[RouxStir]

“senior DOJ official”

See Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary of Swamp English: slovenly, leach-like creature attached to United States taxpayers for which there has, heretofore, not been a curative solution...soon to be removed by a newly discovered process called “Trumping.”

[eartick]

Saiid it along, the elitist protect their own.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I would have no problem at all with waiting to release the names until indictments are issued with all of the names on them.

I am not holding my breath though.

[Eleutheria5]

So can’t Grenell do it himself?

[BigpapaBo]

Ping to self

One ping only

[pepsi_junkie]

Surprise. Bagpipe Bob defending the deepstate again.

[goodnesswins]

We want the LEAKER!!

[ratzoe]

Could be that the senior DOJ official was given fake news to see if he would leak it.

[halfright]

Paging Tom, Tom Fitton, please pick up the white courtesy Phone. Tom Fitton

[philman_36]

...a senior DOJ official says...

When there is a name attached to it I'll believe it.

Until it's "official", as in a known DOJ official
goes on record to the press or appears on TV...
this is all BS designed to elicit the very remarks
your thread is full of. JMO, YMMV

Some people are so stupid they will believe anything
from an anonymous government source!

If it turns out to be true that the info won't be released I'll apologize. Until then...what a bunch of idiots to believe this BS story at this point in time!

[mass55th]

"senior DOJ official says..."

Thanks, but I'll wait for A.G. Barr to say that publicly.

[Bratch]

ABC Report – DOJ Official: “We Do Not Intend To Release The Unmasking List” – The Documents are a DNI Equity…

Posted on May 12, 2020 by sundance

First things first: 

♦ Understand Obama’s Surveillance Operation HERE. 

♦ Michael Flynn wasn’t unmasked, nor under a FISA (Title-1) HERE .

That’s the background.

After Acting DNI Richard “Ric” Grenell delivered a volume of declassified intelligence records to Attorney General Bill Barr it was reported that Grenell delivered a file showing the intelligence unmaskers from the Obama administration; pending Barr release.

Today ABC is reporting from senior DOJ officials “”we do not intend to release the [unmasking] list” that Grenell brought over to the building last week.”

Considering the content of the files likely delivered to AG Barr it is worth remaining patient.  No-one is more cynical than me about DOJ hiding stuff; but this ain’t that.

The declassified documents are not a DOJ equity, they are a DNI equity, the DNI can release them.  For the DOJ the declassified documents are evidence.

Kevin Corke and Adam Housley are both reporting the documents delivered by Grenell extend beyond unmasking; their reporting makes sense.  The bigger topic is political surveillance.  The surveillance encompassed numerous intelligence equities.

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As I’m told the list Grenell brought over is much larger than anything involving Flynn. “The exact tasking flow is hard to discern because the stuff was flying everywhere.”

— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 12, 2020

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CIA reports would lead to (702) unmasking requests.  FBI investigative reports on counterintelligence would lead to unmasking requests; and may also include (702) unmasking requests.  FBI (or DOJ) investigative searches of the NSA database could lead to (702) unmasking requests; and would also lead to audit logs and audit trails of non-minimized extractions if 702 was not applicable (domestic surveillance).

There is a myriad of different intelligence audit trails depending on the agency and type of documentary evidence being reviewed: unmasking (reports), audit logs (search queries), minimizations (database extractions) etc.  It’s not only “unmasking.”

Additionally, remember former NSA Director ADM Mike Rogers said the NSA purged the non-compliant search results (erased them) but retained the audit logs showing who did what, how much, on whom, and when.  So those audit logs could be part of the declassified delivery to AG Bill Barr.  All of that makes sense and all of it needs to be kept in perspective.

On the recipient side (Bill Barr) of the declassified material the intelligence documents provide a basis for the DOJ to ask the “unmaskers” or “search query operators” or “intelligence officials” why the subjects within the investigative reports (searches etc) were being unmasked or non-minimized…. and who did they give the information to?

Who requested the unmasking (or minimization removal)? Who did the unmasking?  Who received the unmasked materials?… and Why?

The primary who and when is identified within the declassified documents delivered by Grenell.  The downstream ‘who’ also saw them, and ‘why’ was the request made, can only be discovered by asking the primary person who received the unmasked (non-minimized) result.

We want to know who the unmaskers were.  However, Barr/Durham also likely want to know why and what was the purpose?  Those questions can only be answered by going directly to the person who made the request and received the end product.  So a little patience is afforded here as those questions are likely being asked.

What we do know is that a seemingly trustworthy DNI Ric Grenell has assembled, declassified and seen all of this information… so there’s reason for some confidence it will not be buried like the James Wolfe stuff.  Plus, the assembly is public now (I don’t think that’s coincidental).

Additionally, those people who were unmasked (investigative reports) or non-minimized (investigative search queries) are also potential victims; so there’s some privacy elements that overlay the material declassified by Grenell.  After all, just because someone came into contact with Lt. General Michael Flynn, and ended up in some intelligence report, doesn’t make them a subject of the investigation.  So a little caution is prudent.

DNI Ric Grenell has provided the information; we know it exists and the DOJ knows we know it exists… so let’s wait and see what happens next.  If you have been following along with the deep dive research, these tweets from Adam Housley make sense:

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Contractors working for Brennan were gathering the intel. For someone to be unmasked it had to be in an intel report. That’s how they got around the law.

  — Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 12, 2020

 

Remember Flynn wasn’t under a FISA. A lot if media types and people talking about this may be using wrong terminology

— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 12, 2020

 

As I’m told the list Grenell brought over is much larger than anything involving Flynn. “The exact tasking flow is hard to discern because the stuff was flying everywhere.”

  — Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 12, 2020

 

You guys are making this Democrat v Republican and Obama v Trump. This was about power. Party is secondary.

  — Adam Housley (@adamhousley) May 12, 2020

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Uniparty!

 

[chuckee]

There is no magic to the DOJ releasing it. DNI can release it pursuant to the President’s direction since it has been declassified..

[matt1234]

If the list has been declassified (and I read that is was), it should be obtainable through the FOIA.

[JerseyDvl]

They are playing the long game and this will be evidence towards the prosecution’s in early summer.

[RinaseaofDs]

ABC. Not a credible source of anything.

[Candor7]

They won’treease it because each peroson illegally uinmasked would have all the evidence they need to personally sue the perpetrators for damages.

Thats 1000 law suits against those who exceeded their governmental authority and ersonally commited these tortios abuse of power violations.

The perpetrators would loose their estates and be fiancially ruined. Therefore the list of unmasked victims will not be released?

We need to have a massive protest group on the steps of the DOJ complete with pitchforks, tar and feathers!