The scale to which Obama’s team spied on his successor should be focus of ‘unmasking’

NY Post ^ | May 13 2020 | Lee Smith

[knighthawk]

The presumptive Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden heads a list of more than a dozen Obama officials who spied on Donald Trump’s ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn.

Others senior officials include Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and UN ambassador Samantha Power.

A list declassified Tuesday by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grennel shows that Biden and others asked to have Flynn’s name “unmasked” in transcripts of US intelligence intercepts of foreign officials. The names of US persons or entities incidentally collected by such intercepts are minimized to protect the privacy rights of Americans. Unmasking identities is not in itself not illegal, nor even necessarily improper. Occasionally US policymakers will ask to unmask a US person to better understand the nature of the intelligence before them. Obama officials, however, gorged themselves like children at a candy store.

[reg45]

What did he know? Everything.
When did he know it? From the beginning.

[pepsionice]

I’d like to see the unmasking list from day one of the Administration. There are probably 10,000 violations of ethics to be found.

[FreedBird]

Obama and Biden had their dirty hands in numerous shenanigans.
If Trump is re-elected, he will expose more of the swamp.