Posted on 04/05/2017 7:16:36 AM PDT by maggief
As part of its daily wrap of the Susan Rice newsflow, which focused on her first media appearance since she was "outed" as the persona responsible for "unmasking" members of team Trump, the WSJ provides two new pieces of incremental information: i) in addition to Michael Flynn, at least one more member of the Trump transition team was "unmasked" in intelligence reports due to multiple foreign conversations that weren't related to Russia; and ii) Rice wasn't the administration official who instigated Mr. Flynn’s unmasking, confirming there is at least one more high-level official giving "unmasking" orders.
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The WSJ then reports that Rice had requested the unmasking of at least one transition official — not Mr. Flynn — who was part of multiple foreign conversations that weren't related to Russia.
And the punchline: "The Republican official and others said Ms. Rice wasn't the administration official who instigated Mr. Flynn’s unmasking."
In other words, the story that Susan Rice is the unmasker is incomplete as there is at least one more person exposing the identities of people in Trump's circle, and that the NSA and other intel agencies have been surveiling, accidentally or otherwise, at least one, so far unnamed individual, from Trump's circle. It may well be someone that the WaPo and NYT have already published about, or it may be someone who has yet to hit the newswire, delivering the latest twist of the ongoing intelligence-fed news cycle.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
I’d like to place a red chip on Ben Rodes.
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“From Hannity’s show:
HANNITY: And welcome back to “Hannity.” So as we told you in the last two segments, according to Sara Carter and John Solomon’s reporting, Susan Rice, John Brennan and Loretta Lynch were cleared to, quote, “request and consume unmasked intelligence reports.” So will the mainstream media cover that bombshell?”
This is a no-brainer:
Rice was told by some partisan in the IC community that she really should authorize the unmasking.
Then at the direction of Val Jarret, Rice unmasked the names of Trump staff for political purposes.
Combine this with Obama allowing the sharing of raw intel among all 17 agencies, and you have a recipe for untraceable leaks.
Add this to the fact that those unmasked were the result of reverse targeting and you have a combination of Federal felonies which is unprecedented.
“reverse targeting” is done by using initially legal surveillance of foreign entities, and then identifying Americans at the other end of the line.
Subsequently, those Americans become primary and direct surveillance targets....for purely political reasons.
Hmmm, wonder who that other transition official was. Who would they be afraid of? Rudy? John Bolton?
No, you’re kidding! /s
Susan Rice and that dipshit Evelyn Farkas are ONLY the beginning, provided anyone in Congress and the DOJ (where are you Jeff Sessions?) have the stones to pull this thread to its ultimate conclusion and prosecute those responsible. As Sean Hannity pointed out yesterday, the opinion of Susan Rice - at least within DoD and the Intelligence Community - is that she wasn’t even marginally competent and is a flaming asshole.
Afraid of Jeff Sessions, perhaps?
http://www.newsmax.com/LarryKlayman/obama-unmaskings-leaks-susan-rice/2017/04/05/id/782633/
Obama Himself Likely Behind Unmaskings, Leaks
By Larry Klayman
Wednesday, 05 Apr 2017
Adding to this new Obama scandal are reports that once names of the Trump team were unmasked, they then were provided to former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, the official who allegedly lied under oath to Congress that the Obama administration was not conducting mass surveillance on the American people, and former Obama Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan, who also allegedly lied to Congress that his compromised agency had not illegally spied upon the staff of Senator Diane Feinstein, then the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Agency.
Clapper and Brennan are indeed, without any doubt, so-called “partners in crime.” There is no doubt that both Obama officials got their hands caught in the proverbial cookie jar in conducting illegal and unconstitutional surveillance on American citizens. Federal Judge Richard J. Leon ruled as much in two cases which I filed in 2013 and 2014 against Clapper, Brennan, and the intelligence agencies, not to mention Obama himself. The cases are captioned Klayman et. al v. Obama et. al. (See www.freedomwatchusa.org for more info.)
Couple this with the reports that the names unmasked by Susan Rice and likely others were also sent to Ben Rhodes, also a high Obama White House official, and one can only presume that the president himself was part of this apparent scheme to delegitimize, destroy, and in effect “abort the baby” of the incoming Trump administration before the fetus was even born on January 20, 2017. This wholesale effort to destroy Trump and all of his incoming men and women remains in “high gear,” thanks to the constant venomous and dishonest drumbeat of Obama accomplices at the Fake News operations known as CNN, MSNBC, NBC, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. This full court leftist press effort to conduct a “partial birth abortion” on the Trump presidency is unprecedented in the nation’s history.
Valerie Jarrett.
We need to be a little careful in how we toss around the term “Unmasking”.
Susan Rice cannot unmask anyone.
As I understand it, only the NSA, CIA and FBI can do so. What Susan Rice and others (I’m thinking Loretta Lynch) can do is request unmasking by these agencies. Those requests were made and honored. To make those request for national security reasons is legitimate. To do so for political reasons will, in an honest world, get you 10 years in a federal prison.
Can we have some Justice out Trump’s Justice Department please? A federal grand jury to investigate, prosecute & incarcerate Susan Rice would be the first step. This was a conspiracy to commit felonies....get to work, please.
The Farcus “WE” ?
I hope not but this so call “gotcha” on Rice will go nowhere. The communists liberal umbrella is so huge that don’t get hopes up. Republicans are known for getting nothing done. If it were not for President Trump we would get nowhere.
Not if you have a dirty cop like Comey running the FBI.
klayman has taken brennan & clapper to court for doing this before
I also place 3 red chips on Ben Rhodes. Fortunately he is male and white.
I hope it’s not a white male.
then the MSM\left will claim racism & sexism...
oh wait...nevermind
Loretta Lynch messenger girl for Obama?
Could it be?
Was Lynch given un-masked reports so hot they could only be transmitted person-to-person to Bill Clinton - in a safe (jet at obscure airport) setting?
Loretta Lynch messenger girl for Obama? Could it be? Was Lynch given un-masked reports so hot they could only be transmitted person-to-person to Bill Clinton - in a safe setting (jet at obscure airport)?
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Great catch, GOPJ. Here's a group who might know.
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