Posted on 04/03/2017 7:40:05 AM PDT by pgkdan
Journalist/activist Mike Cernovich reports that former White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice obtained intelligence reports showing the identities of innocent Americans who incidentally spoke to foreign officials under security sweeps for spying or intelligence activities. Under U.S. law, U.S. persons are protected from such disclosure, which could be dry-cleaners asking envoys to pick up their laundry or wrong number phone messages spilling their guts about their mothers-in-law. If such U.S. persons get swept up in surveillance, they are protected. But only if they remain 'masked,' which is the law of the land.
Cernovich says the White House Counsel's office has confirmed that Rice was one of the few officials with the authority to make the requests to unmask the innocent Americans caught up in surveillance dragnets. There was no national security reason to do so, but she did. It makes a lot of sense if the aim is political, however, and White House spokesman Sean Spicer has pointed out that their goal was 'to leak stuff.' Based on White House logs, she did, during the transition back when angry miserable Obama White House officials frowned in a group photo for the cameras.
The White House counsel's office disclosed these logs to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who has been as responsible a steward of America's secrets as anyone (and said nothing). But it would mean that Rice had to have been responsible for the illegal leaking to the press of the legitimate activities of people like her NSC successor Mike Flynn, for political rather than national security purposes. This would be true whether she did it herself or dispatched a flunky like fellow NSC official Ben Rhodes or Joe Biden's NSC man Colin Kahl to execute the dirty-tricks skullduggery.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Comprehension must not be your strength when reading...
1) ONLY THE NSA is able to unmask US citizens swept up in surveillance
2) Susan Rice (per computer logs) accessed information specific to Trump and his associates AND PERSONALLY REQUESTED the unmasking of these specific surveillances
And how did this become known? Because Trump requested an internal review of how unmasking of US citizens can be done in order to find the source of the leaks which the FBI was unwilling/unable to do.
She can deny all she wants, the proof is in the White House which is no longer occupied by the muslim usurper...
Report: Susan Rice requested “unmasking” of U.S. persons in raw intel connected to Trump and associates dozens of times
Oh come now, surely the Obama pals can give up Ben Rhodes to salvage Shiny Susan.
The reason nothing firm and obvious sticks seems to be the new threshold for law breaking made, by the media interruptus, impossible to prove. It was used by Comey for Hillary.
M O T I V A T I O N.
They don’t want to prove guilt, so they use this faux mirage, smoke and mirrors, fall back position.
I fully expect an evolution in this tactic to a threshold of “Malicious” Motivation... even harder to prove.
Dude, your report is from March 23rd...
“Rice apparently has not yet commented:
Rice did not respond to an email seeking comment on Monday morning.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/04/susan-rice-in-crosshairs-as-potential-felon.php
I agree. I think Trump is calling them on it too, and it will wind up hurting them, not him.
I'll reiterate my previous reiteration....again....in big red crayola so you can comprehend.
One, I don't trust a word the media puts out anymore, so throwing bloomberg.com or hotair.com articles at me that I've already read, is not convincing "proof".
And two, before I believe this case will be any different than all the other nothing burgers served before it, I want to see Rice or someone who broke the law arrested, indicted and convicted of these crimes. Otherwise this is just the same old, same old. Investigating her doesn't mean anything will ever come of it. Investigations in Washington routinely go nowhere, i.e. Hillary's emails.
How many times have those of us on FR thought we finally found that smoking gun on some issue but no investigation followed or it was swept under the rug or pushed in the rearview mirror by fast-moving events and other stories? I'm still waiting for that first arrest.
Do not make the mistake of conflating the fact that I want to see direct evidence "proof" of a crime instead of hearsay and someone being held legally accountable for these crimes with the idea that I don't think she could be the guilty party in these unmaskings. Far from true.
But until Rice has had the book thrown at her and she pays the price, this will be just another fizzled balloon-chasing race to nowhere.
You're not getting my message here. Until Susan Rice is arrested and thrown in the pokey for this crime, it's just another train to nowhere. All the speculation, articles from anonymous sources, from unconfirmed officials, leaks, etc. will not make this issue matter until someone who breaks the law, pays for it in a court.
I've only made the point two or three times in this exchange. Now go away, "Dude".
Passing off old news as current news is #FakeNews DUDE...from this point forward there will be no Susan Rice statements other than “I assert my 5th Amendment rights to self-incrimination”.”
As for your Debbie Downer disposition, realize there is a new sheriff in town who intends to return the republic to law and order. As such, much work is underway to understand the full scope of corruption and lawlessness.
As with Eric Holder and the IRS criminals, they aren’t going any where. And as such US AG Sessions will at a time of his choosing arrest these people. As Master Po commonly instructed Kwai Chang Caine “Patience young grasshopper”.
Only 3 people can unmask these intercept reports - all work directly for Obama. Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch and John Brennan. And Rice is implicated because SHE REQUESTED THE UNMASKING and there are records to prove it, which is why Nunes had to go to the White House grounds to view the evidence.
How much you want to bet the spying was conducted by the CIA under Brennan? And it didn’t only include Trump, but all of the GOP candidates for the presidency.
So I'll say it ONE MORE TIME. Until something definitive happens, like charges and an arrest of Rice, this is the same as everything else I see people getting excited about on this site. True or not, it will go nowhere until there is someone help accountable and punished.
So until I see that Rice reports to federal lockup, I'm done with this issue.
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