On January 13th, 2017, right before Trump took Office, Obama issued an executive order saying ALL 17 US security agencies could have total access to each other. In other words, they were free to engage in collusion……….and that’s exactly what they did…..long before Obama’s E/O.
Pres Obama’s maneuver of January 3, 2017-——his signing of NSA Data-Sharing Order
Section 2.3 out of AG Lynch’s office ——is the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State.
Obama’s original ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language
WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333.”
NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude HAD ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially WRT the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.
But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, ALL THAT INFORMATION
WAS ALREADY in the possession of Obama White House.
Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive actions…..until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.
When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.
After-the-fact memos are rarely a good idea….they reveal things the author never intended——
as did Susan Rice in her now-infamous email to herself on Trump’s inauguration day.
Suzan skipped down the Yellowbrick Road, along with the mental midgets of the Obama Administration.
Obama’s FBI, DOJ, ODNI, CIA and intelligence officials flipped a finger at protocol….and even worse ….they were intentionally dishonest with incoming President Trump and key members of his new administration.
Obviously their lack of honesty was a serious issue…….but flipping off established protocol had serious ramifications.
Rice’s was a “justification memo”……outgoing National Security Advisor Susan Rice (to be replaced by
Gen Lynch) needed to explain why there have been multiple false and misleading statements given to the incoming President Trump and all of his officials.
This is not a “CYA” memo, this is a justification memo for use AFTER the Trump-Russia collusion/conspiracy narrative collapsed; if the Pelosi-managed impeachment effort failed.
Rice’s intellectually facile “By-The-Book” reference refers to she and then-President Obama being told by CIA Director John Brennan, FBI’s Comey, DNI’s James Clapper, and Deputy AG Sally Yates, that President Trump was the subject of an active counter-intelligence investigation to determine if he was under the influence of the Russian government.
Remember Trump was NEVER given a “defensive briefing” required when foreign actors are suspected
of trying to subvert a US election.
Even the timing of Rice’s Oz-ish memo, written 15 minutes prior to the end of the Obama administration, is ex-post-facto useful as evidence of the author’s intent…….as Susan stupidly confesses to a host of crimes.
KEY POINTS:
What is crucial about Susan Rice and her need to write that last memo is her attempt to craft a record of a ‘COUNTER-INTEL’ operation that was ongoing and that Obama had instructed that everything be done ‘by the book’.
What is unspoken is that during a counter-intel investigation, it is permissible to lie, or in official terms ‘to disseminate disinformation’.
As long as the Obama spying was characterized as a counter-intel operation, it was legal to have words and actions left in place that might be discovered as untrue.
In other words, Rice’s final memo was an attempt to carve out a last minute get-out-of-jail pass for all those involved in the spying.
Heck, Congressional hearings might uncover false and perjured statements on the part of persons in the spy operation to which the response would be “So what? It was a Counter-Intel operation.”
This is why it was IMPERATIVE for Barr and Durham to investigate the ORIGINS because if the origins revealed no predicate, no basis, no genuine probable cause for launching a counter-intel operation, then Rice’s feeble stay-out-of-jail memo would fall apart. (h/t john solomon)
It is worth remembering that in AG Barr’s recent comments on this, he used the word “counter-intelligence.”
Nice
At the top of your post shouldn’t the 13th be the 3rd?
Actually, Rice’s memo was written 15 minutes after Obama’s term ended and Donald Trump’s term began. What she was doing in the White House at that time is a mystery. Of course if the Obama people had a normal sense of decency or courtesy they would all have been at the inauguration of the new President. But of course they had all spent months trying to use the resources of the federal government to prevent his election.