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Bob Woodward: Obama officials possibly facing criminal charges for unmasking scheme
Washington Examiner ^ | 3/22/17 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 03/23/2017 1:46:06 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

The Washington Post's Bob Woodward warned on Wednesday that there are people from the Obama administration who could be facing criminal charges for unmasking the names of Trump transition team members from surveillance of foreign officials.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said earlier that he had briefed Trump on new information, unrelated to an investigation into Russian activities, that suggested that several members of Trump's transition team and perhaps Trump himself had their identities "unmasked" after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials.

The revelation is notable because identities of Americans are generally supposed to remain "masked" if American communications are swept up during surveillance of foreign individuals. During an interview on Fox News, Woodward said that if that information about the unmasking is true, "it is a gross violation."

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; comey; districtofcolumbia; felonies; obama; survellience; trumptowergate; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Obama's illegal ploy to use the intelligence agencies of the United States to undermine the Constitutionally granted elective right of the people to legally elect Donald Trump is coming unraveled.
1 posted on 03/23/2017 1:46:06 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch; Admin Moderator
BAD LINK! Here is the working one.
2 posted on 03/23/2017 1:53:03 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Woodward is a sorry POS and what he says here doesn’t chance that fact..


3 posted on 03/23/2017 1:53:30 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Think of the con if Hillary was elected. The world would have been his oyster from all the blackmail material he would be holding.


4 posted on 03/23/2017 1:53:45 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Woodward’s just now figured this out? Or now that the evidence is being laid bare, he wants to look like he’s breaking this story.


5 posted on 03/23/2017 1:54:46 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
Anyone who wonders if there's infighting in the oligarch money clique who run the country now has their answer, yes there is.

Woodward is one of the favorite operatives of one of those factions. While in the Navy he served in Naval Intelligence, he was considered solid enough to go after Nixon and in doing so deflect attention from the active hand some CIA people had in aiding Nixon, and he's been a useful hatchet man for the in crowd on several occasions.

He's doing two things here. First, he's letting it be known that there are people with power who won't stand in the way of criminal charges being brought, and second, since that's possible (how probable? Dunno) he's giving fair warning to those so rabid in their hate of Trump that they've gotten sloppy that it's time to start covering their butts and choosing scapegoats instead of continuing their open attacks.

JMHo

6 posted on 03/23/2017 2:02:19 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

“Obama” and “criminal charges” in the same headline. Things are moving in the right direction.


7 posted on 03/23/2017 2:03:01 PM PDT by Canedawg (from FUBO to MAGA! Thank the Lord.)
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To: laplata

the point is not that woodward is good bad or ugly.

The point is that a liberal icon who made is bones at watergate has said it.

to liberals woodward saying it is like hearing the bells.
for whom do the bells toll.

the liberals for the first time hear shockingly that
“the bells toll for thee.”


8 posted on 03/23/2017 2:03:08 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

They don’t face jack. Empirical evidence shows that, aside from a statistical outliers or two, Obama’s henchmen and dems in general are immune from the law.


9 posted on 03/23/2017 2:04:22 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Okay Sessions do your job.


10 posted on 03/23/2017 2:05:38 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

This is going to detonate in their faces. Bet the rent.


11 posted on 03/23/2017 2:07:29 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Scooter Libby went to prison for less...


12 posted on 03/23/2017 2:09:55 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I held my nose, voted for Trump, then took a shower. All to defeat evil.)
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To: laplata

Woodward is an intelligence community agent of influence trying to pretend that invasions of American citizen’s privacy are illegal and rare.

They are neither.


13 posted on 03/23/2017 2:11:55 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Parley Baer

Nunes has stated this surveillance thing has “nothing to do with Russia.”

Therefore, Sessions is not recused from it.


14 posted on 03/23/2017 2:12:41 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

[ Bob Woodward: Obama officials possibly facing criminal charges for unmasking scheme ]

Well, that would certainly explain the INSANE lies and conspiracy theories.


15 posted on 03/23/2017 2:16:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: ckilmer

You make an excellent point.

But the guy is still a low life.


16 posted on 03/23/2017 2:17:02 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: dragnet2

From your keyboard to God’s ears......


17 posted on 03/23/2017 2:17:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

And once you’ve lost Bob Woodward...


18 posted on 03/23/2017 2:21:39 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“Woodward is a sorry POS and what he says here doesn’t chance that fact..”

Agreed, but so what? No one can accuse Woodward of being a conservative, so there's some hope he'll be listened to. We should be grateful Woodward is right on this, regardless of his history or motives.

19 posted on 03/23/2017 2:22:03 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Libby was in the “wrong “ party.


20 posted on 03/23/2017 2:22:14 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Depth charge the Deep State)
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