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The Bolton Unmasking Files
wsj.com ^ | April 30, 2017

Posted on 04/30/2017 9:57:32 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Democrats and their press allies are going all in to squelch the Susan Rice “unmasking” story, insisting that the decision by Barack Obama’s national security adviser to seek the name of at least one Trump campaign official was routine and no big deal. Tell that to former Bush Administration official John Bolton, whom Democrats pilloried for doing the same with far more justification.

Democrats argued (with no evidence) that Mr. Bolton’s requests were politically motivated and the Los Angeles Times questioned whether Mr. Bolton had requested the names to “intimidate intelligence analysts.” A Times editorial called on Mr. Bolton to “step aside,” noting Mr. Dodd was “rightly inquiring about Bolton’s unusual request to look at [NSA] intercepts and why he asked for the identities of analysts. Why indeed?”

Compare all this to the Rice episode. Ms. Rice had no direct intelligence duties in her NSC post, and no Democrat has provided a valid reason that Ms. Rice might have needed to unmask anyone associated with the Trump presidential campaign. Twelve years on, not one of the 10 individuals unmasked by Mr. Bolton has had his or her identity leaked. By contrast, the Washington Post reports that no fewer than nine Obama appointees or career officials leaked or confirmed the identity and conversations of unmasked former Trump adviser Michael Flynn.

If John Bolton’s unmasking was questionable, then Mrs. Rice’s was more so. The House and Senate Intelligence committees should investigate what she did and why.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolton; obama; rice; spying; trumpwiretaps; unmasking

1 posted on 04/30/2017 9:57:32 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta
Rice did not have the authority of an investigator, that's the FBI’s job. So even if the false allegation was true against Trump, Rice had no business spying ( unmasking is such a stupid diversion term) on the opposition party.
2 posted on 04/30/2017 10:03:45 PM PDT by seastay
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To: Helicondelta

Bolton was at most UN ambassador, Rice was Nat. Security director, presumably a higher grade than her failed gig at UN.

Apples and oranges???


3 posted on 04/30/2017 10:43:48 PM PDT by Noob1999 (For)
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Bolton wasn’t U.N. ambassador at the time.(He worked at State)
In fact, the RATs tried to use that to stop Bolton’s appointment as U.N. ambassador.
Bolton ended up being a recess appointment of which he resigned after the end of the recess appointment.


4 posted on 04/30/2017 10:59:47 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Helicondelta

Since I can’t read the whole WJS article, can anyone summarize why Bolton was attacked in the first place?

This “unmasking” issue is full of crap as Sen. Ted Kennedy tried to stop the adoption of the “Intelligence Agents indentities Act” which would have made it a crime to expose active Us intelligence operatives. Kennedy lost in his efforts but no one seemed to care that he was Deliberately weakening a law that would protect them and send their exposers to jail for a long time (i.e. Philip Agee and his crowd, including Newsweek or Time magazine writer Mark Hosenball who was thrown out of England as a security threat.)

Sen. Church almost exposed the US agent in Operation Solo, Morris Childs, a former Communist turned US govt operative for the FBI, inside the Kremlin. Only a last minute plea from some high ranking intell people, and possible from Pres Ford or Carter, stopped Church from this act of treason.

Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass) and his Marxist sidekick Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass) both tried to release classified information from the House Internal Security Committee files, with Drinan receiving a reprimand and Harrington literally being denied access to any govt files (He was also a mental case, as was Drinan, an early Liberation Theology Jesuit turncoat).

No one knows how many secrets Comrade Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) ahs given the CPUSA and/or the Soviets over 5 decades or more of treasonous acts. The same for Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY) and other known or suspected members of the Communist Party USA in Congress, including Sen. Alan Cranston (D—Cal), the Burton brothers (D-Ca), Ron Dellums (D-CA) who was giving some classified materials to the Marxist dictator of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, who just happened to be boinking Dellum’s aide Carliotta Scott (found in captured Grenada Marxist archives), etc.

The same goes for Hillary Clinton because of her communist contacts over the years and esp. for Obama whose top friends and advisors were CPUSA members, some of whom turned Democratic Socialist of America members, and other assorted reds (Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill, associated with the CPUSA, Bill Ayers and wife, Weathermen, etc.

