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Devin Nunes on Obama officials' unmasking requests: 'What the hell were they doing?'
Fox News ^ | 5-14-2020 | Talia Kaplan

Posted on 05/14/2020 9:06:25 AM PDT by blam

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., asked on Wednesday “what the hell” Obama administration officials were doing after they purportedly requested to "unmask" the identity of former national security adviser Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period.

The House Intelligence Committee ranking member asked the question on “Fox News @Night” after a list of names from that controversial process was made public on Wednesday.

“It appears to me like what they were doing is a lot of them went wild after Trump won. They got poisoned with this Russia hoax,” Nunes said.

“That's why you had Obama ambassadors across the globe unmasking, all of them were just unmasking and then leaking out about anyone within the Trump campaign and the Trump transition team that they could and you had the media who were taking those leaks.”

The list was declassified in recent days by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and then sent to GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who made the documents public. The roster features top-ranking figures, including then-Vice President Joe Biden.

“When you look at intelligence product, it doesn't mean that it's fact and it's classified so the fact that they would be taking that information, unmasking whoever that was and leaking it to the press, it's a big problem,” Nunes said on Wednesday.

Host Shannon Bream asked Nunes to react to a Wall Street Journal editorial titled “The Flynn Unmaskers Unmasked.”

“The [White House Chief of Staff Denis] McDonough unmasking takes place on Jan. 5, 2017 -- the day of the Oval Office meeting at which Mr. Flynn was discussed,” the editorial board wrote. “Mr. Biden's unmasking request was made on Jan. 12, 2017 – the day The Washington Post reported on the Flynn - Russia conversation. Mr. Biden has some explaining to do.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; chuckgrassley; criminals; denismcdonough; devinnunes; fisa; flynn; gavinnewsom; nunes; obama; richardgrenell; rodrosenstein; ronjohnson; shannonbream
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1 posted on 05/14/2020 9:06:25 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

What the Hell.

Nunes is getting to the ultimate source.

Hell, satan, his demons, democrats.


2 posted on 05/14/2020 9:10:22 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: blam

Well, they did it either for a law enforcement purpose, a counterintelligence purpose, or some other purpose.

The first two are legitimate. Anything else isn’t.


3 posted on 05/14/2020 9:13:47 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: blam
Trump Calls On Graham To Demand Obama Testify Amid Unmasking Controversy: ‘Just Do It’P
4 posted on 05/14/2020 9:14:49 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

‘Our side’ really needs to get past the astonished phase.


5 posted on 05/14/2020 9:19:19 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: blam

They were doing the old Democrat Double Deceit.

You layer a small crime and lie on top of the big crime and lie to try and cover up the big crime and lie.

President Trump had already won the election.

All this unmasking couldn’t change that.

So throw that idea out the window.

The Democrats needed to unmask Flynn because they needed to go through him to listen in on President Trump.

Why?

Because they wanted to know how much he knew about Democrat leader crimes and what he was going to do about it.


6 posted on 05/14/2020 9:21:37 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SpaceBar

‘Our side’ really needs to get past the astonished phase.

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Agree. That is so 2017.

It seems the GOP really really wants all the focus on Democrats lest the Trump voting GOP base notice that the GOP knew of these crimes in 2017. And did nothing to stop the ongoing coup against a GOP POTUS. Now here we are 3 1/2 years later and the coupists are still operating freely.


7 posted on 05/14/2020 9:22:49 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

They all feign befuddlement to mire things down.


8 posted on 05/14/2020 9:25:12 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar
‘Our side’ really needs to get past the astonished phase.

Agreed. Righteous indignation is useless. The only thing that will save us is severe punishment of the perpetrators. We need to get on with holding these anti-American creeps accountable and be very vocal and transparent as to why. That includes a very hard look at the media providing cover for a pack of liars and frauds.

9 posted on 05/14/2020 9:26:32 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: blam

“Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., asked on Wednesday “what the hell” Obama administration officials were doing after they purportedly requested to “unmask” the identity of former national security adviser Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period.”

Election is OVER. All these Obama folks asking for unmasking!??? It stinks to high heaven.


10 posted on 05/14/2020 9:28:18 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: blam

The Dems will give Lindsay a bottle and a diaper change and put him back in his crib.


