Posted on 05/19/2020 8:06:17 PM PDT by bitt
rom Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson asking DNI Richard “Ric” Grenell to declassify and release all of the unmasking requests from January 2016 to January 2017.
Results to be provided in tranches if needed.
Within the letter (pdf here) the senators appear to be targeting specific dates for cross referencing with previously identified NSA database abuses. Some of their inquiry appears to be guided by ‘open source’ reporting on the issue.
(see letter)
This approach is very interesting because “unmasking” would be an outcome of creating some form of intelligence reporting. Perhaps a CIA report; perhaps part of the FBI investigation; or perhaps even material that enters the presidential daily briefing or similar.
We know there are thousands of results from contractors searching the NSA database without any effort to minimize the results and sharing those results outside the intelligence community. {Go Deep}
The non-minimized database extractions, the search results themselves, were eventually deleted at the direction of NSA Direction ADM Mike Rogers; who also stated the NSA preserved the audit-logs of ‘non-compliant’ system users who unlawfully searched the database.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
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Will there be records for what the “contractors” were sorting through in the NSA data?
I want so much for the weasel Ben Rhodes to be Scooter Libbyed.
REM can play everybody hurts while he’s being frog marched out of his condo after a 4 AM raid.
A man can dream.
“Will there be records for what the “contractors” were sorting through in the NSA data?”
The names of those contractors will be very, very interesting.
Admiral Rogers deserves a medal for what he did.
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Based on the line of questioning to Susan Rice during hte shifty Shiff hearings and her testimony, it looks like Samantha Power is in trouble.
No way they ever charge a woman with a crime, however. Women can’t commit crimes. It’s umpossible.
Will there be records for what the “contractors” were sorting through in the NSA data?
What Grenell may lay out (on purpose or by accident) is that it wasn’t limited to just Trump’s campaign, but to include several Senators and House members (all GOP). At that point, these guys will wake up and realize that they were being reviewed, and a bigger mess will be created.
My humble guess is that by late summer, they will go all the way back to 2009’s unmasking efforts, and a special prosecutor will have to be appointed to lay out the hundreds of individuals who were spied upon. Various scandals will have been laid out where some Democratic insider went to such-and-such Senator, and told them to retire or this ‘affair’ would be revealed.
Yes....very possible.
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