Posted on 05/13/2020 11:37:30 AM PDT by gandalftb
Former Vice President Joe Biden and other top Obama officials received information in response to "unmasking" requests targeting retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in the final weeks of the previous administration, according to a memo declassified by acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.
The list, obtained by the Washington Examiner on Wednesday, shows Biden received information at least once in response to such an unmasking request on Jan. 12, 2017
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
He’ll be locked in his basement forever. Good luck getting him out of there as his answers will always be that he does not recall or plead the 5th.
Screw that. No need to open up a new investigation. Let Durham handle it.
The problem is that so many people had access to the unmasking, it is impossible to prove which one leaked.
Indict them all and then wait for a number of them to squeal.
Yup, the requests started on November 8th....... That’s election day.
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As soon as the Dems named realized that Trump won, they all went to the NSA to get the names of American citizens that were in contact with foreign agents.
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They found out about Flynn and the Russian ambassador. That’s when the Russian Collusion coup got started. The smoking gun.
I think generally it means revealing or publishing names and/or docs of gov’t operatives that are supposed to be classified or secret for security/safety purposes.
Wow, I don’t mean to come off as an ass but you really need to understand what’s at play here.
The Government captures public citizens going about their lives who come into contact with Foreign entities and when that happens they are not allowed by law to name you because it’s an infringement of your rights to privacy. They capture everything a person says or communicates by use of our world class technology.
So getting unmasked is a major big deal because essentially it allows Government actors to have and know everything you say.
Then when the Government may want to use that against you as seen they the FBI scandal they can and will use it to destroy you and your family if they want to.
You need to worry ALLOT about the Government having all of our data. Then it becomes just like under Stalin “show me the man and I will show you the crime”.
The Intelligence Agencies are now hostile to normal Americans.
39 names......subpoena them all, put them in front of a grand jury....Obama, Biden, all of them.
I’m an Engineer so spelling or use of the right words are a bonus. LOL
JANUARY 12, 2017 : () January 12: The next part of the strategy was the explosive leak to David Ignatius of the Washington Post to legitimize the use against Flynn of the Logan Act, a likely unconstitutional 1799 law prohibiting private individuals, not public incoming national security advisors, from discussing foreign policy with foreign governments. Ignatius accepted the leak from the Obama official. He wrote that Flynn had called Kislyak. “What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions? The Logan Act (though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to influence a foreign government about “disputes” with the United States. Was its spirit violated?” Flynn’s routine and appropriate phone call became fodder for a developing grand conspiracy theory of Russia collusion. In discussions with investigators, both DOJ’s Mary McCord and Comey conspicuously cite this Ignatius column as somehow meaningful in the approach they would take with Flynn. “Nothing, to my mind, happens until the 13th of January, when David Ignatius publishes a column that contains a reference to communication Michael Flynn had with the Russians. That was on the 13th of January,” Comey said of the column that ran online on January 12. In fact, quite a bit had happened at the FBI prior to that leak, with much conversation about how to utilize the Logan Act against Flynn. And the leak-fueled Ignatius column would later be used by FBI officials to justify an illegal ambush interview of Flynn in the White House.-——Source: Molly Hemmingway in The Federalist
Bingo........Biden just said that he was only aware of an investigation, that’s all.
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Splain yourself Joe........now we know you asked the NSA for Flynn’s contacts. ...... Without a FISA warrant.
“The newly declassified records show that 16 individuals made unmasking requests related to the incoming Trump national security adviser, and the list shows which officials received that sensitive information. It was not immediately clear which individuals made the requests, but those who received the unmasking information were laid out chronologically.”
So we know who RECEIVED the unmasking information but we don’t know who MADE the requests. It probably was the receiver of the information.
We know what you meant. I misspell in every post.
Ok, thank you for good explanation. Here is where I get confused.
So a transcript was made of a phone call between Flynn and the Russian guy. Since Flynn is an American, his identity would be kept secret.
UNLESS a FISA warrant is filled out which a court would approve. Or, like you say, a national security request is made.
But if Flynn’s identity was correctly kept a secret, how would all these 39 people know who they want to be unmasked?
Say I’m conversing with my terrorist cousin in Pakistan and since I am American, my identity is kept a secret.
How would Joe Blow from Accounting know to request that I....I....ME...be unmasked when my name is kept secret?
Would they say we want to know the name of the American who spoke to John Doe the terrorist....so okay.
But the headlines keep saying they requested that FLYNN be unmasked and I dunno, maybe they just asked for whoever was speaking with the Russian guy.
Hope I am making some sense.
This doesn’t make sense the way people are interpreting it.
1. “foreign target is speaking to General Flynn and here’s the transcript”
2. Biden (and others) get the transcript but it has General Flynn redacted.
3. Biden and others request that the redaction be removed and viola they see General Flynn’s name.
This can’t be how it went down because:
1. If they knew the foreign person was talking to Flynn before asking to remove the redaction, they didn’t need to ask.
2. If they didn’t know who the foreign person was speaking to until the redaction was removed, what are the chances that all these people ONLY asked about conversations that by coincidence Flynn was part of?
In this case, they must have asked for dozens if not hundreds of unmaskings and turned up many many Americans, including one or more mentions of Flynn.
3. The unmaskings surround other people that are included in the Flynn surveillance. Biden and co. got transcripts from the Flynn surveillance, and saw Flynn speaking to [REDACTED] American. They then asked to unmask that redaction which may have been his wife, Jared, or Donald or anyone.
STAY TUNED THERE IS MORE TO THIS STORY THAN BIDEN ASKING TO MAKE SURE THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR CALL INCLUDED GENERAL FLYNN.
Biden wouldn’t have received the unmasking information by accident.
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Biden was a defeated VP, leaving office, when he got Flynn’s name.
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Had to be a political purpose, that’s against the law.
Joe is a Government Criminal.
Indict al of them, send them to Supermax for Hard Time.
Now if one them is smart and has evidence to use on the biggest fish maybe he gets off.
but the government officials will say that they only wish to know the identities of those talking to foreign agents, not what they were talking about...
in flynn’s case, biden could say, i wanted proof that flynn was actually talking to russians.
Every overseas phone call is recorded by NSA. If FBI or CIA suspects nefarious activity, they can request calls of FOREIGN suspects. UNMASK refers to identifying the American who spoke to the FOREIGN contact.
OK, to any of our Photoshop experts here, a Sargent Schultz (”I know nothin’k”) with Joe Bidens’s face would be priceless.
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