parley Baer; dfwgator

[ This just confirms that Obama was indeed involved. ]

And a whole lotta other Obama admin folks.

Meanwhile in Illinois, I’ve heard they served a wicked pepper steak on Thursdays.


13 posted on 04/04/2017 3:33:05 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: scottinoc

A couple observations, if I remember what I’ve recently read here:

1) Unmasking is allowable only if the “US Person” appears to be involved in something extremely serious — like terrorism.
2) The “US Person” who turned out to be Donald Trump was NOT implicated in any way, at any time, in any sort of criminal behavior.

And yet this particular “US Person” showed up in the President’s Daily Briefing on a regular basis? And the references to this “US Person” were so gosh darn compelling that Susan Rice said: “I just HAVE to know who this person is — let’s unmask this one!”

No.

No it just doesn’t work that way.


14 posted on 04/04/2017 3:35:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Parley Baer

Very nice. Once again, Trump is right


15 posted on 04/04/2017 3:36:04 PM PDT by Lee25
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To: CincyRichieRich

I am hoping and praying this happens being sooner, not later.


16 posted on 04/04/2017 3:39:38 PM PDT by Blue Highway (Q)
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To: COUNTrecount

bttt


17 posted on 04/04/2017 3:39:44 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: COUNTrecount

So, she decided on her own or was directed by Obama to exposed anyone Trump talked to as they were recording calls and emails? But it wasn’t spying. LOL. This makes Nixon look innocent


18 posted on 04/04/2017 3:41:32 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: scottinoc

That’s why Donald Trump has the Tweet.


19 posted on 04/04/2017 3:41:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Why would she even need to ask for an unmasking if the activity seen was unmistakably Trump? What did that serve except to get her into deeper dutch?


20 posted on 04/04/2017 3:42:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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