Posted on 04/04/2017 3:21:30 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
UPDATE: Susan Rice Confirms Her “Unmasking Requests” Were for President Obama’s Daily Briefing (PDB)…
With a general set of narrative ‘talking points’ in hand President Obama’s Former National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, appeared this morning on MSNBC for an interview with Andrea Mitchell. This is the ‘We-Have-To-Respond-phase‘, which necessitates the optic.
Andrea Mitchell is considered a trustworthy ally of the Clinton/Obama political networks; as such, it is not a surprise to see Mitchell selected as the interviewer. Mitchell’s use of wording carefully guides Susan Rice through the narrow path of self-incrimination by providing plausible deniability for verbal missteps.
You already know the routine. MSNBC is the favorable proprietary venue. Mitchell plays the role of media-legal-adviser, her client is Susan Rice. Live interviews are always the greatest risk (see: Evelyn Farkas) The full interview is below:
However, that said, there are some interesting aspects to the interview:
Susan Rice @00:51 – …”Let me explain how this works. I was a National Security Adviser, my job is to protect the American people and the security of our country. That’s the same as the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director.; and every morning, to enable us to do that, we receive – from the intelligence community – a compilation of intelligence reports that the IC, the intelligence community, has selected for us –on a daily basis– to give us the best information as to what’s going on around the world.”
[Note, Susan Rice is describing the PDB]
“I received those reports, as did other officials, and there were occasions when I would receive a report in which, uh, a ‘U.S Person’ was referred to. Name, uh, not provided, just ‘U.S. Person’.
And sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance in the report – and assess it’s significance, it was necessary to find out or request, who that U.S. official was.”
OK, so right there, in the very beginning of the forward narrative, Susan Rice is confirming the “unmasking” request(s) which can be pinned upon her, are directly related to her need to understand -on behalf of President Obama- intelligence for the President’s Daily Briefing (the PDB). This was a previous question now answered.
This is EXPLOSIVE, and here’s why.
Remember, the President’s Daily Brief under President Obama went to almost everyone at top levels in his administration. Regarding the Obama PDB:
[…] But while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who was dual-hatted as national security adviser and secretary of state.
In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers.
By 2013, Obama’s PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments.
You are kidding, right? Susan Rice worked in the Clinton Administration. She was special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs from 1995 to 1997.
Lock them up. Lock them all up.
Of course the 0bomb was a key part of this, if not the initiator. Rice wouldn’t order pizza without the 0bamanation’s OK.
Yes, excellent work by Sundance, as always. Thank you for posting.
No, Obama was a dictator in the making. Don't think they hadn't mapped out every step including Hillary's Presidency had it happened.
Hopefully Trump and patriots have saved us from this but I don't feel like we're out of the woods yet. Their tentacles run deep, even Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and others who are obviously on the left's team in all this.
By 2013, Obama's PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president's top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments.Speechwriter? Deputies? Farkas?
Just this revelation, that the PDB was circulated to 30 people, ought to (but won't) cause serious damage to Obama's legacy.
According to the game, Rice was asked directly if she unmasked the names, then Mitchell continues on and uses the word spying—throwing Rice a life line— and Rice ignores the boldly asked question and bears down on “spying” and how all they did was not spying.
So Trump was right all a long.
So I am expect the MSM people to line up with heartfelt apologies admitting that they were wrong.
Barry needs to be subpoenaed.
What did he know and when did he do it, and who did he tell?
They’re part of the cover up.
Bump.
We only thought the media complex was obviously biased. This is going to be an epic battle— a media throw down, just beginning.
It needed to happen. And, somebody is going to win. Trump will triumph, or not..
That outcome alone is the TROPHEY.
We already know that the approval of the FISA warrant for the server at Trump tower was leaked to Hillary. That, in and of itself, was illegal.
Hillary then subsequently tweeted about it in an effort to smear Donald Trump just before the election.
This isn't going to turn out well for the Democrats. Cracks are already starting to appear in the Media, and if Fox starts continues peeling the onion, others will as well.
Sooner or later, enough journalists are going to do their jobs (journalism), start breaking stories, and then the sleazy, criminal nature and massive scope of this entire subversive Democrat operation will become clear to all but the most rabid partisans.
Using the machinery of the federal government to spy on the opposing party's Presidential candidate, and then funneling the output of that spying to the Hillary campaign, is "civil war" level interference, unethical, and treasonous.
Did each and every one of the more than 30 recipients have the proper security clearances to handle such sensitive information?
Can we get a complete list of all the names of 0bama administration officials that received one or more PDBs? They all need to be investigated.
Via Cheryl Mills no doubt. Lock her up too.
I think everybody has their talking points - Rice did not “leak” anything (she unmasked it). And it was a judgment call that it was necessary to national security. And of course, looking into this proves Trump's a racist!
This will be all the MSM will say about it.
Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett and even Loretta Lynch are going to be thrown under the bus, while Obama goes along his merry way.
What WE all knew from the day Trump tweeted is true. He has the best intelligence information in the world delivered each day, including information now about him.
All the incoming fire that followed only confirmed he was over the target and now we all know the truth. Obama is trying to stage a coup with aid from the media-political complex.
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