These Are the Questions Susan Rice Needs to Answer

The House Intelligence Committee reportedly wants former national security adviser Susan Rice to testify in the probe of alleged Russian election interference, which now includes evidence that Obama officials may have improperly used intelligence gathered on President Trump's transition team.

We've been incessantly assured there's nothing to this story. Perhaps. This week, though, Rice felt the need to seek out a friendly face in NBC's Andrea Mitchell -- although there were plenty to choose from -- to tell us that she never improperly unmasked any Trump transition officials whose conversations were caught on surveillance.

Now, there are a number of worthy follow-ups that Mitchell forgot to ask. But since Rice says nothing unethical transpired, there should be no problem in her answering those queries under oath.

On the heels of the allegations made by Rep. Devin Nunes, Rice was asked whether the Obama administration had unmasked Trump transition members swept up in surveillance of other individuals. "I know nothing about this," she claimed at the time. "I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today." She didn't say "so much of this is routine, I'm unsure" or "it would be completely inappropriate for me to talk about intelligence reports." She said, "I know nothing" and "I was surprised."

After retweeting an ally who claimed Rice's words were distorted, Rice wrote, "I said I did not know what reports Nunes was referring to when he spoke to the press."

The transcript says otherwise. Judy Woodruff correctly and broadly laid out the situation, and then asked a straightforward question. She said: "We've been following a disclosure by ... Devin Nunes that in essence, during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected, he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?"

What are the chances that a national security adviser forgot she's asked for intelligence reports on members of the incoming administration? This is the same woman who went on national television and repeatedly lied that the Islamic terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi were a "spontaneous reaction" to a "hateful and offensive video."

So, Ambassador Rice, did you request that the identities of Trump campaign officials, transition team members, or family members be unmasked?

Is it normal for high-level officials to request for names of political players to be unmasked in raw intelligence?

Ben Rhodes, one of the most frazzled former Obama officials on social media these days, tweeted yesterday, "Bullying people into covering routine work of any senior nat sec official as news is clear effort to distract from Qs about Trump and Russia."

Is it really the "routine work" of top national security officials to proactively collect information on incoming officials of the opposition political party? Sounds like a bad idea. Is this something Rhodes endorses for Trump officials as well? Is it OK to share this information with chief White House strategist Steve Bannon?

Because Bloomberg's Eli Lake reported this week that Rice allegedly "requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign." It was not something that was plopped on her desk by some functionary -- incidentally.

Which individual in government initially provided you with the raw intelligence reports containing the masked Trump team identities?

Which Trump team members did you specifically ask to be unmasked? And why did you ask for their identities to be unmasked?

If Nunes is telling the truth -- and despite a widespread effort to make him look like a liar, he's been right so far -- then this incidental collection had nothing to do with Russian collusion charges. Why has the media shown such little curiosity about the subject manner of the collection?

Yes, reporters, we know that "unmasking" is legal. So is meeting with a Russian ambassador during a campaign. And no, it does not vindicate Trump's tweet. Stressing the legality of the unmasking is a way to distract from the real questions: Did Rice abuse her power? Who did she share it with? Why? Did those people then leak the information for political purposes? That is illegal.

Ambassador Rice, do you swear under oath that you have never leaked any classified information to anyone in the media ever?

Did you share the information you garnered about the Trump transition team with anybody, whether inside or outside the federal government?

After all, erstwhile civil libertarians have been warning about the potential for this sort of abuse for many years. Now, this isn't exactly how they imagined it unfolding, of course, but it doesn't make the charges any less serious.

“So, Ambassador Rice, did you request that the identities of Trump campaign officials, transition team members, or family members be unmasked?”

A previous question to that might be: By what process were you able to select the communications containing masked names of US citizens that just happened to be those of persons involved in PRESIDENT Trump’s 2016 campaign.

And-

How many communications did you handle in this manner?

And-

How many communications, including those which were unmasked, did you request during the time you in a position to do so?

Beside the Rice issue, the perception given by Rep. Nunes and others is that the unmasked communications contained discussions regarding itinerary for travel, meetings, etc. The intelligence value of these discussions apparently (according to Rep. Nunes) had little intelligence value.

In order for masking to occur, the information must first be incorporated into an actual intelligence report with appropriate names masked. The problem here is that for any information to get into an intelligence report it must have intelligence value. The call whether the intelligence value threshold was met clearly would not come within the purview of Rice’s normal duties. In any case, the obvious conclusion is that Rice could not have the only person involved in this process. responsibilities

(hat tip Davidkkm) Trey Gowdy knows for a fact that Susan Rice lied to the Benghazi committee. She is a proven liar.”I know nothing” she said. Her next lie will be “ I didn’t unmask any names and leak them to the lefty press”. The final lie will be “Obama knew nothing”.

Trey Gowdy has already dismissed Rice’s time-worn excuse of unmasking "for security," because everybody who needed it, had it already. So her motive appears very nefarious.

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Here’s the latest on Rice:

As of March 2017, Rice has begun a job as a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow in the “American University’s School of International Service.”.... During her residency at AU, Rice will work primarily on her next book and mentor SIS students on careers in national security.

THE BIGGEST PINOCCHIO OF THEM ALL: The school defines her position with Obama thusly: ”She provided the President with daily national security briefings and was ‘responsible for’ coordinating the formulation and implementation of ‘all aspects’ of the Administration’s foreign and national security policy, intelligence, and military efforts.

American University’s School of International Service
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20016

Phone: 202-885-1000

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Any and all federal tax dollars allotted to this school must be terminated immediately.

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It is possible that Obama, Rice, Farkas, Brennan, McCabe, Bill and Hillary and anyone else who colluded in this, and who saw the intel, may have committed other federal offenses including but not limited to:

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, no Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);

<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.

<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),

<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate Donald Trump and named other’s 4th amendment rights.

<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.

<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.

Taxpayers demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:

<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division

<><> IRS-Fraud Unit

<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,

<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.

<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section

<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.

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Obama pumped her like she was a flat tire......to give her standing.
She ended up w/ a very high opinion of herself:

Flashback 2012: Susan Rice Explains Role In WH Decision-Making ‘People Know Not To Mess With Me’
dailycaller.com ^ | 1/30/2012 / FR Posted by Helicondelta

EDITED/EMPHASIS ADDED In a book written about Susan Rice, she said she routinely confers with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before making decisions.

She also explained that “people know not to mess with me. And if they haven’t learned, and they try, then they will learn.”

Rice has said that during her now infamous Sept. 16 appearances on five Sunday television shows that she received and adhered to talking points from members of the intelligence community. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

Even more startling to realize: Boobamba and Rice’s constant surveillance probably unveiled ample evidence about Muslim plans to come to the US to infiltrate and overthrow the US govt and kill Christians.

Yet, knowing this, Boobamba launched a major “refugee project” to resettle thousands of Muslims in US communities, foisting rabid Christian-hating terrorists, criminals, torturers, beheaders on unsuspecting US citizens.

Boobabma made sure the criminal refugees boarded the US gravy train and received every freebie imaginable PLUS a cash stipend of 21,000 tax dollars upon arrival (from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).

Obama ignored the concerns of state governors and began delivering violent Third World malcontents, en masse to almost every state in the US, a steady stream of Somali, Syrian, Afghan, Iraqi and Burmese Muslims.....not to mention the Central America crowd rife with communicable diseases..

Even diseased Third world refugees who committed crimes were welcomed into the US from Muslim dirtholes like Afghanistan, Algeria, Burundi, Cape Verde, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe.

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