BREAKING: Obama's NSA Advisor Susan Rice Requested The Unmaskings Of Incoming Trump Officials

[Hutch Starskey]

How is it illegal if she requested it through the appropriate process?

Unmasking is illegal in two ways.

1.) "If Surveillance Is Incidental"

This is what Obama's Intelligence heads told us all, after first claiming there was no surveillance at all.

2.) "If No Crimes Have Been Committed"

Flynn was exonerated based on the transcripts of surveillance on him. Therefore a Crime was Committed, but not by him, but by The Obama Administration.

No members of The Trump Team have been accused of any crimes, have had any indictments leveled against them, and even Clapper head of National Intelligence said there is NO EVIDENCE of Russian Collusion.

But what if we forget that 1 & 2 happened?

Was there a crime?

Yes there was! Intelligence regarding Surveillance, and The Transcripts of that Surveillance are by default Classified Information, and cannot be released to The Public unless a specific order is given declassifying the information and justifying the reason for

1.) Declassifying it, and then

2.) Reasons for Releasing it to The Press or Public.

Did that occur? Please show me a document to prove this occurred.

No it did not!

A felony had to be committed to release the Classified Information!
Same as when they released President Trump's Tax Return.

So we have multiple on top of multiple felonies committed just in The Flynn case alone, by Obama and his Regime.

And we haven't even gotten in to the rest of The Trump team and all the classified Intel shared with Clinton or released to The Press. Or the release of transcripts from President Trump's talks with Mexico, Thailand and Australia.

More Felonies Committed there.

I don't think you lefties realize how much trouble your party and the people who were trusted with sensitive information are in.

This is Nixon times 10.

Espionage, Treason, & Sedition were committed by people sitting at the highest levels of government conspiring with a presidential nominee like Hillary Clinton.

This goes all the way to The Top.

Unmasking is not illegal if it is pertinent to an ongoing investigation.

What was being investigated that all of Trump's people had o be unmasked? What criminal activity?

Trump has been under investigation since July of '16. This is from the transition period.
The same time that the Obama admin was archiving Intel pertaining to Trump people.

why? one has to have a crime. So what was the crime? I've been waiting patiently. why can't we hear about the crime for the investigation? how is that classified?

No, it has to have foreign intelligence value.
Certainly it would be pertinent in a counter intelligence investigation that includes Trump and his people.

 

[Rambunctious]

Can we finally now put Susan in Leavenworth where she belongs?

 

[Care4all]

This is the greatest year of my political life!

Lefty makes it more entertaining every day.

It's like watching a spider circle the drain or burning ants with a magnifying glass.

Horrifying and Fascinating at the same time!

Watching the corrupt Dems Crash & Burn by their own hand is Karmic Justice!

Thanks Obama!

lefties are NOT AFRAID at all, there's nothing to hide, nothing to lie about....let the chips fall where they may.

you guys are the ones making up stories, one lie after another and freaking out over your own made up stories or Russian made up stories created purposely to deceive the Trumpette masses.

 

[mudwhistle]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump.

Q&A on 'unmasking' and leaking classified information

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNMASKING AND LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

One is legal and the other isn't.

The "unmasking" of Flynn's name is routine, Wittes said. But, he said, sharing Flynn's name publicly "is both shocking and inappropriate."

It is a crime to disclose or "leak" classified information. The contents of intelligence collected under the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, are classified. Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was collected under these authorities and therefore classified.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT IS INACCURATE?

No.

"If it's not accurate, then it's not classified," Wittes said. "You can't classify stuff that isn't true."

The Trump administration has said reports that Trump associates were in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign are false. Yet the White House has called for leak investigations into the matter.

"You can't say both — that it is a crime to leak and that it is false," Wittes said.

CAN THE PRESIDENT LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

No, says Wittes.

"The president can declassify anything he wants," Wittes said. "The mere act of the president saying something is a 'declassification.'"​

​

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump

Who says?

The NYT.

Susan Rice unmasked Flynn and then handed it off so it could be leaked. If she didn't nobody would have heard shit about it.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

The fact that the Russians were behind the hacks and release is not in dispute.

Yes it is.

Your side hasn't proven anything except it can PARROT the same traitors in the "US intelligence" circle who endorsed Hillary before the election.

Those are the same "US intelligence" officials who lied us into Iraq, and the ones who told us a 757 hit the Pentagon. Their credibility is butt fucking ZERO.

