Posted on 04/04/2017 3:21:30 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
UPDATE: Susan Rice Confirms Her “Unmasking Requests” Were for President Obama’s Daily Briefing (PDB)…
With a general set of narrative ‘talking points’ in hand President Obama’s Former National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, appeared this morning on MSNBC for an interview with Andrea Mitchell. This is the ‘We-Have-To-Respond-phase‘, which necessitates the optic.
Andrea Mitchell is considered a trustworthy ally of the Clinton/Obama political networks; as such, it is not a surprise to see Mitchell selected as the interviewer. Mitchell’s use of wording carefully guides Susan Rice through the narrow path of self-incrimination by providing plausible deniability for verbal missteps.
You already know the routine. MSNBC is the favorable proprietary venue. Mitchell plays the role of media-legal-adviser, her client is Susan Rice. Live interviews are always the greatest risk (see: Evelyn Farkas) The full interview is below:
However, that said, there are some interesting aspects to the interview:
Susan Rice @00:51 – …”Let me explain how this works. I was a National Security Adviser, my job is to protect the American people and the security of our country. That’s the same as the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director.; and every morning, to enable us to do that, we receive – from the intelligence community – a compilation of intelligence reports that the IC, the intelligence community, has selected for us –on a daily basis– to give us the best information as to what’s going on around the world.”
[Note, Susan Rice is describing the PDB]
“I received those reports, as did other officials, and there were occasions when I would receive a report in which, uh, a ‘U.S Person’ was referred to. Name, uh, not provided, just ‘U.S. Person’.
And sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance in the report – and assess it’s significance, it was necessary to find out or request, who that U.S. official was.”
OK, so right there, in the very beginning of the forward narrative, Susan Rice is confirming the “unmasking” request(s) which can be pinned upon her, are directly related to her need to understand -on behalf of President Obama- intelligence for the President’s Daily Briefing (the PDB). This was a previous question now answered.
This is EXPLOSIVE, and here’s why.
Remember, the President’s Daily Brief under President Obama went to almost everyone at top levels in his administration. Regarding the Obama PDB:
[…] But while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who was dual-hatted as national security adviser and secretary of state.
In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers.
By 2013, Obama’s PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments.
I’d be satisfied if all 3 went to prison because senior heads have to roll. Of course Obummer will slide the way he has his whole life but Mr. NoLegacy will now be known as worse than Nixon. He’s forever tainted as a scandal plagued sociopath.
“...ought to (but won’t) cause serious damage to Obama’s legacy.”
He has one?
...but then is changes from “US Person” to “US Official.”
Before/after the election?
Ben Rhodes’ brother works for CBS and Susan Rice’s husband works for ABC...not sure we’ll see anything out of THEM on this subject.
NBC is also a lost cause as is CNN and MSNBC.
We know there was a theoretical pipeline between the intelligence agencies and Clinton's campaign. I want to see that Clinton and her "research assistants" accessed classified unmasked documents after she left government.
Thanks for asking this question. I had the same question.
By 2013, Obama’s PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments.
Speechwriter? Deputies? Farkas?
Who?
Did each and every one of the more than 30 recipients have the proper security clearances to handle such sensitive information?
How many of these recipients were foreign born?
Zero Foreign Born should allowed to handle, see and read as you noted, "Such Sensitive Information"!
Who did these people share this sensitive information, and did those people have proper clearances?
Finally, how was this sensitive information stored after they received it?
In Clinton's servers or Weiner's illegal laptop?
From a tweet to where we are now is great!
So...while the docs they receive, daily, mask names with “US Person”, she then refers to the notion the periodically “it was necessary to find out or request, who that U.S. official was.”
Why would she default to ‘U.S. official’???
Methinks she inadvertently spilled the proverbial beans.
You ever try the oatmeal at County?
lol
No she can't just request. It has to be a FISA request to a FISA court containing what national security reason for the request.
My guess is that Andrea did not ask her if All these were done via FISA according to the law.
Notice, too, the little tapdance, changing “U.S. Person” to “U.S. Official”. In truth, a U.S. Official would be suspected to be someone connected to the government in some capacity. Donald Trump, and his team are, in no way, a U.S. Official until the day he was sworn in as President so he and his people SHOULD have been accorded all the privacy rights of an ordinary citizens, not a government entity.
Granted, as far as I know, the government has the right to unmask *anyone* that they believe poses a security risk but any person who is unmasked at the request of the White House needs to be listed in a FISA document, not just a random security request.
Wonder no more, he won't.
This is nothing more than Susan Rice setting up a claim of “Executive Privilege” when she is called before Congress. Nothing more. Obama doesn’t have to say anything and, now, neither does Susan.
The PDB is not some voluminous document. The President is a busy man and the providers do all in their power to encompass what must be said in as few paragraphs as possible. And unless times have changed under Obama the elements that provide input rarely if ever make reference to US citizens. That is not its purpose. For Rice to even infer that she was doing some follow-up on the PDB is insane. As the Prex rep if there was some question as to the input she could call the provider and get the information she needed. The woman is now digging herself a deeper and deeper hole.
yes he has greed for power but the lure of a tropical island with 150 other men was too much to resist
No, it’s more convoluted and damning than that.
zer0 rarely got his PDB _in person_. Instead, he received it via text....which went to 30 other officials. No question Hillary got it and with the media/administration relationships, so did the press.
If the “US person” is, as she says, a “US official,” then it’s not Trump as he held no office until January 20. So who was it she had unmasked?
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