Posted on 04/03/2017 10:51:10 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Computer logs that former President Obama’s team left behind in the White House indicate his national security adviser Susan Rice accessed numerous intelligence reports during Obama’s last seven months in office that contained National Security Agency intercepts involving Donald Trump and his associates, Circa has learned.
Intelligence sources said the logs discovered by National Security Council staff suggested Rice’s interest in the NSA materials, some of which included unmasked Americans’ identities, appeared to begin last July around the time Trump secured the GOP nomination and accelerated after Trump’s election in November launched a transition that continued through January.
The intelligence reports included some intercepts of Americans talking to foreigners and many more involving foreign leaders talking about the future president, his campaign associates or his transition, the sources said. Most if not all had nothing to do with the Russian election interference scandal, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the materials.
Ordinarily, such references to Americans would be redacted or minimized by the NSA before being shared with outside intelligence sources, but in these cases names were sometimes unmasked at the request of Rice or the intelligence reports were specific enough that the American’s identity was easily ascertained, the sources said.
The exact national security justifications for Rice accessing the reports isn’t clear and may require additional documentation that the House and Senate intelligence committees have requested from the NSA, America’s lead agency in spying on foreign powers.
How the information was disseminated beyond Rice will also be a potential focus of congressional oversight, since lawmakers may want to know if it was briefed to Obama or shared with members of her larger circle of advisers, like deputy Ben Rhodes.
Rice has not returned repeated calls for comment from Circa. But in an interview with PBS recently, she said she had no idea what House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes was talking about when he said Obama officials were monitoring Trump associates after the election.
One intelligence professional with detailed knowledge of how the NSA and other intelligence agencies share information with the White House during transitions told Circa that U.S. intelligence reporting on foreign leaders’ perceptions of Trump spiked after his unexpected election win in November, creating a trove of information that could be accessed by the outgoing White House.
“There’s always intelligence reporting on an incoming president and how the world is reacting but this election was not like others, and that reporting spiked,” the source said. “Whether and how it was used by the Obama team will have to be evaluated separate of the fact that the reporting this time around was richer and more robust because of the circumstances of the election.”
Both the Republican chairman and Democratic vice chairman of the Housing Intelligence Committee have been shown the documents discovered by the NSC over the last 10 days.
Amazing that the MSM is ignoring this.
Susan Rice has always been a Class-A scumbag.
"At the time" (Nunes) "needed to go to the White House because the reports were only on a database for the executive branch. It now appears that he needed to view computer systems within the National Security Council that would include the logs of Rice's requests to unmask U.S. persons.
Not really.
Did you just get here?
uh-oh pinocchio...
Bloomberg is reporting this.
If she read the NSA stuff she knew the surveillance was happening so that makes her at the very least an accessory .
Affirmative ???
These two took their time.
They are ignoring it because the surveillance didn’t end with Trump and his associates. The surveillance was conducted against ALL of the GOP candidates but continued with Trump once he secured the nomination.
We know it's you @AmbassadorRice. Bloomberg and NY Times both sat on the story to protect Obama. Have a nice time before Congress. https://t.co/8vx9SqYffK— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) April 2, 2017
Mike was way ahead.
It’s a felony to know about a felony and not report it. Misprison is the legal term. George Washington put it into law in one of his first acts as President.
Intelligence “consumed” ... and disseminated.
Peeking was oK, given her position, but that’s not why she did it.
Obviously none of this will be mentioned by the media. It’s 100% in bed with the dem party.
Below is Cernovich’s data on this criminal act by Rice:
Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials
Susan Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming Trump officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.
The White House Counsel’s office identified Rice as the person responsible for the unmasking after examining Rice’s document log requests. The reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled conditions. Each person must log her name before being granted access to them.
Upon learning of Rice’s actions, H. R. McMaster dispatched his close aide Derek Harvey to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman Nunes.
“Unmasking” is the process of identifying individuals whose communications were caught in the dragnet of intelligence gathering. While conducting investigations into terrorism and other related crimes, intelligence analysts incidentally capture conversations about parties not subject to the search warrant. The identities of individuals who are not under investigation are kept confidential, for legal and moral reasons.
Excerpted: Go to link for full story on Obama’s Hit Woman, Susan Rice in this criminal act.
I think your analysis must be correct: Obama WH surveilled whomever in the GOP they could. Just so happened that Trump was the victor. I have a feeling we would hear the same meme re: Russia if another GOP nominee had won (altho FAT CHANCE)
Were they already unmasked when Rice saw these? If so, then who got them unmasked?
She is nothing more than Barry's PR sacrificial lamb obedient puppy dog. Remember all her news shows interviews with that false meme of the video causing the embassy attack in Benghazi? Cut from the same mold as Loretta Lynne. Easily controlled hacks for Barry-- female and minority so hands off-- so they thought.
If Trump/Congress/US AG Sessions wanted to effectively nail Obama Inc to spying on his political opponents they need to widen the investigation to see whether the other GOP candidates and their associates were being surveilled under the ruse of national security. I am sure this evidence exists because no one thought that Trump would win the nomination. And after he won the general election the unmasking and leaking began...
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