Yes it is.

It's not.

The FBI, all of the Intel agencies and both oversight committees are all part of an investigation based on Russian interference.
It's very real and Trump is waist deep in it.

 

[leftwinger]

So you have no proof then that Rice leaked the names.

I thought that was the point in Post#1? The point of the OP? did I miss something? oh my!

Read the rest here.

UPDATE—- Bloomberg confirmed on Monday that Susan Rice was the unmasker of the surveillance on Donald Trump and his associates.
Via Eli Lake:

White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The pattern of Rice’s requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government’s policy on “unmasking” the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like “U.S. Person One.”

The National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, was conducting the review, according to two U.S. officials who spoke with Bloomberg View on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. In February Cohen-Watnick discovered Rice’s multiple requests to unmask U.S. persons in intelligence reports that related to Trump transition activities. He brought this to the attention of the White House General Counsel’s office, who reviewed more of Rice’s requests and instructed him to end his own research into the unmasking policy.

 

[LaDexter]

LOL!!!!

If the Left had nothing to lie about, the Left would be 100% SILENT.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump.

Q&A on 'unmasking' and leaking classified information

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNMASKING AND LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

One is legal and the other isn't.

The "unmasking" of Flynn's name is routine, Wittes said. But, he said, sharing Flynn's name publicly "is both shocking and inappropriate."

It is a crime to disclose or "leak" classified information. The contents of intelligence collected under the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, are classified. Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was collected under these authorities and therefore classified.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT IS INACCURATE?

No.

"If it's not accurate, then it's not classified," Wittes said. "You can't classify stuff that isn't true."

The Trump administration has said reports that Trump associates were in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign are false. Yet the White House has called for leak investigations into the matter.

"You can't say both — that it is a crime to leak and that it is false," Wittes said.

CAN THE PRESIDENT LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

No, says Wittes.

"The president can declassify anything he wants," Wittes said. "The mere act of the president saying something is a 'declassification.'"​

​

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump

Who says?

The NYT.

Post it up buttercup.

 

[aris2chat]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It matters not if it was illegal or legal. Your whole party has been caught in lie, after lie after lie.
You can debate that all you want. The fact is, Obama was conducting Surveillance on Donald Trump, and probably other GOP Candidates. I would lay a bet on ALL OF THEM, and was passing the information along to Hillary Clinton.

And that most DEFINATELY IS ILLEGAL, and a Felony, and is Considered Felony Espionage.
You can make a case for Treason and Sedition as well.

I told all of you Leftists, that you were overplaying you hand, and that your Russian Narrative was too outlandish and sensationalist to be true, and that is was nothing but a crafted lie to distract from the corruption of the DNC and served as deflection for a stinging loss.

Now those lies are going to sink you.

Welcome to 2018, where people will not forget all the bullshit you put everyone through the moment you tapped a Criminal Clinton to be your Queen of The Damned.

It matters not if it was illegal or legal.

It certainly does. Your fellow nutjubs were screeching over "illegal unmasking".
Now it's just, meh.

So what is the beef? What is the corruption?

No surveillance. No illegal unmasking.

It was still leaked and used for political purposes against the incoming president by the Obama administration.
Trump and his transition team should never have been included or unmasked.

This has been Damocles sword over Trump and his team till now. It could have been cleared up months ago by Obama and Rice. Now they will have to explain their actions and who was allowed to leak any of this.

Trump might not have the the "direct" subject but the information from him and his team certainly was and unmasked. It shouldn't have been. Nothing illegal about foreign contacts during transition by or with the team, nor should their strategy be the subject.

Obama should not have been listening to Trump and team and most certainly the info and names should never have been leaked to anyone.

 

[Rambunctious]

Rice needs to be put in the pressure cooker and hooked up to a lie detector.

 

[jc456]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump.

Q&A on 'unmasking' and leaking classified information

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNMASKING AND LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

One is legal and the other isn't.

The "unmasking" of Flynn's name is routine, Wittes said. But, he said, sharing Flynn's name publicly "is both shocking and inappropriate."

It is a crime to disclose or "leak" classified information. The contents of intelligence collected under the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, are classified. Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was collected under these authorities and therefore classified.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT IS INACCURATE?

No.

"If it's not accurate, then it's not classified," Wittes said. "You can't classify stuff that isn't true."

