Confirmed: Susan Rice "Unmasked" Trump Team.
'Once again it appears that Trump was right: the conspiracy theory that a close Obama
associate worked to "unmask" the Trump team, resulting in the ongoing media spectacle
over "collusion" between Trump and the Kremlin, has been confirmed, first by Mike
Cernovich, and now by Bloomberg itself.
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As noted last night, Journalist and author Mike Cernovich dropped an exclusive bombshell
- naming Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice as the official responsible for the
'unmasking' of the incoming Trump team during 'incidental' surveillance.
This was apparently discovered after the White House Counsel's office reviewed Rice's
document log requests:
The reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled conditions.
Each person must log her name before being granted access to them.
Upon learning of Rice’s actions, [National Security Advisor] H. R. McMaster
dispatched his close aide Derek Harvey to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman Nunes.
Cernovich pointed out, as revealed in an article by Circa, that President Obama began loosening
the rules regarding "incidental intercepts" starting in 2011 - making it easier for the US
Government to spy on individuals who are not the primary target(s) of a surveillance operation.
As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely
reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s
incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their
boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism,
espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats
And guess who had authorization to unmask individuals who were 'incidentally' surveilled?
Former CIA Director John Brennan, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Obama's
National Security advisor Susan Rice.
Also of note is the claim that New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman has been sitting
on the Susan Rice story for at least two days:
This reporter has been informed that Maggie Haberman has had this story
about Susan Rice for at least 48 hours, and has chosen to sit on it in an effort
to protect the reputation of former President Barack Obama.
Fox News anchor Adam Housley tweeted on Friday that the surveillance that led to the unmasking
began before Trump was the GOP nominee, and that the person who did the unmasking is a
"very senior" and "very well known" person in the surveillance community - and not someone in
the FBI.
As ZeroPointNow noted, "this of course begs the question of whether or not President Obama
would have ordered Rice to perform the unmasking."
* * *
Until this morning, the Cernovich report was unconfirmed, with many in the "legacy media" accusing
Cernovich, who recently was profiled on 60 Minutes for being a prominent member of the "fake news"
dissemination team for being - what else - fake news.
However, moments ago Bloomberg's Eli Lake confirmed that it was indeed Susan Rice who was
responsible for the repeatedly "unmasking" multiple members of the Trump team, in what may be
dubbed yet another "conspiracy" to delegitimize the current US president.
From Eli Lake:
White House lawyers last month learned 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.
As Lake adds, 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.
The intelligence reports were summaries of monitored conversations -- primarily between
foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, but also in some cases direct contact
between members of the Trump team and monitored foreign officials.
One U.S. official familiar with the reports said they 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.
Rice has not yet responded to a Bloomberg email seeking comment on Monday morning.
Her role in requesting the identities of Trump transition officials adds an important element
to the dueling investigations surrounding the Trump White House since the president's
inauguration.
Making matters worse, Rice appears to have lied: while she has not spoken directly on the
issue of unmasking, last month when she was asked on the "PBS NewsHour" about reports
that Trump transition officials, including Trump himself, were swept up in incidental intelligence
collection, Rice said: "I know nothing about this," adding, "I was surprised to see reports from
Chairman Nunes on that account today...'
SOURCE:
It's the blinking, honey... get that under control and you'll make a fine liar.
'Once again it appears that Trump was right: the conspiracy theory that a close Obama
associate worked to "unmask" the Trump team, resulting in the ongoing media spectacle
over "collusion" between Trump and the Kremlin, has been confirmed, first by Mike
Cernovich, and now by Bloomberg itself.
As noted last night, Journalist and author Mike Cernovich dropped an exclusive bombshell
- naming Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice as the official responsible for the
'unmasking' of the incoming Trump team during 'incidental' surveillance.
This was apparently discovered after the White House Counsel's office reviewed Rice's
document log requests:
The reports Rice requested to see are kept under tightly-controlled conditions.
Each person must log her name before being granted access to them.
Upon learning of Rice’s actions, [National Security Advisor] H. R. McMaster
dispatched his close aide Derek Harvey to Capitol Hill to brief Chairman Nunes.
Cernovich pointed out, as revealed in an article by Circa, that President Obama began loosening
the rules regarding "incidental intercepts" starting in 2011 - making it easier for the US
Government to spy on individuals who are not the primary target(s) of a surveillance operation.
As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely
reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s
incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their
boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism,
espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats
And guess who had authorization to unmask individuals who were 'incidentally' surveilled?
Former CIA Director John Brennan, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Obama's
National Security advisor Susan Rice.
Also of note is the claim that New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman has been sitting
on the Susan Rice story for at least two days:
This reporter has been informed that Maggie Haberman has had this story
about Susan Rice for at least 48 hours, and has chosen to sit on it in an effort
to protect the reputation of former President Barack Obama.
Fox News anchor Adam Housley tweeted on Friday that the surveillance that led to the unmasking
began before Trump was the GOP nominee, and that the person who did the unmasking is a
"very senior" and "very well known" person in the surveillance community - and not someone in
the FBI.
As ZeroPointNow noted, "this of course begs the question of whether or not President Obama
would have ordered Rice to perform the unmasking."
* * *
Until this morning, the Cernovich report was unconfirmed, with many in the "legacy media" accusing
Cernovich, who recently was profiled on 60 Minutes for being a prominent member of the "fake news"
dissemination team for being - what else - fake news.
However, moments ago Bloomberg's Eli Lake confirmed that it was indeed Susan Rice who was
responsible for the repeatedly "unmasking" multiple members of the Trump team, in what may be
dubbed yet another "conspiracy" to delegitimize the current US president.
From Eli Lake:
White House lawyers last month learned 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.
As Lake adds, 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.
The intelligence reports were summaries of monitored conversations -- primarily between
foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, but also in some cases direct contact
between members of the Trump team and monitored foreign officials.
One U.S. official familiar with the reports said they 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.
Rice has not yet responded to a Bloomberg email seeking comment on Monday morning.
Her role in requesting the identities of Trump transition officials adds an important element
to the dueling investigations surrounding the Trump White House since the president's
inauguration.
Making matters worse, Rice appears to have lied: while she has not spoken directly on the
issue of unmasking, last month when she was asked on the "PBS NewsHour" about reports
that Trump transition officials, including Trump himself, were swept up in incidental intelligence
collection, Rice said: "I know nothing about this," adding, "I was surprised to see reports from
Chairman Nunes on that account today...'
SOURCE:
It's the blinking, honey... get that under control and you'll make a fine liar.
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