So someone else in the Obama Whitehouse also was unmasking Trump campaign and transition officials. Who?
Exactly. Rice admitted that she unmasked Trump campaign staffers but Mike Flynn wasn’t one of them. So this means that she is guilty of unmasking other people and somebody else unmasked Flynn. Keep talking, Susie.
am i reading this right ?
if it’s masked, how did they know it was Flynn before it was unmasked ?
or did they find out after the unmask ?
Jeh Johnson?
Did ValJar have a high security clearance? /rhet
She’s a real sweetheart....
It was all a conspiracy from the beginning..Obama and his cronies needed leverage just in case Trump became President..they were NOT going to allow this man to come in and wipe away their Commie agenda, he needed that to be stopped in anyway possible
Andrew McCarthy had a good piece on this...
“Consequently, if unmasking was relevant to the Russia investigation, it would have been done by those three agencies. And if it had been critical to know the identities of Americans caught up in other foreign intelligence efforts, the agencies that collect the information and conduct investigations would have unmasked it. Because they are the agencies that collect and refine intelligence “products” for the rest of the “intelligence community,” they are responsible for any unmasking; and they do it under “minimization” standards that FBI Director James Comey, in recent congressional testimony, described as “obsessive” in their determination to protect the identities and privacy of Americans.
Understand: There would have been no intelligence need for Susan Rice to ask for identities to be unmasked. If there had been a real need to reveal the identities — an intelligence need based on American interests — the unmasking would have been done by the investigating agencies.”
Of course
Right now, the speculation is centered on the Trump Team being the ones surveyed because Trump won the election.
It also seems that the surveillance of Team Trump was going on not long after Trump announced his candidacy and started rising in the polls.
As the tapestry continues to unravel, it is probable that all of the Republican candidates who showed any indication of possibly winning the nomination were also under surveillance.
This could be just the tip of the iceberg. Recall Maxine Waters claim of Obama having a HUGE database on EVERYONE.
Melanie Zimmerman and Adam Howsley both are also reporting that- it looks like rice is going to skate- Melanie claims the requests to unmask came from an intelligence agency- rice just acquiesced- Rice was a ‘consumer of intelligence’ and not the branch of intelligence itself- She couldn’t make the request herself apparently- but technically, she could’ legally’ request unmasking, and then the intelligence agency would comply and reveal the name- but it had to ‘go through proper channels first’ (ie the intelligence agency had to make a claim that it was necessary for the unmasking to happen- then the ambassador would make the formal request to unmask, then the agency would then unmask the people)
What Melanie and Adam are finding is not certain yet- but their sources- who i think are inside the agencies from the sounds of it, revealed that this was the procedure- We;ll see in the next few days how this plays out- but it looks like rice may not face any criminal charges even if it were a crime to unmask- There doesn’t appear to be any federal law that prevents unmasking- it may be unethical, but no real law prevents it apparently- Except —MAYBE— espionage laws- but that is a very thin line of prosecution that would have to prove intent- and as we’ve seen the FBI is loathe to convict a liberal on the basis of intent
odumbi gonna be unmasking bubba in prison?
Like all crimminal conspiracies, this one was planned and carried out by multiple parties with a crimminal intent. Each one of the acts taken in isolation can be argued to be nothing more than carelessness or poor judgement, and this is by design to give all the parties involved, plausable deniability. That`s why it`s important to point out the bigger picture, and the coordination between all parties. That`s where the true crimminality is revealed.
Susan Rice had her role to play, but ask yourself why she was even viewing masked transcripts involving the Trump team in the first place, when according to Nunes, the conversations themselves involveded nothing crimminal and didn`t involve Russia?
The answer seems to be that foreigners were specifically targeted for surveilence, not based on any legitimate crimminal suspicion of them, but based on their known contacts with members of the Trump team. Undoubtedly some weak justification was given for surveiling them, but the purpose was to spy on the members of the Trump team, with whom they were known to communicate.
Susan Rice must have been given the names of the foreigners who were being surveiled for this purpose or else, why would she even bother to ask that their U.S. contacts be unmasked when, according to Nunes the conversations themselves were not crimminal in nature?
Her job was to provide the justification, however tenuous, for unmasking these U.S. citizens who `coincidentaly` just happend to be Trump associates. This was a coordinated effort and could not have succeded otherwise.
O Holy Be Bama. Touchéth not a hair on his head. He is the presence of purity and cannot be doubted.
BUMP
Valerie Jarrett
this is just more proof that they had no idea that he would win..
The real question is, Will the pubbies do any damned thing about this?
Probably not much. No cajone’s.
Gots to go along to get along cause they ALL be making money.
I suspect that this practice of doing whatever you want because you’re so arrogant and confident that you don’t imagine you’ll ever have to answer. This likely prevailed at the White House - The Culture of Corruption. They think nothing of it, plus they have the “press” to tamp down any objection.
If anyone thinks that Obama, ValJar and Hitlery weren’t right in there, they’re naive and blind.
Previously, Rice always reported directly to 0bama and Hillary before taking any action ...
Flashback: Susan Rice Explains Role In WH Decision-Making ‘People Know Not To Mess With Me’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3541166/posts?page=1
Prediction: Susan Rice will be found dead - it will be a “suicide.”
They lie about everything else. There may not be a record of anything; it could have disappeared or they may have not done the required paperwork in the first place.