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Bob Woodward: Obama officials possibly facing criminal charges for unmasking scheme
Washington Examiner ^ | 3/22/17 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 03/23/2017 1:46:06 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

The Washington Post's Bob Woodward warned on Wednesday that there are people from the Obama administration who could be facing criminal charges for unmasking the names of Trump transition team members from surveillance of foreign officials.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said earlier that he had briefed Trump on new information, unrelated to an investigation into Russian activities, that suggested that several members of Trump's transition team and perhaps Trump himself had their identities "unmasked" after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials.

The revelation is notable because identities of Americans are generally supposed to remain "masked" if American communications are swept up during surveillance of foreign individuals. During an interview on Fox News, Woodward said that if that information about the unmasking is true, "it is a gross violation."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; comey; districtofcolumbia; felonies; obama; survellience; trumptowergate; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: ckilmer

Exactamundo!


21 posted on 03/23/2017 2:22:40 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: Rashputin

Makes sense...and I so hope you are right!


22 posted on 03/23/2017 2:23:44 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: utahagen

You’re right.


23 posted on 03/23/2017 2:25:35 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

“...could be facing criminal charges...”

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...

Same old, same old.
NOTHING ever changes.
NOTHING ever happens.

STFU and don’t bother me until somebody’s actually imprisoned for it.

THEN maybe I’ll find a f*k I can give.


24 posted on 03/23/2017 2:34:27 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: ckilmer

Worst part?
Watergate is already pale in comparison. They have only scratched the tip of the iceberg.
The depth and breadth of the treasonous contempt for America is starting to be exposed.
And yes, it was / is global and Obama had 8 years to plant his seeds. With that entrenchment is why all the abbey-normal resistance to Trump

The unravelling? It’s JUST started.


25 posted on 03/23/2017 2:41:06 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: HKMk23

Trump must replace Comey, so that your wish can be granted....

Sooner or later, the Republicans are going to have to do their job of enforcing the law....


26 posted on 03/23/2017 2:42:38 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (career libs @ BIG BROTHER Inc.,..... President Trump says your FIRED!)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Cool, now we can look forward to another Republican dog & pony show where all the members will get the to grill Comey and talk tough then slowly change to “Closed hearings”, where it will disappear into oblivion. At least they all will have material for campaign commercials.


27 posted on 03/23/2017 2:42:53 PM PDT by heights
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To: ckilmer

Exactly!


28 posted on 03/23/2017 3:01:02 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Do you know how much time he actually served? I know that the judge ordered him to serve 30 months, and he was supposed to start serving "immediately." But I can't find that he actually reported to a prison before President Bush commuted the part about serving time.

Now if any one should get a full pardon it should be Dinesh D'Souza!

29 posted on 03/23/2017 3:08:07 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: montag813

This IS bigger than Watergate. Prosecute!


30 posted on 03/23/2017 3:55:57 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ckilmer

Exactly. For once I’d like to hear someone who is credible to the libs say that something is worse than Watergate. Who better to say that than Bob Woodward? He may NOT say it, but if he did, our nightmare of Nixon and Watergate being the baseline for all things evil would be OVER!

The smallest crime the Clintons ever did is worse than Watergate.


31 posted on 03/23/2017 4:04:46 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." A. Einstein)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Comey is going down. That’s my take. This all goes back to him.


32 posted on 03/23/2017 4:32:07 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: Thane_Banquo

“Comey is going down.... This all goes back to him.”

Indict Comey & just maybe he will turn State’s Evidence => Lynch=>Jezebel Clinton & O’commie himself......


33 posted on 03/23/2017 5:02:05 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (career libs @ BIG BROTHER Inc.,..... President Trump says your FIRED!)
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To: laplata

Woodward nearly tipped over trying to toss that tiny bone to O’Really.

“A gross violation”. Harrumph.

Bob’s bread and butter comes from his BFF’s, on the Left.


34 posted on 03/23/2017 5:42:56 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

I saw that and you’re right.


35 posted on 03/23/2017 6:04:51 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: RitaOK

The media is so busy with spin they are missing the most important fact that does not seem to be in dispute. No matter the legality of the eavesdropping there WAS NO LEGAL RIGHT TO UNMASK THE AMERICAN CITIZEN OR DISSEMINATE TRANSCRIPTS WHICH WERE SUBSEQUENTLY LEAKED. There are two crimes that occurred in that sentence AND there is a very questionable change of the rules by Obama that contributed to the second crime in the sentence.

This is disgusting and there is no way to sugarcoat it. One of the liberal heads on Fox today said today that the persons listened to were talking to “nefarious Russian actors” after Nunes clearly said the transcripts he read HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA! Nobody called him on it - lies, lies, and more lies on the supposedly fair and balanced Fox news.

There only one way for Trump to get the truth out. Call a press conference and lay it out point by point and tell the American people to decide for themselves. In that press conference have prepared video of the media punditry lying and continuing to lie. Make the overwhelming case himself because nobody (including Fox - minus a couple of personalities) will make the case for him. Fox waters down the truth by their compulsion to have the rat talking points represented in almost every segment - even when they are shown to not be true.


36 posted on 03/24/2017 9:17:28 AM PDT by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Unmasking ala the Valerie Plame affair


37 posted on 03/24/2017 1:25:10 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Thane_Banquo

I agree. If you want to do some alternative research, Google his name and Howdy Doody. I imagine he will be suicided if he shows a breaking point.


38 posted on 03/24/2017 5:49:39 PM PDT by Freemarissa
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To: Freemarissa; Thane_Banquo
I agree. If you want to do some alternative research, Google his name and Howdy Doody. I imagine he will be suicided if he shows a breaking point.

You might want to add the name of Vitaly I. Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations to that research name list.

39 posted on 03/25/2017 2:12:10 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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