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Here comes the hard part. Reasoning for doing so, in her position and what the FBI/CIA/NSA were snooping for. She clearly and meaningfully broke peoples 4th amendment right, with intent.
That is 10 years no parole no probation.
Susan Rice can't unmask anything. She can only request that Admiral Mike Rogers, or Comey unmask names. She cannot do it on her own. If she asked and they approved you Trump fans should start worrying about what he and his team were doing that would cause Rogers or Comey to approve unmasking of names, I doubt if it would have happened if they were chatting on with families and friends.
But leaking those names to people who lack the security clearance to view the source documents is a federal felony.
One such criminal leak involved Gen. Michael Flynn – Rice's short-lived successor – whose name was leaked to a reporter just days into the Trump administration.
Routine surveillance conducted on phone conversations of Russia's U.S. ambassador Sergey Kislyak revealed that he had been talking with Flynn.
Flynn was later forced out of office following reports that he had failed to acknowledge those conversations included talk of the potential for relaxing U.S. sanctions on Moscow.
The controversy reached public scandal level when a partial transcript of one call was leaked to a Washington Post columnist.
Rice had access to intelligence reports that also contained 'valuable political information on the Trump transition such as whom the Trump team was meeting, the views of Trump associates on foreign policy matters and plans for the incoming administration,' according to Bloomberg.
But she insisted last month that she was in the dark about any efforts to identify Trump-linked private individuals in intelligence reports, after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes publicly exposed the 'unmasking.'
'I know nothing about this,' Rice told PBS.
Calls made to and received from foreign players are recorded, everyone knows that. If Trump's people didn't like that they should have gone out and bought a burner phone and talked to their Russian handlers from the McDonald's bathroom. If you do a little research, you will find out there were no 'leaks' about Flynn unless they came from Trump's White House which was warned about Flynn by Sally Yates:
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The message, delivered by Sally Q. Yates and a senior career national security official to the White House counsel, was prompted by concerns that *Flynn, when asked about his calls and texts with the *Russian diplomat, had told Vice *President-elect Mike Pence and others that he had not discussed the Obama administration sanctions on Russia for its interference in the 2016 election, the officials said. It is unclear what the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, did with the *information.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.9f7a7251ecfd
ABC is likely too busy rolling their eyes at a tweet where the author couldn't be bothered to figure out (or wasn't honest to include it) that the dude quit years ago before she was even working in the administration.
That is most likely me of who you refer. I made an error in trusting my memory about Mr Cameron's employment. See. No deflection, no obfuscation, no malicious intent.
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Tell that to the poster who claims he is Executive Producer at NBC News.
The only person that would have the authority over her to say OK you can unmask them, is..... Drum roll please!
The one... The only.... Barack Hussein Obama
For heaven's sake ... that is NOT how it works. Comey was kind enough to spell it out at the Intel Hearings a couple of weeks ago. It is the collecting agency who unmasks following specific guidelines. Non-collecting entities (like the National Security Advisor) may request unmasking for various reasons.
There are about 20 individuals at NSA with "unmasking authority" and, according to Comey, "many" more at the FBI.
Obama does not have unmasking authority since he does not (to my knowledge) collect his own surveillance data. Oh wait - Trump would disagree with that statement.
Well, to continue... sure ... an unmasking request from the WH probably would be given serious consideration.
But trying to prove undue influence probably puts you right where Cheney was when accused of trying to influence WMD intel when he popped over to visit the CIA folks.
And remember what folks said when Trump first alleged Obama was spied on?
Just go ask your intel?. You're the President. You get to know.
ABC is likely too busy rolling their eyes at a tweet where the author couldn't be bothered to figure out (or wasn't honest to include it) that the dude quit years ago before she was even working in the administration.
Then why did they take desperate measures to hide the fact if she was doing her job in the National Interest?
Ahh yeah, I thought so.
The woman apparently violated the rules of how to handle information gained by a FISA warrant issued by the court.
I'm no Susan Rice fan and have no desire to specifically defend her ...
So I'll restrict myself here to noting that Comey refused to discuss actual use of FISA warrants other than to provide general background information two weeks ago in a public forum.
And questions were raised whether Nunes was in violation of his security clearance by what he said at his now fabled WH press conference.
Tricky stuff, this.
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