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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We know exactly what they were doing. Nobody cares, certainly not the feckless GOP.
Is our side really this moronic?
All the culprits are still footloose and free. NO indictments but lots of talk,talk,talk.
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