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Why Susan Rice’s Reported ‘Unmasking’ of Trump Officials Raises Very Serious Legal Concerns for Her
http://lawnewz.com ^ | April 03 2017 | by Robert Barnes

Posted on 04/04/2017 9:22:28 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45

The law imposes criminal sanctions on government officials who “engage in electronic surveillance under color of law except as authorized” by statutes and governing regulations implementing those statutes. This same criminal law makes a person “guilty of an offense” if she intentionally “discloses or uses information obtained under color of law by electronic surveillance, knowing or having reason to know that the information was obtained” in a manner “not authorized” by law.

According to both FBI Director Comey and NSA Director Clapper, no warrant ever authorized the intercepts and electronic surveillance on a member of Trump’s team.

Susan Rice, and the Obama administration, appeared to have often skipped the Constitutional limits on their duties while in office; now might be a good time to buff up on the Fifth Amendment, and the right to counsel. Congress may be calling soon.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; donaldtrump; electronic; officials; rice; surveillance; susanrice; trump; trumpwiretaps; unmasking
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To: Para-Ord.45

I don’t see the point of congressional investigations. Let the grand jury be impaneled.


41 posted on 04/04/2017 12:35:08 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: caww
Yep!


42 posted on 04/04/2017 12:47:49 PM PDT by luvie (Be still and know that I Am GOD.....Psalm 46:10)
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To: LUV W

Got that right!


43 posted on 04/04/2017 12:50:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: Para-Ord.45
According to both FBI Director Comey and NSA Director Clapper, no warrant ever authorized the intercepts and electronic surveillance on a member of Trump’s team.


44 posted on 04/04/2017 12:59:19 PM PDT by henbane
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To: combat_boots; 2ndDivisionVet; appalachian_dweller; aragorn; Arthur Wildfire! March; ASA Vet; ...

PING!!!

Article and comments, esp #11

the mainstream media is minimizing this story..... They are criminally complicit. The unmasked names and transcripts were leaked to the NYT and CNN and others....

This is not a small scandal, this is potentially the biggest scandal of our lifetimes.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3540913/posts?page=11#11
more here

Thanks, combat_boots & H/T WildHighlander57


45 posted on 04/04/2017 1:18:29 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Bob434

Toss in that congress exempts itself from the laws it passes for everyone else, like Obamacare, is enough to make one wonder if we’ll ever live in a republic once again.


46 posted on 04/04/2017 2:05:46 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: caww

Camerota was an utter airhead when she was on Fox. She interviewed me a couple of times and she was basically reading questions someone gave her.


47 posted on 04/04/2017 2:53:06 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: combat_boots

Susan Rice admits on MSNBC that OBAMA requested the spreadsheet after first denying its existence YUUUGE! (self.The_Donald)

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/63f2po/susan_rice_admits_on_msnbc_that_obama_requested/


48 posted on 04/04/2017 3:34:53 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: Art in Idaho

The article said Comey said they didn’t have a NSA warrant.


49 posted on 04/04/2017 3:53:13 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Lil Flower

I assume he’s asking for immunity to protect himself from Dims like Schiff.


50 posted on 04/04/2017 3:56:53 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Para-Ord.45

these types of laws only apply to conservatives. Liberals have judicial immunity and have a separate interpretation of how the law justifies their ends and means


51 posted on 04/04/2017 4:08:13 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: LUV W

52 posted on 04/04/2017 4:59:06 PM PDT by Bobalu ( Healthcare - someone must pay. Who should it be, and how did they get that obligation?)
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To: Bobalu

Lock. Her. Up.


53 posted on 04/04/2017 5:16:29 PM PDT by luvie (Be still and know that I Am GOD.....Psalm 46:10)
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To: arrogantsob

perhaps they plan to use the NY court where the head guy was recently fired??


54 posted on 04/04/2017 7:58:39 PM PDT by bitt (The most insidious power that the media has, is the power to ignore - Chris Plante, WMAL)
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To: Mariner

We need them... just not as our overlords. It’s time for major legal reform... Must not throw out the baby with the bath water.


55 posted on 04/04/2017 8:42:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Grow a pair Republicans - USE THE REID OPTION....)
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To: LS

...”Camerota was an utter airhead when she was on Fox. She interviewed me a couple of times and she was basically reading questions someone gave her”....

There’s a couple like her on Fox I could do without....too many Journalists have lost the art....let alone Investigate what they’re reporting on. Too much window dressing and not enough actual work.


56 posted on 04/04/2017 9:09:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: Bob434
And.....The president posted forgeries of his so-called birth certificate and is using a fake social security number.

Action?........( crickets!)

57 posted on 04/04/2017 9:48:46 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Bob434
"Lois Lerner used the IRS to attack Americans- a clear violation of the law."

Lois Lerner

"Lois Gail Lerner is an American attorney and former United States federal civil service employee. Lerner became director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service in 2005, and subsequently became the central figure in the 2013 IRS targeting controversy in the targeting of conservative groups, either denying them tax-exempt status outright or delaying that status until they could no longer take effective part in the 2012 election. Lerner resigned over the controversy. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation, completed in 2015, found "substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia" but "found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution."

wikipedia.org

Smoking gun.... Bloody butcher knife... Chainsaw with pieces of flesh hanging from it.... It doesn't make any difference at all... No harm will befall ANY of the obummer's accomplices simply because THAT would be very raciest and so very sexiest....

MHO... :(

58 posted on 04/05/2017 5:53:23 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: combat_boots

Excellent analysis!............................


59 posted on 04/05/2017 6:11:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: NetAddicted

But Flynn is a Democrat, too.


60 posted on 04/05/2017 10:44:23 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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