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Posted on 04/10/2018 6:33:26 PM PDT by ethom
An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow and his senior counsel Carly Gammill appeared in a Washington D.C. federal court last week to find out when they will be receiving documents related to the Obama unmasking scandal. The ACLJ (American Center For Law and Justice) filed a FOIA lawsuit last summer and they are just now beginning to receive documents.
Sekulow revealed the first batch of unmasking documents on his radio show Jay Live on Tuesday.
The ACLJ received heavily redacted emails from former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power that show unprecedented unmasking and political bias in the final days of the Obama administration.
According to the ACLJ, the new documents show Samantha Power, who made over 260 unmasking requests to spy on the incoming administration was also colluding with the mainstream media, blatantly insulting President-elect Trump and actively sought ways to undermine the incoming administration.
Another important thing to remember is the Obama administration also changed the way intelligence is shared throughout the various agencies. Instead of only a few agencies sharing intel, Obama’s evil administration, at the last minute expanded it to all 16 intel agencies which of course increases the chances of leaks to the media.
Via the ACLJ:
The evidence we obtained shows email chains to and between Power and her Counselor, Nikolaus Steinberg, just three days after the election in which Power actively discusses an “idea to seek maximum amplif[ication]” of her politically biased messaging. Steinberg first raised the idea of “a useful (and somewhat cathartic) vessel to Channel some post-Trump messages about who we are.” Minutes later Power responds, “Need to move out on 60 mins idea to seek maximum amplif. [sic] I can write Charlie or bill Owens if he’s still there.”
After a brief discussion ensued over who would reach out, later that evening, Steinberg sent Power a “Draft pitch email” for her to send to 60 Minutes, yet that draft is completely redacted. Subsequently, he suggested doing the pitch to 60 Minutes or CBS Sunday Morning on the issue of refugees, stating, “with the hook being the foreshadowing that Trump and company may try to undo all of this.” Minutes later, Power sent an email to Bill Owens, the Executive Editor of 60 Minutes: “We’re still reeling here, as you might imagine. . . . Not withstanding this, Tuesday’s results have given us an even greater sense of urgency to get our work done in our last few months. 70 good long days left!”
In one of the more disturbing emails, on December 14th, Steinberg replies to an email Power sent under the subject line “tom friedman today – see last para quote by larry diamond” (this email appears from the production to contain no other information). However, Steinberg’s reply to Power contains a December 9th article from The Atlantic by Larry Diamond entitled, “Russia and the Threat to Liberal Democracy,” which furthers a narrative questioning the legitimacy of the election.
His commentary with the article simply states, “Indeed. Saw it and read Diamond’s piece Monday when doing some research. It’s a solid piece. Pasted it below and will have it added to your book.” This occurred during the height of Power’s “unmasking” and calls into question what “research” and “book” he was putting together for her.
Four days later, on December 18th, Power replied to an interview request from Univision reporter Jorge Ramos – who had been repeatedly and publically critical of the incoming President – with an underhanded snub: “If we do something, we will make it good. Ptsd in retreat – Trump has vanquished it. Let’s see!”
Enter Russia, with just days to go before then-President elect Donald Trump’s inauguration:
Finally, and maybe most significantly, the day she delivered that speech – again just three days before the inauguration – an email chain under the subject line, “Russia speech 1am version,” between Power, Rice, Rhodes, and others is almost completely redacted. The flurry of email activity occurs between 1:25 a.m. and 1:45 a.m., and demonstrates that the three key players in the unprecedented “unmasking” were literally working around the clock in the final days of the Obama Administration.
Then, just hours later, after the speech, in an email chain under the subject line, “Russia,” between Halie Soifer (Power’s Policy Advisor), Steinberg, and Power sent her “as delivered” remarks to two USUN listserves. However, each of the subsequent replies, including two from Power herself, are completely redacted.
Further, and of critical importance, is that nothing in the unredacted portion of either email chain that day is responsive to our FOIA request. That means, that something in those redacted email chains – sent just 3 days before the presidential inauguration – is responsive to our FOIA request.
What is the Deep State hiding?
The unmaskings were done at the same time FISA warrants were being granted to illegally spy on Trump’s camp.. Illegal leaks to the media about Trump’s transition team plagued key players like Sessions and General Flynn.
The pieces of the puzzle are coming together.
Jay Sekulow stated he will be aggressively challenging the redactions because the American people deserve to know the truth.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Enabling, parent companies: Disney, Comcast.
this calls for trials and unboiled rope....
But Trump thinking about firing a subordinate is a “Constitutional Crisis”
One thing (of many) that has never made sense to me is this:
Samantha Power was the US Ambassador to the UN. How was she authorized to “unmask” anyone? I didn’t know Ambassadors had this authority.
Someone! Anyone! Charge someone with a crime. this will never stop unless people are prosecuted. sessions will not do it. He has already said so. Get rid of The Slug(Sessions).
Every week there is a new stunning revelation, meanwhile Sessions naps.
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SEDITION.
Deep State bump for later....
Bring in someone with the cajones to get answers and prosecute these crimes!
Two rules of law:
President Obama could do anything with impunity.
President Trump cannot do anything without punity.
The Larry Diamond guy was involved in an ACLU case about FISA and NSA eavesdropping some years ago.
If I recall correctly Samantha Power claimed she didn’t do any unmasking and someone else must have used her name to unmask.
The ACLJ received heavily redacted emails from former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power that show unprecedented unmasking and political bias in the final days of the Obama administration.
The new documents show Samantha Power, who made over 260 unmasking requests to spy on the incoming administration was also colluding with the mainstream media, blatantly insulting President-elect Trump and actively sought ways to undermine the incoming administration.
Thanks ethom.
The President can demand all of this to be delivered to him unredacted,if I were him I would.
Obama and his rat party turned the entire executive branch into a criminal enterprise.
Meanwhile, Obama’s leftovers at the DOJ are turning friendship or business relationships with DJT into a felony.
I haven’t noticed any freepers recently expressing the mistaken belief that we still have a republic.
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