The Trump administration has said reports that Trump associates were in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign are false. Yet the White House has called for leak investigations into the matter.

"You can't say both — that it is a crime to leak and that it is false," Wittes said.

CAN THE PRESIDENT LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

No, says Wittes.

"The president can declassify anything he wants," Wittes said. "The mere act of the president saying something is a 'declassification.'"​

​

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump

Who says?

the facts.

 

[tinydancer]

Name the leaker, dumbass.

LOL!!!!!

Prove RUSSIA gave the "hacks" to Wiki... dumbass.

You hate the HACKS because they exposed the TRUTH about the Dems to the US voters, who then REJECTED THE DEMS.

Spot on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You hate the HACKS because they exposed the TRUTH about the Dems to the US voters, who then REJECTED THE DEMS.

You just made the case that the Russians influenced our election, dope.

how's that? you mean wikileaks right?

No, dope.
The fact that the Russians were behind the hacks and release is not in dispute. It's the basis of the counter intelligence investigation that includes Trump.

Oh it is completely in dispute. Not one government intel agency has examined the servers. That's the bottom line here. The two IT companies worked for the DNC and US Department of Defense.

Outside companies. With yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge D connections.

 

[bendog]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump.

Q&A on 'unmasking' and leaking classified information

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNMASKING AND LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

One is legal and the other isn't.

The "unmasking" of Flynn's name is routine, Wittes said. But, he said, sharing Flynn's name publicly "is both shocking and inappropriate."

It is a crime to disclose or "leak" classified information. The contents of intelligence collected under the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, are classified. Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was collected under these authorities and therefore classified.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT IS INACCURATE?

No.

"If it's not accurate, then it's not classified," Wittes said. "You can't classify stuff that isn't true."

The Trump administration has said reports that Trump associates were in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign are false. Yet the White House has called for leak investigations into the matter.

"You can't say both — that it is a crime to leak and that it is false," Wittes said.

CAN THE PRESIDENT LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

No, says Wittes.

"The president can declassify anything he wants," Wittes said. "The mere act of the president saying something is a 'declassification.'"​

​

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump

Who says?

The question really is why Obama didn't release the names before the election.

No laws were broken in collecting the information and Trump campaigners had no right to not being outed.

The Trumpbots who say "leaking the info to the press was a crimmmmmme." Where's the evidence this information was ever labled not for public eyes?

 

[bendog]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump.

Q&A on 'unmasking' and leaking classified information

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNMASKING AND LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

One is legal and the other isn't.

The "unmasking" of Flynn's name is routine, Wittes said. But, he said, sharing Flynn's name publicly "is both shocking and inappropriate."

It is a crime to disclose or "leak" classified information. The contents of intelligence collected under the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, are classified. Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was collected under these authorities and therefore classified.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT IS INACCURATE?

No.

"If it's not accurate, then it's not classified," Wittes said. "You can't classify stuff that isn't true."

The Trump administration has said reports that Trump associates were in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign are false. Yet the White House has called for leak investigations into the matter.

"You can't say both — that it is a crime to leak and that it is false," Wittes said.

CAN THE PRESIDENT LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

No, says Wittes.

"The president can declassify anything he wants," Wittes said. "The mere act of the president saying something is a 'declassification.'"​

​

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump

Who says?

the facts.

cite the law. I call bullshit.

 

[jc456]

Unmasking is illegal in two ways.

1.) "If Surveillance Is Incidental"

This is what Obama's Intelligence heads told us all, after first claiming there was no surveillance at all.

2.) "If No Crimes Have Been Committed"

Flynn was exonerated based on the transcripts of surveillance on him. Therefore a Crime was Committed, but not by him, but by The Obama Administration.

No members of The Trump Team have been accused of any crimes, have had any indictments leveled against them, and even Clapper head of National Intelligence said there is NO EVIDENCE of Russian Collusion.

But what if we forget that 1 & 2 happened?

Was there a crime?

Yes there was! Intelligence regarding Surveillance, and The Transcripts of that Surveillance are by default Classified Information, and cannot be released to The Public unless a specific order is given declassifying the information and justifying the reason for

1.) Declassifying it, and then

2.) Reasons for Releasing it to The Press or Public.

Did that occur? Please show me a document to prove this occurred.

No it did not!

A felony had to be committed to release the Classified Information!
Same as when they released President Trump's Tax Return.

