Looks like they will be in the clear. Follow like know. I would post the story but am on my phone and can’t.
Hope someone will post this breaking story from Circa.
http://bit.ly/2ntfWMC
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Thanks for the article.
Obama’s rule changes opened door for NSA intercepts of Americans to reach political hands
http://circa.com/politics/barack-obama-changed-how-nsa-intercepts-of-americans-like-donald-trump-could-be-shared
As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism, espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats, Circa has learned.
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Some intercepted communications from November to January involved Trump transition figures or foreign figures’ perceptions of the incoming president and his administration. Intercepts involving congressional figures also have been unmasked occasionally for some time.
The NSA is expected to turn over logs as early as this week to congressional committees detailing who consumed reports with unmasked Americans’ identities from their intercepts since the summer of 2016, and it is likely to become a primary focus of the Russia counterintelligence probe of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
Watch Susan Rice blink her eyes. Isn’t that a sign of not being truthful?