Posted on 05/20/2020 7:22:42 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
People who actually played “by the book” don’t need to write last-day-on-the-job memos to self about how they played “by the book”
On Obama’s last day in office, January 20, 2017, National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote an email memo to herself regarding the investigation into Michael Flynn and a January 5, 2017, meeting attended by Obama, Biden, Rice, Sally Yates, and James Comey. The email was mostly public previously, though supposedly classified portions were redacted.
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell just declassified most of the rest of the memo.
That declassified portion provided, as to the January 5 meeting:
Director Corney affirmed that he is proceeding “by the book” as it relates to law enforcement. From a national security perspective, Camey said he does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak. Camey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information. President Obama asked if Comey was saying that the NSC should not pass sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn. Comey replied ”potentially.” He added that he has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that “the level of communication is unusual.”
The President asked Corney to in.form him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Corney said he would.
The significance of that portion is that it shows Flynn was doing nothing wrong. His conversations, as incoming National Security Advisor, were not illegal.
It also shows how granular Obama’s involvement was. Remember, Sally Yates said she was shocked to find out from Obama about the surveillance of Flynn:
“Yates had no idea what the president was talking about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act, but can’t recall if he specified there was an ‘investigation.’ Comey did not talk about prosecution in the meeting.”
It was not clear to Yates from where the President first received the information. Yates did not recall Comey’s response to the President’s question about how to treat Flynn. She was so surprised by the information she was hearing that she was having a hard time processing it and listening to the conversation at the same time.”
But what’s most important to me is what we’ve known for a while from the previously disclosed portions. Rice felt the need on her last day on the job to write a CYA memo that three times used the term “by the book.”
“President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.”
“Director Corney affirmed that he is proceeding “by the book” as it relates to law enforcement.”
Who writes such a memo (Rice) and who speaks those words (Obama, Comey)? If you are actually playing by the book, you don’t need to say you are playing by the book.
It’s a consciousness of guilt of people who may not have expected the Barr Inquisition (no one does), but who knew they were doing something untoward.
Maybe illegal, maybe not, but something on which the light of day would not reflect kindly. Hence, the memo to throw some shade.
It’s a consciousness of guilt.
Susan Rice will die trying to protect Obama. So will most of the Left. The effort of the Left and MSM to protect Obama will dwarf their effort to destroy Trump.
People cover their asses all the time and it’s not because of consciousness of guilt. It’s just CYA.
This letter is just more evidence that Obama/Rice were prepared to toss the FBI, Comey, etc under the buss if need be. There needs to be more “chatter” about that and let them start fighting amongst themselves. Sh*t needs to be stirred up.
“Susan Rice will die trying to protect Obama.“
I say we oblige her.
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Your spouse walks in the door and says “I didn’t do anything immoral today...”. They say it three times.
While they say the memo was declassified, and talk about Rice writing the memo to herself - everyone ignores the fact that she actually wrote it to someone else. At least one other direct recipient is named on the “To” line and/or the “Cc” line, both of which are still redacted by being blacked out. Also note that Curtis R. Ried was Cc’ed. Who is Ried? Why was he copied?
The other recipient(s) are critical, as one of them may have asked for the CYA memo in the first place. Likely Yates.
Not in this case...
You CYA when you are doing shady things. When you are straight up and honest and doing nothing wrong, that’s easy to prove.
Curtis Ried is listed on LinkedIn as a Foreign Service Officer at the Department of State. Only 2 connections on LinkedIn.
This was just never going to be seen unless she got caught. At which point, it would become her “extemporaneous notes” which would “prove” the did it by the book.
And, unlike Brett Kavanaugh with his calendars from forty years ago that proved his innocence, she would be allowed to use that for her “get out of jail free” card.
The lady doth protest too much.
How many emails did she write to herself in 8 years? Just this one on the way out the door? Bets anyone?
by WHOSE book?
No honest ‘professional’ would DO this … much less even think of it!
That SHE did this, is an open admission that she’s neither honest nor professional!
The lady had the hots for Barry.
If someone wanted to waste a bunch of time, they could search Obama’s speeches for the phrase “by the book”. I’ll bet he never used it publicly and this is just how the lying liar Susan Rice decided to put it in her CYA memo.
The whole premise of which is ridiculous, not only because it is self-serving but because if she wrote this to be used as evidence, she should have known the only reason it would ever be seen is if they whole story came out and by then we’d know they were listening to Gen. Flynn’s phone calls and already knew what he was saying to Kisliyak. Loss of logical reasoning power is a symptom of extreme stress and fear.
Perhaps.
Perhaps it's just fear of punishment.
Yep, she was protecting Obama knowing Cuomo was doing wrong. She knew Obama would be able to help her in the future and Comey would be useless for her ongoing career. SO she writes this to protect Obama and throw Comey under the bus, the bus they both were really under.
Yup...11:45AM (Eastern) on 1/20/17 Rice was setting up an alibi for herself and others.
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