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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.”
There’s no requirement that pardons be made public. It would, however, be unprecedented. A prosecutor would have to be presented with the pardon if he tried to indict someone who had such a secret pardon. That would make it public.
Obama did not issue pardons and he cannot now. Getting justice from these corrupt folks is what is on the table if they have the balls to go there.
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Gaijin, please see my post 85 or so this thread, sent it to Liz by mistake.
69% Want Investigation into Obama DOJ’s 2016 Spying
https://truepundit.com/69-want-investigation-into-obama-dojs-2016-spying/
69% Want Investigation into Obama DOJ’s 2016 Spying
https://truepundit.com/69-want-investigation-into-obama-dojs-2016-spying/
AND, no one tell CNN so they can’t be there to video the whole thing.
Tell OAN. Let them tape the exclusive.
Nice cartoon..!
I think that sums up her then thinking very well.
How could such a bright person ever have thought her self note would make that gang LESS suspicious instead of MORE so...?
Even now I find it amazing..!
My favorite from her was Bergdahl serving his country with honor and distinction THEN finding out the BASTARD was a TRAITOR after Bammie having the Rose Garden ceremony for his parents, this administration was CORRUPT to the core!!! I always thought that Johnson was the worst POTUS ever but this crew makes him look like a SAINT!!! First black POTUS and the MOST CORRUPT BASTARD EVER!!!!
lol
“Don’t worry, boss, no one would ever suspect us of doing something this devious!”
I don’t know if there can be such a thing as secret pardons.
Wouldn’t there be a public record of them?
Yep, Susan Rice has a Master’s degree in Clintonian lying.
It’s at the top of her resume.
Bttt.
5.56mm
iirc. I thought I read a year or so back that hussein gave all his co-conspirators blanket pardons for anything they had done during his administration.
The thinking ws that any charges against his cabal would have to be the result of violations of the law after trump took office.
iow: stuff like lying to congress
IDK if presidential pardons or immunities have to be made public??
Ask judicial watch??? Or tom fitton??
“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.”
Which is why Trump was the only candidate I’d vote for: only Trump would fight 10x harder than his enemies, as we’ve seen. Obviously, we were in a Constitutional crisis the moment Obama and HRC began their joint rule of this country.
“Don’t worry, boss, no one would ever suspect us of doing something this devious!”
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“I deleted everything, I swear.”
“I set up a fake account. No one will ever figure out it’s us.”
“Hillary has us covered. She knows what she’s doing!”
:)
The enemy known as ‘the media’ hold an umbrella to deflect criminality away from demon rats. Drip drip does nothing.
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