Posted on 05/02/2019 8:58:26 PM PDT by Liz
Update: In response to a question Tuesday from NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell, former Obama White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied that she “prepared” spreadsheets of surveilled telephone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides. The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group, however, reported that Rice “ordered” the spreadsheets to be produced.
In addition, former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova, one of TheDCNF’s sources, said Tuesday in response to Rice that her denial “would come as quite a surprise to the government officials who have reviewed dozens of those spreadsheets.”
Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.
“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.
“The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by anybody of the Trump associates, or anyone they were speaking with,” diGenova said. “In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people in the calls.”
Other official sources with direct knowledge and who requested anonymity confirmed to TheDCNF diGenova’s description of surveillance reports Rice ordered one year before the 2016 presidential election.
Also on Monday, Fox News and Bloomberg News, citing multiple sources reported that Rice had requested the intelligence information that was produced in a highly organized operation. Fox said the unmasked names of Trump aides were given to officials at the National Security Council (NSC), the Department of Defense, James Clapper, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director.
Joining Rice in the alleged White House operations was her deputy Ben Rhodes, according to Fox.
Critics of the atmosphere prevailing throughout the Obama administration’s last year in office point to former Obama Deputy Defense Secretary Evelyn Farkas who admitted in a March 2 television interview on MSNBC that she “was urging my former colleagues,” to “get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration.”
Farkas sought to walk back her comments in the weeks following: “I didn’t give anybody anything except advice.”
Col. (Ret.) James Waurishuk, an NSC veteran and former deputy director for intelligence at the U.S. Central Command, told TheDCNF that many hands had to be involved throughout the Obama administration to launch such a political spying program.
“The surveillance initially is the responsibility of the National Security Agency,” Waurishuk said. “They have to abide by this guidance when one of the other agencies says, ‘we’re looking at this particular person which we would like to unmask.'”
“The lawyers and counsel at the NSA surely would be talking to the lawyers and members of counsel at CIA, or at the National Security Council or at the Director of National Intelligence or at the FBI,” he said. “It’s unbelievable of the level and degree of the administration to look for information on Donald Trump and his associates, his campaign team and his transition team. This is really, really serious stuff.”
Michael Doran, former NSC senior director, told TheDCNF Monday that “somebody blew a hole in the wall between national security secrets and partisan politics.” This “was a stream of information that was supposed to be hermetically sealed from politics and the Obama administration found a way to blow a hole in that wall,” he said.
Doran charged that potential serious crimes were undertaken because “this is a leaking of signal intelligence.”
“That’s a felony,” he told TheDCNF. “And you can get 10 years for that. It is a tremendous abuse of the system. We’re not supposed to be monitoring American citizens. Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust.”
Waurishuk said he was most dismayed that “this is now using national intelligence assets and capabilities to spy on the elected, yet-to-be-seated president.”
“We’re looking at a potential constitutional crisis from the standpoint that we used an extremely strong capability that’s supposed to be used to safeguard and protect the country,” he said. “And we used it for political purposes by a sitting president. That takes on a new precedent.”
“We’re looking at a potential constitutional crisis...”
No sh*t.
Problem is the Leftist Democrat Party and the Establishment RINOs don’t recognize the objective authority of the Constitution. Their view is subjective and based solely on the raw exercise of absolute political power.
To defeat them, ultimately we will have to physically destroy them. They’ll give no other option.
Oh How I am looking forward to the armed federal marshals breaking int home scaring wives, children, while being perp-walked in cuffs out of their houses to be arrested.
Yes, the salad days of their final push for the dreams of generations of American posers to FINALLY be realized. With Queen Evergreedy sailing up the Potomac to claim her destiny. All was well with the world the Diabolicrats had cheated, stolen and killed to have...wait..what’s happening here...this CANNOT BE...TRUMP HAS BEEN DECLARED THE...WWWINNER??...??...?..
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I'm sure Obama was a part of it, but this reeks of Valerie Jarrett all the way.
I read about Susan Rice and her spread sheets years back, there was even a pic of them, but nothing came of it.
Oh, yes, and Hillary and Comey babbling like idiots.
The coverup has failed and every which way these cockroaches run someone is turning on a light.
So is anyone in jail yet??????
This is unraveling on the socialist faster than we cand absorb and process it.We had the breath taking facts leaked from the IG report that the FBI ( or Cia according to popadopolous) sent agent Halper and a whore named Turk ( who tried to seduce George) to further draw the Trump administration into “Russian collusion’ buy it was so obvious the Popadoplolus spurned her advances. SHE WAS A PAID AGENT OF THE US GOVERNMENT!! They sent them after they conspired to trick him into talking to the Australian Ambassador framing him with a false story that Russia had hillary’s. emails.
But here we have a FELONY by Susan Rice using the NSA data base to collect spread sheets on Trump’s campaign personal phone calls and unmasking huge numbers of Americans. THIS WILL BE INDICTED and others are involved and better lawyer up. BILL BARR IS COMING!!
It is clear now why the baseless smear of our great Attorney general is the narrative of the sociologist. They are frozen in fear of his investigation OF THEM!! It is coming down like rain on them RIGHT NOW!! After the IG report in a few weeks, the Grand Juries will open for full investigation of the attempted Coup d e’Tat THAT FAILED. Trump 2020!!
I’m now convinced, after years of questioning, that Rice is one of the most evil women in both the Obama Administration (Hillary, Anita Dunn, the lawyer Cheryl, etc) and in the United States.
Also, her own words and actions fit the profile of a sociopath, if not a psychopath.
“I have looked into the face of evil and it is Susan Rice”.
Why isn’t this fascist b#tch in jail?
And Biden just repeated what the Obozo said and claimed; “there was not one scandal in my administration”. Let’s see how far that goes when/if the Obozo and others try using it as defense in their trial. That is if they ever get indicted. If they don’t, it goes without saying that all of this will happen again.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you, there won’t be any, which might just embolden them. Maybe they will think they can get away with Arkancide. Oops, they already do that.
Good question. How many layers of protection does she have?
Next time they will just do Arkancide on people. They already do, but it might get worse.
Bigger than the crime, is the breach of public trust.
LOL. The public wasn't supposed to find out. This level of government intrusion is normal. The only abnormality in this case is sunlight. If anybody but Trump had won, this would have gone on as it did before Obama.
Rice was always one of the more sleazy corrupt obama operatives among many of them.
Excuse me, but Biden WAS speaking truthfully!
There was not ONE scandal.
There were many!
the sitting president being Zero. The re-release of Baker's book seems to add some color to all this.
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