Posted on 07/02/2017 6:22:33 AM PDT by Liz
Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice has agreed to meet with the House Intelligence Committee sometime next month as it continues to look into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, CNN reported Thursday. Obama's former hand-picked UN ambassador and National Security Advisor, Rice has become a target for GOP lawmakers who say she mishandled classified intelligence documents.
President Trump and other top Republicans have pointed to allegations that Rice revealed the names of Trump transition team associates in intelligence reports in an attempt to leak negative information about the Trump campaign. Rice has repeatedly denied the allegations.
"Former Ambassador Rice is cooperating with bipartisan Russia investigations conducted by the Intelligence Committees as she said she would," spokesman Erin Pelton said in a statement to The Hill. Rice was on a witness list agreed to by both parties. Rice will be another high-profile witness to be interviewed after fired FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence panel earlier this month.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN Thursday that the panel may need Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn to provide more records as their probe picks up.
"I think we may need more information,” the Democratic lawmaker said, referring to the files that the panel has already received from the two men.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) would reportedly not say when Rice or other high-profile Trump witnesses would meet with his panel.
Questions for Rice:
1. When did you request the unmasking, and from which agency?
2. Who in that agency actually did the unmasking? Please provide the written requests you submitted.
3. Once the names were unmasked, did you still believe there was a threat to national security from the named US persons?
4. If so, with whom did you share the information, and what actions were taken to protect America and American citizens?
5. If you did not, then you should not have shared the names with anyone else, so how did the names become known?
6. Why was any of the info detailed here deliberately withheld on the FISA application? (it's a felony to willfully withhold information when applying for a FISA).
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<><> If the information found in the ‘incidental’ involvement of any US Person was threatening US Security, and America citizens' safety, why did US security agencies wait for Rice’s request to unmask?
<><> Did Obama issue a secret stand down order?
<><> Why did Rice on PBS initially deny responsibility for the unmasking?
<><> Why was this threat not unveiled at the time or since? Why now?
Alarmingly, the supposed ‘threat’ identified by Rice was about to be inaugurated as President of the US. Shouldn’t Congress have been notified? Why did Rice keep it a secret? Maybe she planned to collude w/ the Clintons to sell the intel to a foreign country?
The NSA didn’t unmask the information initially, plus later investigations found NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Seems to be proof-positive that whatever suspicions Obama/Rice/Brennan may have had to justify the unmasking were absolutely wrong, or more likely non-existent.
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Contact your Representative and Senators---demand these questions blanket the media---and demand Susan Rice answer them.
Agree entirely. And they’re still trying.
She’s covering for the big dog Obama.
ping
Most transparent administration ever.
But you can make a deal.....
Because they know their conversations were also unmasked and will be leaked. Modern day version of Clinton FBI files. They let bill/hill get away with it and barry o took it to the next level
We know that when the FBI interviewed Hillary, not only was it not recorded, no notes were even taken. No doubt at all this was done to protect Hillary from charges of lying or misleading. No reason why a Congressional committee can’t do the same.
And that gadget = PDBs from July ‘16 to Jan ‘17. Unmaskees names coded for RAT readers.
Ironic , but not, that Comey “ of the furrowed brow” allowed this to happen. Major sarcasm intenented
That was the result of Lynch re-classifying it into a ‘matter’.
Why are these skunks (Rice and Podesta) allowed to float their testimony (lies) behind closed doors?
Phooey!
Wonder if the DNC makes sure she doesn’t talk?.
Next month???
What’s wrong with tomorrow?
Need time with Zero to get your lies together?
Heh......nice comeback.
The politicians are compromised and the deep state controls them. There is nothing this behind closed door crap is going to accomplish except hide the illegal goings on of the last administration and who they controlled and still controll in the Congress and Senate.
Under oath??? If not, why waste the time and $$$$?
No reason for a closed-door hearing unless classified information is involved.
Anyway, Rice will say nothing except take the 5th while denouncing Republicans as racist and sexist.
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