And this is only the tip of the story.


5 posted on 05/01/2017 12:32:15 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Susan Rice and Nancy Pelosi are vying for the Blue Ribbon in lying....both are jaw dropping liars...they say the most outrageous things they can’t back up or have any basis for. Nancy’s insane hand waving delivery and unbelievable pronouncements, are mind boggling. Rice is the lap puppet for far left lies, she just parrots the disinformation fed to her.


6 posted on 05/01/2017 2:13:32 AM PDT by yoe
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FACTS ON FILE-Seeking to retain his position as CIA director under putative president Hillary, Brennan used foreign phony intelligence as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into Trump.....that led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to Trump Tower and gave cover to Susan Rice's sifting operations....

Not only Brennan.... "Susan The Sifter" had a dog in this hunt......Hillary tapped her for Secy of State. Mighty powerful incentives for anti-Trump political shenanigans.

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Thankfully, Susan's so stupid, her public explanations of her activities set her up for a precipitous fall.

Questions for Rice:

1. When did you request the unmasking, and from which agency?

2. Who in that agency actually did the unmasking? Please provide the written requests you submitted.

3. Once the names were unmasked, did you still believe there was a threat to national security from the named US persons?

4. If so, with whom did you share the information, and what actions were taken to protect America and American citizens?

5. If you did not, then you should not have shared the names with anyone else, so how did the names become known?

6. Why was any of the info detailed here deliberately withheld on the FISA application? (it's a felony to willfully withhold information when applying for a FISA).

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<><> If the information found in the ‘incidental’ involvement of any US Person was threatening US Security, and America citizens' safety, why did US security agencies wait for Rice’s request to unmask?

<><> Did Obama issue a secret stand down order?

<><> Why did Rice on PBS initially deny responsibility for the unmasking?

<><> Why was this threat not unveiled at the time or since? Why now?

Alarmingly, the supposed ‘threat’ was about to be inaugurated as President of the US.

Shouldn’t Congress have been notified?

The NSA didn’t unmask the information initially, plus later investigations found NO collusion between Russia and Trump.

Seems to be proof-positive that whatever suspicions Obama/Rice/Brennan may have had to justify the unmasking were absolutely wrong, or more likely non-existent.

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Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

Contact your Representative and Senators---demand these questions be asked.

7 posted on 05/01/2017 4:01:00 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech is a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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FR POSTED ——2008 DOJ rules limit supplying politically sensitive information to the White House, a review of guidelines for domestic FBI intel investigations has found. The central focus of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence probe into putative Russian election meddling as a cover to disseminate unauthorized disclosures of sensitive US intel communications intercepts.

The prohibitions may explain why the FBI still has not responded to a House request for documents about how the White House was able to “unmask” the names of Americans incidentally spied on during an apparently contrived Obama admin “foreign electronic intelligence operation” timed to run during the Trump transition team commenced its operations.

The House committee investigation centers on Susan E. Rice, then-Pres Obama’s national security adviser, and her involvement in clandestine political spying operations using foreign surveillance as her cover. She is the committee’s central witness to explain the unmasking and wide dissemination of what committee chair, Rep. Devin Nunes, has called “improper electronic surveillance of Trump transition team officials.” (EMPHASIS ADDED)


8 posted on 05/01/2017 4:06:06 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech is a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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Here’s the latest on Rice:

As of March 2017, Rice has begun a job as a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow in the “American University’s School of International Service.”.... During her residency at AU, Rice will work primarily on her next book and mentor SIS students on careers in national security. (I guess she's gonna teach them to CYA at all times by lying.)

The school defines her position with Obama thusly: ”She provided the President with daily national security briefings and was ‘responsible for’ coordinating the formulation and implementation of ‘all aspects’ of the Administration’s foreign and national security policy, intelligence, and military efforts.

American University’s School of International Service
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
Phone: 202-885-1000

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CONTACT CONGRESS: Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

Contact President Trump's web site. www.greatagain.gov

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TALKING POINTS--Any and all federal tax dollars allocated to this school must be terminated immediately.

9 posted on 05/01/2017 4:08:42 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech is a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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