Posted on 05/16/2020 7:09:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Two Senate committees are now investigating former Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, as Republican senators seek to go on offense with an issue they think will damage the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee while helping them retain their majority.
Republicans are seizing on a declassified National Security Agency document made public Wednesday showing that 39 former Obama administration officials in late 2016 and early 2017, including Biden, requested to know the identity of an American whose had come up in intelligence briefings based on his conversations with then Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Flynn, a senior member of President-elect Trump’s national security team, was revealed to be that individual.
Unmasking is a common practice in government; the National Security Agency reportedly approves several thousand such requests each year.
But President Trump and his allies have latched on to the issue as evidence Obama administration officials were seeking to torpedo his government before it took office.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Homeland Security panel, one of the two Senate committees conducting an investigation, wants to find out who in the Obama administration leaked to the media the gist of Flynn’s phone conversations with Kislyak — a revelation that embarrassed the nascent Trump administration and led to Flynn’s swift ouster.
“I certainly have suspected for quite some time that there was a concerted effort to sabotage this administration from the day after the election,” Johnson said. “There are a lot of questions that deserve answers.”
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How common was it for this many people to make this many requests on a single subject during this short time frame?
This Biden Unmasking Investigation is a time waster, he did it to cover for Obama to distract.
Republicans pounce?
LOL.
To measure the sprinting speed the hard charging Republicans thrusting forward to bring the many, many crooked Dems to justice, should we use a sundial or a calendar?
Used this fun fact about McConnell "The Turtle" but it applies here, too:
"The tortoises of the genus Gopherus have been clocked at rates of 0.13 to 0.3 miles per hour."
The gutless Republicans slither, not pounce.
It’s probably a scheme that if 39 different people request the unmasking then it would be harder to figure out who the eventual leaker to the press would be. This was all obviously coordinated, but from whom?
That guy is so dumb, he likely doesn’t even know why he did it. Obama told me so... or I forgot..
How queer.
The Obama administration Weaponized agencies to go against the constitutionally elected president and the hill’s take is that the GOP is Weaponizing the disclosure of all of this.
Has biden explained why two weeks before leaving office he needed to know the name?
Republicans seize.
You knew it was going to be either pounce or seize.
This time it’s seize as it happens.
What did Biden know, who did he plagarize it from, and how much did his family make from it?
There’s no way Biden can wiggle out of this one
This Biden Unmasking Investigation is a time waster, he did it to cover for Obama to distract.
It wouldn’t have been a time waster in 2017. Now it’s just a shiny object distraction from the ongoing coup against POTUS. The GOP Senate does not want to touch that lest their role in it be brought into focus.
More likely to faint at the idea of having to ask a tough question.
Alex Bolton is a lying POS. This is NOT common practice. he is repeating lie after lie.
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