11 posted on 05/14/2020 9:30:25 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: blam

FISA is for terrorists and spies. Nothing else. Not meant for the Logan act or any criminal act. It might be allowable for counter drugs, but I am not so sure about that.


12 posted on 05/14/2020 9:37:18 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Is that a rhetorical question?

13 posted on 05/14/2020 9:39:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: blam

Treating anyone that might question their world view like a terrorist


14 posted on 05/14/2020 9:40:55 AM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: blam

It was a cya. With so many Obozo officials requesting the unmasking of General Flynn, it was likely a ploy to make it harder to pinpoint who leaked his name to the press. If they all deny it, chances are the leaker won’t be discovered.


15 posted on 05/14/2020 9:49:58 AM PDT by drypowder
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I have a bit of a different answer to what in the hell they were doing....

They were abusing a surveillance state system that was set up to prevent another 9/11. A system that many civil libertarians on both sides of the political spectrum accurately predicated would be abused for non-terror related purposes.

This is a violation of our 4th Amendment protections. There is obviously no oversight (its all classified) and clearly there is no process in place to prevent abuses or if there were somebody brushed it aside.

This must be ended. We have had three years of chaos in our country thanks to this system and the abuses. The “cure” is obviously worse than the problem.


16 posted on 05/14/2020 9:53:03 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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Devin Nunes, R-Calif, is perplexed by Obama officials' unmasking requests: 'What the hell were they doing?" he asks.

Nunes ought to consider they were selling whatever information they could get their hands on.
Obama's NSA, Susan Rice, and her successor Samantha Powers, US Amb to the UN, standout as the Daring Duo in the unmasking scheme.

Declassified Docs Show UN Amb Samantha Power's monstrous 300 Unmaskings
Were Related to Obama's surveillance of candidate Trump's 2016 campaign

pjmedia.com ^ | 5/24/2019 | Debra Heine / FR Posted by bitt Government documents that will soon be made public will reveal stunning information about former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power's voluminous unmasking efforts in 2016, according to multiple sources. On Thursday, President Trump gave Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify documents from multiple agencies related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016. According to investigative journalist Sara Carter on Fox News' Hannity, last night, some of the documents will reveal that FBI "informant" (spy) Stefan Halper recorded both George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, and there is exculpatory evidence on those tapes. In addition to that, according to Carter, one of the biggest revelations will pertain to Power's unmasking efforts.

As PJ Media reported in September of 2017, Power was unmasking people at a "freakishly rapid rate."

Power, Obama's hand-picked former U.S. ambassador moved at such a rapid pace that she ended up "averaging more than one request for every working day in 2016," multiple sources told Fox News at the time. And she continued to seek identifying information about Americans caught up in incidental surveillance right up to President Trump’s inauguration. "That's unheard of," Carter said. "Put it this way -- when John Bolton was the at the U.N., he unmasked three people. Three people. She unmasked close to 300. --SNIP--

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(HAT TIP PIASA--Update: JW Sues for Unmaskings That Targeted Trump Team | Feb 16, 2018 |
Quoting Tom Fitton: we were told by the NSC in May 2017 that the materials regarding the unmasking by Obama's National Security Advisor, Susan Rice (onetime UN Ambassador) of “the identities of any U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team” have been removed to the Obama Library."

17 posted on 05/14/2020 9:53:45 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Here are the guides regarding 702 activity (FISA):
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https://www.dni.gov/files/CLPT/documents/Guide_to_Posted_Documents.pdf
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“unmasking requests” are kept permanently. They are classified but can be released by the requester.


18 posted on 05/14/2020 10:10:57 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: blam

When Sidney Powell was interviewed today, she said a couple of times that there is something bigger / something more to all of this, but she can’t figure out what it is. I can’t hardly think what might be bigger or worse.


19 posted on 05/14/2020 10:13:03 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Nothing happens to a Christian that God does not allow to happen.)
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To: SpaceBar

They all feign befuddlement to mire things down.


Now you are over the target. Time wasting fake investigations that lead nowhere.


20 posted on 05/14/2020 10:42:15 AM PDT by lodi90
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