So we have multiple on top of multiple felonies committed just in The Flynn case alone, by Obama and his Regime.

And we haven't even gotten in to the rest of The Trump team and all the classified Intel shared with Clinton or released to The Press. Or the release of transcripts from President Trump's talks with Mexico, Thailand and Australia.

More Felonies Committed there.

I don't think you lefties realize how much trouble your party and the people who were trusted with sensitive information are in.

This is Nixon times 10.

Espionage, Treason, & Sedition were committed by people sitting at the highest levels of government conspiring with a presidential nominee like Hillary Clinton.

This goes all the way to The Top.

Unmasking is not illegal if it is pertinent to an ongoing investigation.

What was being investigated that all of Trump's people had o be unmasked? What criminal activity?

Trump has been under investigation since July of '16. This is from the transition period.
The same time that the Obama admin was archiving Intel pertaining to Trump people.

why? one has to have a crime. So what was the crime? I've been waiting patiently. why can't we hear about the crime for the investigation? how is that classified?

No, it has to have foreign intelligence value.
Certainly it would be pertinent in a counter intelligence investigation that includes Trump and his people.

no, one has to have a crime to issue a warrant. PERIOD. try again.

 

[LaDexter]

No laws were broken in collecting the information

You have no basis to make that claim, other than partisan hack quota and traitor Loretta Lynch not prosecuting her own...

 

[mudwhistle]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump.

Q&A on 'unmasking' and leaking classified information

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNMASKING AND LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

One is legal and the other isn't.

The "unmasking" of Flynn's name is routine, Wittes said. But, he said, sharing Flynn's name publicly "is both shocking and inappropriate."

It is a crime to disclose or "leak" classified information. The contents of intelligence collected under the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, are classified. Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was collected under these authorities and therefore classified.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT IS INACCURATE?

No.

"If it's not accurate, then it's not classified," Wittes said. "You can't classify stuff that isn't true."

The Trump administration has said reports that Trump associates were in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign are false. Yet the White House has called for leak investigations into the matter.

"You can't say both — that it is a crime to leak and that it is false," Wittes said.

CAN THE PRESIDENT LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

No, says Wittes.

"The president can declassify anything he wants," Wittes said. "The mere act of the president saying something is a 'declassification.'"​

​

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump

Who says?

The NYT.

Post it up buttercup.

Somebody already did, dickhead.

 

[Rambunctious]

Contact the media of your choice and ask them why they haven't sought out Rice for comment.

 

[jc456]

So the unmasking wasn't illegal then?

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump.

Q&A on 'unmasking' and leaking classified information

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UNMASKING AND LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

One is legal and the other isn't.

The "unmasking" of Flynn's name is routine, Wittes said. But, he said, sharing Flynn's name publicly "is both shocking and inappropriate."

It is a crime to disclose or "leak" classified information. The contents of intelligence collected under the authorities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, are classified. Flynn's conversation with Kislyak was collected under these authorities and therefore classified.

IS IT ILLEGAL TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THAT IS INACCURATE?

No.

"If it's not accurate, then it's not classified," Wittes said. "You can't classify stuff that isn't true."

The Trump administration has said reports that Trump associates were in touch with the Kremlin during the campaign are false. Yet the White House has called for leak investigations into the matter.

"You can't say both — that it is a crime to leak and that it is false," Wittes said.

CAN THE PRESIDENT LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?

No, says Wittes.

"The president can declassify anything he wants," Wittes said. "The mere act of the president saying something is a 'declassification.'"​

​

It was illegal because she gave the info to somebody who released it the press simply to embarass Trump

Who says?

The question really is why Obama didn't release the names before the election.

No laws were broken in collecting the information and Trump campaigners had no right to not being outed.

The Trumpbots who say "leaking the info to the press was a crimmmmmme." Where's the evidence this information was ever labled not for public eyes?

the entire way the intel is gathered that's how.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

You just made the case that the Russians influenced our election, dope

You have no substance to that accusation.

DEBATES influence elections.

Who CHEATED?

CNN and the DEMS


Are you concerned that CNN cheated and gave Hillary the debate questions before the debate?

HECK NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You hate the HACKS because they exposed the TRUTH about the Dems to the US voters, who then REJECTED THE DEMS.

We know the Russians were behind it.
Thanks for explaining how it was effective.