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.
1 other theory I read was that Flynn had been under surveillance well in advance of the election, for whatever reason I have no clue.
Then everyone HE cam into contact with on Trumps Team would also be unmasked.
If that has merit then we all I would need to understand what originally placed Flynn under surveillance. My bet would be Obama did it after Flynn showe3d him up and conflicted with him as a General.
Sounds like something nice Obama would do, doesn’t it?
I don't think it means people asked for Flynn by name. And I don't think it includes any other requests that returned names other than Flynn's. This is a narrow report that just refers to those who received Flynn's name.
Yes— the point you are zeroing in on, one of them anyway, is the use of the intel in the continuance of the FISA warrant (including the “hop over to another personage” aspect of the unmasking)on Carter Page.
The signers of the FISA warrants (warrants plural- the unmasking was done on many more than Flynn btw. Utilizing the “hop skip” method— anyone in the Trump campaign was included in the warrant—AND unmasked by many of these same individuals. Includes Clapper,Rice, Rosenstein, and yes President Obamaumao his-self ( though he did not require unmasking, he already knew because he ordered the surveil on Flynn, and the creative Comey on Carter Page and all the rest, under bammy’s orders). Bammy formerly fired Flynn when Flynn was moving toward auditing of the “major” three letter intel agenices— which would uncover much of obamaumao’s and hitlerys many prior criminal acts, including Benghazi, gun running (and would also include McCain on that, and a bunch of greasy repubs and dems). Klobuchar in Ukraine, Biden and Poroshenko-real russian stooge President, still on the run.
Agreed. You would think it would be easy to deduce who the redacted American was when reviewing the transcript of the call....especially involving foreign dignitaries during a transition. If so, then why request an unmasking?
Something else was going on.