Posted on 10/12/2017 11:24:38 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is ramping up investigation into former President Barack Obama administration’s campaign to “unmask” President Donald Trump aides who were incidentally surveilled in meetings with foreign officials, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
The committee is also intensifying a probe into Fusion GPS, a private “opposition research” company that distributed a salacious memo on Trump, called the “Trump Dossier.”
Over the next two weeks the House committee is expected to privately interview former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, who reportedly asked to unmask or identify Americans on as many as 260 occasions, primarily Trump campaign or transition officials.
Power was so aggressive in her efforts to unmask Trump aides, she asked U.S intelligence officials on nearly a daily basis to “unmask” or identify Trump officials who had passing contacts with foreign officials, according to a Fox News report on Sept. 20.
Power was trying to compile the information on behalf of other Obama intelligence officials, former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova told TheDCNF. “Her aggressive use of unmasking requests sends a very, very suspicious signal that she was working hand in glove with somebody to get information,” he said.
The committee previously subpoenaed documents from Power, but the former Obama ambassador has voluntarily agreed to testify in private, according to congressional officials with knowledge of the committee’s activities.
The committee is also preparing to introduce a proposed “legislative fix” within the next few weeks to ban or extremely limit future unmasking of American citizens, the congressional officials said.
The intelligence committee also issued subpoenas Oct. 4 to the owners of Fusion GPS, the Washington, D.C.-based company that paid former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele to compile the “Trump Dossier,”
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Ramping up? They should be “concluding” by now.
Election cycle kabuki theatre.
“We may\might”, “...ramping up...”, stall, whitewash, drop, stall, whitewash, repeat.
Take your complaint to another thread. This one is about something far more important-Fascism’s growth under Obama.
Thanks Enlightened1.
Perhaps. What came to mind was the fake news about that Russian dossier. If the media knew it was fake and was just carrying the Democrats’ water keeping those lies alive, was that conduct in the public interest?
It’s one thing to report and you didn’t know you were wrong, learned you were wrong and corrected your reporting.
But to know something is false and keep up the falsehood?
Sounds like grounds for revoking licenses.
Waste of time if Sessions bows to the establishment and won’t rock the boat by prosecution.
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