What does unmasking mean in this context? I know I’m making myself the dummy of FR by asking, but that’s okay.
Susan Rice on Trump's calls to foreign leaders
Fareed asks National Security Adviser Rice about reports that Trump talks to foreign leaders without State Dept. involvement. What is standard protocol?Source: CNN
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec 24m24 minutes ago
Here is Susan Rice discussing Trump's calls to foreign leaders in Nov - I wonder where she got the transcripts?
http://circa.com/politics/barack-obama-changed-how-nsa-intercepts-of-americans-like-donald-trump-could-be-shared
Obama's rule changes opened door for NSA intercepts of Americans to reach political hands
I want to see an endless parade of perp walks by the time Trump’s presidency is over.
Ah, the one who recently said the wiretapping claim by the POTUS was a danger to the US.
Makes sense. Get her.
If it gets to prison time for any on these POS I hope it is major time like more than ten years per count consecutive because just some slap on wrist to some patsy will end the trail to the brown bomber and the clinton crime family.
Has there been a stated reason why the POTUS hasn’t revoked O’s order allowing all these agencies access to intel information? Is he going to let it stand? Isn’t time running out for O’s EO’s to be overturned?
It seems like a no brainer to me to revoke it - but am I missing something other than the obvious accusations that will be made that the POTUS is hindering the RUSSIAN investigation.
Now there’s a nice, sweet sympathetic figure Republicans will feel bad about accusing.
Mike Cernovich Apr 2
Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials
Susan Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has been identified as the official who requested unmasking of incoming Trump officials, Cernovich Media can exclusively report.
The White House Counsel’s office identified Rice as the person responsible for the unmasking after examining Rice’s document log requests. The reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled conditions. Each person must log her name before being granted access to them.
Upon learning of Rice’s actions, H. R. McMaster dispatched his close aide Derek Harvey to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman Nunes.
“Unmasking” is the process of identifying individuals whose communications were caught in the dragnet of intelligence gathering. While conducting investigations into terrorism and other related crimes, intelligence analysts incidentally capture conversations about parties not subject to the search warrant. The identities of individuals who are not under investigation are kept confidential, for legal and moral reasons.
Under President Obama, the unmasking rules were changed.
Circa originally reported:
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.
Three people close to President Obama, including his “fall guy” for Benghazi (Susan Rice), had authorization to unmask.
Among those cleared to request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens were Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice, his CIA Director John Brennan and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Not even mainstream outlets denied that some Trump officials had been spied on, with the NY Times reporting:
WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials helped provide Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.
According to WaPo, there were three sources for the reports, with Michael Ellis ultimately being blamed by WaPo and AP.
What’s striking about the Times story is the spin it took. Trump had previously claimed he had been “wire tapped” (quotation marks in his original Tweet), leading to media screams that he prove it. The Times’ own reporting proves that President Trump and his associates were spied on.
The Times, rather than admit Trump had been vindicated, instead focused its attention on the question of who leaked the reports to Nunes:
Since disclosing the existence of the intelligence reports, Mr. Nunes has refused to identify his sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe going to the committee with sensitive information. In his public comments, he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves.
Since when did journalists attempt to unmask sources? The Times, WaPo, and other outlets rely on anonymous sources in nearly every article about national security. It’s clear they have an agenda — that agenda is not telling the truth.
This reporter has been informed that Maggie Haberman has had this story about Susan Rice for at least 48 hours, and has chosen to sit on it in an effort to protect the reputation of former President Barack Obama.
— — Mike Cernovich is a journalist, lawyer, author, and filmmaker. Cernovich Media is not owned by large corporate donors or robber barons. The NY Times’ largest shareholder (whose very word can crash the stock, crippling 401K and other retirement plans) is Carlos Slim. WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, who has a $600 million contract with deep state. WaPo has also been caught in a pay-for-play scandal.
lock her up
PING!
She sure is dumb enough to do it.
What a wonderul time to be alive.
MAGA