'oopsy, not a single R or D former intel offical falling for that Rice nonsense'
It has already been established that Rice ASKING for and GETTING the information was NOT improper or illegal.
The IMPROPER and POTENTIALLY ILLEGAL part is what happened AFTER she got the information.
It has already been proven that the Directors of the FBI and NSA, according to their testimony under oath before Congress, reported that the incidental collections / info collected on Trump and his team did not reveal any crime - no criminal activity by Trump or his team AND they briefed the Obama administration that the information collected HAD NO FOREIGN INTEL VALUE.
ANY ARGUMENT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS / HAD THAT THE RELEASE OF THAT INFORMATION TO THE 16 INTEL AGENCIES AFTER THAT DIED WITH THE REPORTS BY THE FBI AND NSA!
After the NSA and FBI reported there was crime and the collected information had NO INTEL VALUE the information collected became 'PROTECTED CLASSIFIED PERSONAL INFORMATION'. It could NOT legally be shared / leaked.
Not one single US Intel Agency had any business receiving protected personal information deemed to have NO INTEL VALUE. It had nothing to do with National Security, as already stated by the NSA and FBI, leaving the only motivation to share this information and later have it illegally leaked being purely POLITICAL! THAT IS A CRIME!
Farkas, another Ex-Obama 'worshiper' already declared in an interview, 'WE thought not enough information was getting out there ' - as in released to the public. Releasing any of that information to the public, as they knew, was a CRIME, but the Obama administration's people were more worried about protected classified information NOT illegally getting leaked to the public than they were of actually breaking the law and leaking the information...which was done!
The Directors of the FBI and NSA, under oath before Congress, both declared the leaking of this protected personal information constitutes the crimes of FELONY ESPIONAGE, and - again, the only reason to give Intel agencies protected information that had no Intel value was to illegally leak that info because of 'fears that enough information was not getting out there', which is exactly what Farkas stated the Obama administration believed.
Rice, again, had every right to request the information, to see it. What she did NOT have the right to do was distribute it and facilitate the felony crimes of Espionage (the info being leaked) AFTER BEING TOLD THAT NO CRIME WAS DISCOVERED, NOTHING IN THE INCIDENTAL COLLECTD INFO WAS OF NATIONAL SECURITY VALUE, AND THE INFORMATION HAD NO INTEL VALUE. Again, at that point the collected info became PROTECTED CLASSIFIED PERSONAL INFO.
For their own POLITICAL motivation / gain the Obama administration IGNORED that classification and the protection the information had in order to pass it on to holdovers who later illegally leaked the info.
